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The Great Books Reader
Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
- 752 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Great Books Reader
Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
About this book
Great Books programs have become increasingly popular among Christian colleges, high schools, and even home schoolers. This one-of-a-kind book is designed for those who do not have the opportunity to attend such a program but are still interested in directly engaging with the Western Canon. It contains substantial excerpts from thirty of the most important books in history, with each excerpt followed by an essay placing the work in historical and Christian context. Readers can learn directly from such authors and thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, de Tocqueville, Freud, and Chesterton.
Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine
Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine
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Literary CollectionsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction On Reading Excerpts of Great Books
- Chapter One Homer
- Chapter Two Plato
- Chapter Three Aristotle
- Chapter Four Virgil
- Chapter Five Augustine
- Chapter Six Boethius
- Chapter Seven Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter Eight Dante Alighieri
- Chapter Nine Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chapter Ten Desiderius Erasmus
- Chapter Eleven John Calvin
- Chapter Twelve Edmund Spenser
- Chapter Thirteen Miguel de Cervantes
- Chapter Fourteen William Shakespeare
- Chapter Fifteen René Descartes
- Chapter Sixteen John Milton
- Chapter Seventeen Blaise Pascal
- Chapter Eighteen John Locke, Part One
- Chapter Nineteen John Locke, Part Two
- Chapter Twenty Isaac Newton
- Chapter Twenty-One John Wesley
- Chapter Twenty-Two Jane Austen
- Chapter Twenty-Three Alexis de Tocqueville
- Chapter Twenty-Four Karl Marx
- Chapter Twenty-Five Charles Darwin
- Chapter Twenty-Six Leo Tolstoy
- Chapter Twenty-Seven Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Chapter Twenty-Eight Friedrich Nietzsche
- Chapter Twenty-Nine G. K. Chesterton
- About the Author
- Translation Credits
- Contributors