Well-Educated Mind - Bauer Susan Wise
Well-Educated Mind - Bauer Susan Wise Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our…
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Well-Educated Mind - Bauer Susan Wise
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres--fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science--accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting?
The annotated lists at the end of each chapter--ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen