Lists of Bests: Serious Times "Entering the Great Conversation" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46168 http://www.serioustimes.com/Reading.asp?ID=Entering+the+Great+Conversation Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:43:56 GMT en-us 0 50 145 50 0 The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">1</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> The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226469409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045052 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045052"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Euripides: Medea (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962977 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962977"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521643864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Bacchantes (cp32) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3205622 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3205622"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BW6QF9PJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripide/</div> Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds (Aristophanes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139246 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872203603.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Aristophanes: Frogs (Aristophanes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1403022 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1403022"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0862921155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084324404_.jpg" /></a></div> Lysistrata (Aristophanes//Comedies of Aristophanes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283389 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> The Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421843 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872203948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> The Republic of Plato http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465069347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Aeneid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/590936 <div id="position">16</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 Eclogues, Georgics And Moretum Of Virgil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3207234 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237906 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237906"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> The Annals of Imperial Rome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/975005 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/975005"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420926683.01-A10X6AWKDTR8IT._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43249071_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cornelius Tacitus</div> Histories (Large Print) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842514 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842514"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/013eh7WRdsL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. Cornelius Tacitus</div> Confessions Nelson's Royal Classics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2915014 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2915014"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Z1B37333L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Augustine</div> City of God (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463296 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine of Hippo</div> Beowulf (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941 <div id="position">23</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> St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870610635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Aquinas</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13959 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13959"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Second Shepherd’s Play and Everyman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399310 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Utopia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas More</div> On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002405 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Luther</div> Luther's Small Catechism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2309220 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2309220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0806642823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081346741_.jpg" /></a></div> Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3304 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3304"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044565X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bede</div> Machiavelli's The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99676 <div id="position">33</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> Institutes of the Christian Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3207262 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3207262"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01So8BDSWML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Calvin</div> Leviathan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73194 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73194"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684842955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> Montaigne: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014017897X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel de Montaigne</div> A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249808 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249808"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451526961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> King Richard III (King Richard the Third) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2425883 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2425883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/142092625X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131462034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21573 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21573"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Donne: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974997 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974997"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067944467X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Donne</div> The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert (Christian Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839550 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1557252599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Herbert</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81057 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872201929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy. Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, The Geometry ... books of the Western World, Volume 31) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699222 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Spinoza's Ethics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88530 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benedictus de Spinoza</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Songs of Innocence and of Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783141 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783141"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01OrlFSp5FL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> Pensees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2486760 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2486760"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/2253160695.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pascal Blaise</div> Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: In a Faithful Account of the Life and Death of John Bunyan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3046531 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3046531"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GDU6gffeL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div>