Great Books Foundation
Literature

Great Conversations 4
Great Books K-12
The Read-Aloud program for grades K–1, Series 2 for grade 2 and Junior Great Books for grades 3–5 include children's classics, folk tales and fairy tales, poetry, and modern short stories from cultures around the world. Great Books for middle and high school students include a variety of texts for the language arts, social studies, science and world religions curriculum.
The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler
Pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. Fourteen short story masterpieces selected for discussion and reflection. Authors include Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Edith Wharton, and Tobias Wolff.
Great Conversations 4
This fourth installment in the Great Conversations series includes fifteen eminently discussible selections by Plato, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Shaw, Chekhov and ten other great classic and modern authors plus discussion guides for Jane Austen’s Emma and Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.
Great Conversations 3
Fifteen selections ideal for Great Books discussion groups and college courses. Also included are discussion guides for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Great Conversations 2
The second title in our Great Conversations series contains fifteen more outstanding selections, and discussion guides for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt.
Great Conversations 1
The first volume in the Great Conversations series includes fifteen selections and discussion guides for Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Reader's Guides to Literary Classics
A new series of guides to classic American novels and short stories
Modern American Poetry
A collection that highlights more than 40 American poets.
50th Anniversary Series
Modern and classic selections for discussion in nine themed anthologies.
Introduction to Great Books
Three student anthologies each containing twelve classic and modern works of philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, and fiction.
Soul of the Text
An anthology of Jewish literature in four sections: "The Bible and Medieval Commentaries," "Rabbinical Literature," "Yiddish Literature," and "The Holocaust and Eretz Israel."