Ten Years of Reading in the

Great Books of the Western World

 

FIRST YEAR (889 pages, or 81 pages per month)

January:

1.     PLATO:  Apology, Crito
Vol. 7, pp. 200-219 (20 pages)

2.     ARISTOPHANES:  Clouds, Lysistrata
Vol. 5, pp. 488-506, 583-599 (19 + 17 = 36 pages)

3.     PLATO:  Republic [Book I-II]
Vol. 7, pp. 295-324 (20 pages)

February:

4.     ARISTOTLE:  Ethics [Book I]
Vol. 9, pp. 339-348 (20 pages)

5.     ARISTOTLE:  Politics [Book I]
Vol. 9, pp. 445-455 (11 pages)

6.     PLUTARCH:  The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans [Lycurgus, Numa Pompilius, Lycurgus and Numa Compared, Alexander, Caesar]
Vol. 14, pp. 32-64, 540-604 (33 + 65 = 98 pages)

March:

7.     NEW TESTAMENT:  [The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Acts of the Apostles]
(32 + 30 = 62 pages)

April:

8.     ST. AUGUSTINE:  Confessions [Book I-VIII]
Vol. 18, pp. 1-61 (61 pages)

9.     MACHIAVELLI:  The Prince
Vol. 23, pp. 1-37 (37 pages)

May:

10. RABELAIS:  Gargantua and Pantagruel [Book I-II]
Vol. 24, pp. 1-126 (126 pages)

June:

11. MONTAIGNE:  Essays [Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received; Of Pedantry; Of the Education of Children; That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals; That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Upon Some Verses of Virgil]
Vol. 25, pp. 42-51, 55-82, 91-98, 115-125, 406-434 (10 + 28 + 8 + 11 + 29 = 86 pages)

12. SHAKESPEARE:  Hamlet
Vol. 27, pp. 29-72 (44 pages)

July:

13. LOCKE:  Concerning Civil Government [Second Essay]
Vol. 35, pp. 25-89 (65 pages)

14. ROUSSEAU:  The Social Contract [Book I-II]
Vol. 38, pp. 387-406 (20 pages)

August:

15. GIBBON:  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch. 15-16]
Vol. 40, pp. 179-234 (56 pages)

September:

16. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FEDERALIST [Numbers 1-10, 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71]
Vol. 43, pp. 1-3, 11-20, 29-53, 62-66, 103-105, 153-156, 162-165, 205-216 (3 + 10 + 25 + 5 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 12 = 66 pages)

October:

17. SMITH:  The Wealth of Nations [Introduction—Book I, Ch. 9]
Vol. 39, pp. 1-41 (41 pages)

November:

18. MARX—ENGELS:  Manifesto of the Communist Party
Vol. 50, pp. 415-434 (20 pages)

 

SECOND YEAR (1063 pages, or 97 pages per month)

January:

1.     HOMER:  The Iliad
Vol. 4, pp. 3-179 (177 pages)

February:

2.     AESCHYLUS:  Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Vol. 5, pp. 52-91 (40 pages)

3.     SOPHOCLES:  Oedipus the King, Antigone
Vol. 5, pp. 99-113, 131-142 (15 + 13 = 28 pages)

March:

4.     HERODOTUS:  The History [Book I-II]
Vol. 6, pp. 1-88 (88 pages)

April:

5.     PLATO:  Meno
Vol. 7, pp. 174-190 (17 pages)

6.     ARISTOTLE:  Poetics
Vol. 9, pp. 681-699 (19 pages)

7.     ARISTOTLE:  Ethics [Book II; Book III, Ch. 5-12; Book VI, Ch. 8-13]
Vol. 9, pp. 348-355, 359-366, 390-394 (8 + 7 + 5 = 20 pages)

May:

8.     NICOMACHUS:  Introduction to Arithmetic
Vol. 11, pp. 811-848 (38 pages)

9.     LUCRETIUS:  On the Nature of Things [Book I-IV]
Vol. 12, pp. 1-61 (61 pages)

June:

10. MARCUS AURELIUS:  Meditations
Vol. 12, pp. 253-310 (58 pages)

11. HOBBES:  Leviathan [Part I]
Vol. 23, pp. 45-98 (54 pages)

July – August:

