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...
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, ...