Cambridge Lists - Class Books

This page contains lists of books to purchase for Cambridge classes
These lists do not include handouts. Handouts are supplied by the study center.

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• College Preparatory Year

• Creative in His Image

• Logos and Light

• Thoughts Captive

• Thoughts Captive Supplementary

• Cambridge Preparatory Year

• Language, Truth & Manners

College Preparatory Year

• Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment (Translator: Constance Garnett)

• Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury

• Golding, William - Lord of the Flies

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter

• Hemingway, Ernest - Islands in the Stream

• Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea

• London, Jack - The Sea Wolf

• Machen, J. Gresham - The Christian View of Man

• Melville, Herman - Moby Dick

• Schaeffer - Escape from Reason

• Stumpf, Samuel - Socrates to Sartre

• Vanauken, Sheldon - A Severe Mercy

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Creative in His Image

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Logos and Light

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Thoughts Captive

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Cambridge Preparatory Year

• Heaven is Not My Home by Paul Marshall. Nashville: Word, 1998.

• The Westminster Shorter Catechism - not in modernized language
   (any cheap edition will do - available for free from Presbyterian Church in America)

• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

• The Homeric Hymns, Anon. Trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.

• The Theogony by Hesiod. Trans. Norman O. Brown. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Ed. Pub., 1981.

• Three Greek Plays (including Agamemnon by Aeschylus & The Trojan Women by Euripides)
      Trans. Edith Hamilton. NY: Norton, 1937; 1965.

• Four Plays by Aristophanes (incl. The Birds, The Wasps & The Clouds)
      Trans. William Arrowsmith. New American Library, 1984.

• The Iliad by Homer. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. NY: Anchor, 1975; 1989.

• The Metamorphosis by Ovid. Trans. Horace Gregory. Signet.

• Of the Nature of Things by Lucretius. Ed. S. Palmer Bovie. New American Library

• The Aeneid by Virgil. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. NY: Vintage, 1983.
  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Trans. Maxwell Staniforth. NY: Penguin.
  The Confessions by St. Augustine. Trans R.S. Pine-Coffin. NY: Penguin, 1961.

• Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Trans. Peter Walsh. Oxford Univ. Press.

• Beowulf, Anon. A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney. Norton ed.
  Sic et Non (Yes and No) by Abelard - Not currently available for affordable price.

• Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) by Anselm. Edwin Mellen Press.
  Summa Theologica (A Shorter Summa) by St. Thomas Aquinas. Ed. Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press.

• Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Anon. Trans. J.R.R. Tolkien. NY: Ballentine, 1988.

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Trans. Nevil Coghill. NY: Penguin.

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Intr. Daniel Donno. Bantam.

• Utopia by Sir Thomas More. Trans. Paul Turner. Penguin.

• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. Wordsworth Editions.

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Trans. Dorothy Sayers. NY: Penguin.

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Trans. John M. Cohen. NY: Penguin.
  Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes. 3rd Ed. Hackett Publishing Co.

• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Trans. Michael Hulse. London: Penguin, 1989.

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Trans. Walter J. Cobb. New American Library.

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Everyman Library or any cheap unabridged edition.

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Bantam.
  The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Avon.
  Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre Lyle Stuart, 1984.

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf. NY: Harvest (Harcourt), 1956 or any cheap unabridged edition.

Optional:
How Shall We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne & Ralph Edney
The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vols. I & II. NY: Norton.

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Language, Truth & Manners

Writing

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E. B. White. NY: Allyn & Bacon, 1979.

• The Habit of Being (The Letters of Flannery O'Connor) NY:Vintage, 1979.

• The Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick & John J. Fenstermaker. 4th Ed. NY: Norton, 1993.

  NOTE: This work retails for around $50.00 making it too costly to obtain through ordinary channels. However, reasonably priced copies may be purchased through the following sites: Rare & Used Books on Amazon.com and Rare & Used Books on Barnes & Noble's websites - sometimes as low as $6.50. Be sure to get the 4th edition.

• MLA Style Manual by Joseph Gibaldi. 2nd Ed. NY: Mod. Language Asoc. of America, 1998.

• Bleak House, Charles Dickens. Any cheap unabridged paperback edition.

• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. Any cheap unabridged paperback edition.

Rhetoric

• Classic Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward Corbett. 4th Ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.

• Rhetoric by Aristotle. Trans. Hugh Lawson-Tancred. NY: Penguin, 1992.

Optional

• A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston. 2nd Ed. Indianapolis: Hacket, 1992.

• Ad Herennium by [pseudo-] Cicero. Trans. Harry Caplan. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981.

• Basic Debate by Leslie Phillips, William S. Hicks & Douglas R. Springer. 4th Ed. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 1996.

Etiquette

• The Song of Roland, Anon. Trans. Dorothy Sayers. NY: Penguin, 1937.

• Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the Millennium by Judith Martin. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

• Common Courtesy by Judith Martin. NY: Atheneum, 1985.

Optional

• Vogue's Book of Etiquette (currently out-of-print) Etiquette by Emily Post. NY: Harper Collins, 1997.

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