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Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book [1972]

340 entries: 290 monographical, 50 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically

Mortimer Adler's revised second edition of How to Read a Book [1972], co-written with Van Doren, came after the first version of his famous series, The Great Books of the Western World [1952]; the list at the end of this book overlaps to some extent with those "great books," as well as the Gateway to the Great Books [1963] ten-volume series of shorter pieces and excerpts. Neither the first version of The Great Books nor the Gateway will be used for this project; instead, the final, 1990 version of The Great Books is—especially as it includes many authors or works that had only been in the Gateway. One could ask, though, why How to Read a Book is included. Indeed, there is also a good deal of overlap between the 1972 How to Read a Book and the 1990 Great Books series. However, the former's list is longer (after all, the Great Books books actually provided texts, not just lists, so had to be more discerning to make the set of a manageable size) and deserves its status as relatively-distinct project, especially as the original How to Read a Book was published in 1940 while the Gateway series was constructed specifically to accompany (that is, not overlap with) the original Great Books.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

  2. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  3. Odýsseia

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


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  5. The Bible
    —Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    Aeschylus
    • Plays

    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Sophocles
    • Plays

  6. Fifth Century B C—Greek

  7. Herodotus
    Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B C—Greek


    Euripides
    • Plays

  8. late Fifth Century B C—Greek

  9. Mēdeia

  10. Medea
    431 B C—Greek


  11. Hippolytos

  12. 428 B C—Greek

  13. Bakchai

  14. The Bacchae
    405 B C—Greek


  15. Thucydides

  16. History of the Peloponnesian War
    early Fifth Century B C—Greek

  17. Hippocrates
    Hippocratic Corpus
    late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B C—Greek

    Aristophanes
    • Plays

  18. late Fifth Century B C—Greek

  19. Nephelai

  20. The Clouds
    423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remains—Greek


  21. Ornithes

  22. The Birds
    414 B C—Greek


  23. Bátrachoi
    The Frogs
    405 B C—Greek


    Plato
    • Dialogues

  24. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  25. Politeia

  26. The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  27. Symposium

  28. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  29. Phaedo

  30. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  31. Meno

  32. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  33. Apologia Socratis

  34. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  35. Phaedrus

  36. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  37. Protagoras

  38. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  39. Gorgias

  40. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  41. Sophist

  42. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  43. Theaetetus
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

    Aristotle
    • Selected works

  44. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  45. Organon

  46. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  47. Physics

  48. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  49. Metaphysics

  50. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  51. Perì Psūchês (De Anima) (On the Soul)

  52. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  53. Ethika Nikomacheia

  54. Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  55. Politik

  56. Politics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  57. Rhetoric

  58. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  59. Peri Poiêtikês
    De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


    Epicurus
    • Letter to Herodotus

    part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third Century—Greek

    • Letter to Menoeceus

  60. part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third Century—Greek

  61. Euclid
    Elements
    written ca. 300 B C—Greek

    Archimedes
    • Selected works

  62. Third Century B C—Greek

  63. On the Equilibrium of Planes

  64. Third Century B C—Greek

  65. On Floating Bodies

  66. Third Century B C—Greek

  67. The Sand Reckoner

  68. Third Century B C—Greek

  69. Apollonius of Perga
    On Conic Sections
    Greek

    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • Selected works

    First Century B C—Latin

    • Speeches

  70. First Century B C—Latin

  71. Laelius de Amicitia

  72. written 44 B C—Latin

  73. Cato Major de Senectute

  74. written 44 B C—Latin

  75. Titus Lucretius Carus
    De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B C—Latin


    • Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

    Selected works
    First Century B C—Latin

    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
    • Selected works

  76. First Century B C—Latin

  77. Carmina

  78. Odes
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B C—Latin


  79. Epodon

  80. Epodes
    30 B C—Latin


  81. Ars Poetica

  82. ca. 10-8 B C—Latin

  83. Livy (Titus Livius)
    Ab Urbe Condita Libri
    History of Rome
    First Century B C—Latin


    Ovid
    • Selected works

  84. late First Century B C-early First Century—Latin

  85. Metamorphoseon

  86. Metamorphoses
    8—Latin


    Plutarch
  87. Bìoi Paràllēloi

  88. Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek


  89. Moralia

  90. First Century—Greek

    Cornelius Tacitus
  91. Historiae

  92. written ca. 100-10—Latin

  93. Annales

  94. written First Century—Latin

  95. De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae

  96. Agricola
    written ca. 98—Latin


  97. De Origine et Situ Germanorum

  98. Germania
    written ca. 98—Latin


  99. Nicomachus of Gerasa

  100. Introduction to Arithmetic
    late First-early Second centuries—Greek

    Epictetus
  101. Diatribai

  102. Discourses
    compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek


  103. Enchiridion of Epictetus

  104. compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek

  105. Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
    Almagest
    Second Century—Greek

    Lucian
    • Selected works

  106. Second Century—Greek

  107. Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit

  108. How to Write History
    Second Century—Greek


  109. Verae Historiae

  110. True History
    Second Century—Greek


  111. Vitarum Auctio

  112. The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
    Second Century—Greek


  113. Marcus Aurelius

  114. Ta Eis Heauton
    Meditations
    written 161-80—Greek


  115. Galen

  116. De Naturalibus Facultatibus
    On the Natural Faculties
    First Century—Latin


  117. Plotinus
    Enneads
    Third Century—Greek

    Augustine of Hippo
    • Selected works

  118. late Fourth-early Fifth centuries—Latin

  119. De Magistro

  120. Concerning the Teacher
    389—Latin


  121. Confessionum Libri Tredecim

  122. The Confessions of St. Augustine
    written 397-98—Latin


  123. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos

  124. City of God
    426—Latin


  125. De Doctrina Christiana

  126. On Christian Doctrine
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426—Latin


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  127. La Chanson de Roland

  128. ca. Eleventh Century—French

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  129. Nibelungenlied

  130. ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German

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  131. Njáls Saga

  132. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse


  133. Thomas Aquinas
    Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin


    Dante
    • Selected works

  134. late Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuries—Italian; Latin

  135. La Vita Nuova

  136. 1295—Italian

  137. De Monarchia

  138. written ca. 1308-18—Latin

  139. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian


    Geoffrey Chaucer
    • Selected works

  140. late Fourteenth Century—English

  141. Troilus and Criseyde

  142. written ca. 1380s—English

  143. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

    • Leonardo da Vinci

  144. Notebooks
    late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuries—Italian

    Niccolò Machiavelli
  145. Il Principe

  146. The Prince
    1532—Italian


  147. Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio

  148. 1531—Italian

  149. Desiderius Erasmus

  150. Stultitiae Laus
    In Praise of Folly
    1511; later revised—Latin


  151. Nicolas Copernicus

  152. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543—Latin


  153. Thomas More

  154. Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin


    Martin Luther
  155. An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation

  156. Address to the Christian Nobility
    1520—German


  157. De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium

  158. Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
    1520; German version published the same year—Latin


  159. Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen

  160. The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
    1520—German


  161. Tischreden

  162. Table Talk
    1566—German


  163. François Rabelais

  164. 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, 1564—French

  165. John Calvin

  166. Christianae Religionis Institutio
    Institutes of the Christian Religion
    1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541—Latin


  167. Michel de Montaigne

  168. Les Essais
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French


  169. William Gilbert

  170. De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
    On the Magnet
    1600—Latin


  171. Miguel de Cervantes

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


    Edmund Spenser
  173. Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset

  174. 1596—English

  175. The Faerie Queene

  176. originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English

    Francis Bacon
  177. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed

  178. 1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English

  179. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human

  180. 1605—English

  181. Novum Organum Scientiarium

  182. 1620—English

  183. Nova Atlantis
    1624—English

    • William Shakespeare

  184. Selected works
    late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

    Galileo
  185. Sidereus Nuncius

  186. Starry Messenger
    1610—Latin


  187. Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze

  188. Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
    1638—Italian


    Johannes Kepler
  189. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae

  190. originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621—Latin

  191. Harmonices Mundi

  192. The Harmony of the World
    1619—Latin


    William Harvey
  193. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

  194. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    1628—Latin


  195. Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis

  196. 1649—Latin

  197. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium

  198. 1651—Latin

  199. Thomas Hobbes

  200. Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
    1651—English

    René Descartes
  201. Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii

  202. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Dutch translation, 1684; Latin original, 1701—Latin


  203. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences

  204. Discourse on the Method
    1637—French


  205. La Géométrie

  206. 1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct work—French

  207. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur
    Meditations on First Philosophy
    1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647—Latin


    John Milton
    • Selected works

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • "Minor poems"

  208. Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth Century—English

  209. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England

  210. 1644—English

  211. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

    • 'Samson Agonistes'

    part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671—English

    Molière
    • "Comedies"

