In this Live Online Course students will focus on great works beginning just after the Reformation and covers significant works of modern Western culture.

In this Live Online Course students will focus on great works of theology, history and literature of the medieval world beginning with the works of St. Augustine and ending in the Reformation era.

In this Live Online Course students will focus on works of the ancient world, culminating in the first century.

In this Live Online Course students will focus on great works beginning just after the Reformation and covers significant works of modern Western culture.

In this Live Online Course students will focus on great works of theology, history and literature of the medieval world beginning with Eusebius and ending with Luther.

In this Live Online Course students will focus on great works of the ancient world culminating in the first century.

GREAT BOOKS FROM ANCIENT TIMES

With the Omnibus I Primary, Self-Paced Course students study early biblical works, as well as, Gilgamesh, Hammurabi, Histories by Herodotus and many more in 175 engaging lessons. Students will work at their own pace, interacting with the material...

GREAT BOOKS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES THROUGH THE REFORMATION

With the Omnibus II Primary, Self-Paced Course students study Shakespeare, Beowulf, Creeds, Confessions and many more in 175 engaging lessons. Students will work at their own pace, interacting with the material, learn...

GREAT BOOKS FROM MODERN TIMES

With the Omnibus III Primary, Self-Paced Course students study foundational American documents, The Pilgrim's Progress, A Tale of Two Cities, Biblical books and many more in 175 engaging lessons. Students will work at their own pace, interacting...

Omnibus I is the first of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Omnibus II is the second of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.

Omnibus III is the third of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.

Omnibus IV is the fourth of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.

Omnibus V is the fifth of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.

Omnibus VI is the sixth of six courses to study the Great Books. Omnibus is the classical Christian educational answer to history, theology, and literature.

Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Eusebius` history traces the spread of the Gospel from apostolic times into the fourth century. Maier`s flowing English translation remains faithful to the Greek while creating a new standard primary resource. There is no more important book to understanding the early church and no more readable...

From the complete Greek tragedies series. Sophocles, a well know ancient play writer is simply one of the greatest playwrights of all time. He produced tragedies, especially Oedipus Rex (Rex is Latin for King) that have remained unmatched in the world`s literature. Oedipus the King has remained...

Aeschylus, the son of Euphorion, was born about 513 or 512 B.C. The great Persian wars occurred during his adult life and he fought at Marathon. He left behind more than seventy plays, of which seven have survived. These Greek tragedies are based on stories told or indicated in previous Greek legend...

Practical (albeit a bit stoic) philosophy for living is found in great abundance. Feels like the writings of an ancient Ben Franklin. Marcus Aurelius delivers many insightful and inspirational observations about human nature and the human condition. Yet he fails to understand what the Christian has...

``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 Valley - a sequel to Tom Sawyer - the book grew and matured under Twain`...

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 fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...

The definitive edition of many foundational texts of the Christian faith, including Greek and English texts. This volume features the work of Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, and more.

A very readable version of one of Shakespeare`s great works. Editorial comments, definitions words and phrases and other helpful tools cater to pupils of all ages and abilities, providing clear, helpful guidelines for understanding.

C.S. Lewis once said, while writing of The Fairie Queene, that ``no prig can be a Spenserian.`` There is consequently wisdom in this book for those who are part of the developing classical Christian movement. Classical enthusiasts, unless they watch themselves, can fall prey to the temptations of...

With the Eclogues, Virgil established his reputation as a major poet, and with the Georgics, he created a masterpiece of Latin poetry. The Eclogues unfolds in an idyllic landscape shadowed by thwarted romance and civil war. The Georgics celebrates Italy`s natural beauty, the values of piety and...

The definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time, encompassing almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study. The serious math student should not miss these.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, social control through politics, and the media. Then Huxley`s future or our present? Maybe both. Ethical dilemmas will not leave without wisdom and courage. A wake-up call in one of the best selling books of the 20th century.

This is the sequel to The Iliad. No list of classic literary works is without it. This version comes from the pen of one of the greatest translators, too. One of two major great epic poems attributed to Homer, the Greek poet. The sequel to The Iliad is about the Greek hero, Odysseus...

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single...

The classic epic poem of the adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian hero who rescues the Danes from the horrible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's vengeful mother. After returning to his homeland, the aged hero faces one more battlethis time, against a fierce dragon.

