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Floyd Zulli, The World's Great Classics: An Invitation to Great Reading [1969]

56 entries: 47 monographical, 9 otherwise

Unranked—arranged topically within chronological sections

The World's Great Classics is a series of books comparable to Charles W. Eliot's Harvard Classics and Mortimer Adler's Great Books of the Western World. A separate book, An Invitation to Great Reading, serves as an introduction to the series, featuring an opening essay and a reader's guide followed by short essays about each of the volumes.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

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

  2. Odýsseia

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

  3. Plato

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

    Aristotle
  4. Politik

    5. Politics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  5. Peri Poiêtikês>

    6. De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

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

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    • Classical Literature of Asia

    7. 1969; edited by John D Yohannan; part of The World's Great Classics—varied

  7. Dante

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

  8. Geoffrey Chaucer

    9. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

  9. Niccolò Machiavelli

    10. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian

  10. Baldassare Castiglione

    11. Il Cortegiano
    1528—Italian

  11. Benvenuto Cellini

    12. Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
    Autobiography
    written 1558-62—Italian

  12. Michel de Montaigne

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

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

    • William Shakespeare

    14. Complete works
    late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

  14. Blaise Pascal

    15. Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French

    John Milton
  15. Paradise Lost

    16. 1667; revised 1674—English

  16. Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes

    17. 1671—English

  17. John Bunyan

    18. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

  18. Daniel Defoe

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

  19. Jonathan Swift

    20. 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

  20. Henry Fielding

    21. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
    1742—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  21. Faust

    22. 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

  22. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers

    23. The Sorrows of Young Werther
    1774; revised 1787—German

  23. Benjamin Franklin

    24. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868—English

  24. James Boswell

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

  25. Jane Austen

    26. Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

  26. Walter Scott

    27. Ivanhoe
    originally anonymously published 1819—English

  27. Honoré de Balzac
    Le Père Goriot
    Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French

    Edgar Allan Poe
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    28. Essays
    Nineteenth Century—English

  28. Charlotte Brontë

    29. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  29. Emily Brontë

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

  30. William Makepeace Thackeray

    31. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  31. The Scarlet Letter

    32. 1850—English

  32. The House of Seven Gables

    33. 1851—English

  33. Herman Melville

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

  34. Henry David Thoreau

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

  35. Gustave Flaubert

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

  36. Charles Dickens

    37. A Tale of Two Cities
    originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  37. Idiot

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

  38. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

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

  39. Wilkie Collins

    40. The Moonstone
    originally published serially 1868 in All the Year Round—English

  40. Leo Tolstoy

    41. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877#151;Russian

  41. Henry James

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

  42. Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

    • Guy de Maupassant

    43. Stories
    Nineteenth Century—French

  43. Stephen Crane

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

  44. Samuel Butler
    The Way of All Flesh
    1903; written 1873-74—English

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    • Great Poetry of the English Language: Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson

    1969; edited by Henry B Weisberg; part of The World's Great Classics—English

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    • The Ground on Which We Stand

    45. 1969; edited by Lillian W Kay; part of The World's Great Classics; includes The Declaration of Independence; the Constitution; the Gettysburg Address—English

  45. Thomas Jefferson

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

  46. James Madison

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

  47. Abraham Lincoln

    48. Gettysburg Address
    1865—English