The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

47. CERVANTES, Don Quixote.

*48. SHAKESPEARE:, Plays. Esp. Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Merchant ofVenice, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream,Timon of Athens, and The Tempest.

34. TAINE, bk. II, chs. 1-4.

37. GRAY, chs. 4, 7.

12. WILLIAMS, bk. II, chs.4-8.

11. FAURE, vol. III, chs. 4-6.

GROUP VIII. EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, ch. 15.

44. FAGUET, sections on the seventeenth century.

49. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Reflections.

50. MOLIERE, Plays. Esp. Tartuffe, The Miser, The Misanthrope, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Feast of the Statue (Don Juan).

*51. BACON, F., Essays. All. (Everyman Library.)

52. MILTON, J., Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Sonnets, Areopagitica, and selections from Paradise Lost.

12. WILLIAMS, bk.II, chs. 9-13.

41. HOFFDING, sections on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, and Leibnitz.

53. HOBBES, Leviathan. (Everyman Library.)

54. SPINOZA, Ethics and On the Improvement of the Understanding. (Everyman Library.)

11. FAURE, vol. IV, chs. 1-4.

37. GRAY, chs. 9-10.

GROUP IX. EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, chs. 16-21.

5. WELLS, chs. 26-27.

44. FAGUET, sections on the eighteenth century.

55. SAINTE-BEUVE, Portraits of the 18th Century.

56. VOLTAIRE, Works. I-vol. ed. Esp. Candide, Zadig, and essays on Toleration and History.

57. ROUSSEAU, J. J., Confessions.

58. TAINE, H., Origins of Contemporary France. 6v.Vols. I-IV.

*59. CARLYLE, The French Revolution. 2v. (Everyman Library.)

34. TAINE, History of English Literature, bk. III, chs. 4-7.

*60. BOSWELL, Life of Samuel Johnson. 2v. (Everyman Library.)

61. FIELDING, H., Tom Jones. (Everyman Library, 2 v.)

62. STERNE, L., Tristram Shandy. (Everyman Library.)

*63. SWIFT, J., Gulliver’s Travels. (Everyman Library.)

64. HUME, D., Treatise on Human Nature. 2v. (Everyman Library.) Esp. bks. II and III.

65. WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY, Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

66. SMITH, ADAM, The Wealth of Nations. 2v. (Everyman Library.) Selections.

12. WILLIAMS, bk. II, chs. 14-15.

41. HOFFDING, sections on the eighteenth century.

11. FAURE, vol. IV, chs. 5-6.

37. GRAY, chs. 11-12.

GROUP X. EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, chs. 22-28.

5. WELLS, chs. 38-39.

58. TAINE, Origins of Contemporary France. Vol.V, The Modern Regime, pp. 1-90.

67. LUDWIG, E., Napoleon.

68. BRANDES, G., Main Currents of 19th Century Literature. 6v.

*69. GOETHE, Faust.

70. ECKERMANN, Conversations with Goethe.

71. HEINE, Poems. Trans. Louis Untermeyer.

34. TAINE, History of English Literature, bks. IV-V.

*72. KEATS, Poems.

*73. SHELLEY, Poems.

*74. BYRON, Poems.

44. FAGUET, sections on the nineteenth century.

75. BALZAC, Père Goriot.

*76. FLAUBERT, Works. I-vol. ed. Esp. Mme. Bovary and Salambo.

77. HUGO, Les Miserables.

78. FRANCE, ANATOLE, Penguin Isle.

79. TENNYSON, Poems.

80. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers.

81. THACKERAY, Vanity Fair.

82. TURGENEV, Fathers and Children.

83. DOSTOIEVSKI, The Brothers Karamazov.

84. TOLSTOI, War and Peace.

85. IBSEN, Peer Gynt.

12. WILLIAMS, bks. III-IV.

86. DARWIN, Descent of Man.

41. HOFFDING, sections on the nineteenth century.

87. BUCKLE, Introduction to the History of Civilization in England. Esp. part I, chs. 1-5, 15.

88. SCHOPENHAUER, Works. I-Vol. ed.

89. NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra.

11. FAURE, vol. IV, chs. 7-8.

37. GRAY, chs. 13-17.

GROUP XI. AMERICA

*90. BEARD, C. and M., The Rise of American Civilization. 2 v.

91. POE, Poems and Tales.

92. EMERSON, Essays.

93. THOREAU, Walden.

*94. WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass.

95. LINCOLN, Letters and Speeches.

GROUP XII. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, chs. 29-30.

5. WELLS, chs. 40-41.

96. ROLLAND, R., Jean Christophe. 2 v.

*97. ELLIS, H., Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Vols. I, II, III, VI.