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

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0801011566
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PN49.I585 1998

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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.

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor	Non-fiction	PN49.I69 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001814157

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

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