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01 Hammurabi (18th c. BCE) to John Milton (1608)
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Hammurabi (c. 1790 BCE) The Code of Hammurabi
Homer (c. 9th Century BCE) Online Works
Godaddy vs Web.com The Homeric Hymns Epigrams of Homer Iliad Odyssey
Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BCE) [Gilgamesh Summary]
The Hebrew Bible New Revised Standard Version Revised Standard Version Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway
Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE) Online Works [2] Theogony Works and Days Shield of Heracles
The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae (fragments) The Divination of Birds to Idaean Dactyls The Marriage of Ceyx to Doubtful (fragments)
Aesop (c. 520-460? BCE) Online Works Fables [Texts] Fables (Illustrated)
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE) Online Works Tragedies
Sophocles (c. 495-406 BCE) [More info] Online Works Tragedies
Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE) Online Works History
Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) Online Works Tragedies
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) Online Works Fashion and Frills
History of the Peloponnesian War
Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BCE) Online Works Aphorisms Law Hippocratic Oath On Airs, Waters, and Places Medical Writings
Sun-Tzu (c. 450-380 BCE) Online Works The Art of War
Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BCE) Online Works Comedies
Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) [More info] Online Works The Republic [tr. Benjamin Jowett] Dialogues
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) [More info] Online Works Works
Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE) [More info] Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoecus
Euclid (c. 365-300 BCE) [More Bio] Online Works Elements (Interactive version)
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BCE) [More Info] Online Works
Apollonius of Perga (fl. c. 240 BCE) Conic Sections CedarCide's Organic Bed Bug Killer Cicero (106-43 BCE) [Plutarch's 'Cicero'] Online Works Letters De Officiis Old Age
Lucretius (c. 95-55 BCE) Online Works On the Nature of Things
Virgil (70-19 BCE) Online Works
Horace (65-8 BCE) [More info] Works
Livy, Titus Livius (59 BCE-CE 17) Online Works History of Rome
Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17) [More info] Online Works
Plutarch (c. 45-125) Online Works Plutarch's Lives Moralia
Tacitus (c. 55-117) Online Works Histories Annals Agricola Germania
Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. c. 100 CE)
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Online Works Introduction to Arithmetic [Gif of Greek Multiplication Table]
Epictetus (c. 60-120) [More info] Online Works Discourses Golden Sayings Enchiridion
Claudius Ptolemy (fl. 127-145) Almagest
Lucian of Samosata (c. 117-c.180) Alexander the Oracle-Monger Zeus Rants Works
Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Online Works Meditations
Galen of Pergamum (c. 129-216) Online Works On Hippocrates' On the Nature of Man On the Natural Faculties Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially Medicine On Diagnosis in Dreams
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The New Testament New Revised Standard Version Revised Standard Version Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway
Plotinus (205-270) The Enneads [2]
St. Augustine (354-430) [More Bio] Online Works On the Teacher Enchiridion Confessions City of God On Christian Doctrine
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470?-524) [More Bio] The Consolation of Philosophy
The Quran (c. 650) Yusuf Ali Version Standard English Version Three Versions Side-by-Side
Beowulf (c. 700-750) Beowulf_1 Beowulf_2 [Resources for Study] [More Resources]
St. Anselm (1033-1109) [More info] Online Works Proslogion - Gaunilo's Response to Anselm (In behalf of the Fool) - Anselm's Response to Gaunilo (Apologetic) Monologion Cur Deus Homo On God's Existence
Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. 1210) Tristan and Isolde [Bibliography]
The Song of Roland (1185-1187) Online Versions 2nd Copy-HTML [PDF Version]
The Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) Online Versions (Volsunga Saga - The Story of the Volsungs)
The Saga of Burnt Njal (c. 13th century) Online Versions
Magna Carta (1215) Online Versions [2]
St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) [More Bio] [3] Online Works Of God and His Creatures Commentary on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscencia On the Eternity of the World Summa Theologica [Companion]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) [More Bio] [3] Online Works The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) [More Bio] Online Works The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) Online Works Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales [In Middle English] The Parliament of Fowles Complete Works with Commentary
Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (ca. 1375-1400) Online Versions [2] [PDF Version]
Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471) Online Works The Imitation of Christ
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1446-1471) Online Versions Le Morte d'Arthur v.1 Le Morte d'Arthur v.2
