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  1. 1.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  2. 2.
    The Code of Hammurabi
    by Leonard W. King

  3. 3.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  4. 4.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  5. 5.
    The Odes (Penguin Classics)
    by Pindar

  6. 8.
    The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

  7. 10.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  8. 19.
    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  9. 22.
    Laws: Plato (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Plato

  10. 23.
    ?
    Republic (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Plato

  11. 24.

  12. 25.
    Treatise on Rhetoric (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Aristotle

  13. 26.
    Nicomachean Ethics (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Aristotle

  14. 27.
    Politics (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Aristotle

  15. 28.
    The Poetics (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Aristotle

  16. 30.
    The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Aesop

  17. 31.

  18. 32.
    The Nature of the Gods: And on Divination (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Marcus Tullius Cicero

  19. 33.
    On the Nature of Things (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Titus Lucretius Carus

  20. 34.
    The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
    by Virgil

  21. 35.
    The Georgics (Penguin Classics)
    by Virgil

  22. 36.

  23. 38.

  24. 43.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  25. 44.
    Heroides (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  26. 45.
    Fasti (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  27. 46.
    The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  28. 47.
    The Poems of Exile (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  29. 48.
    Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Plutarch

  30. 49.
    The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics)
    by Tacitus

  31. 50.
    The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)
    by Tacitus

  32. 51.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

  33. 52.
    The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by Plotinus

  34. 53.
    City of God (Penguin Classics)
    by Augustine of Hippo

  35. 54.
    Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Augustine

  36. 55.
    Arabian Nights (Popular Classics)
    by Jack Zipes

  37. 57.
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Penguin Poetry Library)
    by Omar Khayyam

  38. 58.
    Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  39. 60.

  40. 61.
    The Portable Petrarch (Penguin Classics)
    by Francesco Petrarca

  41. 62.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  42. 63.
    Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  43. 64.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  44. 65.
    The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas a Kempis

  45. 67.
    Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 (The Penguin English Library)
    by Thomas Malory

  46. 68.
    The Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  47. 69.
    Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
    by Desiderius Erasmus

  48. 70.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

  49. 71.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

  50. 72.
    On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series)
    by Nicolaus Copernicus

  51. 73.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin Classics)
    by Benvenuto Cellini

  52. 74.
    Essays (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Michel de Montaigne

  53. 75.
    The Third Part of King Henry VI (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  54. 76.
    The Second Part of King Henry VI (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  55. 77.
    The First Part of King Henry VI (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  56. 78.
    King Richard II (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  57. 79.
    King Richard III (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  58. 80.
    The Comedy of Errors (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  59. 81.
    Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays
    by Christopher Marlowe

  60. 82.
    Titus Andronicus (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  61. 83.
    The Taming of the Shrew (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  62. 84.
    The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Donne

  63. 85.
    Romeo and Juliet (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  64. 86.
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  65. 87.
    Love's Labour's Lost (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  66. 88.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  67. 89.
    The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics)
    by Edmund Spenser

  68. 90.
    The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Edmund Spenser

  69. 91.
    The Merchant of Venice (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  70. 92.
    King John (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  71. 93.
    The First Part of King Henry IV (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  72. 95.
    Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  73. 96.
    King Henry V (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  74. 97.
    Julius Caesar (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  75. 98.
    Essays (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Francis Bacon

  76. 99.
    The Merry Wives of Windsor (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  77. 100.
    As You Like It (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  78. 101.
    Twelfth Night or What You Will (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  79. 102.
    Troilus and Cressida (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  80. 103.
    All's Well that Ends Well (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  81. 104.
    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  82. 105.
    Measure for Measure (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  83. 106.
    Othello (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  84. 107.
    Macbeth (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  85. 108.
    The Tragedy of King Lear (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  86. 109.
    Antony and Cleopatra (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  87. 110.
    Timon of Athens (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  88. 111.
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  89. 112.
    Coriolanus (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  90. 113.
    The Sonnets (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  91. 114.
    ?
    Cymbeline (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  92. 115.
    ?
    The Winter's Tale (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  93. 116.
    King Henry VIII (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  94. 117.
    The Tempest (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  95. 118.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  96. 119.
    Epitome/Copernican Astronomy/Harm (Great Minds Series)
    by Johannes Kepler

  97. 120.

  98. 121.
    On Motion of Heart & Blood in Animals (Great Minds Series)
    by William C. Harvey

  99. 122.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  100. 123.

  101. 124.
    The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre Corneille

  102. 125.
    Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Great Minds Series)
    by Galileo Galilei

  103. 127.
    Leviathan (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Thomas Hobbes

  104. 128.
    The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

  105. 130.
    ?

  106. 131.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  107. 132.
    Selected Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean De La Fontaine

  108. 135.
    Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz

  109. 136.

  110. 139.
    The Way of the World and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by William Congreve

  111. 140.

  112. 141.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  113. 142.
    Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

  114. 143.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  115. 144.
    Treatise of Human Nature (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by David Hume

  116. 145.
    Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  117. 146.
    Joseph Andrews (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  118. 147.
    The Spirit of Laws (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

  119. 151.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  120. 152.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Johnson

  121. 153.
    ?
    The complete English poems; (Penguin English poets)
    by Samuel Johnson

  122. 154.
    Social Contract (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  123. 155.
    Reflections on the Revolution (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Edmund Burke

  124. 156.

