Books that have made history : books that can change your life

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    • Fears, J. Rufus

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Books that have made history : books that can change your life

J. Rufus Fears

(The great courses, . Philosophy & intellectural history)

Teaching Company, c2005

2nd ed

  • : set
  • Pt. 1
  • Pt. 2
  • Pt. 3

Non-musical Sound Recording(Sound Cassette)

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Contents of Works

  • Pt.1. lecture 1: Bonhoeffer, Letters and papers from prison
  • lecture 2: Homer, Iliad
  • lecture 3: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  • lecture 4: Bhagavad Gita
  • lecture 5: Book of Exodus
  • lecture 6: Gospel of Mark
  • lecture 7: Koran
  • lecture 8: Gilgamesh
  • lecture 9: Beowulf
  • lecture 10: Book of Job
  • lecture 11: Aeschylus, Oresteia
  • lecture 12: Euripides, Bacchae.
  • Pt.2. lecture 13: Plato, Phaedo
  • lecture 14: Dante, The Divine comedy
  • lecture 15: Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • lecture 16: Aeschylus, Prometheus bound
  • lecture 17: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag archipelago
  • lecture 18: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
  • lecture 19: George Orwell, 1984
  • lecture 20: Vergil, Aeneid
  • lecture 21: Pericles, Oration ; Lincoln, Gettysburg address
  • lecture 22: Remarque, All quiet on the western front
  • lecture 23: Confucius, The Analects
  • lecture 24: Machiavelli, The prince
  • Pt.3. lecture 25: Plato, Republic
  • lecture 26: John Stuart Mill, On liberty
  • lecture 27: Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur
  • lecture 28: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part 1
  • lecture 29: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part 2
  • lecture 30: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  • lecture 31: Gibbon, Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
  • lecture 32: Lord Acton, The history of freedom
  • lecture 33: Cicero, On moral duties (De officiis)
  • lecture 34: Gandhi, An autobiography
  • lecture 35: Churchill, My early life, Painting as a pastime, WWII
  • lecture 36: Lessons from the great books

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Details

  • NCID
    BA90456740
  • ISBN
    • 1565859790
  • LCCN
    2006573931
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chantilly, VA
  • Pages/Volumes
    18 sound cassettes (ca. 1080 min.)
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Attached Material
    3 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
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