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Gateway to the Great Books
Volume 2 : Imaginative Literature I
✔ Daniel Defoe, Excerpts from Robinson Crusoe
✔ Rudyard Kipling, "Mowgli's Brothers" from The Jungle Book
✔ Victor Hugo, "The Battle with the Cannon" from Ninety-Three
✔ Guy de Maupassant, "Two Friends"
✔ Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" from Men Without Women
✔ Sir Walter Scott, "The Two Drovers" from Chronicles of the Canongate
✔ Joseph Conrad, "Youth"
Voltaire, Micromégas
✔ Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" from The Happy Prince and Other Tales
✔ Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
✔ "The Masque of the Red Death"
✔ Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✔ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
✔Charles Dickens, "A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from the Pickwick Papers
✔ Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat"
✔ Samuel Butler, "Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians" from Erewhon
✔ Sherwood Anderson, "I'm a Fool"
✔ Anonymous, Aucassin and Nicolette
Volume 3: Imaginative Literature II
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd"
Ivan Bunin, "The Gentleman from San Francisco"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Rappaccini's Daughter"
George Eliot, "The Lifted Veil"
Lucius Apuleius, "Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass
Ivan Turgenev, "First Love"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "White Nights"
John Galsworthy, "The Apple-Tree"
Gustave Flaubert, "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
Honoré de Balzac, "A Passion in the Desert"
Anton Chekhov, "The Darling"
Isaac Singer, "The Spinoza of Market Street"
Alexander Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades"
D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Henry James, "The Pupil"
Thomas Mann, "Mario and the Magician"
Isak Dinesen, "Sorrow-Acre"
Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"; "The Three Hermits"; "What Men Live By"
Volume 4: Imaginative Literature III
Molière, The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Richard Sheridan, The School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
George Bernard Shaw, The Man of Destiny
John Synge, Riders to the Sea
Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones
Volume 5: Critical Essays
Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"
Matthew Arnold, "The Study of Poetry"; "Sweetness and Light"
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, "What Is a Classic?"; "Montaigne"
Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"; "Of Discourse"; "Of Studies"
David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste"
Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Style"; "On Some Forms of Literature"; "On the Comparative Place of interest and Beauty
in Works of Art"
Friedrich Schiller, "On Simple and Sentimental Poetry"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass
William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance with Poets", "On Swift", "Of Persons One Would
Wish to Have een"
Charles Lamb, "My First Play", "Dream Children, a Reverie", "Sanity of True Genius"
Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare
Thomas de Quincey, Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power", "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
T. S. Eliot, "Dante", "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Volume 6: Man and Society I
John Stuart Mill, "Childhood and Youth" from Autobiography
Mark Twain, "Learning the River" from Life on the Mississippi
Jean de la Bruyere, "Characters" from A Book of Characters
Thomas Carlyle, 'The Hero as King" from On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Thoreau"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Sketch of Abraham Lincoln"
Walt Whitman, "Death of Abraham Lincoln"
Virginia Woolf, "The Art of Biography"
Xenophon, "The March to the Sea" from The Persian Expedition; "The Character of Socrates" from emorabilia
William H.
