TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,Louise
AU  - Guinness,Os
TI  - Invitation to the classics
SN  - 9780801011566
AV  - PN49.G964.I585 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Baker Books
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianity and literature
N1  - 1 and indexes; 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; 2
N2  - Provides introductions to such classic authors as Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka for the Christian reader in particular
ER  -