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  • How to Read a Poem like C.S. Lewis (And Fall in Love with Poetry) (Mini-Class) Quick View
    • How to Read a Poem like C.S. Lewis (And Fall in Love with Poetry) (Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • How to Read a Poem like C.S. Lewis (And Fall in Love with Poetry) (Mini-Class)

    • $110.00
    • This mini-course is a novel way of introducing literary readers to the most formidable type of literature, lyric poetry, by focusing on those poems that C.S. Lewis admired the most. In addition to providing the literary tools to overcome the obstacles to reading lyric poetry, we will ask why Lewis admired Wordsworth, Herbert, and the metaphysical poets so much. Lewis's thought will also guide us on questions like: why is the sonnet the…
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  • Victorian Lives: Five Nineteenth-Century Figures and Their World (Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Victorian Lives: Five Nineteenth-Century Figures and Their World (Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • Victorian Lives: Five Nineteenth-Century Figures and Their World (Mini-Class)

    • $120.00
    • The period of British history from 1837 to 1901 was one in which both Britain and the world were altered remarkably. Changes abounded, in social customs, technology, political and military affairs, and the relations between person and person, citizen and government. Join Thomas Banks on June 30th-July 8th in this six-lecture exploration of the lives of five Victorian men and women who, in diverse ways,…
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  • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Mini-Class Two – The Goblet of Fire and The Order of the Phoenix) Quick View
    • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Mini-Class Two – The Goblet of Fire and The Order of the Phoenix) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Mini-Class Two – The Goblet of Fire and The Order of the Phoenix)

    • $120.00 – $295.00
    • Individual Price: $120 (Non-Refundable) ***Family Rate for 3 or more students*** Price: $295 (Non-Refundable) The Harry Potter series rivals both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings as the most popular fantasy series of all time. Behind all the hype, film franchises, amusement parks, cos-play, and controversy are stories deeply steeped in the same Literary Tradition as…
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  • The Great Divide: Plato, Aristotle, and The Inklings (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • The Great Divide: Plato, Aristotle, and The Inklings (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • The Great Divide: Plato, Aristotle, and The Inklings (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $120.00
    • Every era has to grapple with the eternal showdown of Plato vs. Aristotle. Plato is best-known for his transcendent Forms while Aristotle is forever aligned to the particulars of this world. But what are the universals? And what are the particulars? Is there any harmony of thought for the tutor and his pupil? This dialogue surrounding Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies…
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  • Out of the Depths: The Dante You Never Knew (Asynchronous Only) Quick View
    • Out of the Depths: The Dante You Never Knew (Asynchronous Only) Quick View
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    • Out of the Depths: The Dante You Never Knew (Asynchronous Only)

    • $630.00
    • CLASS DESCRIPTION In this class, we will read the whole of Dante's Comedy, with a particularly focus on how Dante used the "great books" of his own day to construct a deeply spiritual and psychological journey, from despair and loss and divisiveness to a happiness so bright and full the human mind cannot take it all in. We will see…
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  • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • Harry Potter: Gateway to the Literary Tradition (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $99.00 – $250.00
    • Individual Price: $99 (Non-Refundable) ***NEW Family Rate for 3 or more students*** Price: $250 (Non-Refundable) The Harry Potter series rivals both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings as the most popular fantasy series of all time. Behind all the hype, film franchises, amusement parks, cos-play, and controversy are stories deeply steeped in the same Literary Tradition…
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  • Dostoevsky’s Icon: Brothers Karamazov, the Christian Past, and the Modern World (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Dostoevsky’s Icon: Brothers Karamazov, the Christian Past, and the Modern World (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • Dostoevsky’s Icon: Brothers Karamazov, the Christian Past, and the Modern World (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $150.00
    • A Mini-Class by Dr. Jason Baxter Dostoevsky once proclaimed: "Mankind can live without science, and even without bread. But it cannot live without beauty." But what is beauty for Dostoevsky? And why is it so hard for mankind in modernity to find it? This five-part summer series will read Dostoevsky's greatest novel, Brothers Karamazov, within the context of European modernity,…
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  • The World of Saint Augustine (Previously Recorded Summer Class) Quick View
    • The World of Saint Augustine (Previously Recorded Summer Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • The World of Saint Augustine (Previously Recorded Summer Class)

