The Learning Channel, Great Books [1993-2002]
48 entries: 44 monographical, 4 otherwise
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The Learning Channel, which no longer exists in its original form, intermittently aired a documentary program, Great Books, in the years, 1993-2002. The Wikipedia page for the series provided much of the information necessary to make this list; the Internet Movie Database, and information from video-cassette and D. V. D. versions of the episodes available for sale, confirm that the Wikipedia listing is complete.
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
originally anonymously published 1818English
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865English
- H G Wells
The War of the Worlds
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's MagazineEnglish
- Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)
Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
The Art of War
written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B CChinese
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
- Homer
Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Plato
Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1850English
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Richard Wright
Native Son
1940English
- 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
- Joseph Heller
Catch-22
1961English
- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1925English
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
- Galileo
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632Italian
- Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
1948English
- William Golding
Lord of the Flies
1954English
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895English
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
- Bram Stoker
Dracula
1897English
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965English
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1939English
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949English
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
1862French
- Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
originally published serially Feb.-Nov. 1905 in Appeal to ReasonEnglish
- Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff
1979English
- Jules Verne
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1870French
Stories
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
Inferno
part of La Divina Commedia; complete work written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
- Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen BlätterGerman
- L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1900English
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1886English
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
- Arthur C Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968English
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1962English
- Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen Nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front
originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische ZeitungGerman