j. rufus fears

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

02. The Gospel of John 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

13. Euripides—Alcestis 

George Orwell, 1984 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

Beowulf 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

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

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

14. Euripides—Medea 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

Plato, Republic 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

Dante, the Divine Comedy 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience