Author | The Great Books of the Western World | The Easton Press | Dr. Eliot |
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Ancient |
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God, Moses, Jesus, Paul et alia | The Bible |
Homer (c. 850 B.C.E. ?) | The Iliad and The Odyssey | The Iliad and The Odyssey |
Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) | | Analects |
Aeschylus (c. 525- c. 456 B.C.E.) | Plays | Plays |
Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 B.C.E.) | plays, including: | Oedipus Rex |
Herodotus (c. 485-425 B.C.E.) | The History | |
Euripides (480 or 484-406 B.C.E.) | plays, including: | plays (see list at left) |
Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 B.C.E.) | The History of the Peloponesian War | |
Hippocrates (c. 460?-377 or 359 B.C.E.) | works, including Aphorisms |
Aristophanes (c. 448- c. 388 B.C.E.) | plays, including | The Birds and The Frogs |
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 B.C.E.) | works, including: | The Republic and Symposium | Apology, Crito, and Phaedo |
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) | works, including: | Politics | |
Euclid (taught c. 300 B.C.E.) | The Elements |
Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.E.) | works |
Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 B.C.E.) | On Conic Sections |
Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.) | | | Letters |
Nicomachus of Gerasa | Introduction to Arithmetic |
Lucretius (c. 99-55 B.C.E.) | On the Nature of Things |
Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.) | The Ecologues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid | The Aeneid | The Aeneid |
Livy (59 B.C.E.-17 C.E.) | | History of Early Rome |
First through Fifth Centuries |
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Epictetus (c. 50-?) | The Discourses | | Golden Sayings |
Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120) | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans |
P. Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-120) | The Annals and The Histories |
Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114) | | | Letters |
Ptolemy (c. 90-168) | The Almagest |
Marcus Aurelius (121-180) | The Meditations | | Meditations |
Galen (c. 130-201) | On the Natural Faculties |
Plotinus (205-270) | The Six Enneads |
Saint Augustine (354-430) | Confessions, The City of God, and On Christian Doctrine | Confessions | Confessions |
Sixth through Tenth Centuries |
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Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries |
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Omar Khayyam (c. 1050-c. 1123) | | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | Summa Theologica |
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | The Divine Comedy | The Divine Comedy | The Divine Comedy |
Boccaccio (1313-1375) | | The Decameron |
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345-1400) | The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida | The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales |
Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471) | | | The Imitation of Christ |
Fifteenth Century |
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Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) | The Prince | The Prince |
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553?) | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
Sixteenth Century |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) | Essays |
William Gilbert (1540-1603) | On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies |
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) | The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha | The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha |
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) | Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, and New Atlantis | Essays | New Atlantis and Essays |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | Works | Works |
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) | | | Doctor Faustus |
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences |
Thomas Middleton (c. 1570-1627) | | | The Changeling (see: The Plays of Thomas Middleton) |
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) | Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and The Harmonies of the World |
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) | | | Volpone |
John Donne (1572?-1631) | | Poems, including Devotions |
William Harvey (1578-1657) | On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood, and On the Generation of Animals |
John Webster (c. 1580-c. 1625) | | | The Duchess of Malfi |
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) & John Fletcher (1579-1625) | | | The Maid's Tragedy |
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) | Leviathan |
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) | | | The Compleat Angler, The Life of John Donne, and The Life of George Herbert |
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) | Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, and The Geometry |
Seventeenth Century |
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Thomas Browne (1605-1682) | | | Religio Medici |
John Milton (1608-1674) | minor poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica | Paradise Lost | Areopagitica and Tractate on Education |
Moliere (1622-1673) | | Plays |
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | works, including: Pensees and Provincial Letters |
John Bunyan (1628-1688) | | Pilgrim's Progress | Pilgrim's Progress |
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1693) | Treatise on Light |
John Dryden (1631-1700) | | | All for Love |
John Locke (1632-1704) | essays, including |
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) | Ethics |
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and Optics |
William Penn (1644-1718) | | | Fruits of Solitude |
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) | | Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe |
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver's Travels |
George Berkeley (1685-1753) | The Principles of Human Knowledge A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge |
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | The Spirit of Laws |
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) | | Candide |
Eighteenth Century |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling |
David Hume (1711-1776) | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract | Confessions |
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. |
