Invitation to the Classics : A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read

by Cowan, Louise, and Os Guinness, eds.

• ISBN13: 9780801011566
• ISBN10: 0801011566
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Baker Books

Summary

Invitation to the Classics will open a new generation of readers to the wonder of some of humankind's greatest creations. This volume helps the reader enter the world of the great books. With rich, full-color illustrations and clear, understandable text penned by fifty experts, the work introduces the major Western classics from a Christian perspective.

Table of Contents

Contributors	9	(4)
The Purpose of Invitation to the Classics	13	(6)
Os Guinness
The Importance of the Classics	19	(6)
Louise Cowan
The ``Classics'' Are Not the ``Canon''	25	(4)
Roger Lundin
Homer The Iliad and The Odyssey	29	(5)
Glenn C. Arbery
Aeschylus The Oresteia	34	(4)
Daniel Russ
Herodotus History of the Persian Wars	38	(4)
Arthur A. Rupprecht
Western Histories	42	(4)
Charles R. Sullivan
Sophocles Oedipus Rex	46	(5)
Louise Cowan
Euripides The Bacchae	51	(4)
Larry Allums
Aristophanes Comedies	55	(4)
Louise Cowan
Plato The Republic	59	(4)
Robert Martin Schaefer
Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics	63	(4)
John F. Crosby
Virgil The Aeneid	67	(4)
Larry Allums
Roman and Italian Classics	71	(6)
Robert S. Dupree
Early Christian Writers	77	(4)
Telfair J. Mashburn, III
Augustine The Confessions	81	(4)
Gail Kienitz
Beowulf	85	(4)
Gary D. Schmidt
Medieval Christian Writers	89	(4)
Telfair J. Mashburn, III
Thomas Aquinas Summa theologica	93	(4)
Robert E. Wood
Dante The Divine Comedy	97	(6)
Larry Allums
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	103	(4)
Mary Mumbach
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales	107	(6)
Leland Ryken
The Second Shepherds' Play and Everyman	113	(4)
Sharon Coolidge
Thomas More Utopia	117	(4)
Peter Sampo
Martin Luther The Babylonian Captivity of the Church; The Small Catechism	121	(4)
Mark A. Noll
Devotional Classics	125	(6)
Roger J. Green
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince	131	(4)
Peter Sampo
John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion	135	(4)
Mark A. Noll
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote	139	(4)
Marilyn Gump Stewart
Spanish Classics	143	(6)
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis
William Shakespeare Hamlet; King Lear; Midsummer Night's Dream; and The Tempest	149	(6)
Louise Cowan
John Donne Peoms	155	(4)
Alan Jacobs
George Herbert The Temple	159	(4)
Christopher Hodgkins
John Milton Paradise Lost	163	(6)
Leland Ryken
Blaise Pascal Pensees	169	(4)
Os Guinness
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress	173	(4)
Beatrice Batson
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels	177	(4)
Daniel E. Rithchie
Jonathan Edwards A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections	181	(4)
Mark A. Noll
Samuel Johnson Essays and Rasselas; James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	185	(5)
Lionel Basney
Western Social and Political Philosophy	190	(5)
Ashley Woodiwiss
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions	195	(4)
Virginia L. Arbery
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay The Federalist	199	(4)
Ashley Woodiwiss
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice	203	(4)
Henrietta Ten Harmsel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust	207	(4)
Carsten Peter Thiede
William Wordsworth and Samuel Tylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads	211	(4)
Eileen Gregory
German Classics	215	(6)
Carsten Peter Thiede
John Keats The Great Odes	221	(4)
Louise Cowan
Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America	225	(4)
Bruce Frohnen
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays	229	(4)
Roger Lundin
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave	233	(4)
John Lowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter	237	(4)
Roger Lundin
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems	241	(4)
Roger Lundin
Herman Melville Moby Dick	245	(4)
Bainard Cowan
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary	249	(4)
Larry Allums
French Classics	253	(6)
Carsten Peter Thiede
Charles Dickens Great Expectations	259	(4)
Leland Ryken
John Henry, Cardinal Newman Apologia pro vita sua	263	(4)
G. B. Tennyson
Soren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling	267	(4)
C. Stephen Evans
George Eliot Middlemarch	271	(4)
Dean Ward
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems	275	(4)
Jude V. Nixon
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina	279	(4)
Dona S. Gower
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov	283	(4)
Louise Cowan
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady	287	(4)
Margaret Gardner
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	291	(4)
Dennis Patrick Slattery
The Makers of the Modern World	295	(4)
Roger Lundin
Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols	299	(4)
Roger Lundin
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness	303	(4)
Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
James Joyce Dubliners	307	(4)
Harold Fickett
Franz Kafka The Trial	311	(4)
Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
William Butler Yeats Poems	315	(4)
Robert S. Dupree
T. S. Eliot Four Quartets	319	(4)
John H. Timmerman
Robert Frost Poems	323	(4)
Glenn C. Arbery
Modern Poetry in English	327	(4)
Eileen Gregory
Modern Drama	331	(4)
Mary Lou Hoyle
C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters	335	(4)
Thomas T. Howard
William Faulkner Go Down, Moses	339	(6)
Mary Mumbach
Simone Weil Waiting for God	345	(4)
Stephen Gurney
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison	349	(4)
Roger Lundin
Flannery O'Connor ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''; ``Greenleaf''; ``Revelation''	353	(4)
Mary Mumbach
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	357	(4)
Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Contemporary Writers	361	(5)
Bainard Cowan
Index	366