The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.<\/b><\/p>\n
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven\u2019t because they seem too daunting? In\u00a0The Well-Educated Mind<\/i>, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.<\/p>\n
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),\u00a0The Well-Educated Mind<\/i> offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres\u2014fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science\u2014accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter\u2014ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking\u2014preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.<\/p>\n
The Well-Educated Mind<\/i>\u00a0reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t read and enjoy Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the \u201cGreat Books\u201d without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre\u2014what does\u00a0Anna Karenina<\/i>\u00a0owe to\u00a0Madame Bovary<\/i>?\u2014and also between genres.<\/p>\n
In her best-selling work on home education,\u00a0The Well-Trained Mind<\/i>, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In\u00a0The Well-Educated Mind<\/i>, 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. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[260,266],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n