Will Durant, One Hundred Best Books for an Education [1933]
166 entries: 101 monographical, 65 otherwise
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Will Durant's 'List of One Hundred Best Books for an Education: The Road to Freedom' was originally included as part of an article for the American Magazine, Dec. 1929, entitled 'One Hundred Best Books'. Apparently, the next year, the American Library Association published the article as a monograph of some sort (a "broadside" according to one reference book). It was either revised for that version or for its inclusion in Durant's 1933 collection of essays, Adventures in Genius, the essay now entitled 'One Hundred Best Books for an Education', the list itself bearing the inscription, 'The Road to Freedom: Being One Hundred Best Books for an Education'. That version added Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of the Philosophers and removed Sidney Bradshaw Fay's Origins of the World War, which, having been published in 1929, perhaps had been a rash choice on Durant's part. Yet another version, found in Have You Read 100 Great Books? (the *Hundred* list) includes Diogenes, but excludes Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Yet—yet!—another version, included in Durant's The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, a posthumous collection of essays that came out in 2002, includes both works. So was the '46 omission of Pickwick an error? As with the Lubbock and Rexroth lists, we make the last version made available during the author's life as our final version of the list, so that Fay is excluded, Pickwick remains.
- John Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science_1
1922English
*Durant*
- Logan Clendening
The Human Body_1
1927; revised 1930, 1937, and 1945English
*Durant*
New Dietetics: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease [excerpted]_1
pp. 1-531, 975-1011; complete work published 1927English
*Durant*
- William James
The Principles of Psychology_6
1890English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- H G Wells
The Outline of History_1
originally published serially 1919-20; revised by the author through 1937 edition; later revisions made by Raymond Postgate and G P WellsEnglish
*Durant*
- William Graham Sumner
Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals_1
1907English
*Durant*
- James George Frazer
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion_6
originally entitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, published in two volumes, 1890; expanded and retitled 1900 to three volumes; expanded 1906-15 to 12 volumes; supplemental volume added for 1937 edition; distinct abridged versions, 1922, 1959, and 1994; Durant and the Jasper Lee Company ("Hundred") specify the 1922 abridged edition, while Good Reading specifies the 1959English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Downs* *List* *Good* *Dirda*
- James Harvey Robinson
The Ordeal of Civilization_1
1926English
*Durant*
- James Henry Breasted
The Conquest of Civilization_1
1926English
*Durant*
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- The Wisdom of the Chinese: Their Philosophy in Sayings and Proverbs_1
1920; edited by Brian Brown; selections from (Confucius) Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean, Great Learning; (Mencius) The Real Man; (Lao Tzu) Tao-teh-king, Wu-wei, Precepts and Sayings; Chuang Tzu; Yang Chu; Kang-hsi's Sacred Edict; Kuan-yi-wu; Yu Tse; Tse-chan; plus sections entitled The Poetry of the Chinese, Proverbs and Maxims, and Moral MaximsChinese
*Durant*
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*Durant* *Classics* *Learning* *Foundation* *Great*
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*Durant* *Learning* *Foundation* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Educated*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Foundation* *Kanigel*
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Song of Solomon; Canticles
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Utne* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Classics*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant*
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- The Gospel According to Matthew_1
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant*
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- The Gospel According to Mark_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Foundation*
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- The Gospel According to Luke_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
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- The Gospel According to John_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- First Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
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- Second Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
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- Epistle to the Galatians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- Epistle to the Ephesians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- Epistle to the Philippians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- Epistle to the Colossians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- First Epistle to the Thessalonians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- Second Epistle to the Thessalonians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- First Epistle to Timothy_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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- Second Epistle to Timothy_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
Histoire de l'Art [excerpted]_1
vol. I, chs. 1-8; vol. II, chs. 1-9; vol. III, chs. 4-6; vol. IV, chs. 1-8; complete work published in five volumes, 1919-21French
*Durant*
- Henry Smith Williams
A History of Science_1
published in ten volumes, 1904-10English
*Durant*
- J B Bury
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great_2
1900English
*Durant* *Hundred*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Educated*
- Gilbert Murray
A History of Ancient Greek Literature_1
1897English
*Durant*
Homer
unspecified selections; ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
*Durant*
The Odyssey
unspecified selections; ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
*Durant*
- Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
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- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
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Plays_5
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Rexroth* *Good* *Read*
- Diogenes Laërtius
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers_3
Third CenturyGreek
*Durant* *Downs* *World*
Plato
early Fourth Century B_CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *World*
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B_CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B_CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
The Republic
sections 327-32, 336-77, 384-85, 392-426, 433-35, 481-3, 512-20, 572-95; early Fourth Century B_CGreek
*Durant*
Aristotle
- Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds*
- Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid [excerpted]_1
unspecified selections; First Century B CLatin
*Durant*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_23
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam_8
ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889Persian
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Oriental* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
- George Moore
Héloïse and Abélard_1
1921English
*Durant*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Hippolyte Taine
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise_1
1863; revised 1866French
*Durant*
Canterbury Tales [excerpted]_1
unspecified selections; 1478English
*Durant*
- Henry Adams
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_5
1913English
*Durant* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Cecil Gray
The History of Music_1
1928English
*Durant*
- John Addington Symonds
Renaissance in Italy_1
originally published in seven volumes, 1875-86English
*Durant*
- Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze_7
Autobiography
written 1558-62Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Giorgio Vasari
Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, e Architettori da Cimabue Insino a' Tempi Nostri_5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; The Lives of the Artists
