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Ancient

1200 BCE to 450 · 90 works

From the epics of Homer and the Hebrew scriptures to Greek drama, philosophy and history, and the poets and historians of Rome.

  1. c. 2100-1200 BCThe Epic of GilgameshAnonymous (Babylonian; standard version attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni)Poetry
  2. 1000 BCEPsalm 23Attributed to DavidPoetry
  3. 1000 BCEThe BibleAnonymousWork
  4. c. 8th century BCEThe IliadHomerPoetry
  5. c. 8th century BCEThe OdysseyHomerPoetry
  6. c. 700 BCTheogony and Works and DaysHesiodPoetry
  7. 7th–6th century BCThe Homeric HymnsAnonymous (Homeric)Poetry
  8. 550 BCEAesop's FablesAesopWork
  9. c. 500 BCEFragmentsHeraclitusWork
  10. c. 5th century BCEThe Art of WarSun TzuWork
  11. 458 BCEThe OresteiaAeschylusWork
  12. 431 BCE (Medea)Medea and Other PlaysEuripidesWork
  13. 431 BCEPericles' Funeral OrationPericlesSpeech
  14. c. 431–411 BCEThe History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydidesWork
  15. c. 430 BCEThe HistoriesHerodotusWork
  16. c. 429–401 BCEThe Theban PlaysSophoclesWork
  17. 415–c. 414 BCThe Trojan Women and Other PlaysEuripidesWork
  18. 411 BCE (Lysistrata)Lysistrata and Other PlaysAristophanesWork
  19. c. 430–405 BCIphigenia in Aulis and Other PlaysEuripidesWork
  20. 405 BCE (The Bacchae)The Bacchae and Other PlaysEuripidesWork
  21. c. 5th–4th century BCEHippocratic WritingsHippocratesWork
  22. c. 399–347 BCEThe Last Days of SocratesPlatoWork
  23. c. 385 BCEMenoPlatoWork
  24. c. 385 BCEThe SymposiumPlatoWork
  25. c. 380 BCEThe RepublicPlatoWork
  26. c. 370 BCEPhaedrus and Letters VII and VIIIPlatoWork
  27. c. 370 BCEThe Persian ExpeditionXenophonWork
  28. c. 360 BCStatesmanPlatoWork
  29. c. 360 BCETimaeusPlatoWork
  30. c. 350 BCEDe AnimaAristotleWork
  31. c. 350 BCEPoliticsAristotleWork
  32. 4th century BCEPosterior Analytics and PhysicsAristotleWork
  33. c. 348 BCLawsPlatoWork
  34. c. 340 BCEThe Nicomachean EthicsAristotleWork
  35. c. 335 BCEPoeticsAristotleWork
  36. c. 330 BCThe Athenian ConstitutionAristotle (attributed)Work
  37. c. 319 BCECharactersTheophrastusWork
  38. c. 300 BCEElements, Book IEuclidWork
  39. 300 BCEThe RamayanaValmikiPoetry
  40. 3rd century BCThe ArgonauticaApollonius of RhodesPoetry
  41. c. 250 BCEThe Method (Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics)ArchimedesWork
  42. c. 2nd century BCEThe Bhagavad GitaAnonymous (attributed to Vyasa)Work
  43. c. 300–100 BCThe Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)AnonymousWork
  44. 150 BCEThe ArthashastraKautilyaWork
  45. c. 150 BCThe Histories, Book VIPolybiusWork
  46. 63 BCFirst Oration Against CatilineMarcus Tullius CiceroSpeech
  47. c. 55 BCEOn the Nature of the UniverseLucretiusPoetry
  48. c. 54-51 BCThe Republic and The LawsMarcus Tullius CiceroWork
  49. 58-50 BCEThe Conquest of GaulJulius CaesarWork
  50. 49-48 BCEThe Civil WarJulius CaesarWork
  51. 44 BCOn Duties (De Officiis)Marcus Tullius CiceroWork
  52. c. 42-40 BCCatiline's War and The Jugurthine WarSallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)Work
  53. c. 35–30 BCE / c. 60 CEThe Satires of Horace and PersiusHorace and PersiusPoetry
  54. c. 27-9 BCThe History of Rome, Books I-VLivy (Titus Livius)Work
  55. c. 25–16 BCHeroidesOvidPoetry
  56. c. 29–19 BCEThe AeneidVirgilPoetry
  57. 8 CEMetamorphosesOvidPoetry
  58. c. 30 CEOn MedicineAulus Cornelius CelsusWork
  59. c. 50–70 CEDe Materia MedicaDioscoridesWork
  60. c. 63–65 CELetters from a StoicSenecaWork
  61. c. 75 CEThe Jewish WarFlavius JosephusWork
  62. c. 77 CENatural History: A SelectionPliny the ElderWork
  63. c. 93-94 CEJewish AntiquitiesFlavius JosephusWork
  64. 98 CEThe Agricola and the GermaniaTacitusWork
  65. c. 1st–2nd century CEEarly Christian Writings: The Apostolic FathersVariousWork
  66. c. 100 CE (Moralia)EssaysPlutarchWork
  67. c. 100 CEThe Age of Alexander: Nine Greek LivesPlutarchWork
  68. c. 100 CEThe Fall of the Roman Republic: Six LivesPlutarchWork
  69. 1st–2nd century ADThe Library (Bibliotheca)Apollodorus (attributed)Work
  70. c. AD 100-110The HistoriesTacitusWork
  71. c. 108 CEDiscourses (selection) and EncheiridionEpictetusWork
  72. c. AD 100-120Lives of the Noble Grecians and RomansPlutarchWork
  73. c. 109–117 CEThe Annals of Imperial RomeTacitusWork
  74. c. 121 CEThe Twelve CaesarsSuetoniusWork
  75. c. 150 CEAlmagestClaudius PtolemyWork
  76. c. 170–180 CEMeditationsMarcus AureliusWork
  77. c. 170 CEThe Golden AssApuleiusWork
  78. c. 160–210 CEGalen: Selected WorksGalenWork
  79. c. 253-270EnneadsPlotinusWork
  80. 2nd-5th centuries CEThe Early Christian CreedsVariousWork
  81. c. 325 CEThe History of the ChurchEusebiusWork
  82. c. 356–420 CEEarly Christian LivesAthanasius, Jerome and othersWork
  83. c. 379On the Making of ManGregory of NyssaWork
  84. 387 CEHomilies on the StatuesJohn ChrysostomWork
  85. c. 390 CEThe Roman HistoryAmmianus MarcellinusWork
  86. c. 397–400 CEConfessionsAugustine of HippoWork
  87. 397Life of St. MartinSulpitius Severus; Alexander RobertsWork
  88. c. 406-420 CEHomilies on the Gospel of JohnAugustine of HippoWork
  89. 413–426 CECity of GodAugustine of HippoWork
  90. 450St. Patrick's WritingsPatrick of Ireland; Muirchu; TirechanWork

Medieval

524 to 1485 · 48 works

Late antiquity through the Middle Ages: the Church Fathers, saints’ lives, Islamic and Byzantine learning, sagas, romances and Dante.

  1. c. 524 CEThe Consolation of PhilosophyBoethiusWork
  2. c. 530 CEThe Rule of St BenedictBenedict of NursiaWork
  3. 533 CEThe Institutes of JustinianJustinian I (Tribonian and commissioners)Work
  4. c. 550 CEHistory of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War)Procopius of CaesareaWork
  5. c. 550 CEThe Secret HistoryProcopius of CaesareaWork
  6. c. 610–632 CEThe KoranAnonymous (Islamic scripture)Work
  7. c. 658-680Cædmon's HymnCædmonPoetry
  8. 725The Dream of the RoodAnonymousPoetry
  9. 731Ecclesiastical History of the English PeopleBedeWork
  10. c. 830 / c. 885Two Lives of CharlemagneEinhard and Notker the StammererWork
  11. c. 8th-11th centuryBeowulfAnonymousPoetry
  12. c. 910A Treatise on the Smallpox and MeaslesAbu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)Work
  13. 1000The Poetic EddaAnonymous (Old Norse)Poetry
  14. c. 1025The Canon of Medicine, Book IIbn Sina (Avicenna)Work
  15. c. 1078ChronographiaMichael PsellosWork
  16. c. 1100Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali)Abu Hamid al-GhazaliWork
  17. c. 1100The Song of RolandAnonymousPoetry
  18. 1135-1153Sermons on the Song of SongsBernard of ClairvauxWork
  19. c. 1148The AlexiadAnna KomneneWork
  20. 1170St. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury MiraclesEdward Grim; Benedict of Peterborough; William of Canterbury traditionWork
  21. c. 1170sThe Lais of Marie de FranceMarie de FrancePoetry
  22. c. 1183Memoirs of Usama ibn MunqidhUsama ibn MunqidhWork
  23. c. 1200The NibelungenliedAnonymousPoetry
  24. c. 1207-1213Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of ConstantinopleGeoffrey de VillehardouinWork
  25. 1215Magna CartaKing John and the barons of EnglandWork
  26. c. 1220The Prose EddaSnorri SturlusonWork
  27. c. 1209-1390Early Franciscan SourcesFrancis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; othersWork
  28. 1247St. Dymphna and the Geel ColonyPierre of Cambrai; Geel traditionWork
  29. 1259The Journey of the Mind into GodBonaventureWork
  30. 1260Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician SaintsJacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle traditionWork
  31. 1260The Golden Legend: Popular SaintsJacobus de Voragine; William CaxtonWork
  32. 13th centuryThe Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga)Anonymous (Old Norse)Poetry
  33. c. 1265-1266De RegnoThomas AquinasWork
  34. 1265-1274Summa TheologicaThomas AquinasWork
  35. c. 1298–1300The Travels of Marco PoloMarco Polo (with Rustichello da Pisa)Work
  36. c. 1312-1318De Monarchia (with R. W. Church's essay on Dante)Dante Alighieri; R. W. ChurchWork
  37. c. 1308-1321The Divine ComedyDante AlighieriPoetry
  38. 1350The MabinogionAnonymous (Middle Welsh)Work
  39. 1355The Travels of Ibn BattutaIbn BattutaWork
  40. 1374St. Vitus and the Dancing ManiaVitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy BabingtonWork
  41. 1377The MuqaddimahIbn KhaldunWork
  42. c. 1380sTroilus and CriseydeGeoffrey ChaucerPoetry
  43. late 14th centurySir Gawain and the Green KnightAnonymousPoetry
  44. c. 1387-1400The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey ChaucerPoetry
  45. 1431The Trial of Joan of ArcJeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas MurrayWork
  46. 1453The Fall of Constantinople, 1453: Eyewitness AccountsNicolo Barbaro, George Sphrantzes, Doukas, and othersWork
  47. 1478Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague SaintsJacobus de Voragine; Francesco Diedo tradition; later plague devotionWork
  48. 1485Le Morte d'ArthurThomas MaloryPoetry

Renaissance & Early Modern

1513 to 1692 · 86 works

Humanism, the Reformation and the scientific revolution: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, the essayists and the early natural philosophers.

