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Mortimer Adler, ed., The Great Books of the Western World [1990]

332 entries: 301 monographical, 31 otherwise

Unranked—arranged 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

1. Iliad

ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek


2. Odýsseia

The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

Aeschylus

3. Hiketides

The Suppliants
ca. 470 B C—Greek


4. Persai

The Persians
472 B C—Greek


5. Hepta epi Thēbas

Seven Against Thebes
467 B C—Greek


6. Promētheus Desmōtēs

Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek


7. Oresteia

The House of Atreus
458 B C—Greek

Sophocles

8. Oidipous Tyrannos

Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C—Greek


9. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

Oedipus at Colonus
401 B C—Greek


10. Antigone

ca. 441 B C—Greek


11. Aias

Ajaxca. 450-430 B C—Greek


12. Ēlektra

Electra
ca. 410-400 B C—Greek


13. Trachiniai

The Trachiniae; The Women of Trachis
ca. 450-420 B C—Greek


14. Philoktētēs

Philocetes
409 B C—Greek

Euripides

15. Rhēsos

Rhesus
late Fifth Century B C—Greek


16. Mēdeia

Medea
431 B C—Greek


17. Hippolytos

428 B C—Greek


18. Alkēstis

Alcestis
438 B C—Greek


19. Hērakleidai

Heracleidae; Herakles' Children
c. 430 B C—Greek


20. Hiketides

The Suppliants
423 B C—Greek


21. Trōiades

The Trojan Woman
415 B C—Greek


22. Iōn

written ca. 414-12 B C—Greek


23. Helenē

412 B C—Greek


24. Andromache

ca. 428-25 B C—Greek


25. Ēlektra

Electra
written ca. 413 B C—Greek


26. Bakchai

The Bacchae
405 B C—Greek


27. Hēkabē

Hecuba
written ca. 424 B C—Greek


28. Hēraklēs Mainomenos

Herakles
ca. 416 B C—Greek


29. Phoinissai

Phoenician Women
written c. 408—Greek


30. Orestēs

408 B C—Greek


31. Iphigeneia en Taurois

Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B C—Greek


32. Iphigeneia en Aulidi

Iphigeneia in Aulis
405 B C—Greek


33. Kyklōps

Cyclops
late Fifth Century B C—Greek

Aristophanes

34. Akharneîs

The Acharnians
425 B C—Greek


35. Hippeîs

The Knights
424 B C—Greek


36. Nephelai

The Clouds
423 B C; revised, 417 B C; only revised version remains—Greek


37. Sphēkes

The Wasps
422 B C—Greek


38. Eirēnē

Peace
421 B C—Greek


39. Ornithes

The Birds
414 B C—Greek


40. Bátrachoi

The Frogs
405 B C—Greek


41. Lysistrate

Lysistrata
411 B C—Greek


42. Thesmophoriazousai

411 B C—Greek


43. Ekklesiazousai

The Assemblywomen; A Parliament of Women
391 B C—Greek


44. Ploutos

Wealth
408 B C; revised 388 B C; only revised version remains—Greek


45. Herodotus

Historiē
History
Fifth Century B C—Greek


46. Thucydides

History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B C—Greek

Plato

47. Charmides

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


48. Lysis

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


49. Laches

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


50. Protagoras

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


51. Euthydemus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


52. Cratylus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


53. Phaedrus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


54. Ion

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


55. Symposium

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


56. Meno

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


57. Euthyphro

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


58. Apologia Socratis

The Apology
early Fourth Century B C—Greek


59. Crito

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


60. Phaedo

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


61. Gorgias

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


62. Politeia

The Republic
early Fourth Century B C—Greek


63. Timaeus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


64. Critias

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


65. Parmenides

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


66. Theaetetus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


67. Sophist

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


68. Statesman

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


69. Philebus

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


70. Laws

early Fourth Century B C—Greek


71. The Seventh Letter

early Fourth Century B C—Greek

Aristotle

72. Organon

Fourth Century B C—Greek


73. Physics

Fourth Century B C—Greek


74. On the Heavens

written 350 B C—Greek


75. On Generation and Corruption

Fourth Century B C—Greek


76. Meteorology

Fourth Century B C—Greek


77. Metaphysics

Fourth Century B C—Greek


78. Perì Psūchês

De Anima; On the Soul
Fourth Century B C—Greek


79. Parva Naturalia

Fourth Century B C—Greek


80. History of Animals

Fourth Century B C—Greek


81. On the Parts of Animals

Fourth Century B C—Greek


82. On the Motion of Animals

Fourth Century B C—Greek


83. On the Gait of Animals

Fourth Century B C—Greek


84. On the Generation of Animals

Fourth Century B C—Greek


85. Ethika Nikomacheia

Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B C—Greek


86. Politik

Politics
Fourth Century B C—Greek


87. Athenaion Politeia

Fourth Century B C—Greek


88. Rhetoric

Fourth Century B C—Greek


89. Peri Poiêtikês

De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B C—Greek


90. Hippocrates

Hippocratic Corpus
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B C—Greek


