The Great Books
From crispyneurons
This selection of great books is based on the 1952 Britannica publication of Great Books of the Western World. The first three volumes of the 54-volume set are unavailable due to copyright protection, but that's okay; none of those volumes are actually great -- they contain commentary and supporting material provided by the editors. The best material is right here, in this index.
[edit] Volume 1
The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education*
[edit] Volume 2
The Great Ideas, a Synopticon of Great Books of the Western World (I. Angel to Love)*
[edit] Volume 3
The Great Ideas, a Synopticon of Great Books of the Western World (II. Man to World; Bibliography of Additional Readings; Inventory of Terms)*
[edit] Volume 4
Homer
[edit] Volume 5
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.E.)
The Suppliant Maidens | The Persians | The Seven Against Thebes | Prometheus Bound | Agamemnon | Choephoroe | Eumenides
Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.E.)
Oedipus the King | Oedipus at Colonus | Antigone | Ajax | Electra | Trachiniae | Philoctetes
Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.E.)
Rhesus | Medea | Hippolytus | Alcestis | Heracleidae | The Supplicants | The Trojan Women | Ion | Helen | Andromache | Electra | The Bacchantes | Hecuba | Heracles Mad | The Phoenician Maidens | Orestes | Iphigenia Among the Tauri | Iphigenia at Aulis | The Cyclops
Aristophanes (c. 445-380 B.C.E.)
The Acharnians | The Knights | The Clouds | The Wasps | The Peace | The Birds | The Frogs | The Lysistrata | The Thesmophoriazusae | The Ecclesiazusae | The Plutus
[edit] Volume 6
Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.E.)
Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.E.)
The History of the Peloponnesian War
[edit] Volume 7
Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.E.)
Charmides | Lysis | Laches | Protagoras | Euthydemus | Cratylus | Phaedrus | Ion | Symposium | Meno | Euthyphro | Apology | Crito | Phaedo | Gorgias | The Republic | Timaeus | Critias | Parmenides | Theaetetus | Sophist | Statesman | Philebus | Laws | The Seventh Letter
[edit] Volume 8
Aristotle (c. 384-322 B.C.E.)
Categories | On Interpretation | Prior Analytics | Posterior Analytics | Topics | On Sophistical Refutations | Physics | On the Heavens | On Generation and Corruption | Meterorology | Metaphysics | On the Soul | On Sense and the Sensible | On Memory and Reminiscence | On Sleep and Sleeplessness | On Dreams | On Prophesying by Dreams | On Longevity and Shortness of Life | On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, on Breathing
[edit] Volume 9
Aristotle (c. 384-322 B.C.E.)
History of Animals | On the Parts of Animals | On the Motion of Animals | On the Gait of Animals | On the Generation of Animals | Nicomachean Ethics | Politics | The Athenian Constitution | Rhetoric | On Poetics
[edit] Volume 10
Hippocrates (c. 400 B.C.E.)
The Oath | On Ancient Medecine | On Airs, Waters, and Places | The Book of Prognostics | On Regimen in Accute Diseases | Of the Epidemics | On Injuries of the Head | On the Surgery | On Fractures | On the Articulations | Instruments of Reduction | Aphorisms | The Law on Ulcers | On Fistulae | On Hemorrhoids | On the Sacred Disease
Galen (c. 130-200 C.E.)
[edit] Volume 11
Euclid (c. 300 B.C.E.)
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.E.)
On the Sphere and Cylinder | Measurement of a Circle | On Conoids and Spheroids | On Spirals | On the Equilibrium of Planes | The Sand-Reckoner | Quadrature of the Parabola | On Floating Bodies | Book of Lemmas | The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-200 B.C.E.)
Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 100 C.E.)
[edit] Volume 12
Lucretius (c. 98-55 B.C.E.)
Epictetus (c. 60-138 C.E.)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 C.E.)
[edit] Volume 13
Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)
The Eclogues | The Georgics | The Aeneid
[edit] Volume 14
Plutarch (c. 46-120 C.E.)
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
[edit] Volume 15
P. Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-117 C.E.)