  1. 1513 (published 1532)The PrinceNiccolo MachiavelliWork
  2. 1516UtopiaThomas MoreWork
  3. 1517Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusNiccolò MachiavelliWork
  4. 1517-1546Selected Sermons and Reformation TreatisesMartin LutherDebate
  5. 1519The Leipzig DisputationMartin Luther, Johann Eck, and Andreas KarlstadtSpeech
  6. 1521The Art of WarNiccolo MachiavelliWork
  7. 1524On Free Will (De Libero Arbitrio)Desiderius ErasmusDebate
  8. 1525The Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio)Martin LutherDebate
  9. 1532-1564Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois RabelaisWork
  10. 1543On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface)Andreas VesaliusWork
  11. 1543On the Revolutions of the Heavenly SpheresNicolaus CopernicusWork
  12. 1548Discourse on Voluntary ServitudeÉtienne de La BoétieWork
  13. 1548-1552Selected SermonsHugh LatimerWork
  14. 1550; 2nd ed. 1568Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1)Giorgio VasariWork
  15. 1549-1564Selected SermonsJohn CalvinWork
  16. 1555The Popol Vuh (Lewis Spence's account)Anonymous (K'iche' Maya); Lewis SpenceWork
  17. 1558-1563The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto CelliniWork
  18. 1559Institutes of the Christian ReligionJohn CalvinWork
  19. 1565The Life of St. Teresa of JesusTeresa of AvilaWork
  20. 1580-1595EssaysMichel de MontaigneWork
  21. 1580 (Essays)On FriendshipMichel de MontaigneWork
  22. 1588Speech to the Troops at TilburyElizabeth ISpeech
  23. 1590The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund SpenserPoetry
  24. 1591The Taming of the ShrewWilliam ShakespeareWork
  25. c. 1592Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven)Wu Cheng'enWork
  26. 1593Richard IIIWilliam ShakespeareWork
  27. 1594Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I)Richard HookerWork
  28. 1594The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam ShakespeareWork
  29. c. 1595A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam ShakespeareWork
  30. 1595Romeo and JulietWilliam ShakespeareWork
  31. 1596The Merchant of VeniceWilliam ShakespeareWork
  32. 1597-1625EssaysFrancis BaconWork
  33. 1597Henry IV, Part 1William ShakespeareWork
  34. 1598Much Ado About NothingWilliam ShakespeareWork
  35. 1599As You Like ItWilliam ShakespeareWork
  36. 1599Henry VWilliam ShakespeareWork
  37. 1599Julius CaesarWilliam ShakespeareWork
  38. 1599Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen")William ShakespeareWork
  39. 1599The St Crispin's Day SpeechWilliam ShakespeareWork
  40. c. 1600HamletWilliam ShakespeareWork
  41. 1600On the Magnet (De Magnete)William GilbertWork
  42. c. 1601Twelfth NightWilliam ShakespeareWork
  43. 1604OthelloWilliam ShakespeareWork
  44. 1605–1615Don QuixoteMiguel de CervantesWork
  45. c. 1606King LearWilliam ShakespeareWork
  46. c. 1606MacbethWilliam ShakespeareWork
  47. 1609-1619New Astronomy and The Harmony of the WorldJohannes KeplerWork
  48. 1609Sonnet 116William ShakespearePoetry
  49. 1609SonnetsWilliam ShakespearePoetry
  50. 1610-1638Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day)Galileo GalileiWork
  51. 1610Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud"John DonnePoetry
  52. 1611The TempestWilliam ShakespeareWork
  53. 1620Novum OrganumFrancis BaconWork
  54. 1620The Mayflower CompactThe Mayflower PilgrimsWork
  55. 1621The Anatomy of MelancholyRobert BurtonWork
  56. 1624 / 1631Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent OccasionsJohn DonneWork
  57. 1625The Rights of War and Peace (Book I)Hugo GrotiusWork
  58. 1628On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis)William HarveyWork
  59. 1630A Model of Christian CharityJohn WinthropSpeech
  60. 1633The CollarGeorge HerbertPoetry
  61. 1633The Metaphysical PoetsVarious (ed. Helen Gardner)Poetry
  62. 1637Discourse on MethodRene DescartesWork
  63. 1641Meditations on First PhilosophyRene DescartesWork
  64. 1644AreopagiticaJohn MiltonWork
  65. 1644Lex, RexSamuel RutherfordWork
  66. 1649The Passions of the SoulRene DescartesWork
  67. 1651LeviathanThomas HobbesWork
  68. 1652On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX)John MiltonPoetry
  69. 1656The Commonwealth of OceanaJames HarringtonWork
  70. 1661The Sceptical ChymistRobert BoyleWork
  71. 1665-1678The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert SandersonIzaak WaltonWork
  72. 1666Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersJohn BunyanWork
  73. 1666 (The Misanthrope)The Misanthrope and Other PlaysMolièreWork
  74. 1667; revised 1674Paradise LostJohn MiltonPoetry
  75. 1670A Theologico-Political TreatiseBaruch SpinozaWork
  76. 1670PenseesBlaise PascalWork
  77. 1677EthicsBaruch SpinozaWork
  78. 1678The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn BunyanWork
  79. 1680PatriarchaRobert FilmerWork
  80. 1682The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonMary RowlandsonWork
  81. 1687PrincipiaIsaac NewtonWork
  82. 1689A Letter Concerning TolerationJohn LockeWork
  83. 1689An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn LockeWork
  84. 1689Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn LockeWork
  85. 1690Treatise on LightChristiaan HuygensWork
  86. 1692The Practice of the Presence of GodBrother LawrenceWork

18th Century

1704 to 1798 · 58 works

The Enlightenment and the age of revolutions: the novel comes of age, and the American founding produces its charters, essays and debates.

  1. 1704OpticksIsaac NewtonWork
  2. 1710A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeGeorge BerkeleyWork
  3. 1719Robinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeWork
  4. 1721Persian LettersMontesquieuWork
  5. 1726Gulliver's TravelsJonathan SwiftWork
  6. 1729A Modest ProposalJonathan SwiftWork
  7. 1732-1790Autobiography and Poor Richard's AlmanackBenjamin FranklinWork
  8. 1739-1740A Treatise of Human NatureDavid HumeWork
  9. 1739-1770Selected SermonsGeorge WhitefieldWork
  10. 1741-1752Essays, Moral and Political (selection)David HumeWork
  11. 1737 / 1741Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful NarrativeJonathan EdwardsWork
  12. 1746-1790Sermons on Several Occasions and Primitive PhysickJohn WesleyWork
  13. 1747Instructions for His GeneralsFrederick the GreatWork
  14. 1748An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid HumeWork
  15. 1748The Spirit of the LawsMontesquieuWork
  16. 1749The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry FieldingWork
  17. 1751Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardThomas GrayPoetry
  18. 1755Discourse on the Origin of InequalityJean-Jacques RousseauWork
  19. 1759Candide: Or OptimismVoltaireWork
  20. 1759-1767The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneWork
  21. 1762The Social ContractJean-Jacques RousseauWork
  22. 1765-1769Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandWilliam BlackstoneWork
  23. 1767-1768Letters from a Farmer in PennsylvaniaJohn DickinsonWork
  24. 1774The Journal of John WoolmanJohn WoolmanWork
  25. 1775Give Me Liberty or Give Me DeathPatrick HenrySpeech
  26. 1776-1794Common Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and The American CrisisThomas PaineDebate
  27. 1776-1791The Founding DocumentsContinental Congress and United States Constitutional ConventionDebate
  28. 1776-1789The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections)Edward GibbonWork
  29. 1776The Virginia Declaration of RightsGeorge MasonWork
  30. 1776The Wealth of NationsAdam SmithWork
  31. 1776-1826Thoughts on Government and Selected LettersJohn AdamsWork
  32. 1777 (ratified 1781)The Articles of ConfederationContinental CongressDebate
  33. 1779Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDavid HumeDebate
  34. 1781 (revised 1787)Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel KantWork
  35. 1782-1789ConfessionsJean-Jacques RousseauWork
  36. 1783The Newburgh AddressGeorge WashingtonSpeech
  37. 1785Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel KantWork
  38. 1785-1840Memorial and Remonstrance and Notes of Debates in the Federal ConventionJames MadisonDebate
  39. 1785-1820Notes on the State of Virginia, Selected Letters, and The Jefferson BibleThomas JeffersonWork
  40. 1786-1798Essays on Education in a RepublicBenjamin RushWork
  41. 1777 (enacted 1786)The Virginia Statute for Religious FreedomThomas JeffersonWork
  42. 1787-1788A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of AmericaJohn AdamsWork
  43. 1787-1788The Anti-Federalist PapersVariousDebate
  44. 1787-1788The Federalist PapersAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John JayDebate
  45. 1788Critique of Practical ReasonImmanuel KantWork
  46. 1789Elements of ChemistryAntoine LavoisierWork
  47. 1789The Natural History of SelborneGilbert WhiteWork
  48. 1790-1791Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the BankAlexander HamiltonWork
  49. 1790Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEdmund BurkeDebate
  50. 1790-1791The Burke-Paine Debate on the French RevolutionEdmund Burke and Thomas PaineDebate
  51. 1791The Life of Samuel JohnsonJames BoswellWork
  52. 1792A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary WollstonecraftWork
  53. 1794A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in PhiladelphiaRichard Allen and Absalom JonesWork
  54. 1794The TygerWilliam BlakePoetry
  55. 1795Perpetual PeaceImmanuel KantWork
  56. 1775-1799Farewell Address and Selected LettersGeorge WashingtonWork
  57. 1798Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeyWilliam WordsworthPoetry
  58. 1798-1799The Virginia and Kentucky ResolutionsJames Madison and Thomas JeffersonDebate

19th Century

1787 to 1899 · 221 works

Romantics and Victorians, the great Russian and French novelists, the antebellum and Civil War republic, and the rise of modern science and medicine.

