Great Books Collection, Volume 2

Great Books Collection, Volume 2

Great Books is inspired by a curriculum and a book list, as well as a method of education. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:<br /><br />1. the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;<br />2. the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit;<br />3. the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.<br /><br />This Great Book Collection has active table of contents to make it easy to navigate. Authors and works include:<br /><br />Albert Einstein<br /> Relativity - The Special and General Theory<br /> Sidelights on Relativity<br /><br />Albert Schopenhauer<br /> The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism<br /><br />Carl von Clausewitz<br /> On War, Volume 1<br /><br />Charles Darwin<br /> Autobiography of Charles Darwin<br /> On the Origin of Species<br /> The Descent of Man<br /><br />Franz Kafka<br /> The Trial<br /><br />George Eliot<br /> Adam Bede<br /> Middlemarch<br /><br />Henry David Thoreau<br /> On the Duty of Civil Disobedience<br /> Walden<br /><br />Henry James<br /> The Ambassadors<br /> The American<br /><br />Honore de Balzac<br /> Eugenie Grandet<br /><br />James Joyce<br /> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br /> Dubliners<br /> Ulysses<br /><br />John Dewey<br /> Democracy and Education<br /><br />Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels<br /> The Communist Manifesto<br /><br />Leo Tolstoy<br /> Anna Karenina<br /> War and Peace<br /><br />Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> The Scarlet Letter<br /><br />Plato<br /> Alcibiades I<br /> Apology<br /> Charmides<br /> Cratylus<br /> Critias<br /> Crito<br /> Euthydemus<br /> Euthyphro<br /> Gorgios<br /> Ion<br /> Laches<br /> Lesser Hippias<br /> Lysis<br /> Menexenus<br /> Meno<br /> Meno 2<br /> Parmenides<br /> Phaedo<br /> Philebus<br /> Protagoras<br /> Sophist<br /> Statesman<br /> Symposium<br /> The Republic<br /> Theaetetus<br /> Timaeus<br /><br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /> Essays<br /> Representative Men<br /><br />Sigmund Freud<br /> Dream Psychology<br /><br />Thucydides<br /> History of the Peloponnesian<br />