    • $99.00
    • In the 5th century A.D., the world of the Roman Empire was slowly dying. Its rulers were increasingly weak, literature and philosophy largely exhausted, the cities and provinces impoverished, the ancient religion and civic patriotism atrophied and enfeebled. Goths, Vandals and Huns spilled over the borders. Men all around fearfully anticipated the end of things. And in a middling town…
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  • G.K. Chesterton: An Introduction to the Man, His Writings, & His Friends and Enemies (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • G.K. Chesterton: An Introduction to the Man, His Writings, & His Friends and Enemies (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • G.K. Chesterton: An Introduction to the Man, His Writings, & His Friends and Enemies (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $180.00
    • G.K. Chesterton was among the most popular English writers of the early Twentieth Century. As a novelist, poet, biographer, essayist, and Christian apologist he produced a large and grandly diverse body of writing that has in the past century inspired the admiration of George Orwell, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, Theodore Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Agatha Christie, Kingsley…
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  • How to Read Beowulf (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • How to Read Beowulf (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
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    • How to Read Beowulf (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $99.00
    • When confronted with a very old work of literature, the modern reader struggles for several reasons. The biggest obstacle is that the shared literary, cultural, and imaginative traditions of the work have long since passed from our memories, and as a result, we simply do not understand the imaginative context (i.e. the imaginative language) the work is written in. Sadly,…
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  • Literature Bundle Quick View
    • Literature Bundle Quick View
    • Bundles, Mini-Classes, Streaming Video, Webinars
    • Literature Bundle

    • $680.00
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  • How to Read “The Taming of the Shrew” (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • How to Read “The Taming of the Shrew” (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • How to Read “The Taming of the Shrew” (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $99.00
    • The Taming of the Shrew may be Shakespeare’s most misunderstood play! Angelina Stanford will lead you through Elizabethan Cosmology, the form of the play, the tradition of the taming of the shrew stock plot, the sources of the play, and much more so that you too can read the play as the original audience understood it. Discover how this play…
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  • An Introduction to Russian Literature (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • An Introduction to Russian Literature (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • An Introduction to Russian Literature (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $180.00
    •   The writings of the great 19th century Russian masters are among the richest in the literature of the world. The personal and political dramas, the skepticisms and struggles, beliefs and fanaticisms that gave life to the Russian world of that era are all richly presented in the works of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol and their peers. This course will begin…
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  • How to Read Fairy Tales (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • How to Read Fairy Tales (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • How to Read Fairy Tales (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $180.00
    • NOTE: This purchase provides access to the recordings a previously live class. Almost 20 hours of instruction. Fairy tales are universal. We find them in every time and in every culture. For as long as there have been words, people have been telling these stories. Why? Why do we tell these stories? Why do we share these stories with our…
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  • Advent Bundle Quick View
    • Advent Bundle Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Webinars
    • Advent Bundle