  1. 1787-1930Early Black Church Sermons and AddressesVariousWork
  2. 1790 (published 1922)Love and Freindship and Other Early WorksJane AustenWork
  3. 1801A Treatise on InsanityPhilippe PinelWork
  4. 1801First Inaugural Address (Jefferson)Thomas JeffersonSpeech
  5. 1803Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  6. 1807Tales from ShakespeareCharles and Mary LambWork
  7. 1808Faust, Part OneJohann Wolfgang von GoetheWork
  8. 1810Fletcher v. PeckSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  9. 1796-1821Letters of NapoleonNapoleon BonaparteWork
  10. 1811Sense and SensibilityJane AustenWork
  11. 1812–1857Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales)Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmWork
  12. 1812Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the MindBenjamin RushWork
  13. 1812The Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David WyssWork
  14. 1813Description of the RetreatSamuel TukeWork
  15. 1813Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenWork
  16. 1814Mansfield ParkJane AustenWork
  17. 1815EmmaJane AustenWork
  18. 1817Northanger AbbeyJane AustenWork
  19. 1817PersuasionJane AustenWork
  20. 1818 (revised 1831)FrankensteinMary ShelleyWork
  21. 1818OzymandiasPercy Bysshe ShelleyPoetry
  22. 1818 (expanded 1844)The World as Will and RepresentationArthur SchopenhauerWork
  23. 1819 (dated 1820)IvanhoeWalter ScottWork
  24. 1819McCulloch v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  25. 1819Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn KeatsPoetry
  26. 1819-1820The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.Washington IrvingWork
  27. 1819The VampyreJohn PolidoriWork
  28. 1819Trustees of Dartmouth College v. WoodwardSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  29. 1820Philosophy of RightG. W. F. HegelWork
  30. 1823The Monroe DoctrineJames MonroeWork
  31. 1824Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  32. 1826The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore CooperWork
  33. 1827Napoleon's Maxims of WarNapoleon BonaparteWork
  34. 1830Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution)Robert Y. HayneSpeech
  35. 1830-1833Principles of GeologyCharles LyellWork
  36. 1830Second Reply to HayneDaniel WebsterSpeech
  37. 1832On WarCarl von ClausewitzWork
  38. 1832Worcester v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  39. 1833Barron v. BaltimoreSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  40. 1833UlyssesAlfred, Lord TennysonPoetry
  41. 1835 / 1840Democracy in AmericaAlexis de TocquevilleWork
  42. 1835Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot)Honoré de BalzacWork
  43. 1835Lectures on Revivals of ReligionCharles FinneyWork
  44. 1837Charles River Bridge v. Warren BridgeSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  45. 1837The Philosophy of HistoryG. W. F. HegelWork
  46. 1838 (Hunt trans. 1845)Mental MaladiesJean-Etienne Dominique EsquirolWork
  47. 1838Oliver TwistCharles DickensWork
  48. 1838The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketEdgar Allan PoeWork
  49. 1839Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1Michael FaradayWork
  50. 1838-1841The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I)Anonymous; translated by Edward William LaneWork
  51. 1839 (revised 1845)The Voyage of the BeagleCharles DarwinWork
  52. 1841Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays)Ralph Waldo EmersonWork
  53. 1842My Last DuchessRobert BrowningPoetry
  54. 1843A Christmas CarolCharles DickensWork
  55. 1843A System of Logic, Book III: Of InductionJohn Stuart MillWork
  56. 1843Fear and TremblingSoren KierkegaardWork
  57. 1839–1846Tales (Selection)Edgar Allan PoeWork
  58. 1835–1872Fairy Tales (Selection)Hans Christian AndersenWork
  59. 1844–1846The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre DumasWork
  60. 1844The Three MusketeersAlexandre DumasWork
  61. 1845Mental Pathology and TherapeuticsWilhelm GriesingerWork
  62. 1845 / 1852Narrative of the Life and What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Frederick DouglassWork
  63. 1845The RavenEdgar Allan PoePoetry
  64. 1846The True Story of My LifeHans Christian AndersenWork
  65. 1847Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëWork
  66. 1847Wuthering HeightsEmily BrontëWork
  67. 1848The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWork
  68. 1848The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne BrontëWork
  69. 1848White NightsFyodor DostoevskyWork
  70. 1849 (published 1851)A Disquisition on GovernmentJohn C. CalhounWork
  71. 1849–1850David CopperfieldCharles DickensWork
  72. 1835; enlarged 1849KalevalaElias Lönnrot (compiler)Poetry
  73. 1849The Sickness Unto DeathSoren KierkegaardWork
  74. 1850Speeches on the Compromise of 1850Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel WebsterSpeech
  75. 1850The LawFrédéric BastiatWork
  76. 1850The Scarlet LetterNathaniel HawthorneWork
  77. 1851A Wonder-Book for Girls and BoysNathaniel HawthorneWork
  78. 1851–53CranfordElizabeth GaskellWork
  79. 1851Essays and AphorismsArthur SchopenhauerWork
  80. 1851Moby-DickHerman MelvilleWork
  81. 1852–53Bleak HouseCharles DickensWork
  82. 1852Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher StoweWork
  83. 185312 Years a SlaveSolomon NorthupWork
  84. 1853RuthElizabeth GaskellWork
  85. 1853Tanglewood TalesNathaniel HawthorneWork
  86. 1853VilletteCharlotte BrontëWork
  87. 1854Hard TimesCharles DickensWork
  88. 1854WaldenHenry David ThoreauWork
  89. 1855-1892Selected SermonsCharles SpurgeonWork
  90. 1855The Age of FableThomas BulfinchWork
  91. 1855–1892The Complete PoemsWalt WhitmanPoetry
  92. 1855The Song of HiawathaHenry Wadsworth LongfellowPoetry
  93. 1855The WardenAnthony TrollopeWork
  94. 1856The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My ChildrenCharles KingsleyWork
  95. 1856The Old Regime and the RevolutionAlexis de TocquevilleWork
  96. 1857Dred Scott v. SandfordSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  97. 1857-1880Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister)Louis Pasteur and Joseph ListerWork
  98. 1857Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many LandsMary SeacoleWork
  99. 1858House Divided SpeechAbraham LincolnSpeech
  100. 1858Novum Organon RenovatumWilliam WhewellWork
  101. 1858The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesAbraham Lincoln and Stephen A. DouglasSpeech
  102. 1859A Tale of Two CitiesCharles DickensWork
  103. 1859On LibertyJohn Stuart MillWork
  104. 1859On the Origin of SpeciesCharles DarwinWork
  105. 1860Paul Revere's RideHenry Wadsworth LongfellowPoetry
  106. 1860The Huxley-Wilberforce DebateThomas Henry Huxley and Samuel WilberforceSpeech
  107. 1859–60The Woman in WhiteWilkie CollinsWork
  108. 1861Considerations on Representative GovernmentJohn Stuart MillWork
  109. 1860-61Great ExpectationsCharles DickensWork
