num_pages: 276
description: Essays on some of the great classics of literatureIntroductionReader's Guide: Forms of the Classics Content of the ClassicsI - Early Origins--Antiquity *The Age of Fable by Thomas Bullfinch *The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer *The Republic by Plato *Aristotle's Politics and Poetics *Plutarch: Lives of Ten Noble Greeks and Romans *Classical Literature of Asia edited by John D. YohannanII - Middle Ages--The Renaissance *The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri *The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer *The Renaissance Man: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Courtier by Baldassare Catiglione *The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celllini *Essays of Montaigne *Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes *The Complete Works of ShakespeareIII - The Seventeenth Century *Pensees by Blaise Pascal *Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton *The Pilgrim's Progress by John BunyanIV - The Eighteenth Century *The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe *Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift *Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding *Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin *Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson for the Modern Reader an abridgment by Herbert Askwith *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *Ivanhoe by Sir Walter ScottV - The Nineteenth Century *Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac *Selected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe *Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson *Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte *Vanity Fair. by William Makepeace Thackeray *The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne *Moby Dick by Herman Melville *Walden by Henry David Thoreau *Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky *Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky *The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins *Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *The American by Henry James *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) *Selected short stories by Guy de Maupassant *The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane *The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler *Great Poetry of the English Language: Geoffrey Chaucer - Emily Dickinson *The Ground on Which We Stand: Basic Documents of American HistoryEnvoi--An End and a BeginningIndex
language: English
title: An Invitation to Great Reading
publisher: Grolier