THE GREAT BOOKS

by the Access Foundation

Section Two:
La Rochefoucauld (1613)
to Emily Brontë (1818)

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Maxims

Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688)
The True Intellectual System of the Universe

Molière (1622-1673)
Online Works
The Misanthrope
Don Juan
Comedies

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)  [More Bio]
Online Works
The Provincial Letters
Pensees

John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Online Works
The Pilgrim's Progress
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
The Holy War

Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)  [More Bio] [3
Treatise on Light

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)  [More Bio]
Online Works
Ethics
On the Improvement of the Understanding 
Selected Works

John Locke (1632-1704) [More Bio]
Online Works
A Letter Concerning Toleration 
Of Civil Government
Second Treatise of Government 
Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Online Works
Phaedra
Tragedies

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)  [More Bio]  [3]
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Opticks
Principia
   *A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) [2]
Online Works
Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology
   *A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731[More Bio] [Literature]
Online Works
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
A Journal of the Plague Year  [Summary]

Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
Online Works

William Congreve (1670-1729)
Online Works
The Double-Dealer
Love for Love
The Old Bachelor
The Way of the World

George Berkeley (1685-1753)  [More Bio]  [3]
Online Works
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues Between Hilas and Philonous

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Online Works
Moral Essay II
Pastorals
Essay on Man  [2]
Complete Poetry

Charles de Secondat, 
   Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Online Works
Spirit of Laws
Persian Letters

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
Clarissa
Pamela
The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Voltaire (1694-1778)
Online Works
Candide
Letters on England
A Treatise on Toleration   [Excerpt
Philosophical Dictionary    [Study Guide]

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Online Works
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Selected Sermons
A Divine and Supernatural Light...

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Online Works
Autobiography
Poor Richard's Almanac
Collected Works

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) [Literature]
Online Works
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling  [Article]

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Online Works
A Dictionary of the English Language 
Life of Joseph Addison
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The Lives of the Poets

David Hume (1711-1776)
Online Works
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Treatise on Human Nature 
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Selected Works and Commentary
Selected Political Essays

Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)  [More Bio]
Online Works
The Confessions
The Social Contract
Emile

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [Literature]
Online Works
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Online Works
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker [Summary]
Travels Through France and Italy
The Adventures of Roderick Random 

Adam Smith (1723-1790) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 [More Info]
Online Works
Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
Critique of Judgment

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Online Works
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Sublime and Beautiful

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
Online Works
The Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops To Conquer

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Online Works
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Age of Reason 
Common Sense 
African Slavery in America
The Rights of Man 

James Boswell (1740-1795)
Online Works
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Journals

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements of Chemistry

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Online Works
Selected Writings and Commentary
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Autobiography
Declaration of Independence
The Jefferson Bible

John Jay (1745-1829),
James Madison (1751-1836), and
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) [More Bio]
Online Works
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
The Rationale for Punishment

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Online Works
Faust    [Study Guide
Poems
Eqmont
Poetry and Truth 

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797
Online Works
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Maria

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat
Fourier Analysis

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
On Religion

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) [More Info]
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Mind 
Logic
Philosophy of Right

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Hymns and Fragments
Selected Poems

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Online Works
Poems
Lyrical Ballads

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [More Bio]
Online Works

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Online Works
Poetry
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kubla Khan
On Poesy or Art

Jane Austen (1775-1817[More Info]
Online Works
Pride and Prejudice 
Sense and Sensibility 
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion 
Northanger Abbey
Complete Works and Commentary

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
Principles of War
On War

Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Life of Henry Brulard

Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Online Works
The Sketch Book
Rip Van Winkle
The Alhambra
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Online Works
Don Juan

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860[More Bio]
The World As Will and Idea
Studies in Pessimism
Essays and Aphorisms

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Online Works
The Deerslayer
The Pathfinder 
The Last of the Mohicans

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Online Works

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Online Works

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology (Excerpts)

Auguste Comte (1798-1857) [Resources]
The Positive Philosophy

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Online Works

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Online Works
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Online Works
Collected Essays

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter 
House of Seven Gables
Complete Online Works
List of Online Works

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859
Online Works
Democracy in America
American Institutions and Their Influence

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Online Works
A System of Logic
On Liberty
Utilitarianism
The Subjection of Women
Autobiography

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Online Works
Complete Poems
Complete Works

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865
Online Works

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Online Works

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) [3]
Online Works
Vanity Fair
Essay on Jonathan Swift

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Online Works

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) [More Bio]
Online Works
Either/Or
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Fear and Trembling
Sickness Unto Death

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) [More Info]
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Online Works

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [More Info]
Online Works
Jane Eyre

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)   [More Bio]
Online Works
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Walden
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Selected Works and Commentary

Emily Brontë (1818-1848[More Info]
Online Works
Wuthering Heights  [Summary

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