I was recently discussing the Great Books of the Western World with a forum member and encourage this as a possible base. I did not notice anything about this on the forum so here it is. I recommend the first Edition from 1952 which was a 54 volume set (listed below). There was also a second 60 volume set from 1990.
I personally do not endorse the totality of the works, but as an overall project, I find that it has great merit, just do not neglect your game (studies) at the expense of reading all of these.
Here is a link to Free e-books for many of the Great Books and I list the first edition volumes after the link and the additions from 1990 afterward. The list is very long.
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Volume 1
•The Great Conversation
Volume 2
•Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and Love
Volume 3
•Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and World
Volume 4
•Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)
oThe Iliad
oThe Odyssey
Volume 5
•Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
oThe Suppliant Maidens
oThe Persians
oSeven Against Thebes
oPrometheus Bound
oThe Oresteia
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The Eumenides
•Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
oThe Oedipus Cycle
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
oAjax
oElectra
oThe Trachiniae
oPhiloctetes
•Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
oRhesus
oMedea
oHippolytus
oAlcestis
oHeracleidae
oThe Suppliants
oTrojan Women
oIon
oHelen
oAndromache
oElectra
oBacchantes
oHecuba
oHeracles Mad
oPhoenician Women
oOrestes
oIphigeneia in Tauris
oIphigeneia at Aulis
oCyclops
•Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)
oThe Acharnians
oThe Knights
oThe Clouds
oThe Wasps
oPeace
oThe Birds
oThe Frogs
oLysistrata
oThesmophoriazusae
oEcclesiazousae
oPlutus
Volume 6
•Herodotus
oThe History (translated by George Rawlinson)
•Thucydides
oHistory of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)
Volume 7
•Plato
oThe Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws
oThe Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
Volume 8
•Aristotle
oCategories
oOn Interpretation
oPrior Analytics
oPosterior Analytics
oTopics
oSophistical Refutations
oPhysics
oOn the Heavens
oOn Generation and Corruption
oMeteorology
oMetaphysics
oOn the Soul
oMinor biological works
Volume 9
•Aristotle
oHistory of Animals
oParts of Animals
oOn the Motion of Animals
oOn the Gait of Animals
oOn the Generation of Animals
oNicomachean Ethics
oPolitics
oThe Athenian Constitution
oRhetoric
oPoetics
Volume 10
•Hippocrates
oWorks
•Galen
oOn the Natural Faculties
Volume 11
•Euclid
oThe Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
•Archimedes
oOn the Sphere and Cylinder
oMeasurement of a Circle
oOn Conoids and Spheroids
oOn Spirals
oOn the Equilibrium of Planes
oThe Sand Reckoner
oThe Quadrature of the Parabola
oOn Floating Bodies
oBook of Lemmas
oThe Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
•Apollonius of Perga
oOn Conic Sections
•Nicomachus of Gerasa
oIntroduction to Arithmetic
Volume 12
•Lucretius
oOn the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)
•Epictetus
oThe Discourses (translated by George Long)
•Marcus Aurelius
oThe Meditations (translated by George Long)
Volume 13
•Virgil
oEclogues
oGeorgics
oAeneid
Volume 14
•Plutarch
oThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Volume 15
•P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)
oThe Annals
oThe Histories
Volume 16
•Ptolemy
oAlmagest, part 1 (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)
•Nicolaus Copernicus
oOn the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
•Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
oEpitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)
oThe Harmonies of the World (Book V)
Volume 17
•Plotinus
oThe Six Enneads
Volume 18
•Augustine of Hippo
oThe Confessions
oThe City of God
oOn Christian Doctrine
Volume 19
•Thomas Aquinas
oSumma Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
Volume 20
•Thomas Aquinas
oSumma Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
Volume 21
•Dante Alighieri
oThe Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)
Volume 22
•Geoffrey Chaucer
oTroilus and Criseyde
oThe Canterbury Tales
Volume 23
•Niccolò Machiavelli
oThe Prince
•Thomas Hobbes
oLeviathan
Volume 24
