Lista obras clássicas de Mortimer Adler
- Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
Iliad
Odyssey - The Old Testament
- Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
Tragedies - Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
Tragedies - Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
History - Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
Tragedies
(esp. Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae) - Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
History of the Peloponnesian War - Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
Medical Writings - Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
Comedies
(esp. The Clouds, The Birds, The Frogs) - Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
Dialogues
(esp. The Republic, Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, Apology, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sophist, Theaetetus) - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Organon, Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, The Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics) - Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus - Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
Elements - Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
Works
(esp. On the Equilibrium of Planes, On Floating Bodies, The Sand-Reckoner) - Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
Conic Sections - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Orations, On Friendship, On Old Age) - Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
On the Nature of Things - Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Works - Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Odes and Epodes, The Art of Poetry) - Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17)
History of Rome - Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17)
Works
(esp. Metamorphoses) - Plutarch (c.45-120)
Parallel Lives
Moralia - Tacitus (c.55-117)
Histories
Annals
Agricola
Germania - Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
Introduction to Arithmetic - Epictetus (c.60-120)
Discourses
Encheiridion (Handbook) - Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
Almagest - Lucian (c.120-c.190)
Works
(esp. The True Way to Write History, The True History, The Sale of Creeds) - Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations - Galen (c. 130-200)
On the Natural Faculties - The New Testament
- Plotinus (205-270)
The Enneads - Augustine (354-430)
Works
(esp. On the Teacher, Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine) - The Song of Roland (12th century?)
- The Nibelungenlied (13th century?)
(Völsunga Saga is the Scandinavian version of the same legend) - The Saga of Burnt Njal
- Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
Summa Theologica - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Works
(esp. The New Life, On Monarchy, The Divine Comedy) - Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
Works
(esp. Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales) - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks - Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The Prince
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy - Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
The Praise of Folly - Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres - Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
Utopia - Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Table Talk
Three Treatises - François Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel - John Calvin (1509-1564)
Institutes of the Christian Religion - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays - William Gilbert (1540-1603)
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote - Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
Prothalamion
The Faërie Queene - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essays
Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Works - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
The Starry Messenger
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences - Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Concerning the Harmonies of the World - William Harvey (1578-1657)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the Blood
On the Generation of Animals - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
The Leviathan - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Geometry
Meditations on First Philosophy - John Milton (1608-1674)
Works
(esp. the minor poems, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes) - Molière (1622-1673)
Comedies
(esp. The Miser, The School for Wives, The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself) - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises - Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Treatise on Light - Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Ethics - John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter Concerning Toleration
“Of Civil Government” (second treatise in Two Treatises on Government)
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Thoughts Concerning Education - Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Tragedies
(esp. Andromache, Phaedra) - Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Tale of a Tub
Journal to Stella
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal - William Congreve (1670-1729)
The Way of the World - George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Principles of Human Knowledge - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay on Criticism
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Persian Letters
Spirit of Laws - Voltaire (1694-1778)
Letters on the English
Candide
Philosophical Dictionary - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Dictionary
Rasselas
The Lives of the Poets (esp. the essays on Milton and Pope) - David Hume (1711-1776)
Treatise on Human Nature
Essays Moral and Political
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
On the Origin of Inequality
On the Political Economy
Emile
The Social Contract - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Tristram Shandy
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy - Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
The Science of Right
Critique of Judgment
Perpetual Peace - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Autobiography - James Boswell (1740-1795)
Journal (esp. London Journal)
Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements of Chemistry - John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Federalist Papers
(together with the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States, and the Declaration of Independence) - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Theory of Fictions - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
Poetry and Truth - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right
Lectures on the Philosophy of History - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poems
(esp. Lyrical Ballads, Lucy poems, sonnets; The Prelude) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems
(esp. “Kubla Khan,” Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Biographia Literaria - Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Emma - Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
On War - Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
On Love - George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Studies in Pessimism - Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Chemical History of a Candle
Experimental Researches in Electricity - Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology - Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
The Positive Philosophy - Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Père Goriot
Eugénie Grandet - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Representative Men
Essays
Journal - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Democracy in America - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
A System of Logic
On Liberty
Representative Government
Utilitarianism
The Subjection of Women
Autobiography - Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
Autobiography - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Works
(esp. Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Hard Times) - Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Civil Disobedience
Walden - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
(together with the Communist Manifesto) - George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede
Middlemarch - Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick
Billy Budd - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Madame Bovary
Three Stories - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Plays
(esp. Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck) - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
What is Art?
Twenty-Three Tales - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Mysterious Stranger - William James (1842-1910)
The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragamatism
Essays in Radical Empiricism - Henry James (1843-1916)
The American
The Ambassadors - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Genealogy of Morals
The Will to Power - Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Science and Hypothesis
Science and Method - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Plays (and Prefaces)
(esp. Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan) - Max Planck (1858-1947)
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
Where Is Science Going?
Scientific Autobiography - Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Time and Free Will
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion - John Dewey (1859-1952)
How We Think
Democracy and Education
Experience and Nature
Logic, the Theory of Inquiry - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
An Introduction to Mathematics
Science and the Modern World
The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures of Ideas - George Santayana (1863-1952)
The Life of Reason
Skepticism and Animal Faith
Persons and Places - Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
The State and Revolution - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Remembrance of Things Past - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The Problems of Philosophy
The Analysis of Mind
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The Magic Mountain
Joseph and His Brothers - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Meaning of Relativity
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
The Evolution of Physics (with L. Infeld) - James Joyce (1882-1941)
“The Dead” in Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses - Jacques Maritain (1882- )
Art and Scholasticism
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
True Humanism - Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Trial
The Castle - Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
A Study of History
Civilization on Trial - Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
Nausea
No Exit
Being and Nothingness - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
The First Circle
The Cancer Ward
Source: Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. Appendix A: “A Recommended Reading List.” Rev. and updated ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. © 1972 by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.