Alan Willard Brown and Members of the Faculty of Columbia College, Classics of the Western World [1943]
627 entries: 482 monographical, 145 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically
Classics of the Western World, published in three editions, 1927, 1934, and 1943, is based upon the reading lists from Columbia University's "great books" courses: the General Honors course, which turned into the Colloquium on Important Books; and the courses Contemporary Civilization and Humanities. However, being a successful project published by the American Library Association, it warrants status as an separate list. An earlier version, Outline of Readings in Important Books, also based on Columbia classes, was published in 1924. For the most part, the Classics and Outline lists overlap, but the differences between them are significant enough that Outline conceivably could count as a separate list. It has a similar set-up, with both "required" and "recommended" entries, and is presented more clearly and includes fewer excerpts of works. Overall, it is a shorter, simpler list—alas, it was apparently supplanted by the Classics book, leading to its exclusion (using the Greater Books criteria). The link above takes you to a full-text scan of Outline.
According to the book's Introduction, the faculty members who contributed are those "who taught Colloquium from 1940 to 1942, most of whom have been involved in the course since it succeeded General Honors in 1932: Professor Jacques Barzun, of the Department of History; Dr. Mason Gross and Professor James Gutmann, of the Department of Philosophy; Professor Moses Hadas of the Department of Classics; and Professor Lionel Trilling, Professor Raymond Weaver, Dr. Andrew Chiappe, and myself [Alan Willard Brown], of the Department of English." Of these eight, no less than four (Barzun, Gross, Hadas, and Trilling) were major intellectual figures of the second half of the Twentieth Century; you can read about them in many encyclopedias or biographical directories.
Each section, usually defined by author ("Homer" and so on), is split into two sets of readings; the list used for this project only features the first, the "primary documents," not the second, which consists of literary criticism, biographies, and so on. The first sub-section also includes several recommended translations and versions; these are rarely noted, unlike with some other lists in the project, such as Harold Bloom's, wherein the list's creators wanted to give especial attention to certain translations.
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- The Book of Isaiah [excerpted]
verses 41-56; part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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Song of Solomon; Canticles
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- The Book of Psalms [excerpted]
nos. 1, 8, 19, 23, 29, 51, 90, 91, 104, 121, 128, 137, 139, 148, 150; part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
Aeschylus
- Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
- Promētheus Desmōtēs
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
- Persai
The Persians
472 B CGreek
- Hepta epi Thēbas
Seven Against Thebes
467 B CGreek
- Hiketides
The Suppliants; The Suppliant Women
ca. 470 B CGreek
Sophocles
- Antigone
ca. 441 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
ca. 410-400 B CGreek
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B CGreek
- Philoktētēs
Philocetes
409 B CGreek
- Aias
Ajax
ca. 450-430 B CGreek
- Trachiniai
The Trachiniae; The Women of Trachis
ca. 450-420 B CGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
Euripides
- Mēdeia
Medea
431 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
- Hippolytos
428 B CGreek
- Trōiades
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
- Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
- Alkēstis
Alcestis
438 B CGreek
- Iōn
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
- Iphigeneia en Taurois
Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
- Kyklōps
Cyclops
late Fifth Century B CGreek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
Aristophanes
- Bátrachoi
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
- Nephelai
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
- Ornithes
The Birds
414 B CGreek
- Lysistrate
411 B CGreek
- Thesmophoriazousai
411 B CGreek
- Akharneîs
The Acharnians
425 B CGreek
- Eirēnē
Peace
421 B CGreek
Plato
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Euthyphro
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Protagoras
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Symposium
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedrus
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Theaetetus
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Sophist
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Timaeus
early Fourth Century B CGreek
Aristotle
- Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
Books I-II; Fourth Century B CGreek
Demosthenes
- Olynthiacs
349 B CGreek
- First Philippic
ca. 351-50 B CGreek
- On the Crown
330 B CGreek
- Aeschines
On the Crown
Against Ctesiphon
Greek
Titus Maccius Plautus
- Amphitryo
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Menaechmi
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Miles Gloriosus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Mostellaria
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Rudens
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
- Phormio
161 B CLatin
- Andria
166 B CLatin
- Hecrya
165 B CLatin
- Heauton Timorumenos
163 B CLatin
- Eunuchus
161 B CLatin
- Adelphi
160 B CLatin
- Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica
Greek
- Theocritus
Idylls
Third Century B CGreek
- Bion of Smyrna
Poetry
17 fragments and 'Epitaph of Adonis' are extant; Second Century B CGreek
- Moschus
Poetry
Second Century B CGreek
