Great books of the Western World - Hutchins, Robert Maynard 1899-1977; Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.; University of Chicago (Chicago William Benton, 1952)
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.--2-3. The great ideas.--4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.--5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.--6. Herodotus. Thucydides.--7. Plato.--8-9. Aristotle.--10. Hippocrates. Galen.--11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.--12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.--13. Virgil.--14. Plutarch.--15. Tacitus.--16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.--17. Plotinus.--18. Augustine.--19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.--21. Dante.--22. On the origin of inequality, On political ecomomy, The social contract Analytical theory of heat Experimental researches in electricity Elements of chemistry Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history On liberty; Representative; Government; Utilitarianism The Federalist American state papers Faust : parts one and two Moby Dick; or, The whale The history of Tom Jones : a foundling The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare.--28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.--29. Cervantes.--30. Francis Bacon.--31. Descartes. Spinoza.--32. John Milton.--33. Pascal.--34. Newton. Huygens.--35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.--36. Swift. Sterne.--37. Leviathan, or, matter, form, and power of a commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil The origin of species by means of natural selection ; The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex The prince Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury Tales by Charles Darwin. --50. Marx.--51. Tolstoy.--52. Dostoevsky.--53. William James.--54. Freud. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.--48. by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.--47. by Herman Melville. --49. by Michael Faraday.--46. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier by James Boswell.--45. by John Stuart Mill.--44. by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay by Jean Jacques Rousseau.--39. Adam Smith.--40-41. Gibbon.--42. Kant.--43. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu by Henry Fielding.--38. %tThe spirit of laws by Thomas Hobbes.--24. Rabelais.--25. Montaigne.--26-27. by Nicolo Machiavelli by Geoffrey Chaucer.--23.
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