THE BEGINNING
1. Homer - The Iliad
THE MIDDLE AGES
13. St. Augustine - Confessions
PLAYS
16. William Shakespeare - Complete Works
NARRATIVES
21. John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
PHILOSPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, POLITCS, ESSAYS
54. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
POETRY
72. Poets of the English Language - edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
81. Will Durant - The Story of Civilizations
SOME CONTEMPORARIES
88. Robert Frost - Collected Poems
MISCELLANEOUS
96. E.H. Gombrich - The Story of Art
2. Homer - The Odyssey
3. Herodotus - The Histories
4. Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
5. Plato - Dialogues, The Republic, Protagoras and Meno
6. Aristotle - Ethics, Politics
7. Aeschylus - The Oresteian Thrilogy
8. Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
9. Euripides - Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, Electra, Bacchae
10. Lucretius - Of the Nature of Things
11. Virgil - The Aeneid
12. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
14. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
15. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
17. Molière - Selected Plays
18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
19. Henrik Ibsen - Selected Plays
20. George Bernard Shaw - Selected Plays and Prefaces
22. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
23. Johnathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Meditations Upon a Broomstick, Resolutions When I Come to be Old.
24. Laurence Sterne - Tristam Shandy
25. Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
26. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Emma
27. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
28. Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit
29. William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
30. George Elliot - The Mill on the Floss
31. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
32. Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
33. Joseph Conrad - Nostromo, Heart of Darkness
34. D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
35. James Joyce - Ulysses
36. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
37. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
38. Voltaire - Candide and Other Works
39. Stendahl - The Red and the Black
40. Honoré de Balzac - Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet
41. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
42. Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
43. Edgar Allen Poe - Short Stories and Other Works
44. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales
45. Herman Melville - Moby Dick
46. Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
47. Henry James - The Ambassadors
48. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote
49. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls
50. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
51. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski - Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
52. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
53. Sigrid Undset - Kistrin Lavransdatter
55. John Locke - Second Treatise on Government
56. David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
57. John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
58. Alfred North Whitehead - Science and the Modern World
59. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
60. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Selected Other Works
61. Sigmund Freud - The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis, The Interpretation of Dreams
62. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
63. Michel Eyguem de Montaigne - Selected Essays
64. René Descartes - Discourse on Method
65. Blaise Pascal - Thoughts (Pensées)
66. Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
67. Henry Davis Thoreau - Walden, Civil Disobedience
68. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Selected Works
69. William James - The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism and Four Essays From the Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experiences.
70. John Dewey - Human Nature and Conflict
71. George Santayana - Skepticism and Animal Faith, Selected Other Works
73. An Anthology of World Poetry - Edited by Mark Van Doren
74. John Donne - Selected Works
75. John Milton - Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
76. William Blake - Selected Works
77. William Wordsworth - The Prelude; Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800
78. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
79. William Butler Yeats - Collected Poems, Collected Plays, The Autobiography
80. Walt Whitman - Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Prefae, 1855, To First Issue of "Leaves of Grass", A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
82. George Macaulay Trevelyan - History of England
83. Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager - A Short History of The United States
84. Basic Documents in America History - edited by Richard B. Morris
85. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions
86. James Boswell - Life of Samuel Jackson
87. Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
89. William Faulkner - The Sounds and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
90. Ernest Hemingway - Short Stories
91. W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
92. E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
93. T.S. Eliot - The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
94. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Collected Essays
95. André Malraux - Man's Fate
97. Alfred North Whitehead - An Introduction to Mathematics
98. Lincoln Barnett - The Universe and Dr. Einstein
99. Mortimer J. Adler - How to Read a Book
100. The American Treasury, 1455-1955, selected, arranged and edited by Clifton Fadiman.
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