Great Conversations 6

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.

Table of Contents



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.