Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book [1972]
340 entries: 290 monographical, 50 otherwise
Unrankedarranged 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 isespecially 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
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- The Bible_17
Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin BlayneyHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World*
Aeschylus
Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *France* *Read*
Sophocles
Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *France* *Read*
- 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*
Euripides
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Rexroth* *Good* *Read*
- Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Hippolytos _11
428 B CGreek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- Hippocrates
Hippocratic Corpus_4
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith*
Aristophanes
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *France* *Good* *Read*
- Nephelai_11
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Bátrachoi_10
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
*Classics* *Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
Plato
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *World*
- Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Graphic*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Meno_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Phaedrus_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Adler* *Read*
- Protagoras_5
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Gorgias_2
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- Sophist_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Theaetetus_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
Aristotle
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Read* *SeymourSmith*
- Organon_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- Physics_5
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Educated*
- Metaphysics_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler* *World*
- Perì Psūchês (De Anima) (On the Soul)_2
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- 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*
- Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*
- Rhetoric_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- 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*
Epicurus
part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
*Read*
part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
*Read*
- Euclid
Elements_6
written ca. 300 B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
Archimedes
Third Century B CGreek
*Read*
- On the Equilibrium of Planes_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- On Floating Bodies_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- The Sand Reckoner_3
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections_1
Greek
*Read*
Marcus Tullius Cicero
First Century B CLatin
*Read* *Kanigel* *Trinity*
First Century B CLatin
*Baldwin* *Downs* *Read* *Magill*
- Laelius de Amicitia_5
written 44 B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read*
- Cato Major de Senectute_6
written 44 B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward*
- 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*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Selected works_2
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Read*
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
First Century B CLatin
*Read*
- Carmina_11
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B.C; fourth, 13 B.CLatin
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Taylor* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- Epodon_6
Epodes
30 B CLatin
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Ars Poetica_5
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Trinity*
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri_6
History of Rome
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity* *World*
Ovid
late First Century B C-early First CenturyLatin
*Read*
- Metamorphoseon_14
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Charles Martin's English translationLatin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Dirda* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
Plutarch
- Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Educated*
- Moralia_2
First CenturyGreek
*Read* *Bloom*
Cornelius Tacitus
- Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10Latin
*Invitation* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Annales_11
written First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity*
- De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae_3
Agricola
written ca. 98Latin
*Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum_5
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic_2
late First-early Second centuriesGreek
*Read* *Adler*
Epictetus
- Diatribai_9
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Enchiridion of Epictetus_3
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read*
- Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
Almagest_4
Second CenturyGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Great*
Lucian
Second CenturyGreek
*Read* *Trinity*
- Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit_2
How to Write History
Second CenturyGreek
*Classics* *Read*
- Verae Historiae_6
True History
Second CenturyGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Vitarum Auctio_2
The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
Second CenturyGreek
*Classics* *Read*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- Galen
De Naturalibus Facultatibus_3
On the Natural Faculties
First CenturyLatin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- Plotinus
Enneads_6
Third CenturyGreek
*Read* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *World*
Augustine of Hippo
late Fourth-early Fifth centuriesLatin
*Read*
- De Magistro_1
Concerning the Teacher
389Latin
*Read*
- Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos_9
City of God
426Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- De Doctrina Christiana_3
On Christian Doctrine
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*
--
- La Chanson de Roland_9
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
--
- Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*
--
- Njáls Saga_5
ca. Thirteenth CenturyNorse
*Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Norway* *Dirda*
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds* *World*
Dante
late Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuriesItalian; Latin
*Read*
- La Vita Nuova_6
1295Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
- De Monarchia_2
written ca. 1308-18Latin
*Classics* *Read*
- La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
Geoffrey Chaucer
late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Read*
- Troilus and Criseyde_8
written ca. 1380sEnglish
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Notebooks_5
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesItalian
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*
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*
- Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio_4
1531Italian
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus_10
In Praise of Folly
1511; later revisedLatin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Reynolds*
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_6
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
Martin Luther
- An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation_5
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *World*
- De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium_5
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same yearLatin
*Classics* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *World*
- Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen_4
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *World*
- Tischreden_1
Table Talk
1566German
*Read*
- 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
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
- John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio_7
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Reynolds* *World*
- 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*
- William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure_4
On the Magnet
1600Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- 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*
Edmund Spenser
- Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset_1
1596English
*Read*
- The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
Francis Bacon
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human_6
1605English
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Nova Atlantis_5
1624English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler*
Selected works_4
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Read*
Galileo
- Sidereus Nuncius_2
Starry Messenger
1610Latin
*Classics* *Read*
- Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze_4
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
Johannes Kepler
- Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae_2
originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621Latin
*Read* *Van Doren*
- Harmonices Mundi_3
The Harmony of the World
1619Latin
*Downs* *Read* *SeymourSmith*
William Harvey
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus_6
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
*Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor*
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis_2
1649Latin
*Read* *Adler*
- Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium_2
1651Latin
*Read* *Adler*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
René Descartes
- Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii_2
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Dutch translation, 1684; Latin original, 1701Latin
*Read* *Adler*
- 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*
- La Géométrie_2
1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct workFrench
*Read* *Adler*
- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur_6
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
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John Milton
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
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Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
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- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
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- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
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part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671English
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Molière
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*Read* *Good*
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge_9
The Miser
1668French
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- L'École des Femmes_6
The School for Wives
1662French
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- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666French
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- Le Médecin Malgre Lui_5
1666French
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- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
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Blaise Pascal
- Lettres Provinciales_6
1656-57French
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- Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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Seventeenth CenturyFrench
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- Christian Huygens
Traité de la Lumière_3
1690French
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- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677Latin
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John Locke
- Epistola de Tolerantia_4
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same yearLatin
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- 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]_8
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
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- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689English
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- Some Thoughts Concerning Education_3
1693English
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Jean Racine
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*France* *Read*
- Andromaque_6
1667—French
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- Phèdre_11
1677French
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Isaac Newton
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
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- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light_3
1704; Latin version, 1706English
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Discours de Métaphysique_1
1686French
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- Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain_2
1765French
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- La Monadologie_2
1714French
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- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
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Jonathan Swift
- A Tale of a Tub_4
1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710English
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- Journal to Stella_1
1766English
*Read*
- Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
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- 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_7