Includes copious comments, index and Bible references. The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology. Contains the text of the Hammurabi Code with parallels and comments to God`s Law.

Leonardo Da Vinci`s favorite piece of literature. This edition is well documented with footnotes and endnotes that are clear and concise. A collection of short stories, some with morals and many with just plain ideas on conduct within society. Ovid is a master storyteller with beautiful fluidity.

The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution is perhaps one of the most important books written on the American Revolution by a European author. It is an original study of the subject by a conservative, objective German observer who acknowledges the legitimacy of the American Revolution...

One of the most important movements in Church History has been monasticism. This book prescribes rules by which the monks who followed St. Benedict were to live. Benedictine monks like Augustine of Canterbury also did the important missionary and culture work to rebuild the ruins after barbarian...

Deals passionately, logically, and decisively with the error concerning will and the error adding any human merit to salvation. He systematically debunks the great Erasmus`s arguments for the freedom of human will. Very important!

Virgil's Aeneid is the epic of Western civilization just as Homer`s Iliad and Odyssey are the epics of Greek culture. The poem tells of the remote past, the world of Homer`s heroes, in order to be able to speak of the present and future of Augustan Rome.

Solzhenitsyn`s first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Arguably, a key piece in the USSR downfall. Not to be missed.

Josephus is the essential source for the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and the Jewish rebellion that preceded it. He also presents an authoritative rare account of Jewish life in the intertestamental period. These accounts provide important cultural and political background for serious student...

The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. I can still see Redford playing the part in the movie. Written in 1925 by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) between Sparta and Athens was the central political event of Athens` Golden Age. Thucydides an Athenian historian and general knows that history is important because of the lessons we learn from it, and his contemporary account of this event is a timeless...

The Anti-Federalist Papers reveal the dissenting opinions of such statesmen as Patrick Henry and John DeWitt, who saw in The Federalist Papers threats to rights and liberties so recently won from England.

This primary source defends the concept of a strong central government with arguments in favor of the Constitution.

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 the Roman church.

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 an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the...

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.

``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

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 those odious tyrant lies`` while attempting to settle on a choice of cereal at the store...

The classic tragedy about the doomed young lovers is accompanied by historical and critical notes.

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.

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.

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 children to memorize.

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 sometimes shocking, primary source describing the pagan world into which the Gospel...

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 and ecstasy, lulls King Pentheus and his subjects into an illusion of self-sufficience...

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. Drawn from all levels of society and all walks of life, the pilgrims reveal a picture...

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 prose. His eloquence was his weapon in a dangerous, shifting and brutal world and flawed...

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 to the modern reader with little loss of poetic artistry and brilliance.

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 institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing...

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, and Paradise, and the story of the lover who must brave the underworld to find his...

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 story that everybody knew and loved; the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory, and...

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 and loved; the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, and the story of the...

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 and revolutionaries of Europe, and has been the inspiration and foundation for modern...

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 Christianity, and to do so in terms that would convince his readers, that this was indeed...

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.

This is the most admired work of Bede ``The Venerable,`` an English theologian who lived at the turn of the eighth century. It records the earliest inhabitants of England, but focuses on the spread of Christianity on the island. Bede tells of the first missionary activity in England, the conversion...

Beautiful, clever, rich — and single Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts...

The lore of King Arthur begins with this historical text. Written a bit in the style of Herodotus-wandering and captivating-we find no simple, factual recounting; rather, a delightful teaching of lessons reflecting the societal interest in nobility and gallantry. More history should be written like...

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 B.C.) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as almost any historical event. In four superb `dialogues`, Plato provided the classic account.

Brilliantly written and translated, this book contains one of Aristophanes` most famous plays, Clouds, which irreverently skewers the sophists and sceptics of his day. When the King of Syracuse asked Plato what he should read to understand how the average Athenian thought, he replied...

"Call me Ishmael." So echo the famous opening lines of this American classic about the maniacal pursuit of the white whale. Every student should come aboard the Pequod on the voyage. But beware of Captain Ahab! The renowned theologian, R.C. Sproul, has described Moby Dick as the great American novel...

A predecessor to such monumental works as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", "Notes From Underground" represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression a...