Prescott, "The Land of Montezuma" from The Conquest of Mexico
Haniel
Long, "The Power within Us"
Pliny the Younger, "The Eruption of
Vesuvius"
Tacitus, "The Life
of Gnaeus Julius Agricola"
Francois Guizot, "Civilization" from
History of Civilization in Europe
Henry Adams, "The United States in 1800"
from History of the United States of America
John Bagnell Bury, "Herodotus" from The
Ancient Greek Historians
Lucian, "The Way to Write History"
Great Documents The English Bill
of Rights
Declaration of the
Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of
Independence
Charter of the
United Nations
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Thomas Paine, "A Call to Patriots –
December 23, 1776"
George
Washington, "Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding
the Army"; "The
arewell Address"
Thomas Jefferson, "The Virginia
Constitution" from Notes on the State of Virginia; "First Inaugural
ddress"; "Biographical Sketches"
Benjamin Franklin, "A Proposal for
Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in
merica",
"Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania"
Jean
de Crevecoeur, "The Making of Americans" from Letters from an American
Farmer
Alexis de Tocqueville,
"Observations on American Life and Government" from Democracy in America
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil
Disobedience"; "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
Abraham Lincoln, "Address at Cooper Institute"; "First Inaugural Address"; "Letter to Horace Greeley",
Meditation on the Divine Will"; "The Gettysburg Address";
"Second Inaugural Address"; "Last Public
ddress"
Volume 7: Man and Society II
Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", "Of
Parents and Children", "Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Great
lace", "Of
Seditions and Troubles", "Of Custom and Education", "Of Followers and Friends",
"Of Usury",
Of Riches"
Jonathan Swift, "Resolutions when I Come
to Be Old", "An Essay on Modern Education", "A Meditation
pon a Broomstick",
"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to
heir Parents or Country"
David Hume, "Of Refinement in the Arts";
"Of Money"; "Of the Balance of Trade"; "Of Taxes"; "Of the
tudy of
History"
Plutarch, "Of
Bashfulness"
Robert Louis
Stevenson, "The Lantern-Bearers" from Across the Plains
John
Ruskin, "An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age" from Four Clavigera
William James, "On a Certain Blindness
in Human Beings", "The Energies of Men", "Great Men and Their
nvironment"
Arthur
Schopenhauer, "On Education"
Michael Faraday, "Observations on Mental
Education"
Edmund Burke,
"Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol"
John Calhoun, "The Concurrent
Majority"
Thomas Babington
Macaulay, "Machiavelli"
Voltaire, "English Men and Ideas" from
Letters on the English
Dante,
"On World Government" from De Monarchia
Jean Jacques Rousseau, "A Lasting Peace
through the Federation of Europe"
Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace"
Karl von Clausewitz, "What Is
War?" from On War
Thomas
Robert Malthus, "The Principle of Population" from Population: The First
Essay
Volume 8: Natural Science
Francis Bacon, "The
Sphinx"
John Tyndall, "Michael
Faraday" from Faraday as a Discoverer
Eve Curie, "The Discovery of Radium"
from Madame Curie
Charles
Darwin, "Autobiography"
Jean
Henri Fabre, "A Laboratory of the Open Fields"; "The Sacred Beetle"
Loren Eiseley, "On Time"
Rachel
Carson, "The Sunless Sea" from The Sea Around Us
J.
B. S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" from Possible Worlds
Thomas
Henry Huxley, "On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals", "On a Piece of
Chalk"
Francis Galton, "The
Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius
Claude
Bernard, "Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic
Bodies"
Ivan Pavlov,
"Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher
Animals"
Friedrich Wohler, "On
the Artificial Production of Urea"
Charles Lyell, "Geological Evolution"
from Principles of Geology
Galileo, "The Starry Messenger"
Tommaso Campanella, "Arguments for and
against Galileo" from The Defense of Galileo
Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of
a Candle
Dmitri Mendeleev,
"The Genesis of a Law of Nature" from The Periodic Law of the Chemical
Elements
Hermann von Helmholtz,
"On the Conservation of Force"
Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, "The
Rise and Decline of Classical Physics" from The Evolution of
hysics
Arthur Eddington, "The Running-Down of
the Universe" from Nature and the Physical World
James
Jeans, "Beginnings and Endings" from The Universe Around Us
Kees
Boeke, "Cosmic View"
Volume 9: Mathematics
Lancelot Hogben,
"Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization" from Mathematics for the Million
Andrew Russell Forsyth,
"Mathematics, in Life and Thought"
Alfred North Whitehead, "On Mathematical
Method" from An Introduction to Mathematics, "On the
ature of a
Calculus"
Bertrand Russell,
"The Study of Mathematics", "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians", "Definition of
umber"
Edward Kasner and
James R. Newman, "New Names for Old", "Beyond the Googol"
Tobias
Dantzig, "Fingerprints", "The Empty Column"
Leonhard Euler, "The Seven Bridges of
Konigsberg"
Norman Robert
Campbell, "Measurement", "Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in