  212. Seventeenth Century—French

  213. L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge

  214. The Miser
    1668—French


  215. L'École des Femmes

  216. The School for Wives
    1662—French


  217. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

  218. The Misanthrope
    1666—French


  219. Le Médecin Malgre Lui

  220. 1666—French

  221. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

  222. 1664—French

    Blaise Pascal
  223. Lettres Provinciales

  224. 1656-57—French

  225. Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French


    • "Scientific treatises"

  226. Seventeenth Century—French

  227. Christian Huygens

  228. Traité de la Lumière
    1690—French

  229. Baruch Spinoza

  230. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
    Ethics
    1677—Latin


    John Locke
  231. Epistola de Tolerantia
    1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same year—Latin

    • 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]

  232. complete work originally anonymously published 1689—English

  233. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  234. 1689—English

  235. Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    1693—English

    Jean Racine
    • Plays

  236. Seventeenth Century—French

  237. Andromaque

  238. 1667—French

  239. Phèdre

  240. 1677—French

    Isaac Newton
  241. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

  242. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin


  243. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

  244. 1704; Latin version, 1706—English

    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
  245. Discours de Métaphysique

  246. 1686—French

  247. Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain

  248. 1765—French

  249. La Monadologie

  250. 1714—French

  251. Daniel Defoe

  252. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

    Jonathan Swift
  253. A Tale of a Tub

  254. 1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710—English


  255. Journal to Stella

  256. 1766—English

  257. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships

  258. Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English


  259. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public

  260. originally anonymously published 1729—English

  261. William Congreve

  262. The Way of the World
    1700—English

  263. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

  264. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    1710; revised 1734—English

    Alexander Pope
  265. Essay on Criticism

  266. 1711—English

  267. The Rape of the Lock

  268. originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

  269. Essay on Man

  270. 1734—English

    Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
  271. Lettres Persanes

  272. 1721—French

  273. De l'Esprit des Lois

  274. The Spirit of Laws
    originally anonymously published 1748—French


    Voltaire
  275. Lettres Philosophiques

  276. Letters Concerning the English Nation
    English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778—English


  277. Candide, ou L'Optimisme

  278. 1759—French

  279. Dictionnaire Philosophique

  280. 1764—French

    Henry Fielding
  281. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams

  282. 1742—English

  283. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

  284. 1749—English

    Samuel Johnson
  285. The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

  286. 1749—English

  287. A Dictionary of the English Language

  288. 1755—English

  289. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

  290. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    1759—English


  291. Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

  292. The Lives of the Poets
    published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, entitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English


    David Hume
  293. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects

  294. originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1739; third, 1740—English

  295. Essays, Moral and Political

  296. originally published in two volumes, 1741 and 1742—English

  297. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  298. 1748—English

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  299. Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
    Discourse on Inequality
    1755—French


    • 'Economie Politique'

  300. 1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers—French

  301. Émile, ou de l'Éducation

  302. 1762—French

  303. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

  304. The Social Contract
    1762—French


    Laurence Sterne
  305. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  306. originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English

  307. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

  308. 1768—English

    Adam Smith
  309. The Theory of Moral Sentiments

  310. 1759—English

  311. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  312. 1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English

    Immanuel Kant
  313. Kritik der Reinen Vernunft

  314. Critique of Pure Reason
    1781; revised 1787—German


  315. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

  316. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
    1785; revised 1786—German


  317. Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
    Critique of Practical Reason
    1788—German


    • Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre

  318. The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
    first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797—German


  319. Kritik der Urteilskraft

  320. Critique of Judgment
    1790—German


  321. Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf

  322. Perpetual Peace
    1795; expanded 1796—German


    Edward Gibbon
  323. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  324. originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English

  325. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
    originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896—English

    James Boswell
    • Journals

  326. written 1762-95—English

  327. London Journal

  328. written 1762-63—English

  329. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

  330. 1791—English

  331. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
    Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
    1789—French

    • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

  332. The Federalist Papers
    originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English

  333. John Dickinson et al.

  334. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
    1777—English

  335. James Madison

  336. Constitution for the United States of America
    1787—Emglish

  337. Thomas Jefferson

  338. Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
    The Declaration of Independence
    1776—English


    Jeremy Bentham
  339. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
    1789—English

    • Bentham's Theory of Fictions

  340. 1932; introductory essay and selection of Bentham's writings by C K Ogden—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  341. Faust

  342. 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, 1832—German

  343. Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit

  344. From My Life: Poetry and Truth
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833—German


  345. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

  346. Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur
    1822—French

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  347. Die Phänomenologie des Geistes

