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
Politics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Plato
Symposium
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions
1782French
- John Stuart Mill
Autobiography
1873English
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
1918English
- Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
1722English
- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
Du Côté de Chez Swann
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
- Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
ca. 1606-08English
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Laokoon Oder Über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie
Laocoon: or, The Limits of Poetry and Painting
1766German
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
Essays in Criticism
previously published but uncollected in book form; originally published in two volumes: First Series, 1865; Second Series, 1888English
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
1678English
Notebooks
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesItalian
- Cornelius Tacitus
Historiae
written ca. 100-10Latin
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
- Aeschylus
Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
Poems
First Century B CLatin
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet
1602English
- 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
- Henrik Ibsen
Vildanden
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
Ethics
1677Latin
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
Fables
ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
- Jean de la Fontaine
Fables
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694French
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
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, 1564French
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759—French
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865English
- Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
stories originally published serially Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the StrandEnglish
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
- 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
1774English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
Delineations of American Scenery and Character
fifty-nine essays originally published in the first-third volumes of Ornithological Biography, 1831-39English
- William Hickling Prescott
The History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843English
- Ulysses S Grant
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant
1885English
Speeches
Fourth Century B CEnglish
Speeches
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790English
- Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792English
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
The Social Contract
1762French
- Thomas Robert Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population
originally anonymously published 1798; revised 1803 and published under the author's nameEnglish
- Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
1888English