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Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book [1972]

340 entries: 290 monographical, 50 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically

Mortimer Adler's revised second edition of How to Read a Book [1972], co-written with Van Doren, came after the first version of his famous series, The Great Books of the Western World [1952]; the list at the end of this book overlaps to some extent with those "great books," as well as the Gateway to the Great Books [1963] ten-volume series of shorter pieces and excerpts. Neither the first version of The Great Books nor the Gateway will be used for this project; instead, the final, 1990 version of The Great Books is—especially as it includes many authors or works that had only been in the Gateway. One could ask, though, why How to Read a Book is included. Indeed, there is also a good deal of overlap between the 1972 How to Read a Book and the 1990 Great Books series. However, the former's list is longer (after all, the Great Books books actually provided texts, not just lists, so had to be more discerning to make the set of a manageable size) and deserves its status as relatively-distinct project, especially as the original How to Read a Book was published in 1940 while the Gateway series was constructed specifically to accompany (that is, not overlap with) the original Great Books.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

    2. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  2. Odýsseia

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

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  3. The Bible
    —Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    Aeschylus
    • Plays

    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Sophocles
    • Plays

    4. Fifth Century B C—Greek

  4. Herodotus
    Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Euripides
    • Plays

    5. late Fifth Century B C—Greek

  5. Mēdeia

    6. Medea
    431 B C—Greek

  6. Hippolytos

    7. 428 B C—Greek

  7. Bakchai

    8. The Bacchae
    405 B C—Greek

  8. Thucydides

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

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

    Aristophanes
    • Plays

    10. late Fifth Century B C—Greek

  10. Nephelai

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

  11. Ornithes

    12. The Birds
    414 B C—Greek

  12. Bátrachoi
    The Frogs
    405 B C—Greek

    Plato
    • Dialogues

    13. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  13. Politeia

    14. The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  14. Symposium

    15. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  15. Phaedo

    16. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  16. Meno

    17. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  17. Apologia Socratis

    18. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  18. Phaedrus

    19. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  19. Protagoras

    20. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  20. Gorgias

    21. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  21. Sophist

    22. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  22. Theaetetus
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

    Aristotle
    • Selected works

    23. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  23. Organon

    24. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  24. Physics

    25. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  25. Metaphysics

    26. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  26. Perì Psūchês (De Anima) (On the Soul)

    27. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  27. Ethika Nikomacheia

    28. Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  28. Politik

    29. Politics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  29. Rhetoric

    30. Fourth Century B C—Greek

  30. Peri Poiêtikês
    De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

    Epicurus
    • Letter to Herodotus

    part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third Century—Greek

    • Letter to Menoeceus

    31. part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third Century—Greek

  31. Euclid
    Elements
    written ca. 300 B C—Greek

    Archimedes
    • Selected works

    32. Third Century B C—Greek

  32. On the Equilibrium of Planes

    33. Third Century B C—Greek

  33. On Floating Bodies

    34. Third Century B C—Greek

  34. The Sand Reckoner

    35. Third Century B C—Greek

  35. Apollonius of Perga
    On Conic Sections
    Greek

    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • Selected works

    First Century B C—Latin

    • Speeches

    36. First Century B C—Latin

  36. Laelius de Amicitia

    37. written 44 B C—Latin

  37. Cato Major de Senectute

    38. written 44 B C—Latin

  38. Titus Lucretius Carus
    De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B C—Latin

    • Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

    Selected works
    First Century B C—Latin

    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
    • Selected works

    39. First Century B C—Latin

  39. Carmina

    40. Odes
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B C—Latin

  40. Epodon

    41. Epodes
    30 B C—Latin

  41. Ars Poetica

    42. ca. 10-8 B C—Latin

  42. Livy (Titus Livius)
    Ab Urbe Condita Libri
    History of Rome
    First Century B C—Latin

    Ovid
    • Selected works

    43. late First Century B C-early First Century—Latin

  43. Metamorphoseon

    44. Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

    Plutarch
  44. Bìoi Paràllēloi

    45. Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek

  45. Moralia

    46. First Century—Greek

    Cornelius Tacitus
  46. Historiae

    47. written ca. 100-10—Latin

  47. Annales

    48. written First Century—Latin

  48. De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae

    49. Agricola
    written ca. 98—Latin

  49. De Origine et Situ Germanorum

    50. Germania
    written ca. 98—Latin

  50. Nicomachus of Gerasa

    51. Introduction to Arithmetic
    late First-early Second centuries—Greek

    Epictetus
  51. Diatribai

    52. Discourses
    compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek

  52. Enchiridion of Epictetus

    53. compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek

  53. Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
    Almagest
    Second Century—Greek

