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Great Books of the Western World
24 books, 4,514,879 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
301 h read
The Republic
Plato
c. 380 BC
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
c. 340 BC
Poetics
Aristotle
c. 335 BC
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
c. 400 BC
Cicero's Orations
Cicero
c. 60 BC
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
397 AD
Summa Theologica, Part I
Thomas Aquinas
1274
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1532
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
Montaigne, Michel de
1592
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Descartes, René
1650
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
1651
Ethics
Spinoza, Benedictus de
1677
Second Treatise of Government
Locke, John
1704
Paradise Lost
John Milton
1667
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
1726
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
1788
The Critique of Pure Reason
Kant, Immanuel
1804
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1848
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Darwin, Charles
1882
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
1910
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
1881
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
1899