Great Books

(not the same as my personal Greatest Books list :)

Mortimer Adler's Western Canon

a basis for Socratic dialogue?

because they are old, many are available as free EBook-s.

http://www.greatbooks.org/typ/

http://www.thegreatideas.org/

http://www.thegreatideas.org/greatbooks.html

list http://www.malaspina.com/listbak.htm

"Why Read Great Books?" by Adler

JuniorGreatBooks for Educating Kids http://www.greatbooks.org/typ/jgbseries.0.html