The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature

by Anthony O'Hear

Book Overview

The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.

O'Hear begins with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933859784
• ISBN13: 9781933859781
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"