New and Traditional Reading Series

Great Conversations 3
The third title in our Great Conversations series contains 15 selections, discussion guides for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, as well as a thematic guide for reading selections across genres and disciplines. This new title will be available for shipping in May 2007.

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 in our new series of Great Conversations titles 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.

The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program  for adults, in five series, represents some of the most influential and profound thinking of the Western world. The series includes substantial works of literature and philosophy by such authors as Dostoevesky, Freud, Kafka, Plato, and Shakespeare.

Our nine-volume 50th Anniversary Series is an international collection of literature, philosophy, and poetry specially selected for book discussion groups. Each anthology in the series focuses on a theme of universal significance and brings together works by classic and modern authors, including James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Euripides, Gustaw Herling, Jamaica Kincaid, Yukio Mishima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, and Adrienne Rich. The questions provided for each selection will help book groups initiate strong discussions and maintain a flow of ideas. Each paperback volume also features discussion questions for two novels, which group members can purchase separately from their local booksellers.

Introduction to Great Books, in three series, contains many of the same important authors featured in the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, but the selections are shorter. These readings are ideal for new book groups that want to focus on classic works of fiction and nonfiction.