Listings 1-7
In collection: How to Read a Book
Works
- 1. Homer
- 2. The Old Testament
- 3. Aeschylus
- 4. Sophocles
- Tragedies:
- The Oedipus Cycle
- Ajax
- Electra
- The Trachiniae
- Philoctetes
- Tragedies:
- 5. Herodotus
- 6. Euripides
- 7. Thucydides
- On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies (De Magnete) (1600)
- Troilus and Cressida (c. 1600-1602)
- Essays (Bacon) (1601)
- The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601)
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (1601)
- Measure For Measure (c. 1603-1604)
- Othello, Moor of Venice (c. 1603-1604)
- All's Well That Ends Well (c. 1604-1605?)
- Timon of Athens (c. 1605-1606)
- King Lear (c. 1605-1606)
- Macbeth (1606)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-1608)
- Coriolanus (1608)
- The Declaration of Sentiments (1608)
- Sonnets (Shakespeare) (1609)
- A Lover's Complaint (1609)
- The Winter's Tale (c. 1609-1611)
- Cymbeline, King of Britain (1610)
- The Starry Messenger (1610)
- The Tempest (c. 1610-1611)
- King Henry the Eighth (c. 1612-1613)
- Don Quixote (1615)
- Sermons (Donne) (c. 1615-1631)
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (1618-1621)
- Mayflower Compact (1620)
- Novum Organum (1620)
- Advancement of Learning (1623?)
- New Atlantis (1626)
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628)
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1628)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
- Minor Poems (Milton) (1632-1674)
- Religio Medici (1635)
- Discourse on Method (1637)
- Geometry (1637)
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
- The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640; rev. 1658)
- Scientific Treatises (Pascal) (1640-1658)
- Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
- Objections Against the Meditations and Replies (1641)
- Letters (Pascal) (1643-1661)
- Areopagitica (1644)
- On Education (1644)
- The Book of Five Rings (1645)
- On the Circulation of the Blood (1649)