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originally compiled First Century B C by Meleager of Gadara; definitive version compiled Tenth Century by Constantine CephalusGreek
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- In Catilinam I-IV
written 63 B CLatin
- Pro Archia Poeta
written 62 B CLatin
- Pro Cluentio
written 66 B CLatin
- Pro Milone
written 52 B CLatin
First Century B CLatin
- Laelius de Amicitia
written 44 B CLatin
- Cato Major de Senectute
written 44 B CLatin
Book I; written 44 B CLatin
- Tusculanae Disputationes [excerpted]
Book I; written ca. 45 B CLatin
Book V; written 44 B CLatin
First Century B CLatin
Caius Julius Caesar
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico
ca. 40 B CLatin
- Commentarii de Bello Civili
ca. 40 B CLatin
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Catullus
Poems
First Century B CLatin
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
- Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
- Eclogues
First Century B CLatin
- Georgics
First Century B CLatin
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Carmina
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B CLatin
- Epodon
Epodes
30 B CLatin
- Satirae
originally published in two volumes, 35 B C and 30 B CLatin
- Epistularum
originally published in two volumes, 20 and 14 B CLatin
- Ars Poetica
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
Ab Urbe Condita Libri [excerpted]
History of Rome
Books 1, 2, 5, 21-2; First Century B CLatin
Ovid
- Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8Latin
- Ars Amatoria
ca. late First Century B C-early First CenturyLatin
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Phaedra
First CenturyLatin
- Thyestes
First CenturyLatin
- De Constantia Sapientis
First CenturyLatin
- De Brevitate Vitae
First CenturyLatin
- De Consolatione ad Marciam
ca. 40-45Latin
- Correspondence [excerpted]
Letters 1-28, 47, 77, 107-8Latin
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
- Petronius
Satyricon
late First CenturyLatin
- Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
Insitutio Oratoria [excerpted]
Book 10; ca. 95Latin
Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
'Pericles'; 'Alcibiades'; Alexander'; 'Agis and Cleomences', 'Cato the Elder'; 'The Gracchi'; 'Coriolanus'; 'Caesar'; First CenturyGreek
Cornelius Tacitus
- Annales
written First CenturyLatin
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
- Dialogus de Oratoribus
written ca. 102Latin
Lucian
- Somnium Sive Vita Luciani
The Dream or Lucian's Career
Second CenturyGreek
- Dialogi Deorum
Dialogues of the Gods
Second CenturyGreek
- Dialogi Mortuorum
Dialogues of the Dead
Second CenturyGreek
- Vitarum Auctio
The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
Second CenturyGreek
- Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit
How to Write History
Second CenturyGreek
- Verae Historiae
True History
Second CenturyGreek
- Alexander the False Prophet
Second CenturyGreek
- Gallus
The Dream or The Cock
Second CenturyGreek
- Icaromenippus
Second CenturyGreek
- Philopseudes Sive Incredulus
The Lover of Lies or The Doubter
Second CenturyGreek
- De Morte Peregrini
The Passing of Peregrinus
Second CenturyGreek
- Prometheus Es in Verbis
A Literary Prometheus
Second CenturyGreek
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
Epictetus
- Diatribai
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
- Enchiridion of Epictetus
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
Enneads [selections]
Fifth Ennead, Books 1 and 8; Fourth Ennead, Book 8; Sixth Ennead, Book 4; Third Ennead, Books 8 and 5; First Ennead, Book 6; Third CenturyGreek
'Life of Plotinus'
Augustine of Hippo
- Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
- De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos [excerpted]
City of God
Books I, V, VIII, XI, XIX; complete work published 426Latin
- De Doctrina Christiana
On Christian Doctrine
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426Latin
- De Libero Arbitrio
On Free Choice of the Will
written 387-89, 391-95Latin
- De Trinitate
On the Trinity
early Fourth CenturyLatin
Boethius
- Consolatio Philosophiae
The Consolation of Philosophy
written ca. 524Latin
- Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry [excerpted]
Book ILatin
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- Beowulf
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuriesEnglish
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- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
- Pierre Abélard
Historia Calamitatum
written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'ArgenteuilLatin
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- Volsunga Saga
ca. Thirteenth CenturyNorse
Bonaventure
- Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
The Soul's Journey Into God
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- Legenda Maior
The Life of St. Francis
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam
Concerning the Reduction of the Arts to Theology
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- The Four Books of Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, selections by Richard McKeon in Selections From Medieval Philosophers [excerpted]
Vol. II, pp. 111-148; complete work published 1930Latin
Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Contra Gentiles [excerpted]
Book I, chapters 1-8, 10-14, 28, 37, 40-1; Book II, chapters 46-56, 59, 70, 76, 79-81; Book III, chapters 1, 25-37, 39, 40, 51, 60-3; written ca. 1270Latin
- Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
Dante
- La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- La Vita Nuova
1295Italian
- Convito
written 1304-07Italian
- De Vulgari Eloquentia
written ca. 1302-05Latin
- De Monarchia
written ca. 1308-18Latin
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Canterbury Tales [excerpted]
The Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Prioress' Tale, Sir Thopas, The Monk's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Squire's Tale, The Epilogue; complete work published 1478English
- Troilus and Criseyde
written ca. 1380sEnglish
François Villon
- Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades
1489French
Fifteenth CenturyFrench
Desiderius Erasmus
- Colloquia Familiaria [excerpted]
unspecified selections; complete work published 1518-33Latin
- Stultitiae Laus
In Praise of Folly
1511; revisedLatin
Niccolò Machiavelli
- Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio
1531Italian
- Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Belfagor Arcidiavolo
The Devil Takes a Wife
written 1518-27; originally published as part of the author's collected works, 1549Italian
- La Mandragola
1524Italian
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
Utopia
1516Latin
Martin Luther
- An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520German
- Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520German
- Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum
The Ninety-Five Theses; Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
1517Latin
- De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same yearLatin
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel [excerpted]
first volume: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; second volume: La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; complete work published in five volumes, 1532-64French
- John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541Latin
Les Essais [excerpted]
'To the Reader'; Book I: 'That the Intention Is the Judge of Our Actions'; 'Of Idleness'; 'That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends, for a Good Part, Upon the Opinion That We Have of Them'; 'To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die'; 'Of Custom'; 'Of the Power of the Imagination'; 'Of the Education of Boys'; 'Of Friendship'; 'Of Cannibals'; 'Of Solitude'; 'Of the Inequality That Is Amongst Us'; 'Of Democritus and Heraclitus'; 'Of Vain Subtleties'; Book II: 'Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions'; 'Of Books'; 'Apology for Raimond Sebonde'; Book III: 'On Some Lines of Virgil'; 'Of Experience'; complete work originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
Miguel de Cervantes
- El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
- Novelas Ejemplares [excerpted]
Rinconete and Cortadillo (Rinconete y Cortadillo); The Dogs' Colloquy (Coloquio de los Perros); The Little Gipsy (La Gitanilla); The Licentiate of Glass (El Licenciado Vidriera); complete work published 1613Spanish
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [excerpted]
Preface; Books I-IV
Francis Bacon
- Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620English
- Nova Atlantis
1624English
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human
1605English
Lope de Vega
- Fuenteovejuna
1619Spanish
- El Mejor Alcalde, el Rey
written 1620-23Spanish
- Lo Cierto por lo Dudoso
Seventeenth CenturySpanish
- El Perro del Hortelano
1613Spanish
- Castelvines y Monteses
Spanish
- Arte Nuevo de Hacer Comedias
1609Spanish
Christopher Marlowe
- The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
1592English
- Tamburlaine the Great
1590English
- Edward II
1593English
- The Jew of Malta
1592English
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet
1602English
- King Lear
1606English
- Antony and Cleopatra
ca. 1606-08English
- Macbeth
ca. 1607English
- Coriolanus
written ca. 1605-08English
- Romeo and Juliet
ca. 1591-97English
- The First Part of Henry IV
1597English
- The Second Part of Henry IV
1600English
- Richard II
1597English
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
1602English
- Measure for Measure
1604English
- The Winter's Tale
ca. 1611English
- The Tempest
1611English
- Sonnets
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599English
Galileo
- Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è Due Nuove Scienze
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638Italian
- Sidereus Nuncius
Starry Messenger
1610Latin
John Donne
unspecified selectionEnglish
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- First and Second Anniversaries
1612; The First Anniversary originally entitled An Anatomy of the World, published 1611; complete work included in Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death, 1633English
unspecified selectionEnglish
- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes
1624English
'The Life of Dr. John Donne'
part of Walton's LivesEnglish
Ben Jonson
- The Alchemist
1610English
- Volpone
1606English
- Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
1609English
- Every Man in His Humour
1598English
- Bartholomew Fayre
1614English
- Sejanus His Fall
1603English
- Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter: As They Have Flow'd Out of His Daily Readings; or Had Their Refluxe to His Peculiar Notion of the Times
1641English
Thomas Hobbes
- Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
1651English
- Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Prima De Corpore
1655Latin
René Descartes
- Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
- Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii ut et Inquisitio Veritatis per Lumen Naturale [excerpted]
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Nos. 1-12; complete work published in Dutch translation, 1684; riginal Latin, 1701Latin
- Principia Philosophiae
1644Latin
Latin
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
- El Magico Prodigioso
1637Spanish
- El Alcalde de Zalamea
1651Spanish
- El Pintor de Su Deshonra
1650Spanish
- Guárdate al Agua Mansa
1657Spanish
Thomas Browne
- Religio Medici
1643English
- Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
1658English
- The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered
1658English
Pierre Corneille
- Le Cid
1637French
- Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste
1639French
- Horace
1640French
- Polyeucte
1643French
- Médée
1635French
- Oedipe
1659French
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
1671English
Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
- A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michelmas Night, Before the Right Honorable, John Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Councill
'Comus'
originally anonymously published 1637; included in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
- 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
1644English
- On Education
originally anonymously published 1644English
- The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
1649English
- The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty
1642English
- Defensio Secunda pro Populo Anglicano [excerpted]
unspecified selectionsEnglish
Molière
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1670French
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
The Misanthrope
1666French
- L'École des Femmes
The School for Wives
1662French
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668French
- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre
1660French
- L'Impromptu de Versailles
1663French
- Les Fourberies de Scapin
1671French
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666French
- Le Malade Imaginaire
The Imaginary Invalid
1673French
- Les Précieuses Ridicules
1659French
Blaise Pascal
- Lettres Provinciales
1656-57French
- Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
- Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
part of the Harvard ClassicsFrench
- The Physical Treatises of Pascal
French
John Dryden
- Aureng-Zebe
1676English
- An Essay of Dramatick Poesie
1668English
- MacFlecknoe or a Satyr Upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T S
1682English
- 'To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-Arts of Poësie, and Painting. An Ode'
part of Anne Killigrew's Poems, 1696English
- An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell
1696English
- Alexander's Feast: or The Power of Musique. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day
1697English
- The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man
1677English
- 'Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy'
preface to the second edition of The Indian Emperor or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards Being a Sequel of the Indian Queen, 1667English
- All for Love; or, The World Well Lost
1677English
Baruch Spinoza
- Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
Ethics
1677Latin
- Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
originally anonymously published 1670Latin
- Korte Verhandeling van God, de Mensch en Deszelvs Welstand
ca. 1660Dutch
John Locke
- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
1689English
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education
1693English
- Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government
originally anonymously published 1689English
Jean Racine
- Phèdre
1677French
- Andromaque
1667French
- Athalie
1691French
- Britannicus
1669French
- Bérénice
1670French
- Esther
1689French
- Les Plaideurs
1668French
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain
1765French
- La Monadologie
1714French
- Correspondence [excerpted]
unspecified selectionsFrench
Daniel Defoe
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
- A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665
originally anonymously published 1722English
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
1722English
- The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
1720English
Jonathan Swift
- Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
- Journal to Stella [excerpted]
Letters I-III, VIII-X, XVI-XX, LXV; complete work published 1766English
- Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D S P D
1739English
- 'Phyllis; or, The Progress of Love'
English
English
- 'Furniture of a Woman's Mind'
English
- 'A Grub-Street Elegy on the Supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanac-Maker'
English
- 'The Problem, That My World Berkeley Stinks When He Is in Love'
English
- A Tale of a Tub [excerpted]
'Digression on Critics'; 'Digression on Manners'; complete work published 1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710English
- A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
originally anonymously published 1729English
- 'An Essay on Modern Education'
originally published as the ninth issue of the Intelligencer; included in Swift and Pope's MiscellaniesEnglish
- 'Of the Education of Ladies'
originally published in the author's collected works, 1765English
George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1710; revised 1734English
- Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
1713English
- Commonplace Book
written 1705-08; originally published 1781 as part of The Works of George BerkeleyEnglish
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Lettres Persanes [excerpted]
Introduction; Letters 1-14, 23-6, 28-34, 36-41, 44-61, 68-73, 112-8, 122, 131, 136, 141; complete work published 1721French
- De l'Esprit des Lois [excerpted]
The Spirt of Laws
Preface; Author's Note; Books I-IV; Books VIII-IX; Book X, chapters 6-8; Book XI, chapter 6; Books XIV; Book XV, chapter 5; Book XIX, chapters 1-10; Book XXV; Book XXX, chapters 23-5; complete work originally anonymously published 1748French
Samuel Richardson
- Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
1748English
- Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
1740; later revisedEnglish
Voltaire
- Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
- Dictionnaire Philosophique
1764French
- Zadig
1747French
- Le Siècle de Louis XIV
1751French
Henry Fielding
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
1742English
