Period Studies |
Toward a Modern Library Curriculum |
You can get a pretty good education (albeit with a Western dead white guy bias) reading the Modern Library. This index sorts the Modern Library titles into period studies for those who prefer to follow a reading plan based on traditional Classical Education (prep school/liberal arts college) models. I've left out most of the philosophers, mainly because I can't figure out where they belong. If you know, please contact me.
Just for fun, I've also included a listing of 19th & 20th century Russian literature (very popular during the Cold War). if this section/idea proves popular, I can include links to authoritative study materials and websites. Just let me know. This index includes regular [R], illustrated [I], giant [G], and numbered paperback [P] editions. When no bracketed letter appears, the title is available only in a regular edition. Titles may appear under multiple genres, but seldom do. Items listed in "Correlary Pieces" sections were written about the period but by authors who wrote in later times. Click a linked title to see its dust jacket. Unlinked titles have no image in the database. Click to return to the top of this index. Please send entry candidates, comments, requests for additional periods, & corrections to the editor. |
|
|
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol I & II | Aeschylus |
Golden Ass | Apuleius |
Introduction to Aristotle | Aristotle |
Politics | Aristotle |
Rhetoric and Poetics | Aristotle |
Gallic War and Other Writings | Caesar |
Basic Works | Cicero |
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol V, VI, & VII | Euripides |
Persian Wars | Herodotus |
Iliad | Homer |
Odyssey | Homer |
Homer [G] |
|
Complete Works of Horace | Horace |
Hellenistic Philosophy | Misc |
Greek Poets | Misc |
Latin Poets | Misc |
Roman Comedies | Misc |
Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers | Misc |
Satyricon | Petronius |
Philosophy of Plato | Plato |
Works of Plato | Plato |
Republic | Plato [R] [P] |
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol III & IV | Sophocles |
Lives of the Twelve Caesars | Suetonius |
Complete Works of Tacitus | Tacitus |
Complete Writings | Thucydides |
Virgil's Works | Virgil |
Corollary Pieces
|
|
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Gibbon [G] |
I, Claudius | Graves |
Marius the Epicurean | Pater |
Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas | Aquinas |
Confessions | Augustine |
Decameron | Boccaccio |
Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius, etc. |
Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
Troilus and Cressida | Chaucer [R] [P] |
Divine Comedy | Dante [R] [P] [I] |
Froissart's Chronicles | Froissart |
Misc [G] |
|
Medieval Romances | Misc |
Medieval Philosophy | Misc |
Selected Writings | Bacon |
Autobiography | Cellini |
Cervantes [R] [I] [G] |
|
Notebooks | Da Vinci |
Donne [G] |
|
Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
The Prince and The Discourses | Machiavelli |
Complete Poems and Selected Letters | Michelangelo |
Renaissance Philosophy | Misc |
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose | Milton |
Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais |
Rabelais [G] |
|
Comedies Vol I & II | Shakespeare |
Histories and Poems (One Volume) | Shakespeare |
Histories and Poems Vol I & II | Shakespeare |
Tragedies Vol 1 & II | Shakespeare |
Comedies (One Volume) | Shakespeare [R] [I] |
Tragedies (One Volume) | Shakespeare [R] [I] |
Spenser [G] |
|
Corollary Pieces
|
|
The Renaissance | Pater |
Symonds [G] |
|
The Medici | Young [R] [G] |
Samuel Pepys' Diary | Pepys |
Selected Works | Pope |
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration |
Misc [G] |
Restoration Plays | Misc |
Compleat Angler | Walton |
Life of Samuel Johnson | Boswell [R] [G] |
Moll Flanders | Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe/Plague Year | Defoe |
Joseph Andrews | Fielding |
Tom Jones | Fielding [R] [G] [I] [P] |
Gibbon [G] |
|
Vicar of Wakefield | Goldsmith |
Philosophy of Hume | Hume |
Dictionary: A Modern Selection | Johnson |
Johnson Reader | Johnson |
Eighteenth Century Plays | Misc |
Great Voices of the Reformation | Misc [G] |
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration |
Misc [G] |
Clarissa | Richardson S |
Smith [G] |
|
Humphry Clinker | Smollett |
Tristram Shandy | Sterne |
Sterne [G] |
|
Candide | Voltaire |
Candide and Other Writings | Voltaire |
Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility | Austen |
Austen [G] |
|
Selected Poetry and Prose | Blake |
Poems | Blake |
Browning [G] |
|
Selected Poetry | Browning |
Don Juan | Byron |
Selected Poetry | Byron |
Selected Poetry and Prose | Coleridge |
De Quincey [G] |
|
Complete Poetry & Selected Prose | Keats |
Keats & Shelly [G] |
|
Selected Poetry | Tennyson |
Tennyson [G] |
|
Selected Poetry and Prose | Shelley |
Scott [G] |
|
Selected Poetry | Wordsworth |