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Invitation to the classics
Publisher
Baker Books
Publication Date
[1998]
Language
English
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9780801011566
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The purpose of Invitation to the Classics / Os Guinness
The importance of the classics / Louise Cowan
The "classics" are not the "canon" / Roger Lundin
Homer : The Iliad and The Odyssey / Glenn C. Arbery
Aeschylus : The Oresteia / Daniel Russ
Herodotus : History of the Persian Wars / Arthur A. Rupprecht
Western Histories / Charles R. Sullivan
Sophocles : Oedipus Rex / Louise Cowan
Euripides : The Bacchae / Larry Allums
Aristophanes : Comedies / Louise Cowan
Plato : The Republic / Robert Martin Schaefer
Aristotle : Nichomachean Ethics / John F. Crosby
Virgil : The Aeneid / Larry Allums
Roman and Italian Classics / Robert S. Dupree
Early Christian Writers / Telfair J. Mashburn, III
Augustine : The Confessions / Gail Kienitz
Beowulf / Gary D. Schmidt
Medieval Christian Writers / Telfair J. Mashburn, III
Thomas Aquinas : Summa Theologica / Robert E. Wood
Dante : The Divine Comedy / Larry Allums
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Mary Mumbach
Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales / Leland Ryken
The Second Shepard's Play and Everyman / Sharon Coolidge
Thomas More : Utopia / Peter Sampo
Martin Luther : The Babylonian Captivity of the Church; The Small Catechism / Mark A. Noll
Devotional Classics / Roger J. Green
Niccolo Machiavelli : The Prince / Peter Sampo
John Calvin : Institutes of the Christian Religion / Mark A. Noll
Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote / Marilyn Gump Stewart
Spanish Classics / Elizabeth Franklin Lewis
William Shakespeare : Hamlet; King Lear; Midsummer Night's Dream; and The Tempest / Louise Cowan
John Donne : Poems / Alan Jacobs
George Herbert : The Temple / Christopher Hodgkins
John Milton : Paradise Lost / Leland Ryken
Blaise Pascal : Pensees / Oz Guinness
John Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress / Beatrice Baston
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels / Daniel E. Ritchie
Jonathan Edwards : A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections / Mark A. Noll
Samuel Johnson : Essays and Rasselas; James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / Lionel Basney
Western Social and Political Philosophy / Ashley Woodiwiss
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions / Virginia L. Arbery
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay : The Federalist / Ashley Woodiwiss
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice / Henrietta Ten Harmsel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust / Carsten Peter Thiede
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Lyrical Ballads / Eileen Gregory
German Classics / Carsten Peter Thiede
John Keats : The Great Odes / Louise Cowan
Alexis de Tocqueville : Democracy in America / Bruce Frohnen
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays / Roger Lundin
Frederick Douglass : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave / John Lowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter / Roger Lundin
Emily Dickinson : the Complete Poems / Roger Lundin
Herman Melville : Moby Dick / Bainard Cowan
Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary / Larry Allums
French Classics / Carsten Peter Thiede
Charles Dickins : Great Expectations / Leland Ryken
John Henry Cardinal Newman : Apologia Pro Vita Sua / G.B. Tennyson
Soren Kierkegaard : Fear and Trambling / C. Stephen Evans
George Eliot : Middlemarch / Dean Ward
Gerald Manley Hopkins : Poems / Jude V. Nixon
Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina / Dona S. Gower
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : The Brothers Karamazov / Louise Cowan
Henry James : The Portrait of a Lady / Margaret Gardner
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Dennis Patrick Slattery
The Makers of the Modern World / Roger Lundin
Friedrich Nietzsche : Twilight of the Idols / Roger Lundin
Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness / Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
James Joyce : Dubliners / Harold Fickett
Franz Kafka : The Trial / Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
William Butler Yeats : Poems / Robert S. Dupree
T.S. Eliot : Four Quartets / John H. Timmerman
Robert Frost : Poems / Glenn C. Arbery
Modern Poetry in English / Eileen Gregory
Modern Drama / Mary Lou Hoyle
C.S. Lewis : The Screwtape Letters / Thomas T. Howard
William Faulkner : Go Down, Moses / Mary Mumbach
Simone Weil : Waiting for God / Stephen Gurney
Dietrich Bonnhoeffer : Letters and Papers from Prison / Roger Lundin
Flannery O'Connor : "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; "Greenleaf"; "Revelation" / Mary Mumbach
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Contemporary Writers / Bainard Cowan
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