 | The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $7.95 Sr. Miriam teaches you the tools of the mind: grammar, rhetoric, and logic (or dialtectic). Armed with these, you will know how to learn and how to convey that learning to others.
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 | Ten Philosophical Mistakes by Mortimer J. Adler
Buy used from: $0.01 Adler shows how modern philosophy got off on the wrong foot by misunderstanding the nature of ideas and reality.
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 | Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.60 Adler doth make Aristotelians of us all. A great book for philosophical novices, yet a solid review for the more informed.
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 | The Inferno (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy used from: $1.26 Man does not live by philosophy alone. Poetry is necessary. Ciardi's INFERNO is well-suited to those who haven't read Dante before.
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 | Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Bantam Classic) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 As T.S. Elot said, "Shakespeare and Dante divide the world between them. There is no third."
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 | Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Buy used from: $6.70 The great novelist (LOLITA, PALE FIRE) teaches one how to read great fiction. A treasure.
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 | Liturgy of the Hours by Catholic Book Publishing Co
Buy new: $120.78 / Used from: $120.00 Seminarians and priests begin and end their days with this prayerbook (and dip into it throughout the day). A single volume edition is available for beginners. Join the prayer of the Church!
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 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version
Buy used from: $9.40 A great study Bible. The CATHOLIC STUDY BIBLE is good too. All learning leads toward contemplation of the divine.
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 | The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.75 The greatest American short stories, period.
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