Amazon.com description: Product Description: In A Taste of the Classics Series, Dr. Kenneth Boa encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization: books like Augustine’s Confessions, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, giving you a synthesis of the key things you will want to know: • The life and times of the author • The timeless contribution of the book • Key quotations from the book that reveal the power of the book and illustrate its underlying worldview • Brief insights after each of the key quotations • Compelling applications for our lives Volume one titles: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis