Cowan, Louise 1916-2015 editor Os Guinness 1941- editor text bibliography miu Grand Rapids, Mich Baker Books c1998 1998 monographic eng

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384 pages . : color illustrations ; 24 cm. Provides introductions to such classic authors as Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka for the Christian reader in particular 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 Niccolò 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 : Pensées / 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. [... Cont.] 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 Søren 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. [... Cont.] 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 edited by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Literature History and criticism Christianity and literature PN49 I62 1998 809 9780801011566 (harcover) 97043058 DLC 971014 20240502122025.0 710814 eng