Science"
William Clifford,
"The Postulates of the Science of Space" from The Common Sense of the Exact
ciences
Henri Poincaré,
"Space", "Mathematical Creation"; "Chance"
Pierre Simon de Laplace, "Probability"
from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Charles Sanders Peirce, "The Red and the
Black"
Volume 10: Philosophical Essays
John
Erskine, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent"
William
Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief"
William James, "The Will to Believe",
"The Sentiment of Rationality"
John Dewey, "The Process of Thought"
from How We Think
Epicurus,
"Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoeceus"
Epictetus, The Enchiridion
Walter Pater, "The Art of Life" from The
Renaissance
Plutarch,
"Contentment"
Cicero, "On
Friendship"; "On Old Age"
Francis Bacon, "Of Truth"; "Of Death";
"Of Adversity"; "Of Love"; "Of Friendship"; "Of Anger"
George
Santayana, "Lucretius"; "Goethe's Faust"
Henry Adams, "St. Thomas Aquinas" from
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Voltaire, "The Philosophy of Common
Sense"
John Stuart Mill,
"Nature"
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Nature"; "Self-Reliance"; "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic"
William
Hazlitt, "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth"
Thomas
Browne, "Immortality" from Urn-Burial
✔ Daniel Defoe, Excerpts from Robinson Crusoe
✔ Rudyard Kipling, "Mowgli's Brothers" from The Jungle Book
✔ Victor Hugo, "The Battle with the Cannon" from Ninety-Three
✔ Guy de Maupassant, "Two Friends"
✔ Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" from Men Without Women
✔ Sir Walter Scott, "The Two Drovers" from Chronicles of the Canongate
✔ Joseph Conrad, "Youth"
Voltaire, Micromégas
✔ Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" from The Happy Prince and Other Tales
✔ Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
✔ "The Masque of the Red Death"
✔ Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✔ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
✔Charles Dickens, "A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from the Pickwick Papers
✔ Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat"
✔ Samuel Butler, "Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians" from Erewhon
✔ Sherwood Anderson, "I'm a Fool"
✔ Anonymous, Aucassin and Nicolette
Volume 3: Imaginative Literature II
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd"
Ivan Bunin, "The Gentleman from San Francisco"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Rappaccini's Daughter"
George Eliot, "The Lifted Veil"
Lucius Apuleius, "Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass
Ivan Turgenev, "First Love"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "White Nights"
John Galsworthy, "The Apple-Tree"
Gustave Flaubert, "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
Honoré de Balzac, "A Passion in the Desert"
Anton Chekhov, "The Darling"
Isaac Singer, "The Spinoza of Market Street"
Alexander Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades"
D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Henry James, "The Pupil"
Thomas Mann, "Mario and the Magician"
Isak Dinesen, "Sorrow-Acre"
Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"; "The Three Hermits"; "What Men Live By"
Volume 4: Imaginative Literature III
Molière, The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Richard Sheridan, The School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
George Bernard Shaw, The Man of Destiny
John Synge, Riders to the Sea
Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones
Volume 5: Critical Essays
Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"
Matthew Arnold, "The Study of Poetry"; "Sweetness and Light"
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, "What Is a Classic?"; "Montaigne"
Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"; "Of Discourse"; "Of Studies"
David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste"
Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Style"; "On Some Forms of Literature"; "On the Comparative Place of interest and Beauty
in Works of Art"
Friedrich Schiller, "On Simple and Sentimental Poetry"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass
William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance with Poets", "On Swift", "Of Persons One Would
Wish to Have een"
Charles Lamb, "My First Play", "Dream Children, a Reverie", "Sanity of True Genius"
Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare
Thomas de Quincey, Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power", "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
T. S. Eliot, "Dante", "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Volume 6: Man and Society I
John Stuart Mill, "Childhood and Youth" from Autobiography
Mark Twain, "Learning the River" from Life on the Mississippi
Jean de la Bruyere, "Characters" from A Book of Characters
Thomas Carlyle, 'The Hero as King" from On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Thoreau"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Sketch of Abraham Lincoln"
Walt Whitman, "Death of Abraham Lincoln"
Virginia Woolf, "The Art of Biography"
Xenophon, "The March to the Sea" from The Persian Expedition; "The Character of Socrates" from emorabilia
William H.
