12 Août 2009
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Recommended Basic List of Great Masterpieces of Universal Literature (from Edmond Bordeaux Szekely).
This list is from his booklet The Art of Study - The Sorbonne Method
- The Vedas
- The Upanishads
- The Egyptian Rook of the Dead
- The Bible
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Epictetus
- Lao Tsu: The Tao Te Ching
- The Analects of Confucius
- The Talmud
- The Kabala
- The Essene Gospel of Peace
- Confessions of St. Augustine
- portions of the Koran
- Zarathustra: The Zend Avesta
- Aknaton: Hymns
- Aristotle: Ethics and Politics
- Buddha: Sayings
- Olcott: Buddhist Catechism
- Thomas a Kempis: Imitation of Christ
- Renan: The Life of Jesus
- Spinoza: Tractatus, Ethics
- Pascal: Thoughts
- Tagore: Sadhana, GitanjalU Gjctlcrup: The Pilgrim Kamanita
- Hesse: Siddhartha, Magister Ludi
- Tolstoy: On Life.
- Pythagoras:
- Plato: Dialogues, principally the Apology, Crito and Phaedo
- Xenophon: Memorabilia
- Demosthenes: De Corona
- Cicero: De Officiis, De Amicilia, De Senectute
- Plutarch: Lives
- Berkeley: Human Knowledge
- Descartes: Discours sur la Methode
- Locke: On the Conduct of the Understanding
- Bergson: Creative Evolution
- Stuart Mill: Logic
- Homer
- Hesiod; Aesop's Fables
- Virgil
- Maha Bharata
- The Shahnameh
- The Nibelungenlied
- The Kalevala.
- Horace
- Kalidasa: Sakuntala
- Aeschylus: Prometheus, Trilogy of Orestes
- Sophocles: Oedipus
- Euripides: Medea
- Aristophanes: The Knights, Clouds
- Shakespeare
- Milton: Paradise Lost, Poems
- Dante: Divina Comedia
- Wordsworth: Poems
- Burns: Poems
- Keats: Poems
- Shelley: Poems
- Swinburne: Poems
- Walt Whitman: Poems
- Edgar Allan Poe: Poems.
- Herodotus
- Thucydides
- I.ivy
- Xenophon: Anabasis
- Tacitus: Germania
- Flavius Josephus: Antiquities
- Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Hume: History of England
- Prescott: The Conquest of Mexico, The Conquest of Peru
- Thomas More: Utopia
- Carlyle: The French Revolution
- Lewis: History of Philosophy
- Janet: Seailles: History of Philosophy
- The Arabian Nights
- Moliere
- Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Marco Polo: Travels
- Schiller: William Tell
- Heine: Book of Songs
- Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, Poems
- Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil
- Balzac: The Human Comedy
- Anatole France: Oeuvres
- Verlaine: Poems
- Verhaeren: Poems
- Rimbaud: Poems
- Carlyle: Past and Present
- Romain Rolland: Jean Chrislophe
- Ibsen: Dramas
- Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Knut Hamsun: Pan, Hunger
- Algernon Blackwood: The Centaur
- Bacon: Novum Organum, Essays
- Montaigne: Essays
- Hume: Essays
- Macaulay: Essays
- Carlyle: Essays
- Brandes: Essays
- Emerson: Essays
- La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
- Rousseau: Confessions, Emile
- Thoreau: Walden.
- Voltaire: Zadig, Candide, Micromegas
- Goethe: Faust
- Byron: Manfred
- Madach: The Tragedy of Man
- Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Pendcnnis
- Dickens: Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield
- Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Dostoyevsky: The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov Lytton: Last Days of Pompeii
- Scott: Novels
- Gorky: The Mother
- George Bernard Shaw: Selected Works
- G.K. Chesterton: St. Francis
- Hippocrates: Selected Works
- Galilei: The Authority of the Scripture
- Newton: Principles of Philosophy
- Darwin: The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man
- Comte: Positivist Catechism
- Humbolt: Cosmos
- Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, The Rights of Man
- Haeckel: The Evolution of Man
- Spencer: First Principles
- Marx: Das Kapital
- Engels: Anliduhring
- Freud: Psychoanalysis
- Einstein: The Theory of Relativity.
- Schopenhauer: Aphorisms
- Lubbock: The Pleasures of Life
- Maeterlinck: The Life of the Bee, Treasure of the Humble
- Jules Payot: The Education of the Will, Work and Will-Power, The Conquest of Happiness
- Mulford: Essays
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