originally anonymously published 1729English
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- William Congreve
The Way of the World_6
1700English
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- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734English
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Alexander Pope
- Essay on Criticism_4
1711English
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- The Rape of the Lock_7
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
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- Essay on Man_5
1734English
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Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Lettres Persanes_3
1721French
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- De l'Esprit des Lois_8
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
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Voltaire
- Lettres Philosophiques_5
Letters Concerning the English Nation
English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778English
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- Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
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- Dictionnaire Philosophique_4
1764French
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Henry Fielding
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams_6
1742English
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- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
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Samuel Johnson
- The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated_3
1749—English
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- A Dictionary of the English Language_6
1755English
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- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale_7
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759English
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- Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets_6
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, 1781English
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David Hume
- A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects_3
originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1739; third, 1740English
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- Essays, Moral and Political_1
originally published in two volumes, 1741 and 1742English
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- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes_7
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
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1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des MétiersFrench
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- Émile, ou de l'Éducation_6
1762French
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- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762French
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Laurence Sterne
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
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- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy_6
1768English
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Adam Smith
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments_3
1759English
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- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
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Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_12
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
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- Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten_4
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786German
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- Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft_4
Critique of Practical Reason
1788German
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- Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre_3
The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797German
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- Kritik der Urteilskraft_3
Critique of Judgment
1790German
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- Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf_4
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796German
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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
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- Memoirs of My Life and Writings_3
originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896English
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James Boswell
written 1762-95English
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- London Journal_5
written 1762-63English
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- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
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- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes_4
1789French
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- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers_11
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
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- John Dickinson et al.
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union_2
1777English
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- James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America_4
1787Emglish
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- Thomas Jefferson
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America_4
The Declaration of Independence
1776English
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Jeremy Bentham
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation_4
1789English
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- Bentham's Theory of Fictions_1
1932; introductory essay and selection of Bentham's writings by C K OgdenEnglish
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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
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- Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit_5
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833German
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- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur_1
1822French
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Die Phänomenologie des Geistes_4
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807German
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- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts_5
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820German
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- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem_6
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
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William Wordsworth
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
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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, 1807English
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late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Read*
- The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem_9
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
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- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems_7
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802English
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
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- 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'_4
originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816English
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- 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'_7
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817English
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- Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions_7
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
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Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
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- Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815English
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- Carl von Clausewitz
Vom Kriege_4
On War
1832German
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Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
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- Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
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- De l'Amour_2
1822French
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- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
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Studies in Pessimism_1
selections from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851German
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Michael Faraday
- The Chemical History of a Candle_2
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 editionsEnglish
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- Experimental Researches in Electricity_3
originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844English
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- 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_2
originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833English
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The Positive Philosophy of August Comte_1
1853; abridged version of Cours de Philosophie Positive
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Honoré de Balzac
- Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
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- Eugénie Grandet_7
1833French
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Representative Men: Seven Lectures_3
1850English
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Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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- Journals_2
1960-82English
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
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- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
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John Stuart Mill
- A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive_2
1843English
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- On Liberty_16
1859English
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- Considerations on Representative Government_3
1861English
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- Utilitarianism_5
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
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- The Subjection of Women_2
1869English
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- Autobiography_7
1873English
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Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
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- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex_4
1871English
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- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882_1
originally published as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887; revised 1958English
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Charles Dickens
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
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- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
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- Hard Times - For These Times_7
originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household WordsEnglish
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Claude Bernard
- Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale_2
1865French
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Henry David Thoreau
originally published 1849 in Aesthetic PapersEnglish
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- Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
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- Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
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- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
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George Eliot
- Adam Bede _7
1859English
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- Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
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Herman Melville
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
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- Billy Budd, Foretopman_9
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924English
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
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- Idiot_11
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
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- Trois Contes_4
1877French
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Henrik Ibsen
Fadiman recommends several overlapping collections; late Nineteenth CenturyNorwegian
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- Hedda Gabler_10
1890Norwegian
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Et Dukkehjem_13
- A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
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- Vildanden_8
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
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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
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- Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
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- Chto Takoye Iskusstvo?_1
What Is Art?
