v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas
3. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer
4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides
6. The dialogues of Plato
9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen
10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus
11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. Themeditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads / Plotinus
12. The eclogues. The georgics. The Aeneid / Virgil
13. The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch
15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy, IV-V ; The harmonies of the world, V / Johannes Kepler
16. The Confessions. The City of God. On Christian doctrine / Saint Augustine
17-18. The Summa theologica / Saint Thomas Aquinas
19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Selections from the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin
21. The prince / Nicolò Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes
23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
24-25. The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare
26. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / William Harvey
27. The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes
28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / René Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza
29. English minor poems ; Paradise lost ; Samson Agonistes ; Areopagitica / John Milton
30. The provincial letters ; Pnesees ; Scientific treatises / Blaise Pascal
32. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens
33. A letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay ; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
34. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot
35. The spirit of laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality ; On political economy ; The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau
36. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith
37-38. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon
39. The critique of pure reason ; The critique of practical reason ; The critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant
40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill
41. The life of Samuel Johnson / James Boswell.
42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday
43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche
44. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac
46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot
47. Little Dorrit / Charles Dickens
48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
49. The origin of species ; The descent of man / Charles Darwin
50. Capital / Karl Marx. Manifesto of the communist party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
51. War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen
53. The principles of psychology / William James
54. The major works of Sigmond Freud
55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
56. Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington
57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
59. Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
60. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kakfa, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
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