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Jason Randall/J.R.
A propos de ma bibliothèque
Depth and range, picks up chicks (always), but I'm trying to only post ones that I've read and kept. Sometimes I put things on here that I haven't read or haven't kept, but I keep almost everything so those are rare.

Most important book-actually a set, the Gateway to the Great Books. The variety of essays in the smaller 10-volume set provides the perfect backdrop for an education.

Favorite Great Book: Homer's Iliad. Other favorites: Odyssey, Dante's Divine Comedy, Tacitus' Annals (not the Anals!), Hobbes' Leviathan, Pascal's The Provincial Letters, Montaigne's Essais, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Benet's John Brown's Body, The Red Badge of Courage, The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Great Gatsby, The Love of the Last Tycoon, 1984, Walden and "Civil Disobedience," The Turn of the Screw, Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, B. Adams' The Law of Civilization and Decay, Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, Milton's Areopagitica, The Federalist, Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Xenophon's The Persian Expedition, Aristotle's Politics, Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients

Favorite non-Great Book: Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions. Other favorites: Podany's The Brotherhood of Kings, Greene's The 33 Strategies of War, Chernow's Alexander Hamilton and Washington, the Heidlers' Henry Clay, Burstein and Isenberg's Madison and Jefferson, Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk, Giamatti's Take Time for Paradise and The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic, Mokyr's The Enlightened Economy and The Lever of Riches, Bernasek's The Economics of Integrity, Fineman's The Thirteen American Arguments, Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master, Gardner's The Life and Times of Chaucer, Branch's The Clinton Tapes, Wessel's In Fed We Trust, Morris' Theodore Rez, Egnal's Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

Favorite Sports Book: Baseball and Philosophy, edited by Eric Bronson
A propos de moi
I have written the following: The Decline of the Epic? (www.createspace.com/3756594) and The Bubble Boys: How Mistaken Educational Ideals and Practices are Causing a Warped Social Fabric (www.createspace.com/3500396). The latter won the 2011 Readers Favorite Bronze Award. The former is by far the better book.

Classics completed thus far (24 years old, mission begun: December 24, 2008):

Homer's Iliad
Homer's Odyssey
Aeschylus-all 7 plays
Sophocles-all 7 plays
Euripides-Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, The Cyclops, Helen, Rhesus, Ion, Ipheginia Among the Tauri, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Andromache
Aristophanes-The Acharnians, The Clouds, The Lysistrata, The Birds, The Frogs, The Peace, The Wasps, The Ecclesiazusae, The Plutus
Herodotus' Histories
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, Euthydemus, Cratylus, Phaedrus, Ion, Symposium, Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Republic, Timaeus, Critias, Parmenides, Thaetetus Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, Laws, The Seventh Letter
Xenophon: The Persian Expedition
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, The Athenian Constitution, Rhetoric, Poetics
Euclid: Elements
Hippocratic Writings: The Oath, On Ancient Medicine, On Airs, Waters, and Places, The Book of Prognostics, On Regimen in Acute Diseases, Of the Epidemics, On Injuries of the Head, On the Surgery, On Fractures, On the Articulations, Aphorisms, The Law, On Ulcers, On Fistulae, On Hemorrhoids, On the Sacred Disease
Galen-On the Natural Faculties
Nicomachus of Gerasa-Introduction to Arithmetic
Cicero-Republic, Laws
Lucretius-On the Nature of Things
Epictetus-Enchiridion, The Discourses
Marcus Aurelius-Meditations
Virgil-Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid
Plutarch: Theseus, Romulus, Theseus and Romulus Compared, Lycurgus, Numa Pompilius, Lycurgus and Numa Compared, Solon, Publicola, Solon and Publicola Compared, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Fabius and Pericles Compared, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus Compared, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Aemilius Paulus and Timoleon Compared, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Marcellus and Pelopidas Compared, Aristides, Alexander, Caesar, Demosthenes, Cicero, Cicero and Demosthenes Compared
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus' Histories, Germany, A Dialogue Upon Oratory, Life of Agricola
Plotinus-The First Ennead, The Second Ennead, The Third Ennead, The Fourth Ennead, The Fifth Ennead
Augustine's Confessions
Augustine's City of God
Augustine's On Christian Doctrine
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Aquinas: Treatise on the Trinity, Treatise on the Creation, Treatise on the Angels, Treatise on the Work of the Six Days, Treatise on Man, Treatise on the Divine Government, Treatise on the Last End
Dante's Divine Comedy
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Machiavelli's The Prince, The Art of War, Discourses on Livy, Florentine History
Hobbes' Leviathan
Rabelais-Gargantua and Pantagruel
Montaigne: Essais (Books I, II, and III)
Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The First Part of King Henry The Fourth, The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Othello, Timon of Athens, The Tragedy of King Richard II, Pericles-Prince of Tyre, The Tragedy of King Richard III, The Famous Life of King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, various others which I need to re-read
Francis Bacon-New Atlantis
Francis Bacon-Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon-Novum Organum
Descartes-Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy
Spinoza-Ethics, Theological-Political Treatise
Milton-Areopagitica
Milton-Paradise Lost
Milton-Samson Agonistes
Milton-Minor Poems
Milton-Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Doctrine of Discipline and Divorce, Second Defense of the English People, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
Pascal-The Provincial Letters, Pensees, "On Geometrical Proof," "Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle," Correspondence with Fermat regarding probabilities, Scientific Treatises on the Vacuum, the Weight of Air, and the Equilibrium of Fluids
Locke-"A Letter Concerning Toleration," Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Berkeley's Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume-An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Swift-Gulliver's Travels
Sterne-The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Fielding-Joseph Andrews
Montesquieu-The Spirit of Laws, The Persian Letters
Rousseau-Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Rousseau-Discourse on Political Economy
Rousseau-The Social Contract
Smith-The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Gibbon-The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Declaration of Independence (Jefferson)
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Federalist Papers
Mill's Utilitarianism
Mill's On Liberty
Mill's On Representative Government
Mill's "Nature"
Part of Mill's Autobiography
Goethe-Faust
Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Marx-Capital
Marx and Engels-Manifesto of the Communist Party
Freud--The Sexual Enlightenment of Children; The Future of Psycho-Analytic Therapy, Civilization and Its Discontents, Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Gilgamesh
Confucius-Analects
The Bhagavad Gita
Old Testament-King James Version
New Testament-King James Version
The Koran
Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Letters From the Earth, Old Times on the Mississippi, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, beginning of "Life on the Mississippi," "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
Burke-Reflections on the Revolution in France, Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
Paine-Common Sense, The Rights of Man
Orwell-1984, Animal Farm, "Politics and the English Language"
Crane-The Red Badge of Courage, "The Veteran," "The Open Boat"
Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Love of the Last Tycoon, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
Sun-Tzu-The Art of War
Carnegie-How to Win Friends and Influence People
Weber-The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, "Confucianism and Puritanism Compared," "Introduction to the Economic Ethics of the World Religions," "The Religions of Civilization and their Attitude to the World." "Politics and the State," "Bureaucracy," "Politics and the State," "The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Rule," "The Nation," "The Belief in Common Ethnicity," "The Household Community," "Capitalism in Antiquity," "The Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Accounting," "Status Groups and Classes," "The Distribution of Power in Society: Classes, Status Groups, and Parties," "Parties," "Intermediate Reflections on the Economic Ethics of the World Religions," "Formal and Substantive Rationalization: Theocratic and Secular Law," "The Vocation of Politics," "The Vocation of Science," "Basic Sociological Concepts," "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy"
Joyce-Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, most of Ulysses
Hemingway-The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Garden of Eden, "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," Complete Short Stories
Thoreau-Walden, "Civil Disobedience," "A Plea for Cap'n John Brown"
Emerson-"Self-Reliance," "Nature," "History," "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," "Love," "Friendship," "Prudence," "Heroism," Representative Men
Benet-John Brown's Body, "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
H. Adams-The Education of Henry Adams
Faulkner-Light in August, "Dry September"
Steinbeck-Travels with Charley, Of Mice and Men
Lord Acton-Essays in the History of Liberty
H. James-The Turn of the Screw, "Paste," "The Pupil"
Malthus-Essay on the Principle of Population
B. Adams-The Law of Civilization and Decay
Dewey-Democracy and Education, How We Think
Ricardo-Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Mackay-Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (ch. I-III)
Veblen-The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Engineers and the Price System, The Higher Learning in America
Keynes-The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Moliere-The Misanthrope
Spengler-The Decline of the West
Livy-History of Rome, Books I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX)
Macaulay--Historical Essays: Pitt, Clive, Hastings
Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter, "Endicott and the Red Cross," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Young Goodman Brown
Ibsen-"A Doll's House"
Tasso-Jerusalem Delivered
Boethius-The Consolation of Philosophy
Einstein-Relativity
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nietzsche-Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Birth of Tragedy, On the Genealogy of Morals
Quintus of Smyrna-The Fall of Troy
Sir Thomas More-Utopia
Churchill-The Birth of Britain, The New World, The Age of Revolution, The Great Democracies (these 4 volumes comprise his History of the English-Speaking Peoples)
Hayek-The Road to Serfdom, The Fatal Conceit
Maimonides-Guide for the Perplexed (selections)
Lucan-The Pharsalia
Voltaire-Candide
Stevenson-Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Calhoun-A Disquisition on Government
Franklin-Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Douglass-Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Shelley-Frankenstein
Shaw-Saint Joan
Bunyan-Pilgrim's Progress
Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities
Byron-Don Juan
Lieu (géographique)
Phoenix
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