[edit] Volume 16
Ptolemy (c. 100-178 C.E.)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Book IV-V) The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
[edit] Volume 17
Plotinus (205-270 C.E.)
[edit] Volume 18
Augustine (354-430 C.E.)
The Confessions | The City of God | On Christian Doctrine
[edit] Volume 19
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
[edit] Volume 20
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
[edit] Volume 21
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
[edit] Volume 22
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Troilus and Cressida | The Canterbury Tales
[edit] Volume 23
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
[edit] Volume 24
François Rabelais (c. 1495-1553)
[edit] Volume 25
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
[edit] Volume 26
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Henry VI Part One | Henry VI Part Two | Henry VI Part Three | Richard III | Comedy of Errors | Titus Andronicus | The Taming of the Shrew | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Love's Labor's Lost | Romeo and Juliet | Richard II | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The Life and Death of King John | The Merchant of Venice | Henry IV Part One | Henry IV Part Two | Much Ado About Nothing | Henry V | Julius Caesar | As You Like It
[edit] Volume 27
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will | Hamlet | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Troilus and Cressida | All's Well That Ends Well | Measure For Measure | Othello | King Lear | Macbeth | Antony and Cleopatra | Coriolanus | Timon of Athens | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Cymbeline | The Winter's Tale | The Tempest | Henry VIII | Sonnets
[edit] Volume 28
William Gilbert (1540-1603)
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
William Harvey (1578-1657)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals | On the Circulation of the Blood | On the Generation of Animals
[edit] Volume 29
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
[edit] Volume 30
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Advancement of Learning | Novum Organum | New Atlantis
[edit] Volume 31
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rules for the Direction of the Mind | Discourse on the Method | Meditations on First Philosophy | Objections Against the Meditations and Replies | The Geometry
Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
[edit] Volume 32
John Milton (1608-1674)
English Minor Poems | Paradise Lost | Samson Agonistes | Areopagitica
[edit] Volume 33
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial Letters | Pensees | Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum | New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum | Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids | Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the Air | On Geometrical Demonstration | Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle | Correspondence With Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities
[edit] Volume 34
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Mathematical Principles | Of Natural Philosophy | Optics
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
[edit] Volume 35
John Locke (1632-1704)
A Letter Concerning Toleration | Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley (1685-1753)
The Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume (1711-1776)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
[edit] Volume 36
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shangy, Gent.
[edit] Volume 37
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
[edit] Volume 38
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Jean Jaques Rousseau (172-1778)
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality | A Discourse on Political Economy | The Social Contract
[edit] Volume 39
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
[edit] Volume 40
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Chapters 1-40)
[edit] Volume 41
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, cont'd (Chapters 41-71)
[edit] Volume 42
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
The Critique of Pure Reason | Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals | The Critique of Practical Reason | Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics With a Note on Conscience | General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals | The Science of Right | The Critique of Judgement
[edit] Volume 43
American State Papers
The Declaration of Independence | Articles of Confederation | The Constitution of the United States of America
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), John Jay (1745-1829)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
On Liberty | Representative Government | Utilitarianism
[edit] Volume 44
James Boswell (1740-1795)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
[edit] Volume 45
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830
Analytical Theory of Heat (Preliminary Disclosure, Ch. 1-2)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Experimental Researches in Electricity
[edit] Volume 46
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
The Philosophy of Right | The Philosophy of History
[edit] Volume 47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
[edit] Volume 48
Herman Melville (1819-1882)
[edit] Volume 49
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection | The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
[edit] Volume 50
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Manifesto of the Communist Party
[edit] Volume 51
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
[edit] Volume 52
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
[edit] Volume 53
William James (1842-1910)
[edit] Volume 54
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis | Selected Papers on Hysteria (Chapters 1-10) | The Sexual Enlightenment of Children | The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy | Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis | The Interpretation of Dreams | On Narcissism | Instincts and Their Vicissitudes | Repression | The Unconscious | A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis | Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego | The Ego and the Id | Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety | Thoughts for the Times on War and Death | Civilization and Its Discontents | New Introductary Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
* Unable to include due to copyright restrictions.
