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  1. Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

  2. Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

  3. Candide

    Voltaire

  4. Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  5. The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

  7. Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  8. On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill

  9. The Waste Land

    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. Sonnets

    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. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay

    John Locke

  95. Oedipus at Colonus

    Sophocles

  96. Antigone

    Sophocles

  97. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason

    René Descartes

  98. Meditations on First Philosophy

    René Descartes

  99. Electra

    Sophocles

  100. The Trachiniae

    Sophocles

  101. Philoctetes

    Sophocles

  102. Ajax

    Sophocles

  103. Saint Joan

    George Bernard Shaw

  104. Uncle Vanya

    Anton Chekhov

  105. The City of God

    Augustine of Hippo

  106. Parallel Lives

    Plutarch

  107. The Suppliants

    Aeschylus

  108. The Persians

    Aeschylus

  109. The Seven Against Thebes

    Aeschylus

  110. Prometheus Bound

    Aeschylus

  111. Rhesus

    Euripides

  112. Medea

    Euripides

  113. Hippolytus

    Euripides

  114. Alcestis

    Euripides

  115. Heracleidae

    Euripides

  116. The Suppliants

    Euripides

  117. The Trojan Women

    Euripides

  118. Ion

    Euripides

  119. Helen

    Euripides

  120. Andromache

    Euripides

  121. The Bacchae

    Euripides

  122. Hecuba

    Euripides

  123. Heracles Mad

    Euripides

  124. The Phoenician Women

    Euripides

  125. Orestes

    Euripides

  126. Iphigenia in Tauris

    Euripides

  127. Iphigenia in Aulis

    Euripides

  128. Cyclops

    Euripides

  129. The Acharnians

    Aristophanes

  130. The Knights

    Aristophanes

  131. The Clouds

    Aristophanes

  132. The Wasps

    Aristophanes

  133. Peace

    Aristophanes

  134. The Birds

    Aristophanes

  135. The Frogs

    Aristophanes

  136. Lysistrata

    Aristophanes

  137. Thesmophoriazusae

    Aristophanes

  138. Ecclesiazousae

    Aristophanes

  139. Plutus

    Aristophanes

  140. Short Works

    Aristotle

  141. Poetics

    Aristotle

  142. On the Nature of Things

    Lucretius

  143. The Annals

    Tacitus

  144. The Histories

    Tacitus

  145. The Six Enneads

    Plotinus

  146. The Confessions

    Augustine of Hippo

  147. On Christian Doctrine

    Augustine of Hippo

  148. Summa Theologica

    Thomas Aquinas

  149. Troilus and Criseyde

    Geoffrey Chaucer

  150. The Advancement of Learning

    Francis Bacon

  151. Novum Organum

    Francis Bacon

  152. New Atlantis

    Francis Bacon

  153. Rules for the Direction of the Mind

    René Descartes

  154. Objections Against the Meditations and Replies

    René Descartes

  155. The Geometry

    René Descartes

  156. Ethics

    Benedictus de Spinoza

  157. Poetry

    John Milton

  158. Samson Agonistes

    John Milton

  159. Areopagitica

    John Milton

  160. The Provincial Letters

    Blaise Pascal

  161. Pensées

    Blaise Pascal

  162. Essays

    Blaise Pascal

  163. A Letter Concerning Toleration

    John Locke

  164. The Principles of Human Knowledge

    George Berkeley

  165. The Spirit of the Laws

    Montesquieu

  166. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  167. A Discourse on Political Economy

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  168. Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant

  169. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Immanuel Kant

  170. Critique of Practical Reason

    Immanuel Kant

  171. The Metaphysics of Morals

    Immanuel Kant

  172. The Critique of Judgement

    Immanuel Kant

  173. American State Papers

    Various

  174. Considerations on Representative Government

    John Stuart Mill

  175. Utilitarianism

    John Stuart Mill

  176. Faust

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  177. Institutes of the Christian Religion

    John Calvin

  178. The Praise of Folly

    Erasmus

  179. The School for Wives

    Molière

  180. Don Juan

    Molière

  181. The Miser

    Molière

  182. The Would-Be Gentleman

    Molière

  183. The Imaginary Invalid

    Molière

  184. Bérénice

    Jean Racine

  185. Phèdre

    Jean Racine

  186. Rameau’s Nephew

    Denis Diderot

  187. Fear and Trembling

    Søren Kierkegaard

  188. The Wild Duck

    Henrik Ibsen

  189. The Master Builder

    Henrik Ibsen

  190. Introduction to Metaphysics

    Henri Bergson

  191. Experience and Education

    John Dewey

  192. Science and the Modern World

    Alfred North Whitehead

  193. What is Metaphysics?

    Martin Heidegger

  194. Philosophical Investigations

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  195. The Word of God and the Word of Man

    Karl Barth

  196. A Mathematician’s Apology

    G. H. Hardy

  197. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

    John Maynard Keynes

  198. The Golden Bough

    James George Frazer

  199. Essays

    Max Weber

  200. The Autumn of the Middle Ages

    Johan Huizinga

  201. Essays

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  202. The Beast in the Jungle

    Henry James

  203. A Lost Lady

    Willa Cather

  204. Death in Venice

    Thomas Mann

  205. The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka

  206. The Prussian Officer

    D. H. Lawrence

  207. Mourning Becomes Electra

    Eugene O’Neill

  208. Short Fiction

    William Faulkner

  209. Mother Courage and Her Children

    Bertolt Brecht

  210. Animal Farm

    George Orwell

  211. Waiting for Godot

    Samuel Beckett

  212. Electra

    Euripides

  213. Gargantua and Pantagruel

    François Rabelais

  214. Essays

    Michel de Montaigne

  215. Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville

  216. Cousin Bette

    Honoré de Balzac

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