1550; expanded 1568Italian
*Durant* *Ward* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Telegraph*
Den Nyere Filosofis Historie [excerpted]_1
A History of Modern Philosophy
sections on Bruno, Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, and Leibnitz; complete work published in two volumes, 1894 and 1895English
*Durant*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Preserved Smith
The Age of the Reformation_1
1920English
*Durant*
Histoire de la Littérature Française [excerpted]_1
A Literary History of France
sections on the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth centuries; complete work published 1900French
*Durant*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
William Shakespeare
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
*Durant* *France* *Good* *Bloom*
- Hamlet_27
1602English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- King Lear_21
1606English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Othello_14
ca. 1604English
*Durant* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Romeo and Juliet_13
ca. 1591-97English
*Durant* *Classics* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Julius Caesar_9
1599English
*Durant* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Merchant of Venice_11
ca. 1596-98English
*Durant* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- As You Like It_12
1603English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- A Midsummer Night's Dream_14
ca. 1595-1600English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Timon of Athens_7
written ca. 1607English
*Durant* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Tempest_20
1611English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- François de la Rochefoucauld
Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales_4
originally anonymously published 1665French
*Durant* *France* *Ward* *Bloom*
Plays_5
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Fadiman*
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge_9
The Miser
1668French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme_8
1670French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre_6
1660French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Francis Bacon
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
John Milton
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Ward*
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Ward*
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Classics* *Fadiman*
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Paradise Lost [excerpted]_1
unspecified selections; complete work published 1667; revised 1674English
*Durant*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
Baruch Spinoza
- Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Deposit*
- Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione_1
1677Latin
*Durant*
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Portraits of the Eighteenth Century_1
1905; English translations of excerpts from Causeries du Lundi, Portraits de Femmes, and Portraits LittérairesFrench
*Durant*
Selected works_2
Eighteenth CenturyFrench
*Durant* *Fadiman*
- Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Zadig_6
1747French
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Traité sur la Tolérance_1
1763French
*Durant*
part of the eighth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, 1765French
*Durant*
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions_14
1782French
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- Hippolyte Taine
Les Origines de la France Contemporaine_1
originally published in five volumes: L'Ancien Régime, 1875; La Révolution: I - L'Anarchie, 1878; La Révolution: II - La Conquête Jacobin, 1881; La Révolution: III - Le Gouvernement Révolutionnaire, 1883; La Régime Moderne: I - Napoleon, 1890; La Régime Moderne: II, 1893French
*Durant*
- Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution_2
1837; revised 1857English
*Lubbock* *Durant*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
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- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
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- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
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- 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_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
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- David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects_3
first-seccond volumes, 1739; third volume, 1740English
*Durant* *Read* *SeymourSmith*
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792English
*Durant* *Downs* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
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- Emil Ludwig
Napoleon_1
1925German
*Durant*
- Georg Brandes
Hovedstrømninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Litteratur_1
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature
published in six volumes, 1872-90Danish
*Durant*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
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
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- Johann Peter Eckermann
Gespräche mit Goethe_3
originally published in three volumes: first and second, 1836; third, 1848German
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics*
Poems_1
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
*Durant*
Poems_7
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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Poems_6
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman*
Poems_5
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
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Selected works_1
Nineteenth CenturyFrench
*Durant*
- Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
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- Salammbô_4
1862French
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- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables_18
1862French
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- Anatole France
L'Île des Pingouins_4
1908French
*Durant* *Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom*
Poems_4
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Bloom* *Educated*
- Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
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- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
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- Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt_6
1867Norwegian
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- Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex_4
1871English
*Durant* *Read* *Adler* *Recommended*
- Henry Thomas Buckle
Introduction to the History of Civilization in England_1
1857English
*Durant*
Selected works_1
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
*Durant*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-5German
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- Charles and Mary Beard
The Rise of American Civilization_2
1927English
*Durant* *Hundred*
Edgar Allan Poe
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Zulli* *Durant* *Newman*
Newman specifies "Gothic stories" and "Auguste Dupin stories"; Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Good* *Learning* *Newman*
Essays_9
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
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- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
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Abraham Lincoln
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Invitation*
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant*
- Romain Rolland
Jean Christophe_3
published in ten volumes: L'Aube, 1904; Le Matin, 1904; L'Adolescent, 1904; La Révolte, 1905; La Foir sur la Place, 1908; Antoinette, 1908; Dans la Maison, 1908; Les Amies, 1910; Le Buisson Ardent, 1911; La Nouvelle Journée, 1912French
*Powys* *Durant* *Hundred*
Studies in the Psychology of Sex [excerpted]_1
first-third and sixth volumes; complete work published in seven volumes, 1897-1928English
*Durant*
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918English
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- Henri Bergson
L'Evolution Créatrice_3
1907French
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- Oswald Spengler
Der Untergang des Abendlandes_1
The Decline of the West
published in two volumes, 1918 and 1923; first volume revised 1922German
*Durant*