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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

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