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Notebooks
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) Oration on the Dignity of Man [2]
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) [More Bio] [3] Online Works The Prince Discourses on Livy Machiavelli by Thomas Macaulay
Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) [More info] Online Works The Praise of Folly Colloquia - Concerning Men, Manners, and Things Complete Works
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres [Dedication]
Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) [More Bio] Online Works The History of King Richard the Third Utopia Last Letter, To Daughter
Martin Luther (1483-1546) [More info] Online Works On the Freedom of a Christian 95 Theses The Babylonian Captivity of the Church An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility Address to the Nobility Treatise on Good Works
Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel [2]
John Calvin (1509-1564) [More Bio] Online Works Institutes of the Christian Religion The Necessity of Reforming the Church Commentaries
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays [2] Apology for Raimond Sebond Of Books That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until After Our Death Of Friendship Of The Institution and Education of Children
William Gilbert (1540-1603) On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Online Works Don Quixote H-Cervantes Online
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) [More info] [3] Online Works The Faërie Queene Amoretti and Epithalamion Selected Poetry
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) [More info] Online Works Essays Advancement of Learning Argument That Bacon Authored Shakespeare Novum Organum New Atlantis
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Online Works Tamburlaine the Great The Jew of Malta Doctor Faustus Ovid's Elegies
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) [Bio] Online Works Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) [More Info] The Starry Messenger [Lecture] Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Concerning the Harmonies of the World
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) Online Works Volpone The Alchemist Essay on Shakespeare Sejanus Selected Poetry and Prose
William Harvey (1578-1657) On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals On the Circulation of the Blood On the Generation of Animals
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) [More info] [Even more] Online Works The Leviathan De Cive Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student...
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) [More Bio] Online Works Rules for the Direction of the Mind Discourse on the Method Geometry Meditations on First Philosophy
John Milton (1608-1674) [More info] Online Works Shorter Poems Areopagitica Lycidas Of Education Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Poetical Works Online
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02 La Rochefoucauld (1613) to Emily Brontë (1818)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Maxims
Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) The True Intellectual System of the Universe
Molière (1622-1673) Online Works The Misanthrope Don Juan Comedies
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) [More Bio] Online Works The Provincial Letters Pensees
John Bunyan (1628-1688) Online Works The Pilgrim's Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Holy War
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) [More Bio] [3] Treatise on Light
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) [More Bio] Online Works Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding Selected Works
John Locke (1632-1704) [More Bio] Online Works A Letter Concerning Toleration Of Civil Government Second Treatise of Government Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) Online Works Phaedra Tragedies
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) [More Bio] [3] Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Opticks Principia *A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) [2] Online Works Discourse on Metaphysics New Essays Concerning Human Understanding Monadology *A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) [More Bio] [Literature] Online Works Moll Flanders Robinson Crusoe A Journal of the Plague Year [Summary]
Jonathon Swift (1667-1745) Online Works
William Congreve (1670-1729) Online Works The Double-Dealer Love for Love The Old Bachelor The Way of the World
George Berkeley (1685-1753) [More Bio] [3] Online Works Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Three Dialogues Between Hilas and Philonous
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Online Works Moral Essay II Pastorals Essay on Man [2] Complete Poetry
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) Online Works Spirit of Laws Persian Letters
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Clarissa Pamela The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Voltaire (1694-1778) Online Works Candide Letters on England A Treatise on Toleration [Excerpt] Philosophical Dictionary [Study Guide]
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Online Works Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Selected Sermons A Divine and Supernatural Light...
