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Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter’s Tale
Epic & Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous · trans. R. Campbell Thompson
The Iliad
Homer · trans. William Cullen Bryant
The Odyssey
Homer · trans. William Cullen Bryant
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod and others · trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White
The Ramayana
Valmiki · trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith
The Aeneid
Virgil · trans. John Dryden
Metamorphoses
Ovid · trans. Various translators
Beowulf
Anonymous · trans. John Lesslie Hall
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Greek Drama
Agamemnon
Aeschylus · trans. Gilbert Murray
The Libation Bearers
Aeschylus · trans. Gilbert Murray
The Eumenides
Aeschylus · trans. Gilbert Murray
Antigone
Sophocles · trans. Francis Storr
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · trans. Francis Storr
Medea
Euripides · trans. Gilbert Murray
The Clouds
Aristophanes · trans. W. J. Hickie
The Trojan Women
Euripides · trans. Gilbert Murray
Electra
Euripides · trans. Gilbert Murray
The Bacchae
Euripides · trans. Gilbert Murray
The Frogs
Aristophanes · trans. Benjamin Bickley Rogers
Wisdom & Religion
The Bible: Selected Books
King James Version
The Upanishads
Anonymous · trans. Swami Paramananda
The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Books 1–3
Vyasa · trans. Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous · trans. Sir Edwin Arnold
The Dhammapada
Anonymous · trans. F. Max Müller
Buddhist Suttas
Anonymous · trans. T. W. Rhys Davids
The Sutta Nipāta
Anonymous · trans. Viggo Fausbøll
The Questions of King Milinda
Anonymous · trans. T. W. Rhys Davids
The Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Path of Light)
Śāntideva · trans. L. D. Barnett
The Diamond Sutra
Anonymous · trans. William Gemmell, from Kumārajīva's Chinese version
The Lotus Sutra
Anonymous · trans. Hendrik Kern
Mahayana Sutras: Pure Land, Diamond, and Related Texts
Anonymous · trans. F. Max Müller, J. Takakusu, and E. B. Cowell
Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation)
Anonymous · trans. W. W. Westcott
The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature
Christian D. Ginsburg
Kabbalah Unveiled
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth · trans. S. L. MacGregor Mathers
Analects
Confucius · trans. James Legge
Mencius
Mencius · trans. James Legge
Tao Te Ching
Laozi · trans. James Legge
Zhuangzi
Zhuang Zhou · trans. Herbert A. Giles
The Qur’an
Anonymous · trans. E. H. Palmer
Ancient Philosophy
Dialogues
Plato · trans. Benjamin Jowett
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle · trans. F. H. Peters
Politics
Aristotle · trans. William Ellis
Metaphysics
Aristotle · trans. W. D. Ross
Poetics
Aristotle · trans. Ingram Bywater
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius · trans. William Ellery Leonard
On Duties
Cicero · trans. Walter Miller
Short Works
Epictetus · trans. George Long
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · trans. George Long
The Enneads
Plotinus · trans. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Late Antique & Medieval Thought
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · trans. E. B. Pusey
The City of God
Augustine of Hippo · trans. Marcus Dods, George Wilson, and J. J. Smith
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius · trans. H. R. James
Proslogion, Monologion, and Cur Deus Homo
Anselm of Canterbury · trans. Sidney Norton Deane and James Gardiner Vose
Deliverance from Error
Al-Ghazali · trans. Claud Field
Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Ibn Tufail · trans. Simon Ockley
The Guide for the Perplexed
Maimonides · trans. M. Friedländer
The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes
Averroes · trans. Muhammad Jamil al-Rahman
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas · trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province
War, Progress, and the End of History
Vladimir Solovyov · trans. Alexander Bakshy
Early Modern Philosophy
Essays
Michel de Montaigne · trans. Charles Cotton
Essays
Francis Bacon
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
Philosophical Works
René Descartes · trans. John Veitch
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · trans. C. Kegan Paul
Ethics
Benedictus de Spinoza · trans. R. H. M. Elwes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
Monadology
G. W. Leibniz · trans. Frederic Henry Hedge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · trans. G. D. H. Cole
Political Thought & History
Histories
Herodotus · trans. G. C. Macaulay
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · trans. Richard Crawley
Plutarch’s Lives
Plutarch
The Annals
Tacitus · trans. Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · trans. W. K. Marriott
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · trans. G. D. H. Cole
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · trans. Henry Reeve
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Modern Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant · trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Lectures on the History of Philosophy
G. W. F. Hegel · trans. E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson
The World as Will and Idea
Arthur Schopenhauer · trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche · trans. Helen Zimmern
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche · trans. Horace B. Samuel
Chance, Love, and Logic
Charles S. Peirce
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
Pragmatism
William James
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson · trans. Arthur Mitchell
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · trans. C. K. Ogden
Biography & Memoir
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini · trans. John Addington Symonds
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Edward Gibbon
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton
David Brewster
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Autobiography
John Stuart Mill
Faraday as a Discoverer
John Tyndall
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Edison: His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie · trans. Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg
From Immigrant to Inventor
Michael Pupin
The Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian · trans. E. J. Chinnock
The Life of Napoleon I
J. Holland Rose
Modern Literature
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · trans. John Ormsby
Faust, Part I
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · trans. Bayard Taylor
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · trans. Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · trans. Constance Garnett
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf