The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education you Never had [Audiobook] download free by Susan Wise Bauer
- Listen audiobook: The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education you Never had
- Author: Susan Wise Bauer
- Release date: 2003/4/10
- Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780393050943
- Rating: 7.1 of 10
- Votes: 349
- Review by: Graig White
- Review rating: 9.59 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 5H23M21S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, MPEG4, AIFF, WMA, FLAC, OPUS (compression RAR, IMG, ZIP, BZ2, DEB, TAR, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M8S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres-fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry-accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter-ranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich-preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the 'Great Books' without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre-what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?-and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Business Studies: General, Literary Reference Works, Encyclopaedias & Reference Works, Literary Studies: General, Open Learning, Home Learning, Distance Education
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 35.14 USD
- Dimensions: 165x244x38mm
- Weight: 750g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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