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IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE:

NOVELS, PLAYS, POEMS

ANTON CHEKHOV

The Three Sisters

The Cherry Orchard

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

Major Barbara

Heartbreak House

Saint Joan

JAMES JOYCE

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ulysses

MARCEL PROUST

Remembrance of Things Past

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

Joseph and His Brothers

JOSEPH CONRAD

Nostromo

The Secret Sharer

Heart of Darkness

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Sartoris

The Sound and the Fury

Light in August

D.H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers

Women in Love

T.S. ELIOT

Murder in the Cathedral

The Cocktail Party

The Waste Land

FRANZ KAFKA

The Trial

The Castle

GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Farm

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

The Cancer Ward

The First Circle

SAUL BELLOW

Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Herzog

SAMUEL BECKETT

Waiting for Godot

Endgame

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Old Man and the Sea

ALBERT CAMUS

The Plague

The Fall

The Stranger

The Rebel

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Doctor Brodie’s Report

Dreamtigers

HEINRICH BÖLL

The Clown

ANDRÉ GIDE

The Counterfeiters

ANDRÉ MALRAUX

Man’s Fate

Man’s Hope

EUGENE O’NEILL

Long Day’s Journey into Night

The Iceman Cometh

Mourning Becomes Electra

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

GIUSEPPE di LAMPEDUSA

The Leopard

GRAHAM GREENE

The Power and the Glory

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Nausea

An anthology of lyric poetry including poems of WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, ROBERT FROST, EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, T.S. ELIOT and RAINER MARIA RILKE

THE SOCIAL OR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY

LEON TROTSKY

History of the Russian Revolution

NIKOLAI LENIN

The State and Revolution

MAX WEBER

Essays in Sociology

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

R.H. TAWNEY

The Acquisitive Society

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

J.M. KEYNES

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

GEORGES SOREL

Reflections on Violence

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

CARL JUNG

Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Psychological Types

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

ARNOLD TOYNBEE

A Study of History

Civilization on Trial

Change and Habit

PIERRE TEILHARD de CHARDIN

The Phenomenon of Man

CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS

The Savage Mind

The Raw and the Cooked

Totemism

JACQUES ELLUL

Technological Society

EDMUND WILSON

To the Finland Station

SIMONE WEIL

Waiting for God

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

The Origins of Totalitarianism

KARL POLANYI

The Great Transformation

SIMONE de BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex

THORSTEIN VEBLEN

The Theory of the Leisure Class

PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, AND RELIGION

HENRI BERGSON

Creative Evolution

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

JOHN DEWEY

Democracy and Education

Human Nature and Conduct

The Quest for Certainty

Experience and Nature

Reconstruction in Philosophy

ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

An Introduction to Mathematics

Science and the Modern World

Adventures of Ideas

Process and Reality

Modes of Thought

ÉTIENNE GILSON

The Unity of Philosophical Experience

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason

Scepticism and Animal Faith

JACQUES MARITAIN

The Degrees of Knowledge

Freedom in the Modern World

Man and the State

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Being and Nothingness

JOSÉ ORTEGA y GASSET

The Revolt of the Masses

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Principles of Mathematics

Problems of Philosophy

Proposed Roads to Freedom

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Philosophical Investigations

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Being and Time

The Question of Being

What Is a Thing?

What Is Philosophy?

KARL JASPERS

Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time

Reason and Existence

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The Nature and Destiny of Man

MARTIN BUBER

I and Thou

KARL POPPER

Conjectures and Refutations

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

ANDRÉ MALRAUX

The Voices of Silence

THE NATURAL SCIENCES

MAX PLANCK

Where Is Science Going?

The Philosophy of Physics

Scientific Autobiography

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Sidelights on Relativity

The Meaning of Relativity

On the Method of Theoretical Physics

NIELS BOHR

Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

ARTHUR EDDINGTON

The Nature of the Physical World Stars and Atoms

ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER

What Is Life?

JOSEPH H. WOODGER

Biological Principles

WERNER HEISENBERG

Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science

Physics and Philosophy

Physics and Beyond

JACQUES MONOD

Chance and Necessity

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