| Volume | Author / Work |
|---|---|
| 1 | HENRY FIELDING 1 The History of Tom Jones, part 1, by Henry Fielding |
| 2 | HENRY FIELDING 2 The History of Tom Jones, part 2, by Henry Fielding |
| 3 | LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen |
| 4 | SIR WALTER SCOTT Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott |
| 5 | WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1 Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| 6 | WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 2 Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| 7 | CHARLES DICKENS 1 David Copperfield, part 1, by Charles Dickens |
| 8 | CHARLES DICKENS 2 David Copperfield, part 2, by Charles Dickens |
| 9 | GEORGE ELIOT The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot |
| 10 | HAWTHORNE, IRVING, POE, BRET HARTE, MARK TWAIN, HALE The Scarlet Letter and Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and The Idyl of Red Gulch, by Francis Bret Harte Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale |
| 11 | HENRY JAMES, JR. The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James |
| 12 | VICTOR HUGO Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo |
| 13 | BALZAC, SAND, DE MUSSET, DAUDET, DE MAUPASSANT Old Goriot, by Honoré Balzac The Devil’s Pool, by George Sand The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset The Siege of Berlin, The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian, The Child Spy, The Game of Billiards, and The Bad Zouave, by Alphonse |
| 14 | JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
| 15 | GOETHE, KELLER, STORM, FONTANE The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane |
| 16 | LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 1 Anna Karenina, part 1, by Leo Tolstoy |
| 17 | LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 2 Anna Karenina, part 2, and Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy |
| 18 | FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 19 | IVAN TURGENEV A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev |
| 20 | VALERA, BJØRNSON, KIELLAND Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland |
| Volume | Author / Work / Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas |
| 2 | The Syntopicon (cont.) |
| 3 | Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey |
| 4 | Aeschylus, Plays Sophocles, Plays Euripides, Plays Aristophanes, Plays |
| 5 | Herodotus, The History of the Persian Wars Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War |
| 6 | Plato, Dialogues, The Seventh Letter |
| 7 | Aristotle, Works |
| 8 | Aristotle, Works (cont.) |
| 9 | Hippocrates, Works Galen, On the Natural Faculties |
| 10 | Euclid, Elements Archimedes, Works Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic |
| 11 | Lucretius, The Way Things Are Epictetus, Discourses Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Plotinus, The Six Enneads |
| 12 | Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, The Aeneid |
| 13 | Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans |
| 14 | Tacitus, The Annals, The Histories |
| 15 | Ptolemy, The Almagest Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V), The Harmonies of the World (Book V) |
| 16 | Saint Augustine, The Confessions, The City of God, On Christian Doctrine |
| 17 | Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica |
| 18 | Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica |
| 19 | Dante, The Divine Comedy Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales |
| 20 | John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| 21 | Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan |
| 22 | François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| 23 | Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly Michel de Montaigne, Essays |
| 24 | William Shakespeare, Plays |
| 25 | William Shakespeare, Plays, Sonnets |
| 26 | William Gilbert, On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood, On the Generation of Animals |
| 27 | Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote |
| 28 | Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis René Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, The Geometry Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics |
| 29 | John Milton, English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica |
| 30 | Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters, Pensées, Scientific Treatises |
| 31 | Molière, The School for Wives, The Critique of the School for Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Invalid Jean Racine, Berenice, Phaedra |
| 32 | Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light |
| 33 | John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Second Essay on Civil Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
| 34 | Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Voltaire, Candide Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew |
| 35 | Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract |
| 36 | Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations |
| 37 | Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 38 | Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 39 | Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, The Science of Right, The Critique of Judgment |
| 40 | American State Papers (Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States of America) Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist Papers John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism |
| 41 | James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| 42 | Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity |
| 43 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, The Philosophy of History Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil |
| 44 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America |
| 45 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette |
| 46 | Jane Austen, Emma George Eliot, Middlemarch |
| 47 | Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit |
| 48 | Herman Melville, Moby Dick Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn |
| 49 | Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man |
| 50 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx, Capital (Vol. 1) |
| 51 | Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace |
| 52 | Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder |
| 53 | William James, The Principles of Psychology |
| 54 | Sigmund Freud, Major Works (including Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis) |
| 55 | 20th Century Philosophy and Religion: William James, Pragmatism Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics John Dewey, Experience and Education Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy Martin Heidegger, What Is Metaphysics? Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man |
| 56 | 20th Century Natural Science: Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Arthur Eddington, The Expanding Universe Niels Bohr, Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections), Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species C.H. Waddington, The Nature of Life |
| 57 | 20th Century Social Science (I): Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class R.H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| 58 | 20th Century Social Science (II): James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (selections) Max Weber, Essays in Sociology (selections) Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (selections) |
| 59 | 20th Century Imaginative Literature (I): Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author Marcel Proust, Swann in Love (from Remembrance of Things Past) Willa Cather, A Lost Lady Thomas Mann, Death in Venice James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| 60 | 20th Century Imaginative Literature (II): Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis D.H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber George Orwell, Animal Farm Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot |