Waterstones The Well-Educated Mind
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Price: £27.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Including standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science, The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres | ??fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry and science | ??accompanied by instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. In her best-selling work, The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provided a parents' guide to classical education for home-schooling children. In The Well-Educated Mind, she takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780393080964
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ISBN: 9780393080964
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Author: Mary P. Welsh
Rating: 5
Review: I am thoroughly enjoying improving my understanding of great texts that form part of the canon of Western literature. Susan Bauer offers guidance not only on which texts to read, but also how to go about tackling them confidently and purposefully. The following genres are explored - novels, autobiography and memoir, history and politics, drama, poetry and general science - and strategies appropriate to each are proposed.This is a wonderful book. I would not hesitate to recommend it to family and friends. Go on ... give it a go and get the classical education you never had. You'll not regret it, I promise!
Author: Mr S Henry
Rating: 2
Review: A bit overpriced two thirds of the book is just a reading list