    Lucian
    • Selected works

    54. Second Century—Greek

  54. Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit

    55. How to Write History
    Second Century—Greek

  55. Verae Historiae

    56. True History
    Second Century—Greek

  56. Vitarum Auctio

    57. The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
    Second Century—Greek

  57. Marcus Aurelius

    58. Ta Eis Heauton
    Meditations
    written 161-80—Greek

  58. Galen

    59. De Naturalibus Facultatibus
    On the Natural Faculties
    First Century—Latin

  59. Plotinus
    Enneads
    Third Century—Greek

    Augustine of Hippo
    • Selected works

    60. late Fourth-early Fifth centuries—Latin

  60. De Magistro

    61. Concerning the Teacher
    389—Latin

  61. Confessionum Libri Tredecim

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

  62. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos

    63. City of God
    426—Latin

  63. De Doctrina Christiana

    64. On Christian Doctrine
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426—Latin

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  64. La Chanson de Roland

    65. ca. Eleventh Century—French

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  65. Nibelungenlied

    66. ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German

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  66. Njáls Saga

    67. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse


  67. Thomas Aquinas
    Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin

    Dante
    • Selected works

    68. late Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuries—Italian; Latin

  68. La Vita Nuova

    69. 1295—Italian

  69. De Monarchia

    70. written ca. 1308-18—Latin

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

    Geoffrey Chaucer
    • Selected works

    71. late Fourteenth Century—English

  71. Troilus and Criseyde

    72. written ca. 1380s—English

  72. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

    • Leonardo da Vinci

    73. Notebooks
    late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuries—Italian

    Niccolò Machiavelli
  73. Il Principe

    74. The Prince
    1532—Italian

  74. Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio

    75. 1531—Italian

  75. Desiderius Erasmus

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

  76. Nicolas Copernicus

    77. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543—Latin

  77. Thomas More

    78. Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin

    Martin Luther
  78. An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation

    79. Address to the Christian Nobility
    1520—German

  79. De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium

    80. Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
    1520; German version published the same year—Latin

  80. Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen

    81. The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
    1520—German

  81. Tischreden

    82. Table Talk
    1566—German

  82. François Rabelais

    83. 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

  83. John Calvin

    84. Christianae Religionis Institutio
    Institutes of the Christian Religion
    1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541—Latin

  84. Michel de Montaigne

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

  85. William Gilbert

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

  86. Miguel de Cervantes

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

    Edmund Spenser
  87. Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset

    88. 1596—English

  88. The Faerie Queene

    89. originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English

    Francis Bacon
  89. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed

    90. 1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English

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

    91. 1605—English

  91. Novum Organum Scientiarium

    92. 1620—English

  92. Nova Atlantis
    1624—English

    • William Shakespeare

    93. Selected works
    late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

    Galileo
  93. Sidereus Nuncius

    94. Starry Messenger
    1610—Latin

  94. Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze

    95. Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
    1638—Italian

    Johannes Kepler
  95. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae

    96. originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621—Latin

  96. Harmonices Mundi

    97. The Harmony of the World
    1619—Latin

    William Harvey
  97. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

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

  98. Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis

    99. 1649—Latin

  99. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium

    100. 1651—Latin

  100. Thomas Hobbes

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

    René Descartes
  101. Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii

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

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

    103. Discourse on the Method
    1637—French

  103. La Géométrie

    104. 1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct work—French

  104. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur
    Meditations on First Philosophy
    1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647—Latin

    John Milton
    • Selected works

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • "Minor poems"

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

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

    106. 1644—English

  106. 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

    Molière
    • "Comedies"

    107. Seventeenth Century—French

  107. L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge

    108. The Miser
    1668—French

  108. L'École des Femmes

    109. The School for Wives
    1662—French

  109. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

    110. The Misanthrope
    1666—French

  110. Le Médecin Malgre Lui

    111. 1666—French

  111. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

    112. 1664—French

    Blaise Pascal
  112. Lettres Provinciales

    113. 1656-57—French

  113. Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French

    • "Scientific treatises"

