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Below is just a sampling of the abundance of complete texts include on the Classic Texts CD, and a guide to what you may expect to pay for the same (or similar) texts elsewhere on the Internet. Our complete CD, with all the texts it contains, costs just $29.95. Note the price differences with other publishers, both print and electronic. Most of our comparisons are drawn with Amazon, the best-value bookseller on the Web. It's clear that even with the spectacular savings offered on the Amazon website, our complete library could cost easily upward of $3,000.00, if purchased book by book.

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Price in US$

The Bible Text (NRSV)

Yes

The Book (Bible)

nothingbutsoftware.com

9.95

Bible Dictionary; Links to well-known texts

Yes

Logos Bible Study

discountchristian.com

187.96

Introductions to the Books of the bible

Yes

Expositor's Bible

ages library

29.95

The Gospels in Parallel

Yes

The Synoptic Gospels With Johanne Parallels

amazon

41.95

New Testament in Greek

Yes

QUICKVERSE: GREEK

newcovenantfmlybooks.com/

35.90

Sunday Lectionary for Years A, B, C (Catholic Liturgy, using NRSV)

Yes

The Roman Lectionary

EBAY.com

20.00

On Bible you will spend:

325.71

Sample of our Ancient Classics

Ancient Classics

Aristotle: complete works

Yes

Aristotle: complete works

Amazon.com

47.00

Euripides: 21 Plays

Yes

Euripides, vol. 1

walmart

14.95

Euripides, vol. 2

Walmart

15.95

Euripides, vol. 3

walmart

16.16

Herodotus: History

Yes

Herodotus: History

Amazon.com

16.00

Homer: Iliad & Odyssey

Yes

Homer: Iliad & Odyssey

Amazon.com

21.63

Horace: Odes (selection)

Yes

Horace: Odes & Epodes

Amazon.com

19.00

Josephus Flavius: The Complete Works

Yes

The Works of Flavius Josephus

EBAY.com

21.65

Livy: The History of Rome

Yes

History of Rome, vol.1-5

Amazon.com

13.00

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Yes

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Amazon.com

19.95

Plato: complete works

Yes

Plato: complete works

Amazon.com

47.00

Plutarch: Lives

Yes

Plutarch: Lives

Amazon.com

11.16

Polybius:The Rise of Rome

Yes

Polybius: The Histories

Amazon.com

21.50

Sallust, Gaius:The War on Jugurtha

Yes

Jugurthine War; Conspiracy of Catiline

Amazon.com

11.20

Sophocles: Six Plays

Yes

Sophocles: Complete Plays

Amazon.com

5.99

Tacitus: Histories & Annals

Yes

Tacitus: Complete Works

Amazon.com

12.10

Thucydides: Pelopponesian War

Yes

Thucydides: Pelopponesian War

Amazon.com

10.36

Virgil: Aeneid & Georgics

Yes

Virgil: Aeneid

Amazon.com

8.00

Xenophon:The Anabasis

Yes

Xenophon:The Anabasis

Amazon.com

21.50

On Ancient Classics you will spend:

354.10

History (& Biography)

Eusebius' Church History

Yes

Eusebius' Church History – complete

Amazon

17.45

Schaff's 8-vol. History of the Christian Church

Yes

Church History collection

Galaxie.com

99.95

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Church History collection (including Church Fathers)

(davepohl.com)

149.95

William Smith: A shorter History of Greece

Yes

The Greek World

Amazon

25.00

Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall

Amazon

15.00

Strachey, Lytton: Eminent Victorians

Yes

Strachey, Lytton: Eminent Victorians

Amazon

10.00

Strachey, Lytton: Queen Victoria

Yes

Strachey, Lytton: Queen Victoria

Amazon

15.00

van Loon, Hendrik

The Story of Mankind

Yes

van Loon, Hendrik: The Story of Mankind

Amazon

48.00

Voltaire:

Letters on England

Yes

Voltaire:

Letters on England

Amazon

9.95

On History & Biography you will spend:

607.64

Philosophy

Philosopy

Bacon, Francis: The Advancement of Learning

Yes

Bacon, Francis: The Advancement of Learning

Amazon

11.16

Bentham, Jeremy: Principles of Morals & Legislation

Yes

Bentham, Jeremy: Principles of Morals & Legislation

Amazon

7.99

Berkeley, George: Principles of Human Knowledge

Yes

Spinoza:On the Improvement of the Understanding

Amazon

10.36

Wollstonecraft, Mary: Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Yes

Wollstonecraft, Mary: Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Amazon

15.95

On Philosophy you would have spent:

246.50

Theology

Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

Yes

Aquinas's Shorter Summa:

Amazon

22.95

Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises

Yes

Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises

Amazon

8.80

John Henry Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua

Yes

John Henry Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua

Amazon

8.00

John Henry Newman: Development of Doctrine

Yes

John Henry Newman: Development of Doctrine

Amazon

18.50

John Henry Newman: Idea of a University

Yes

John Henry Newman: Idea of a University

Amazon

18.00

John Henry Newman: The Church of the Fathers

Yes

John Henry Newman: Arians of the Fourth Century

Amazon

28.95

Writings of the Fathers of the Church (Edinburgh edition)

Yes

Writings of the Fathers of the Church (Edinburgh edition)

Logos Bible Software

199.00

(or, compare with cost of printed set)

Ante-Nicene Fathers

Amazon (printed set)

299.00

Mahomet: The Koran

Yes

The Koran (Penguin Classics)

Amazon

8.80

Writings by Martin Luther (Selected)

