Great Conversations 2

Great Conversations 2, 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 Story of Samson

(Judges 13–16)

Selected Poems

John Donne

Meditations 1
Meditations 2

René Descartes

The Nose

Nikolai Gogal

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

Goblin Market

Christina Rossetti

Physics and World Philosophy

Max Planck

The Playboy of the Western World

John M. Synge

Planning and Democracy

Friedrich A. Hayek

Distributive Justice

John Rawls

Guests of the Nation

Frank O'Connor

Which New Era Would That Be?

Nadine Gordimer

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

DISCUSSION GUIDES FOR:

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

*Indicates a selection from a longer work.