Great Books of the Western World

Great Books of the Western World
First Edition, 1952
Ten Year Reading Plan

Following is a ten year reading plan provided in the Great Books of the Western World first edition library of 1952. The works are organized by the year that they appear in the reading plan. Works shown with hypertext links are available online. Another such list is maintained by Ken Roberts.

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Year One

* Aristophanes - The Clouds
* Aristophanes - The Lysistrata
* Plato - Apology
* Plato - Crito
* Plato - The Republic
* Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
* Aristotle - Politics
* Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
o Lycurgus
o Numa Pompilius
o Lycurgus and Numa Compared
o Alexander
o Caesar
* Saint Augustine - The Confessions
* Nicolo Machiavelli - The Prince
* Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
* Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays
* William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
* John Locke - Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
* Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right
* Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
* Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
* American State Papers - The Declaration of Independence
* American State Papers - Articles of Confederation
* American State Papers - The Constitution of the United States of America
* Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - The Federalist
* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Year Two

* The New Testament - Matthew, Acts
* Homer - The Iliad
* Aeschylus - Agamemnon
* Aeschylus - Eumenides
* Aeschylus - Choephoroe
* Sophocles - Oedipus the King
* Sophocles - Antigone
* Herodotus - The History
* Plato - Meno
* Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics

For more years go:
Great Books of the Western World Ten Year Reading Plan