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Hardcover:
9780691646312 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $119.95
Paperback:
9780691619415 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $47.95
Product Description: Gilbert Highet provides masterful and even exciting introductions to the great works of literature in these brief talks. His insights and articulation make this CD truly a pleasure to listen to.1 CD
CD/Spoken Word:
9781579703677 | Unabridged edition (Jeffrey Norton Pub, April 24, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gilbert Highet provides masterful and even exciting introductions to the great works of literature in these brief talks.
Paperback:
9780679723141 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Explores the methods of instruction and the character and abilities which make a good professional teacher
Product Description: Track 1, "The Autobiography of Shakespeare." The love affairs and sufferings of Shakespeare as a young man, revealed through his sonnets. Track 2, "A Poet in Italy." Shakespeare sets many of his plays in Italy, and some of his characters have Italian names even when they are not Italians...read more
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9781579704360 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1, "The Autobiography of Shakespeare.
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9781579703820 | Jeffrey Norton Pub, June 16, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Encouragement and advice on building a personal library which reflects and develops your own taste.
Hardcover:
9780195005707 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1949, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780195002065 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 1985), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Traces the literary influence of Greek and Roman culture from the Dark Ages to the twentieth century
Product Description: Gilbert Highet provides masterful and even exciting introductions to the great works of literature in this brief talk. His insights and articulations make this CD Truley a pleasure to listen to.1 audio CD
CD/Spoken Word:
9781579703813 | Jeffrey Norton Pub, June 16, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gilbert Highet provides masterful and even exciting introductions to the great works of literature in this brief talk.
Hardcover:
9780195014501 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: have not read, sorry
Product Description: Track 1: "An Independent American." Walt Whitman's poem on the Fourth of July is read and discussed as a comic revolutionary manifesto; other Whitman poems make a strong contrast to it. Track 2: "The Gettysburg Address." How the Address was written and deliveredd, what impression it made at the time, and the secrets of its memorable style...read more
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9781579704384 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1: "An Independent American.
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9781579704339 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Gilbert Highet discusses whether Julius Caesar was a reformer and hero or a traitor who deserved to die.
Product Description: Track 1: The Language of Adam. What language did Adam speak to Eve? Why are human languages different? Are they different attempts to solve the problem of naming things and communication, and, if so, why can the different language-speakers not get together? Track 2: Lifefime Labels...read more
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9781579704414 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1: The Language of Adam.
Product Description: Track 1, "The Letters of Jefferson." The extraordinarily complex and fundamentally noble character of Thomas Jefferson revealed through his letters. Track 2, "A Neglected American." The poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, little known now, is very original and very good...read more
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9781579704377 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1, "The Letters of Jefferson.
Product Description: Track 1, "A Little Latin Lyric." A short poem addressed to a pretty blonde woman by the Roman poet Horace. He compares her to a beautiful blue and golden sea, on which dangerous storms may arise in a moment, and he thanks God he escaped before it was too late...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781579704407 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1, "A Little Latin Lyric.
Hardcover:
9780231020169 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1954, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: Explores the power, capabilities, and limitations of the human mind from ancient times
Paperback:
9780231085014, titled "Man's Unconquerable Mind" | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Explores the power, capabilities, and limitations of the human mind from ancient times
CD/Spoken Word:
9781579704834 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, September 7, 2007), cover price $12.95
Product Description: Track 1: Name into Word. A tawdry piece of jewelry was named after Saint Audrey; and a rough, tough hooligan was named after an Irish family called Hoolihan. There are many more of these names, such as the warm cardigan and the delicious sandwich...read more
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9781579704421 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1: Name into Word.
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9781579704445 | Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The first talk, "One Kind of Glory," is about the men and women who, though they themselves are forgotten, said and wrote things which have been remembered forever.
Hardcover:
9780195003994 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1939, cover price $39.95
Product Description: 1 HARDCOVER BOOK
Hardcover:
9780195005929 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1943, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 1 HARDCOVER BOOK
Hardcover:
9780195005936 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1944, cover price $39.95
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9780195005721 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 31, 1953, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Commentaries on the motivations, methods, and styles of authors and their books
Hardcover:
9780394440712 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1957, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Using the poet's native Italian landscapes, Gilbert Highet recreates these poets "in situ" to evoke the essence of their work.
Paperback:
9781590173381 | New York Review of Books, March 16, 2010, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer.
9781853753015 | Prion Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780195005738 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1960, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: 39 introductory essays on poetic technique, the lives of individual poets, mood and individual poems, and the values of poetry
Product Description: Track 1, "The Republic and Its Inheritance." Some of the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers came from Greece and Rome. This talk analyzes them and shows how they are still valid. Track 2, "The Immigrants." The experiences of immigrants to America over the last hundred years, as eloquently told by themselves...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781579704391 | Unabridged edition (Audio-Forum, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Track 1, "The Republic and Its Inheritance.
Examines the literary origin, rhetorical structure, and dramatic function of the speeches in the epic poem
Hardcover:
9780691646374, titled "The Speeches in Vergil's "Aeneid"" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $135.00
9780691062341 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1972, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Examines the literary origin, rhetorical structure, and dramatic function of the speeches in the epic poem
Paperback:
9780691619491 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $54.00
9780023115202, titled "Designer's Notebook" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1977, cover price $27.70 | also contains Designer''s Notebook
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