THE GREAT BOOKS

by the Access Foundation

Section Three
Karl Marx (1818) 
to Arthur Miller ( 1915)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Online Works
Das Kapital  (Full Text)  (Synopsis)
Principles of Communism
The Communist Manifesto    [Study Guide]
On the Jewish Question
The Poverty of Philosophy
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Complete Works

George Eliot (1819-1880)
Online Works
Adam Bede
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch   [Summary]
Daniel Deronda
Selected Works

Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Online Works
Complete Works

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Online Works  [2]
Leaves of Grass
Supplementary Prose
Calamus Poems
Complete Prose Works [2

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Online Works
Madame Bovary  [Summary]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Online Works
Crime and Punishment   [Study Guide
The Idiot                    [Study Guide
The Brothers Karamazov  [Study Guide]
Notes from Underground  [Study Guide]  [Summary]
A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story
The Grand Inquisitor
Selected Works
Complete Works  (in Russian)

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Online Works
Peer Gynt
Terje Viken
A Doll's House
The Wild Duck

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Online Works
War and Peace
Anna Karenina 
What is Art? 
Death of Ivan Ilych
The Kreutzer Sonata

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Online Works
Complete Works    [Study Guide

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Online Works
Erewhon
Erewhon Revisited
The Way of All Flesh

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Online Works
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Mysterious Stranger
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Innocents Abroad
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Life on the Mississippi
What is Man? and Other Essays

Henry Adams (1838-1918)
Online Works
The Education of Henry Adams

Émile Zola (1840-1902)
Online Works
Germinal  [Study Guide]
Nana

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Online Works
The Return of the Native
The Mayor of Casterbridge  [Summary]
Far from the Madding Crowd
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
Wessex Poems, and Other Verses

William James (1842-1910)  [Main Bio]
Online Works
The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Will To Believe
Pragmatism
Essays in Radical Empiricism

Henry James (1843-1916)  [More Bio]
Online Works
Complete Works

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) [More]
Online Works
Thus Spake Zarathustra   [Study Guide]
Twilight of Idols
The AntiChrist
Beyond Good and Evil
On The Genealogy of Morals
Human, All Too Human
The Will To Power
The Gay Science
DayBreak, or "The Dawn"
Ecce Homo

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Online Works
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Essays and Lectures
Selected Prose

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) [More Bio]
Science and Hypothesis
Science and Method

Sir James Frazer (1854-1941)
The Golden Bough

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Interpretation of Dreams  [Study Guide]
Psychoanalysis
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 
Civilization and Its Discontents 
Psychopathology and Everyday Life
A Young Girl's Diary
The Future of an Illusion
Moses and Monotheism

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950
Online Works
Pygmalion
Man and Superman
Major Barbara
Misalliance
An Unsocial Socialist
Mrs. Warren's Profession

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Online Works
Heart of Darkness 
The Secret Sharer  [Summary]

Max Planck (1858-1947)  [More Info]
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
Where Is Science Going?
Scientific Autobiography

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)  [More Info]
Ideas: General Intro to Pure Phenomenology 
Cartesian Meditations
Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man
Pure Phenomenology
Logical Investigations (in German)

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) [More Bio]
Time and Free Will 
Matter and Memory 
Creative Evolution 
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion 

John Dewey (1859-1952)
Online Works
How We Think
Democracy and Education
The School and Society
Experience and Nature
Reconstruction in Philosophy

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904
Online Works
Selected Works and Short Stories
Annotated Works and Synopses
The Complete Short Stories

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Online Works
   [Website for Whitehead's Thought] [Summary]
Principia Mathematica   [Summary
An Introduction to Mathematics 
Treatise on Universal Algebra
Science and the Modern World
Process and Reality
Religion in the Making
The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures of Ideas
Modes of Thought

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) [More Bio]
Online Works  [2]
The Age of Innocence
Afterward

George Santayana (1863-1952)
The Life of Reason 
Skepticism and Animal Faith
Persons and Places

Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)  [More Bio]
The Idea of the Holy

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)
Online Works  [2]
The State and Revolution
Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch
Marxism and Revisionism
The Tasks of the Youth Leagues

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Online Works  [2]
The Red Badge of Courage  [Summary]

