Great conversations 3 / selected and edited by Daniel Born, Mike Levine, Donald H. Whitfield ; contributors, Steven Craig, Bryan Gaul, Sophia Krol-Michniak, Judith McCue, Gary Schoepfel, Donald C. Smith.
The pardoner's tale (from the Canterbury tales) / Geoffrey Chaucer -- An enquiry concerning human understanding (selection) / David Hume -- A defence of poetry (selection) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The unknown masterpiece / Honore de Balzac -- Second epilogue to War and peace / Leo Tolstoy -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- Introduction to The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- An interest in life / Grace Paley -- Selected poems / Wislawa Szymborska -- The body of the condemned (from Discipline and punish) / Michel Foucault -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Discussion guide for The prince / Niccoli Machiavelli -- Discussion guide for Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte.