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Written by David Denby - Performed by Edward Asner - Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Audio Literature (October 1997)

"My adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the western world." --David Denby

Denby takes a look at the relevance of the writers and thinkers of the past to our current lives. The answers surprised Denby and will surprise and enlighten you too.

At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby returns to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-experience the core humanities courses he had taken as a freshman thirty years before. Facing the question of what he really knows, Denby re-examines the besieged Western classics, ranging from Homer, Sappho, and Sophocles to Dante, Nietzsche, and Woolf. What relevance do the writers and thinkers of the past have to our current life? The answers surprised Denby and will surprise and enlighten his audience. Great Books is a fascinating look at the crisis of literature in the late twentieth century, mixing personal reflection, criticism, and the story of one man's effort "to create a self."

About the Narrator: Edward Asner is best known for his starring role in the television series Lou Grant. He has starred in over forty television and theatrical films, including Skin Game, JFK, and Fort Apache, The Bronx.