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Online Works Autobiography Poor Richard's Almanac Collected Works
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) [Literature] Online Works The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [Article]
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Online Works A Dictionary of the English Language Life of Joseph Addison The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia The Lives of the Poets
David Hume (1711-1776) Online Works Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Treatise on Human Nature An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Selected Works and Commentary Selected Political Essays
Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778) [More Bio] Online Works The Confessions The Social Contract Emile
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [Literature] Online Works The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) Online Works The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker [Summary] Travels Through France and Italy The Adventures of Roderick Random
Adam Smith (1723-1790) [More Bio] Online Works The Theory of Moral Sentiments Wealth of Nations
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) [More Info] Online Works Critique of Pure Reason Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Critique of Practical Reason Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone Critique of Judgment
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Online Works Reflections on the Revolution in France Sublime and Beautiful
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Online Works The Vicar of Wakefield She Stoops To Conquer
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Online Works The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) [More Bio] Online Works The Age of Reason Common Sense African Slavery in America The Rights of Man
James Boswell (1740-1795) Online Works Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Journals
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) Elements of Chemistry
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Online Works Selected Writings and Commentary A Summary View of the Rights of British America Autobiography Declaration of Independence The Jefferson Bible
John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) Federalist Papers Articles of Confederation Declaration of Independence Constitution of the United States
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) [More Bio] Online Works Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation The Rationale for Punishment
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Online Works Faust [Study Guide] Poems Eqmont Poetry and Truth
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Online Works A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Maria
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Analytical Theory of Heat Fourier Analysis
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) On Religion
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) [More Info] Phenomenology of Spirit Phenomenology of Mind Logic Philosophy of Right
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) Hymns and Fragments Selected Poems
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Online Works Poems Lyrical Ballads
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [More Bio] Online Works
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Online Works Poetry Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel Kubla Khan On Poesy or Art
Jane Austen (1775-1817) [More Info] Online Works Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Mansfield Park Persuasion Northanger Abbey Complete Works and Commentary
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) Principles of War On War
Stendhal (1783-1842) The Red and the Black The Charterhouse of Parma The Life of Henry Brulard
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Online Works The Sketch Book Rip Van Winkle The Alhambra The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Online Works Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) [More Bio] The World As Will and Idea Studies in Pessimism Essays and Aphorisms
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Online Works The Deerslayer The Pathfinder The Last of the Mohicans
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Online Works
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Online Works
Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Principles of Geology (Excerpts)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) [Resources] The Positive Philosophy
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Online Works
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Online Works Les Misérables The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Online Works Collected Essays
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter House of Seven Gables Complete Online Works List of Online Works
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Online Works Democracy in America American Institutions and Their Influence
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Online Works A System of Logic On Liberty Utilitarianism The Subjection of Women Autobiography
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) Online Works Complete Poems Complete Works
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Online Works
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Online Works
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) [3] Online Works Vanity Fair Essay on Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Online Works
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) [More Bio] Online Works Either/Or Concluding Unscientific Postscript Fear and Trembling Sickness Unto Death
Claude Bernard (1813-1878) [More Info] Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Online Works
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [More Info] Online Works Jane Eyre
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) [More Bio] Online Works On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience Walden A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Selected Works and Commentary
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) [More Info] Online Works Wuthering Heights [Summary]
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03 Karl Marx (1818) to Arthur Miller (1915)
