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The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had

Provides a road map for adult readers who want to gain enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading, discussing how different genres should be read to get the most out of them
eBook, English, 2003
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W.W. Norton, New York, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (432 pages)
9780393070972, 9780393253917, 0393070972, 0393253910
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Training your own mind : the classical education you never had
Wrestling with books : the act of reading
Keeping the journal : a written record of new ideas
Starting to read : final preparations
The story of people : reading through history with the novel
The story of me : autobiography and memoir
The story of the past : the tales of historians (and politicians)
The world stage : reading through history with drama
History refracted : the poets and their poems