Prescott, "The Land of Montezuma" from The Conquest of Mexico
Haniel
Long, "The Power within Us"
Pliny the Younger, "The Eruption of
Vesuvius"
Tacitus, "The Life
of Gnaeus Julius Agricola"
Francois Guizot, "Civilization" from
History of Civilization in Europe
Henry Adams, "The United States in 1800"
from History of the United States of America
John Bagnell Bury, "Herodotus" from The
Ancient Greek Historians
Lucian, "The Way to Write History"
Great Documents The English Bill
of Rights
Declaration of the
Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of
Independence
Charter of the
United Nations
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Thomas Paine, "A Call to Patriots –
December 23, 1776"
George
Washington, "Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding
the Army"; "The
arewell Address"
Thomas Jefferson, "The Virginia
Constitution" from Notes on the State of Virginia; "First Inaugural
ddress"; "Biographical Sketches"
Benjamin Franklin, "A Proposal for
Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in
merica",
"Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania"
Jean
de Crevecoeur, "The Making of Americans" from Letters from an American
Farmer
Alexis de Tocqueville,
"Observations on American Life and Government" from Democracy in America
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil
Disobedience"; "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
Abraham Lincoln, "Address at Cooper Institute"; "First Inaugural Address"; "Letter to Horace Greeley",
Meditation on the Divine Will"; "The Gettysburg Address";
"Second Inaugural Address"; "Last Public
ddress"
Volume 7: Man and Society II
Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", "Of
Parents and Children", "Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Great
lace", "Of
Seditions and Troubles", "Of Custom and Education", "Of Followers and Friends",
"Of Usury",
Of Riches"
Jonathan Swift, "Resolutions when I Come
to Be Old", "An Essay on Modern Education", "A Meditation
pon a Broomstick",
"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to
heir Parents or Country"
David Hume, "Of Refinement in the Arts";
"Of Money"; "Of the Balance of Trade"; "Of Taxes"; "Of the
tudy of
History"
Plutarch, "Of
Bashfulness"
Robert Louis
Stevenson, "The Lantern-Bearers" from Across the Plains
John
Ruskin, "An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age" from Four Clavigera
William James, "On a Certain Blindness
in Human Beings", "The Energies of Men", "Great Men and Their
nvironment"
Arthur
Schopenhauer, "On Education"
Michael Faraday, "Observations on Mental
Education"
Edmund Burke,
"Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol"
John Calhoun, "The Concurrent
Majority"
Thomas Babington
Macaulay, "Machiavelli"
Voltaire, "English Men and Ideas" from
Letters on the English
Dante,
"On World Government" from De Monarchia
Jean Jacques Rousseau, "A Lasting Peace
through the Federation of Europe"
Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace"
Karl von Clausewitz, "What Is
War?" from On War
Thomas
Robert Malthus, "The Principle of Population" from Population: The First
Essay
Volume 8: Natural Science
Francis Bacon, "The
Sphinx"
John Tyndall, "Michael
Faraday" from Faraday as a Discoverer
Eve Curie, "The Discovery of Radium"
from Madame Curie
Charles
Darwin, "Autobiography"
Jean
Henri Fabre, "A Laboratory of the Open Fields"; "The Sacred Beetle"
Loren Eiseley, "On Time"
Rachel
Carson, "The Sunless Sea" from The Sea Around Us
J.
