Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is research professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a senior fellow with the Trinity Forum and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

• ContentsForeword by Leland RykenIntroduction: Read Well, Live WellPart One: The Cardinal Virtues1. Prudence: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding2. Temperance: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald3. Justice: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens4. Courage: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainPart Two: The Theological Virtues5. Faith: Silence by Shusaku Endo6. Hope: The Road by Cormac McCarthy7. Love: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyPart Three: The Heavenly Virtues8. Chastity: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton9. Diligence: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan10. Patience: Persuasion by Jane Austen11. Kindness: "Tenth of December" by George Saunders12. Humility: "Revelation" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'ConnorDiscussion Questions

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is research professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a senior fellow with the Trinity Forum and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

• ContentsForeword by Leland RykenIntroduction: Read Well, Live WellPart One: The Cardinal Virtues1. Prudence: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding2. Temperance: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald3. Justice: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens4. Courage: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainPart Two: The Theological Virtues5. Faith: Silence by Shusaku Endo6. Hope: The Road by Cormac McCarthy7. Love: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyPart Three: The Heavenly Virtues8. Chastity: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton9. Diligence: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan10. Patience: Persuasion by Jane Austen11. Kindness: "Tenth of December" by George Saunders12. Humility: "Revelation" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'ConnorDiscussion Questions

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is research professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a senior fellow with the Trinity Forum and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

• ContentsForeword by Leland RykenIntroduction: Read Well, Live WellPart One: The Cardinal Virtues1. Prudence: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding2. Temperance: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald3. Justice: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens4. Courage: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainPart Two: The Theological Virtues5. Faith: Silence by Shusaku Endo6. Hope: The Road by Cormac McCarthy7. Love: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyPart Three: The Heavenly Virtues8. Chastity: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton9. Diligence: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan10. Patience: Persuasion by Jane Austen11. Kindness: "Tenth of December" by George Saunders12. Humility: "Revelation" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'ConnorDiscussion Questions