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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
nterest 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
acbeth"
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
nterest 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
acbeth"
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