CFC's Comprehensive List of the Classics

[CivCube]

Everyone here at Civilization Fanatics are very bright individuals, and many a discussion has been brought up concerning books, philosophy, and authors. For those interested, I'd like to create a list of all the classics in literature that have been written thus far. As no man has read everything, perhaps you could help? As more replies are posted, I'll try to update the list.

Philosophy - see calgacus' post

Literature

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Virgil

The Aeneid

Sophocles

Antigone

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)

Shakespeare (not in order)

Plays

The Tempest

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Merry Wives of Windsor

Twelfth Night

Measure for Measure

Much Ado About Nothing

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love's Labour's Lost

The Merchant of Venice

As You Like It

All's Well That Ends Well

The Taming of the Shrew

The Winter's Tale

The Comedy of Errors

King John

The Life and Death of Richard II

King Henry IV, 1-2

King Henry V

King Henry VI 1-3

The Life and Death of King Richard III

King Henry VIII

Troilus and Cressida

Timon of Athens

Coriolanus

Julius Caesar

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline

Titus Andronicus

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

King Lear

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth *gasp*

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Othello, the Moor of Venice

Poems

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

Sonnets

A Lover's Complaint

The Passionate Pilgrim

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music - in other words, find the music yourself.

The Phoenix and the Turtle

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Silmarillion

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Oliver Twist

The Old Curiosity Shop

Barnaby Rudge

Martin Chuzzlewit

A Christmas Carol

The Chimes

The Cricket on the Hearth

The Battle of Life

The Haunted Man

Bleak House

Dombey and Son

David Copperfield

Hard Times

A Tale of Two Cities

Little Dorrit

Our Mutual Friend

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Nicholas Nickleby

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

The Grapes of Wrath

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

 

[hbdragon88]

A Wrinkle in Time, isn't that a classic? Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is also a classic...

I was going to suggest The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, but you might not want to add children's classics...

 

[CivCube]

Wellll, I think the Time Quartet by Madeline L'Engle is considered children's literature as well. I don't children's stuff would quite fit here as the list will be long enough as it is.

 

[Narz]

Hey while we're on the subject of children's books (or "young adult" books) let me mention that William Sleator is an excellent young-adult sci-fi writer.

To save space I'll just post a link to my favorites : Narz's Favorities

- Narz

 

[CivCube]

Ahh, William Sleator. Interstellar Pig was good.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Peter Abelard:

Historia Calamitatum


Aristotle - he's very important

Categories On Interpretation
Corruption
Economics
Eudemian Ethics
Metaphysics
Nichomachean Ethics
On Sophistical Refutations
On Sense and the Sensible
Politics
Prior Analytics Topics
On the Heavens On Generation and
On Memory and Reminiscence
On the Soul Virtues and vices
Poetics
Physics
Posterior Analytics
Rhetoric

St Augustine

City of God

St Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologica

George Berkeley

Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous


René Descartes


Discourse on Method
Meditations

G.W.F. Hegel

Phenomenology of Mind
Philosophy of History
Outline of Phenomenology


Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan


David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
A Treatise of Human Nature
The Natural History of Religion


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Monadaology

John Locke

An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding
Two Treatises on Government

Isaac Newton

Principia Mathematica

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil
Ecce Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals
Thus Spake Zarathustra

Plato - his most important philosophically

Euthyphro
Laws
Meno
Timaeus
Theatetus


Plotinus/Porphyry

The Ennead

Benedict de Spinoza:

Ethics


Loads more, but it takes ages to post them, I'll something for others

 

[nihilistic]

For Philosophy, add the following:

Mechanical Intelligence, Alan Turing

Meditations, Rene Descartes
[I think he is wrong but he is wrong in a constructive way]

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russel

Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke


EDIT: Actually, look to calgacus's post

 

[Pangur Bán]

Originally posted by nihilistic
For Philosophy, add the following:

Mechanical Intelligence, Alan Turing

Meditations of First Philosophy, Rene Descartes
[I think he is wrong but he is wrong in a constructive way]

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russel

Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

Only Turing wasn't already posted by me

 

[CivCube]

With the very large list of works of philosophy, perhaps it'd be wise to have calcagus' post be the list for that????

 

[nihilistic]

Originally posted by calgacus
Only Turing wasn't already posted by me

Well, it took me a while to compile my puny list, any by that time, I already realized that you hav e a better list. On well ... congrats.

 

[nihilistic]

Originally posted by calgacus
Only Turing wasn't already posted by me

There is also Russel!

 

[Pangur Bán]

Originally posted by nihilistic


There is also Russel!

Missed him

 

[YNCS]

I am, by training and inclination, a military historian. The classics of military history, IMNSHO, are:

John Keegan A History of Warfare

Sir Edward Creasy 15 Decisive Battles of the World

Karl von Clausewitz On War (Vom Krieg)

Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1789 and its sequel The Influence of Seapower Upon the French Revolution and Empire

Winston Churchill The Second World War

Sir Charles Oman The Penisular War

Shelby Foote The Civil War: A Narrative

Peter Paret Understanding War

Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee

Harry Turney-High Primitive War

John Keegan The Face of Battle

Martin van Crefeld Technology and War

 

[Johann MacLeod]

Voltaire- Candide, Zaire
Johann Joachim Quantz- On Playing The Flute
Douglas Adams- The Hitchikker's Guide To The Galaxy
Machiavelli- The Prince
Jonathan Swift- A Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels

im not sure if all of these fit but it's some good stuff here

 

[lord_byron_nz]

Some I consider "classics". Feel free to dismiss.

Poetry:
Don Juan - Lord Byron

History:
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

Economics:
Das Kapital - Karl Marx (no matter what you think of his political views, his economic analysis of society is revolutionary - if you'll excuse the pun )

Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations - Adam Smith

 

[Stegyre]

William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
-- Under Western Eyes
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte -- Villette
James Joyce -- The Dubliners
-- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-- I will probably add Ulysses, but I haven't had time to read it yet.
I was going to add Goethe's Faust, but I guess one rule should be to add only works with which we have direct experience, and I haven't read it, yet.

 

[Johann MacLeod]

i thought of some more
Goerge Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm
Mary Shelly- Frankenstein
Harriet B. Stowe- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
Unknown- Beowulf, The Viking Sagas

 

[CivCube]

Originally posted by Stegyre
I was going to add Goethe's Faust, but I guess one rule should be to add only works with which we have direct experience, and I haven't read it, yet.

Well, not really. The general idea is to have a list of all the known classics. You don't have to have read it.

 

[Kennelly]

I can add "Faust" then as I read it.

Also,from history/political books:

"The Rise and fall of the Great Empires (or powers?,don't know the exact English title)" by Paul Kennedy

"Clash of civilizations" by Samuel P. Huntington

"Roman History" by Theodor Mommsen

"History of Warfare in context of Political History" by Hans Delbrück

Also,

"Nathan the Wise" by Gotthold Efraim Lessing

"The Physicians" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

"Simplicius simplicissimus" by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

"Homo Faber" by Max Frisch

Wanted to show there are not only Anglo-American classics in fictional literature

 

[Pongui]

Most ancient classic: The Epic of Gilgamesh.