THE GREAT BOOKS
by the Access Foundation
Section Two:
La Rochefoucauld (1613)
to Emily Brontë (1818)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
MaximsRalph Cudworth (1617-1688)
The True Intellectual System of the UniverseMolière (1622-1673)
Online Works
The Misanthrope
Don Juan
ComediesBlaise Pascal (1623-1662) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Provincial Letters
PenseesJohn Bunyan (1628-1688)
Online Works
The Pilgrim's Progress
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
The Holy WarChristiaan Huygens (1629-1695) [More Bio] [3]
Treatise on LightBenedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) [More Bio]
Online Works
Ethics
On the Improvement of the Understanding
Selected WorksJohn Locke (1632-1704) [More Bio]
Online Works
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Of Civil Government
Second Treatise of Government
Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Online Works
Phaedra
TragediesIsaac Newton (1642-1727) [More Bio] [3]
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Opticks
Principia
*A Short Account of the History of MathematicsGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) [2]
Online Works
Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology
*A Short Account of the History of MathematicsDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) [More Bio] [Literature]
Online Works
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
A Journal of the Plague Year [Summary]Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
Online WorksWilliam Congreve (1670-1729)
Online Works
The Double-Dealer
Love for Love
The Old Bachelor
The Way of the WorldGeorge Berkeley (1685-1753) [More Bio] [3]
Online Works
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues Between Hilas and PhilonousAlexander Pope (1688-1744)
Online Works
Moral Essay II
Pastorals
Essay on Man [2]
Complete PoetryCharles de Secondat,
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Online Works
Spirit of Laws
Persian LettersSamuel Richardson (1689-1761)
Clarissa
Pamela
The History of Sir Charles GrandisonVoltaire (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 WorksHenry 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 PoetsDavid Hume (1711-1776)
Online Works
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Treatise on Human Nature
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Selected Works and Commentary
Selected Political EssaysJean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Confessions
The Social Contract
EmileLaurence Sterne (1713-1768) [Literature]
Online Works
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyTobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Online Works
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker [Summary]
Travels Through France and Italy
The Adventures of Roderick RandomAdam Smith (1723-1790) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Wealth of NationsImmanuel 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 JudgmentEdmund Burke (1729-1797)
Online Works
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Sublime and BeautifulOliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
Online Works
The Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops To ConquerEdward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Online Works
The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThomas Paine (1737-1809) [More Bio]
Online Works
The Age of Reason
Common Sense
African Slavery in America
The Rights of ManJames Boswell (1740-1795)
Online Works
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
JournalsAntoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements of ChemistryThomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Online Works
Selected Writings and Commentary
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Autobiography
Declaration of Independence
The Jefferson BibleJohn Jay (1745-1829),
James Madison (1751-1836), and
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United StatesJeremy Bentham (1748-1832) [More Bio]
Online Works
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
The Rationale for PunishmentJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Online Works
Faust [Study Guide]
Poems
Eqmont
Poetry and TruthMary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Online Works
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
MariaJean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat
Fourier AnalysisFriedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
On ReligionGeorge Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) [More Info]
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Mind
Logic
Philosophy of RightFriedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Hymns and Fragments
Selected PoemsWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Online Works
Poems
Lyrical BalladsSir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [More Bio]
Online WorksSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Online Works
Poetry
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kubla Khan
On Poesy or ArtJane Austen (1775-1817) [More Info]
Online Works
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Complete Works and CommentaryCarl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
Principles of War
On WarStendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Life of Henry BrulardWashington Irving (1783-1859)
Online Works
The Sketch Book
Rip Van Winkle
The Alhambra
The Legend of Sleepy HollowGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Online Works
Don JuanArthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) [More Bio]
The World As Will and Idea
Studies in Pessimism
Essays and AphorismsJames Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Online Works
The Deerslayer
The Pathfinder
The Last of the MohicansMichael Faraday (1791-1867)
Online WorksThomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Online WorksCharles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology (Excerpts)Auguste Comte (1798-1857) [Resources]
The Positive PhilosophyHonoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Online WorksVictor Hugo (1802-1885)
Online Works
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre DameRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Online Works
Collected EssaysNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter
House of Seven Gables
Complete Online Works
List of Online WorksAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Online Works
Democracy in America
American Institutions and Their InfluenceJohn Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Online Works
A System of Logic
On Liberty
Utilitarianism
The Subjection of Women
AutobiographyEdgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Online Works
Complete Poems
Complete WorksAbraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Online WorksCharles Darwin (1809-1882)
Online WorksWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) [3]
Online Works
Vanity Fair
Essay on Jonathan SwiftCharles Dickens (1812-1870)
Online WorksSøren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) [More Bio]
Online Works
Either/Or
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Fear and Trembling
Sickness Unto DeathClaude Bernard (1813-1878) [More Info]
Introduction to the Study of Experimental MedicineAnthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Online WorksCharlotte Brontë (1816-1855) [More Info]
Online Works
Jane EyreHenry 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 CommentaryEmily Brontë (1818-1848) [More Info]
Online Works
Wuthering Heights [Summary]
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