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(A selected reading list of classical, notable, famous, best-selling, or otherwise significant books, plays, poems, and other works of literature, primarily English language.)

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2700 BC - 2500 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Code of Hammurabi by Hammurabi (c. 1790 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bible (1400 BC? - 95 AD?)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bible - The Old Testament (1400 BC? - 300 BC?)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Iliad by Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") (c. 800 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Odyssey by Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") (c. 800 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Lao-Tsze or Laosi)("The Venerable Philosopher") (c. 550 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Analects by Confucius (c. 500 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tragedies by Aeschylus (c. 472 BC - c. 430 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tragedies by Euripides (c. 450 BC - c. 408 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antigone by Sophocles (c. 442 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tragedies by Sophocles (c. 442 BC - c. 406 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
History of the Persians by Herodotus ("Father of History") (c. 440 BC) (a/k/a "The Histories")   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (c. 431 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Oedipus by Sophocles (c. 430 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Comedies by Aristophanes (c. 425 BC - c. 380 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Medical Writings by Hippocrates of Iphicrates (c. 400 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dialogues by Plato (originally Aristocles} (c. 360 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Phaedrus by Plato (originally Aristocles} (c. 360 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Republic by Plato (originally Aristocles} (c. 360 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Symposium by Plato (originally Aristocles} (c. 360 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Aristotle (c. 350 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Letter to Herodotus by Epicurus (c. 306 BC - c. 270 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Letter to Menoecus by Epicurus (c. 306 BC - c. 270 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Elements by Euclid (c. 300 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Archimedes (c. 250 BC - c. 212 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Conic Sections by Apollonius of Perga ("The Great Geometer") (c. 240 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Mahabharata by Mahabharata (c. 200 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) (c. 81 BC - c. 43 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Caesar's Conquests by Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar) (written about 51 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (c. 50 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) (c. 37 BC - c. 19 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (c. 35 BC - c. 13 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
History of Rome by Titus Livy (c. 30 BC - c. 17 AD)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Aeneid by Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) (19 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c. 10 BC - c. 16 AD)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Art of Love by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (3 BC)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bible - The New Testament (45? - 95?)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Moralia by Plutarch (c. 75 - c. 100)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Parallel Lives by Plutarch (c. 75 - c. 100)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Agricola by Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) (97 - 98)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Germania by Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) (98 - 99)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Histories by Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) (100 - 110)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 100)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourses by Epictetus (101)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Enchiridion by Epictetus (101) (a/k/a Encheiridion)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Annals by Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) (c. 110)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Almagest by Ptolemy (c. 141)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Works by Lucian (c. 165)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius) (167)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Natural Faculties by Claudius Galen (Galenus) (170)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Enneads by Plotinus (250)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Teacher by Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) (c. 389)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On Christian Doctrine by Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) (c. 397)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Confessions by Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) (c. 401)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
City of God by Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) (413 - 426)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Koran (c. 632)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Beowulf (c. 700 - 750)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 1100)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") (c. 1120)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Volsunga Saga (12th century)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Song of Roland (1185 - 1187)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Magna Carta (1215)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Saga of Burnt Njal (c. 13th century)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1265 - 1273)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The New Life by Dante ("Dante Alighieri") (1293)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Divine Comedy by Dante ("Dante Alighieri") (c. 1306 - 1321)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK   
On Monarchy by Dante ("Dante Alighieri") (1313)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (1386)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (c. 1375 - 1400)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci (1478 and after)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
In the Praise of Folly by Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus (1509)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1516)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Christian Liberty by Martin Luther (1520)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Three Treatises by Martin Luther (1520)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) (1531)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) (1531)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais (1532 - 1562) (5 books)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (1536)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Table Talk by Martin Luther (1566)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1589)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
King Henry the Sixth, Part II by William Shakespeare (1590)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
King Henry the Sixth, Part III by William Shakespeare (1590)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
King Henry the Sixth, Part I by William Shakespeare (1591)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1592)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third by William Shakespeare (1592)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1593 - 1609)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1593)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1593)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare (1593)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare (1594)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare (1594)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1594)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (1594)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1595)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare (1595)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life and Death of King John by William Shakespeare (1596)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1596)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK   
Prothalamion by Edmund Spenser (1596)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
King Henry the Fourth, Part I by William Shakespeare (1597)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
King Henry the Fourth, Part II by William Shakespeare (1597)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare (1598)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1598)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1599)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare (1599)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will by William Shakespeare (1599)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare (1600)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (1600)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies by Sir William Schwenk Gilbert (1600)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (1601)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Phoenix and Turtle by William Shakespeare (1601)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (1602)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1604)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Othello the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare (1604)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon (1605)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Don Quixote by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) (1605)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK   
King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1605)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (1607)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare (1607)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pericles Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare (1608)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1609)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare (1609)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Starry Messenger by Galilei Galileo (1610)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (1610)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bible - Authorized King James Version (1611)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life of King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare (1612)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler (1619)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1620)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy by Johannes Kepler (1627)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (1627)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey (1) (1628)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1632)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes (1637)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Geometry by Rene Descartes (1637) (appendix to "Discourse on the Method")   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galilei Galileo (1638)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes (1641)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
On the Circulation of the Blood by William Harvey (1) (1641)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Essays on the Generation of Animals by William Harvey (1) (1651)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1652)   ---   BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK   
The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal (1656 - 1657)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pensees by Blaise Pascal (1669 - 1670)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Paradise Regained by John Milton (1671)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ethics by Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (1677)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Treatise on Light by Christian Huygens (1678; publ. again 1690)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourse on Metaphysics by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1686)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton (1687)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1) (1689)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1) (1690)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Two Treatises Of Civil Government by John Locke (1) (1690)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke (1) (1693)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Way of the World by William Congreve (1700)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Rene Descartes (written 1629; publ. 1701)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland (1704)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Optics by Sir Isaac Newton (1704)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift (1704)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (c. 1705)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Principles of Human Knowledge by Bishop George Berkeley (1710)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope (1711)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (1712)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Monadology by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1714)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Persian Letters by Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) (1721)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1722)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (1733 - 1734)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume (1739)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (1742)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (1748)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1748)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Essays, Moral and Political by David Hume (1748)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Spirit of Laws by Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) (1748)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Elegy in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (1751)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett (1751)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dictionary by Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") (1755)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1755)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Discourse on the Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1758)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Candide by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) (1759)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") (1759)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (1) (1759)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Memoirs of a Nun by Denis Diderot (1760)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) (1764)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift (written 1710-13; publ. 1766)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne (1768)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") (1769) a poem   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman (1774) (from 1720 -1772)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") (1775)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Declaration of Independence (1776)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776 - 1788) (6 volumes)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1) (1776)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Articles of Confederation (1777)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Letters on the English by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) (c. 1778)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") (1779 - 1781) (a/k/a "Lives of the Poets")   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1780)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK   
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1781)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant (1785)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell (1785)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Constitution of the United States (1787)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787 - 1789)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant (1788)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1789)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant (1790)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Science of Right by Immanuel Kant (1790)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1792)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant (1795)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Autobiography by Edward Gibbon (1796) (a/k/a "Memoirs of His Life & Writings")   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1798)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Maid of Orleans by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1801)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
William Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1804)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1807) (a/k/a "Phenomenology of Mind")   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1809)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (1810)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Of My Life: Poetry and Truth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1811)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady") (1811)   ---   READ AUTHOR QUOTES     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
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