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Dante, the Divine Comedy 

02. The Gospel of John 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

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

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

George Orwell, 1984 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent 

01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

14. Euripides—Medea 

Beowulf 

Plato, Republic 

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

13. Euripides—Alcestis 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance