Great Books,
Touchstone Books,
ISBN 0684835339
This is a wonderful book. David Denby went back to Columbia where he had been an undergraduate many years before, and did the Humanities course sequence again and wrote this fascinating record of his experiences with the students and their reactions to the great books. It will serve you all as a delightful parallel experience to our own class. As you read and discuss the books in our class you can read about the undergraduates at Columbia and their reactions to the same books. But let me suggest the following: wait until AFTER we have read and discussed a book before reading the section in Denby on the same material. Otherwise your reaction will be constantly predetermined by the Denby reaction and the ideas he presents.