Great Conversations 1

Great Conversations 1, an anthology of fifteen classic and contemporary selections, is ideal for book discussion groups and college humanities courses. Biographical headnotes and discussion questions accompany each selection, and a thematic guide offers suggestions for reading the selections across genres and disciplines.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Of Friendship
Of Solitude

Michel de Montaigne

Pensées*

Blaise Pascal

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Walt Whitman

Democracy in America*

Alexis de Tocqueville

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

The Value of Science*

Henri Poincaré

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Sigmund Freud

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

The Theory of the Leisure Class*

Thorstein Veblen

The Stages of Life

Carl Jung

Tell Me a Riddle

Tillie Olsen

Boys and Girls

Alice Munro

DISCUSSION GUIDES FOR:

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

*Indicates a selection from a longer work.