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Longer Works Recommended for Discussion

The Great Books Foundation and Penguin Books have collaborated to create online discussion guides for selected classic and contemporary Penguin titles. Each Penguin book selected by Foundation editors is imprinted with a "Recommended for Discussion by the Great Books Foundation" seal and is available online or at your local bookstore. 

Written by Foundation editors and writers, the discussion guides feature interpretive questions that support lively and extended discussion, biographical background on the author, and recommended related titles. The discussion guides can be downloaded for free below.

Penguin Classics Recommended for Discussion

Anna Karenina
Libra
Ironweed
The Grapes of Wrath
The Odyssey