    114. Seventeenth Century—French

  114. Christian Huygens

    115. Traité de la Lumière
    1690—French

  115. Baruch Spinoza

    116. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
    Ethics
    1677—Latin

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

    • 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]

    117. complete work originally anonymously published 1689—English

  117. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    118. 1689—English

  118. Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    1693—English

    Jean Racine
    • Plays

    119. Seventeenth Century—French

  119. Andromaque

    120. 1667—French

  120. Phèdre

    121. 1677—French

    Isaac Newton
  121. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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

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

    123. 1704; Latin version, 1706—English

    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
  123. Discours de Métaphysique

    124. 1686—French

  124. Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain

    125. 1765—French

  125. La Monadologie

    126. 1714—French

  126. Daniel Defoe

    127. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

    Jonathan Swift
  127. A Tale of a Tub

    128. 1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710—English


  128. Journal to Stella

    129. 1766—English

  129. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships

    130. Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

  130. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public

    131. originally anonymously published 1729—English

  131. William Congreve

    132. The Way of the World
    1700—English

  132. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

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

    Alexander Pope
  133. Essay on Criticism

    134. 1711—English

  134. The Rape of the Lock

    135. originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

  135. Essay on Man

    136. 1734—English

    Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
  136. Lettres Persanes

    137. 1721—French

  137. De l'Esprit des Lois

    138. The Spirit of Laws
    originally anonymously published 1748—French

    Voltaire
  138. Lettres Philosophiques

    139. Letters Concerning the English Nation
    English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778—English

  139. Candide, ou L'Optimisme

    140. 1759—French

  140. Dictionnaire Philosophique

    141. 1764—French

    Henry Fielding
  141. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams

    142. 1742—English

  142. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

    143. 1749—English

    Samuel Johnson
  143. The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

    144. 1749—English

  144. A Dictionary of the English Language

    145. 1755—English

  145. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

    146. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    1759—English

  146. Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

    147. The Lives of the Poets
    published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, entitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English

    David Hume
  147. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects

    148. originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1739; third, 1740—English

  148. Essays, Moral and Political

    149. originally published in two volumes, 1741 and 1742—English

  149. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    150. 1748—English

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  150. Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
    Discourse on Inequality
    1755—French

    • 'Economie Politique'

    151. 1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers—French

  151. Émile, ou de l'Éducation

    152. 1762—French

  152. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

    153. The Social Contract
    1762—French

    Laurence Sterne
  153. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    154. originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English

  154. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

    155. 1768—English

    Adam Smith
  155. The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    156. 1759—English

  156. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

    157. 1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English

    Immanuel Kant
  157. Kritik der Reinen Vernunft

    158. Critique of Pure Reason
    1781; revised 1787—German

  158. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

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

  159. Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
    Critique of Practical Reason
    1788—German

    • Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre

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

  160. Kritik der Urteilskraft

    161. Critique of Judgment
    1790—German

  161. Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf

    162. Perpetual Peace
    1795; expanded 1796—German

    Edward Gibbon
  162. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    163. originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English

  163. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
    originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896—English

    James Boswell
    • Journals

    164. written 1762-95—English

  164. London Journal

    165. written 1762-63—English

  165. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

    166. 1791—English

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

    • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

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

  167. John Dickinson et al.

    168. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
    1777—English

  168. James Madison

    169. Constitution for the United States of America
    1787—Emglish

  169. Thomas Jefferson

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

    Jeremy Bentham
  170. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
    1789—English

    • Bentham's Theory of Fictions

    171. 1932; introductory essay and selection of Bentham's writings by C K Ogden—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  171. Faust

    172. 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

  172. Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit

    173. From My Life: Poetry and Truth
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833—German

  173. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

    174. Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur
    1822—French

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  174. Die Phänomenologie des Geistes

    175. Phenomenology of Spirit
    1807—German

  175. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

    176. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
    1820—German

  176. Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German

    William Wordsworth
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • "Lucy poems"

    five poems, four of which ('Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal') were originally published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the other ('I Travelled Among Unknown Men') originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • Sonnets

    177. late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

  177. The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
    1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English

    • William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
    1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'

    originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English

    • 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'

