John Lubbock, The Choice of Books [1896]
121 entries: 96 monographical, 25 otherwise
Unranked, arranged topically
According to W. B. Carnochan's 'Where Did Great Books Come From Anyway', Lubbock offered an earlier version of his list in a lecture given at the Working Men's College in London, apparently in early January 1886; this list, edited at least for organizational purposes, was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, January 11th. An edited version of Lubbock's lecture, with list included, was published in the Contemporary Review, February 1886, entitled 'On the Pleasure of Reading'. Lubbock crafted a revised version of this list for his 1896 book, The Choice of Books. That version is the basis for our list here. The Contemporary Review version included unspecified listings for Heinrich Heine and Lucretius; two novels by Jane Austen, Emma and Pride and Prejudice; and two works by Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehema. While these were excluded from the '96 list, the Kalidasa and Schiller entries were added.
- The Bible_17
Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin BlayneyHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World*
- 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*
Epictetus
- Diatribai_9
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Enchiridion of Epictetus_3
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read*
- Aristotle
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*
- Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects_12
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Graphic*
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
Le Bouddha et Sa Religion_1
1860French
*Lubbock*
Selected works_1
series of early Christian writings from the late First-early Second centuries; unspecified selectionGreek
*Lubbock*
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi_4
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Trinity* *Great*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-8Latin
*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*
- Quran (Koran) [excerpted]_2
Lubbock does not specify his selections; Eliot's Harvard Classics presents a selection edited and translated by E H Palmer; Seventh CenturyArabic
*Lubbock* *Eliot*
- Baruch Spinoza
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_4
originally anonymously published 1670Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Trinity* *Dirda*
- Auguste Comte
Catéchisme Positiviste_1
1852French
*Lubbock*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *O'Hear* *Reynolds*
- Joseph Butler
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature_1
1736English
*Lubbock*
- Jeremy Taylor
Holy Living and Holy Dying_3
originally published in two volumes: The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650; and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651English
*Lubbock* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- John Keble
The Christian Year_1
1827English
*Lubbock*
Plato
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *World*
- 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*
- Xenophon
Memorabilia_2
Apomnemoneumata
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Ward*
- Aristotle
Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*
- Demosthenes
On the Crown_3
330 B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics*
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- De Officiis_4
written 44 B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Dirda* *World*
- Cato Major de Senectute_6
written 44 B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward*
- Laelius de Amicitia_5
written 44 B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read*
- 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*
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *World*
- John Locke
Of the Conduct of the Understanding_1
originally published as part of the Posthumous Works of John Locke, 1706English
*Lubbock*
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*
Poems
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B CGreek
*Lubbock*
Selected works_3
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Read*
- Vyasa
Mahabharata_13
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Graphic*
- Valmiki
Ramayana_10
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *World*
- Ferdowsi
Shahnameh_7
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010Persian
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *World*
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- Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
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- Shījīng_4
Shih-Ching; The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes
one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; Eleventh-Seventh centuries B CChinese
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *World*
- Kalidasa
Abhijnanasakuntalam_6
The Recognition of Sakuntala
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Norway* *World*
Aeschylus
- 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
- 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*
- 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*
- 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*
- Euripides
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*
Aristophanes
- Hippeîs_5
The Knights
424 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *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*
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Poems_2
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Invitation*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
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*
Selected works_4
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Read*
John Milton
- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michelmas Night, Before the Right Honorable, John Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Councill_4
'Comus'
originally anonymously published 1637; included in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*
Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Bloom*
- 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*
- Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
Poems_4
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Bloom* *Newman*
Poems_1
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock*
Poems of Wordsworth_1
1879; edited by Matthew ArnoldEnglish
*Lubbock*
Alexander Pope
- Essay on Criticism_4
1711English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Essay on Man_5
1734English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- The Rape of the Lock_7
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
Poems_7
late Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_5
1812-8English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
Poems_2
Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Bloom*
- 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*
- Xenophon
Anabasis_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Ward*
- 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*
- Cornelius Tacitus
De Origine et Situ Germanorum_5
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri_6
History of Rome
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity* *World*
- 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
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- David Hume
The History of England_1
originally published in six volumes: fifth, 1754; sixth, 1756; third-fourth, 1759; first-second, 1761English
*Lubbock*
- George Grote
History of Greece; From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary With Alexander the Great_1
originally published in twelve volumes, 1846-56English
*Lubbock*
- Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution_2
1837; revised 1857English
*Lubbock* *Durant*
- John Richard Green
A Short History of the English People_1
1874English
*Lubbock*
- George Henry Lewes
The Biographical History of Philosophy_1
1848; later revisedEnglish
*Lubbock*
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
*Lubock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor*
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield_6
1766English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- 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
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
Plays_5
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Fadiman*
- Friedrich Schiller
Wilhelm Tell_4
1804German
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Trinity*
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed_1
1779English
*Lubbock*
- School for Scandal_6
1777English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart* *Educated*
- The Rivals_3
1775English
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Bloom*
- Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present_1
1843English
*Lubbock*
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [excerpted]_1
unspecified selection; complete work, 1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
*Lubbock*
- John Stuart Mill
Principles of Political Economy_1
1848; revised through seventh edition, 1871English
*Lubbock*
Journals
Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock*
"Travels"_1
unspecified selection; early Nineteenth CenturyFrench, German
*Lubbock*
- Gilbert White
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne_2
1789English
*Lubbock* *Rexroth*
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
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
- The Voyage of the Beagle_4
originally published as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle, 1838; also published that year as Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H M S Beagle; revised 1845English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Fadiman*
- John Stuart Mill
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive_2
1843English
*Lubbock* *Read*
- Francis Bacon
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- 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*
Essays_1
Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock*
- Thomas Macaulay (Lord Macaulay)
Essays_2
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin*
Essays_1
early Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
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Essays_9
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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Selected works_1
late Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
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- Samuel Smiles
Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character and Conduct_1
1859English
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Voltaire
- Zadig_6
1747French
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- Micromégas_2
1752French
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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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- Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit_5
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-3; fourth, 1833German
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William Makepeace Thackeray
- Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
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- The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and Greatest Enemy_3
originally published serially 1848-50English
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Charles Dickens
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
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- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
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- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii_1
1834English
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- George Eliot
Adam Bede _7
1859English
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- Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho!_1
1855English
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Novels
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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