"The Great Books Of the Western World"
-700 Homer Illiad
-700 Homer The Odyssey
-475 Aeschylus Orestia
-455 Herodotus The Persian Wars I + VII
-435 Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
-400 Sophocles Antigone
Bible (Genesis, Matthew, Job)
-390 Xenophon Hiero
-390 Plato Phaedo
-390 Plato Apology, Crito
-375 Plato Symposium
-350 Aristotle Poetics
-350 Aristotle Rhetoric
-350 Aristotle Politics I + III
-300 Euclid Geometry
-75 Lucretius On the Nature of Things
85 Plutarch Lives
85 Tacitus Works
375 Augustine Confessions
1250 St. Aquinas Treatice on Law
1280 Dante Inferno
1370 Chaucer Canterbury Tales
1495 Machiavelli The Prince
1566 Montaigne Essays
1590 Shakespeare The Tempest, Antony + Cleopatra, Othello
1623 Descartes Meditations
1630 Hobbes Leviathan I + II
1645 Pascal Pensees
1665 Locke Second Treatise on Gov't
1680 Newton Principia - Motions of bodies
1700 Swift Gulliver's Travels
1745 Hume Inquiry concerning the - Human understanding
1745 Rousseau Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality
1755 Smith The Wealth of Nations
1765 Burke Reflections on the revolution in France
1765 Kant Fundamental Principles of Metaphysics of Morals
1776 USA Declaration of Independance, Consitution, Federalist Papers
1795 Austen Pride and Prejudice
1834 Tocqueville The Old Regime + the French Revolution
1835 Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
1845 Darwin Selections
1845 Melville Moby Dick
1846 Flaubert Madame Bovary
1855 Marx Das Capital, Communist Manifesto
1861 Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
1880 Nietsche Beyond Good and Evil
1880 Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1890 Freud Interpretation of Dreams
1892 Conrad Heart of Darkness
1915 Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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