- The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
originally published as the third volume of Miscellanies, 1743English
- Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
1755English
- The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
1731English
Samuel Johnson
- Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
The Lives of the Poets
published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, retitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781English
- Preface to his edition of Shakespeare
Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759English
David Hume
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748English
- My Own Life
1777English
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
1751English
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
originally anonymously published 1779English
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
The Social Contract
1762French
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
- Les Confessions
1782French
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation [excerpt]
Books I-II and IV; complete work published 1762French
- Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
1750French
Denis Diderot
- Le Rêve de d'Alembert
originally published serially 1782 in Correspondance LittéraireFrench
- Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde
German traslation, 1805; French original, 1823French
Tobias Smollett
- The Adventures of Roderick Random
1748English
- The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
1771English
- The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
1751; revised 1758English
Adam Smith
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759English
- Joshua Reynolds
Discourses on Art
15 edited 1769-90 lecturesEnglish
Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
- Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
Critique of Practical Reason
1788German
- Lectures on Ethics
transcriptions of lectures delivered 1775-80German
- Kritik der Urteilskraft
Critique of Judgment
1790German
- Prolegomena zu Einer Jeden Künftigen Metaphysic, die als Wissenschaft Wird Auftreten Können
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
1783German
- Die Religion Innerhalb der Grenzen der Bloßen Vernunft
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
1793German
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Laokoon Oder Über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie
Laocoon: or, The limits of Poetry and Painting
1766German
- Nathan der Weise
1779German
- Minna von Barnhelm Oder das Soldatenglück
1767German
- Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts
1780German
Edmund Burke
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790English
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1757English
Edward Gibbon
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [excerpted]
Chapters 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 23-4, 31, 34, 40, 50, 58, 68, 71; complete work originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
- Memoirs of My Life and Writings
originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896English
James Boswell
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1785English
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96German
- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Oder Die Entsagenden
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants
1821; revised 1829German
- Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833German
- Johann Peter Eckermann
Gespräche mit Goethe
originally published in three volumes: first and second, 1836; third, 1848German
William Blake
- Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
written 1790English
- The Everlasting Gospel
written ca. 1818English
- There Is No Natural Religion
written ca. 1788English
- All Religions Are One
written ca. 1788English
- The Book of Thel
written 1789-90English
- Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses
written ca. 1808English
unspecified selection; late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
Friedrich Schiller
- Wallenstein
three parts: Die Piccolomini, Wallensteins Lager, and Wallensteins Tod, 1798-99German
- Wilhelm Tell
1804German
- Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien
1787German
- Maria Stuart
1800German
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans
written 1801German
- Die Räuber
1781German
- Kabale und Liebe
1784German
- Essays, Aesthetical and Philosophical
includes Über die Äthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von BriefenGerman
- Über die Äthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von Briefen
1794German
- Selections From the Correspondence Between Schiller and Goethe
1898; edited by J G RobertsonGerman
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
- Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807German
- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820German
- Vorlesungen Über die Ästhetik
1835; edited 1818, 1820-1, 1823, 1826, and 1828-9 lecturesGerman
- Wissenschaft der Logik
1816German
William Wordsworth
- The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
- The Excursion: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
1814English
- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802English
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
1817English
- On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each
1826English
- Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Some Other Old Poets and Dramatists
English
Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
The Red and the Black
1830French
- Henri Brulard
1890French
- Le Chartreuse de Parme
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
- Racine et Shakespeare
1823-35French
Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
- Don Juan
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
1812-18English
- Manfred
1817English
- Cain
1821English
- Beppo
1818English
originally published Oct. 1822 in the LiberalEnglish
- The Giaour
1813English
- The Bride of Abydos
1813English
- The Corsair
1814English
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Arnold Schopenhauer
- Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
The World as Will and Idea
originally published in two volumes, 1819 and 1844German
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
- 'The Sufferings of the World'
German
- 'The Vanity of Existence'
German
German
German
German
German
Giacomo Leopardi
early Nineteenth CenturyItalian
- Essays, Dialogues and Thoughts
1905; English translations by James Thomson; edited by Bertram DobellItalian
Alexander Pushkin
- Evgénij Onegin
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837Russian
- 'Skazka o Zolotom Petuške'
'The Tale of the Golden Cockerel'
originally published in Biblioteka dlya Chteniya, 1835Russian
- Boris Godunov
1831Russian
- Mocart i Sal'eri
Mozart and Salieri
1832Russian
- Kapitanskaâ Dočka
The Captain's Daughter
originally published 1836 in SovremennikRussian
Honoré de Balzac
- La Cousine Bette
originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1846 in Le ConstitutionnelFrench
- Le Peau de Chagrin
The Wild Ass's Skin; The Magic Skin
1831French
- Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Décadence de César Birotteau
The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau; 1837French
- La Fille aux Yeux d'Or
The Girl With the Golden Eyes
1835French
- Illusions Perdues
Lost Illusions
1837-43French
John Henry Newman
- Apologia pro Vita Sua
1864; revised 1865English
- The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated
1873; originally published in two parts: The Scope and Nature of University Educationoriginally published 1852, with two alternate titles: Discourses on University Education, and Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education, then retitled and revised in 1859; and Lectures and Essays on University Subjects, 1859English
- An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
1870English
- Essays Critical and Historical
English
- An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
1845; revised 1878English
- The Via Media of the Anglican Church
1877; originally published in two volumes, the first of which consists of edited lectures originally published as Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church, 1837; the second consisting of varied works originally published 1830-45English
Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables
1862French
- Les Travailleurs de la Mer
1866French
- Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831French
- Les Feuilles d'Automne [excerpted]
unspecified selectionsFrench
- Les Chants du Crépuscule [excerpted]
unspecified selectionsFrench
- Les Châtiments [excerpted]
unspecified selectionsFrench
- Hernani
1830French
- Ruy Blas
1838French
- William Shakespeare
1864French
Hector Berlioz
- Memoires de Hector Berlioz Comprenant ses Voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre
published in part in Journal des Débats and Le Monde Illustré; in its entirety, 1865English
- Les Soirées de l'Orchestre
1852; published in part seriallyFrench
unspecified selections; Nineteenth CenturyFrench
- A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
essays originally published in A Travers Chants, Études Musicales, Adorations, Boutades et CritiquesFrench
- Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes
1844; published in part serially; expanded 1855French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The American Scholar
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837English
part of Essays: First Series, 1841English
part of Essays: First Series, 1841English
part of Essays: Second Series, 1844; not the same as Nature [1836]English
- 'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'
edited lecture; part of Representative Men, 1850English
English
English
English
English
English
English
English
English
English
unspecified selectionEnglish
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
1850English
English
- The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni
1860English
- The House of Seven Gables
1851English
- The Blithedale Romance
1852English
unspecified selections; Hawthorne's American Notebooks, 1932; The Heart of Hawthorne's Journals, 1929English
John Stuart Mill
- Autobiography
1873English
- On Liberty
1859English
- Utilitarianism
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
- On Nature
1874English
- Principles of Political Economy [excerpted]
Book II, chapter 16; Book IV, chapters 6 and 7; Book V, chapter 11; complete work published 1848; revised through seventh edition, 1871English
- Dissertations and Discussions [excerpted]
'Thornton on Labor and Its Chains'; 'Writings of Alfred de Vigny'English
- A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive [excerpted]
Book VI; complete work published 1843English
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši
Dead Souls
1842Russian
Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
- Life and Letters of Charles Darwin [excerpted]
English
Vol. II, chapter VIIIEnglish
- The Voyage of the Beagle
originally published 1838 as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle; also published that year as Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H M S Beagle; revised 1845English
William Makepeace Thackeray
- Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
- The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself
1852English
- The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
originally published serially Nov. 1857-Oct. 1859English
- The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and Greatest Enemy
originally published serially 1848-50English
- The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.