B. S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" from Possible Worlds
Thomas
Henry Huxley, "On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals", "On a Piece of
Chalk"
Francis Galton, "The
Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius
Claude
Bernard, "Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic
Bodies"
Ivan Pavlov,
"Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher
Animals"
Friedrich Wohler, "On
the Artificial Production of Urea"
Charles Lyell, "Geological Evolution"
from Principles of Geology
Galileo, "The Starry Messenger"
Tommaso Campanella, "Arguments for and
against Galileo" from The Defense of Galileo
Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of
a Candle
Dmitri Mendeleev,
"The Genesis of a Law of Nature" from The Periodic Law of the Chemical
Elements
Hermann von Helmholtz,
"On the Conservation of Force"
Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, "The
Rise and Decline of Classical Physics" from The Evolution of
hysics
Arthur Eddington, "The Running-Down of
the Universe" from Nature and the Physical World
James
Jeans, "Beginnings and Endings" from The Universe Around Us
Kees
Boeke, "Cosmic View"
Volume 9: Mathematics
Lancelot Hogben,
"Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization" from Mathematics for the Million
Andrew Russell Forsyth,
"Mathematics, in Life and Thought"
Alfred North Whitehead, "On Mathematical
Method" from An Introduction to Mathematics, "On the
ature of a
Calculus"
Bertrand Russell,
"The Study of Mathematics", "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians", "Definition of
umber"
Edward Kasner and
James R. Newman, "New Names for Old", "Beyond the Googol"
Tobias
Dantzig, "Fingerprints", "The Empty Column"
Leonhard Euler, "The Seven Bridges of
Konigsberg"
Norman Robert
Campbell, "Measurement", "Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in
Science"
William Clifford,
"The Postulates of the Science of Space" from The Common Sense of the Exact
ciences
Henri Poincaré,
"Space", "Mathematical Creation"; "Chance"
Pierre Simon de Laplace, "Probability"
from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Charles Sanders Peirce, "The Red and the
Black"
Volume 10: Philosophical Essays
John
Erskine, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent"
William
Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief"
William James, "The Will to Believe",
"The Sentiment of Rationality"
John Dewey, "The Process of Thought"
from How We Think
Epicurus,
"Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoeceus"
Epictetus, The Enchiridion
Walter Pater, "The Art of Life" from The
Renaissance
Plutarch,
"Contentment"
Cicero, "On
Friendship"; "On Old Age"
Francis Bacon, "Of Truth"; "Of Death";
"Of Adversity"; "Of Love"; "Of Friendship"; "Of Anger"
George
Santayana, "Lucretius"; "Goethe's Faust"
Henry Adams, "St. Thomas Aquinas" from
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Voltaire, "The Philosophy of Common
Sense"
John Stuart Mill,
"Nature"
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Nature"; "Self-Reliance"; "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic"
William
Hazlitt, "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth"
Thomas
Browne, "Immortality" from Urn-Burial
Great Books of the Western World
1.The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas Angel to Love
2.The Syntopicon (continued) Man to World
3.Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
4.Aeschylus
The Suppliant Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The Emumenides
Sophocles
The Oedipus Cycle
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
The Eumenides
Ajex
Electria
The Trachiniae
Philoctetes
Euripides
Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The Suppliants
Trojan Women
Ion
Helen
Andromache
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles Mad
Phoenician Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in Tauris
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Cyclops
Aristophanes
The Acharnians
The Knights
The Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The Birds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
5.Herodotus
The History
Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War
6.Plato
Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws
The Seven Letter
7.Aristotle (I) Works
Categories
On Interpretation
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analyics
Topics
Sophistical Refutations
Physics
On Generation and Corruption
Meteorology
Metaphysics
On the Soul
Minor biological works
8.Aristotle (II) Works (continued)
History of Animals
Parts of Animals
On the Motion of Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation of Animals
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
The Athenian Constitution
Rhetoric
Poetics
9.Hippocrates
Works
Galen
On the Natural Faculties
10.Euclid
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Archimedes
On the Sphere and Cylinder
Measures of a Circle
On Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the Equilbrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
The Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic
11.Lucretius
On the Nature of Things
Epictetus
The Discourses
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
