The Great Books

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360 of the books on these reading lists are out of copyright, which means you can read them today without paying anyone. 91 are on this site, set beside their guides; the rest are at Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg, who digitised them.

What is free is almost always an older translation, and for Homer or Dante that is a real difference rather than a technicality. Each book below names the translation we would actually buy, so you can read the free one first and decide.

  1. Ancient Near East

  2. Exodusby The Bible · c. 7th c. BCE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendRobert Alter translation

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  3. Genesisby Anonymous · c. 10th c. BCE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendRobert Alter translation

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  4. The Bibleby Anonymous · c. 1000 BCE

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  5. The Book of Psalmsby Anonymous · c. 10th c. BCE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendRobert Alter translation

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  6. Jobby Anonymous · c. 6th c. BCE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendRobert Alter translation

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  7. Archaic Greece

  8. The Iliadby Homer · c. 750 BCE

    Free to readSamuel Butler's prose translation, 1898

    In print we recommendRichmond Lattimore translation

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  9. The Odysseyby Homer · c. 725 BCE

    Free to readSamuel Butler's prose translation, 1900

    In print we recommendRichmond Lattimore translation

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  10. Fablesby Aesop · c. 6th c. BCE

    Free to readV S Vernon Jones's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendLaura Gibbs translation

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  11. Classical Greece

  12. Agamemnonby Aeschylus · 458 BCE

    Free to readGilbert Murray's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  13. The Eumenidesby Aeschylus · 458 BCE

    Free to readGilbert Murray's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  14. The Libation Bearersby Aeschylus · 458 BCE

    Free to readGilbert Murray's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  15. The Oresteiaby Aeschylus · 458 BCE

    Free to readE. D. A. Morshead's translation, 1881

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  16. Antigoneby Sophocles · c. 441 BCE

    Free to readFrancis Storr's translation, 1912

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  17. Medeaby Euripides · 431 BCE

    Free to readGilbert Murray's translation, 1910

    In print we recommendOliver Taplin translation

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  18. Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus · c. 430 BCE

    Free to readTheodore Alois Buckley's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendDavid Grene translation

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  19. The Historiesby Herodotus · c. 430 BCE

    Free to readG. C. Macaulay's translation, 1890, Books I to IV

    In print we recommendAndrea L. Purvis translation

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  20. Oedipus the Kingby Sophocles · c. 429 BCE

    Free to readFrancis Storr's translation, 1912

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  21. Hippolytusby Euripides · 428 BCE

    Free to readHippolytus, Project Gutenberg edition

    In print we recommendDavid Grene translation

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  22. The Cloudsby Aristophanes · 423 BCE

    Free to readThe Athenian Society translation, 1912

    In print we recommendThomas G. West and Grace Starry West translation

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  23. The Trojan Womenby Euripides · 415 BCE

    Free to readGilbert Murray's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendRichmond Lattimore translation

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  24. The Birdsby Aristophanes · 414 BCE

    Free to readThe Athenian Society translation, 1912

    In print we recommendDavid Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein translation

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  25. Lysistrataby Aristophanes · 411 BCE

    Free to readJack Lindsay's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendAlan H. Sommerstein translation

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  26. Philoctetesby Sophocles · 409 BCE

    Free to readFrancis Storr's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendDavid Grene translation

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  27. Oedipus at Colonusby Sophocles · c. 406 BCE

    Free to readFrancis Storr's translation, 1912

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  28. The Bacchaeby Euripides · c. 405 BCE

    Free to readThe Bacchae of Euripides, Project Gutenberg edition

    In print we recommendWilliam Arrowsmith translation

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  29. The Frogsby Aristophanes · 405 BCE

    Free to readThe Frogs, Project Gutenberg edition

    In print we recommendDavid Barrett, revised by Shomit Dutta translation

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  30. History of the Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides · c. 431-400 BCE

    Free to readRichard Crawley's translation, 1874

    In print we recommendRichard Crawley, edited by Robert B. Strassler translation

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  31. Medical Writingsby Hippocrates · c. 430-350 BCE

    Free to readFrancis Adams's translation, 1849, volume one

    In print we recommendJ. Chadwick and W. N. Mann and others translation

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  32. Tao Te Chingby Laozi · c. 4th c. BCE

    Free to readJames Legge's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendStephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo translation

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  33. The Sayings of Confuciusby Confucius · c. 5th c. BCE

