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Philosophy-----------** Plato Dialogues** Aristotle Works

Epicurus Letter to Herodotus; Letter to MenoecusCicero Works

** Epictetus Discourses; EncheiridionMarcus Aurelius MeditationsPlotinus The EnneadsSt. Augustine On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Chris

tian DoctrineSt. Thomas Aquinas Summa TheologicaDante Alighieri On Monarchy

** Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of LivyThomas More UtopiaMartin Luther Table Talk; Three TreatisesJohn Calvin Institutes of the Christian ReligionMichel de Montaigne EssaysFrancis Bacon Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, Ne

w AtlantisGalileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

** Thomas Hobbes LeviathanRene Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on

the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy

John Milton (I) WorksBlaise Pascal (I) The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises

Benedict de Spinoza Ethics** John Locke Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology

George Berkeley Principles of Human KnowledgeAlexander Pope Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Ma

n** Charles Montesquieu Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws

Voltaire Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictiona

ry** David Hume Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding** Jean-Jacques Rousseau On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy;Emile or, On Education; The Social Contract** Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right;Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison Federalist Papers** Jeremy Bentham Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions

Georg Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (I) Biographia LiterariaCarl von Clausewitz On WarArthur Schopenhauer Studies in PessimismAuguste Comte The Positive PhilosophyRalph Waldo Emerson Representative Men; Essays; Journal

** Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America** John Stuart Mill A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography

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Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience; Walden** Karl Marx Capital; Communist Manifesto

William James The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism** Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power** Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Henri Bergson Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

John Dewey How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry

Alfred North Whitehead An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas

George Santayana The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places

Vladimir Lenin The State and RevolutionBertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Min

d; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and LimitsJacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge

; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True HumanismJean-Paul Sartre (I) Being and Nothingness

Science-------Hippocrates Medical WritingsEuclid ElementsArchimedes WorksApollonius of Perga Conic SectionsNicomachus of Gerasa Introduction to ArithmeticPtolemy AlmagestGalen On the Natural FacultiesLeonardo da Vinci NotebooksNicolaus Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Heavenly SpheresWilliam Gilbert On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Galileo Galilei Starry MessengerJohannes Kepler Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the WorldWilliam Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of AnimalsRene Descartes GeometryBlaise Pascal (II) Scientific TreatisesChristiaan Huygens Treatise on LightIsaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; OpticsAntoine Laurent Lavoisier Traite Elementaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Analytical Theory of HeatMichael Faraday Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity

Charles Lyell Principles of GeologyCharles Darwin The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; AutobiographyClaude Bernard Introduction to the Study of Experimental MedicineJules Henri Poincare Science and Hypothesis; Science and MethodMax Planck Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific AutobiographyAlbert Einstein The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics

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Literature----------Lucretius On the Nature of ThingsVirgil WorksHorace WorksLucian WorksThe Song of RolandThe NibelungenliedThe Saga of Burnt NjalDante Alighieri The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On MonarchyGeoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury TalesDesiderius Erasmus The Praise of FollyFrancois Rabelais Gargantua and PantagruelMiguel de Cervantes Don QuixoteEdmund Spenser Prothalamion (short poem); The Faerie QueeneFrancis Bacon New AtlantisWilliam Shakespeare Poetry and PlaysJohn Milton (II) WorksMoliere ComediesJean Baptiste Racine TragediesDaniel Defoe Robinson CrusoeJonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A ModestProposalWilliam Congreve The Way of the World

Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews; Tom JonesSamuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; RasselasLaurence Sterne Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust; Poetry and TruthWilliam Wordsworth PoemsSamuel Taylor Coleridge (II) PoemsJane Austen Pride and Prejudice; EmmaStendhal The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On LoveLord Byron Don JuanHonore de Balzac Pere Goriot; Eugenie GrandetNathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet LetterCharles Dickens Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard TimesGeorge Eliot Adam Bede; Middlemarch

Herman Melville Moby-Dick; Billy BuddFyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers KaramazovGustave Flaubert Madame Bovary; Three StoriesHenrik Ibsen PlaysLeo Tolstoy War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three TalesMark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious StrangerHenry James The American; The AmbassadorsGeorge Bernard Shaw Plays and PrefacesMarcel Proust Remembrance of Things PastThomas Mann The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His BrothersJames Joyce 'The Dead' in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; UlyssesFranz Kafka The Trial; The Castle

Jean-Paul Sartre (II) Nausea; No ExitAleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

History-------Homer Iliad, OdysseyHerodotus HistoriesThucydides History of the Peloponnesian WarLivy History of Rome

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Ovid WorksPlutarch Parallel Lives; MoraliaTacitus Histories; Annals; Agricola GermaniaSamuel Johnson The Lives of the PoetsEdward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; AutobiographyJames Boswell Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.Arnold J. Toynbee A Study of History; Civilization on Trial