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | | Tristam Shandy |
John Woolmann (1720-1772) | | | Journal of John Woolman |
Adam Smith(1723-1790) | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, and other works |
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) | | She Stoops to Conquer |
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | | Rights of Man |
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
James Boswell (1740-1795) | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) | Elements of Chemistry |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) | Faust | Faust | Faust |
Alexander Hamilton(1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), and John Jay (1745-1829) | The Federalist | The Federalist |
Robert Burns (1759-1796) | | | Tam O'Shanter |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) | The Philosophy of Right and The Philosophy of History [Also: Phenomenology of Mind] |
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) | | Ivanhoe and Talisman |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1772-1837) | Analytical Theory of Heat |
Jane Austen (1775-1817) | | Pride and Prejudice |
American State Papers | The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and The Constitution |
Washington Irving (1783-1859) | | Alhambra |
Stendhal (1783-1842) | | Red and the Black |
The Brothers Grimm (Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, 1785-1863, and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, 1786-1859) | | Grimm's Fairy Tales |
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | | The Last of the Mohicans |
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) | Experimental Researches in Electricity |
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) | | | The Cenci |
John Keats (1795-1821) | | Poetical Works |
Nineteenth Century |
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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) | | The Three Musketeers [Available on the Web is The Man in the Iron Mask.] |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | | Essays | Essays and English Traits |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | | The Scarlet Letter |
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) | |
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) | | | Becket |
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) | The Origin of Species [Also available on the Web is The Voyage of the Beagle.] | The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man | The Origin of Species |
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | | Tales of Mystery and Imagination [See Selected Works of Poe.] |
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) | | Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin |
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863) | | Vanity Fair |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) | | David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Short Stories, and A Tale of Two Cities [Also available by Dickens on the Web are: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth.] |
Robert Browning (1812-1889) | | poems, several of which are in Dramatic Lyrics [Also see: Introduction to Robert Browning.] | A Blot in the 'Scutcheon |
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) | | Jane Eyre |
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | | Walden |
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) | | Fathers and Sons |
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) | | Wuthering Heights |
Karl Marx (1818-1883) | Capital |
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) | Manifesto of the Communist Party |
Walt Whitman (1819-1891) | | Leaves of Grass |
George Eliot (1819-1880) | | The Mill on the Floss [Also available on the Web are Middlemarch: a study of provincial life and Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.] |
Herman Melville (1819-1891) | Moby Dick; or, the Whale | Moby Dick; or, the Whale |
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) | | Flowers of Evil |
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) | | Madame Bovary |
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) | The Brothers Karamzov | The Brothers Karamzov and Crime and Punishment |
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) | War and Peace | Anna Karenina and War and Peace |
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) | | plays, including Peer Gynt and The Wild Duck |
Jules Verne (1828-1905) | | Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea |
Sir Richard Burton (1829-1890) | Tales from the Arabian Nights | | Tales from the Arabian Nights |
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) | | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Also available on the Web are: |
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | | Little Women |
Mark Twain (1835-1910) | | Huckleberry Finn |
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) | | The Way of All Flesh |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | | Jude the Obscure and Return of the Native |
William James (1842-1910) | The Principles of Psychology |
Henry James (1843-1916) | | Portrait of a Lady |
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) | | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island |
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) | | Tales |
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | | Short Stories [Also available on the Web are The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Poems.] |
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis, Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Sexual Enlightenment of Children, The Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy, and other essays |
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) | | plays |
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | | Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim [Also available on the Web are: The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer, and The Shadow Line.] |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) | | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Anton Chekkov (1860-1904) | | plays |
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | | The Jungle Book |
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | | poems |
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | | The Red Badge of Courage |
Jack London (1876-1916) | | Sea Wolf |
James Joyce (1882-1941) | | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) | | Brave New World |
Twentieth Century |
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | | Of Mice and Men |