"The Pilgrim's Progress is arguably the best-selling book of all time.... If you have not read it, you cannot be said to be educated in Western letters, and if you did not read it appreciatively, we might still have our doubts." ~From the Worldview Guide
The Worldview Guides from the Canon Classics Literature Series provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. Each Worldview Guide presents the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach -- and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key -- to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and begin to master the classics.
The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Setting, Characters, & Plot Summary, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review. A free classics test and answer key are also available online.
Douglas Wilson has been a pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho for forty years. He has started both a K-12 Christian school and an accredited Christian College, New Saint Andrews, and has written more than fifty books. He and his wife Nancy have three children, all of whom have written books of their own, and he is the grandfather to a bunch of grandchildren.