| Title | : | Great Books: Volume One |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Leonardo da Vinci, William Congreve, Geoffrey Chaucer, Desiderius Brasmus & Edmund Spenser |
| Release | : | 2010-08-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
| Size | : | 29286377 |
| Great Books is inspired by a curriculum and a book list, as well as a method of education. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list: 1. the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times; 2. the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; 3. the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries. Includes active table of contents. Authors include: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: The Federalist Papers Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Hard Times The Pickwick Papers Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Desiderius Brasmus: The Praise of Folly Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Herman Melville: Moby Dick Homer: The Iliad The Odyssey Jane Austen: Emma Pride and Predjudice Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Gullivers Travels Leonardo da Vinci: The Notebooks Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Michel de Montaigne: Essays Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote St. Augustine: Confessions William Congreve: The Way of the World |
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