originally published serially 1853-55English
- The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves
originally published serially 1846-47; retitled The Book for Snobs for publication in book form, 1848English
- The Four Georges
edited 1860-1 lecturesEnglish
- 'An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank'
originally published Jun. 1840 in Westminster ReviewEnglish
Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend
originally published serially May 1864-Nov. 1865English
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
- Great Expectations
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- Bleak House
originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853English
- A Tale of Two Cities
originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress
originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's MiscellanyEnglish
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
originally published serially Mar. 1838-Sep. 1839 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
Henry David Thoreau
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
1893; inluces 'Civil Disobedience'English
originally published 1849 in Aesthetic PapersEnglish
- Cape Cod
1865; edited lecturesEnglish
- Familiar Letters of Thoreau
1894English
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
Karl Marx
- The Civil War in France: Address of the General Council of the International Working-Men's Association
1871English
- Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie [excerpted]
Introduction; Vol. I, chapter I, sections 1-3, chapters IV-VII, chapter XIII; Vol. II, chapter XVII, chapters XXIV and XXV; appendices; complete work originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
Ivan Turgenev
- Otcy i Deti
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Nov'
Virgin Soil
1877Russian
- Zapiski Ohotnika
A Sportsman's Sketches
originally published in Sovremennik, 1852Russian
Nineteenth CenturyRussian
Herman Melville
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Journal Up the Straits: October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857
1935English
- Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
1876English
Walt Whitman
- Leaves of Grass
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
- Specimen Days
1882English
Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- L'Éducation Sentimentale
1869French
- Salammbô
1862French
- La Tentation de Sainte Antoine
published in part, 1856; in its entirety, 1874French
- Trois Contes
1877French
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Idiot
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Besy
Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
1872Russian
Matthew Arnold
- Essays in Criticism [excerpted]
'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'; 'The Literary Influence of Academies'; 'Heinrich Heine'; 'The Study of Poetry'; 'Milton'; 'Thomas Gray'; 'John Keats'; 'Wordsworth'; 'Byron'; 'Shelley'; complete work originally published in two volumes: First Series, 1865; Second Series, 1888English
- Discourses in America [excerpted]
'Literature and Science'English
- On Translating Homer
1861; edited lectures, 3 Nov.-18 Dec. 1860English
'A French Critic on Milton'; 'A French Critic on Goethe'; 'George Sand'; 'Democracy'; 'Equality'English
- Culture and Anarchy
1869; essays published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867-8; preface added in 1875English
- Literature and Dogma
1873English
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- 'One Lesson, Nature, Let Me Learn of Thee'
English
English
English
English
- 'To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore'
English
English
English
English
- 'Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse'
English
English
English
English
Henrik Ibsen
- Et Dukkehjem
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
- Gengangere
Ghosts
1881Norwegian
- Hedda Gabler
1890Norwegian
- John Gabriel Borkman
1896Norwegian
- Peer Gynt
1867Norwegian
- Samfundets Støtter
Pillars of Society
1877Norwegian
- Vildanden
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
- Bygmester Solness
The Master Builder
1892Norwegian
- Rosmersholm
1886Norwegian
- En Folkefiende
An Enemy of the People
1882Norwegian
- Fruen fra Havet
The Lady From the Sea
1888Norwegian
- Når vi Døde Vågner
When We Dead Awaken
1899Norwegian
George Meredith
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
1859English
- The Egoist
1879English
- Beauchamp's Career
1875English
- Diana of the Crossways
1885English
- The Tragic Comedians
1880English
- Evan Harrington
1861English
- Modern Love
1862English
- A Reading of Earth
1888English
- Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History
1898English
- Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
1883English
- 'On the Idea of Comedy and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit'
