LOVE OF MANKIND: Philanthropía
LOVE OF MANKIND: Philanthropía
VI. Literature
By Cycle:
~500-1500 AD
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~1500-1800 AD
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~1800-1900 AD
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~1900-Present
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4-Cycle Overview:
Cycle 1: Literature [~500-1500]
Saint George and the Dragon (Hodges)
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane (Millen) [10th c.]
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Pyle) [13th c.]
Otto of the Silver Hand (Pyle) [13th c.]
Chanticleer and the Fox (Cooney) [14th c.]
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Pyle) [5-6th c.]
The Princess and the Goblin (MacDonald)
Hakon of Rogen's Saga (Haugaard) [10th c.]
Prince Caspian (Lewis)
Adam of the Road (Gray) [13th c.]
The Sword in the Stone (White) *a.k.a. Bk. 1 of The Once and Future King [5-6th c.]
The Horse and His Boy (Lewis)
Watership Down (Adams)
Sigurd and His Brave Companion: A Tale of Medieval Norway (Undset) [13th c.]
Men of Iron (Pyle) [15th c.]
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
x
The Song of Roland [late 8th c.]
Byzantium (Lawhead) [9th c.]
The Divine Comedy (Alighieri; Ciardi tr.) [14th c.]
The Great Divorce (Lewis)
Ivanhoe (Scott) [1194] OR The Once and Future King (White) [~5-15th c.]
Anthem (Rand)
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
Aeschylus: The Oresteian Trilogy
Cycle 2: Literature [~1500-1800]
Stories from the Faerie Queen (Lang) *PDF
King of the Golden River (Ruskin)
The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) [1707]
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Hearn)
The Light Princess (MacDonald)
Children of the New Forest (Marryat) [1637]
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Lewis)
Treasure Island (Stevenson) [~1750s]
Free Reads:
Prince and the Pauper (Twain) [1547]
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) [1651]
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy) [1792]
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
x
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) (Manzoni) [1628-1630]
Perelandra (Lewis)
OR Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
The Shattered Fountain: Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) [1775-1793]
Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
Evangeline (Longfellow) [1755-1790]
Free Reads:
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) [1642-1649]
Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
OR Perelandra (Lewis)
Cycle 3: Literature [~1800-1900]
Little House in the Big Woods (Wilder)
Mountain Born (Yates)
A Christmas Carol (Dickens) [1840s]
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Wilder) [1874-1876]
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett) [1880s]
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) [1811]
A Christmas Carol (Dickens) [1840s]
Little Women (Alcott) [1863-1866]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle) [1889]
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
19th c. Poetry and Short Stories (selections by Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Sidney Lanier, O. Henry, etc.)
Free Reads:
Frankenstein (Shelley) [late 18th c.]
Jane Eyre (Brontë) [early 19th c.] OR Pride and Prejudice (Austen) [1811]
Crime and Punishment OR Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) [1860s]
My Ántonia OR O Pioneers! (Cather) [1880-1900]
*Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) could replace both Brontë and Dostoyevsky
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
Antigone and Oedipus (Sophocles), The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe), Ozymandias (Shelley), A Simple Heart (Flaubert), The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoyevsky),
Cycle 4: Literature [~1900-Present]
The Secret Garden (Burnett)
Understood Betsy (Canfield) OR Peter Pan (Barrie)
Pollyanna (Porter) OR Little Britches (Moody) [early 20th c.]
Thimble Summer (Enright) [1930s]
Chestry Oak (Seredy) [1936] OR The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis)
Homer Price (McCloskey) [1930s-40s]
Rabbit Hill (Lawson) OR Animal Farm (Orwell)
The Incredible Journey (Burnford) [1960s]
The Magician's Nephew (Lewis)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
The Bronze Bow (Speare) [~30 AD]
Our Town (Wilder) [1901-1913]
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) OR Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) [1930s]
The Screwtape Letters (Lewis) [1940-1941] OR Animal Farm (Orwell)
The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry) [1940s]
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
x
History Reads:
War Horse (Morpurgo) [1914-1918]
The Ark (Benary-Isbert) OR The Winged Watchman (Von Stockum) OR The Devil's Arithmetic (Yolen) [1940s]
X
Free Reads:
Rilla of Ingleside (Montgomery) [1914-1919]
Jayber Crow (Berry) [1930s-1960s] OR A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) [1912-1918]
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) [1922]
Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
Brave New World (Huxley) OR Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman) [1985]
The Abolition of Man (Lewis) [1943]
Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation [1946] *PDF
Plays, Poems, Short Stories:
T.S. Eliot selections, Everything that Rises Must Converge (O'Connor), A & P (Updike), Harrison Bergeron (Vonnegut), The Machine Stops (Forster), The Master and Margarita- “Pontius Pilate" (Bulgakov)
History Reads:
Storm of Steel (Jünger) OR All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) [1914-1918]
The Chosen (Potok) OR The Hiding Place (Ten Boom) [1940s]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) [1950s]
Free Reads:
The Keeper of Bees (Porter) [1920s]
*General Literature resources HERE
“Whatever things were rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians. For next to God, we worship and love the Word who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became man for our sakes, that becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might also bring us healing. For all the writers were able to see realities darkly through the sowing of the implanted word that was in them."
~St. Justin Martyr