Great Books Study Guides

Alphabetical by Author

The following is a list of all of the Great Books Study Guides currently available from STGB as organized alphabetically according to author. More guides are being written all the time, so this page will be updated regularly with new and additional links. Below you will find the following kinds of links:

1. “Online” = This link will take you to our free online versions of the Great Books study guides.

2. “PDF” = This link is only accessible to Paid Subscriber’s of STGB. The link takes you to the page with all of our PDF “beta” (still in need of finishing touches, but very usable) and “Pre-pub” (all done and awaiting physical print publication) study guides. These include many extras beyond the free online versions and can be easily printed and used in a classroom, for homeschooling, book clubs, or personal study.¹ Just $5 a month, or $50 a year, gets you full access to our growing library of useable classical Christian curriculum.

3. “Purchase Book” = This link will take you to the right edition of the book that corresponds best with our study guides.²

4. “Purchase Curriculum” = Coming soon, this link will take you to where you can buy professionally produced and illustrated versions of our curriculum. Hopefully you will start seeing this option popping up for some of our study guides in 2025.

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1. Alighieri, Dante

   1. Inferno (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

2. Allee, Jacob

   1. The Ecumenical Creeds of Christendom (Online) (PDF)

3. Athanasius

   1. On The Incarnation (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

4. Aurelius, Marcus

   1. Meditations (Online) (Text) (PDF)

5. Austen, Jane

   1. Sense and Sensibility (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

6. Benedict, Saint

   1. The Rule of St. Benedict (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

7. Bernard de Clairoux

   1. The Primitive Rule of the Templars (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

8. Dickens, Charles

   1. A Christmas Carol (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

9. Doyle, Arthur Conan

   1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Online) (Purchase Book) *In Progress*

10. Eusebius

    1. Church History (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

11. Green, Roger Lancelyn

    1. Tales of Ancient Egypt (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. Tales of the Greek Heroes (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

12. Heinlein, Robert

    1. Starship Trooper (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

13. Henty, George Alfred

    1. The Dragon and the Raven (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. The Young Carthaginian (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    3. Winning His Spurs (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

14. Herodotus

    1. Histories (Online) (Purchase Book) *In Progress*

15. Jefferson, Thomas

    1. The Declaration of Independence (Online) (PDF)

16. Lewis, C. S.

    1. The Abolition of Man (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. Mere Christianity (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    3. Till We Have Faces (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

17. Lowry, Lois

    1. The Giver (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

18. Melville, Herman

    1. Billy Budd, Sailor (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book) (Purchase Print Study Guide)

19. Pieper, Josef

    1. A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

20. Plato

    1. The Last Days of Socrates (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

21. Pliny the Younger

    1. Eruption of Vesuvius (Online) (PDF)

22. Sayers, Dorothy

    1. The Lost Tools of Learning (Online) (PDF)

    2. Whose Body? (Online) (Purchase Book) *In Progress*

23. Shakespeare

    1. King Lear (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. Macbeth (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book) (Purchase Print Study Guide)

24. Sophocles

    1. Oedipus The King (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

25. Stevenson, Robert Louis

    1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

26. Stoker, Bram

    1. Dracula (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book) (Purchase Print Study Guide)

27. Sutcliff, Rosemary

    1. The Eagle of the Ninth (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

28. Tacitus

    1. Agricola (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. Germania (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

29. Tolkien, J. R. R. (as Author or Translator)

    1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

30. Tolstoy, Leo

    1. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (online) (PDF) (Text)

31. Unknown Authorship

    1. Beowulf (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    2. Didache, The (Online) (PDF)

    3. Epic of Gilgamesh (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

    4. Song of Roland, The (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

32. Wells, H. G.

    1. The Time Machine (Online) (PDF) (Purchase Book)

Books of the Bible (Canonical Order)

ESV Journaling Bible (Purchase Book)

1. Genesis (Online) (PDF)

2. Exodus (Online) (PDF)

3. Ruth (Online) (PDF)

4. Ecclesiastes (Online) (PDF)

5. The Gospel of Luke (Online) (PDF)

6. Acts (Online) (PDF)

7. Colossians (Online) (PDF)