12. MILTON: Areopagitica
Vol. 32, pp. 381-412 (32 pages)

13. PASCAL:  Pensées [Numbers 72, 82-83, 100, 128, 131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 273, 277, 282, 289, 298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416, 418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571, 586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644, 673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737, 760, 768, 792-793]
Vol. 33, pp. 181-184, 186-189, 191-192, 195-200, 203, 205-210, 212-218, 222-225, 227, 229-232, 237-251, 255, 259, 264, 275, 277-287, 290-291, 296-302, 318, 321-322, 326-327 (less than 83 pages)

14. PASCAL:  Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle
Vol. 33, pp. 447-473 (27 pages)

September – October:

15. SWIFT:  Gulliver’s Travels
Vol. 36, pp. xv-184 (approx. 185 pages)

November:

16. ROUSSEAU:  A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Vol. 38, pp. 323-366 (44 pages)

17. KANT:  Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Vol. 42, pp. 253-287 (35 pages)

December:

18. MILL:  On Liberty
Vol. 43, pp. 267-323 (57 pages)

 

THIRD YEAR (1344 pages, or 122 pages per month)

January:

1.     AESCHYLUS:  Prometheus Bound
Vol. 5, pp. 40-51 (12 pages)

2.     HERODOTUS:  The History [Book VII-IX]
Vol. 6, pp. 214-314 (101 pages)

February:

3.     THUCYDIDES:  The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book I-II, V]
Vol. 6, pp. 349-416, 482-508 (68 + 27 = 95 pages)

4.     PLATO:  Statesman
Vol. 7, pp. 580-608 (29 pages)

March:

5.     ARISTOTLE:  On Interpretation [Ch. 1-10]
Vol. 8, pp. 25-31 (7 pages)

6.     ARISTOTLE:  Politics [Book III-V]
Vol. 9, pp. 471-519 (49 pages)

7.     EUCLID:  Elements [Book I]
Vol. 11, pp. 1-29 (29 pages)

April:

8.     TACITUS:  The Annals
Vol. 15, pp. 1-184 (184 pages)

May-June:

9.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 90-97]
Vol. 20, pp. 205-239 (35 pages)

10. CHAUCER:  Troilus and Cressida
Vol. 22, pp. 1-155 (155 pages)

July-August:

11. SHAKESPEARE:  Macbeth
Vol. 27, pp. 284-310 (27 pages)

12. MILTON:  Paradise Lost
Vol. 32, pp. 93-333 (241 pages)

September:

13. LOCKE:  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book III, Ch. 1-3, 9-11]
Vol. 35, pp. 251-260, 285-306 (10 + 22 = 32 pages)

14. KANT:  Science of Right
Vol. 42, pp. 397-458 (62 pages)

October:

15. MILL:  Representative Government [Ch. 1-6]
Vol. 43, pp. 327-370 (44 pages)

16. LAVOISIER:  Elements of Chemistry [Part I]
Vol. 45, pp. 1-52 (52 pages)

November:

17. DOSTOEVSKY:  The Brothers Karamazov [Part I-II]
Vol. 52, pp. 1-170 (170 pages)

December:

18. FREUD:  The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
Vol. 54, pp. 1-20 (20 pages)

 

FOURTH YEAR (1448 pages, or 132 per month)

January:

1.     EURIPIDES:  Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, The Bacchantes
Vol. 5, pp. 212-236, 270-281, 340-352 (25 + 12 + 13 = 50 pages)

2.     PLATO:  Republic [Book VI-VII]
Vol. 7, pp. 373-401 (29 pages)

3.     PLATO:  Theaetetus
Vol. 7, pp. 512-550 (39 pages)

February:

4.     ARISTOTLE:  Physics [Book IV, Ch. 1-5, 10-14]
Vol. 8, pp. 287-292, 297-304 (6 + 8 = 14 pages)

5.     ARISTOTLE:  Metaphysics [Book I, Ch. 1-2; Book IV; Book VI, Ch. 1; Book XI, Ch. 1-4]
Vol. 8, pp. 499-501, 522-532, 547-548, 587-590 (2 + 3 + 2 + 4 = 11 pages)

