Mortimer Adler, ed., The Great Books of the Western World [1990]
332 entries: 301 monographical, 31 otherwise
Unrankedarranged roughly chronologically
The Great Books of the Western World's first edition, 1952, is more common and well-known than the 1990 second. However, our Guidelines mandate the latest or last version of a list. Note that Hutchins had passed away in 1977; while he was still credited for his work on the project, he of course was not directly involved in any changes made for the second edition.
The first and second volumes of the 1990 set are Adler's Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas. This is not considered part of the list, though Charles Van Doren includes it in his Joy of Reading. The 1952 set had Robert Hutchins' The Great Conversation as the first volume, followed by the two volumes of the Syntopicon; it is included in the '90 set, not numbered.
The Comparison of Two Editions of the Great Books of the Western World found at the (defunct) web site, Great Books of the Western World does not include Racine's Phèdre in the 1990 set. Other tables of contents, such as at Wikipedia, do include it, and I have personally checked a copy of the set held by the Emory University libraries to confirm that that play is included.
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Aeschylus
- Hiketides_3
The Suppliants
ca. 470 B CGreek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Persai_3
The Persians
472 B CGreek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Hepta epi Thēbas_4
Seven Against Thebes
467 B CGreek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Aias_5
Ajaxca. 450-430 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Ēlektra_4
Electra
ca. 410-400 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Trachiniai_4
The Trachiniae; The Women of Trachis
ca. 450-420 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Philoktētēs_5
Philocetes
409 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
Euripides
- Rhēsos_2
Rhesus
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler*
- Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Hippolytos _11
428 B CGreek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Alkēstis_6
Alcestis
438 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Hērakleidai_2
Heracleidae; Herakles' Children
c. 430 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler*
- Hiketides _2
The Suppliants
423 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler*
- Trōiades _8
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Iōn _5
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Helenē _3
412 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Andromache _4
ca. 428-25 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Ēlektra_7
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Hēkabē_3
Hecuba
written ca. 424 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* * Bloom*
- Hēraklēs Mainomenos_3
Herakles
ca. 416 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Phoinissai_2
Phoenician Women
written c. 408Greek
*Ward* *Adler*
- Orestēs_3
408 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Iphigeneia en Taurois_4
Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Iphigeneia en Aulidi_4
Iphigeneia in Aulis
405 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation*
- Kyklōps_4
Cyclops
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Clasics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*
Aristophanes
- Akharneîs_5
The Acharnians
425 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Hippeîs_5
The Knights
424 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Nephelai_11
The Clouds
423 B C; revised, 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Sphēkes_4
The Wasps
422 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- Eirēnē_4
Peace
421 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Bátrachoi_10
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
*Classics* *Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Thesmophoriazousai_5
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *List* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Ekklesiazousai_4
The Assemblywomen; A Parliament of Women
391 B CGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- Ploutos_3
Wealth
408 B C; revised 388 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
*Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
Plato
- Charmides_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Lysis_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Laches_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Protagoras_5
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Euthydemus_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Cratylus_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Phaedrus_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Adler* *Read*
- Ion_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Graphic*
- Meno_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Euthyphro_6
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Crito_13
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Gorgias_2
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Timaeus_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Adler*
- Critias_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Parmenides_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Theaetetus_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Sophist_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Statesman_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Philebus_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Laws_2
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Adler*
- The Seventh Letter_1
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
Aristotle
- Organon_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- Physics_5
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Educated*
- On the Heavens_2
written 350 B CGreek
*Downs* *Adler*
- On Generation and Corruption_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Meteorology_2
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Adler*
- Metaphysics_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler* *World*
- Perì Psūchês_2
De Anima; On the Soul
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- Parva Naturalia_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- History of Animals_2
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Adler*
- On the Parts of Animals_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On the Motion of Animals_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On the Gait of Animals_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On the Generation of Animals_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds*
- Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*
- Athenaion Politeia_1
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- Rhetoric_3
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Educated*
- Hippocrates
Hippocratic Corpus_4
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith*
- Galen
De Naturalibus Facultatibus_3
On the Natural Faculties
First CenturyLatin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*
- Euclid
Elements_6
written ca. 300 B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
Archimedes
- On the Sphere and Cylinder_2
circa 225 B CGreek
*Downs* *Adler*
- On the Measurement of a Circle_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Van Doren* *Adler*
- On Conoids and Spheroids_1
Third Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On Spirals_1
Third Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On the Equilibrium of Planes_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- The Sand Reckoner_3
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- The Quadrature of the Parabola_1
Third Century B CGreek
*Adler*
- On Floating Bodies_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- The Book of Lemmas_1
apocyrphal; attributed to Archimedes by Thabit Ibn QurraGreek
*Adler*
- The Method of Mechanical Theorems_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Van Doren* *Adler*
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic_2