    • $60.00
    • Everything you need for Advent Read-Alouds This Advent Bundle Includes Recordings of these previous classes:   An in-depth mini-class on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol taught by Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks.     With the approach of Advent, it’s the perfect time to explore Charles Dickens’ classic tale of selfishness and redemption and the Christmas spirit. Drawing on her expertise…
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  • Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
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    • Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $45.00
    • Shakespeare’s three great Roman tragedies remain definitive representations of political power, tyranny, anarchy, unrestrained passion, and the corruptibility of men. Join classicist Thomas Banks this October for his three-session short class on Shakespeare’s Romans; enjoy the supreme excellence of Shakespeare’s dramatic verse; discover the historical basis of the three plays in the writings of Plutarch; and enter into the world…
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  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video, Webinars
    • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $45.00
    • Join Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for a 3-day IN-DEPTH look at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol--- just in time for Christmas! With the approach of Advent, it’s the perfect time to explore Charles Dickens’ classic tale of selfishness and redemption and the Christmas spirit. Drawing on her expertise in Victorian literature, folklore, and mythology, Angelina Stanford will reveal the…
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  • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $80.00
    • Note: This is the recording of a LIVE 5-day class taught by Angelina Stanford (over 8 hours of instruction!) Also note that this course was recorded many years ago when I was associated with another company. I no longer have any association with them and do not endorse them. Learn how to read this medieval romance like the original audience!…
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  • Classical Drama: Three Greek Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Classical Drama: Three Greek Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes
    • Classical Drama: Three Greek Plays (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $150.00
    • Note: This class is completed, but you may work through the course at your own pace. After you purchase the class, you will receive a link to the virtual classroom. Instructor: Thomas Banks The plays of the ancient Greeks are the first great examples of dramatic literature known to us, and the reading of them is a lasting pleasure and…
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  • The Redemptive Vision of Flannery O’Connor (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • The Redemptive Vision of Flannery O’Connor (Previously Recorded Mini-Class) Quick View
    • Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
    • The Redemptive Vision of Flannery O’Connor (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)

    • $180.00
    • (Self-paced option only) Instructor: Angelina Stanford, MA Intimidated by Flannery O’Connor? She’s weird, violent, and grotesque. Many readers are left wondering, what did I just read? Her stories present a world of Dark Grace headed for a collision with Modernity, and it’s an uncomfortable crash, but a beautiful one! This course explores the Christian imagination and redemptive vision of Flannery…
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  • 2025-2026 Plato’s Ghost: Plato’s Legacy in the History of Classical and Christian Art Quick View
    • 2025-2026 Plato’s Ghost: Plato’s Legacy in the History of Classical and Christian Art Quick View
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    • 2025-2026 Plato’s Ghost: Plato’s Legacy in the History of Classical and Christian Art

    • $315.00
    • "It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!"--C.S. Lewis When Lewis had his Professor Kirk speak those memorable lines, he was only partly joking. Especially in the search for beauty, Plato has been the single most important philosopher for the pre-modern, Christian and classical worldview. This interdisciplinary course--designed for to be…
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  • 2025-2026 The Fundamentals of The English Language (Fall Semester Only) Quick View
    • 2025-2026 The Fundamentals of The English Language (Fall Semester Only) Quick View
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    • 2025-2026 The Fundamentals of The English Language (Fall Semester Only)

    • $330.00
    • Language study is the science of relations and patterns. This class teaches the fundamentals of the English language through an overview of the structure of a sentence, including the parts of speech, inflection, and syntax.  Students who have been learning grammar informally through reading, copywork, and dictation may use this course as a first formal grammar course. The class is…
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  • 2025-2026 Classical Greek 1 Quick View
    • 2025-2026 Classical Greek 1 Quick View
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    • 2025-2026 Classical Greek 1

    • $750.00
    • While Ancient Classical Greek can be intimidating, it can also be very rewarding. The purpose of studying Classical Greek is first and foremost to read and appreciate authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, and many others. Studying Classical Greek can also illuminate many important and foundational aspects of the literary tradition.  It is also important to note that students…
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  • 2025-2026 Medieval and Renaissance Literature Quick View
    • 2025-2026 Medieval and Renaissance Literature Quick View
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    • 2025-2026 Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    • $715.00
    • A year-long in-depth study of Medieval and Renaissance English literature. Each work will be fully placed in its historical, philosophical, literary, and imaginative context. CS Lewis said that it's the duty of the reader to read the Great Books like the original audience; otherwise we cannot understand what we are reading. This takes work because we come to these texts…
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