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendEdward Slingerland translation

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  34. Apologyby Plato · c. 395 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendG. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper translation

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  35. Critoby Plato · c. 395 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendG. M. A. Grube translation

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  36. Euthyphroby Plato · c. 395 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendG. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper translation

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  37. Ionby Plato · c. 390 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendPaul Woodruff, in the volume edited by John M. Cooper translation

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  38. Protagorasby Plato · c. 390 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendStanley Lombardo and Karen Bell translation

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  39. Gorgiasby Plato · c. 385 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendDonald J. Zeyl translation

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  40. Menoby Plato · c. 385 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendG. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper translation

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  41. Phaedoby Plato · c. 380 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendG. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper translation

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  42. Symposiumby Plato · c. 380 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendAlexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff translation

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  43. The Republicby Plato · c. 375 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendAllan Bloom translation

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  44. Phaedrusby Plato · c. 370 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendAlexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff translation

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  45. Parmenidesby Plato · c. 365 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendMary Louise Gill and Paul Ryan, in the volume edited by John M. Cooper translation

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  46. Theaetetusby Plato · c. 365 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendM. J. Levett, revised by Myles Burnyeat translation

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  47. Sophistby Plato · c. 360 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendNicholas P. White, in the volume edited by John M. Cooper translation

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  48. Timaeusby Plato · c. 360 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1871

    In print we recommendDonald J. Zeyl translation

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  49. Lawsby Plato · c. 350 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendThomas L. Pangle translation

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  50. History of Animalsby Aristotle · c. 345 BCE

    Free to readRichard Cresswell's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendJonathan Barnes edition

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  51. Nicomachean Ethicsby Aristotle · c. 340 BCE

    Free to readW. D. Ross's translation, 1908

    In print we recommendTerence Irwin translation

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  52. Poeticsby Aristotle · c. 335 BCE

    Free to readS. H. Butcher's translation, 1902

    In print we recommendMalcolm Heath translation

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  53. Politicsby Aristotle · c. 335 BCE

    Free to readBenjamin Jowett's translation, 1885

    In print we recommendCarnes Lord translation

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  54. The Athenian Constitutionby Aristotle · c. 330 BCE

    Free to readSir Frederic G. Kenyon's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendP. J. Rhodes translation

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  55. Hellenistic and Roman Republic

  56. Elementsby Euclid · c. 300 BCE

    Free to readThe First Six Books of the Elements, John Casey's edition

    In print we recommendThomas L. Heath translation

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  57. Ecclesiastesby Anonymous · c. 3rd c. BCE

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendRobert Alter translation

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  58. On the Nature of Thingsby Lucretius · c. 55 BCE

    Free to readWilliam Ellery Leonard's verse translation, 1916

    In print we recommendA. E. Stallings translation

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  59. Lettersby Cicero · 68-43 BCE

    Free to readEvelyn S. Shuckburgh's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendP. G. Walsh translation

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  60. On Dutiesby Cicero · 44 BCE

    Free to readWalter Miller's translation, 1913

    In print we recommendM. T. Griffin and E. M. Atkins translation

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  61. On Friendshipby Cicero · 44 BCE

    Free to readEvelyn S. Shuckburgh's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendW. A. Falconer translation

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  62. On Old Ageby Cicero · 44 BCE

    Free to readEvelyn S. Shuckburgh's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendW. A. Falconer translation

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  63. Ecloguesby Virgil · c. 39 BCE

    Free to readJohn Dryden's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendC. Day Lewis translation

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  64. Georgicsby Virgil · 29 BCE

    Free to readJohn Dryden's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendC. Day Lewis translation

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  65. Roman Empire

  66. Odes and Epodesby Horace · 30-13 BCE

    Free to readJohn Conington's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendDavid West translation

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  67. History of Romeby Livy · 20 BCE

    Free to readThe History of Rome, Books 1 to 8

    In print we recommendAubrey de Sélincourt translation

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  68. The Aeneidby Virgil · 29-19 BCE

    Free to readJohn Dryden's verse translation, 1697

    In print we recommendRobert Fagles translation

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  69. Metamorphosesby Ovid · 8 CE

    Free to readVarious Translators's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendCharles Martin translation

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  70. Gospel of Matthewby Anonymous · c. 80-90 CE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  71. The Acts of the Apostlesby Anonymous · c. 80-100 CE