  348. Phenomenology of Spirit
    1807—German


  349. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

  350. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
    1820—German


  351. Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German


    William Wordsworth
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • "Lucy poems"

    five poems, four of which ('Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal') were originally published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the other ('I Travelled Among Unknown Men') originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • Sonnets

  352. late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

  353. The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
    1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English

    • William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
    1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'

    originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English

    • 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'

  354. originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English

  355. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

  356. originally published in two volumes, 1817—English

    Jane Austen
  357. Pride and Prejudice

  358. originally anonymously published 1813—English

  359. Emma

  360. originally anonymously published 1815—English

  361. Carl von Clausewitz

  362. Vom Kriege
    On War
    1832—German


    Stendhal
  363. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle

  364. The Red and the Black
    1830—French



  365. Le Chartreuse de Parme

  366. The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French


  367. De l'Amour

  368. 1822—French

  369. Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
    Don Juan
    originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English

    • Arnold Schopenhauer

  370. Studies in Pessimism
    selections from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851—German

    Michael Faraday
  371. The Chemical History of a Candle

  372. edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editions—English

  373. Experimental Researches in Electricity

  374. originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844—English

  375. Charles Lyell
    Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation
    originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833—English

    • Auguste Comte

  376. The Positive Philosophy of August Comte
    1853; abridged version of Cours de Philosophie Positive

    Honoré de Balzac
  377. Le Père Goriot

  378. Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French


  379. Eugénie Grandet

  380. 1833—French

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  381. Representative Men: Seven Lectures
    1850—English

    • Essays

  382. Nineteenth Century—English

  383. Journals

  384. 1960-82—English

  385. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  386. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  387. Alexis de Tocqueville

  388. De la Démocratie en Amérique
    Democracy in America
    originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French


    John Stuart Mill
  389. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

  390. 1843—English

  391. On Liberty

  392. 1859—English

  393. Considerations on Representative Government

  394. 1861—English

  395. Utilitarianism

  396. originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's Magazine—English

  397. The Subjection of Women

  398. 1869—English

  399. Autobiography

  400. 1873—English

    Charles Darwin
  401. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

  402. 1859—English

  403. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

  404. 1871—English

  405. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
    originally published as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887; revised 1958—English

    Charles Dickens
    • Selected works

  406. Nineteenth Century—English

  407. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

  408. The Pickwick Papers
    originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, Boz—English


  409. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)

  410. originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English

  411. Hard Times - For These Times

  412. originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household Words—English

    Claude Bernard
  413. Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale
    1865—French

    Henry David Thoreau
    • 'Civil Disobedience'

  414. originally published 1849 in Aesthetic Papers—English

  415. Walden; or, Life in the Woods

  416. 1854—English

  417. Karl Marx

  418. Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
    originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894—German


  419. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  420. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
    The Communist Manifesto
    1848—German


    George Eliot
  421. Adam Bede

  422. 1859—English

  423. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

  424. originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

    Herman Melville
  425. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

  426. 1851—English

  427. Billy Budd, Foretopman

  428. Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
    1924—English


    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  429. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

  430. Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  431. Idiot

  432. originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  433. Brat'â Karamazovy

  434. The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


    Gustave Flaubert
  435. Madame Bovary

  436. originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  437. Trois Contes
    1877—French

    Henrik Ibsen
    • Plays

  438. Fadiman recommends several overlapping collections; late Nineteenth Century—Norwegian

  439. Hedda Gabler

  440. 1890—Norwegian

    Et Dukkehjem
  441. A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian


  442. Vildanden

  443. The Wild Duck
    1885—Norwegian


    Leo Tolstoy
  444. Voyna i Mir"

  445. War and Peace
    originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian


  446. Anna Karenina

  447. published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  448. Chto Takoye Iskusstvo?
    What Is Art?
    1897—Russian


    • Twenty-Three Tales

  449. 1906; sections Tales for Children, 1872 (three stories); Popular Stories (four stories); A Fairy Tale: The Story of Iván the Fool, 1885; Stories Written to Pictures, 1885 (three stories); Folk-Tales Retold, all 1886 except last, 1891 (seven stories); Adaptations From the French (two stories); Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews, 1903 (three stories)—Russian

    Mark Twain
  450. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  451. 1884—English