12.Virgil
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
13.Plutarch
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
14.Tacitus
The Annals
The Histories
15.Ptolemy
Almagest
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Kepler
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
The Harmonies of the World
16.Augustine
The Confessions
The City of God
On Christian Doctrine
17.Thomas Aquinas (I)
Summa Theologica
18.Thomas Aquinas (II)
Summa Theologica (continued)
19.Dante
Divine ComedyChaucer
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales
20.Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion
21.Machiavelli
✔ The Prince
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
22. Frabcois Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
23.Erasmus
Praise of Folly
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays
24.Shakespeare (I) The Plays and Sonnets
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Life and Death of King John
The Merchant of Venice
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
25.Shakespeare (II) The Plays and Sonnets (continued)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello, the Moor of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
Sonnets
26.William Gilbert
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo Galilei
Concerning the Two New Sciences
William Harvey
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the Blood
On the Generation of Animals
27. Miguel de Cervantes
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
28. Sir Francis Bacon
Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis
Rene Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations of First Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
Benedict de Spinoza
THe Geometry
Ethics
29.John Milton
English minor poems
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes
Areopagitica
30. Blaise Pascal
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises
31. Moliere
The School for Wives
The Critique of the School for Wives
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid
Jean Racine
Berenice
Phedre
32.Sir Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics
Christian Huygens
Treatise on Light
33.John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley
The Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
34.Johathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
Voltaire
Candide
Denia Diderot
Rameau's Nephew
Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
35.Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of Laws
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse On the Origin of Inequality
On Political EconomyRousseau
The Social Contract
36.Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
37. Edward Gibbon (I)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
38.Edward Gibbon (II)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (continued)
39.Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason
The Critique of Practical Reason,
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Other Ethical Treatises
The Critique of Judgment
40.American State Papers
The Federalist
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Considerations Representative Government
Utilitarianism
41.James Boswell
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
42. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Elements of Chemistry
Jean Baptist Josepj Fourier
Analytical Theory of Heat
Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity
43. Georg William Friedrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right
The Philosophy of History
Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
44.Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
45.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Honore de Balzac
Cousin Bette
46.Jane Austen
Emma
George Eliot
Middlemarch
47. Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
48.Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Mark Twain
✔ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
49.Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
50.Karl Marx
Capital
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party
51.Count LeoTolstoy
War and Peace
52.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Henrik Ibsen
✔ A Doll's House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
✔ The Master Builder
53.William James
The Principles of Psychology
54.Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
55.20th Century Philosophy and Religion
William James
Pragmatism
Henri Bergson
An Introduction to Metaphysics
John Dewey
Experience and Education
Alfred North Whitehead
Science and the Modern World
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
Martin Heidegger
What is Metaphysics?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Karl Barth
The Word of God and the Word of Man
56. Henri Poincaré
Science and Hypothesis
Max Planck
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Alfred North Whitehead
An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Arthur Eddington
The Expanding Universe
Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
G. H. Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy
Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life?
