The Major Works
10 best books like The Major Works (John Milton): Four Histories ("Richard II", "Henry IV Part One", "Henry IV Part Two", "Henry V"), The Major Works, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, Four Comedies, Basic Theological Writings, Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975, Selected Poetry, Prose and Poetry: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders / War Is Kind, The Major Works, The Portable Voltaire
| Author | William Shakespeare |
All the lapidary dialogue that you would expect from Shakespeare, dosed with a surprising amount of early modern ethnic humor (those Welsh and their leeks, ha ha!) I also found the scenes with Falstaff and his fellow tavern denizens to be more grim then funny - on the page, Sir John comes across more like...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0192840436 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English...
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0192840800 |
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...
| Author | Plautus |
| ISBN | 0192838962 |
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humor, and irreverent characterizations...
| Author | Martin Luther |
| ISBN | 0800636805 |
Thorough translation of many of Dr. Luther's more important writings - in 755 pages. To be clear this is not just a casual read, but the average high-school graduate might need to take their time. Perhaps reading several pages (12-20) a week over a year. Dr. Lull has included several footnotes which help...
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975
| Author | Milton J. Bates |
| ISBN | 1883011906 |
Some of these pieces are very powerful. Others show how journalism is often, in the end, an ephemeral art.
One passage I highlighted on the horror of the war, from a 1967 New Republic story.
"But the newest weapon of them all, and in its own way, the most incredibly impressive for all its...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 0192834940 |
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one....
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0940450178 |
This Library of America volume shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. This comprehensive collection includes all his most accomplished and best-known...
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0192840428 |
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.
This volume celebrates...
Satirist, novelist, poet, dramatist, historian, moralist, critic, courtier, and correspondent, champion of reason and fanatical adversary of fanaticism, a darling of kings with the unfortunate habit of turning them into enemies, François Arouet de Voltaire is one of the few writers to have imposed...
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0192840819 |
This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0192832603 |
Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family relationships.
In Orestes, the most popular of...
| Author | Pierre Corneille |
| ISBN | 0140443126 |
You can see my general thoughts on Corneille here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
Here are my thoughts on the plays in this volume as I read them:
The Theater of Illusion *** 1/2 – What a wonderful change from Corneille’s tragedies! This is a lively, witty drama...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0393328244 |
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic,...
| Author | Zacharias Ursinus |
| ISBN | 0930265858 |
This Reformed catechism delivers strong doctrine in a pastoral, caring, comforting way. The structure helpfully models the Christian life: guilt, grace, gratitude (or sin, salvation, service).
Make sure you read a version that contains the Scripture references! The PRCA has ebook and...
| Author | Gregory of Nazianzus |
| ISBN | 0881412406 |
Gregory of Nazianzus, "The Theologian," was recognized among the Cappadocian Fathers as a peculiarly vivid and quotable exponent of the doctrine of God in Trinity. A brilliant orator and accomplished poet, he placed before the Church his interpretation of the sublime mystery of the God revealed...
| Author | Bonaventure |
| ISBN | 0809121212 |
This is how I imagine spiritual theology would be if it were written by an on-fire, meditative, deeply orthodox and copiously learned systematic theologian who was also a quantum physicist and complex mathematician who enjoyed contemplating the hypostatic union and the triune interrelationships,...
Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, a leading expert on these texts, offers a thoroughly revised and redesigned bilingual edition, featuring Greek (or Latin) and English on facing pages. Introductions and bibliographies...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 0486270734 |
Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 0192813749 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors...
| Author | Irenaeus of Lyons |
| ISBN | 0881411744 |
St. Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work, Against the Heresies and in this present study, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, St. Irenaeus explains that there is but one God,...
| Author | Cyril of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 0881411337 |
This text is one of the most important and yet approachable works produced by Cyril. It was written after the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. Cyril argues for the single divine subjectivity of Christ, and describes how it encompasses a full and authentic...
Abraham Lincoln; His Speeches and Writings
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| ISBN | 0306804042 |
This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds...