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  72. Gospel of Johnby The Bible · c. 90-110 CE

    Free to readThe King James Version, 1611

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  73. Germanyby Tacitus · 98

    Free to readThomas Gordon's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendAnthony Birley translation

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  74. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Plutarch · c. 100-120

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendJohn Dryden, revised by Arthur Hugh Clough translation

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  75. Lettersby Pliny the Younger · c. 97-112 CE

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendBetty Radice translation

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  76. Discoursesby Epictetus · c. 108 CE

    Free to readGeorge Long's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendRobert Dobbin translation

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  77. The Golden Sayings of Epictetusby Epictetus · c. 108 CE

    Free to readHastings Crossley's translation at Project Gutenberg

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  78. Historiesby Tacitus · c. 105-110

    Free to readW. Hamilton Fyfe's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendKenneth Wellesley translation

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  79. Annalsby Tacitus · c. 115-120

    Free to readThe Reign of Tiberius: the first six books of the Annals

    In print we recommendMichael Grant translation

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  80. Enchiridionby Epictetus · c. 125 CE

    Free to readElizabeth Carter's translation, 1758

    In print we recommendRobert Dobbin translation

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  81. Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius · c. 170-180

    Free to readGeorge Long's translation, 1862

    In print we recommendGregory Hays translation

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  82. Late Antiquity

  83. Confessionsby Augustine · 397-400

    Free to readE. B. Pusey's translation, 1838

    In print we recommendHenry Chadwick translation

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  84. The City of Godby Augustine · 413-426

    Free to readMarcus Dods's translation, 1871, Books I to X

    In print we recommendHenry Bettenson translation

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  85. The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius · 524

    Free to readH R James's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendP. G. Walsh translation

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  86. The Qur'anby Anonymous · 610

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendM. A. S. Abdel Haleem translation

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  87. Medieval

  88. Beowulfby Anonymous · c. 8th c.

    Free to readJohn Lesslie Hall's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendSeamus Heaney translation

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  89. The Lais of Marie de Franceby Marie de France · c. 1160-1190

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendGlyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby translation

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  90. The Story of Hayy ibn Yaqzanby Ibn Tufayl · c. 1160-1185

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendLenn Evan Goodman translation

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  91. The Guide of the Perplexedby Maimonides · c. 1190

    Free to readM. Friedländer's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendShlomo Pines translation

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  92. The Nibelungenliedby Anonymous · c. 1200

    Free to readAlice Horton's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendA. T. Hatto translation

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  93. Summa Theologicaby Thomas Aquinas · 1265-1274

    Free to readThe English Dominican translation, 1911, the First Part

    The free text is the one we recommend

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  94. On Monarchyby Dante Alighieri · c. 1312-1318

    Free to readF. J. Church's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendPrue Shaw translation

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  95. Infernoby Dante Alighieri · c. 1308-1314

    Free to readHenry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendRobert Hollander and Jean Hollander translation

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  96. Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri · c. 1314-1316

    Free to readHenry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendRobert Hollander and Jean Hollander translation

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  97. Paradisoby Dante Alighieri · c. 1316-1320

    Free to readHenry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendRobert Hollander and Jean Hollander translation

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  98. The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri · c. 1308-1320

    Free to readHenry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation, 1867

    In print we recommendAllen Mandelbaum translation

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  99. Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey Chaucer · c. 1382-1386

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendBarry Windeatt translation

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  100. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Anonymous · c. 1375-1400

    Free to readS O Andrew's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendSimon Armitage translation

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  101. The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387-1400

    Free to readThe Middle English text in D. Laing Purves's edition, 1870

    In print we recommendNevill Coghill translation

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  102. Showingsby Julian of Norwich · c. 1373-1393

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendEdmund Colledge and James Walsh translation

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  103. Renaissance

  104. The Imitation of Christby Thomas à Kempis · c. 1418-1427

    Free to readWilliam Benham's translation at Standard Ebooks

    In print we recommendLeo Sherley-Price translation

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  105. Le Morte d'Arthurby Thomas Malory · 1469

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendOxford World's Classics edition

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  106. The Praise of Follyby Desiderius Erasmus · 1511

    Free to readJohn Wilson's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendBetty Radice translation

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  107. The Princeby Niccolò Machiavelli · 1513

    Free to readW. K. Marriott's translation, 1908

    In print we recommendHarvey C. Mansfield translation

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  108. Utopiaby Thomas More · 1516

