arturs' Journal

Homer – Iliad; Odyssey
The Old Testament
Aeschylus – Tragedies
Sophocles – Tragedies
Herodotus – Histories
Euripides – Tragedies
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Hippocrates – Medical Writings
Aristophanes – Comedies
Plato – Dialogues
Aristotle – Works
Epicurus – "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus"
Euclid – Elements
Archimedes – Works
Apollonius – Conics
Cicero – Works (esp. Orations; On Friendship; On Old Age; Republic; Laws; Tusculan Disputations; Offices)
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
Virgil – Works (esp. Aeneid)
Horace – Works (esp. Odes and Epodes; The Art of Poetry)
Livy – History of Rome
Ovid – Works (esp. Metamorphoses)
Quintilian – Institutes of Oratory
Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory)
Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
Epictetus – Discourses; Enchiridion
Ptolemy – Almagest
Lucian – Works (esp. The Way to Write History; The True History; The Sale of Creeds; Alexander the Oracle Monger; Charon; The Sale of Lives; The Fisherman; Dialogue of the Gods; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods; Dialogues of the Dead)
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Galen – On the Natural Faculties
The New Testament
Plotinus – The Enneads
St. Augustine – "On the Teacher"; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied
The Song of Roland
The Saga of Burnt Njál
Maimonides – The Guide for the Perplexed
St. Thomas Aquinas – Of Being and Essence; Summa Contra Gentiles; Of the Governance of Rulers; Summa Theologica
Dante Alighieri – The New Life (La Vita Nuova); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Thomas a Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly; Colloquies
Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Thomas More – Utopia
Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
William Gilbert – On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
Francis Bacon – Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler – The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Harmonices Mundi
William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; Generation of Animals
Grotius – The Law of War and Peace
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan; Elements of Philsophy
René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions of the Soul
Corneille – Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna)
John Milton – Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes)
Molière – Comedies (esp. The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; Tartuffe; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Imaginary Invalid; The Affected Ladies)
Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensées; Scientific Treatises
Boyle – The Sceptical Chemist
Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
Benedict de Spinoza – Political Treatises; Ethics
John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies (esp. [[|Andromaque|Andromache]]; Phaedra; Athalie (Athaliah))
Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Opticks
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays on Human Understanding; Monadology
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub; A Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
William Congreve – The Way of the World
George Berkeley – A New Theory of Vision; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; The Spirit of the Laws
Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary; [[Toleration
Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets
David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; History of England
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality; On Political Economy; Emile; The Social Contract; Confessions
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England
Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
James Boswell – Journal; The Life of Samuel Johnson
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers (together with the Articles of Confederation; United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence)
Jeremy Bentham – Comment on the Commentaries; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth
Thomas Robert Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population
John Dalton – A New System of Chemical Philosophy
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit; Science of Logic; Elements of the Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William Wordsworth – Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems (esp. Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ); Biographia Literaria
David Ricardo – On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Carl von Clausewitz – On War
Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
François Guizot – History of Civilization in France
Lord Byron – Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism
Michael Faraday – The Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
Nikolai Lobachevsky – Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy
Honoré de Balzac – Works (esp. Le Père Goriot; Le Cousin Pons; Eugénie Grandet; Cousin Bette; César Birotteau)
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; Principles of Political Economy; On Liberty; Considerations on Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
William Makepeace Thackeray – Works (esp. Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond; The Virginians; Pendennis)
Charles Dickens – Works (esp. Pickwick Papers; Our Mutual Friend; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Hard Times)
Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
George Boole – The Laws of Thought
Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Das Kapital (Capital); The Communist Manifesto
George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch
Herman Melville – Typee; Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories
Henry Thomas Buckle – A History of Civilization in England
Francis Galton – Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development
Bernhard Riemann – The Hypotheses of Geometry
Henrik Ibsen – Plays (esp. Peer Gynt; Brand; Hedda Gabler; Emperor and Galilean; A Doll's House; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder)
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; "What Is Art?"; Twenty-Three Tales
Richard Dedekind – Theory of Numbers
Wilhelm Wundt – Physiological Psychology; Outline of Psychology
Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Mysterious Stranger
Henry Adams – History of the United States; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Degradation of Democratic Dogma
Charles Peirce – Chance, Love, and Logic; Collected Papers
William Sumner – Folkways
Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Common Law; Collected Legal Papers
William James – Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; A Pluralistic Universe; Essays in Radical Empiricism
Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality; The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist
Georg Cantor – Transfinite Numbers
Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method; The Foundations of Science
Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays to the Theory of Sex; Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The Ego and the Id; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces
Max Planck – Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
John Dewey – How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty; Logic – The Theory of Inquiry
Alfred North Whitehead – A Treatise on Universal Algebra; An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
George Santayana – The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being (which discusses the Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places
Vladimir Lenin – Imperialism; The State and Revolution
Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past
Bertrand Russell – Principles of Mathematics; The Problems of Philosophy; Principia Mathematica; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
Albert Einstein – The Theory of Relativity; Sidelights on Relativity; The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
James Joyce – "The Dead" in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; Freedom and the Modern World; A Preface to Metaphysics; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Castle
Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle; Cancer Ward
Ivan Pavlov – Conditioned Reflexes
Thorstein Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class; The Higher Learning in America; The Place of Science in Modern Civilization; Vested Interests and the State of Industrial Arts; Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times
Franz Boas – The Mind of Primitive Man; Anthropology and Modern Life
Leon Trotsky – The History of the Russian Revolution