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Best Liberal Arts Books
Some recommendations from Leon Conrad, publisher at Liberalis Books (www.liberalisbooks.com)
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 27,246 ratings
score: 698,
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The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
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4.12 avg rating — 824 ratings
score: 597,
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,164,436 ratings
score: 368,
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4 people voted
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Plato: Complete Works
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4.37 avg rating — 11,968 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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The Idea of a University
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4.09 avg rating — 820 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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Ten Philosophical Mistakes
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3.87 avg rating — 653 ratings
score: 291,
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3 people voted
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How to Speak / How to Listen
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3.83 avg rating — 931 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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Aristotle for Everybody
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3.87 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
score: 286,
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3 people voted
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How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 393 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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Intellect: Mind Over Matter
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4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 271,
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3 people voted
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The FOUR DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY, METAPHYSICAL, MORAL OBJECTIVE, CATEGORICAL
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3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 267,
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3 people voted
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Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
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4.31 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 267,
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3 people voted
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What High School Didn't Teach Me
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Rajat Bhageria (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Six Great Ideas
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3.99 avg rating — 452 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind
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3.96 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought
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4.33 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 177,
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2 people voted
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Vision of the Future
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 169,
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2 people voted
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In Defence of Rhetoric
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 164,
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2 people voted
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Dialectic
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 161,
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2 people voted
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The Aeneid
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3.87 avg rating — 139,852 ratings
score: 148,
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2 people voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 14: Philosophy and Economics
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 144,
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2 people voted
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The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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4.25 avg rating — 35,097 ratings
score: 131,
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2 people voted
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Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 129,
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2 people voted
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Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Reframe Your Artistry: Mindful Tools for Art Making at Any Age
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Jessica Honig (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100,
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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
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3.87 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error & The Beginning of Guidance
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4.35 avg rating — 209 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Socratic Logic
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4.29 avg rating — 450 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Alchemy of Happiness
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4.11 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
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4.15 avg rating — 468 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Elements of Algebra
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4.35 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto
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3.80 avg rating — 394 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Poetics
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3.83 avg rating — 28,717 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Great Books of the Western World
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Mortimer J. Adler (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 260 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan
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3.94 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth
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3.68 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom
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3.69 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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The Paideia Program
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3.97 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Some Questions about Language
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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How to Think About War and Peace
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Great Conversation
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4.16 avg rating — 662 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas
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3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Great Ideas from the Great Books
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4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Aristotle on Memory
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 74,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 9: Lives and Letters
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 2: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.31 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 5: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 69,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 8: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 3: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 1: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.38 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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The Book of knowledge;
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4.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 4: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 7: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.32 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 6: Fiction
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 62,
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The New Arthur Mee's Children's encyclopedia
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Arthur Mee (Contributor)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 61,
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1 person voted
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 15: Science
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 60,
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The world's greatest books
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 58,
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Parents' and teachers' guide to reading courses, The book of knowledge; the children's encyclop
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score: 57,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 20: Miscellaneous Literature - Index
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 56,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 18: Poetry and Drama
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score: 55,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 10
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 54,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19: Travel And Adventure
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 53,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 12
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 52,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 11
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 51,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 13: Religion and Philosophy
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Arthur Mee (Editor)
3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 50,
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The World's Greatest Books, Volume 18: Poetry and Drama
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 49,
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The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 45,
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A Mathematics Sampler: Topics for the Liberal Arts
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 44,
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Moral Education and the Liberal Arts:
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 43,
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69 books ·
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list created April 11th, 2013
by Leon Conrad (votes) .
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classical-education, classics, dialectic, education, grammar, liberal-arts, logic, oracy, oratory, quadrivium, rhetoric, trivium
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