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Invitation to the classics / edited by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, (c)1998.Description: 384 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801011566
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN49.G964.I585 1998
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Contents:
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 shepherds' 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 Os Guiness -- John Bunyan : The pilgrim's progress Beatrice Batson -- 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 Dickens : Great expectations Leland Ryken -- John Henry, Cardinal Newman : Apologia pro vita sua G. B. Tennyson -- Sren Kierkegaard : Fear and trembling C. Stephen Evans -- George Eliot : Middlemarch Dean Ward -- Gerard 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 Bonhoeffer : 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.
Subject: Provides introductions to such classic authors as Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka for the Christian reader in particular.
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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 shepherds' 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 Os Guiness -- John Bunyan : The pilgrim's progress Beatrice Batson -- 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 Dickens : Great expectations Leland Ryken -- John Henry, Cardinal Newman : Apologia pro vita sua G. B. Tennyson -- Sren Kierkegaard : Fear and trembling C. Stephen Evans -- George Eliot : Middlemarch Dean Ward -- Gerard 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 Bonhoeffer : 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.

Provides introductions to such classic authors as Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka for the Christian reader in particular.

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