Book titles for authors born 1800B.C. - 1800A.D


1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)

Author Unknown (c.1800 B.C.)

2. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)

Homer - Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

3. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

Homer - Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

4. Fragments (Penguin Classics)

Heraclitus (c.535 – c.475 BCE), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

5. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus - Greek poet and dramatist (525 - 456BC)

6. Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)

Sophocles - Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

7. Euripides: Medea (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) Greek tragic dramatist

8. The Histories: Complete (Start Publishing)

Herodotus - Greek historian & traveller (484 BC - 430 BC)

9. The Apology of Socrates

Plato - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

10. Republic

Plato - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

11. The Dialogues Of Plato

Plato - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

12. The Art of War

Sun-tzu - Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

13. The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist

14. Epicurus: The extant remains of the Greek text

Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC) - Greek philosopher

15. Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics)

Virgil - Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

16. Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)

Ovid - Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD)

17. Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD) - Roman (Greek-born) slave & stoic philosopher

18. The Enchiridion of Epictetus

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD) Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher

19. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics)

or 'The Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State' (The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a name which draws a parallel with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, another funerary text)

Padmasambhava (b.8th Century C.E), Sage guru, Buddhist teacher and philosopher from India

20. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections)

Collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age

21. Inferno (1st part of The Divine Comedy)

Alighieri, Dante - Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)

22. Purgatorio (Penguin Classics) (2nd part of The Divine Comedy)

Alighieri, Dante - Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)

23. Paradiso: Paradise v. 3 (Penguin Classics) (3rd part of The Divine Comedy)

Alighieri, Dante - Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)

24. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)

Chaucer, Geoffrey - English poet (1342 - 1400)

25. The Prince (Penguin Classics)

Machiavelli, Niccolo - Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527)

26. Essays (Penguin Classics)

Montaigne, Michel de - French essayist (1533 - 1592)

27. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)

Cervantes, Miguel de - Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616)

28. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Classics)

Galileo - Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)

29. Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection)

Shakespeare, William - Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

30. Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics)

Hobbes, Thomas - English political philosopher (1588 - 1679)

31. Meditations on First Philosophy

Descartes, Rene (1596 - 1650) French mathematician & philosopher

32. The Passions of the Soul

Descartes, Rene (1596 - 1650) French mathematician & philosopher

33. Principles of Philosophy

Descartes, Rene (1596 - 1650) French mathematician & philosopher

34. A Discourse on the Method: of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences (Oxford World's Classics)

Descartes, Rene (1596 - 1650) French mathematician & philosopher

35. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)

Milton, John - English poet (1608 - 1674)

36. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come

Bunyan, John (1628 – 1688) English Christian writer and preacher

37. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Locke, John - English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)

38. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters)

Spinoza, Baruch - Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 - 1677)

39. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Newton, Isaac - English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)

40. Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

Swift, Jonathan - Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)

41. Candide

Voltaire - French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

42. The Autobiography (Dover Thrift S.) - the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790).

Franklin, Benjamin - US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

43. Autobiography and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

Franklin, Benjamin - US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

44. London: a poem, in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. The fifth edition.

Johnson, Samuel - English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

45. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin Classics)

Johnson, Samuel - English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

46. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (Penguin Classics)

Hume, David - Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776)

47. The Natural History of Religion

Hume, David - Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776)

48. A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)

Sterne, Lawrence (1713 - 1768), Irish novelist & satirist

49. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics) - first two volumes appeared in 1759, and seven others followed over the next seven years (vols. 3 and 4, 1761; vols. 5 and 6, 1762; vols. 7 and 8, 1765; vol. 9, 1767)

Sterne, Lawrence (1713 - 1768), Irish novelist & satirist

50. Wealth of Nations (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

Smith, Adam (1723 – 1790), Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy

51. On The Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics:: Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

52. The Critique of Pure Reason

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

53. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: Letters to Marcus Herz, February 1772

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

54. An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' (Penguin Great Ideas)

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

55. Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

56. Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysic Of Morals

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)  

57.Critique of Practical Reason (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

58. Critique of Judgement (Oxford World's Classics)

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

59. The Science of Right

Kant, Immanuel - German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

60. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

61. Faust: Part One: Pt. 1 (Oxford World's Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

62. Faust: Part Two: Pt. 2 (Oxford World's Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

63. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks)

Blake, William (1757 - 1827) English engraver, illustrator, & poet

64. The Robbers

Schiller, Friedrich von - German dramatist & poet (1759 - 1805)

65. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Radcliffe, Ann - English writer and pioneer of the gothic novel (1764 - 1823)

66. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)

Radcliffe, Ann - English writer and pioneer of the gothic novel (1764 - 1823)

67. The Philosophy of Nature

Hegel, Georg W. - German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

68. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences)

Hegel, Georg W. - German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

69. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

Hegel, Georg W. - German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

70. Science of Logic (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)

Hegel, Georg W. - German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

71. The Philosophy of Spirit

Hegel, Georg W. - German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

72. The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) (Penguin Classics)

Wordsworth, William - English poet (1770 - 1850)

73. Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)

Scott, Sir Walter - Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832)

74. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover Thrift)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834) English critic & poet

75. Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics)

Austen, Jane - English novelist (1775 - 1817)

76. The World as Will and Representation (the World as Will and Idea), Volume I of III: 1

Schopenhauer, Arthur - German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

77. Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or, the Modern Prometheus 

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - English novelist (1797 - 1851)

78. Old Goriot (Classics)

Balzac, Honore de - French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)


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