Reading the Classics
Reading the Classics Updated Lists
As some of you know I have been reading the classics. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.
I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers.
Not all the classics are in the list below. I will add those to the list at the end of the list.
I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)
And on George Elliot as well (below)
And although Stuart Woods is not a classic author, I have written a review of his work as I have read most of his writing. (below)
I started with volume three and am almost finished.
Here's the list of books read - bolded I have finished,
Harvard Classics
The volumes are:
Bolded read
(1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) Plato, Epictetus,
Marcus, Aurelius Meditations
(3) Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne
(4) Complete Poems in English: Milton
(5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (
6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)
Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
(11) Origin of Species: Darwin
(12) Plutarch's Lives (13)
Aeneid Virgil (14)
Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
(15)Pilgrim's Progress. Donne
Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
(16) The Thousand and One Nights
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(18) Modern English Drama
(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
(20) The Divine Comedy: Dante
(21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
(22) The Odyssey: Homer
(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
(26) Continental Drama
(27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
(28) Essays. English and American
(29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (
30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie
(31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini
(32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini
(33) Voyages and Travels
(34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
(35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)
Machiavelli, More, Luther
(37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
(38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
(39) Famous Prefaces
(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
(43) American Historical Documents
(44) Sacred Writings 1
(45) Sacred Writings 2
(46) Elizabethan Drama 1
(47) Elizabethan Drama 2
(48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal
(49) Epic and Saga (
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3
Bolded indicated I have read it .
Vol 1
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Volume 2
- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.
Vol 3
- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
- Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
- The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
- The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
- Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
- A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
- Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
- This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
- Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
- Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
- The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
- Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
- The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
- The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
- The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Republic [Plato]
- The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
- Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
- Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
- Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
Jacob's Room [Virginia Woolf]
For the rest of the list see https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2qH