The Federalist Papers (3P)
This primary source defends the concept of a strong central government with arguments in favor of the Constitution. Soft 560p...
Praise of Folly (5P)
In this classic work Erasmus satirizes the abuses of the Medieval church. As one of the greatest scholars Europe has ever produced, Erasmus uses all of his rhetorical skills to winsomely unmask the sins at work in ...
1984 (3P)
1984 has come and gone, but Orwell`s prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. It is still a great modern classic. A startling original and haunting novel that creates ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin (3P)
Lincoln, when meeting the author is believed to have said, ``So this is the little lady who made this big war.`` A powerful, essential part of the collective experience of the American people. Soft 518p...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (6P)
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's...
Julius Caesar - Oxford School Shakespeare Series (1P)
``Beware the Ides of March``, beware Brutus, beware the Senate, and beware introducing your child to Shakespeare. A literature guide for this book is part of the Brightest of Heaven of Invention. Soft 240p...
Macbeth - Oxford School Shakespeare Series (2P)
When you are studying the Renaissance why not have your students perform Macbeth? We did and the children loved it! In fact, our son Travis (then 11) told another of our sons, Parker (then 9) to ``stop telling tho...
Romeo and Juliet (5P)
The classic tragedy about the doomed young lovers is accompanied by historical and critical notes. ...
Republic (4P)
One of the best known books of all time. The central work of the Western world`s most famous philosopher. An enquiry into morality containing crucial arguments. Essential. Soft 475p...
The Pilgrim's Progress (3P)
The Pilgrim`s Progress has been translated more often than any book other than the Bible. One can normally relate to Pilgrim as he struggles with temptation and must learn to persevere through life. Soft 333p...
The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms with Proofs Texts (3P)
The complete Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms along with extensive Scripture proofs. You can hardly catechize your children without it. Listed here for study but great for younger child...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (6P)
``Of all the contenders for the title of the The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy`s adventures in the Mississippi V...
The Annals of Imperial Rome (4P)
This great work chronicles the sordid imperial reigns of Tiberius through Nero. He describes Christians, the earliest pagan source to do so, and how Nero blamed them for the burning of Rome. Here is an honest, and...
The Bacchae and Other Plays (4P)
Concerned with the dangers of self deception, Euripides` most famous play was written during the ``Golden Age of Greece``. This play turned out to be prophetic and politically relevant as Dionysus, the god of wine ...
The Canterbury Tales (2P) (5P)
With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, these tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. The tales are told by a motley crowd of pilgrims as they journey for five days. Dra...