Lists of Bests: Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35043 The list of books about which Professor J. Rufus Fears lectures in his <a href="http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=4600">course</a> of the same name from the Teaching Company. Notes: <ul> <li>In place of the books of Exodus, Job, and Mark, I have included the entire Bible for the sake of ease.</li> <li>For the Greek tragedies, The Oresteia, The Bacchae, and Prometheus Bound I chose from the series The Complete Greek Tragedies.</li> <li>For Plato's Phaedo, I chose the Penguin Classics edition which includes other works.</li> </ul> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:13:06 GMT en-us 0 50 37 0 0 Letters and Papers from Prison http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2485871 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2485871"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0334028361.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dietrich Bonhoeffer</div> The Iliad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803864 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803864"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143059289.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Meditations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195978 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Aurelius</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Holy Bible: King James Version, Black http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264286 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264286"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1884543405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51600952_.jpg" /></a></div> The Koran (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Beowulf (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307938 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307938"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044582X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002387 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002387"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835025.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103634 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69749 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69749"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060007761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn</div> Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451516753.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43083024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Aeneid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/590936 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/590936"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670038032.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Funeral Oration of Pericles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792950 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pericles (Trans E H Blakeney</div> The Gettysburg Address http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780601 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/014E3NE7GDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abraham Lincoln</div> All Quiet on the Western Front http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335854 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335854"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099483475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Maria Remarque</div> The Analects of Confucius (Norton Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/153815 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/153815"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393316998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Confucius</div> Machiavelli's The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99676 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99676"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312149786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Plato, The Republic (The Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2449982 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> On Liberty (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3166 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3166"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140432078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Stuart Mill</div> Le Morte D'Arthur -- Volume 1 (I) (One) (Penguin Classics, Volume I) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792953 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Thomas Mallory</div> Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905712 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014043044X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Malory</div> Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4303 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72628 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72628"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143570 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143570"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140390448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421185_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9367 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9367"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375758119.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Gibbon</div> The History Of Freedom And Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792960 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01PWRHWWVVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton</div> Cicero, Volume XXI. On Duties (De Officiis): De Officiis (Loeb Classical Library No. 30) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/662223 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/662223"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674990331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cicero</div> Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24847 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24847"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807059099.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi</div> My Early Life: 1874-1904 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/297373 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/297373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684823454.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115313973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston Churchill</div> Painting as a Pastime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1120282 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1120282"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EZ5GTG.01-A2PFZ7GCVPJU4A._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston S. Churchill</div> The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039541685X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston S. Churchill</div>