The Great Books Reader
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The Great Books Reader

Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

  1. 752 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. 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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction On Reading Excerpts of Great Books
  6. Chapter One Homer
  7. Chapter Two Plato
  8. Chapter Three Aristotle
  9. Chapter Four Virgil
  10. Chapter Five Augustine
  11. Chapter Six Boethius
  12. Chapter Seven Thomas Aquinas
  13. Chapter Eight Dante Alighieri
  14. Chapter Nine Geoffrey Chaucer
  15. Chapter Ten Desiderius Erasmus
  16. Chapter Eleven John Calvin
  17. Chapter Twelve Edmund Spenser
  18. Chapter Thirteen Miguel de Cervantes
  19. Chapter Fourteen William Shakespeare
  20. Chapter Fifteen René Descartes
  21. Chapter Sixteen John Milton
  22. Chapter Seventeen Blaise Pascal
  23. Chapter Eighteen John Locke, Part One
  24. Chapter Nineteen John Locke, Part Two
  25. Chapter Twenty Isaac Newton
  26. Chapter Twenty-One John Wesley
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two Jane Austen
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three Alexis de Tocqueville
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four Karl Marx
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five Charles Darwin
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six Leo Tolstoy
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven Fyodor Dostoevsky
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight Friedrich Nietzsche
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine G. K. Chesterton
  35. About the Author
  36. Translation Credits
  37. Contributors