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
- Alexandre Dumas (père) (1802-1870)
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1859)
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
- Anna Sewell (1820-1857)
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
- Carlo Collodi (1826-1890)
- Jules Verne (1828-1905)
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Mary Mapes Dodge (1830-1905)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
- William James (1842-1910)
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
