Great Books (2005-06)



Great Books (2006-07)

| | |The Bible |

|Homer |8th cent BCE |The Iliad (Lattimore trans.) |

| | |The Odyssey (Fitzgerald trans.) |

|Lao Tzu |6th cent BCE |Tao Te Ching |

|Aeschylus |c.525-456 BCE |Greek Tragedies (3 vols, U. of Chicago ed.) |

|Sophocles |c.496-406 BCE | |

|Euripides |c.485-406 BCE | |

|Thucydides |c.460-400 BCE |The Peloponnesian War |

|Plato |c.429-347 BCE |The Republic (Larson trans., Harlan Davidson) |

|Aristotle |384-322 BCE |Nicomachean Ethics |

|Virgil |70-19 BCE |The Aeneid (Mandelbaum trans) |

|Ovid |43 BCE-17 AD |Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum trans.) |

|Augustine |354-430 |Confessions |

|Boethius |c.480-c.524 |The Consolation of Philosophy |

|Marie de France    |12th century    |Lais  |

| |13th cent. |Njal’s Saga |

|Dante |1265-1321 |The Divine Comedy (3 vols., Mandelbaum trans.) |

|Giovanni Boccaccio |1313-1375 |The Decameron |

|Geoffrey Chaucer |c.1342-1400 |The Canterbury Tales (Penguin, Coghill trans.) |

|Niccolò Machiavelli |1469-1527 |The Prince |

|Thomas More |1478-1535 |Utopia |

|François Rabelais |c.1495-1553 |Gargantua and Pantagruel |

|Michel de Montaigne |1533-1592 |Essays (Penguin ed.) |

|Miguel de Cervantes |1547-1616 |Don Quixote (Harper: Grossman trans.) |

|William Shakespeare |1564-1616 |The Riverside Shakespeare |

|John Milton |1608-1674 |Paradise Lost |

|Jonathan Swift |1667-1745 |Gulliver’s Travels |

|Voltaire |1694-1778 |Candide |

|Henry Fielding |1707-1754 |Tom Jones |

|Jean-Jacques Rousseau |1712-1778 |The Confessions |

|Laurence Sterne |1713-1768 |Tristram Shandy |

|Johann von Goethe |1749-1832 |Faust (Part I) |

|Mary Wollstonecraft |1759-1797 |A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |

|Jane Austen |1775-1817 |Pride and Prejudice |

| | |Emma |

|Mary Shelley |1797-1851 |Frankenstein |

|John Stuart Mill |1806-1873 |On Liberty |

|Charles Dickens |1812-1870 |Bleak House |

| | |David Copperfield |

|Charlotte Brontë |1816-1855 |Jane Eyre |

|Henry David Thoreau |1817-1862 |Walden |

|Emily Brontë |1818-1848 |Wuthering Heights |

|Ivan Turgenev |1818-1883 |Fathers and Sons |

|George Eliot |1819-1880 |Middlemarch |

|Herman Melville |1819-1891 |Moby Dick |

|Gustave Flaubert |1821-1880 |Madame Bovary |

|Fyodor Dostoevsky |1821-1881 |Crime and Punishment |

|(tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky) | | |

| | |The Brothers Karamazov |

|Henrik Ibsen |1828-1906 |Four Major Plays (Vol. 1, Signet) |

|Leo Tolstoy |1828-1910 |War and Peace |

| | |Anna Karenina |

|Mark Twain |1835-1910 |Huckleberry Finn |

|Thomas Hardy |1840-1928 |Tess of the D’Urbervilles |

|Henry James |1843-1916 |The Portrait of a Lady |

|Friedrich Nietzsche |1844-1900 |Beyond Good and Evil |

|Sigmund Freud |1856-1939 |Civilization and Its Discontents |

|Joseph Conrad |1857-1924 |Heart of Darkness |

|Knut Hamsun |1859-1952 |Hunger |

|Anton Chekhov |1860-1904 |Selected Stories, Pevear & Volokhonsky trans. |

|Marcel Proust |1871-1922 |Swann’s Way |

|Thomas Mann |1875-1955 |The Magic Mountain |

| | |Death in Venice |

|James Joyce |1882-1941 |A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |

| | |Ulysses |

|Sigrid Undset |1882-1949 |Kristin Lavransdatter (One volume edition) |

|Virginia Woolf |1882-1941 |To the Lighthouse |

|Franz Kafka |1883-1924 |The Trial |

| | |Collected Stories |

|Isak Dinesen |1885-1962 |Seven Gothic Tales |

|Mikhail Bulgakov |1891-1940 |The Master and Margarita |

|John Dos Passos |1896-1970 |U.S.A. (trilogy) (Library of America 1 vol edition: IBSN 1883011140) |

|F. Scott Fitzgerald |1896-1940 |The Great Gatsby |

|William Faulkner |1897-1962 |Light in August |

| | |Absalom, Absalom! |

|Ernest Hemingway |1899-1967 |A Farewell to Arms |

|Vladimir Nabokov |1899-1977 |Lolita |

| | |Pale Fire |

|Jorge Luis Borges |1899-1986 |Collected Fictions |

|Halldór Laxness |1902-1998 |Independent People |

|Samuel Beckett |1906-1989 |Endgame |

|Albert Camus |1913-1960 |The Plague |

|Robertson Davies |1913-1995 |The Cornish Trilogy (3 vols. in 1) |

|Ralph Ellison |1914-1994 |Invisible Man |

|Iris Murdoch |1919-1999 |The Sea, the Sea |

|José Saramago |1922- |Blindness |

|Nadine Gordimer |1923- |Burger’s Daughter |

|Flannery O’Connor |1925-1964 |The Complete Stories |

|John Fowles |1926-2005 |The Magus |

|Gabriel García Márquez |1928- |One Hundred Years of Solitude |

|Milan Kundera |1929- |The Unbearable Lightness of Being |

|Chinua Achebe |1930- |Anthills of the Savannah |

|Toni Morrison |1931- |Beloved |

|V.S. Naipaul |1932- |A Bend in the River |

|A.S. Byatt |1936- |Possession |

|Thomas Pynchon |1937- |V. |

|Tom Stoppard |1937- |Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |

|Salman Rushdie |1947- |Midnight’s Children |

|Louise Erdrich    |1954- |Love Medicine |

|Kazuo Ishiguro |1954- |The Remains of the Day |

| | |Norton Anthology of Poetry |

“Read the best books first, or

you may not have a chance to

read them at all”

— Henry David Thoreau

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