75th Anniversary Two-Volume Set

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Short Description:: Print: 75th-Set | ISBN Vol. 1: 978-1-951782-63-4 | ISBN Vol. 2: 978-1-951782-64-1 | Two-Volume Set
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This 75th anniversary anthology is a working set of provocative selections from notable works of literature and thought intended for careful reading, reflection, discussion, and the mutual, unplanned insights that arise from Shared Inquiry. It is a celebration of the Great Books ideals; having reasoned discussions in which all listen and contribute; and achieving the enrichment of lifelong learning.

Readings and Questions

Volume 1
King Lear: William Shakespeare
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Jonathan Swift
Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
To a Locomotive in Winter: Walt Whitman
The Federalist No. 10: James Madison
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin

Volume 2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner In Seven Parts: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Passion in the Desert: Honoré de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece: Honoré de Balzac
The Minister's Black Veil: Nathaniel Hawthorne
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?: Frederick Douglass
Second Inaugural Address: Abraham Lincoln
Ethan Brand: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Open Boat: Stephen Crane
The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois
Slave Songs
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: T. S. Eliot
The Daughters of the Late Colonel: Katherine Mansfield
Mr. Flood's Party: Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Hill Wife
The Telephone: Robert Frost