    178. originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English

  178. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

    179. originally published in two volumes, 1817—English

    Jane Austen
  179. Pride and Prejudice

    180. originally anonymously published 1813—English

  180. Emma

    181. originally anonymously published 1815—English

  181. Carl von Clausewitz

    182. Vom Kriege
    On War
    1832—German

    Stendhal
  182. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle

    183. The Red and the Black
    1830—French


  183. Le Chartreuse de Parme

    184. The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French

  184. De l'Amour

    185. 1822—French

  185. Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
    Don Juan
    originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English

    • Arnold Schopenhauer

    186. Studies in Pessimism
    selections from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851—German

    Michael Faraday
  186. The Chemical History of a Candle

    187. edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editions—English

  187. Experimental Researches in Electricity

    188. originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844—English

  188. Charles Lyell
    Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation
    originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833—English

    • Auguste Comte

    189. The Positive Philosophy of August Comte
    1853; abridged version of Cours de Philosophie Positive

    Honoré de Balzac
  189. Le Père Goriot

    190. Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French

  190. Eugénie Grandet

    191. 1833—French

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  191. Representative Men: Seven Lectures
    1850—English

    • Essays

    192. Nineteenth Century—English

  192. Journals

    193. 1960-82—English

  193. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    194. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  194. Alexis de Tocqueville

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

    John Stuart Mill
  195. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

    196. 1843—English

  196. On Liberty

    197. 1859—English

  197. Considerations on Representative Government

    198. 1861—English

  198. Utilitarianism

    199. originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's Magazine—English

  199. The Subjection of Women

    200. 1869—English

  200. Autobiography

    201. 1873—English

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

    202. 1859—English

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

    203. 1871—English

  203. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
    originally published as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887; revised 1958—English

    Charles Dickens
    • Selected works

    204. Nineteenth Century—English

  204. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

    205. The Pickwick Papers
    originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, Boz—English

  205. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)

    206. originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English

  206. Hard Times - For These Times

    207. originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household Words—English

    Claude Bernard
  207. Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale
    1865—French

    Henry David Thoreau
    • 'Civil Disobedience'

    208. originally published 1849 in Aesthetic Papers—English

  208. Walden; or, Life in the Woods

    209. 1854—English

  209. Karl Marx

    210. Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
    originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894—German


  210. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    211. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
    The Communist Manifesto
    1848—German

    George Eliot
  211. Adam Bede

    212. 1859—English

  212. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

    213. originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

    Herman Melville
  213. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

    214. 1851—English

  214. Billy Budd, Foretopman

    215. Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
    1924—English

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  215. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

    216. Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  216. Idiot

    217. originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  217. Brat'â Karamazovy

    218. The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

    Gustave Flaubert
  218. Madame Bovary

    219. originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  219. Trois Contes
    1877—French

    Henrik Ibsen
    • Plays

    220. Fadiman recommends several overlapping collections; late Nineteenth Century—Norwegian

  220. Hedda Gabler

    221. 1890—Norwegian

    Et Dukkehjem
  221. A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian


  222. Vildanden

    223. The Wild Duck
    1885—Norwegian

    Leo Tolstoy
  223. Voyna i Mir"

    224. War and Peace
    originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian

  224. Anna Karenina

    225. published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  225. Chto Takoye Iskusstvo?
    What Is Art?
    1897—Russian

    • Twenty-Three Tales

    226. 1906; sections Tales for Children, 1872 (three stories); Popular Stories (four stories); A Fairy Tale: The Story of Iván the Fool, 1885; Stories Written to Pictures, 1885 (three stories); Folk-Tales Retold, all 1886 except last, 1891 (seven stories); Adaptations From the French (two stories); Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews, 1903 (three stories)—Russian

    Mark Twain
  226. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    227. 1884—English

