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05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

02. The Gospel of John 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

13. Euripides—Alcestis 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

Dante, the Divine Comedy 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

Plato, Republic 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

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

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

George Orwell, 1984 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

14. Euripides—Medea 

Beowulf 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent