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The Learning Channel, Great Books [1993-2002]

48 entries: 44 monographical, 4 otherwise

Unranked—arranged topically

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.

  1. Thomas Malory

  2. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  3. Mary Shelley

  4. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  5. Charles Darwin

  6. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

  7. Lewis Carroll

  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    1865—English

  9. H G Wells

  10. The War of the Worlds
    originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English

  11. Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)

  12. Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
    The Art of War
    written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B C—Chinese


  13. Mark Twain

  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

  15. Homer

  16. Odýsseia
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek


  17. Plato

  18. Politeia
    The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  19. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  20. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  21. Herman Melville

  22. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  23. Niccolò Machiavelli

  24. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian


  25. Richard Wright

  26. Native Son
    1940—English

  27. Jonathan Swift

  28. 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 1735—English


  29. Joseph Heller

  30. Catch-22
    1961—English

  31. Sigmund Freud

  32. Die Traumdeutung
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German


  33. Miguel de Cervantes

  34. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish


  35. Charles Dickens

  36. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  37. F Scott Fitzgerald

  38. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  39. Henry David Thoreau

  40. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  41. Galileo

  42. Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    1632—Italian


  43. Norman Mailer

  44. The Naked and the Dead
    1948—English

  45. William Golding

  46. Lord of the Flies
    1954—English

  47. Stephen Crane

  48. The Red Badge of Courage
    published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English

  49. Joseph Conrad

  50. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  51. Bram Stoker

  52. Dracula
    1897—English

  53. Jane Austen

  54. Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

  55. Gustave Flaubert

  56. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  57. Fyodor Dostoevsky

  58. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  59. Alex Haley and Malcolm X

  60. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    1965—English

  61. John Steinbeck

  62. The Grapes of Wrath
    1939—English

  63. George Orwell

  64. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  65. Victor Hugo

  66. Les Misérables
    1862—French

  67. Upton Sinclair

  68. The Jungle
    originally published serially Feb.-Nov. 1905 in Appeal to Reason—English

  69. Tom Wolfe

  70. The Right Stuff
    1979—English

  71. Jules Verne
    Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    1870—French


    • Edgar Allan Poe

    Stories
    Nineteenth Century—English

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    • The Book of Genesis

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

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    • The Book of Exodus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    • Dante

  72. Inferno
    part of La Divina Commedia; complete work written ca. 1308-21—Italian

  73. Emily Brontë

  74. Wuthering Heights
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English

  75. Franz Kafka

  76. Die Verwandlung
    The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German


  77. L Frank Baum

  78. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    1900—English

  79. Robert Louis Stevenson

  80. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    1886—English

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  81. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah

  82. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's version—Arabic


  83. Arthur C Clarke

  84. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    1968—English

  85. Ken Kesey

  86. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1962—English

  87. Erich Maria Remarque

  88. Im Westen Nichts Neues
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische Zeitung—German