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1. 

   Beyond Good and Evil

   Friedrich Nietzsche

2. 

   Heart of Darkness

   Joseph Conrad

3. 

   Meditations

   Marcus Aurelius

4. 

   The Prince

   Niccolò Machiavelli

5. 

   Candide

   Voltaire

6. 

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

   Mark Twain

7. 

   Don Quixote

   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

8. 

   On Liberty

   John Stuart Mill

9. 

   Poetry

   T. S. Eliot

10. 

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx

    Friedrich Engels

11. 

    Emma

    Jane Austen

12. 

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

13. 

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

14. 

    The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

15. 

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. 

    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Luigi Pirandello

17. 

    The Problems of Philosophy

    Bertrand Russell

18. 

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    William Shakespeare

19. 

    Henry V

    William Shakespeare

20. 

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton

21. 

    Gulliver’s Travels

    Jonathan Swift

22. 

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

23. 

    The Iliad

    Homer

24. 

    The Odyssey

    Homer

25. 

    Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

26. 

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    Laurence Sterne

27. 

    Discourses

    Epictetus

28. 

    Poetry

    William Shakespeare

29. 

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    William Shakespeare

30. 

    The Comedy of Errors

    William Shakespeare

31. 

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

32. 

    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare

33. 

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

34. 

    Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

35. 

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare

36. 

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

    Henry Fielding

37. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

38. 

    Henry VI, Part I

    William Shakespeare

39. 

    Henry VI, Part II

    William Shakespeare

40. 

    Othello

    William Shakespeare

41. 

    Henry VI, Part III

    William Shakespeare

42. 

    The Aeneid

    Virgil

43. 

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

44. 

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce

45. 

    A Doll’s House

    Henrik Ibsen

46. 

    The Federalist Papers

    Alexander Hamilton

    John Jay

    James Madison

47. 

    Hedda Gabler

    Henrik Ibsen

48. 

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

49. 

    The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

50. 

    As You Like It

    William Shakespeare

51. 

    Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

52. 

    The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen

53. 

    King John

    William Shakespeare

54. 

    Richard II

    William Shakespeare

55. 

    Henry IV, Part I

    William Shakespeare

56. 

    Henry IV, Part II

    William Shakespeare

57. 

    Richard III

    William Shakespeare

58. 

    Tartuffe

    Molière

59. 

    Little Dorrit

    Charles Dickens

60. 

    Henry VIII

    William Shakespeare

61. 

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

62. 

    All’s Well That Ends Well

    William Shakespeare

63. 

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    William Shakespeare

64. 

    The Taming of the Shrew

    William Shakespeare

65. 

    Antony and Cleopatra

    William Shakespeare

66. 

    The Merchant of Venice

    William Shakespeare

67. 

    Timon of Athens

    William Shakespeare

68. 

    Pericles

    William Shakespeare

69. 

    Coriolanus

    William Shakespeare

70. 

    The Acquisitive Society

    R. H. Tawney

71. 

    Dialogues

    Plato

72. 

    Titus Andronicus

    William Shakespeare

73. 

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

74. 

    Troilus and Cressida

    William Shakespeare

75. 

    Measure for Measure

    William Shakespeare

76. 

    Cymbeline

    William Shakespeare

77. 

    Love’s Labour’s Lost

    William Shakespeare

78. 

    To the Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf

79. 

    The Canterbury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

80. 

    In Search of Lost Time

    Marcel Proust

81. 

    The Winter’s Tale

    William Shakespeare

82. 

    Pragmatism

    William James

83. 

    The Eclogues

    Virgil

84. 

    The Georgics

    Virgil

85. 

    Histories

    Herodotus

86. 

    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    David Hume

87. 

    The Libation Bearers

    Aeschylus

88. 

    The Eumenides

    Aeschylus

89. 

    The Social Contract

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

90. 

    Agamemnon

    Aeschylus

91. 

    History of the Peloponnesian War

    Thucydides

92. 

    Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes

93. 

    Oedipus Rex

    Sophocles

94. 

    Two Treatises of Government

    John Locke

95. 

    Oedipus at Colonus

    Sophocles

96. 

    Antigone

    Sophocles

97. 

    Philosophical Works

    René Descartes

98. 

