v. 1. Introduction & syntopical guide. A Letter To The Reader --
Introduction: The Ways, and Whys, of Reading ; Imagination of Man ; Man and Society ; Science and Mathematics ; Philosophy ; Endless Journey --
Appendices: A plan of graded reading ; Recommended novels ; Recommended anthologies of poetry.
v. 2. Imaginative Literature --
Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe --
Mowgli's Brothers / Rudyard Kipling --
Battle with the Cannon (from Ninety-three) / Victor Hugo --
Two Friends / Guy De Maupassant --
Killers / Ernest Hemingway --
Two Drovers / Walter Scott --
Happy Prince / Oscar Wilde --
Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allen Poe --
Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allen Poe --
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --
A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick (from The Pickwick Papers) / Charles Dickens --
Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol --
Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians (from Erewhon) / Samuel Butler --
I'm a Fool / Sherwood Anderson --
Aucassin and Nicolette / Anonymous.
v. 3. Imaginative Literature --
Open Boat / Stephen Crane --
Billy Budd / Herman Melville --
Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin --
Rappaccini's Daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Lifted Veil / George Eliot --
Cupid and Psyche (from The Golden Ass) / Lucius Apuleius --
First Love / Ivan Turgenev --
White Nights / Fyodor Dostoevsky --
Apple-Tree / John Galsworthy --
Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert --
Diamond as Big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
A Passion in the Desert / Honore De Balzac --
Darling / Anton Chekhov --
Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Singer --
Queen of Spades / Alexander Pushkin --
Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence --
Mario and the Magician / Thomas Mann --
Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen --
Death of Ivan Ilyitch / Leo Tolstoy --
Three Hermits / Leo Tolstoy --
What Men Live By / Leo Tolstoy.
v. 4. Imaginative Literature --
Doctor in Spite of Himself / Moliere --
School for Scandal / Richard Sheridan --
An Ememy of the People / Henrik Ibsen --
Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov --
Man of Destiny / George Bernard Shaw --
Riders to the Sea / John M. Synge --
Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill.
How Should One Read a Book? / Virginia Woolf --
Study of Poetry / Matthew Arnold --
Sweetness and Light / Matthew Arnold --
What Is a Classic? / Sainte-Beuve --
Montaigne / Sainte-Beuve --
Of Beauty / Francis Bacon --
Of Discourse / Francis Bacon --
Of Studies / Francis Bacon --
Of the Standard of Taste / David Hume --
On Style / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On Some Forms of Literature / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On Simple and Sentimental Poetry / Friedrich Schiller --
A Defence of Poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman --
My First Acquaintance with Poets / William Hazlitt --
On Swift / William Hazlitt --
Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen / William Hazlitt --
My First Play / Charles Lamb --
Dream Children, a Reverie / Charles Lamb --
Sanity of True Genius / Charles Lamb --
Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson --
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power / Thomas De Quincey --
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey --
Dante / Thomas Stearns Eliot --
Tradition and the Individual Talent / Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Childhood and Youth (from Autobiography) / John Stuart Mill --
Learning the River (from Life on the Mississippi) / Mark Twain --
Characters / La Bruyere --
Hero as King / Thomas Carlyle --
Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Sketch of Abraham Lincoln / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Death of Abraham Lincoln / Walt Whitman --
Art of Biography / Virginia Woolf --
March to the Sea (from The Persian Expedition) / Xenophon --
Character of Socrates (from Memorabilia) / Xenophon --
Land of Montezuma (from The Conquest of Mexico) / William H. Prescott --
Power within Us / Haniel Long --
Eruption of Vesuvius (from Letters) / Pliny The Younger --
Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola / Cornelius Tacitus --
Civilization (from History of Civilization in Europe) / Francois Guizot --
United States in 1800 (from History of the United States of America) / Henry Adams --
Herodotus / John Bagnell Bury --
Way to Write History / Lucian --
Great Documents : The English Bill of Rights ; Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ; The Virginia Declaration of Rights ; The Declaration of Independence ; Charter of the United Nations ; Universal Declaration of Human Rights --
A Call to Patriots: December 23, 1776 (from The Crisis) / Thomas Paine --
Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army / George Washington --
Farewell Address / George Washington --
Virginia Constitution (from Notes on Virginia) / Thomas Jefferson --
First Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson --
Biographical Sketches / Thomas Jefferson --
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America / Benjamin Franklin --
Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania / Benjamin Franklin --
Making of Americans (from Letters from an American Farmer) / Jean De Crevecoeur --
Observations on American Life and Government (from Democracy in America) / Alexis De Tocqueville --
Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau --
A Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau --
Address at Cooper Institute / Abraham Lincoln --
First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln --
Letter to Horace Greeley / Abraham Lincoln --
Meditation on the Divine Will / Abraham Lincoln --
Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln --
Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln --
Last Public Address / Abraham Lincoln.