91. Galen

De Naturalibus Facultatibus
On the Natural Faculties
First Century—Latin


92. Euclid

Elements
written ca. 300 B C—Greek

Archimedes

93. On the Sphere and Cylinder

circa 225 B C—Greek


94. On the Measurement of a Circle

Third Century B C—Greek


95. On Conoids and Spheroids

Third Century B C—Greek


96. On Spirals

Third Century B C—Greek


97. On the Equilibrium of Planes

Third Century B C—Greek


98. The Sand Reckoner

Third Century B C—Greek


99. The Quadrature of the Parabola

Third Century B C—Greek


100. On Floating Bodies

Third Century B C—Greek


101. The Book of Lemmas

apocyrphal; attributed to Archimedes by Thabit Ibn Qurra—Greek


102. The Method of Mechanical Theorems

Third Century B C—Greek


103. Nicomachus of Gerasa

Introduction to Arithmetic
late First-early Second centuries—Greek


104. Titus Lucretius Carus

De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B C—Latin

Epictetus

105. Diatribai

Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek


106. Marcus Aurelius

Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80—Greek


107. Plotinus

Enneads
Third Century—Greek

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

108. Eclogues

First Century B C—Latin


109. Georgics

First Century B C—Latin


110. Aeneid

First Century B C—Latin


111. Plutarch

Bìoi Paràllēloi
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First Century—Greek

Cornelius Tacitus

112. Annales

written First Century—Latin


113. Historiae

written ca. 100-10—Latin


114. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

Almagest
Second Century—Greek


115. Nicolas Copernicus
     De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
     On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
     1543—Latin
     
     Johannes Kepler
     
     • Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae [excerpted]
     
     Books IV and V; complete work published in three volumes, 1617, 1620, and 1621—Latin
     
     
     • Harmonices Mundi [excerpted]

The Harmony of the World
Book V; complete work published 1619—Latin

Augustine of Hippo

116. Confessionum Libri Tredecim

The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin


117. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos

City of God
426—Latin


118. De Doctrina Christiana
     On Christian Doctrine
     originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426—Latin
     
     
     • Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae [excerpted]
Summa Theologica
first part; selections from second and third parts—Latin


119. Dante

La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

Geoffrey Chaucer

120. Troilus and Criseyde

written ca. 1380s—English


121. Canterbury Tales
     1478—English
     
     
     • John Calvin

Christianae Religionis Institutio [excerpted]
Institutes of the Christian Religion
complete work published 1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541—Latin


122. Niccolò Machiavelli

Il Principe
The Prince
1532—Italian


123. Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
1651—English


124. François Rabelais

La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
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—French


125. Desiderius Erasmus

Stultitiae Laus
In Praise of Folly
1511; later revised—Latin


126. Michel de Montaigne

Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French

William Shakespeare

127. The First Part of Henry VI

ca. 1592—English


128. The Second Part of Henry VI

ca. 1592—English


129. The Third Part of Henry VI

ca. 1592—English


130. Richard III

ca. 1592-7—English


131. The Comedy of Errors

1594—English


132. Titus Andronicus

1594—English


133. The Taming of the Shrew

ca. 1592-94—English


134. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

ca. 1590-94—English


135. Love's Labour Lost

1598—English


136. Romeo and Juliet

ca. 1591-97—English


137. Richard II

1597—English


138. A Midsummer Night's Dream

ca. 1595-1600—English


139. King John

ca. 1598—English


140. The Merchant of Venice

ca. 1596-98—English


141. The First Part of Henry IV

1597—English


142. The Second Part of Henry IV

1600—English


143. Much Ado About Nothing

ca. 1598-99—English


144. Henry V

1599—English


145. Julius Caesar

1599—English


146. As You Like It

1603—English


147. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

1602—English


148. Hamlet

1602—English


149. The Merry Wives of Windsor

ca. 1597-1602—English


150. Troilus and Cressida

ca. 1602-09—English


151. All's Well That Ends Well

ca. 1606-08—English


152. Measure for Measure

1604—English


153. Othello

ca. 1604—English


154. King Lear

1606—English


155. Macbeth

ca. 1607—English


156. Antony and Cleopatra

ca. 1606-08—English


157. Coriolanus

written ca. 1605-08—English


158. Timon of Athens

written ca. 1607—English


159. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

ca. 1606-08—English


160. Cymbeline

written ca. 1609—English


161. The Winter's Tale

ca. 1611—English


162. The Tempest

1611—English


163. Henry VIII

ca. 1613—English


164. Sonnets

1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English


165. William Gilbert

De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
On the Magnet
1600—Latin


166. Galileo

Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638—Italian

William Harvey

167. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628—Latin


168. Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis

1649—Latin


169. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium

1651—Latin


170. Miguel de Cervantes

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish

Francis Bacon

171. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human

1605—English


172. Novum Organum Scientiarium

1620—English


173. Nova Atlantis

1624—English

René Descartes

174. Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii

Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Dutch translation, 1684; Latin original, 1701—Latin


175. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences

Discourse on the Method
1637—French


176. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur

Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647—Latin


177. La Géométrie

1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct work—French


178. Baruch Spinoza
     Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
     Ethics
     1677—Latin
     
     John Milton
     
     • "Minor poems"

Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth Century—English


179. Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin
     1645—English
     
     
     • 'On Shakespear'

originally entitled 'An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare', published as part of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, 1632—English


180. Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions
     1673—English
     
     
     • 'Sonnet 15'
     
     originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694—English
     
     
     • 'Sonnet 16'
     
     originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694—English
     
     
     • 'Sonnet 17'
     
     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, 1662—English
     
     
     • 'Sonnet 22'

originally published as part of Letters of State, 1694—English


181. Paradise Lost
     1667; revised 1674—English
     
     
     • 'Samson Agonistes'

part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671—English


182. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England

1644—English

Blaise Pascal

183. Lettres Provinciales

1656-57—French


184. Pensées
     Thoughts
     1669—French
     
     
     • "Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum"

—French


185. Experiences Nouvelles Touchant le Vide

1647—French


186. Récit de la Grande Expérience de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs

1663—French


187. Traites de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air
     1663—French
     
     
     • 'De l'Esprit Géométrique'

—French


188. Traité du Triangle Arithmétique Avec Quelques Autres Petits Traités sur la Même Matière
     1665—French
     
     
     • "Correspondence With Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities"

—French

Molière

189. L'École des Femmes

The School for Wives
1662—French


190. La Critique de l'École des Femmes

1663—French


191. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

1664—French


192. Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre

1660—French


193. L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge

The Miser
1668—French


194. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

1670—French


195. Le Malade Imaginaire

The Imaginary Invalid
1673—French

Jean Racine

196. Bérénice

1670—French


197. Phèdre

1677—French

Isaac Newton

198. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin


199. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

1704; Latin version, 1706—English


200. Christian Huygens

Traité de la Lumière
1690—French

John Locke

201. Epistola de Tolerantia
     1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same year—Latin
     
     
     • John Locke

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]
complete work originally anonymously published 1689—English


202. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1689—English


203. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1710; revised 1734—English


204. David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748—English


205. Voltaire

Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759—French


206. Denis Diderot

Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde
German traslation, 1805; original, 1823—French


207. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748—French

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

208. Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
     Discourse on Inequality
     1755—French
     
     
     • 'Economie Politique'

1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers—French


209. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

The Social Contract
1762—French


210. Adam Smith

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English


211. Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English

Immanuel Kant

212. Kritik der Reinen Vernunft

Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787—German


213. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786—German


214. Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
     Critique of Practical Reason
     1788—German
     
     
     • "Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics With a Note on Conscience"
     
     —German
     
     
     • "General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals"
     
     —German
     
     
     • Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre

The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797—German


215. Kritik der Urteilskraft

Critique of Judgment
1790—German


216. Thomas Jefferson

Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
The Declaration of Independence
1776—English


217. John Dickinson et al.

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
1777—English


218. James Madison
     Constitution for the United States of America
     1787—Emglish
     
     
     • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

The Federalist Papers
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English

John Stuart Mill

219. On Liberty

1859—English


220. Considerations on Representative Government

1861—English


221. Utilitarianism

originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's Magazine—English


222. James Boswell

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791—English


223. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
1789—French


224. Michael Faraday

Experimental Researches in Electricity
originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844—English

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

225. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820—German


226. Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem

Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German


227. Sǿren Kierkegaard

Frygt og Baeven
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish


228. Friedrich Nietzsche

Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Beyond Good and Evil
1886—German


229. Alexis de Tocqueville

De la Démocratie en Amérique
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French


230. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust
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, 1832—German


231. Honoré de Balzac

La Cousine Bette
originally published in Le Constitutionnel Oct.-Dec. 1846—French


232. Jane Austen

Emma
originally anonymously published 1815—English


233. George Eliot

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English


234. Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit
originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857—English


235. Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851—English


236. Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884—English

Charles Darwin

237. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

1859—English


238. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

1871—English

Karl Marx

239. Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie

originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894—German

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

240. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

The Communist Manifesto
1848—German


241. Leo Tolstoy

Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian


242. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

Henrik Ibsen

243. Et Dukkehjem

A Doll's House
1879—Norwegian


244. Vildanden

The Wild Duck
1885—Norwegian


245. Hedda Gabler

1890—Norwegian


246. Bygmester Solness

The Master Builder
1892—Norwegian


247. William James

The Principles of Psychology
1890—English

Sigmund Freud

248. Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalytischen Bewegung
     The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
     1914—German
     
