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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