1. Invitation to the Classics – Os Guinness and Louise Cowan
2. The Odyssey – Richard Lattimore Translation
3. Augustine’s Confessions – Translated by Thomas Williams (2019)
4. The Divine Comedy – 3 Vols – Dorothy Sayers (Penguin)
   • Hell, Vol 1
   • Purgatory, Vol 2
   • Paradise, Vol 3
5. Gawain and the Green Knight – Marie Borroff translation
6. Hamlet – Shakespeare, Folger Library (any edition)
7. Paradise Lost – John Milton (Norton Critical Edition by Scott Elledge)
8. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (any Norton Critical Edition)
9. Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
10. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (any Norton Critical Edition)
11. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
12. Six Centuries of Great Poetry – Warren and Erskine
13. On Writing Well – William Zinsser (any edition will work).
14. The Elements of Style – Strunk and White (any edition will work).

Note: All books must be purchased separately.  Copies of these books can be acquired on Amazon, BookFinder.com, Better World Books, and Half Price Books.

Thomas Purifoy is a producer, writer, and director with Compass Cinema & Compass Classroom. He has been the director of a classical school in France where he taught 20th Century History, English Literature, Film History, Old Testament, and Philosophy. Thomas has also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. He is married and has three daughters.