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin of Species
C. H. Waddington
The Nature of Life
57. Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class
R. H. Tawney
The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
58. Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough (selections)
Max Weber
Essays in Sociology (selections)
Johan Huizinga
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology (selections)
59. Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle
George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"
Willa Cather
A Lost Lady
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
60. Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
George Orwell
✔ Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
2.The Syntopicon (continued) Man to World
3.Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
4.Aeschylus
The Suppliant Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The Emumenides
Sophocles
The Oedipus Cycle
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
The Eumenides
Ajex
Electria
The Trachiniae
Philoctetes
Euripides
Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The Suppliants
Trojan Women
Ion
Helen
Andromache
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles Mad
Phoenician Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in Tauris
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Cyclops
Aristophanes
The Acharnians
The Knights
The Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The Birds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
5.Herodotus
The History
Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War
6.Plato
Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws
The Seven Letter
7.Aristotle (I) Works
Categories
On Interpretation
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analyics
Topics
Sophistical Refutations
Physics
On Generation and Corruption
Meteorology
Metaphysics
On the Soul
Minor biological works
8.Aristotle (II) Works (continued)
History of Animals
Parts of Animals
On the Motion of Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation of Animals
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
The Athenian Constitution
Rhetoric
Poetics
9.Hippocrates
Works
Galen
On the Natural Faculties
10.Euclid
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Archimedes
On the Sphere and Cylinder
Measures of a Circle
On Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the Equilbrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
The Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic
11.Lucretius
On the Nature of Things
Epictetus
The Discourses
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
12.Virgil
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
13.Plutarch
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
14.Tacitus
The Annals
The Histories
15.Ptolemy
Almagest
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Kepler
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
The Harmonies of the World
16.Augustine
The Confessions
The City of God
On Christian Doctrine
17.Thomas Aquinas (I)
Summa Theologica
18.Thomas Aquinas (II)
Summa Theologica (continued)
19.Dante
Divine ComedyChaucer
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales
20.Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion
21.Machiavelli
✔ The Prince
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
22. Frabcois Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
23.Erasmus
Praise of Folly
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays
24.Shakespeare (I) The Plays and Sonnets
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Life and Death of King John
The Merchant of Venice
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
25.Shakespeare (II) The Plays and Sonnets (continued)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello, the Moor of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
Sonnets
26.William Gilbert
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo Galilei
Concerning the Two New Sciences
William Harvey
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the Blood
On the Generation of Animals
27. Miguel de Cervantes
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
28. Sir Francis Bacon
Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis
Rene Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations of First Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
Benedict de Spinoza
THe Geometry
Ethics
29.John Milton
English minor poems
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes
Areopagitica
30. Blaise Pascal
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises
31. Moliere
The School for Wives
The Critique of the School for Wives
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid
Jean Racine
Berenice
Phedre
32.Sir Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics
Christian Huygens
Treatise on Light
33.John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley
The Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
34.Johathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
Voltaire
Candide
Denia Diderot
Rameau's Nephew
Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
35.Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of Laws
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse On the Origin of Inequality
On Political EconomyRousseau
The Social Contract
36.Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
37. Edward Gibbon (I)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
38.Edward Gibbon (II)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (continued)
39.Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason
The Critique of Practical Reason,
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Other Ethical Treatises
The Critique of Judgment
40.American State Papers
The Federalist
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Considerations Representative Government
Utilitarianism
41.James Boswell
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
42. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Elements of Chemistry
Jean Baptist Josepj Fourier
Analytical Theory of Heat
Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity
43. Georg William Friedrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right
The Philosophy of History
Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
44.Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
45.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Honore de Balzac
Cousin Bette
46.Jane Austen
Emma
George Eliot
Middlemarch
47. Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
48.Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Mark Twain
✔ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
49.Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
50.Karl Marx
Capital
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party
51.Count LeoTolstoy
War and Peace
52.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Henrik Ibsen
✔ A Doll's House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
✔ The Master Builder
53.William James
The Principles of Psychology
54.Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
55.20th Century Philosophy and Religion
William James
Pragmatism
Henri Bergson
An Introduction to Metaphysics
John Dewey
Experience and Education
Alfred North Whitehead
Science and the Modern World
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
Martin Heidegger
What is Metaphysics?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Karl Barth
The Word of God and the Word of Man
56. Henri Poincaré
Science and Hypothesis
Max Planck
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Alfred North Whitehead
An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Arthur Eddington
The Expanding Universe
Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
G. H. Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy
Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life?
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin of Species
C. H. Waddington
The Nature of Life
57. Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class
R. H. Tawney
The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
58. Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough (selections)
Max Weber
Essays in Sociology (selections)
Johan Huizinga
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology (selections)
59. Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle
George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"
Willa Cather
A Lost Lady
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
60. Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
George Orwell
✔ Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot