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• First Series
• Second Series
• Third Series
• Fourth Series
• Fifth Series
  

First Series (includes a Reader's Aid)

CHEKHOV
Rothschild's Fiddle*

ARISTOTLE
On Happiness

PLATO
The Apology*

CONRAD
Heart of Darkness*

KANT
Conscience

MARX
Alienated Labour

BIBLE
Genesis

FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents

ROUSSEAU
The Social Contract

DARWIN
The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals

SHAKESPEARE
Othello*

HUME
Of Justice and Injustice

TOCQUEVILLE
The Power of the Majority

SIMMEL
Individual Freedom

SOPHOCLES
Antigone*

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Second Series (includes a Reader's Aid)

PLATO
The Crito*

DEWEY
The Virtues

EURIPIDES
Iphigeneia at Aulis*

ARISTOTLE
Politics

DOSTOEVSKY
Notes from the Underground*

BIBLE
Exodus

HOBBES
Origin of Government

MELVILLE
Billy Budd, Sailor*

SMITH
Wealth of Nations

SHAKESPEARE
Anthony and Cleopatra*

KIERKEGAARD
The Knight of Faith

HERODOTUS
The Persian Wars

LOCKE
Of Civil Government

SWIFT
Gulliver's Travels

THOREAU
Civil Disobedience*

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Third Series (includes a Reader's Aid)

DEWEY
Habits and Will

MILL
On Liberty

SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet*

BIBLE
The Gospel of Mark

THUCYDIDES
History of the Peloponnesian War

CLAUSEWITZ
What Is War?

CHEKHVOV
Uncle Vanya*

MAIMONIDES
On Evil

HOMER
The Iliad

MONTESQUIEU
Principles of Government

CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales 

 AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon*

JAMES
The Beast in the Jungle*

MACHIAVELLI
The Prince

TOLSTOY
The Death of Ivan Ilych

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Fourth Series (includes a Reader's Aid)

SCHOPENHAUER
The Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature

EURIPIDES
Medea*

WEBER
The Spirit of Capitalism

MOLIERE
The Misanthrope*

GIBBON
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

BIBLE
Job

MILL
Utilitarianism

SHAW
Caesar and Cleopatra*

ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God

PLATO
Symposium

MONTAIGNE
Of Experience*

DIDEROT
Rameau's Nephew

SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest*

HAMILTON, JAY, MADISON
The Federalist

GOGOL
The Overcoat*

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Fifth Series (includes a Reader's Aid)

BIBLE
Ecclesiastes

SOPHOCLES
Oedipus the King*

FREUD
On Dreams

KAFKA
The Metamorphosis*

GOETHE
Faust, Part One*

KANT
First Principles of Morals

FLAUBERT
A Simple Heart*

HUME
Of Personal Identity

NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

DANTE
The Inferno

BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France

ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams

SHAKESPEARE
King Lear*

ARISTOTLE
On Tragedy

PLATO
The Republic

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*Indicates complete work.

All other selections are portions of larger works.