Great Conversations 6, 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.
- On Tranquility of Mind
- Seneca
- The New Organon*
- Francis Bacon
- A Letter Concerning Toleration
- John Locke
- Discourse Seven
- Joshua Reynolds
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám/Rabbi Ben Ezra
- Edward FitzGerald
(trans.)/Robert Browning
- The Lifted Veil
- George Eliot
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Mark Twain
- On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Devil Baby at Hull House
- Jane Addams
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles
- H. G. Wells
- Mario and the Magician
- Thomas Mann
- The Daughters of the Late Colonel
- Katherine Mansfield
- R.U.R.
- Karel Čapek
- My Confession
- Mary McCarthy
- Holy Week
- Deborah Eisenberg
DISCUSSION GUIDES FOR:
- Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
- Andreï Makine
- The Age of Innocence
- Edith Wharton
*Indicates a selection from a longer work.
