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The Learning Channel, Great Books [1993-2002]

48 entries: 44 monographical, 4 otherwise

Unranked—arranged topically

The Learning Channel, which no longer exists in its original form, intermittently aired a documentary program, Great Books, in the years, 1993-2002. The Wikipedia page for the series provided much of the information necessary to make this list; the Internet Movie Database, and information from video-cassette and D. V. D. versions of the episodes available for sale, confirm that the Wikipedia listing is complete.

  1. Thomas Malory

    2. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  2. Mary Shelley

    3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  3. Charles Darwin

    4. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

  4. Lewis Carroll

    5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    1865—English

  5. H G Wells

    6. The War of the Worlds
    originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English

  6. Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)

    7. Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
    The Art of War
    written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B C—Chinese

  7. Mark Twain

    8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

  8. Homer

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

  9. Plato

    10. Politeia
    The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  10. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    11. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  11. Herman Melville

    12. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  12. Niccolò Machiavelli

    13. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian

  13. Richard Wright

    14. Native Son
    1940—English

  14. Jonathan Swift

    15. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

  15. Joseph Heller

    16. Catch-22
    1961—English

  16. Sigmund Freud

    17. Die Traumdeutung
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German

  17. Miguel de Cervantes

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

  18. Charles Dickens

    19. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  19. F Scott Fitzgerald

    20. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  20. Henry David Thoreau

    21. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  21. Galileo

    22. Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    1632—Italian

  22. Norman Mailer

    23. The Naked and the Dead
    1948—English

  23. William Golding

    24. Lord of the Flies
    1954—English

  24. Stephen Crane

    25. The Red Badge of Courage
    published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English

  25. Joseph Conrad

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

  26. Bram Stoker

    27. Dracula
    1897—English

  27. Jane Austen

    28. Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

  28. Gustave Flaubert

    29. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  29. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    30. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  30. Alex Haley and Malcolm X

    31. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    1965—English

  31. John Steinbeck

    32. The Grapes of Wrath
    1939—English

  32. George Orwell

    33. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  33. Victor Hugo

    34. Les Misérables
    1862—French

  34. Upton Sinclair

    35. The Jungle
    originally published serially Feb.-Nov. 1905 in Appeal to Reason—English

  35. Tom Wolfe

    36. The Right Stuff
    1979—English

  36. Jules Verne
    Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    1870—French

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    Stories
    Nineteenth Century—English

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    • The Book of Genesis

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

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    • The Book of Exodus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    • Dante

    37. Inferno
    part of La Divina Commedia; complete work written ca. 1308-21—Italian

  37. Emily Brontë

    38. Wuthering Heights
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English

  38. Franz Kafka

    39. Die Verwandlung
    The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German

  39. L Frank Baum

    40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    1900—English

  40. Robert Louis Stevenson

    41. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    1886—English

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  41. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah

    42. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's version—Arabic

  42. Arthur C Clarke

    43. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    1968—English

  43. Ken Kesey

    44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1962—English

  44. Erich Maria Remarque

    45. Im Westen Nichts Neues
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische Zeitung—German