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...
Cicero: Selected Works (4P)
In many ways Cicero can be considered the greatest ancestor of the whole modern liberal tradition in Western life and his incomparable oratory and writings have profoundly influenced the development of European pros...
The Consolation of Philosophy (5P)
The clarity of Boethius`s thought and his breadth of vision made this work hugely popular throughout medieval Europe. His ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes his work accessible t...
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (6P)
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institution...
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno (2P) (5P)
Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian rather than Latin, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. He took two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved; the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory, ...
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory (5P)
Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian rather than Latin, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. This is the second volume. The masterpiece was written in the early 1300’s. He took two threads of a s...
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradise (5P)
Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian rather than Latin, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. The masterpiece was written in the early 1300’s. He took two threads of a story that everybody knew an...
The Communist Manifesto (3P)
The very essence of communism, as envisaged by Marx and Engels, is contained in the Manifesto. First published in 1848, when its authors were only 30 and 28 years old respectively, it set alight the intellectuals a...
Confessions (2P)
When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world. His task was twofold: to explain to himself the significance of his conversion to Chri...
Livy: The Early History of Rome, Bks. 1-5 (1P)
Caesar Augustus commissioned this history from Livy, who offers an exciting account Rome`s early years, from the Trojan War through the founding of the Republic. Soft 424p...