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Great
Books of the Western World
Source: Great Books of
the Western World, 2nd ed. Ed. by Mortimer J. Adler, Clifton
Fadiman, Philip W. Goetz. (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990).
Homer. Iliad; Odyssey.
Aeschylus. Plays.
Sophocles. Plays.
Euripides. Plays.
Aristophanes. Plays.
Herodotus. History.
Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Plato. Dialogues; Seventh Letter.
Aristotle. Works.
Hippocrates. Hippocratic Writings.
Galen. On the Natural Faculties.
Euclid. Elements.
Archimedes. Works (including The Method).
Nicomachus. Introduction to Arithmetic.
Lucretius. The Way Things Are.
Epictetus. Discourses.
Aurelius. The Meditations.
Plotinus. The Six Enneads.
Virgil. Eclogues; Georgics; Aeneid.
Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
Tacitus. Annals; Histories.
Ptolemy. Almagest.
Copernicus. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
Kepler. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; The Harmonies of the
World.
Augustine. The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine.
Aquinas. Summa Theologica.
Dante. Divine Comedy.
Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde; Canterbury Tales.
Calvin. Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Machiavelli. The Prince.
Hobbes. Leviathan
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Erasmus. Praise of Folly.
Montaigne. Essays.
Shakespeare. The Plays and Sonnets.
Gilbert. On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies.
Galileo. Concerning the Two New Sciences.
Harvey. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the
Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals.
Cervantes. Don Quixote
Bacon. Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
Descartes. Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on
the Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objections Against
the Meditations and Replies; The Geometry.
Spinoza. Ethics.
Milton. English minor poems; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes;
Areopagitica.
Pascal. The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises.
Moliere. The School for Wives; The Critique of the School for
Wives; Tartuffe; Don Juan; The Miser; The Would-Be Gentleman; The
Would-Be Invalid.
Racine. Berenice.
Newton. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics.
Huygens. Treatise on Light.
Locke. A Letter Concerning Toleration; Concerning Civil Government;
Second Essay; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Berkeley. The Principles of Human Knowledge.
Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Swift. Gulliver's Travels.
Voltaire. Candide.
Diderot. Rameau's Nephew.
Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws.
Rousseau. On the Origin of Inequality; On Political Economy;
The Social Contract.
Smith. The Wealth of Nations.
Gibbon. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason; The Critique of Practical
Reason, and Other Ethical Treatises; The Critique of Judgment.
American State Papers: Declaration of Independence; Articles
of Confederation; The Constitution.
Hamilton, Madison, Jay. The Federalist.
Mill. On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism.
Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson.
Lavoisier. Elements of Chemistry.
Faraday. Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Hegel. The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History.
Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling.
Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil.
Tocqueville. Democracy in America.
Goethe. Faust: Parts One and Two.
Balzac. Cousin Bette.
Austen. Emma.
Eliot. Middlemarch.
Dickens. Little Dorrit
Melville. Moby Dick
Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Darwin. The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man.
Marx. Capital (edited by Engels); Manifesto of the Communist
Party.
Tolstoy. War and Peace.
Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov.
Ibsen. A Doll's House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master
Builder.
James. The Principles of Psychology.
Freud. Major Works.
James. Pragmatism.
Bergson. An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Dewey. Experience and Education.
Whitehead. Science and the Modern World.
Russell. The Problems of Philosophy.
Heidegger. What is Metaphysics?.
Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations.
Barth. The Word of God and the Word of Man.
Poincare. Science and Hypothesis.
Planck. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers.
Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics.
Einstein. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.
Eddington. The Expanding Universe.
Bohr. Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections);
Discussion with Einstein, On Epistemological Problems in Atomic
Physics.
Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology.
Heisenberg. Physics and Philosophy.
Schrodinger. What is Life?.
Dobzhansky. Genetics and the Origin of Species.
Waddington. The Nature of Life.
Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class.
Tawney. The Acquisitive Society.
Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Frazer. The Golden Bough (selections).
Weber. Essays in Sociology (selections).
Huizinga. The Waning of the Middle Ages.
Levi-Strauss. Structural Anthropology (selections).
James. The Beast in the Jungle.
Shaw. Saint Joan.
Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
Chekhov. Uncle Vanya.
Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Proust. Swann in Love
Cather. A Lost Lady.
Mann. Death in Venice.
Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Woolf. To the Lighthouse.
Kafka. Metamorphosis.
Lawrence. The Prussian Officer.
Eliot. The Waste Land.
O'Neill. Mourning Becomes Electra.
Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.
Faulkner. A Rose for Emily.
Brecht. Mother Courage and Her Children.
Hemingway. The Short Happy Life of Macomber.
Orwell. Animal Farm.
Beckett. Waiting for Godot.
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