BOOKS: Western Canon Part3

My recommendations for those who want to read the Western Canon. (Part 3) These are the essentials. Most are available free online (see links below left) or via Amazon. There are many more than are on this list, but this is the core (see also Part 1)(Part 2)

Cervantes Don Quixote

David Hume An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Adam Smith Wealth of Nations

Henry Fielding Tom Jones

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions, Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of

Inequality

Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson

Hamilton, Madison, Jay Federalist Papers

Thomas Jefferson & Others Declaration Of Independence, U.S. Constitution

Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of

Morals

Goethe Faust

William Blake Complete Prose and Poetry

William Wordsworth The Prelude, Shorter Poems

Coleridge The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Writings on Shakespeare,

Biographia Literaria

Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Stendhal Charterhouse of Parma, The Red and the Black

Honore de Balzac Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette

Hegel Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History

Flaubert MadameBovary, Three Tales

Ralph Waldo Emerson Complete Works

Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Letter