  125. 158.

  126. 159.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

  127. 160.
    Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

  128. 161.
    The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  129. 162.
    Emile (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Jean Jacques Rousseau

  130. 163.
    The Castle of Otranto (Classic, Modern, Penguin)
    by Horace Walpole

  131. 164.
    Philosophical Dictionary (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Voltaire

  132. 165.
    A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)
    by Laurence Sterne

  133. 166.
    Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

  134. 167.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  135. 168.

  136. 170.
    The Robbers and Wallenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Schiller

  137. 171.
    Critique of Pure Reason (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Immanuel Kant

  138. 172.
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

  139. 173.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by William Blake

  140. 175.
    Critique of Practical Reason (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Immanuel Kant

  141. 177.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  142. 178.
    The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Immanuel Kant

  143. 179.
    The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by Benjamin Franklin

  144. 180.
    The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics)
    by James Boswell

  145. 181.
    Memoirs of My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Edward Gibbon

  146. 182.
    ?
    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  147. 183.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  148. 185.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  149. 186.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

  150. 187.
    Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  151. 188.
    Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  152. 189.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  153. 190.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (Penguin Classics S.)
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  154. 191.
    Selected Tales (Brothers Grimm) (Penguin Classics)
    by Jacob Grimm

  155. 192.
    John Keats: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics: Poetry)
    by John Keats

  156. 193.
    Waverley (Penguin English Library)
    by Walter Scott

  157. 194.
    Tales of Hoffmann (Penguin Classics)
    by Ernst Theodor Hoffman

  158. 195.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  159. 196.
    Guy Mannering (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  160. 197.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  161. 198.
    Don Juan (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

  162. 199.
    Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Washington Irving

  163. 200.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  164. 201.
    Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  165. 202.
    Philosophy of Right (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  166. 203.
    Love (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  167. 204.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  168. 205.

  169. 207.
    Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Lyell

  170. 208.
    Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel

  171. 209.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  172. 210.
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  173. 211.
    On War (Penguin Classics)
    by Carl von Clausewitz

  174. 212.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

  175. 213.
    Eugenie Grandet (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  176. 214.
    Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  177. 215.
    Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

  178. 216.
    Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Hans Christian Andersen

  179. 218.
    Pickwick Papers (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  180. 220.
    Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  181. 221.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  182. 222.
    Lost Illusions (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  183. 223.
    Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  184. 224.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  185. 225.
    A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)
    by Mikhail Lermontov

  186. 226.
    Emerson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  187. 227.
    Dead Souls (Penguin Classics)
    by Nikolai Gogol

  188. 228.

  189. 229.
    Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)
    by Soren Kierkegaard

  190. 230.
    Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Soren Kierkegaard

  191. 231.
    The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas perĂ½

  192. 232.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  193. 234.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  194. 235.
    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore De Balzac

  195. 236.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  196. 237.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  197. 238.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  198. 239.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  199. 240.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  200. 241.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  201. 242.
    Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Schopenhauer

  202. 243.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  203. 244.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  204. 245.
    Hard Times (Penguin Classics (London, England).)
    by Charles Dickens

  205. 246.
    Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  206. 247.

  207. 248.

  208. 249.
    Selected Poems Baudelaire (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Pierre Baudelaire

  209. 250.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  210. 251.
    Origin of Species (Great Minds Series)
    by Charles Darwin

  211. 252.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  212. 253.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  213. 254.
    Oblomov (Penguin Classics)
    by Ivan Goncharov

  214. 255.
    Home of the Gentry (Penguin Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  215. 256.
    On Liberty (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by John Stuart Mill

  216. 257.
    The Forces of Matter (Great Minds Series)
    by Michael Faraday

  217. 258.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  218. 259.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  219. 260.
    The Subjection of Women (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by John Stuart Mill

  220. 261.
    Considerations on Representative (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by John Stuart Mill

  221. 262.
    Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  222. 263.
    Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  223. 264.
    Utilitarianism (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by John Stuart Mill

  224. 265.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  225. 267.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  226. 268.
    ?
    Poems (The Penguin poets)
    by Paul Verlaine

  227. 269.
    ?
    Peer Gynt: A dramatic poem; (The Penguin classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

  228. 270.
    The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  229. 271.
    Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  230. 273.
    ?
    Rimbaud; (The Penguin poets)
    by Arthur Rimbaud

  231. 274.
    The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series)
    by Charles Darwin

  232. 275.
    The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  233. 276.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  234. 277.
    Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  235. 278.
    Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics)
    by Jules Verne

  236. 279.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  237. 280.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  238. 281.
    Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

  239. 282.
    Pinocchio (Penguin Classics)
    by Carlo Collodi

  240. 283.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  241. 284.
    Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  242. 285.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  243. 286.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

  244. 287.
    Beyond Good and Evil (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  245. 288.

  246. 290.
    A Study in Scarlet (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

  247. 291.
    Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
    by August Strindberg

  248. 292.
    Autobiographies (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Darwin

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