This book has some great peices of writing from the likes of The Buddah, Lao-Tzu, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jefferson, Freud, Nietzsche, Rousseau, and more. There is not enough time in a semester to cover it all so you may end up reading it on your own time as I have. The Biographical and Rhetorical sections help comprehension of these writings. The one place this book is really lacking is in the translated writings. If you wish to get a better feel of Lao-Tzu and the Tao Teh Ching I would suggest John C.H. Wus translation. It remains truer to the origional text.
The book is required for my english class.I just got it and have not had a achance to read it. What I can tell you is that the book arrived very quickly, which is exactly what I needed. Thank You.
This is an excellent book for transitioning students from high school to college. The selections are intellegent and demanding and cover several areas of study. The introduction gives a method for reading and evaluating that will serve the student for the remainder of his/her college career and beyond.
