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 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,
- 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
- IMMANUEL KANT, Perpetual Peace Perpetual Peace MP3
- 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 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)