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendW. W. Norton, Norton Critical Editions edition

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  109. Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livyby Niccolò Machiavelli · c. 1513

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendHarvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov translation

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  110. The Ninety-Five Thesesby Martin Luther · 1517

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendFortress Press edition

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  111. On the Freedom of a Christianby Martin Luther · 1520

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendFortress Press edition

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  112. Gargantua and Pantagruelby François Rabelais · 1532-1564

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendM. A. Screech translation

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  113. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini · 1558

    Free to readJohn Addington Symonds's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendJulia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella translation

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  114. Table-Talkby Martin Luther · 1531

    Free to readCaptain Henry Bell's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendFortress Press edition

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  115. A Description of Elizabethan Englandby William Harrison · 1577

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendDover edition

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  116. Essaysby Michel de Montaigne · 1580-1595

    Free to readCharles Cotton's translation, 1685, in the 1877 revision

    In print we recommendM. A. Screech translation

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  117. The Defense of Poesyby Philip Sidney · c. 1580

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendPenguin Classics edition

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  118. Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the Worldby Francis Pretty · 1577

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendP. F. Collier and Son, Harvard Classics volume 33 edition

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  119. Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe · c. 1592

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendManchester University Press edition

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  120. Edward the Secondby Christopher Marlowe · c. 1592

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendManchester University Press edition

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  121. The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare · c. 1590-1592

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  122. Richard IIIby William Shakespeare · c. 1592-1593

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    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  123. The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare · c. 1594

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  124. Richard IIby William Shakespeare · c. 1595

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    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  125. Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare · c. 1595

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  126. A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare · c. 1595-1596

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  127. The Discovery of Guianaby Walter Raleigh · 1596

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendP. F. Collier and Son edition

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  128. The Faerie Queeneby Edmund Spenser · 1590-1596

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendPenguin Classics edition

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  129. Henry IV, Part 1by William Shakespeare · c. 1596-1597

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  130. The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare · c. 1596-1597

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  131. Henry IV, Part 2by William Shakespeare · c. 1597-1598

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  132. As You Like Itby William Shakespeare · c. 1599

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  133. Henry Vby William Shakespeare · 1599

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

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  134. Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare · 1599

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  135. Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare · c. 1598-1599

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  136. Hamletby William Shakespeare · c. 1600

    Free to readThe text of the Folger and Globe editions

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  137. On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodiesby William Gilbert · 1600

    Free to readSilvanus P. Thompson's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendP. Fleury Mottelay translation

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  138. Seventeenth Century

  139. Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare · c. 1601

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  140. Troilus and Cressidaby William Shakespeare · c. 1602

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  141. Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  142. Othelloby William Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  143. Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes · 1605-1615

    Free to readJohn Ormsby's translation, 1885

    In print we recommendEdith Grossman translation

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  144. The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon · 1605

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    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  145. King Learby William Shakespeare · c. 1605-1606

    Free to readThe text of the Folger and Globe editions

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  146. Macbethby William Shakespeare · c. 1606

    Free to readThe Globe edition text

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library (Simon and Schuster) edition

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  147. Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare · c. 1606-1607

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  148. Coriolanusby William Shakespeare · c. 1608

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  149. Philasterby Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher · c. 1609

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  150. Sonnetsby William Shakespeare · 1609

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  151. The Alchemistby Ben Jonson · 1610

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendNew Mermaids, Bloomsbury edition

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  152. The Starry Messengerby Galileo Galilei · 1610

    Free to readEdward Stafford Carlos's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendAlbert Van Helden translation

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  153. The Tempestby William Shakespeare · c. 1611

    Free to readThe text of the Folger and Globe editions

    In print we recommendFolger Shakespeare Library edition

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  154. The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare · c. 1610-1611

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

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  155. The Duchess of Malfiby John Webster · c. 1613

    Free to readThe Standard Ebooks edition

    In print we recommendBloomsbury, New Mermaids edition

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  156. Novum Organumby Francis Bacon · 1620

    Free to readNovum Organum, Project Gutenberg edition

    In print we recommendLisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne translation

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  157. Essaysby Francis Bacon · 1597-1625

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  158. Sir Francis Drake Revivedby Philip Nichols · c. 1593

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendP. F. Collier and Son edition

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  159. New Atlantisby Francis Bacon · 1627

    Free to readThe Project Gutenberg text

    In print we recommendOxford University Press edition

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  160. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animalsby William Harvey · 1628