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) Online Works Das Kapital (Full Text) (Synopsis) Principles of Communism The Communist Manifesto [Study Guide] On the Jewish Question The Poverty of Philosophy Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Complete Works
George Eliot (1819-1880) Online Works Adam Bede Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch [Summary] Daniel Deronda Selected Works
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Online Works Complete Works
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Online Works [2] Leaves of Grass Supplementary Prose Calamus Poems Complete Prose Works [2]
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Online Works Madame Bovary [Summary]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Online Works Crime and Punishment [Study Guide] The Idiot [Study Guide] The Brothers Karamazov [Study Guide] Notes from Underground [Study Guide] [Summary] A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story The Grand Inquisitor Selected Works Complete Works (in Russian)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Online Works Peer Gynt Terje Viken A Doll's House The Wild Duck
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Online Works War and Peace Anna Karenina What is Art? Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Online Works Complete Works [Study Guide]
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Online Works Erewhon Erewhon Revisited The Way of All Flesh
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Online Works The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Mysterious Stranger The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Innocents Abroad A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Life on the Mississippi What is Man? and Other Essays
Henry Adams (1838-1918) Online Works The Education of Henry Adams
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Online Works Germinal [Study Guide] Nana
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Online Works The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge [Summary] Far from the Madding Crowd Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Wessex Poems, and Other Verses
William James (1842-1910) [Main Bio] Online Works The Principles of Psychology The Varieties of Religious Experience The Will To Believe Pragmatism Essays in Radical Empiricism
Henry James (1843-1916) [More Bio] Online Works Complete Works
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) [More] Online Works Thus Spake Zarathustra [Study Guide] Twilight of Idols The AntiChrist Beyond Good and Evil On The Genealogy of Morals Human, All Too Human The Will To Power The Gay Science DayBreak, or "The Dawn" Ecce Homo
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Online Works The Picture of Dorian Gray Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Essays and Lectures Selected Prose
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) [More Bio] Science and Hypothesis Science and Method
Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) The Golden Bough
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [More Bio] Online Works The Interpretation of Dreams [Study Guide] Psychoanalysis The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Civilization and Its Discontents Psychopathology and Everyday Life A Young Girl's Diary The Future of an Illusion Moses and Monotheism
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Online Works Pygmalion Man and Superman Major Barbara Misalliance An Unsocial Socialist Mrs. Warren's Profession
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Online Works Heart of Darkness The Secret Sharer [Summary]
Max Planck (1858-1947) [More Info] Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory Where Is Science Going? Scientific Autobiography
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) [More Info] Ideas: General Intro to Pure Phenomenology Cartesian Meditations Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man Pure Phenomenology Logical Investigations (in German)
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) [More Bio] Time and Free Will Matter and Memory Creative Evolution The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
John Dewey (1859-1952) Online Works How We Think Democracy and Education The School and Society Experience and Nature Reconstruction in Philosophy
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Online Works Selected Works and Short Stories Annotated Works and Synopses The Complete Short Stories
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Online Works [Website for Whitehead's Thought] [Summary] Principia Mathematica [Summary] An Introduction to Mathematics Treatise on Universal Algebra Science and the Modern World Process and Reality Religion in the Making The Aims of Education and Other Essays Adventures of Ideas Modes of Thought
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) [More Bio] Online Works [2] The Age of Innocence Afterward
George Santayana (1863-1952) The Life of Reason Skepticism and Animal Faith Persons and Places
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) [More Bio] The Idea of the Holy
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) Online Works [2] The State and Revolution Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch Marxism and Revisionism The Tasks of the Youth Leagues
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Online Works [2] The Red Badge of Courage [Summary]
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) In Search of Lost Time also titled, Remembrance of Things Past
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) [More Bio] Online Works Principia Mathematica [Summary] The Problems of Philosophy A Free Man's Worship Philosophical Consequences of Relativity [2nd copy]
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) [More Bio] Online Works Duino Elegies (in German) Selected Poetry Stories of God Sonnets to Orpheus Possibility of Being
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [More Bio] The Magic Mountain [Summary] Death in Venice Buddenbrooks Doctor Faustus
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) [More Bio] The Glass Bead Game Siddhartha [Summary] Narcissus and Goldmund
