Great Books of the Western World

This is the beginnings of a list. (Librarians love lists.) Specifically, it is a list of the Great Books of the Western World. The ultimate goal is to create a corpus of "great books", do some text analysis against them, and actually measure the "greatness" of each. The list is incomplete -- about 191 of the 250 some odd titles:

1. Aeschylus / Agamemnon (original location | local mirror)
2. Aeschylus / Persians (original location | local mirror)
3. Aeschylus / Prometheus Bound (original location | local mirror)
4. Aeschylus / Seven Against Thebes (original location | local mirror)
5. Aeschylus / Suppliant Maidens (original location | local mirror)
6. American State / Articles Of Confederation (original location | local mirror)
7. American State / Constitution Of The United States (original location | local mirror)
8. American State / Declaration Of Independence (original location | local mirror)
9. Aquinas / Summa Theologica (original location | local mirror)
10. Aristophanes / Achamians (original location | local mirror)
11. Aristophanes / Birds (original location | local mirror)
12. Aristophanes / Clouds (original location | local mirror)
13. Aristophanes / Ecclesiazusae (original location | local mirror)
14. Aristophanes / Frogs (original location | local mirror)
15. Aristophanes / Knights (original location | local mirror)
16. Aristophanes / Lysistrata (original location | local mirror)
17. Aristophanes / Peace (original location | local mirror)
18. Aristophanes / Plutus (original location | local mirror)
19. Aristophanes / Thesmophoriazusae (original location | local mirror)
20. Aristophanes / Wasps (original location | local mirror)
21. Aristotle / Athenian Constitution (original location | local mirror)
22. Aristotle / Categories (original location | local mirror)
23. Aristotle / History Of Animals (original location | local mirror)
24. Aristotle / Metaphysics (original location | local mirror)
25. Aristotle / Meteorology (original location | local mirror)
26. Aristotle / Nicomachean Ethics (original location | local mirror)
27. Aristotle / On Generation And Corruption (original location | local mirror)
28. Aristotle / On Interpretation (original location | local mirror)
29. Aristotle / On The Gait Of Animals (original location | local mirror)
30. Aristotle / On The Generation Of Animals (original location | local mirror)
31. Aristotle / On The Parts Of Animals (original location | local mirror)
32. Aristotle / On The Soul (original location | local mirror)
33. Aristotle / On The Motion Of Animals (original location | local mirror)
34. Aristotle / Physics (original location | local mirror)
35. Aristotle / Poetics (original location | local mirror)
36. Aristotle / Politics (original location | local mirror)
37. Aristotle / Posterior Analytics (original location | local mirror)
38. Aristotle / Prior Analytics (original location | local mirror)
39. Aristotle / Rhetoric (original location | local mirror)
40. Aristotle / Sophistical Refutations (original location | local mirror)
41. Aristotle / Topics (original location | local mirror)
42. Augustine / City Of God And Christian Doctrine (original location | local mirror)
43. Augustine / Confessions (original location | local mirror)
44. Augustine / On Christian Doctrine (original location | local mirror)
45. Bacon / Advancement Of Learning (original location | local mirror)
46. Bacon / New Atlantis (original location | local mirror)
47. Berkeley / Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge (original location | local mirror)
48. Boswell / Life Of Johnson (original location | local mirror)
49. Cervantes / Don Quixote (original location | local mirror)
50. Chaucer / Canterbury Tales And Other Poems (original location | local mirror)
51. Chaucer / Troilus And Criseyde (original location | local mirror)
52. Dante / Divine Comedy (original location | local mirror)
53. Darwin / Descent Of Man (original location | local mirror)
54. Darwin / Origin Of Species (original location | local mirror)
55. Descartes / Discourse Of A Method (original location | local mirror)
56. Descartes / Meditations On First Philosophy (original location | local mirror)
57. Dostoyevsky / Brothers Karamazov (original location | local mirror)
58. Epictetus / Discourses (original location | local mirror)
59. Euripides / Alcestis (original location | local mirror)
60. Euripides / Andromache (original location | local mirror)
61. Euripides / Bacchantes (original location | local mirror)
62. Euripides / Cyclops (original location | local mirror)
63. Euripides / Electra (original location | local mirror)
64. Euripides / Hecuba (original location | local mirror)
65. Euripides / Helen (original location | local mirror)
66. Euripides / Heracleidae (original location | local mirror)
67. Euripides / Heracles (original location | local mirror)
68. Euripides / Hippolytus (original location | local mirror)
69. Euripides / Ion (original location | local mirror)
70. Euripides / Medea (original location | local mirror)
71. Euripides / Orestes (original location | local mirror)
72. Euripides / Phoenissae (original location | local mirror)
73. Euripides / Rhesus (original location | local mirror)
74. Euripides / Suppliants (original location | local mirror)
75. Euripides / Trojan Women (original location | local mirror)
