Great Conversations 2 contains fifteen outstanding selections suitable for book groups and study in college humanities courses. Also included are discussion guides for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt.

Great Conversations 2 table of contents:

The Story of Samson

(Judges 13–16)

Selected poems

John Donne

Meditations 1 and 2

René Descartes

"The Nose"

Nikolai Gogal

"The Grand Inquistor"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

Edgar Allan Poe

"Bartleby the Scrivener"

Herman Melville

"Goblin Market"

Christina Rossetti

"Philosophy and Physics"

Max Planck

"The Playboy of the Western World"

John Synge

The Road to Serfdom (selection)

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