Yes

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings

Amazon

21.00

Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle

Yes

Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle

Amazon

10.36

Philip Hughes: The Church in Crisis

Yes

Philip Hughes: The Reformation in England

Amazon

94.95

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Yes

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Amazon

17.47

Soren Kierkegaard: On Fear and Trembling

Yes

Kierkegaard: On Fear and Trembling

Amazon

11.90

The Council Documents of Vatican II

Yes

Documents of Vatican II

Amazon

15.75

John Calvin: On the Life of a Christian

Yes

Calvin: Institutes of the Christial Religion

Amazon

36.00

Paul Tillich: The Shaking of the Foundations

Yes

Tillich: The Shaking of the Foundation

Amazon

15.00

On Theology you would have spent:

834.43

Theater & Poetry

The Comedies of William Shakespeare

Yes

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

Amazon

60.00

The Tragedies of William Shakespeare

Yes

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Amazon

60.00

The Histories of William Shakespeare

Yes

Shakespeare's English Kings: History & Drama

Amazon

10.47

Shakespeare's Histories, vols. 1-2

Amazon

28.00

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Yes

Shakespeare's Sonnets (paperpack)

Amazon

4.95

Plays of George Bernard Shaw

Yes

Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Edition)

Amazon

17.75

Plays of Oscar Wilde

Yes

Wilde's Plays, Prose Writings and Poems

Amazon

21.00

Anthology of English and American Poetry (thousands of poems)

Yes

R. S. Gwynn (ed.): Poetry: A Pocket Anthology

Amazon

Amazon (Penguin)

7.95

Brontë, Emily:Wuthering Heights

Amazon

6.99

Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh;

Yes

Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh

Amazon

9.95

Butler, Samuel: Erewhon

Yes

Butler, Samuel: Erewhon

Amazon

8.00

Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland

Yes

Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland

Amazon

19.99

Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote

Yes

Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote

Amazon

8.95

Chesterton, G. K.:The Innocence of Father Brown

Yes

Chesterton, G. K.:The Innocence of Father Brown

Amazon

18.95

Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo

Yes

Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo

Amazon

21.90

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness

Yes

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness

Amazon

8.00

Cooper, James Fenimore: Last of the Mohicans

Yes

Cooper, James Fenimore: Last of the Mohicans

Amazon

4.99

Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe

Yes

Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe

Amazon

7.95

Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities, (and 8 more!)

Yes

The Unabridged Charles Dickens

Amazon

19.98

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov

Yes

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov

Amazon

11.20

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Yes

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Amazon

4.99

Eliot, George: Middlemarch

Yes

Eliot, George: Middlemarch

Amazon

9.95

Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones

Yes

Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones

Amazon

7.95

Fitzgerald, Scott: The Great Gatsby

Yes

Fitzgerald, Scott: The Great Gatsby

Amazon

9.60

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary

Yes

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary

Amazon

5.95

Forster, E.M.: Room with a View

Amazon

9.95

Forster, E.M.: Howard's End

Yes

Forster, E.M.: Howard's End

Amazon

9.95

Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield

Yes

Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield

Amazon

19.95

Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd

Yes

Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd

Amazon

9.95

Hesse, Hermann: Siddharta

Yes

Hesse, Hermann: Siddharta

Amazon

10.47

Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables

Yes

Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables

Amazon

7.95

James, Henry: The American (& seven other novels)

Yes

James, Henry: Novels 1871-1880

Amazon

37.50

Kipling, Rudyard: Kim

Yes

Kipling, Rudyard: Kim

Amazon

7.00

Kipling, Rudyard: Plain Tales from the Hills; etc.

Yes

Kipling, Rudyard: Collected Stories

Amazon

16.00

Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers

Yes

Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers

Amazon

5.95

Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt

Yes

Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street and Babbitt

Amazon

40.00

Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith

Yes

Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith; Elmer Gantry

Amazon

28.00

Maugham, Somerset: Of Human Bondage

Yes

Maugham, Somerset: Of Human Bondage

Amazon

5.95

Maupassant, Guy de: Short Stories

Yes

Maupassant, Guy de: Short Stories

Amazon

9.56

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

Yes

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

Amazon

11.20

Proust, Marcel: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, vols. 1-2

Yes

Proust, Marcel: Recherche du Temps Perdu, vol.1

Amazon

93.00

Proust, Marcel: Recherche du Temps Perdu, vol.2

Amazon (used)

9.00

Stendhal: The Red and the Black

Yes

Stendhal: The Red and the Black

Amazon

6.95

Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme

Yes

Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme

Amazon

49.95

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Yes

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Amazon

5.95

Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina

Amazon

9.95

Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace

Yes

Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace

Amazon

11.16

Twain, Mark: The Innocents Abroad

Yes

Twain, Mark: The Innocents Abroad

Amazon

7.95

Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn; Life on the Missippi, etc.

Yes

Twain, Mark: The Missippi Writings

Amazon

30.00

Verne, Jules: Around the World in 80 Days

Yes

Verne, Jules: Around the World in 80 Days

Amazon

4.50

Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Yes

Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Amazon

7.95

Woolf, Virginia: Monday or Tuesday

Yes

Woolf, Virginia: Monday or Tuesday

Amazon

1.00

On Fiction you will spend:

706.34

In total, you will have to spend:

3,297.89

If you went ahead and bought all those books through the low-price websites listed above, you'd have spent how much? We make it over $3,000.00.

You'd have assembled several shelves packed with good-value books – but you'd still be less than half-way through the list of contents on the Classic Texts CD.

Okay, it's not quite the same feel, having a printed book in your hand, and seeing the text onscreen. But for looking things up, there's nothing faster than this electronic version. Also, for printing out chosen sections, and making your own annotations.

On top of which, there are all the great features of the Folio Views software, the cross-referencing, many kinds of searches, instant concordances, bookmarking, etc.