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Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition

Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition

Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition

From Mesopotamia to Mississippi, from the anonymous writer of the Epic of Gilgamesh to William Faulkner, writing 3,600 years later, many of the greatest figures of Western culture have been its writers. This course is your guide to a rich sampling of their masterpieces, chosen, explained, and analyzed by five outstanding professors. In addition to novelists, poets, and dramatists, you will study historians, biographers, essayists, philosophers, and the anonymous chroniclers behind the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels.

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