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Worldly Wisdom: Great Books and the Meanings of Life
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Author
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James Sloan Allen.
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Publisher
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Frederic C. Beil
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hardcover
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9.5
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ISBN
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9781929490356
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Pages/Publication Date
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554/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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13649
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Description
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A cultural historian, essayist, and critic, Jim Allen here explores some 50 classic works—from The Iliad to the Bhagavad-Gita, The Divine Comedy to Faust, The Tale of Genji to Love in the Time of Cholera—to illuminate their contents and draw out ideas valuable for understanding human life within this world and for living that life well. Allen's collection has a distinctly humanistic slant, with a suggestion of a thinker's self-help book.
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