  452. No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

  453. 1916; revised 1969—English

    William James
  454. The Principles of Psychology

  455. 1890—English

  456. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902

  457. 1902; edited lectures—English

  458. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
    1907—English

    • Essays in Radical Empiricism

  459. 1912; essays originally published 1904-5—English

    Henry James
  460. The American

  461. originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907—English

  462. The Ambassadors

  463. originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English

    Friedrich Nietzsche
  464. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

  465. Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-5—German


  466. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft

  467. Beyond Good and Evil
    1886—German


  468. Zur Genealogue der Moral

  469. On the Genealogy of Morals
    1887—German


  470. Der Wille zur Mach

  471. The Will to Power
    1901; revised 1906—German


    Henri Poincaré
  472. La Science et l'Hypothèse

  473. 1902—French

  474. La Science et Méthode

  475. 1908—French

    Sigmund Freud
  476. Die Traumdeutung

  477. The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German


  478. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse

  479. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
    1917—German


  480. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur

  481. Civilization and Its Discontents
    1930—German


  482. Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
    New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    1933—German


    George Bernard Shaw
    • "Selected plays and prefaces"

  483. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

  484. Man and Superman

  485. performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915—English

  486. Major Barbara

  487. 1905—English

  488. Caesar and Cleopatra

  489. 1901—English

  490. Pygmalion

  491. 1913—English

  492. Saint Joan

  493. 1923—English

    Max Planck
  494. Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie

  495. 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
    1922—German


  496. Wege zur Physikalischen Erkenntnis: Reden und Vortrage

  497. Where Is Science Going?
    English translation, 1932; German original, 1933—German


  498. Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache

  499. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
    1948—German


    Henri Bergson
  500. Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience

  501. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
    1889—French


  502. Matière et Mémoire

  503. Matter and Memory
    1896—French


  504. L'Evolution Créatrice

  505. Creative Evolution
    1907—French


  506. Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion

  507. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
    1932—French


    John Dewey
  508. How We Think

  509. 1910; revised and retitled How We Think, A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933—English

  510. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

  511. 1916—English

  512. Experience and Nature

  513. 1925—English

  514. Logic, the Theory of Inquiry

  515. 1938—English

    Alfred North Whitehead
  516. Introduction to Mathematics

  517. 1911—English

  518. Science and the Modern World
    1925—English

    • The Aims of Education and Other Essays

  519. 1929; essays published 1912-27—English

  520. Adventures of Ideas

  521. 1933—English

    George Santayana
  522. The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

  523. originally published in five volumes, 1905-06—English

  524. Scepticism and Animal Faith

  525. 1923—English

  526. Persons and Places

  527. 1944—English

  528. Vladimir Lenin

  529. Gosudarstvo i Revolûciâ
    The State and Revolution
    1917—Russian


  530. Marcel Proust

  531. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
    In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
    originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French


    Bertrand Russell
  532. The Problems of Philosophy

  533. 1912—English

  534. The Analysis of Mind

  535. 1921—English

  536. An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth

  537. 1940—English

  538. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

  539. 1948—English

    Thomas Mann
  540. Der Zauberberg

  541. The Magic Mountain
    1924—German


  542. Joseph und Seine Brüder

  543. Joseph and His Brothers
    1943—German


    Albert Einstein
  544. The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University

  545. 1921; expanded, 1945—English

  546. On the Method of Theoretical Physics

  547. 1933; edited Jun. 1933 lecture—English

    Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
  548. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
    1938—English

    James Joyce
    • 'The Dead'

  549. part of Dubliners, 1914—English

  550. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  551. originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English

  552. Ulysses

  553. published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

    Jacques Maritain
  554. Art et Scolastique

  555. 1920—English

  556. Distinguer pour Unir ou Les Degrés du Savoir

  557. 1932—French

  558. Humanisme Intégral: Problemes Temporels et Spirituals d'une Nouvelle Chrétienté

  559. 1936—French

  560. Les Droits de l'Homme et la Loi Naturelle

  561. 1942—French

    Franz Kafka
  562. Der Prozess

  563. The Trial
    1925—German


  564. Das Schloss

  565. The Castle
    1926—German


    Arnold Toynbee
  566. A Study of History

  567. originally published in twelve volumes, 1934-61—English

  568. Civilization on Trial

  569. 1948—English

    Jean-Paul Sartre
  570. La Nausée

  571. Nausea
    1938—French


  572. Huis Clos

  573. No Exit
    1944—French


  574. L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique

  575. Being and Nothingness
    1943—French


    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  576. Rakovyj Korpus

  577. Cancer Ward
    1967—Russian


  578. V Kruge Pervom

  579. In the First Circle
    1968; expanded 1978—Russian