The fourth volume in our bestselling Great Conversations series includes:

• Fifteen selections plus discussion guides for Jane Austen’s Emma and Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way
• Interdisciplinary readings ideal for Great Books discussion groups and college courses
• Thematic guide for reading selections across genres and disciplines

  Table of contents:

  Meno

  Plato

  Life of Nicias

  Plutarch

  To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch

  Immanuel Kant

  The Chilean Earthquake

  Heinrich von Kleist

  Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, from Walden

  Henry David Thoreau

  selection from Culture and Anarchy

  Matthew Arnold

  selection from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

  William James

  Major Barbara

  George Bernard Shaw

  The Darling

  Anton Chekhov

  First Snow on Mount Fuji

  Yasunari Kawabata

  The Lottery

  Shirley Jackson

  Selected Poems

  Lisel Mueller

  The Smallest Woman in the World

  Clarice Lispector

  Lava Cameo, from Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

  Eavan Boland

  The Things They Carried

  Tim O’Brien