    Free to readRobert Willis's translation, 1847

    In print we recommendKenneth J. Franklin translation

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  161. Life Is a Dreamby Pedro Calderón de la Barca · 1635

    Free to readEdward FitzGerald's translation at Project Gutenberg

    In print we recommendGregary Racz translation

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  162. Discourse on Methodby René Descartes · 1637

    Free to readJohn Veitch's translation, 1850

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  164. Meditations on First Philosophyby René Descartes · 1641

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  166. Religio Mediciby Thomas Browne · 1643

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  167. Areopagiticaby John Milton · 1644

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  169. Leviathanby Thomas Hobbes · 1651

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  171. Tartuffeby Molière · 1664

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  172. Paradise Lostby John Milton · 1667

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  173. The Miserby Molière · 1668

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  174. Penséesby Blaise Pascal · 1657

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  175. The Lives of Donne and Herbertby Izaak Walton · 1640

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  176. The Would-Be Gentlemanby Molière · 1670

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  177. Paradise Regainedby John Milton · 1671

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  178. The Imaginary Invalidby Molière · 1673

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  180. Phaedraby Jean Racine · 1677

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  181. The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan · 1678

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  182. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophyby Isaac Newton · 1687

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  183. Second Treatise of Governmentby John Locke · 1689

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  188. A Tale of a Tubby Jonathan Swift · 1704

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  189. Opticksby Isaac Newton · 1704

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  190. Journal to Stellaby Jonathan Swift · 1710

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  191. Principles of Human Knowledgeby George Berkeley · 1710

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  201. The Vanity of Human Wishesby Samuel Johnson · 1749

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  204. Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755

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  205. Candideby Voltaire · 1759

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  211. Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire · 1764

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  212. Preface to Shakespeareby Samuel Johnson · 1765

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  213. Minna von Barnhelmby Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1767

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  218. The Declaration of Independenceby Thomas Jefferson · 1776

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  222. The Lives of the Poetsby Samuel Johnson · 1779-1781

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  223. Critique of Pure Reasonby Immanuel Kant · 1781

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  224. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysicsby Immanuel Kant · 1783

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  225. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel Kant · 1785

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  226. Poems and Songsby Robert Burns · 1786-1796

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  227. The Constitution of the United Statesby Anonymous · 1787

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  228. Egmontby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788

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  229. The Federalist Papersby Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay · 1787-1788

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  230. Elements of Chemistryby Antoine Lavoisier · 1789

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  231. A Vindication of the Rights of Menby Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790

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  232. Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke · 1790

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  233. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin · 1771

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  235. Hermann and Dorotheaby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1797

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  236. The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798

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  238. William Tellby Friedrich Schiller · 1804

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  239. Faustby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808

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  240. Poetry and Truthby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1811-1833

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  241. Children's and Household Talesby Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812-1857

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  242. Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen · 1813

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  243. Emmaby Jane Austen · 1815

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  244. Biographia Literariaby Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817

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  245. Frankensteinby Mary Shelley · 1818

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  247. A Defence of Poetryby Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1821

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  248. Adonaisby Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1821

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  249. On Loveby Stendhal · 1822

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  250. The Betrothedby Alessandro Manzoni · 1827

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  251. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the Worldby David Walker · 1829

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  252. Principles of Geologyby Charles Lyell · 1830-1833

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  253. The Red and the Blackby Stendhal · 1830

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  254. On Warby Carl von Clausewitz · 1832

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  255. Eugénie Grandetby Honoré de Balzac · 1833

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  256. Poemsby Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1796-1834

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  257. Democracy in Americaby Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835-1840

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  258. Père Goriotby Honoré de Balzac · 1835

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  259. Talesby Hans Christian Andersen · 1835-1872

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  260. The Pickwick Papersby Charles Dickens · 1836-1837

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  261. The Charterhouse of Parmaby Stendhal · 1839

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  262. The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Darwin · 1839

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  264. Essaysby Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841 and 1844

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  265. The Essence of Christianityby Ludwig Feuerbach · 1841

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  266. A Blot in the 'Scutcheonby Robert Browning · 1843

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  267. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrineby John Henry Newman · 1845

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  268. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick Douglass · 1845

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  269. Cousin Betteby Honoré de Balzac · 1846

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  270. Evangelineby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1847

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  271. The Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx · 1848

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  272. Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau · 1849

