"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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