76. Fielding / History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling (original location | local mirror)
77. Galen / On The Natural Faculties (original location | local mirror)
78. Galileo / Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (original location | local mirror)
79. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 1) (original location | local mirror)
80. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 2) (original location | local mirror)
81. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 3) (original location | local mirror)
82. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 4) (original location | local mirror)
83. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 5) (original location | local mirror)
84. Gibbon / History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 6) (original location | local mirror)
85. Goethe / Faust (original location | local mirror)
86. Hamilton / Federalist Papers (original location | local mirror)
87. Harvey / On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals (original location | local mirror)
88. Harvey / On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals (original location | local mirror)
89. Hegel / Philosophy Of History (original location | local mirror)
90. Hegel / Philosophy Of Right (original location | local mirror)
91. Herodotus / History (Volume 1) (original location | local mirror)
92. Herodotus / History (Volume 2) (original location | local mirror)
93. Hippocrates / Airs, Waters, And Places (original location | local mirror)
94. Hippocrates / Ancient Medicine (original location | local mirror)
95. Hippocrates / Aphorisms (original location | local mirror)
96. Hippocrates / Book Of Prognostics (original location | local mirror)
97. Hippocrates / Instruments Of Reduction (original location | local mirror)
98. Hippocrates / Law (original location | local mirror)
99. Hippocrates / Oath (original location | local mirror)
100. Hippocrates / Of The Epidemics (original location | local mirror)
101. Hippocrates / On Fistulae (original location | local mirror)
102. Hippocrates / On Fractures (original location | local mirror)
103. Hippocrates / On Hemorrhoids (original location | local mirror)
104. Hippocrates / On Injuries Of The Head (original location | local mirror)
105. Hippocrates / On Regimen In Acute Diseases (original location | local mirror)
106. Hippocrates / On Ulcers (original location | local mirror)
107. Hippocrates / On The Articulations (original location | local mirror)
108. Hippocrates / On The Sacred Disease (original location | local mirror)
109. Hippocrates / On The Surgery (original location | local mirror)
110. Hobbes / Leviathan (original location | local mirror)
111. Homer / Iliad (original location | local mirror)
112. Homer / Odyssey (original location | local mirror)
113. Hume / Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (original location | local mirror)
114. Huygens / Treatise On Light (original location | local mirror)
115. James / Principles Of Psychology (original location | local mirror)
116. Kant / Critique Of Judgement (original location | local mirror)
117. Kant / Critique Of Practical Reason (original location | local mirror)
118. Kant / Critique Of Pure Reason (original location | local mirror)
119. Kant / Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysic Of Morals (original location | local mirror)
120. Kant / Introduction To The Metaphysics Of Morals (original location | local mirror)
121. Kant / Metaphysical Elements Of Ethics (original location | local mirror)
122. Kant / Science Of Right (original location | local mirror)
123. Lavoisier / Elements Of Chemistry (original location | local mirror)
124. Locke / Concerning Civil Government (original location | local mirror)
125. Locke / Essay Concerning Human Understanding (original location | local mirror)
126. Locke / Letter Concerning Toleration (original location | local mirror)
127. Lucretius / Of The Nature Of Things (original location | local mirror)
128. Machiavelli / Prince (original location | local mirror)
129. Marcus Aurelius / Meditations (original location | local mirror)
130. Marx / Capital (original location | local mirror)
131. Marx / Manifesto Of The Communist Party (original location | local mirror)
132. Melville / Moby Dick; Or The Whale (original location | local mirror)
133. Mill / Considerations On Representative Government (original location | local mirror)
134. Mill / On Liberty (original location | local mirror)
135. Mill / Utilitarianism (original location | local mirror)
136. Milton / Areopagitica (original location | local mirror)
137. Milton / Minor Poems (original location | local mirror)
138. Milton / Paradise Lost (original location | local mirror)
139. Milton / Samson Agonistes (original location | local mirror)
140. Montaigne / Essays (original location | local mirror)
141. Montesquieu / Spirit Of Laws (original location | local mirror)
142. Pascal / Pensees (original location | local mirror)
143. Plato / Apology (original location | local mirror)
144. Plato / Charmides (original location | local mirror)
145. Plato / Cratylus (original location | local mirror)
146. Plato / Critias (original location | local mirror)
147. Plato / Crito (original location | local mirror)
148. Plato / Euthydemus (original location | local mirror)
149. Plato / Euthyphro (original location | local mirror)
150. Plato / Gorgias (original location | local mirror)
151. Plato / Ion (original location | local mirror)
152. Plato / Laches (original location | local mirror)
153. Plato / Laws (original location | local mirror)
154. Plato / Lysis (original location | local mirror)
155. Plato / Meno (original location | local mirror)
156. Plato / Parmenides (original location | local mirror)
157. Plato / Phaedo (original location | local mirror)
158. Plato / Phaedrus (original location | local mirror)
159. Plato / Philebus (original location | local mirror)
160. Plato / Protagoras (original location | local mirror)
161. Plato / Republic (original location | local mirror)
162. Plato / Seventh Letter (original location | local mirror)
163. Plato / Sophist (original location | local mirror)
164. Plato / Statesman (original location | local mirror)
165. Plato / Symposium (original location | local mirror)
166. Plato / Theaetetus (original location | local mirror)
167. Plato / Timaeus (original location | local mirror)
168. Plotinus / Six Enneads (original location | local mirror)
169. Plutarch / Lives (original location | local mirror)
170. Rabelais / Gargantua And Pantagruel (original location | local mirror)
171. Rousseau / Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind (original location | local mirror)
172. Rousseau / Discourse On Political Economy (original location | local mirror)
173. Rousseau / Social Contract (original location | local mirror)
174. Shakespeare / All's Well That Ends Well (original location | local mirror)
175. Shakespeare / Antony And Cleopatra (original location | local mirror)
176. Shakespeare / As You Like It (original location | local mirror)
177. Shakespeare / Comedy Of Errors (original location | local mirror)
178. Shakespeare / Coriolanus (original location | local mirror)
179. Shakespeare / Cymbeline (original location | local mirror)
180. Shakespeare / First Part Of King Henry The Sixth (original location | local mirror)
181. Shakespeare / Hamlet (original location | local mirror)
182. Shakespeare / Julius Caesar (original location | local mirror)
183. Shakespeare / King Lear (original location | local mirror)
184. Shakespeare / Life And Death Of King John (original location | local mirror)
185. Shakespeare / Life Of King Henry The Eighth (original location | local mirror)
186. Shakespeare / Life Of King Henry The Fifth (original location | local mirror)
187. Shakespeare / Love's Labour's Lost (original location | local mirror)
188. Shakespeare / Macbeth (original location | local mirror)
189. Shakespeare / Measure For Measure (original location | local mirror)
190. Shakespeare / Merchant Of Venice (original location | local mirror)
191. Shakespeare / Merry Wives Of Windsor (original location | local mirror)
192. Shakespeare / Midsummer Nights Dream (original location | local mirror)
193. Shakespeare / Much Ado About Nothing (original location | local mirror)
194. Shakespeare / Othello (original location | local mirror)
195. Shakespeare / Pericles, Prince Of Tyre (original location | local mirror)
196. Shakespeare / Romeo And Juliet (original location | local mirror)
197. Shakespeare / Second Part Of King Henry The Sixth (original location | local mirror)
198. Shakespeare / Sonnets (original location | local mirror)
199. Shakespeare / Taming Of The Shrew (original location | local mirror)
200. Shakespeare / Tempest (original location | local mirror)
201. Shakespeare / Third Part Of King Henry The Sixth (original location | local mirror)
202. Shakespeare / Timon Of Athens (original location | local mirror)
203. Shakespeare / Titus Andronicus (original location | local mirror)
204. Shakespeare / Tragedy Of King Richard The Second (original location | local mirror)
205. Shakespeare / Tragedy Of King Richard The Third (original location | local mirror)
206. Shakespeare / Troilus And Cressida (original location | local mirror)
207. Shakespeare / Twelfth Night (original location | local mirror)
208. Shakespeare / Two Gentlemen Of Verona (original location | local mirror)
209. Shakespeare / Winter's Tale (original location | local mirror)
210. Smith / Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations (original location | local mirror)
211. Sophocles / Ajax (original location | local mirror)
212. Sophocles / Seven Plays (original location | local mirror)
213. Sophocles / Trachiniae (original location | local mirror)
214. Spinoza / Ethics (original location | local mirror)
215. Sterne / Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy (original location | local mirror)
216. Swift / Gulliver's Travels (original location | local mirror)
217. Tacitus / Annals (original location | local mirror)
218. Tacitus / Histories (original location | local mirror)
219. Thucydides / History Of The Peloponnesian War (original location | local mirror)
220. Tolstoy / War And Peace (original location | local mirror)
221. Virgil / Aeneid (original location | local mirror)
222. Virgil / Eclogues (original location | local mirror)
223. Virgil / Georgics (original location | local mirror)

Creator: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@infomotions.com>
Date created: May 28, 2010
Date updated: May 28, 2010
URL: http://infomotions.com/sandbox/great-books/