late First-early Second centuriesGreek
*Read* *Adler*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
Epictetus
- Diatribai_9
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- Plotinus
Enneads_6
Third CenturyGreek
*Read* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *World*
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
- Eclogues_4
First Century B CLatin
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Georgics_4
First Century B CLatin
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Educated*
Cornelius Tacitus
- Annales_11
written First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity*
- Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10Latin
*Invitation* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Almagest_4
Second CenturyGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Great*
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_6
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
Johannes Kepler
- Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae [excerpted]_1
Books IV and V; complete work published in three volumes, 1617, 1620, and 1621Latin
*Adler*
- Harmonices Mundi [excerpted]_1
The Harmony of the World
Book V; complete work published 1619Latin
*Adler*
Augustine of Hippo
- Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos_9
City of God
426Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- De Doctrina Christiana_3
On Christian Doctrine
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*
Summa Theologiae [excerpted]_1
Summa Theologica
first part; selections from second and third partsLatin
*Adler*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Troilus and Criseyde_8
written ca. 1380sEnglish
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Christianae Religionis Institutio [excerpted]_1
Institutes of the Christian Religion
complete work published 1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541Latin
*Adler*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
- Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus_10
In Praise of Folly
1511; later revisedLatin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Reynolds*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
William Shakespeare
- The First Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Second Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Third Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Richard III_11
ca. 1592-7English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- The Comedy of Errors_8
1594English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Titus Andronicus_5
1594English
*Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Taming of the Shrew_9
ca. 1592-94English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona_7
ca. 1590-94English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Love's Labour Lost_6
1598English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Romeo and Juliet_13
ca. 1591-97English
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- Richard II_9
1597English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- A Midsummer Night's Dream_14
ca. 1595-1600English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- King John_5
ca. 1598English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World*
- The Merchant of Venice_11
ca. 1596-98English
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- The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597English
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- The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- Henry V_9
1599English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *O'Hear* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Julius Caesar_9
1599English
*Durant* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- As You Like It_12
1603English
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- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will_10
1602English
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- Hamlet_27
1602English
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor_6
ca. 1597-1602English
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- Troilus and Cressida_7
ca. 1602-09English
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- All's Well That Ends Well_8
ca. 1606-08English
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- Measure for Measure_10
1604English
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- Othello_14
ca. 1604English
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- King Lear_21
1606English
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- Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
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- Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606-08English
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- Coriolanus_8
written ca. 1605-08English
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- Timon of Athens_7
written ca. 1607English
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- Pericles, Prince of Tyre_4
ca. 1606-08English
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- Cymbeline_6
written ca. 1609English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Winter's Tale_10
ca. 1611English
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- The Tempest_20
1611English
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- Henry VIII_6
ca. 1613English
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- Sonnets_8
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure_4
On the Magnet
1600Latin
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- Galileo
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze_4
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
William Harvey
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus_6
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
*Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor*
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis_2
1649Latin
*Read* *Adler*
- Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium_2
1651Latin
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- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
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Francis Bacon
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human_6
1605English
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- Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
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- Nova Atlantis_5
1624English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler*
René Descartes
- Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii_2
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Dutch translation, 1684; Latin original, 1701Latin
*Read* *Adler*
- Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
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- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur_6
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
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- La Géométrie_2
1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct workFrench
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- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677Latin
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John Milton
Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
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- Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin_1
1645English
*Adler*
originally entitled 'An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare', published as part of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, 1632English
*Adler*
- Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions_1
1673English
*Adler*
originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694English
*Adler*
originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694English
*Adler*
originally published as part of The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. Or, A Short Narrative of the Main Passages of His Earthly Pilgrimage; Together With a True Account of His Purely Christian, Peaceable, Spiritual, Gos-pel-principles, Doctrine, Life, and Way of Worshipping God, for Which He Suffered Contradiction and Reproach From All Sorts of Sinners, and at Last, a Violent Death, June 14, 1662English