  110. 1861Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet A. JacobsWork
  111. 1861Silas MarnerGeorge EliotWork
  112. 1861The Chemical History of a CandleMichael FaradayWork
  113. 1861UtilitarianismJohn Stuart MillWork
  114. 1862Because I could not stop for DeathEmily DickinsonPoetry
  115. 1862Fathers and SonsIvan TurgenevWork
  116. 1862Les MisérablesVictor HugoWork
  117. 1863Legends of CharlemagneThomas BulfinchWork
  118. 1863The Gettysburg AddressAbraham LincolnSpeech
  119. 1864Apologia Pro Vita SuaJohn Henry NewmanWork
  120. 1864Notes from UndergroundFyodor DostoevskyWork
  121. 1865Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis CarrollWork
  122. 1865An Introduction to the Study of Experimental MedicineClaude BernardWork
  123. 1865Hans Brinker, or the Silver SkatesMary Mapes DodgeWork
  124. 1865O Captain! My Captain!Walt WhitmanPoetry
  125. 1865Second Inaugural AddressAbraham LincolnSpeech
  126. 1866Crime and PunishmentFyodor DostoevskyWork
  127. 1866Ex parte MilliganSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  128. 1866Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity)Gregor Mendel; William BatesonWork
  129. 1867-1870No TreasonLysander SpoonerWork
  130. 1865-1869War and PeaceLeo TolstoyWork
  131. 1868–1869Little WomenLouisa May AlcottWork
  132. 1868–69The IdiotFyodor DostoevskyWork
  133. 1868The MoonstoneWilkie CollinsWork
  134. 1869The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart MillWork
  135. 1869Veazie Bank v. FennoSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  136. 1870Body and MindHenry MaudsleyWork
  137. 1870Hepburn v. GriswoldSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  138. 1870-1899Selected SermonsDwight L. MoodyWork
  139. 1870Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJules VerneWork
  140. 1871Legal Tender CasesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  141. 1871–72MiddlemarchGeorge EliotWork
  142. 1871The Descent of ManCharles DarwinWork
  143. 1871 (dated 1872)Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found ThereLewis CarrollWork
  144. 1872CarmillaJ. Sheridan Le FanuWork
  145. 1872Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous SystemJean-Martin CharcotWork
  146. 1872The Birth of TragedyFriedrich NietzscheWork
  147. 1872The Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsCharles DarwinWork
  148. 1872The Princess and the GoblinGeorge MacDonaldWork
  149. 1873Around the World in Eighty DaysJules VerneWork
  150. 1873Slaughter-House CasesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  151. 1874Far from the Madding CrowdThomas HardyWork
  152. 1875MemoirsWilliam Tecumseh ShermanWork
  153. 1875The Wise Woman (A Double Story)George MacDonaldWork
  154. 1876The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark TwainWork
  155. 1876The Meek OneFyodor DostoevskyWork
  156. 1877Black BeautyAnna SewellWork
  157. 1877God's GrandeurGerard Manley HopkinsPoetry
  158. 1877I Will Fight No More ForeverChief JosephSpeech
  159. 1877-1878Illustrations of the Logic of ScienceCharles Sanders PeirceWork
  160. 1877Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  161. 1878Daisy MillerHenry JamesWork
  162. 1879A Doll's House and Other PlaysHenrik IbsenWork
  163. 1879Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  164. 1880HeidiJohanna SpyriWork
  165. 1880The Brothers KaramazovFyodor DostoevskyWork
  166. 1880Washington SquareHenry JamesWork
  167. 1881The Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesWork
  168. 1881The Prince and the PauperMark TwainWork
  169. 1880sSelected Short StoriesGuy de MaupassantWork
  170. 1882 (expanded 1887)The Gay ScienceFriedrich NietzscheWork
  171. 1883Life on the MississippiMark TwainWork
  172. 1883The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo CollodiWork
  173. 1883The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward PyleWork
  174. 1883 (serialized 1882)The Princess and CurdieGeorge MacDonaldWork
  175. 1883-1885Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich NietzscheWork
  176. 1883Treasure IslandRobert Louis StevensonWork
  177. 1884 (UK) / 1885 (US)Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark TwainWork
  178. 1885A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis StevensonPoetry
  179. 1885-1886Personal MemoirsUlysses S. GrantWork
  180. 1886Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich NietzscheWork
  181. 1886KidnappedRobert Louis StevensonWork
  182. 1886Little Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson BurnettWork
  183. 1886Psychopathia SexualisRichard von Krafft-EbingWork
  184. 1886Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis StevensonWork
  185. 1886The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo TolstoyWork
  186. 1887On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich NietzscheWork
  187. 1888Ecce HomoFriedrich NietzscheWork
  188. 1888Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryW. B. Yeats (editor)Work
  189. 1888The AntichristFriedrich NietzscheWork
  190. 1888 (serialized 1883)The Black ArrowRobert Louis StevensonWork
  191. 1889The Blue Fairy BookAndrew LangWork
  192. 1889Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich NietzscheWork
  193. 1890–1896Poems: First, Second and Third SeriesEmily DickinsonPoetry
  194. 1890The Principles of PsychologyWilliam JamesWork
  195. 1891Billy Budd and Other StoriesHerman MelvilleWork
  196. 1891Rerum NovarumPope Leo XIIIWork
  197. 1891The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar WildeWork
  198. 1892 (stories 1891-92)The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan DoyleWork
  199. 1894Popular Scientific LecturesErnst MachWork
  200. 1894The Jungle BookRudyard KiplingWork
  201. 1895Atlanta Exposition AddressBooker T. WashingtonSpeech
  202. 1895Effi BriestTheodor FontaneWork
  203. 1895Jude the ObscureThomas HardyWork
  204. 1895Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  205. 1895Studies on HysteriaJosef Breuer and Sigmund FreudWork
  206. 1895The Red Badge of CourageStephen CraneWork
  207. 1896Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  208. 1897Captains CourageousRudyard KiplingWork
  209. 1897 (French)Cyrano de BergeracEdmond RostandWork
  210. 1897DraculaBram StokerWork
  211. 1898Lectures on CalvinismAbraham KuyperWork
  212. 1898The Arabian Nights EntertainmentsAndrew Lang (ed.)Work
  213. 1898The Story of a SoulTherese of LisieuxWork
  214. 1898 / 1888The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern PapersHenry JamesWork
  215. 1898The War of the WorldsH. G. WellsWork
  216. 1898Uncle VanyaAnton ChekhovWork
  217. 1898United States v. Wong Kim ArkSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  218. 1899Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradWork
  219. 1899 (dated 1900)The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund FreudWork
  220. 1899The River WarWinston ChurchillWork
  221. 1899The Theory of the Leisure ClassThorstein VeblenWork

Early 20th Century

1900 to 1946 · 164 works

Modernism, two world wars and new nations: from Conrad and Chesterton to the poets and novelists between the wars.

  1. 1900Lord JimJoseph ConradWork
  2. 1900The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank BaumWork
  3. 1901Up from SlaveryBooker T. WashingtonWork
  4. 1902Cuchulain of MuirthemneLady GregoryWork
  5. 1902Five Children and ItE. NesbitWork
  6. 1902Just So StoriesRudyard KiplingWork
  7. 1902Science and HypothesisHenri PoincareWork
  8. 1902The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan DoyleWork
  9. 1902The Tale of Peter RabbitBeatrix PotterWork
  10. 1902The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam JamesWork
  11. 1903The Call of the WildJack LondonWork
  12. 1903The Souls of Black FolkW. E. B. Du BoisWork
  13. 1903The Story of King Arthur and His KnightsHoward PyleWork
  14. 1903The Story of My LifeHelen KellerWork
  15. 1904Christ LegendsSelma LagerlöfWork
  16. 1904Lectures on Clinical PsychiatryEmil KraepelinWork
  17. 1905A Little PrincessFrances Hodgson BurnettWork
  18. 1905Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  19. 1905Lochner v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  20. 1905The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismMax WeberWork
  21. 1905The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness OrczyWork
  22. 1906BotchanNatsume SōsekiWork
  23. 1906The Aim and Structure of Physical TheoryPierre DuhemWork
  24. 1906The Railway ChildrenE. NesbitWork
  25. 1906White FangJack LondonWork
  26. 1907Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of ThinkingWilliam JamesWork
  27. 1907The Major Symptoms of HysteriaPierre JanetWork
  28. 1907The Psychology of Dementia PraecoxC. G. JungWork
  29. 1908Anne of Green GablesL. M. MontgomeryWork
  30. 1908OrthodoxyG. K. ChestertonWork
  31. 1908SanshirōNatsume SōsekiWork
  32. 1908The Wind in the WillowsKenneth GrahameWork
  33. 1910Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena")Theodore RooseveltSpeech
  34. 1910If—Rudyard KiplingPoetry
  35. 1910The Phantom of the OperaGaston LerouxWork
  36. 1910Twenty Years at Hull-HouseJane AddamsWork
  37. 1911An Introduction to MathematicsAlfred North WhiteheadWork
  38. 1911Dementia Praecox or the Group of SchizophreniasEugen BleulerWork
  39. 1911LepantoG. K. ChestertonPoetry
  40. 1911Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)J. M. BarrieWork
  41. 1911Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  42. 1911The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. ChestertonWork
  43. 1911The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson BurnettWork
  44. 1912Death in VeniceThomas MannWork
  45. 1912The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand RussellWork
  46. 1913–1916Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain IntervalRobert FrostPoetry
  47. 1913PollyannaEleanor H. PorterWork
  48. 1913Swann's WayMarcel ProustWork
  49. 1913The Story of My Boyhood and YouthJohn MuirWork
  50. 1913Theodore Roosevelt: An AutobiographyTheodore RooseveltWork
  51. 1914KokoroNatsume SōsekiWork
  52. 1914The Prussian Officer and Other StoriesD. H. LawrenceWork
  53. 1915In Flanders FieldsJohn McCraePoetry
  54. 1915The MetamorphosisFranz KafkaWork
  55. 1915; collected 1916The Road Not TakenRobert FrostPoetry
  56. 1915The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn BuchanWork
  57. 1915The UnderdogsMariano AzuelaWork
  58. 1916A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames JoyceWork
  59. 1916Relativity: The Special and General TheoryAlbert EinsteinWork
  60. 1916The Real Mother GooseBlanche Fisher Wright (illustrator); traditional rhymesPoetry
  61. 1917 (serialized 1916)Understood BetsyDorothy Canfield FisherWork
  62. 1918My ÁntoniaWilla CatherWork
  63. 1918PoemsGerard Manley HopkinsPoetry
  64. 1919Schenck v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  65. 1919The Burgess Bird Book for ChildrenThornton W. BurgessWork
  66. 1919The Waning of the Middle AgesJohan HuizingaWork
  67. 1919Webb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  68. 1920Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew CarnegieWork
  69. 1920Bliss and Other StoriesKatherine MansfieldWork
  70. 1920The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha ChristieWork
  71. 1920The Second ComingW. B. YeatsPoetry
  72. 1920This Side of ParadiseF. Scott FitzgeraldWork
  73. 1921Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other PlaysLuigi PirandelloWork
  74. 1921The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before AchillesPadraic ColumWork
  75. 1922Siddhartha: An Indian TaleHermann HesseWork
  76. 1922The Golden Bough (abridged edition)James George FrazerWork
  77. 1922The Velveteen RabbitMargery WilliamsWork
  78. 1922The Waste LandT. S. EliotPoetry
  79. 1923Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  80. 1923Saint JoanGeorge Bernard ShawWork
  81. 1923The Murder on the LinksAgatha ChristieWork
  82. 1924Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairPablo NerudaPoetry
  83. 1924WeYevgeny ZamyatinWork
  84. 1925Gitlow v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  85. 1925Linder v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  86. 1925Mrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfWork
  87. 1925Pierce v. Society of SistersSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  88. 1925The Great GatsbyF. Scott FitzgeraldWork
  89. 1925The TrialFranz KafkaWork
  90. 1926–1936 (collections)Complete PoemsDorothy ParkerPoetry
  91. 1926Religion and the Rise of CapitalismR. H. TawneyWork
  92. 1926Seven Pillars of WisdomT. E. LawrenceWork
  93. 1926Winnie-the-PoohA. A. MilneWork
  94. 1927Buck v. BellSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  95. 1927Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla CatherWork
  96. 1927Journey of the MagiT. S. EliotPoetry
  97. 1927To the LighthouseVirginia WoolfWork
  98. 1928Orlando: A BiographyVirginia WoolfWork
  99. 1928 (title story)The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesH. P. LovecraftWork
  100. 1928The House at Pooh CornerA. A. MilneWork
  101. 1928The Nature of the Physical WorldArthur EddingtonWork
  102. 1929A Farewell to ArmsErnest HemingwayWork
  103. 1929All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria RemarqueWork
  104. 1929PassingNella LarsenWork
  105. 1930Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund FreudWork
  106. 1931Mourning Becomes ElectraEugene O'NeillWork
  107. 1931Near v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  108. 1931The WavesVirginia WoolfWork
  109. 1932Cold Comfort FarmStella GibbonsWork
  110. 1932Little House in the Big WoodsLaura Ingalls WilderWork
  111. 1933Farmer BoyLaura Ingalls WilderWork
  112. 1933First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear")Franklin D. RooseveltSpeech
  113. 1933Testament of YouthVera BrittainWork
  114. 1934 (English 1959)The Logic of Scientific DiscoveryKarl PopperWork
  115. 1935A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  116. 1935BUtterfield 8John O'HaraWork
  117. 1935Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls WilderWork
  118. 1935Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. (Gold Clause Cases)Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  119. 1936The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard KeynesWork
  120. 1937Helvering v. DavisSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  121. 1937NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  122. 1937Of Mice and MenJohn SteinbeckWork
  123. 1937The Cost of DiscipleshipDietrich BonhoefferWork
  124. 1937The HobbitJ. R. R. TolkienWork
  125. 1937West Coast Hotel Co. v. ParrishSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  126. 1938Experience and EducationJohn DeweyWork
  127. 1938Mr. Popper's PenguinsRichard and Florence AtwaterWork
  128. 1938Our TownThornton WilderWork
  129. 1938The Sword in the StoneT. H. WhiteWork
  130. 1939Farewell to Baseball ("The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth")Lou GehrigSpeech
  131. 1939Mike Mulligan and His Steam ShovelVirginia Lee BurtonWork
  132. 1940A Mathematician's ApologyG. H. HardyWork
  133. 1940Caps for SaleEsphyr SlobodkinaWork
  134. 1940Lassie Come-HomeEric KnightWork
  135. 1940Minersville School District v. GobitisSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  136. 1940The Power and the GloryGraham GreeneWork
  137. 1940Their Finest HourWinston ChurchillSpeech
  138. 1940We Shall Fight on the BeachesWinston ChurchillSpeech
  139. 1941Make Way for DucklingsRobert McCloskeyWork
  140. 1941Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy")Franklin D. RooseveltSpeech
  141. 1941The MoffatsEleanor EstesWork
  142. 1942Adam of the RoadElizabeth Janet GrayWork
  143. 1942ChessStefan ZweigWork
  144. 1924; revised 1942The Boxcar ChildrenGertrude Chandler WarnerWork
  145. 1942The Little HouseVirginia Lee BurtonWork
  146. 1942The Screwtape LettersC. S. LewisWork
  147. 1942The StrangerAlbert CamusWork
  148. 1942Wickard v. FilburnSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  149. 1943Homer PriceRobert McCloskeyWork
  150. 1943Johnny TremainEsther ForbesWork
  151. 1943The Abolition of ManC. S. LewisWork
  152. 1943The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-ExupéryWork
  153. 1943West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  154. 1944Korematsu v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  155. 1944Letters and Papers from PrisonDietrich BonhoefferWork
  156. 1944-1948No Exit and Three Other PlaysJean-Paul SartreWork
  157. 1944Order of the Day, 6 June 1944Dwight D. EisenhowerSpeech
  158. 1944The Hundred DressesEleanor EstesWork
  159. 1944 (collection)The Portable Dorothy ParkerDorothy ParkerWork
  160. 1944The Road to SerfdomF. A. HayekWork
  161. 1945Animal FarmGeorge OrwellWork
  162. 1945Cannery RowJohn SteinbeckWork
  163. 1946Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. FranklWork
  164. 1946The Portable FaulknerWilliam FaulknerWork

Postwar & Contemporary

1941 to 2023 · 175 works

The postwar world: novels, essays, encyclicals, speeches and court decisions from 1946 to the present.

  1. 1941Mother Courage and Her ChildrenBertolt BrechtWork
  2. 1944What Is Life?Erwin SchrödingerWork
  3. 1945Stuart LittleE. B. WhiteWork
  4. 1945That Hideous StrengthC. S. LewisWork
  5. 1945The Open Society and Its EnemiesKarl PopperWork
  6. 1946Politics and the English LanguageGeorge OrwellWork
  7. 1946SEC v. W. J. Howey Co.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  8. 1947Alone in BerlinHans FalladaWork
  9. 1947Everson v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  10. 1947On Fairy-StoriesJ. R. R. TolkienWork
  11. 1947The PearlJohn SteinbeckWork
  12. 1947The PlagueAlbert CamusWork
  13. 1948My Father's DragonRuth Stiles GannettWork
  14. 1949Death of a SalesmanArthur MillerWork
  15. 1949ShaneJack SchaeferWork
  16. 1949The Door in the WallMarguerite de AngeliWork
  17. 1950Amos Fortune, Free ManElizabeth YatesWork
  18. 1950Little BritchesRalph MoodyWork
  19. 1950Sweatt v. PainterSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  20. 1950The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. LewisWork
  21. 1951Prince CaspianC. S. LewisWork
  22. 1951The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah ArendtWork
  23. 1952Charlotte's WebE. B. WhiteWork
  24. 1952East of EdenJohn SteinbeckWork
  25. 1952Excellent WomenBarbara PymWork
  26. 1952Mere ChristianityC. S. LewisWork
  27. 1952The Bears on Hemlock MountainAlice DalglieshWork
  28. 1952The BorrowersMary NortonWork
  29. 1952The Old Man and the SeaErnest HemingwayWork
  30. 1952The Trojan WarOlivia CoolidgeWork
  31. 1952The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderC. S. LewisWork
  32. 1952Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. SawyerSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  33. 1953Fahrenheit 451Ray BradburyWork
  34. 1953Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig WittgensteinWork
  35. 1953The Silver ChairC. S. LewisWork
  36. 1953Waiting for GodotSamuel BeckettWork
  37. 1954Brown v. Board of Education of TopekaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  38. 1954Lord of the FliesWilliam GoldingWork
  39. 1954The Courage of Sarah NobleAlice DalglieshWork
  40. 1954The Eagle of the NinthRosemary SutcliffWork
  41. 1954The Horse and His BoyC. S. LewisWork
  42. 1954-1955The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. TolkienWork
  43. 1954 (teleplay)Twelve Angry MenReginald RoseWork
  44. 1955A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other StoriesFlannery O'ConnorWork
  45. 1955A View from the BridgeArthur MillerWork
  46. 1955Carry On, Mr. BowditchJean Lee LathamWork
  47. 1955Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early LifeC. S. LewisWork
  48. 1955The Magician's NephewC. S. LewisWork
  49. 1955The Quiet AmericanGraham GreeneWork
  50. 1956Old YellerFred GipsonWork
  51. 1956The FallAlbert CamusWork
  52. 1956The Last BattleC. S. LewisWork
  53. 1956Till We Have FacesC. S. LewisWork
  54. 1957Little BearElse Holmelund MinarikWork
  55. 1957On the RoadJack KerouacWork
  56. 1957Through Gates of SplendorElisabeth ElliotWork
  57. 1958A Bear Called PaddingtonMichael BondWork
  58. 1958Personal KnowledgeMichael PolanyiWork
  59. 1958Physics and PhilosophyWerner HeisenbergWork
  60. 1958Structural AnthropologyClaude Lévi-StraussWork
  61. 1958The Witch of Blackbird PondElizabeth George SpeareWork
  62. 1959My Side of the MountainJean Craighead GeorgeWork
  63. 1960A Burnt-Out CaseGraham GreeneWork
  64. 1960Bedtime for FrancesRussell HobanWork
  65. 1960Island of the Blue DolphinsScott O'DellWork
  66. 1960The Cricket in Times SquareGeorge SeldenWork
  67. 1960To Kill a MockingbirdHarper LeeWork
  68. 1960We Hold These TruthsJohn Courtney MurrayWork
  69. 1961Freedom and the LawBruno LeoniWork
  70. 1961Inaugural AddressJohn F. KennedySpeech
  71. 1961Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  72. 1961The Bronze BowElizabeth George SpeareWork
  73. 1961The Phantom TollboothNorton JusterWork
  74. 1961Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson RawlsWork
  75. 1962A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L'EngleWork
  76. 1962Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  77. 1962Engel v. VitaleSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  78. 1962One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr SolzhenitsynWork
  79. 1962Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  80. 1962The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas S. KuhnWork
  81. 1963Abington School District v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  82. 1963Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  83. 1963I Have a DreamMartin Luther King Jr.Speech
  84. 1963SEC v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  85. 1955-1963Sermons and Letter from Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr.Work
  86. 1964Across Five AprilsIrene HuntWork
  87. 1964I Am Prepared to DieNelson MandelaWork
  88. 1964New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  89. 1965Dignitatis HumanaeSecond Vatican CouncilWork
  90. 1965Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  91. 1965The Fall of Constantinople, 1453Steven RuncimanWork
  92. 1966Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  93. 1966Philosophy of Natural ScienceCarl G. HempelWork
  94. 1967The Master and MargaritaMikhail BulgakovWork
  95. 1969Sam the MinutemanNathaniel BenchleyWork
  96. 1969Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  97. 1969Travels with My AuntGraham GreeneWork
  98. 1970Frog and Toad Are FriendsArnold LobelWork
  99. 1970The Trumpet of the SwanE. B. WhiteWork
  100. 1971A Theory of JusticeJohn RawlsWork
  101. 1971Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  102. 1971The Hiding PlaceCorrie ten BoomWork
  103. 1972Watership DownRichard AdamsWork
  104. 1972Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  105. 1973Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  106. 1973San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  107. 1973The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr SolzhenitsynWork
  108. 1974United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  109. 1975Against MethodPaul FeyerabendWork
  110. 1975Humboldt's GiftSaul BellowWork
  111. 1975O'Connor v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  112. 1975Owl at HomeArnold LobelWork
  113. 1976-1995Destruction and Creation and the OODA Loop BriefingsJohn BoydWork
  114. 1976Ernst & Ernst v. HochfelderSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  115. 1976TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  116. 1977CeremonyLeslie Marmon SilkoWork
  117. 1977In PatagoniaBruce ChatwinWork
  118. 1977Mouse SoupArnold LobelWork
  119. 1978Grasshopper on the RoadArnold LobelWork
  120. 1978The Methodology of Scientific Research ProgrammesImre LakatosWork
  121. 1979Addington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  122. 1979Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. LewisSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  123. 1980Aaron v. SECSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  124. 1980Chiarella v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  125. 1980Diamond v. ChakrabartySupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  126. 1981Sixty StoriesDonald BarthelmeWork
  127. 1982Plyler v. DoeSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  128. 1982Youngberg v. RomeoSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  129. 1983Dirks v. SECSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  130. 1983The Sign of the BeaverElizabeth George SpeareWork
  131. 1985Keep the Lights Burning, AbbiePeter and Connie RoopWork
  132. 1985Lowe v. SECSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  133. 1985Sarah, Plain and TallPatricia MacLachlanWork
  134. 1985–1986The New York TrilogyPaul AusterWork
  135. 1986Address to the Nation on the Challenger DisasterRonald ReaganSpeech
  136. 1987Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  137. 1987Tear Down This Wall (Brandenburg Gate Address)Ronald ReaganSpeech
  138. 1988Basic Inc. v. LevinsonSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  139. 1989Number the StarsLois LowryWork
  140. 1990Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of HealthSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  141. 1990Reves v. Ernst & YoungSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  142. 1991Centesimus AnnusJohn Paul IIWork
  143. 1992Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. CaseySupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  144. 1993Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the IliadRosemary SutcliffWork
  145. 1993The GiverLois LowryWork
  146. 1994Long Walk to FreedomNelson MandelaWork
  147. 1995Evangelium VitaeJohn Paul IIWork
  148. 1997United States v. O'HaganSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  149. 1997Washington v. GlucksbergSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  150. 1998Fides et RatioJohn Paul IIWork
  151. 1999Olmstead v. L. C.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  152. 2001John AdamsDavid McCulloughWork
  153. 2002The Art of the CommonplaceWendell BerryWork
  154. 2002Zelman v. Simmons-HarrisSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  155. 2004SEC v. EdwardsSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  156. 2005Gonzales v. RaichSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  157. 2005The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the BarbariansPeter HeatherWork
  158. 2005When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest DynastyHugh KennedyWork
  159. 2006Regensburg LectureBenedict XVIWork
  160. 2007Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval EmpireJudith HerrinWork
  161. 2007The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InHugh KennedyWork
  162. 2008District of Columbia v. HellerSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  163. 2009Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic EyesTamim AnsaryWork
  164. 2009The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000Chris WickhamWork
  165. 2010Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, SpyEric MetaxasWork
  166. 2010Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionLaura HillenbrandWork
  167. 2010Washington: A LifeRon ChernowWork
  168. 2012National Federation of Independent Business v. SebeliusSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  169. 2012Rome: An Empire's StoryGreg WoolfWork
  170. 2013Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.Supreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  171. 2015Obergefell v. HodgesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  172. 2016Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman WorldAdrian GoldsworthyWork
  173. 2017The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an EmpireKyle HarperWork
  174. 2022Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health OrganizationSupreme Court of the United StatesCourt case
  175. 2023The New Roman Empire: A History of ByzantiumAnthony KaldellisWork

Computing

1703 to 1948 · 11 works

Founding papers and essays in the history of computing.

  1. 1679-1703Logical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal CharacterGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizWork
  2. 1843Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical EngineAda LovelaceWork
  3. 1854An Investigation of the Laws of ThoughtGeorge BooleWork
  4. 1864Passages from the Life of a PhilosopherCharles BabbageWork
  5. 1931On Formally Undecidable PropositionsKurt GodelWork
  6. 1936 / 1950On Computable Numbers and Computing MachineryAlan TuringWork
  7. 1943A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous ActivityWarren McCulloch and Walter PittsWork
  8. 1945As We May ThinkVannevar BushWork
  9. 1945First Draft of a Report on the EDVACJohn von NeumannWork
  10. 1938 / 1948A Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude ShannonWork
  11. 1948CyberneticsNorbert WienerWork