6.     ST. AUGUSTINE:  Confessions [Book IX-XIII]
Vol. 18, pp. 61-125 (65 pages)

March:

7.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 16-17, 84-88]
Vol. 19, pp. 94-104, 440-473 (11 + 34 = 45 pages)

8.     MONTAIGNE:  Apology for Raymond de Sebonde
Vol. 25, pp. 208-294 (87 pages)

9.     GALILEO:  Two New Sciences [Third Day, through Scholium of Theorem II]
Vol. 28, pp. 197-210 (14 pages)

April:

10. BACON:  Novum Organum [Preface, Book I]
Vol. 30, pp. 105-136 (32 pages)

11. DESCARTES:  Discourse on the Method
Vol. 31, pp. 41-67 (27 pages)

May:

12. NEWTON:  Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Prefaces, Definitions, Axioms, General Scholium]
Vol. 34, pp. 1-24, 369-372 (24 + 4 = 28 pages)

13. LOCKE:  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book II]
Vol. 35, pp. 121-251 (131 pages)

June:

14. HUME:  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Vol. 35, pp. 450-509 (60 pages)

15. KANT:  Critique of Pure Reason [Prefaces, Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic]
Vol. 43, pp. 1-33 (33 pages)

July-August:

16. MELVILLE:  Moby Dick
Vol. 48 (420 pages)

September-October:

17. DOSTOEVSKY:  The Brothers Karamazov [Part III-IV]
Vol. 52, pp. 171-412 (242 pages)

November:

18. JAMES:  Principles of Psychology [Ch. XV, XX]
Vol. 53, pp. 396-420, 540-635 (25 + 96 = 121 pages)

December:

Month off!

 

FIFTH YEAR (1566 pages, or 143 per month)

January:

1.     PLATO:  Phaedo
Vol. 7, pp. 220-251 (32 pages)

2.     ARISTOTLE:  Categories
Vol. 8, pp. 5-21 (17 pages)

3.     ARISTOTLE:  On the Soul [Book II, Ch. 1-3; Book III]
Vol. 8, pp. 642-645, 656-668 (4 + 13 = 17 pages)

4.     HIPPOCRATES:  The Oath; On Ancient Medicine; On Airs, Waters, and Places; The Book of Prognostics; Of the Epidemics; The Law; On the Sacred Disease
Vol. 10, pp. xiii-26, 44-63, 144, 154-160 (approx. 27 + 20 + 1 + 7 = approx. 55 pages)

February-March:

5.     GALEN:  On the Natural Faculties
Vol. 10, pp. 167-215 (49 pages)

6.     VIRGIL:  The Aeneid
Vol. 13, pp. 103-379 (277 pages)

April:

7.     PTOLEMY:  The Almagest [Book I, Ch. 1-8]
COPERNICUS:  Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres [Introduction—Book I-Ch. 11]
KEPLER:  Epitome of Copernican Astronomy [Book IV, Part II, Ch. 1-2]
Vol. 16, pp. 5-14, 505-532, 887-895 (10 + 28 + 9 = 47 pages)

8.     PLOTINUS:  Sixth Ennead
Vol. 17, pp. 252-360 (109 pages)

May:

9.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 75-76, 78-79]
Vol. 19, pp. 378-399, 407-427 (12 + 21 = 33 pages)

10. DANTE:  The Divine Comedy [Hell]
Vol. 21, pp. 1-52 (52 pages)

11. HARVEY:  The Motion of the Heart and Blood
Vol. 28, pp. 267-304 (38 pages)

June:

12. CERVANTES:  Don Quixote [Part I]
Vol. 29, pp. xi-204 (approx. 206 pages)

July:

13. SPINOZA:  Ethics [Part II]
Vol. 31, pp. 373-394 (22 pages)

14. BERKELEY:  The Principles of Human Knowledge
Vol. 35, pp. 403-444 (42 pages)

August:

15. KANT:  Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Analytic]
Vol. 43, pp. 34-108 (75 pages)

September:

16. DARWIN:  The Origin of Species [Introduction—Ch. 6, Ch. 15]
Vol. 49, pp. 6-98, 230-243 (93 + 14 = 107 pages)

October-November:

17. TOLSTOY:  War and Peace [Book I-VIII]
Vol. 51, pp. 1-341 (341 pages)

December:

18. JAMES:  Principles of Psychology [Ch. XXVIII]
Vol. 53, pp. 851-897 (47 pages)

 

SIXTH YEAR (1671 pages, or 152 pages per month)

January:

1.     OLD TESTAMENT [Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy]
(47 + 39 + 35 = 121 pages)

February:

2.     HOMER:  The Odyssey
Vol. 4, pp. 183-322 (140 pages)

March:

3.     PLATO:  Laws [Book X]
Vol. 7, pp. 757-771 (15 pages)

4.     ARISTOTLE:  Metaphysics [Book XII]
Vol. 8, pp. 598-606 (9 pages)

5.     TACITUS:  The Histories
Vol. 15, pp. 189-302 (114 pages)

April:

6.     PLOTINUS:  Fifth Ennead
Vol. 17, pp. 208-251 (44 pages)

7.     ST. AUGUSTINE:  The City of God [Book XV-XVIII]
Vol. 18, pp. 397-507 (111 pages)

May:

8.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 1-13]
Vol. 19, p. 3-75 (73 pages)

9.     DANTE:  The Divine Comedy [Purgatory]
Vol. 21, pp. 53-105 (53 pages)

June:

10. SHAKESPEARE:  Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
Vol. 26, pp. 149-169, 199-228, 597-626; Vol. 27, pp. 1-28 (21 + 30 + 30 + 28 = 109 pages)

11. SPINOZA:  Ethics [Part I]
Vol. 31, pp. 355-372 (18 pages)

12. MILTON:  Samson Agonistes
Vol. 32, pp. 337-378 (42 pages)

July:

13. PASCAL:  The Provincial Letters
Vol. 33, pp. 1-167 (167 pages)

August:

14. LOCKE:  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book IV]
Vol. 35, pp. 307-395 (89 pages)

15. GIBBON:  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch. 1-5, General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West]
Vol. 40, pp. 1-51, 630-634 (51 + 5 = 56 pages)

September:

16. KANT:  Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Dialectic]
Vol. 42, pp. 108-209 (102 pages)

17. HEGEL:  Philosophy of History [Introduction]
Vol. 46, pp. 153-206 (54 pages)

October-November:

18. TOLSTOY:  War and Peace [Book IX-XV, Epilogues]
Vol. 51, pp. 342-696 (355 pages)

December:

Month off!

 

SEVENTH YEAR (1200 pages, or 109 pages per month)

January:

1.     OLD TESTAMENT [Job, Isaiah, Amos]
(33 + 63 + 7 = 103 pages)

February:

2.     PLATO:  Symposium
Vol. 7, pp. 149-173 (25 pages)

3.     PLATO:  Philebus
Vol. 7, pp. 609-639 (31 pages)

4.     ARISTOTLE:  Ethics [Book VIII-X]
Vol. 9, pp. 406-436 (31 pages)

5.     ARCHIMEDES:  Measurement of a Circle, The Equilibrium of Planes [Book I], The Sand-Recokoner, On Floating Bodies [Book I]
Vol. 11, pp. 447-451, 502-509, 520-526, 538-542 (5 + 8 + 7 + 5 = 25 pages)

March:

6.     EPICTETUS:  Discourses
Vol. 12, pp. 105-245 (141 pages)

April:

7.     PLOTINUS:  First Ennead
Vol. 17, pp. 1-34 (34 pages)

8.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 1-5]
Vol. 19, p. 609-643 (35 pages)

9.     DANTE:  The Divine Comedy [Paradise]
Vol. 21, pp. 106-157 (52 pages)

May-June:

10. RABELAIS:  Gargantual and Pantagruel [Book III-IV]
Vol. 24, pp. 127-312 (186 pages)

July:

11. SHAKESPEARE:  Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
Vol. 26, pp. 568-596; Vol. 27, pp. 311-392 (29 + 82 = 111 pages)

August:

12. GALILEO:  Two New Sciences [First Day]
Vol. 28, pp. 131-177 (47 pages)

13. SPINOZA:  Ethics [Part IV-V]
Vol. 31, pp. 422-463 (42 pages)

September:

14. NEWTON:  Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Book III, Rules], Optics [Book I, Part I; Book III, Queries]
Vol. 34, pp. 270-271, 379-423, 516-544 (2 + 45 + 29 = 76 pages)

15. HUYGENS:  Treatise on Light
Vol. 34, pp. 551-619 (69 pages)

October:

16. KANT:  Critique of Practical Reason
Vol. 42, pp. 291-361 (71 pages)

November:

17. KANT:  Critique of Judgement [Critique of Aesthetic Judegment]
Vol. 42, pp. 461-549 (89 pages)

December:

18. MILL:  Utilitarianism
Vol. 43, pp. 445-476 (32 pages)

 

EIGHTH YEAR (1352 pages, or 123 pages per month)

January:

1.     ARISTOPHANES:  Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus
Vol. 5, pp. 600-642 (43 pages)

2.     PLATO:  Gorgias
Vol. 7, pp. 252-294 (43 pages)

3.     ARISTOTLE:  Ethics [Book V]
Vol. 9, pp. 376-387 (12 pages)

February:

4.     ARISTOTLE:  Rhetoric [Book I, Ch. 1—Book II, Ch. 1; Book II, Ch. 20—Book III, Ch. 1; Book III, Ch. 13-19]
Vol. 9, pp. 593-623, 640-654, 667-675 (31 + 15 + 9 = 55 pages)

5.     ST. AUGUSTINE:  On Christian Doctrine
Vol. 19, pp. 619-698 (80 pages)

March:

6.     HOBBES:  Leviathan [Part II]
Vol. 23, pp. 99-164 (66 pages)

7.     SHAKESPEARE:  Othello, King Lear
Vol. 27, pp. 205-283 (79 pages)

April:

8.     BACON:  Advancement of Learning [Book I, Ch. 1—Book II, Ch. 11]
Vol. 30, pp. 1-55 (55 pages)

9.     DESCARTES:  Meditations on the First Philosophy
Vol. 31, pp. 69-103 (35 pages)

May:

10. SPINOZA:  Ethics [Part III]
Vol. 31, pp. 395-422 (28 pages)

11. LOCKE:  A Letter Concerning Toleration
Vol. 35, pp. 1-22 (22 pages)

June – July:

12. STERNE:  Tristam Shandy
Vol. 36, pp. 190-556 (367 pages)

August:

13. ROUSSEAU:  A Discourse on Political Economy
Vol. 38, pp. 367-385 (19 pages)

14. ADAM SMITH:  The Wealth of Nations [Book II]
Vol. 39, pp. 117-162 (46 pages)

15. BOSWELL:  The Life of Samuel Johnson
Vol. 44, pp. 49-55, 104-139, 159-173, 247-262, 281-322 (7 + 36 + 15 + 16 + 42 = 74 pages)

September:

16. MARX:  Capital [Prefaces, Part I-II]
Vol. 50, pp. 1-84 (84 pages)

October:

17. GOETHE:  Faust [Part I]
Vol. 47, pp. 1-114 (114 pages)

November:

18. JAMES:  Principles of Psychology [Ch. VIII-X]
Vol. 53, pp. 130-259 (130 pages)

December:

Month off!

 

NINTH YEAR (Est. 1392 pages, or 127 pages per month)

January:

1.     PLATO:  The Sophist
Vol. 7, pp. 551-579 (29 pages)

2.     THUCYDIDES:  The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book VII-VIII]
Vol. 6, pp. 538-593 (56 pages)

3.     ARISTOTLE:  Politics [Book VII-VIII]
Vol. 9, pp. 527-548 (22 pages)

February:

4.     APOLLONIUS:  On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42-55]
Vol. 11, pp. 603-624, 780-797 (22 + 18 = 40 pages)

5.     NEW TESTAMENT [The Gospel According to St. John, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians]
(25 + 14 + 12 = 51 pages)

March:

6.     ST. AUGUSTINE:  The City of God [Book V, XIX]
Vol. 18, pp. 207-230, 507-530 (24 + 24 = 48 pages)

7.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part II-II, QQ 1-7]
Vol. 20, pp. 380-416 (37 pages)