*Adler*
originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694English
*Adler*
- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
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part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671English
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- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
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Blaise Pascal
- Lettres Provinciales_6
1656-57French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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- "Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum"_1
French
*Adler*
- Experiences Nouvelles Touchant le Vide_1
1647French
*Adler*
- Récit de la Grande Expérience de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs_1
1663French
*Adler*
- Traites de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air_1
1663French
*Adler*
- 'De l'Esprit Géométrique'_1
French
*Adler*
- Traité du Triangle Arithmétique Avec Quelques Autres Petits Traités sur la Même Matière_1
1665French
*Adler*
- "Correspondence With Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities"_1
French
*Adler*
Molière
- L'École des Femmes_6
The School for Wives
1662French
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- La Critique de l'École des Femmes_1
1663French
*Adler*
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
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- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre_6
1660French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge_9
The Miser
1668French
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- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme_8
1670French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Le Malade Imaginaire_6
The Imaginary Invalid
1673French
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Jean Racine
- Bérénice_2
1670French
*Classics* *Adler*
- Phèdre_11
1677French
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Isaac Newton
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
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- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light_3
1704; Latin version, 1706English
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- Christian Huygens
Traité de la Lumière_3
1690French
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
John Locke
- Epistola de Tolerantia_4
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same yearLatin
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
Second Treatise [second part of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government]_8
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
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- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689English
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- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734English
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- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
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- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
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- Denis Diderot
Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde_7
German traslation, 1805; original, 1823French
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- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois_8
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes_7
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity* *Dirda*
1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des MétiersFrench
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- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762French
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- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
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- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_23
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
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Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_12
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
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- Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten_4
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786German
*Eliot* *Read* *Adler* *Great*
- Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft_4
Critique of Practical Reason
1788German
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- "Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics With a Note on Conscience"_1
German
*Adler*
- "General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals"_1
German
*Adler*
- Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre_3
The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797German
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- Kritik der Urteilskraft_3
Critique of Judgment
1790German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*
- Thomas Jefferson
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America_4
The Declaration of Independence
1776English
*Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- John Dickinson et al.
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union_2
1777English
*Read* *Adler*
- James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America_4
1787Emglish
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- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers_11
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
*Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great*
John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty_16
1859English
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- Considerations on Representative Government_3
1861English
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- Utilitarianism_5
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
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- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
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- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes_4
1789French
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- Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity_3
originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844English
*Read* *Downs* *Adler*
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts_5
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem_6
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
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- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven_4
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843Danish
*Adler* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft_8
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
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- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
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, 1832German
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- Honoré de Balzac
La Cousine Bette_7
originally published in Le Constitutionnel Oct.-Dec. 1846French
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- Jane Austen
Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815English
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- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
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- Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit_5
originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857English
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- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
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- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
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- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex_4
1871English
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Karl Marx
- Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
*Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *World*
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
