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Tables of Contents for Invitation to the Classics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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