     
     • Selected Papers on Hysteria [excerpted]

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 1909—German


249. Über Infantile Sexualtheorien

On the Sexual Theories of Children
1908—German


250. Die Zukunftigen Chancen der Psychoanalytischen Therapie

The Future Prospects of Psycho-analytic Therapy
1910—German


251. Über "Wilde" Psychoanalyse

"Wild" Psycho-Analysis
1910—German


252. Die Traumdeutung

The Interpretation of Dreams
1899—German


253. Zur Einführung des Narzißmus

On Narcissism
1914—German


254. Triebe und Triebschicksale

Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
1915—German


255. Die Verdrängung

Repression
1915—German


256. Das Unbewusste

The Unconscious
1915—German


257. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917—German


258. Jenseits des Lustprinzips

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1920—German


259. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
1921—German


260. Das Ich und das Es

The Ego and the Id
1923—German


261. Hemmung, Symptom und Angst

Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
1926—German


262. Zeitgemäßes Über Krieg und Tod

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
1915—German


263. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur

Civilization and Its Discontents
1930—German


264. Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933—German


265. William James

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
1907—English


266. Henri Bergson

Introduction à la Métaphysique
Introduction to Metaphysics
originally published in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903—French


267. John Dewey

Experience and Education
1938—English


268. Alfred North Whitehead

Science and the Modern World
1925—English


269. Bertrand Russell

The Problems of Philosophy
1912—English


270. Martin Heidegger

Was Ist Metaphysik?
edited 1929 lecture—German


271. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophische Untersuchungen
Philosophical Investigations
1953—German


272. Karl Barth

Das Word Gottes und die Theologie
The Word of God and the Word of Man
1928—German


273. Henri Poincaré

La Science et l'Hypothèse
1902—French


274. Max Planck

Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1948—German


275. Alfred North Whitehead

Introduction to Mathematics
1911—English


276. Albert Einstein

Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922—German


277. Arthur Eddington
     The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931
     1933—English
     
     
     • Niels Bohr
     
     Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature [excerpted]
     essays—German
     
     
     • 'Discussions With Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics'

—German


278. G H Hardy

A Mathematician's Apology
1940—English


279. Werner Heisenberg

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
1958; edited 1955-56 lectures—English


280. Erwin Schrödinger

What Is Life?
1944; edited 1943 lectures—English


281. Theodosius Dobzhansky

Genetics and the Origin of Species
1937—English


282. Conrad Hal Wallington

The Nature of Life
1961—English


283. Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
1899—English


284. R H Tawney

The Acquisitive Society
1920—English


285. John Maynard Keynes
     The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
     1936—English
     
     
     • James George Frazer
     
     The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion [excerpted]
     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 1959—English
     
     
     • Max Weber

Essays in Sociology [excerpted]
1946—German


286. Johan Huizinga
     Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen
     The Waning of the Middle Ages; The Autumn of the Middle Ages
     1919—German
     
     
     • Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropologie Structurale [excerpted]
1958—French


287. Henry James

The Beast in the Jungle
originally published in The Better Sort, 1903—English


288. George Bernard Shaw

Saint Joan
1923—English


289. Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English


290. Anton Chekhov

Dâdâ Vanâ
Uncle Vanya
1897—Russian


291. Luigi Pirandello
     Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore
     Six Characters in Search of an Author
     1921—Italian
     
     Marcel Proust
     
     • Du Côté de Chez Swann

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, 1913-27—French


292. Willa Cather

A Lost Lady
1923—English


293. Thomas Mann

Der Tod in Venedig
Death in Venice
1911—German


294. James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English


295. Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse
1927 —English


296. Franz Kafka
     Die Verwandlung
     The Metamorphosis
     originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German
     
     D H Lawrence
     
     • 'The Prussian Officer'
     
     included in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914—English
     
     T S Eliot
     
     • 'The Waste Land'

originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English


297. Eugene O'Neill

Mourning Becomes Electra
1931—English


298. F Scott Fitzgerald
     The Great Gatsby
     1925—English
     
     William Faulkner
     
     • 'A Rose for Emily'

originally published Apr. 1930 in Forum—English


299. Bertolt Brecht
     Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder
     Mother Courage
     1941—German
     
     Ernest Hemingway
     
     • 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'

originally published Sep. 1936 in Cosmopolitan; included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938—English


300. George Orwell

Animal Farm
1945—English


301. Samuel Beckett

En Attendant Godot
Waiting for Godot
1953—French