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  273. David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens · 1849-1850

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  274. Representative Menby Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850

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  275. The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

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  276. Moby-Dickby Herman Melville · 1851

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  277. Studies in Pessimismby Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851

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  278. The Idea of a Universityby John Henry Newman · 1852

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  279. Hard Timesby Charles Dickens · 1854

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  280. Waldenby Henry David Thoreau · 1854

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  281. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman · 1855

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  282. English Traitsby Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1856

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  283. Little Dorritby Charles Dickens · 1855-1857

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  284. Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert · 1857

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  285. Adam Bedeby George Eliot · 1859

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  286. On Libertyby John Stuart Mill · 1859

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  287. On the Origin of Speciesby Charles Darwin · 1859

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  288. Tristan and Isoldeby Richard Wagner · 1857

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  289. The Forces of Matterby Michael Faraday · 1860

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  290. Considerations on Representative Governmentby John Stuart Mill · 1861

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  291. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Jacobs · 1861

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  292. The Chemical History of a Candleby Michael Faraday · 1861

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  293. Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill · 1861

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  294. Walkingby Henry David Thoreau · 1851

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  295. The Gettysburg Addressby Abraham Lincoln · 1863

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  297. Sesame and Liliesby John Ruskin · 1865

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  298. Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

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  299. The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869

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  300. The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart Mill · 1869

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  301. War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy · 1865-1869

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  302. Middlemarchby George Eliot · 1871-1872

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  303. The Descent of Manby Charles Darwin · 1871

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  304. Autobiographyby John Stuart Mill · 1873

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  305. The Americanby Henry James · 1877

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  306. Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy · 1875-1878

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  307. A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen · 1879

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  308. The Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

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  309. Thus Spoke Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883-1885

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  310. Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain · 1884-1885

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  311. The Wild Duckby Henrik Ibsen · 1884

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  312. Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886

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  313. On the Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Nietzsche · 1887

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  314. Time and Free Willby Henri Bergson · 1889

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  316. The Golden Boughby James George Frazer · 1890

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  317. Billy Buddby Herman Melville · 1886

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  318. The Master Builderby Henrik Ibsen · 1892

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  319. Selected Papers on Hysteriaby Sigmund Freud · 1893-1909

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  320. Uncle Vanyaby Anton Chekhov · 1897

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  321. What Is Art?by Leo Tolstoy · 1897

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  322. Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad · 1899

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  323. The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund Freud · 1899

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  326. Science and Hypothesisby Henri Poincaré · 1902

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  327. The Varieties of Religious Experienceby William James · 1902

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  328. Man and Supermanby George Bernard Shaw · 1903

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  329. The Ambassadorsby Henry James · 1903

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  330. The Beast in the Jungleby Henry James · 1903

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  331. The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903

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  332. Hadji Muratby Leo Tolstoy · 1896

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  333. Major Barbaraby George Bernard Shaw · 1905

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  336. Creative Evolutionby Henri Bergson · 1907

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  338. Science and Methodby Henri Poincaré · 1908

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  339. The Mysterious Strangerby Mark Twain · 1897

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  340. Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Ruleby Mohandas K. Gandhi · 1909

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  341. How We Thinkby John Dewey · 1910

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  342. An Introduction to Mathematicsby Alfred North Whitehead · 1911

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  343. Death in Veniceby Thomas Mann · 1912

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  344. Essays in Radical Empiricismby William James · 1904

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  345. Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw · 1912

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  346. In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel Proust · 1913-1927

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  347. Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust · 1913

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  348. Dublinersby James Joyce · 1914

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  349. The Prussian Officerby D. H. Lawrence · 1914

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  350. The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka · 1915

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  351. The Unconsciousby Sigmund Freud · 1915

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  352. Thoughts for the Times on War and Deathby Sigmund Freud · 1915

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  353. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce · 1916

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  355. A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysisby Sigmund Freud · 1916-1917

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  357. Relativity: The Special and the General Theoryby Albert Einstein · 1917

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  358. My Ántoniaby Willa Cather · 1918

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  359. Beyond the Pleasure Principleby Sigmund Freud · 1920

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  360. Origin and Development of the Quantum Theoryby Max Planck · 1920

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  362. Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello · 1921

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  367. Skepticism and Animal Faithby George Santayana · 1923

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  368. The Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann · 1924

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  369. Science and the Modern Worldby Alfred North Whitehead · 1925

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