Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had [2016]
177 entries: 147 monographical, 30 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically
The revised and expanded second edition of this book includes annotated reading lists at the end of each of the six chapters of its second part, Reading: Jumping into the Great Conversation. Those six chapters correspond to six genre distinctions: novel; autobiography and memoir; history and politics; drama; poetry; and science. Bauer recommends particular editions and translations of each work; these are not included (unlike in the case of the Bloom and "Smart" lists) because, comparatively, a larger number of versions are noted; that is, for most entries, multiple editions are suggested among which the reader can take his pick. This editorial decision not to make note of the various editions of works, only encounters difficulties when we come to the poetry section, where we see many non-monographical, indeterminate selections. Bauer includes, for all of these, lists of poems that her reader should "be sure to read"; unfortunately, these lists come after her recommendations of particular collected editions of the poet's work similar to the recommendations of certain editions of the novels, etc., listed in the other sections. Moreover, some of the monographical works in the poetry section, such as The Canterbury Tales, also have certain portions listed in the "be sure to read" category. In other words, if we were to include the individual poems that Bauer has highlighted, to be consistent we also need to create separate entries for these excerpts of monographical worksand make note of the various editions noted for each entry in the entire list. If the "be sure to read" poems had been listed above the volumes of collected works, we would only have to do the former. Either way, for the time being, we take the simpler approach. If the Greater Books project comes to entail documenting the contents of every anthology named by all of our listmakers, and other elaborations of the entries in the submaster list, we could justify going back to include at least the individuals poems that Bauer notes.
- 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*
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- 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
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress _9
originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's MiscellanyEnglish
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
*Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin_6
1852English
*Downs* *Rexroth* *Recommended* *Smart* *Taylor* *Educated*
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
*Classics* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native_8
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and AmusementEnglish
*Powys* *Classics* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman* *Educated*
- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage_9
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895English
*Zulli* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart* *Campbell* *Newman* *Educated*
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
*Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth_5
1905English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*
- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
*France* *Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- Richard Wright
Native Son_8
1940English
*Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Educated*
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Saul Bellow
Seize the Day_3
1956English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Italo Calvino
Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore_5
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1979Italian
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon_4
1977English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Don DeLillo
White Noise_3
1985English
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Educated*
- A S Byatt
Possession_3
1990English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Educated*
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road_1
2006English
*Educated*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe_1
written ca. 1430-8English
*Educated*
- 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*
- Teresa of Ávila
La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús_3
1588Spanish
*Ward* *Graphic* *Educated*
- René Descartes
Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur_6
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Reynolds* *World* *Educated*
- John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to his Poor Servant John Bunyan_2
1666English
*Newman* *Educated*
- Mary Rowlandson
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson_1
1682English
*Educated*
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions_14
1782French
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_7
French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868English
*Eliot* *Hundred* *Downs* *Zulli* *Magill* *Smart* *Educated*
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave_6
1845English
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart* *Educated*
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Great* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_1
published in part serially in the New-York Tribune; in its entirety, 1861English
*Educated*
- Booker T Washington
Up From Slavery_1
originally published serially 1900 in the OutlookEnglish
*Educated*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo: Wie Man Wird, Was Man Ist_4
1908German
*Powys* *Classics* *Fadiman* *Educated*
- Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf_3
originally published in two volumes, 1925 and 1926German
*Downs* *Kanigel* *Educated*
- Mohandas K Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments With the Truth_4
originally published serially 1925-9 in NavijanGujarati
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *Educated*
- Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas_2
published in part in the Atlantic Monthly; in its entirety, 1933English
*Newman* *Educated*
- Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain_2
1948English
*Kanigel* *Educated*
- C S Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life_1
1955English
*Educated*
- Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X_2
1965English
*Learning* *Educated*
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_4
1969English
*Campbell* *Great* *Deposit* *Educated*
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude_1
1973English
*Educated*
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Arhipelag GULAG_2
The Gulag Archipelago
1974-8Russian
*Bloom* *Educated*
- Charles Colson
Born Again_1
1976English
*Educated*
- Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez_1
1982English
*Educated*
- Jill Conway
The Road From Coorain_1
1989English
*Educated*
- Elie Wiesel
Tous les Fleuves Vont à la Mer_1
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969
1994French
*Educated*
- 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*
- Plato
Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *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*
- Augustine of Hippo
De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos_9
City of God
426Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Bede
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum_4
written ca. 731Latin
*Downs* *Trinity* *World* *Educated*
- 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*
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
Second Treatise [second part of 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]_8
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Great* *Reynolds* *Educated*
The History of England [excerpted]_1
fifth volume; complete work originally published in six volumes: fifth, 1754; sixth, 1756; third-fourth, 1759; first-second, 1761English
*Educated*
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762French
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Thomas Paine
Common Sense; Addresed to the Inhabitants of America_4
1776English
*Downs* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Educated*
- 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*
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792English
*Durant* *Downs* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Jacob Burckhardt
Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien_3
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy; 1860German
*Dirda* *World* *Educated*
- W E B Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk_1
published in part serially in the Atlantic; in its entirety, 1903English
*Educated*
- Max Weber
Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus_3
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1905German
*Foundation* *Great* *Educated*
- Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria_2
1921English
*Fadiman* *Educated*
- George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier_1
1937English
*Educated*
- Perry Miller
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century_1
1939English
*Educated*
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Crash, 1929_1
1955; revised 1961, 1972, 1988, 1997, and 2009English
*Educated*
- Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique_2
1963English
*SeymourSmith* *Educated*
- Eugene Genovese
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made_1
1974English
*Educated*
- Barbara W Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century_2
1978English
*Deposit* *Educated*
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men_1
1974English
*Educated*
- James M McPherson
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era_1
1988; abridged version, 2003English
*Educated*
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812_1
1990English
*Educated*
- Francis Fukuyuma
The End of History and the Last Man_1
1992; based in part on 'The End of History?" published Summer 1989 in the National InterestEnglish
*Educated*
Agamemnon_3
part of The Oresteia; 458 B CGreek
*Foundation* *O'Hear* *Educated*
- Sophocles
Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Euripides
Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Aristophanes
Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Educated*
--
- The Somonyng of Everyman_4
late Fifteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_10
1592English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
William Shakespeare
- Richard III_11
ca. 1592-7English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- A Midsummer Night's Dream_14
ca. 1595-1600English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 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*
- Molière
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- William Congreve
The Way of the World_6
1700English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman* *Educated*
- Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer_6
1773English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School for Scandal_6
1777English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart* *Educated*
- Henrik Ibsen
Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Newman* *Educated*
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest_8
1895English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Smart* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- Anton Chekhov
Višhnëvyj Sad_8
The Cherry Orchard
1904Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan_8
1923English
*Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Educated*
- T S Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral_4
1935English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Thornton Wilder
Our Town_5
1938English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night_8
1956English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Huis Clos_6
No Exit
1944French
*Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire_5
1947English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Educated*
- Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman_6
1949English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Educated*
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Robert Bolt
A Man for All Seasons_1
television version, 1957; theatrical version, 1960English
*Educated*
- Tom Stoppard
Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead_2
1966English
*Recommended* *Educated*
- Peter Shaffer
Equus_3
1973English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Educated*
--
- Sha Naqba Imuru_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.CSumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Selected works_1
unspecified selection; Sappho, Pindar, and Solon are notedGreek
*Educated*
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Carmina_11
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B.C; fourth, 13 B.CLatin
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Taylor* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
--
- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English versionEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Inferno_6
part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert and Jean Hollander's English translationItalian
*Learning* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Smart* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_7
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- William Shakespeare
Sonnets_8
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_8
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Educated*
- John Milton
Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul_11
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_8
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Baldwin* *Read* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_5
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Read* *Van Doren* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_7
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Educated*
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poems_2
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Educated*
Poems_4
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Bloom* *Educated*
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Poems_6
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Zane* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_2
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Bloom* *Educated*
Poems_3
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Educated*
Poems_5
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_1
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
*Educated*
Poems_4
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Educated*
Poems_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Educated*
Poems_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Educated*
Poems_2
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Dirda* *Educated*
Poems_3
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Good* *Educated*
Poems_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Educated*
Poems_2
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Dirda* *Educated*
Hippocratic Corpus [excerpted]_1
On Airs, Waters, and Places; late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B.CGreek
*Educated*
- Aristotle
Physics_5
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Educated*
- 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*
'Commentariolus'_1
written ca. 1514Latin
*Educated*
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Galileo
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo_8
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632Italian
*Downs* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *GlobeMail* *Educated*
- Robert Hooke
Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon_3
1665English
*Downs* *Great* *Educated*
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [excerpted]_1
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Rules; General Scholium; complete work published 1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
*Educated*
'Discours Préliminaire'_1
part of Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles de Quadrupèdes, 1812French
*Educated*
Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation [excerpted]_1
first volume; complete work originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833English
*Educated*
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
'Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden'_3
'Experiments on Plant Hybrids'
originally published 1866 in Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins Brünn; edited 1865 lectureGerman
*Downs* *SeymourSmith* *Educated*
- Alfred Wegener
Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane_1
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
1915; revised 1920, 1922, and 1929German
*Educated*
- Albert Einstein
Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich_5
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922German
*Downs* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor* *Educated*
- Max Planck
Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie_2
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory: Being the Nobel Prize Address Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, 2 June, 1920
1922German
*Read* *Educated*
- Julian Huxley
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis_1
1942English
*Educated*
- Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life?_2
1944; edited 1943 lecturesEnglish
*Adler* *Educated*
- Rachel Carson
Silent Spring_8
originally published Jun. 1962 in the New YorkerEnglish
*Downs* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Desmond Morris
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal_1
1967English
*Educated*
- James D Watson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A_3
1968English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Educated*
- Robert Dawkins
The Selfish Gene_2
1976English
*Great* *Educated*
- Steven Weinberg
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe_1
1977; expanded 1993English
*Educated*
- E O Wilson
On Human Nature_1
1978English
*Educated*
- James Lovelock
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth_1
1979English
*Educated*
- Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man_2
1981English
*Great* *Educated*
- James Gleick
Chaos: Making a New Science_1
1987English
*Utne* *Educated*
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes_2
1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005English
*Great* *Educated*
- Walter Alvarez
T Rex and the Crater of Doom_1
1997English
*Educated*