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [More Info] The Meaning of Relativity Space-Time Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [2] *Einstein's Reply to Criticisms What is the Theory of Relativity Why Socialism? On the Method of Theoretical Physics On the Theory of Relativity Sidelights of Relativity The Evolution of Physics
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) Online Works [2] Howard's End A Passage to India [Summary] A Room with a View [Summary] Where Angels Fear to Tread
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) [More Bio]* The Divine Milieu
James Joyce (1882-1941) [Resources] Online Works Ulysses [Summary] [Text Notes] Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Summary] Dubliners [Study Guide]
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Online Works [2] Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) Online Works Art and Scholasticism The Degrees of Knowledge The Rights of Man and Natural Law True Humanism
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Trial The Castle Metamorphosis [Summary]
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Online Works Sons and Lovers Women in Love Lady Chatterley's Lover Rocking-Horse Winner
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Online Works Main Street Our Mr. Wrenn Babbitt Arrowsmith [Summary]
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) The Courage To Be The Shaking of the Foundations
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Online Works Four Quartets The Waste Land The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Tractatus Philosophical Investigations Zettel The Blue and the Brown Books
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) Online Works A Study of History The Decline of the West Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Being and Time The Basic Problems of Phenomenology [Intro] Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) Hegel and the Greeks Existence and Being An Introduction to Metaphysics Poetry, Language, Thought Basic Writings
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Doctor Zhivago [Summary]
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Online Works Brave New World Crome Yellow Eyeless in Gaza
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [More Bio] Online Works Online Resources The Great Gatsby [Summary]
William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Sound and the Fury [Summary] [Commentary] Absalom, Absalom [Commentary] As I Lay Dying [Commentary] Light in August Works
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea [Summary]
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Online Resources Lolita [Info] Pale Fire Collected Short Stories
E.B. White (1899-1985), and William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1946) The Elements of Style
André Malraux (1901-1976) The Conquerors The Royal Way Man's Fate Man's Hope The Voices of Silence
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [More Info] The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men [Summary] East of Eden The Pearl Cannery Row
Karl Popper (1902-1994) [More Info] The Logic of Scientific Discovery Conjectures and Refutations
Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) Bibliography How To Read a Book The Great Ideas Today A Guidebook To Learning Works
George Orwell (1903-1950) Politics and the English Language Shooting an Elephant Collected Essays Animal Farm [Summary] 1984 [Summary] Political Writings
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Existentialism and Human Emotions Being and Nothingness No Exit
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) [More Info] Atlas Shrugged The Fountainhead
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) The Act of Creation The Ghost in the Machine The God That Failed Darkness at Noon
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) [More Info] Waiting for Godot [Summary] Endgame
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) [More Info] Lily Daw and the Three Ladies Delta Wedding The Bride of Innisfallen The Optimist's Daughter Collected Stories
Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989) Language, Truth and Logic The Central Questions of Philosophy
Northrop Frye (1912-1991) [More Info] Anatomy of Criticism The Great Code [Discussion] Words with Power [Summary]
Albert Camus (1913-1960) [More Info] Online Resources The Stranger [Summary] The Plague The Fall The Rebel
William E. Barrett (1913-1992) Irrational Man The Illusion of Technique The Death of the Soul
Arthur Miller (1915-2006) The Crucible [Summary] Death of a Salesman [Summary]
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04 Saul Bellow (1915) to Annie Dillard (1945)
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Saul Bellow (1915-2006) [More Info] Herzog [Summary] Humbolt's Gift
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) [More Info] One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [Summary] August 1914: The Red Wheel, v.1 November 1916: The Red Wheel, v.2 The Cancer Ward The Gulag Archipelago Invisible Allies
Jerome David Salinger (1919- ) Catcher in the Rye
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) [More Bio] The Good Apprentice Bruno's Dream The Sea, The Sea The Bell Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
John Rawls (1921-2002) A Theory of Justice [Bibliography] (Concepts) Two Concepts of Rules
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) On the Road
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [Outline]
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) The Uses of Literature Cosmicomics The Baron in the Trees If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Invisible Cities
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) Catch-22 God Knows Good as Gold
Maya Angelou (1928- ) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings On the Pulse of Morning
Robert Pirsig (1928- ) [More Info] [More Bio] Zen and and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (PDF) Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Jan Gullberg (1936-1998) Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers
Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) The Crying Lot of 49 [Summary] Gravity's Rainbow
Seamus Heaney (1939- ) The Spirit Level Works
David Berlinski (1942- ) A Tour of the Calculus The Advent of the Algorithm
John L. Casti (1943- ) Paradigms Lost Complexification Godël: A Life of Logic
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