Great Books of the Western World

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=List from How to Read a Book MAN AND SOCIETY

  • HENRY ADAMS, -"The United States in 1800" (from History of the United States of America)
  • SIR FRANCIS BACON,
  • Of Youth and Age,
  • Of Parents and Children,
  • Of Marriage and Single Life,
  • Of Great Place,
  • Of Seditions and Troubles,
  • Of Custom and Education,
  • Of Followers and Friends,
  • Of Usury,
  • Of Riches
  • EDMUND BURKE,Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
  • JOHN BAGNELL BURY,Herodotus
  • JOHN C. CALHOUN, "The Concurrent Majority" (from A Disquisition on Government)
  • THOMAS CARLYLE, The Hero as King
  • KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ,"What Is War?" (from On War). What is War? MP3
  • JEAN DE CREVECOEUR, "The Making of Americans" (from Letters from an American Farmer)
  • DANTE ALIGHIERI, "On World Government" (from De Monarchia) - [1]

Emerson

  • RALPH WALDO EMERSON,Thoreau (note: is this a book? 1972 edition shows:
  • Representative Men
  • Essays - [2]
  • Journal
  • MICHAEL FARADAY, Observations on Mental Education
  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
  • Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantations in America,
  • Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania
  • GREAT DOCUMENTS,
  • The English Bill of Rights,
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - [3]
  • The Virginia Declaration of Rights,
  • The Declaration of Independence,
  • Charter of the United Nations,
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • FRANCOIS GUIZOT,"Civilization" (from History of Civilization in Europe)
  • NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Sketch of Abraham Lincoln
  • DAVID HUME,
  • Of Refinement in the Arts,
  • Of Money,
  • Of the Balance of Trade,
  • Of Taxes - [4] by Marginal Revolution University [5]
  • Of the Study of History
  • WILLIAM JAMES,
  • On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,
  • The Energies of Men,
  • Great Men and Their Environment
  • THOMAS JEFFERSON,
  • "The Virginia Constitution" (from Notes on Virginia),
  • First Inaugural Address,
  • Biographical Sketches
  • Address at Cooper Institute,
  • First "Inaugural Address,
  • Letter to Horace Greeley,
  • Meditation on the Divine Will,
  • The Gettysburg Address,
  • Second Inaugural Address,
  • Last Public Address
  • HANIEL LONG, The P,ower Within Us
  • LUCIAN, The Way to Write History
  • THRMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, Machiavelli
  • THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, "The Principle of Population" (from Population: The First Essay)
  • JOHN STUART MILL, "Childhood and Youth" (from Autobiography)
  • THOMAS PAINE, "A Call to Patriots—December 23, 1776" (from The Crisis)
  • PLINY THE YOUNGER, "The Eruption of Vesuvius" (from Letters)
  • PLUTARCH, Of Bashfulness
  • WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, "The Land of Montezuma" (from The Conquest of Mexico)
  • JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe
  • JOHN RUSKIN, An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age
  • ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, On Education
  • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The Lantern-Bearers
  • JONATHAN SWIFT,
  • Resolutions When I Come to Be Old,
  • An Essay on Modern Education,
  • A Meditation Upon a Broomstick,
  • A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country

Tacitus

  • CORNELIUS TACITUS, The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola - [6]
  • HENRY DAVID THOREAU,
  • Civil Disobedience,
  • A Plea for Captain John Brown
  • ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE,

"Observations on American Life and Government" (from Democracy in America)

  • MARK TWAIN,

"Learning the River" (from Life on the Mississippi)

  • VOLTAIRE,

"English Men and Ideas" (from Letters on the English)

  • GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army, The Farewell Address

  • WALT WHITMAN,

Death of Abraham Lincoln

  • VIRGINIA WOOLF,

The Art of Biography

  • XENOPHON,

"The March to the Sea" (from The Persian Expedition), "The Character of Socrates" (from Memorabilia)