- The Iliad & Odyssey, by Homer
- Antigone & Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
- The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
- The Apology & the Republic, by Plato
- Ethics & Politics, by Aristotle
- The Annals, by Tacitus
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch
- Confessions, by St. Augustine
- The Divine Comedy, by Dante
- Don Quixote, by Cervantes
- Essays, by Montaigne
- The Prince, by Machiavelli
- Penseés, by Pascal
- Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, by William Shakespeare
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
- The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
- Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
- Representative Government, by John Stuart Mill
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Moby Dick, by Hermann Melville
- The Principles of Psychology, by William James
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Great Books: The short list
Mortimer Adler's short list of great books of the Western world, from his Guidebook to Learning:
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Any timeframe on when we'll be seeing the Martin Cothran edition?
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