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Floyd Zulli, The World's Great Classics: An Invitation to Great Reading [1969]

56 entries: 47 monographical, 9 otherwise

Unranked—arranged 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.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

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

  3. Odýsseia

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


  5. Plato

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


    Aristotle
  7. Politik

  8. Politics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  9. Peri Poiêtikês>

  10. De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  11. Plutarch
    Bìoi Paràllēloi
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek


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    • Classical Literature of Asia

  12. 1969; edited by John D Yohannan; part of The World's Great Classics—varied

  13. Dante

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


  15. Geoffrey Chaucer

  16. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

  17. Niccolò Machiavelli

  18. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian


  19. Baldassare Castiglione

  20. Il Cortegiano
    1528—Italian

  21. Benvenuto Cellini

  22. Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
    Autobiography
    written 1558-62—Italian


  23. Michel de Montaigne

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


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


    • William Shakespeare

  26. Complete works
    late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

  27. Blaise Pascal

  28. Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French


    John Milton
  29. Paradise Lost

  30. 1667; revised 1674—English

  31. Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes

  32. 1671—English

  33. John Bunyan

  34. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

  35. Daniel Defoe

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

  37. Jonathan Swift

  38. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English


  39. Henry Fielding

  40. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
    1742—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  41. Faust

  42. 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

  43. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers

  44. The Sorrows of Young Werther
    1774; revised 1787—German


  45. Benjamin Franklin

  46. 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, 1868—English

  47. James Boswell

  48. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

  49. Jane Austen

  50. Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

  51. Walter Scott

  52. Ivanhoe
    originally anonymously published 1819—English

  53. Honoré de Balzac
    Le Père Goriot
    Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French


    Edgar Allan Poe
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  54. Essays
    Nineteenth Century—English

  55. Charlotte Brontë

  56. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  57. Emily Brontë

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

  59. William Makepeace Thackeray

  60. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  61. The Scarlet Letter

  62. 1850—English

  63. The House of Seven Gables

  64. 1851—English

  65. Herman Melville

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

  67. Henry David Thoreau

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

  69. Gustave Flaubert

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

  71. Charles Dickens

  72. A Tale of Two Cities
    originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  73. Idiot

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

  75. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

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


  77. Wilkie Collins

  78. The Moonstone
    originally published serially 1868 in All the Year Round—English

  79. Leo Tolstoy

  80. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877#151;Russian

  81. Henry James

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

  83. Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

    • Guy de Maupassant

  84. Stories
    Nineteenth Century—French

  85. Stephen Crane

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

  87. Samuel Butler
    The Way of All Flesh
    1903; written 1873-74—English

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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 Classics—English

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    • The Ground on Which We Stand

  88. 1969; edited by Lillian W Kay; part of The World's Great Classics; includes The Declaration of Independence; the Constitution; the Gettysburg Address—English

  89. Thomas Jefferson

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


  91. James Madison

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

  93. Abraham Lincoln

  94. Gettysburg Address
    1865—English