Great Books of the Western World

=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 BristolJOHN 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)
• JEAN DE CREVECOEUR,

"The Making of Americans" (from Letters from an American Farmer)

• DANTE ALIGHIERI,

"On World Government" (from De Monarchia)

• RALPH WALDO EMERSON,

Thoreau

• 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, 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, Of the Study of History

• WILLIAM JAMES,

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings, The Energies of Men, Great Men and Their EnvironmentTHOMAS JEFFERSON, "The Virginia Constitution" (from Notes on Virginia), First Inaugural Address, Biographical Sketches

• IMMANUEL KANT,

Perpetual Peace

• LA BRUYERE,

Characters

• ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

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 AgeARTHUR 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

• CORNELIUS TACITUS,

The Life of Gnaeus Julius Ag-ricola

• 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)