Subject Guide: Literature

Covers over 14,000 titles of some classics, but mostly published between late 1999 and 2003.

Reading guide and selection tool for 12,000 fiction and nonfiction teen titles published from 2001 to 2003

Introduces nearly 90 of the world's most entertaining classic books.

A journey through 2 1/2 millennia of classical books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.

Provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes' and examines metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.

Guide to the classical world and its literary heritage.

Demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare's plays and in the structure of his imagination.

Provides an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, prose stylists, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome.

Brings together the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome and women as writers and readers in the 19th century.

Humorous tour of the Western literary canon from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists.

Presents a bite-sized piece of literary history that looks at the origins and composition of 50 well-known pieces of literature.

Presents the 25 most spiritually influential and important books for Christians to read.

Tours the great literary works of the ages from a Christian perspective.

Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically.

Presents the earliest Christian writings in a historically meaningful order and includes writings similar in age and historical importance to the books of the New Testament.

Writings of Evagrius Ponticus, an important figure for Eastern and Western monasticism.

Introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective.

Examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen and John Milton's Paradise Lost in The Chronicles of Narnia.