Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren, Invitation to Learning [1941]; The New Invitation to Learning [1944]
59 entries: 49 monographical, 10 otherwise
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Invitation to Learning [1941] and The New Invitation to Learning [1944] consist of transcripts of episodes of the radio program, Invitation to Learning, which featured Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren discussing works of literature. Apparently the show continued on well past 1944, but only these two books offer lists that fit the criteria of this project. Two later books were confined to narrower subjects: Invitation to Learning: English and American Novels [1966] and The Invitation to Learning Reader on War and Peace [1960], both edited by George D. Crothers. Apparently at least the Novels book also featured transcripts. For at least a couple years in the early Fifties, Invitation to Learning was a periodical as well, again corresponding to the radio program; I do not know if it also simply featured transcripts.
- Aristotle
Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*
- 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*
- Plato
Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Graphic*
- 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*
- 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*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions_14
1782French
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- John Stuart Mill
Autobiography_7
1873English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918English
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders_8
1722English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Smart* *Newman*
- 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
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Newman*
Du Côté de Chez Swann_3
Swann's Way
1913; first of seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu; complete work originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
*Invitation* *Adler* *Great*
- Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606-08English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- 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*
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Laokoon Oder Über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie_3
Laocoon: or, The Limits of Poetry and Painting
1766German
*Invitation* *Classics* *Bloom*
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions_7
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
Essays in Criticism_1
previously published but uncollected in book form; originally published in two volumes: First Series, 1865; Second Series, 1888English
*Invitation*
- 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*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
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- 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*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great*
- 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*
Notebooks_5
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesItalian
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*
- Cornelius Tacitus
Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10Latin
*Invitation* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- 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*
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem_6
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Educated*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
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Poems_2
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Invitation*
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet_27
1602English
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- 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
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Henrik Ibsen
Vildanden_8
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
*Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *World*
- 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*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft_8
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
Fables_6
ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Invitation* *Downs* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom*
- Jean de la Fontaine
Fables_7
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694French
*Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
- 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
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- 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*
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translation—French
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Henry James
The Turn of the Screw_9
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_6
stories originally published serially Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the StrandEnglish
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Telegraph*
- 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*
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (Lord Chesterfield)
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman_1
1774English
*Invitation*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
Delineations of American Scenery and Character_1
fifty-nine essays originally published in the first-third volumes of Ornithological Biography, 1831-39English
*Invitation*
- William Hickling Prescott
The History of the Conquest of Mexico_1
1843English
*Invitation*
- Ulysses S Grant
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant_1
1885English
*Invitation*
Speeches_2
Fourth Century B CEnglish
*Baldwin* *Invitation*
Speeches_2
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Invitation*
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois_8
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France_9
1790English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution_7
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Good* *Recommended* *Great* *Telegraph*
- 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 Robert Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population_6
originally anonymously published 1798; revised 1803 and published under the author's nameEnglish
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Good* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith*
- Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward, 2000-1887_4
1888English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Smart*