Floyd Zulli, The World's Great Classics: An Invitation to Great Reading [1969]
56 entries: 47 monographical, 9 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically within chronological sections
The World's Great Classics is a series of books comparable to Charles W. Eliot's Harvard Classics and Mortimer Adler's Great Books of the Western World. A separate book, An Invitation to Great Reading, serves as an introduction to the series, featuring an opening essay and a reader's guide followed by short essays about each of the volumes.
- Thomas Bulfinch
The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes
1855English
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Plato
Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
Aristotle
- Politik
Politics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Peri Poiêtikês>
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
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- Classical Literature of Asia
1969; edited by John D Yohannan; part of The World's Great Classicsvaried
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478English
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Baldassare Castiglione
Il Cortegiano
1528Italian
- Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
Autobiography
written 1558-62Italian
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
Complete works
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
1671English
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
1678English
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
- Henry Fielding
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
1742English
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust
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
- Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787German
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
- Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
originally anonymously published 1819English
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
Edgar Allan Poe
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Essays
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
1850English
- The House of Seven Gables
1851English
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year RoundEnglish
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Idiot
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
originally published serially 1868 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877#151;Russian
- Henry James
The American
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907English
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
Stories
Nineteenth CenturyFrench
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895English
- Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh
1903; written 1873-74English
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- Great Poetry of the English Language: Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson
1969; edited by Henry B Weisberg; part of The World's Great ClassicsEnglish
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- The Ground on Which We Stand
1969; edited by Lillian W Kay; part of The World's Great Classics; includes The Declaration of Independence; the Constitution; the Gettysburg AddressEnglish
- Thomas Jefferson
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
The Declaration of Independence
1776English
- James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America
1787Emglish
- Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
1865English