Of Youth and Age / Francis Bacon --
Of Parents and Children / Francis Bacon --
Of Marriage and Single Life / Francis Bacon --
Of Great Place / Francis Bacon --
Of Seditions and Troubles / Francis Bacon --
Of Custom and Education / Francis Bacon --
Of Followers and Friends / Francis Bacon --
Of Usury / Francis Bacon --
Of Riches / Francis Bacon --
Resolutions when I Come to Be Old / Jonathan Swift --
An Essay on Modern Education / Jonathan Swift --
A Meditation upon a Broomstick / Jonathan Swift --
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country / Jonathan Swift --
Of Refinement in the Arts / David Hume --
Of the Balance of Trade / David Hume --
Of the Study of History / David Hume --
Of Bashfulness / Plutarch --
Lantern-Bearers / Robert Louis Stevenson --
An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age / John Ruskin --
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings / William James --
Energies of Men / William James --
Great Men and Their Environment / William James --
On Education / Arthur Schopenhauer --
Observations on Mental Education / Michael Faraday --
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol / Edmund Burke --
Concurrent Majority (from A Disquisition on Government) / John C. Calhoun --
Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay --
English Men and Ideas (from Letters on the English) / Voltaire --
On World Government (from De Monarchia) / Dante Alighieri --
A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe / Jean Jacques Rousseau --
Perpetual Peace / Immanuel Kant --
What Is War? / Karl Von Clausewitz --
Principle of Population (from Population: The First Essay) / Thomas Robert Malthus.
Sphinx / Francis Bacon --
Michael Faraday (from Faraday as a Discoverer) / John Tyndall --
Discovery of Radium / Eve Curie --
Autobiography / Charles Robert Darwin --
A Laboratory of the Open Fields / Jean Henri Fabre --
Sacred Beetle / Jean Henri Fabre --
On Time (from The Immense Journey) / Loren Eiseley --
Sunless Sea / Rachel L. Carson --
On Being the Right Size / J.B.S. Haldane --
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals / Thomas Henry Huxley --
On a Piece of Chalk / Thomas Henry Huxley --
Classification of Human Ability (from Hereditary Genius) / Francis Galton --
Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies / Claude Bernard --
Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov --
On the Artificial Production of Urea / Friedrich Wohler --
Geological Evolution (from The Principles of Geology) / Charles Lyell --
Starry Messenger / Galileo Galilei --
Arguments for and against Galileo (from The Defense of Galileo) / Tommaso Campanella --
Chemical History of a Candle / Michael Faraday --
Genesis of a Law of Nature (from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements) / Dmitri Mendeleev --
On the Conservation of Force / H.L.F. Von Helmholtz --
Rise and Decline of Classical Physics (from The Evolution of Physics) / Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld --
Running-Down of the Universe / Arthur Eddington --
Beginnings and Endings / James Jeans --
Cosmic View / Kees Boeke.
Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization / Lancelot Hogben --
Mathematics, in Life and Thought / Andrew Russell Forsyth --
On Mathematical Method (from An Introduction to Mathematics) / Alfred North Whitehead --
On the Nature of a Calculus / Alfred North Whitehead --
Study of Mathematics / Bertrand Russell --
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians / Bertrand Russell --
Definition of Number / Bertrand Russell --
New Names for Old / Edward Kasner, James R. Newman --
Beyond the Googol / Edward Kasner, James R. Newman --
Fingerprints / Tobias Dantzig --
Empty Column / Tobias Dantzig --
Seven Bridges of Konigsberg / Leonhard Euler --
Measurement / Norman Robert Campbell --
Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science / Norman Robert Campbell --
Postulates of the Science of Space / William Kingdon Clifford --
Space / Henri Poincare --
Mathematical Creation / Henri Poincare --
Chance / Henri Poincare --
Probability (from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities) / Pierre Simon De Laplace --
Red and the Black / Charles Sanders Peirce.
v. 10. Philosophical Essays --
Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent / John Erskine --
Ethics of Belief / William Kingdon Clifford --
Will to Believe / William James --
Sentiment of Rationality / William James --
Process of Thought (from How We Think) / John Dewey --
Letter to Herodotus / Epicurus --
Letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus --
Enchiridion / Epictetus --
Art of Life (from The Renaissance) / Walter Horatio Pater --
Contentment / Plutarch --
On Friendship / Cicero --
Of Truth / Francis Bacon --
Of Death / Francis Bacon --
Of Adversity / Francis Bacon --
Of Love / Francis Bacon --
Of Friendship / Francis Bacon --
Of Anger / Francis Bacon --
Lucretius / George Santayana --
Goethe's Faust / George Santayana --
St. Thomas Aquinas / Henry Adams --
Philosophy of Common Sense (from Philosophical Dictionary) / Voltaire --
Nature / John Stuart Mill --
Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Self-Reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Montaigne; or, the Skeptic / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth / William Hazlitt --
Immortality (from Urn-Burial) / Thomas Browne.
