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Tables of Contents for The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
Preface
xiii
6
A Preliminary Talk with the Reader
xix
 
PART ONE
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1. Anonymous, ca. 2000 B.C.E. (Scribe Sin-Leqi-Unninni, ca. 700 B.C.E.), The Epic of Gilgamesh
3
2
2. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Iliad
5
2
3. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Odyssey
7
1
4. Confucius, 551-479 B.C.E., The Analects
8
2
5. Aeschylus, 525-456 5 B.C.E., The Oresteia
10
2
6. Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.E., Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
12
3
7. Euripides, 484-406 B.C.E., Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
15
1
8. Herodotus, ca. 484-425 B.C.E., The Histories
16
2
9. Thucydides, ca. 470 460-ca. 400 B.C.E., The History of the Peloponnesian War
18
2
10. Sun-tzu, ca. 450-380 B.C.E., The Art of War
20
2
11. Aristophanes, 448-388 B.C.E., Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
22
2
12. Plato, 428-348 B.C.E., Selected Works
24
2
13. Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.E., Ethics, Politics, Poetics
26
2
14. Mencius, ca. 400-320 B.C.E., The Book of Mencius
28
3
15. Attributed to Valmiki, ca. 300 B.C.E., The Ramayana
31
3
16. Attributed to Vyasa, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Mahabharata
34
2
17. Anonymous, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Bhagavad Gita
36
1
18. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 B.C.E., Records of the Grand Historian
37
3
19. Lucretius, ca. 100-ca. 50 B.C.E., Of the Nature of Things
40
2
20. Virgil, 70-19 B.C.E., The Aeneid
42
2
21. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations
44
5
PART TWO
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44
22. Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions
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1
23. Kalidasa, ca. 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala
50
2
24. Revealed to Muhummad, completed 650, The Koran
52
3
25. Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
55
4
26. Firdausi, ca. 940-1020, Shah Nameh
59
2
27. Sei Shonagon, ca. 965-1035, The Pillow-Book
61
3
28. Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015, The Tale of Genji
64
2
29. Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat
66
3
30. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy
69
2
31. Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
71
3
32. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales
74
2
33. Anonymous, ca. 1500, The Thousand and One Nights
76
2
34. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince
78
2
35. Francois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel
80
2
36. Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West
82
3
37. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays
85
2
38. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote
87
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PART THREE
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39. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works
93
1
40. John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works
94
3
41. Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P'ing Mei)
97
3
42. Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
100
3
43. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Leviathan
103
2
44. Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method
105
2
45. John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
107
2
46. Moliere, 1622-1673, Selected Plays
109
2
47. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensees)
111
3
48. John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrim's Progress
114
1
49. John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government
115
2
50. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
117
3
51. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe
120
2
52. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver's Travels
122
2
53. Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works
124
2
54. David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
126
1
55. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones
127
2
56. Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, 1715-1763, The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone)
129
2
57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions
131
3
58. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy
134
2
59. James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson
136
2
60. Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris
138
1
61. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787, edited by Clinton Rossiter
139
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PART FOUR
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62. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust
143
1
63. William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works
144
3
64. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800)
147
3
65. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare
150
2
66. Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
152
2
67. Stendhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black
154
2
68. Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette
156
2
69. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works
158
2
70. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales
160
2
71. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America
162
2
72. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
164
2
73. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species
166
4
74. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls
170
1
75. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works
171
2
76. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair
173
2
77. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit
175
2
78. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds, The Way We Live Now, Autobiography
177
2
79. The Bronte Sisters
179
4
79A. Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855, Jane Eyre
180
2
79B. Emily Bronte, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights
182
1
80. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden, Civil Disobedience
183
3
81. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons
186
1
82. Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895, The Communist Manifesto
187
2
83. Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
189
3
84. George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
192
3
85. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855), A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads
195
3
86. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary
198
2
87. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
200
2
88. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, War and Peace
202
2
89. Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1906, Selected Plays
204
2
90. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems
206
2
91. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
208
2
92. Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn
210
2
93. Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams
212
2
94. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayor of Casterbridge
214
2
95. William James, 1842-1910, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience
216
2
96. Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors
218
2
97. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works
220
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PART FIVE
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98. Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and Civilization and Its Discontents
225
2
99. George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Selected Plays and Prefaces
227
2
100. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Nostromo
229
3
101. Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Selected Short Stories
232
2
102. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth
234
2
103. William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Collected Poems, Collected Plays, Autobiography
236
2
104. Natsume Soseki, 1867-1916, Kokoro
238
2
105. Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, Remembrance of Things Past
240
3
106. Robert Frost, 1874-1963, Collected Poems
243
2
107. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, The Magic Mountain
245
2
108. E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, A Passage to India
247
2
109. Lu Hsun, 1881-1936, Collected Short Stories
249
2
110. James Joyce, 1882-1941, Ulysses
251
2
111. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves
253
2
112. Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories
255
2
113. D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
257
3
114. Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965, The Makioka Sisters
260
2
115. Eugene O'Nell, 1888-1953, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night
262
2
116. T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, Collected Poems, Collected Plays
264
2
117. Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, Brave New World
266
2
118. William Faulkner, 1897-1962, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
268
1
119. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, Short Stories
269
1
120. Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972, Beauty and Sadness
270
2
121. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
272
2
122. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory
274
2
123. George Orwell, 1903-1950, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days
276
2
124. R. K. Narayan, 1906-, The English Teacher, The Vendor of Sweets
278
2
125. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape
280
3
126. W. H. Auden, 1907-1973, Collected Poems
283
2
127. Albert Camus, 1913-1960, The Plague, The Stranger
285
3
128. Saul Bellow, 1915-, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift
288
2
129. Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918-, The First Circle, Cancer Ward
290
2
130. Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
292
2
131. Mishima Yukio, 1925-1970, Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
294
2
132. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928-, One Hundred Years of Solitude
296
2
133. Chinua Achebe, 1930-, Things Fall Apart
298
3
GOING FURTHER 100 additional 20th-century authors, briefly annotated
301
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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