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- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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Henrik Ibsen
- Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
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- Vildanden_8
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
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- Hedda Gabler_10
1890Norwegian
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- Bygmester Solness_5
The Master Builder
1892Norwegian
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- William James
The Principles of Psychology_6
1890English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
Sigmund Freud
- Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalytischen Bewegung_2
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
1914German
*Adler* *Fadiman*
- Selected Papers on Hysteria [excerpted]_1
first-tenth chapters; first-fourth from Studien Über Hysterie, published 1895, and the first of which co-written with Josef Breuer; fifth-tenth from Sammlung Kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre, published in two volumes, 1906 and 1909German
*Adler*
- Über Infantile Sexualtheorien_1
On the Sexual Theories of Children
1908German
*Adler*
- Die Zukunftigen Chancen der Psychoanalytischen Therapie_1
The Future Prospects of Psycho-analytic Therapy
1910German
*Adler*
- Über "Wilde" Psychoanalyse_1
"Wild" Psycho-Analysis
1910German
*Adler*
- Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
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- Zur Einführung des Narzißmus_1
On Narcissism
1914German
*Adler*
- Triebe und Triebschicksale_1
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
1915German
*Adler*
- Die Verdrängung_1
Repression
1915German
*Adler*
- Das Unbewusste_1
The Unconscious
1915German
*Adler*
- Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Good*
- Jenseits des Lustprinzips_3
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1920German
*Classics* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse_1
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
1921German
*Adler*
- Das Ich und das Es_2
The Ego and the Id
1923German
*Adler* *Fadiman*
- Hemmung, Symptom und Angst_2
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
1926German
*Classics* *Adler*
- Zeitgemäßes Über Krieg und Tod_1
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
1915German
*Adler*
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur_7
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- William James
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking_8
1907English
*Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *World*
- Henri Bergson
Introduction à la Métaphysique_2
Introduction to Metaphysics
originally published in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903French
*Classics* *Adler*
- John Dewey
Experience and Education_1
1938English
*Adler*
- Alfred North Whitehead
Science and the Modern World_2
1925English
*Read* *Adler*
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy_2
1912English
*Read* *Adler*
- Martin Heidegger
Was Ist Metaphysik?_1
edited 1929 lectureGerman
*Adler*
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophische Untersuchungen_3
Philosophical Investigations
1953German
*List* *Adler* *SeymourSmith*
- Karl Barth
Das Word Gottes und die Theologie_1
The Word of God and the Word of Man
1928German
*Adler*
- Henri Poincaré
La Science et l'Hypothèse_2
1902French
*Read* *Adler*
- Max Planck
Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache_2
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1948German
*Read* *Adler*
- Alfred North Whitehead
Introduction to Mathematics_3
1911English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Albert Einstein
Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich_5
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922German
*Downs* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor* *Educated*
- Arthur Eddington
The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931_1
1933English
*Adler*
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature [excerpted]_1
essaysGerman
*Adler*
- 'Discussions With Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics'_1
German
*Adler*
- G H Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology_2
1940English
*Adler* *Kanigel*
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science_1
1958; edited 1955-56 lecturesEnglish
*Adler*
- Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life?_2
1944; edited 1943 lecturesEnglish
*Adler* *Educated*
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin of Species_1
1937English
*Adler*
- Conrad Hal Wallington
The Nature of Life_1
1961English
*Adler*
- Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions_2
1899English
*Downs* *Adler*
- R H Tawney
The Acquisitive Society_1
1920English
*Adler*
- John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money_3
1936English
*Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor*
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion [excerpted]_1
originally entitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, published in two volumes, 1890; expanded and retitled 1900, in three volumes; expanded 1906-15, in 12 volumes; supplemental volume added for 1937 edition; distinct abridged versions, 1922, 1959, and 1994; Durant and the Jasper Lee Company list the 1922 abridged edition, while Good Reading lists the 1959English
*Adler*
Essays in Sociology [excerpted]_1
1946German
*Adler*
- Johan Huizinga
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen_1
The Waning of the Middle Ages; The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919German
*Adler*
Anthropologie Structurale [excerpted]_1
1958French
*Adler*
- Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle_4
originally published in The Better Sort, 1903English
*Powys* *Adler* *Foundation* *Dirda*
- George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan_8
1923English
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- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
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- Anton Chekhov
Dâdâ Vanâ_10
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
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- Luigi Pirandello
Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore_4
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921Italian
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
1913; first of seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu; complete work originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
*Invitation* *Adler* *Great*
- Willa Cather
A Lost Lady_3
1923English
*Adler* *Bloom* *Dirda*
- Thomas Mann
Der Tod in Venedig_8
Death in Venice
1911German
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
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- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 English
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- Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung_14
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translationGerman
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D H Lawrence
included in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914English
*Adler* *Recommended*
T S Eliot
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
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- Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra_4
1931English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
William Faulkner
originally published Apr. 1930 in ForumEnglish
*Adler* *Recommended*
- Bertolt Brecht
Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder_3
Mother Courage
1941German
*Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
Ernest Hemingway
- 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'_2
originally published Sep. 1936 in Cosmopolitan; included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938English
*Adler* *Newman*
- George Orwell
Animal Farm_8
1945English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Smart* *Graphic*
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*