"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