John Mark Reynolds, ed., The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization [2011]
29 entries: 28 monographical, one otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically
Reynolds takes a fresh approach to canon-forming/ reading-course literature in this book: offering excerpts of the works instead of extensive interpretation or summarizing. The selections reflect Reynolds' status as a religious scholar.
- Homer
Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
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- Plato
Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
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- Aristotle
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*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
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- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
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- Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae_5
The Consolations of Philosophy
written ca. 524Latin
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Reynolds*
- 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
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
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- Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus_10
In Praise of Folly
1511; revisedLatin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Reynolds*
- 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*
- Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
- 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
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- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- René Descartes
Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur_6
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Reynolds* *World* *Educated*
- John Milton
Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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John Locke
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Reynolds*
- 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
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Great* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Isaac Newton
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds*
- John Wesley
Sermons_2
141 sermons; Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Trinity* *Reynolds*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- 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
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Leo Tolstoy
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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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Zur Genealogue der Moral: Eine Streitschrift_5
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887German
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Reynolds*
- G K Chesterton
Orthodoxy_2
1908English
*Powys* *Reynolds*