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Twitter Professor Mark Considine - (Dean of Arts) - Via Ryan Sheales; - 0402 351 412 - Email Well, we've done it for you. Each month, from February to November, a book that has profoundly altered the way we experience the world will be read, digested, discussed, debated and held up to the light. The 10 Great Books series is your opportunity to be guided through some of the most influential works in history by leading academics, prestigious visiting scholars and international guests. Participants will also become members of an extended book club with ongoing opportunities for both face-to-face and online conversations. The series will be the highlight of next year's  Melbourne Masterclasses program , which is the Faculty of Arts ' flagship community education program. The texts will range from classic novels to philosophical and political treatises, from antiquity to modernity, and include; Watch out also for a surprise guest of international renown when the full program is launched. Great Books  organiser  Associate Professor Timothy Lynch  - the Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences - said: "The  10 Great Books  series will 'cause us to rethink and debate the purpose, value and contemporary meaning of great books.' The year's first event, in February, will feature renowned thinker Professor Peter McPhee on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762), a book that was banned in Paris and Geneva and publicly burned but then went on to inspire the French education system.