    Electra

    Sophocles

99. The Suppliant Maidens

    Aeschylus

100. The Persians

     Aeschylus

101. Seven Against Thebes

     Aeschylus

102. Prometheus Bound

     Aeschylus

103. Ajax

     Sophocles

104. The Trachiniae

     Sophocles

105. Philoctetes

     Sophocles

106. Rhesus

     Euripides

107. Medea

     Euripides

108. Hippolytus

     Euripides

109. Alcestis

     Euripides

110. Heracleidae

     Euripides

111. The Suppliants

     Euripides

112. The Trojan Women

     Euripides

113. Ion

     Euripides

114. Helen

     Euripides

115. Andromache

     Euripides

116. Bacchantes

     Euripides

117. Hecuba

     Euripides

118. Heracles Mad

     Euripides

119. The Phoenician Women

     Euripides

120. Orestes

     Euripides

121. Iphigenia in Tauris

     Euripides

122. Iphigenia in Aulis

     Euripides

123. Cyclops

     Euripides

124. The Acharnians

     Aristophanes

125. The Knights

     Aristophanes

126. The Clouds

     Aristophanes

127. The Wasps

     Aristophanes

128. Peace

     Aristophanes

129. The Birds

     Aristophanes

130. The Frogs

     Aristophanes

131. Lysistrata

     Aristophanes

132. Thesmophoriazusae

     Aristophanes

133. Ecclesiazousae

     Aristophanes

134. Plutus

     Aristophanes

135. Categories

     Aristotle

136. On Interpretation

     Aristotle

137. Prior Analytics

     Aristotle

138. Posterior Analytics

     Aristotle

139. Topics

     Aristotle

140. Sophistical Refutations

     Aristotle

141. Physics

     Aristotle

142. On the Heavens

     Aristotle

143. On Generation and Corruption

     Aristotle

144. Meteorology

     Aristotle

145. Metaphysics

     Aristotle

146. On the Soul

     Aristotle

147. Short Works

     Aristotle

148. History of Animals

     Aristotle

149. Parts of Animals

     Aristotle

150. On the Motion of Animals

     Aristotle

151. On the Gait of Animals

     Aristotle

152. On the Generation of Animals

     Aristotle

153. Politics

     Aristotle

154. The Athenian Constitution

     Aristotle

155. Rhetoric

     Aristotle

156. Poetics

     Aristotle

157. On the Nature of Things

     Lucretius

158. The Annals

     Tacitus

159. The Histories

     Tacitus

160. The Six Enneads

     Plotinus

161. The Confessions

     Augustine of Hippo

162. The City of God

     Augustine of Hippo

163. On Christian Doctrine

     Augustine of Hippo

164. Summa Theologica

     Thomas Aquinas

165. Troilus and Criseyde

     Geoffrey Chaucer

166. The Advancement of Learning

     Francis Bacon

167. Novum Organum

     Francis Bacon

168. New Atlantis

     Francis Bacon

169. Rules for the Direction of the Mind

     René Descartes

170. Objections Against the Meditations and Replies

     René Descartes

171. The Geometry

     René Descartes

172. Ethics

     Benedict de Spinoza

173. Poetry

     John Milton

174. Samson Agonistes

     John Milton

175. Areopagitica

     John Milton

176. The Provincial Letters

     Blaise Pascal

177. Pensées

     Blaise Pascal

178. Essays

     Blaise Pascal

179. A Letter Concerning Toleration

     John Locke

180. The Principles of Human Knowledge

     George Berkeley

181. The Spirit of the Laws

     Montesquieu

182. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

     Jean-Jacques Rousseau

183. A Discourse on Political Economy

     Jean-Jacques Rousseau

184. Critique of Pure Reason

     Immanuel Kant

185. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

     Immanuel Kant

186. Critique of Practical Reason

     Immanuel Kant

187. The Metaphysics of Morals

     Immanuel Kant

188. The Critique of Judgement

     Immanuel Kant

189. American State Papers

     Various

190. Considerations on Representative Government

     John Stuart Mill

191. Utilitarianism

     John Stuart Mill

192. Faust

     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

193. Institutes of the Christian Religion

     John Calvin

194. The Praise of Folly

     Erasmus

195. The School for Wives

     Molière

196. Don Juan

     Molière

197. The Miser

     Molière

198. The Would-Be Gentleman

     Molière

199. The Imaginary Invalid

     Molière

200. Bérénice

     Jean Racine

201. Phèdre

     Jean Racine

202. Rameau’s Nephew

     Denis Diderot

203. Fear and Trembling

     Søren Kierkegaard

204. Cousin Bette

     Honoré de Balzac

205. The Wild Duck

     Henrik Ibsen

206. The Master Builder

     Henrik Ibsen

207. Introduction to Metaphysics

     Henri Bergson

208. Experience and Education

     John Dewey

209. Science and the Modern World

     Alfred North Whitehead

210. What is Metaphysics?

     Martin Heidegger

211. Philosophical Investigations

     Ludwig Wittgenstein

212. The Word of God and the Word of Man

     Karl Barth

213. A Mathematician’s Apology

     G. H. Hardy

214. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

     John Maynard Keynes

215. The Golden Bough

     James George Frazer

216. Essays

     Max Weber

217. The Autumn of the Middle Ages

     Johan Huizinga

218. Essays

     Claude Lévi-Strauss

219. The Beast in the Jungle

     Henry James

220. Saint Joan

     George Bernard Shaw

221. Uncle Vanya

     Anton Chekov

222. A Lost Lady

     Willa Cather

223. Death in Venice

     Thomas Mann

224. The Metamorphosis

     Franz Kafka

225. The Prussian Officer

     D. H. Lawrence

226. Mourning Becomes Electra

     Eugene O’Neill

227. Short Fiction

     William Faulkner

228. Mother Courage and Her Children

     Bertolt Brecht

229. Animal Farm

     George Orwell

230. Waiting for Godot

     Samuel Beckett

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