originally published Apr. 1877 in the New Quarterly MagazineEnglish
Samuel Butler
- Life and Habit
1878English
The Humour of Homer and Other EssaysEnglish
The Humour of Homer and Other EssaysEnglish
- Erewhon: or, Over the Range
1872English
- The Way of All Flesh
1903; written 1873-74English
- Evolution, Old and New
1879English
late Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876English
- Life on the Mississippi
1883English
- The Innocents Abroad
1869English
- A Tramp Abroad
1880English
- 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'
originally entitled 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog', published Nov. 1865 in the Saturday Press; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Californian, Dec. 1865English
Henry George
- Progress and Property: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy [excerpted]
Books I-III; Book IV, chapters I-II; Books V-VII; Book VIII, chapter IV; Book X; complete work published 1879English
- The Land Question: What It Involves, and How Alone It Can Be Settled
1881; originally entitled The Irish Land QuestionEnglish
- The Science of Political Economy
1898English
Thomas Hardy
- Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
originally anonymously published 1872English
- The Woodlanders
originally published serially May 1886-Apr. 1887 in Macmillan's MagazineEnglish
- The Return of the Native
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and AmusementEnglish
- Late Lyrics and Earlier With Many Other Verses
1922English
- The Dynasts
originally published in three volumes: 1904, 1906, and 1908English
William James
- The Principles of Psychology [excerpted]
chapters 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 21, 26, 26; complete work published 1890English
- Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy
1911English
- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
- Selected Papers on Philosophy
1917English
edited by Henry JamesEnglish
Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- The Princess Casamassima
originally published serially 1885-86 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- The Ambassadors
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
- The Other House
originally published serially 1896 in the Illustrated London NewsEnglish
- The Turn of the Screw
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
- What Maisie Knew [excerpted]
'The Pupil'; complete work originally published serially 1897 in the Chap-Book and, revised, in the New ReviewEnglish
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thoughts Out of Season [excerpted]
'The Use and Abuse of History'; 'Schopenhauer as Educator'German
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
- Ecce Homo: Wie Man Wird, Was Man Ist
1908German
- Zur Genealogue der Moral
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887German
- Der Wille zur Mach [excerpted]
The Will to Power
Part II; complete work published 1901; revised 1906German
Sigmund Freud
- Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917German
- Jenseits des Lustprinzips
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1920German
- Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
1904German
- Hemmung, Symptom und Angst
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
1926German
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
- Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933German
George Bernard Shaw
- You Can Never Tell
1897English
- Man and Superman
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915English
- Heartbreak House
1919English
- Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense About Artists Being Degenerate
1908English
- London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto (Later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars
1937; originally published serially 1888-89 in the StarEnglish
- The Future of Political Science in America: An Address by Mr. Bernard Shaw to the Academy of Political Science, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on the 11th. April, 1933
1933English
originally published Jan. 1896 in the SavoyEnglish
Henri Bergson
- Introduction à la Métaphysique
Introduction to Metaphysics
originally published in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903French
- L'Evolution Créatrice
Creative Evolution
1907French
- Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
1932French
Anton Chekhov
- Višhnëvyj Sad
The Cherry Orchard
1904Russian
- Čajka
The Seagull
1896Russian
- Dâdâ Vanâ
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
- Tri Sestry
Three Sisters
1901Russian
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesRussian
- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
James Joyce
- Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
- Dubliners
1914English
- Finnegans Wake
1939English
- Exiles
1918English
1937English