  227. No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

    228. 1916; revised 1969—English

    William James
  228. The Principles of Psychology

    229. 1890—English

  229. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902

    230. 1902; edited lectures—English

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

    • Essays in Radical Empiricism

    231. 1912; essays originally published 1904-5—English

    Henry James
  231. The American

    232. originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907—English

  232. The Ambassadors

    233. originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English

    Friedrich Nietzsche
  233. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

    234. Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-5—German

  234. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft

    235. Beyond Good and Evil
    1886—German

  235. Zur Genealogue der Moral

    236. On the Genealogy of Morals
    1887—German

  236. Der Wille zur Mach

    237. The Will to Power
    1901; revised 1906—German

    Henri Poincaré
  237. La Science et l'Hypothèse

    238. 1902—French

  238. La Science et Méthode

    239. 1908—French

    Sigmund Freud
  239. Die Traumdeutung

    240. The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German

  240. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse

    241. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
    1917—German

  241. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur

    242. Civilization and Its Discontents
    1930—German

  242. Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
    New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    1933—German

    George Bernard Shaw
    • "Selected plays and prefaces"

    243. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

  243. Man and Superman

    244. performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915—English

  244. Major Barbara

    245. 1905—English

  245. Caesar and Cleopatra

    246. 1901—English

  246. Pygmalion

    247. 1913—English

  247. Saint Joan

    248. 1923—English

    Max Planck
  248. Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie

    249. Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory: Being the Nobel Prize Address Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, 2 June, 1920
    1922—German

  249. Wege zur Physikalischen Erkenntnis: Reden und Vortrage

    250. Where Is Science Going?
    English translation, 1932; German original, 1933—German

  250. Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache

    251. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
    1948—German

    Henri Bergson
  251. Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience

    252. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
    1889—French

  252. Matière et Mémoire

    253. Matter and Memory
    1896—French

  253. L'Evolution Créatrice

    254. Creative Evolution
    1907—French

  254. Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion

    255. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
    1932—French

    John Dewey
  255. How We Think

    256. 1910; revised and retitled How We Think, A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933—English

  256. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

    257. 1916—English

  257. Experience and Nature

    258. 1925—English

  258. Logic, the Theory of Inquiry

    259. 1938—English

    Alfred North Whitehead
  259. Introduction to Mathematics

    260. 1911—English

  260. Science and the Modern World
    1925—English

    • The Aims of Education and Other Essays

    261. 1929; essays published 1912-27—English

  261. Adventures of Ideas

    262. 1933—English

    George Santayana
  262. The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

    263. originally published in five volumes, 1905-06—English

  263. Scepticism and Animal Faith

    264. 1923—English

  264. Persons and Places

    265. 1944—English

  265. Vladimir Lenin

    266. Gosudarstvo i Revolûciâ
    The State and Revolution
    1917—Russian

  266. Marcel Proust

    267. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
    In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
    originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French

    Bertrand Russell
  267. The Problems of Philosophy

    268. 1912—English

  268. The Analysis of Mind

    269. 1921—English

  269. An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth

    270. 1940—English

  270. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

    271. 1948—English

    Thomas Mann
  271. Der Zauberberg

    272. The Magic Mountain
    1924—German

  272. Joseph und Seine Brüder

    273. Joseph and His Brothers
    1943—German

    Albert Einstein
  273. The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University

    274. 1921; expanded, 1945—English

  274. On the Method of Theoretical Physics

    275. 1933; edited Jun. 1933 lecture—English

    Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
  275. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
    1938—English

    James Joyce
    • 'The Dead'

    276. part of Dubliners, 1914—English

  276. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    277. originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English

  277. Ulysses

    278. published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

    Jacques Maritain
  278. Art et Scolastique

    279. 1920—English

  279. Distinguer pour Unir ou Les Degrés du Savoir

    280. 1932—French

  280. Humanisme Intégral: Problemes Temporels et Spirituals d'une Nouvelle Chrétienté

    281. 1936—French

  281. Les Droits de l'Homme et la Loi Naturelle

    282. 1942—French

    Franz Kafka
  282. Der Prozess

    283. The Trial
    1925—German

  283. Das Schloss

    284. The Castle
    1926—German

    Arnold Toynbee
  284. A Study of History

    285. originally published in twelve volumes, 1934-61—English

  285. Civilization on Trial

    286. 1948—English

    Jean-Paul Sartre
  286. La Nausée

    287. Nausea
    1938—French

  287. Huis Clos

    288. No Exit
    1944—French

  288. L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique

    289. Being and Nothingness
    1943—French

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  289. Rakovyj Korpus

    290. Cancer Ward
    1967—Russian

  290. V Kruge Pervom

    291. In the First Circle
    1968; expanded 1978—Russian