•François Rabelais
oGargantua and Pantagruel
Volume 25
•Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
oEssays
Volume 26
•William Shakespeare
oThe First Part of King Henry the Sixth
oThe Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
oThe Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
oThe Tragedy of Richard the Third
oThe Comedy of Errors
oTitus Andronicus
oThe Taming of the Shrew
oThe Two Gentlemen of Verona
oLove's Labour's Lost
oRomeo and Juliet
oThe Tragedy of King Richard the Second
oA Midsummer Night's Dream
oThe Life and Death of King John
oThe Merchant of Venice
oThe First Part of King Henry the Fourth
oThe Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
oMuch Ado About Nothing
oThe Life of King Henry the Fifth
oJulius Caesar
oAs You Like It
Volume 27
•William Shakespeare
oTwelfth Night; or, What You Will
oThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
oThe Merry Wives of Windsor
oTroilus and Cressida
oAll's Well That Ends Well
oMeasure for Measure
oOthello, the Moor of Venice
oKing Lear
oMacbeth
oAntony and Cleopatra
oCoriolanus
oTimon of Athens
oPericles, Prince of Tyre
oCymbeline
oThe Winter's Tale
oThe Tempest
oThe Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
oSonnets
Volume 28
•William Gilbert
oOn the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
•Galileo Galilei
oDialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
•William Harvey
oOn the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
oOn the Circulation of Blood
oOn the Generation of Animals
Volume 29
•Miguel de Cervantes
oThe History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Volume 30
•Sir Francis Bacon
oThe Advancement of Learning
oNovum Organum
oNew Atlantis
Volume 31
•René Descartes
oRules for the Direction of the Mind
oDiscourse on the Method
oMeditations on First Philosophy
oObjections Against the Meditations and Replies
oThe Geometry
•Benedict de Spinoza
oEthics
Volume 32
•John Milton
oEnglish Minor Poems
oParadise Lost
oSamson Agonistes
oAreopagitica
Volume 33
•Blaise Pascal
oThe Provincial Letters
oPensées
oScientific and mathematical essays
Volume 34
•Sir Isaac Newton
oMathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
oOptics
•Christian Huygens
oTreatise on Light
Volume 35
•John Locke
oA Letter Concerning Toleration
oConcerning Civil Government, Second Essay
oAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding
•George Berkeley
oThe Principles of Human Knowledge
•David Hume
oAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Volume 36
•Jonathan Swift
oGulliver's Travels
•Laurence Sterne
oThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Volume 37
•Henry Fielding
oThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Volume 38
•Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
oThe Spirit of the Laws
•Jean Jacques Rousseau
oA Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
oA Discourse on Political Economy
oThe Social Contract
Volume 39
•Adam Smith
oAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Volume 40
•Edward Gibbon
oThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)
Volume 41
•Edward Gibbon
oThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)
Volume 42
•Immanuel Kant
oCritique of Pure Reason
oFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
oCritique of Practical Reason
oExcerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals
Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience
General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
The Science of Right
oThe Critique of Judgement
Volume 43
•American State Papers
oDeclaration of Independence
oArticles of Confederation
oThe Constitution of the United States of America
•Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
oThe Federalist
•John Stuart Mill
oOn Liberty
oConsiderations on Representative Government
oUtilitarianism
Volume 44
•James Boswell
oThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Volume 45
•Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
oElements of Chemistry
•Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
oAnalytical Theory of Heat
•Michael Faraday
oExperimental Researches in Electricity
Volume 46
•Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
oThe Philosophy of Right
oThe Philosophy of History
Volume 47
•Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oFaust
Volume 48
•Herman Melville
