Please, please, please

[weepingforloman]

Please, please, please put up The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Augustine's Confessions is here (or so I am told) and I would really appreciate this and perhaps some of Calvin's biblical commentary.

[Logos]

John Calvin (1509–1564) is on the list of new authors to be added to the site :)

[weepingforloman]

Viele dank.

[mtpspur]

Calvin's commentaries are available and reasonably priced. He also did a series of Sermons on Ephesians that are separate from the commentaries. Spurgeon thinks very highly of him. Once you pick up the tempo of his 'voice' he's quite readable.

[weepingforloman]

Agreed. Despite it taking me 5 months (roughly six hours of reading, though) to make it through the first 300 pages, I've read 80 in the last three days.

[mtpspur]

Very impressed. I own the Sovereign Grace edition of the Institutes--unfortunately that particular publisher chose to make the volumes affordable for using a VERY thin print with BOLD BLACK typeface. I have never been able to perservere due to the eyestrain. He went under before he could finish the commentaries in what would have been eight volumes so I had an incomplete set for years that I passed on to more spiritual men of God in hopes of getting the complete more eye friendly set later. Target year 2009--one I have my eye on will with discount be about $160.

[jon1jt]

John Calvin (1509–1564) is on the list of new authors to be added to the site :)


Calvin? Why is Jack Kerouac not in the litnet catalog?? viewing the Top 20 Best-Selling Penguin Classics (below), i don't see Calvin or Augustine anywhere on that list. i see Homer's The Illiad at #4 and Kerouac's On the Road at #6. :alien:


The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Odyssey by Homer

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Illiad by Homer

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Candide by Francois Voltaire

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4814140

[Logos]

Jon, we would love to have Kerouac, his works and a specific discussion forum for him here. He is not on the list and never will be in the database of etexts because he doesn't have any works in the public domain, being born in 1922 :)

There is more explanation here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17769

[jon1jt]

Jon, we would love to have Kerouac, his works and a specific discussion forum for him here. He is not on the list and never will be in the database of etexts because he doesn't have any works in the public domain, being born in 1922 :)

There is more explanation here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17769

O wilty me. :bawling:

wow, i had no idea it depended on stuff like that, what a shame. thanks for the info, logos. :)