1897Russian
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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
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Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger_2
1916; revised 1969English
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William James
- The Principles of Psychology_6
1890English
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- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902_6
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
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- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking_8
1907English
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- Essays in Radical Empiricism_1
1912; essays originally published 1904-5English
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Henry James
- The American_4
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907English
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- The Ambassadors_12
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
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Friedrich Nietzsche
- Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-5German
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- Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft_8
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
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- Zur Genealogue der Moral_5
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887German
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- Der Wille zur Mach_3
The Will to Power
1901; revised 1906German
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Henri Poincaré
- La Science et l'Hypothèse_2
1902French
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- La Science et Méthode_1
1908French
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Sigmund Freud
- Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
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- Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917German
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- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur_7
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
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- Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933German
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George Bernard Shaw
- "Selected plays and prefaces"_2
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
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- Man and Superman_7
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915English
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- Major Barbara_4
1905English
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- Caesar and Cleopatra_3
1901English
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- Pygmalion_7
1913English
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- Saint Joan_8
1923English
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Max Planck
- Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie_2
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
1922German
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- Wege zur Physikalischen Erkenntnis: Reden und Vortrage_1
Where Is Science Going?
English translation, 1932; German original, 1933German
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- Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache_2
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1948German
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Henri Bergson
- Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience_1
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
1889French
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- Matière et Mémoire_1
Matter and Memory
1896French
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- L'Evolution Créatrice_3
Creative Evolution
1907French
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- Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion_2
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
1932French
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John Dewey
- How We Think_1
1910; revised and retitled How We Think, A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933English
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- Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education_1
1916English
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- Experience and Nature_1
1925English
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- Logic, the Theory of Inquiry_1
1938English
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Introduction to Mathematics_3
1911English
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- Science and the Modern World_2
1925English
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- The Aims of Education and Other Essays_1
1929; essays published 1912-27English
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- Adventures of Ideas_1
1933English
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George Santayana
- The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress_1
originally published in five volumes, 1905-06English
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- Scepticism and Animal Faith_2
1923English
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- Persons and Places_1
1944English
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- Vladimir Lenin
Gosudarstvo i Revolûciâ_2
The State and Revolution
1917Russian
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- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu_17
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
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Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy_2
1912English
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- The Analysis of Mind_2
1921English
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- An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth_2
1940English
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- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits_2
1948English
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Thomas Mann
- Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
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- Joseph und Seine Brüder_3
Joseph and His Brothers
1943German
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Albert Einstein
- The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University_3
1921; expanded, 1945English
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- On the Method of Theoretical Physics_1
1933; edited Jun. 1933 lectureEnglish
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Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
- The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta_1
1938English
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James Joyce
part of Dubliners, 1914English
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- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
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- Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
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Jacques Maritain
- Art et Scolastique_1
1920English
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- Distinguer pour Unir ou Les Degrés du Savoir_1
1932French
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- Humanisme Intégral: Problemes Temporels et Spirituals d'une Nouvelle Chrétienté_1
1936French
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- Les Droits de l'Homme et la Loi Naturelle_1
1942French
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Franz Kafka
- Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
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- Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926German
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Arnold Toynbee
- A Study of History_1
originally published in twelve volumes, 1934-61English
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- Civilization on Trial_1
1948English
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Jean-Paul Sartre
- La Nausée_7
Nausea
1938French
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- Huis Clos_6
No Exit
1944French
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- L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique_5
Being and Nothingness
1943French
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Rakovyj Korpus_3
Cancer Ward
1967Russian
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- V Kruge Pervom_3
In the First Circle
1968; expanded 1978Russian
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