Great books of the Western World / Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated ; in collaboration with the University of Chicago ; [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]

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INTRODUCTION / Boswell -- Elements of chemistry / Anthoine Laurent Lavoisier -- Analytical theory of heat / Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- Experiment researches in electricity / Michael Faraday -- The philosophy of right -- The philosophy of history / Georg Wilelm Friedrich Hegel -- Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Moby Dick; or, The whale / Herman Melville -- The origin of species by means of natural selection -- The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / Charles Darwin -- Capital / Karl Marx -- Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- War and peace / Count Leo Tolstoy -- The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The principles of psychology / William James -- The origin and development of psycho-analysis -- Selected papers on hysteria -- The sexual enlightenment of children -- The future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy -- Observations on "wild" psycho-analysis -- The interpretation of dreams -- On narcissism -- Instincts and their vicissitudes -- Repression -- The unconscious -- A general introduction to psycho-analysis -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- Group psychology and the analysis of the ego -- The Ego and the Id -- Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety -- Thoughts for the times on war and death -- Civilization and its discontents -- New introductory lectures on pscyho-analysis / Sigmund Freud -- The great conversation / R.M. Hutchins -- The great ideas -- The Iliad of Homer. Homer ; rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler -- The Odyssey / Homer ; rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler -- The suppliant maidens -- The Persians -- Seven against Thebes -- Prometheus bound -- The Oresteia / Aeschylus ; translated into English verse by G. M. Cookson -- Oedipus the king -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Antigone -- Ajax -- Electra -- The Trachiniae -- Philoctetes / Sophocles ; translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb -- Rhesus -- Medea -- Hippolytus -- Alcestis -- Heracleidae -- The suppliants -- Trojan women -- Ion -- Helen -- Andromache -- Electra -- Bacchantes -- Hecuba -- Heracles mad -- Pheonician women -- Orestes -- Iphigenia in Tauris -- Iphigenia in Aulis Cyclops / Euripides ; translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge -- The Acharnians -- The knights -- The clouds -- The wasps -- Peace -- The birds -- The frogs -- Lysistrata -- Thesmophoriazusae -- Ecclesiazousae -- Plutus / The history / Herodotus ; translated by George Rawlinson -- History of the Peloponnesian War / Charmides -- Lysis -- Laches -- Protagoras -- Euthydemus -- Cratylus -- Phaedrus -- Ion -- Symposium -- Meno -- Euthyphro -- Apology -- Crito -- Phaedo -- Gorgias -- The Republic -- Timaeus -- Critias -- Parmenides -- Theaetetus -- Sophist -- Statesmen -- Philebus -- Laws / The seventh letter / Categories -- On interpretation -- Prior analytics -- Posterior analytics -- Topics -- Sophistical refutations -- Physics -- On the heavens -- On generation and corruption -- Meteorology -- Metaphysics -- On the soul / History of animals -- Parts of animals -- On the motion of animals -- On the gait of animals -- On the generation of animals -- Nicomachean ethics -- Politics -- The Athenian constitution -- Rhetoric -- Poetics / Aristotle -- Works / Hippocrates -- On the natural faculties / The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements / On the sphere and cylinder -- Measurement of a circle -- On conoids and spheroids -- On spirals -- On the equilibrium of planes -- The sand reckoner -- The quadrature of the parabola -- On floating bodies -- Book of lemmas -- The method treating of mechanical problems / On conic sections -- Introduction to arithmetic -- On the nature of things / Lucretius ; translated by H. A. J. Munro -- The discourses / Epictetus ; translated by George Long -- The meditations / Marcus Aurelius ; translated by George Long -- Eclogues -- Georgics -- Aeneid / Virgil ; translated into English verse by James Rhoades -- The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden -- The annals -- The histories / P. Cornelius Tacitus ; translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb -- Almagest / Ptolemy ; translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro -- On the revolutions of heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis -- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V) -- The harmonies of the world (Book V) / Johannes Kepler ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis -- The six Enneads / Plotinus ; translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page -- The confessions -- The city of God -- On Christian doctrine / Augustine -- Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas ; translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan -- The divine comedy / Dante ; translated by Charles Eliot Norton -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The Cantebury tales / Chaucer -- The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Gargantua and Pantagruel / Rabelais -- Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- The first part of King Henry the Sixth -- The second part of King Henry the Sixth -- The third part of King Henry the Sixth -- The tragedy of Richard the Third -- The comedy of errors -- Titus Andronicus -- The taming of the shrew -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labour's lost -- Romeo and Juliet -- The tragedy of King Richard the Second -- A midsummer night's dream -- The life and death of King John -- The merchant of Venice -- The first part of King Henry the Fourth -- The second part of King Henry the Fourth -- Much ado about nothing -- The life of King Henry the Fifth -- Julius Caesar -- As you like it / William Shakespeare --

Twelfth night; or, What you will -- The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well the ends well -- Measure for measure -- Othello, the Moor of Venice -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- Timon of Athens -- Pericles, Prince of Tyre -- Cymbeline -- The winter's tale -- The tempest -- The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth -- Sonnets / William Shakespeare -- On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert -- Dialogues concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei -- On the motion of the heart and blood in animals -- On the circulation of blood -- On the generation of animals / William Harvey -- The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- The adventure of learning -- Novum organum -- New Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- Rules for the direction of the mind -- Discourse on the method -- Meditations on first philosophy -- Objections against the meditations and replies -- The geometry / René Descartes -- Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza -- English minor poems -- Paradise lost -- Samson agonistes -- Areopagitica / John Milton -- The provincial letters -- Pensées -- Scientific and mathematical essays / Blaise Pascal -- Mathematical principles of natural philosophy -- Optics / Sir Isaac Newton -- Treatise on light / Christian Huygens -- A letter concerning toleration -- Concerning civil government, second essay -- An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke -- The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley -- An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / Laurence Sterne -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling / Henry Fielding -- The spirit of the laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu -- A disourse on the origin of inequality -- A disourse on political economy -- The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon -- Critique of pure reason -- Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals -- Critique of practical reason -- Excerpts from The metaphysics of morals / Kant -- American state papers -- The Federalist / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay -- On liberty -- Considerations on representive government -- Utilitarianism / J.S. Mill -- The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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