oMoby Dick; or, The Whale
Volume 49
•Charles Darwin
oThe Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
oThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Volume 50
•Karl Marx
oCapital
•Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
oManifesto of the Communist Party
Volume 51
•Count Leo Tolstoy
oWar and Peace
Volume 52
•Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
oThe Brothers Karamazov
Volume 53
•William James
oThe Principles of Psychology
Volume 54
•Sigmund Freud
oThe Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
oSelected Papers on Hysteria
oThe Sexual Enlightenment of Children
oThe Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
oObservations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
oThe Interpretation of Dreams
oOn Narcissism
oInstincts and Their Vicissitudes
oRepression
oThe Unconscious
oA General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
oBeyond the Pleasure Principle
oGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
oThe Ego and the Id
oInhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
oThoughts for the Times on War and Death
oCivilization and Its Discontents
oNew Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
The second edition dropped two scientific works, by Apollonius and Fourier
The following are additions by volume from 1990:
Volume 20
•John Calvin
oInstitutes of the Christian Religion (Selections)
Volume 23
•Erasmus
oThe Praise of Folly
Volume 31
•Molière
oThe School for Wives
oThe Critique of the School for Wives
oTartuffe
oDon Juan
oThe Miser
oThe Would-Be Gentleman
oThe Imaginary Invalid
•Jean Racine
oBérénice
oPhèdre
Volume 34
•Voltaire
oCandide
•Denis Diderot
oRameau's Nephew
Volume 43
•Søren Kierkegaard
oFear and Trembling
•Friedrich Nietzsche
oBeyond Good and Evil
Volume 44
•Alexis de Tocqueville
oDemocracy in America
Volume 45
•Honoré de Balzac
oCousin Bette
Volume 46
•Jane Austen
oEmma
•George Eliot
oMiddlemarch
Volume 47
•Charles Dickens
oLittle Dorrit
Volume 48
•Mark Twain
oHuckleberry Finn
Volume 52
•Henrik Ibsen
oA Doll's House
oThe Wild Duck
oHedda Gabler
oThe Master Builder
The six volumes of 20th century material consisted of the following:
Volume 55
•William James
oPragmatism
•Henri Bergson
o"An Introduction to Metaphysics"
•John Dewey
oExperience and Education
•Alfred North Whitehead
oScience and the Modern World
•Bertrand Russell
oThe Problems of Philosophy
•Martin Heidegger
oWhat Is Metaphysics?
•Ludwig Wittgenstein
oPhilosophical Investigations
•Karl Barth
oThe Word of God and the Word of Man
Volume 56
•Henri Poincaré
oScience and Hypothesis
•Max Planck
oScientific Autobiography and Other Papers
•Alfred North Whitehead
oAn Introduction to Mathematics
•Albert Einstein
oRelativity: The Special and the General Theory
•Arthur Eddington
oThe Expanding Universe
•Niels Bohr
oAtomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
oDiscussion with Einstein on Epistemology
•G. H. Hardy
oA Mathematician's Apology
•Werner Heisenberg
oPhysics and Philosophy
•Erwin Schrödinger
oWhat Is Life?
•Theodosius Dobzhansky
oGenetics and the Origin of Species
•C. H. Waddington
oThe Nature of Life
Volume 57
•Thorstein Veblen
oThe Theory of the Leisure Class
•R. H. Tawney
oThe Acquisitive Society
•John Maynard Keynes
oThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Volume 58
•Sir James George Frazer
oThe Golden Bough (selections)
•Max Weber
oEssays in Sociology (selections)
•Johan Huizinga
oThe Autumn of the Middle Ages
•Claude Lévi-Strauss
oStructural Anthropology (selections)
Volume 59
•Henry James
oThe Beast in the Jungle
•George Bernard Shaw
oSaint Joan
•Joseph Conrad
oHeart of Darkness
•Anton Chekhov
oUncle Vanya
•Luigi Pirandello
oSix Characters in Search of an Author
•Marcel Proust
oRemembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"
•Willa Cather
oA Lost Lady
•Thomas Mann
oDeath in Venice
•James Joyce
oA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Volume 60
•Virginia Woolf
oTo the Lighthouse
•Franz Kafka
oThe Metamorphosis
•D. H. Lawrence
oThe Prussian Officer
•T. S. Eliot
oThe Waste Land
•Eugene O'Neill
oMourning Becomes Electra
•F. Scott Fitzgerald
oThe Great Gatsby
•William Faulkner
oA Rose for Emily
•Bertolt Brecht
oMother Courage and Her Children
•Ernest Hemingway
oThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
•George Orwell
oAnimal Farm
•Samuel Beckett
oWaiting for Godot