April:

8.     GILBERT:  On the Loadstone
Vol. 28, pp. 1-121 (121 pages)

May:

9.     DESCARTES:  Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Vol. 31, pp. 1-40 (40 pages)

10. DESCARTES:  Geometry
Vol. 31, pp. 295-353 (59 pages)

11. PASCAL:  The Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration
Vol. 33, pp. 382-389, 430-446 (8 + 17 = 25 pages)

June-July:

12. FIELDING:  Tom Jones
Vol. 37 (405 pages)

August:

13. MONTESQUIEU:  The Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]
Vol. 38, pp. 1-33, 51-58, 68-96 (33 + 8 + 29 = 70 pages)

14. FOURIER:  Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1-2]
Vol. 45, pp. 169-251 (83 pages)

September:

15. FARADAY:  Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter
Vol. 45, pp. 265-302, 850-855 (38 + 6 = 44 pages)

16. HEGEL:  Philosophy of Right [Part III]
Vol. 46, pp. 55-114 (60 pages)

October-November:

17. MARX:  Capital [Part III-IV]
Vol. 50, pp. 85-250 (166 pages)

18. FREUD:  Civilization and Its Discontents
Vol. 54, pp. 767-802 (36 pages)

December:

Month off!

 

TENTH YEAR (1667 pages, or 152 pages per month)

January:

1.     SOPHOCLES:  Ajax, Electra
Vol. 5, pp. 143-169 (27 pages)

2.     PLATO:  Timaeus
Vol. 7, pp. 442-477 (36 pages)

3.     ARISTOTLE:  On the Parts of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1—Book II, Ch. 1], On the Generation of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-23]
Vol. 9, pp. 161-171, 255-256, 261-266, 268-271 (11 + 2 + 6 + 4 = 23 pages)

4.     LUCRETIUS:  On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI]
Vol. 12, pp. 61-97 (37 pages)

February:

5.     VIRGIL:  The Eclogues, The Georgics
Vol. 13, pp. 3-99 (97 pages)

6.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 65-74]
Vol. 19, pp. 339-377 (39 pages)

7.     ST. THOMAS AQUINAS:  Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 90-102]
Vol. 19, pp. 480-527 (48 pages)

March:

8.     CHAUCER:  Canterbury Tales [Prologue, Knight's Tale, Miller's Prologue and Tale, Reeve's Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Friar's Prologue and Tale, Summoner's Prologue and Tale, Pardoner's Prologue and Tale]
Vol. 22, pp. 159-232, 256-295, 372-382 (34 + 40 + 11 = 85 pages)

April:

9.     SHAKESPEARE:  The Tragedy of King Richard II, The First Part of King Henry IV, The Second Part of King Henry IV, The Life of King Henry V
Vol. 26, pp. 320-351, 434-502, 532-567 (32 + 69 + 36 = 137 pages)

May:

10. HARVEY:  On the Generation of Animals [Introduction—Exercise 62]
Vol. 28, pp. 331-470 (140 pages)

June:

11. CERVANTES:  Don Quixote [Part II]
Vol. 29, pp. 203-429 (227 pages)

July:

12. KANT:  Critique of Judgement [Critique of Teleological Judgement]
Vol. 42, pp. 550-613 (64 pages)

13. BOSWELL:  The Life of Samuel Johnson
Vol. 44, pp. 354-364, 373-384, 391-407, 498-515, 584-587 (11 + 12 + 17 + 18 + 4 = 62 pages)

August:

14. GOETHE:  Faust [Part II]
Vol. 47, pp. 115-294 (180 pages)

September:

15. DARWIN:  The Descent of Man [Part I; Part III, Ch. 21]
Vol. 49, pp. 255-363, 590-597 (109 + 8 = 117 pages)

October:

16. MARX:  Capital [Part VII-VIII]
Vol. 50, pp. 279-383 (105 pages)

17. JAMES:  Principles of Psychology [Ch. I, V-VII]
Vol. 53, pp. 1-7, 84-129 (7 + 46 = 53 pages)

November:

18. FREUD:  A General Introduction to Psycho-analysis
Vol. 54, pp. 449-638 (190 pages)

December:

Month off!