In brief, Milton is fully recognizable as a Renaissance literary artist. His service to his God is inseparable from his service to poetry and to the cultivated and aesthetically beautiful handling of language. It is fit to encompass and express a wide range of human experience. The work for which...

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural' Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation...

The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational...

This famous treatise on statecraft holds such power to shock `men of goodwill` that at one time Machiavelli (1469-1527) was identified with Satan himself. In his own turbulent times he was concerned not with lofty ideals, but with government that would last.

Without a doubt, the finest political/philosophical conservative text published in its time. Burke saw what the French revolution was about and attacked it root and branch. Understanding the French Revolution is imperative - this will help.

Life is a dangerous struggle for Robinson Crusoe as he finds himself stranded alone on an unknown island off the coast of South America. He must rely on his own wits to find food, shelter and clothing. Find out what becomes of him.

The Social Contract, a classic book of political theory, was revolutionary in its time and continues to stir controversy today. Rousseau argues for a social contract between all citizens as the source of sovereign power, as well as discussing issues of liberty, law, freedom, and just...

The Song of Roland is the earliest, the most famous, and the greatest of those Old French Epics which are called Songs of Deeds. Writing around the end of the 11th century, and recalling an actual disaster in 778, the anonymous poet describes in detail the betrayal and slaughter by Saracens of the...

This tome offers a swift, exciting story and an unforgettable rendering of the French Revolution, in a lethal, vengeful and exiguous Paris and a tranquil London. Would that Hollywood would makes movies of books like this. Written in classic Dickens style. ``It was the best of times, it was the worst...

Seutonius was the first notable Latin biographer. This title covers the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitan, and remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin (Roman) histories. Suetonis gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checked his facts carefully and...

Einhard spent twenty-three years in Charle-magne`s service, and writes elegantly about Charlemagne`s campaigns and his personal life. Notker wrote later, relating interesting anecdotes about Charlemagne and his time. Both display well the medieval mind. A great primary source.

The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation - Bks. 21-30 covers the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Expect vivid recreation of the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants crossing the Alps. Yet it is the clash of personalities that fascinates Livy, from...

Part of the classic ``Library of America`` series. Contains key speeches, letters, miscellaneous writings, presidential messages, and proclamations. A phenomenal primary source.

One of the greatest 20th-century historians details the events after D-Day in WWII. His writing skill makes one wonder if it is fiction but it`s not. Loaded with facts, presented enjoyable. Captivating.

Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and persons.

A remarkable version of the greatest classical work of history ever written. Herodotus, the "father of history," comes through in all his glory as he tells of the events surrounding and preceding the Persian Wars.

The development of Martin Luther's thought was both a symptom and moving force in the transformation of the Middle Ages into the modern world. Geographical discovery, an emerging scientific tradition, and a climate of social change had splintered the unity of medieval Christian culture, and these...

After a successful career in public service, Plutarch settled down to become a priest at Delphi. He studied virtue and wrote biographies of great men who exhibited these virtues. His "Lives" is an essential source of information on many persons and events in the ancient world. If you like reading...

This is a masterpiece of a remote and exotic age, the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quest. Yet it is in the unique artistry and imagination of Tolkien that the language of these great stories comes to life for modern readers in these masterful and compelling translations.

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Athanasius was the greatest defender of Trinitarian Christianity when it came under attack in the fourth century. His On The Incarnation is his most famous work. To be sure, some of what he espoused has since improved, but this work remains an important sample of historical theology. C.S. Lewis`s...

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's...

One of the greatest adventure stories of all time. The legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, is abducted, which leads to a great conflict. It is in the Trojan War that the most valiant of heroes are pitted against each other. Even the gods and goddesses must take sides and intervene.

Through the eye-witness and contemporary biographical accounts, this book provides valuable insight into the late-12th century world. The extracts, many previously untranslated, expose one of the most controversial figures of the Middle Ages. Written as the shock of Becket's murder in 1170...

An ancient pagan alternative view of how the world came to be. Poetic, fun, and witty. It`s the best we know and a great starting point for the study of ancient literature and history.

The Summa Theologica (Summary of Theology) was written by Thomas Aquinas from 1265-1274. It is considered his best-known work. It provides a synthesis of Christian thought and has impacted philosophy and religion since it was written.