Marcel Proust (1871-1922
In Search of Lost Time
   also titled, Remembrance of Things Past

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)  [More Bio]
Online Works
Principia Mathematica    [Summary
The Problems of Philosophy
A Free Man's Worship
Philosophical Consequences of Relativity   [2nd copy]

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)  [More Bio]
Online Works
Duino Elegies  (in German)
Selected Poetry
Stories of God
Sonnets to Orpheus
Possibility of Being

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) [More Bio]
The Magic Mountain  [Summary
Death in Venice 
Buddenbrooks 
Doctor Faustus 

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)  [More Bio]
The Glass Bead Game 
Siddhartha    [Summary
Narcissus and Goldmund 

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)  [More Info]
The Meaning of Relativity 
Space-Time
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [2]
  *Einstein's Reply to Criticisms
What is the Theory of Relativity
Why Socialism?
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
On the Theory of Relativity
Sidelights of Relativity
The Evolution of Physics 

E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
Online Works  [2]
Howard's End
A Passage to India   [Summary
A Room with a View  [Summary]
Where Angels Fear to Tread

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) [More Bio]*
The Divine Milieu

James Joyce (1882-1941) [Resources]
Online Works
Ulysses  [Summary]  [Text Notes]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  [Summary]
Dubliners    [Study Guide]

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Online Works  [2]
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse

Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
Online Works
Art and Scholasticism
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
True Humanism

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Trial 
The Castle 
Metamorphosis  [Summary]

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Online Works
Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Rocking-Horse Winner

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Online Works
Main Street 
Our Mr. Wrenn
Babbitt
Arrowsmith  [Summary]

Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
The Courage To Be
The Shaking of the Foundations

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Online Works
Four Quartets
The Waste Land
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Tractatus
Philosophical Investigations
Zettel
The Blue and the Brown Books

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975)
Online Works
A Study of History
The Decline of the West
Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Being and Time
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology [Intro
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)
Hegel and the Greeks
Existence and Being
An Introduction to Metaphysics
Poetry, Language, Thought
Basic Writings

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Doctor Zhivago  [Summary

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Online Works
Brave New World
Crome Yellow
Eyeless in Gaza

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) [More Bio]
Online Works     Online Resources
The Great Gatsby  [Summary]

William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury  [Summary]  [Commentary
Absalom, Absalom   [Commentary]
As I Lay Dying       [Commentary
Light in August 
Works

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The Sun Also Rises 
A Farewell to Arms 
The Old Man and the Sea  [Summary]

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Online Resources
Lolita [Info]
Pale Fire
Collected Short Stories

E.B. White (1899-1985), and
  William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1946)
The Elements of Style

André Malraux (1901-1976)
The Conquerors 
The Royal Way 
Man's Fate 
Man's Hope 
The Voices of Silence 

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) [More Info
The Grapes of Wrath 
Of Mice and Men  [Summary]
East of Eden
The Pearl 
Cannery Row 

Karl Popper (1902-1994)  [More Info]
The Logic of Scientific Discovery 
Conjectures and Refutations 

Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001)
Bibliography
How To Read a Book
The Great Ideas Today
A Guidebook To Learning
Works

George Orwell (1903-1950)
Politics and the English Language
Shooting an Elephant
Collected Essays
Animal Farm  [Summary]
1984            [Summary]
Political Writings

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Being and Nothingness
No Exit 

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)  [More Info]
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead 

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
The Act of Creation
The Ghost in the Machine
The God That Failed
Darkness at Noon

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) [More Info]
Waiting for Godot  [Summary]
Endgame

Eudora Welty (1909-2001)  [More Info]
Lily Daw and the Three Ladies
Delta Wedding
The Bride of Innisfallen
The Optimist's Daughter
Collected Stories

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989)
Language, Truth and Logic
The Central Questions of Philosophy

Northrop Frye (1912-1991)  [More Info]
Anatomy of Criticism
The Great Code        [Discussion]
Words with Power     [Summary]

Albert Camus (1913-1960)  [More Info]
Online Resources
The Stranger  [Summary]
The Plague
The Fall
The Rebel

William E. Barrett (1913-1992)
Irrational Man
The Illusion of Technique
The Death of the Soul

Arthur Miller (1915-2006)
The Crucible             [Summary
Death of a Salesman  [Summary]

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