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Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

Dante, the Divine Comedy 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

13. Euripides—Alcestis 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

Plato, Republic 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

14. Euripides—Medea 

24. T. E. Lawrence—Seven Pillars of Wisdom 

Beowulf 

30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

George Orwell, 1984 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

02. The Gospel of John