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Year
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Written Work
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Historical Figure
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B.C. 700s
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Iliad
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Homer
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B.C. 360
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The Republic
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Plato
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B.C. 335
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Poetics
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Aristotle
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B.C. 300
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Elements
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Euclid
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A.D. 398
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Confessions
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St. Augustine
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2nd Century
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Almagest
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Claudius Ptolemy
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1274
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Summa Theologica
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Thomas Aquinas
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1353
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The Decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Early 14th Century
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The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
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Late 14th Century
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Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1405
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City of Ladies
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Christine de Pisan
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1418
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The Imitation of Christ
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Thomas à Kempis
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1486
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Oration on the Dignity of Man
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Pico della Mirandola
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1509
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In Praise of Folly
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Erasmus
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1513
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The Prince
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Niccolò Machiavelli
|
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1516
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Utopia
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Thomas More
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1517
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95 Theses
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Martin Luther
|
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1521
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Defense of the Seven Sacraments
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Henry VIII
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1524
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Spiritual Exercises
|
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Ignatius Loyola
|
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1536
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
|
|
John Calvin
|
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1543
|
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On the Fabric of the Human Body
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Andreas Vesalius
|
|
1543
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On the Revolutions ofthe Heavenly Spheres
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Nicolaus Copernicus
|
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1576
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Six Books of the Commonwealth
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Jean Bodin
|
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1598
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The True Law of Free Monarchies
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James I
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1609
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Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
|
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1615
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Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes
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1620
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Novum Organum
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Francis Bacon
|
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1625
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On the Law of War and Peace
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Hugo Grotius
|
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1628
|
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
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William Harvey
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1637
|
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Discourse on Method
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|
René Descartes
|
|
1651
|
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Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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1667
|
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Paradise Lost
|
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John Milton
|
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1669
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|
Pensées
|
|
Blaise Pascal
|
|
1687
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|
Principia
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|
Isaac Newton
|
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1689
|
|
Two Treatises of Government
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John Locke
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|
1709
|
|
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the Holy Scripture
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|
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
|
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1719
|
|
Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
|
|
1726
|
|
Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
|
|
1748
|
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The Spirit of Laws
|
|
Montesquieu
|
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1755
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|
A Dictionary of the English Language
|
|
Samuel Johnson
|
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1759
|
|
Candide
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|
Voltaire
|
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1762
|
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The Social Contract
|
|
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
|
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1764
|
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On Crimes and Punishments
|
|
Cesare Beccaria
|
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1774
|
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
|
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
|
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1776
|
|
The Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith
|
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1781
|
|
Critique of Pure Reason
|
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Immanuel Kant
|
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1789
|
|
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
|
|
Edward Gibbon
|
|
1789
|
|
What is the Third Estate?
|
|
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
|
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1790
|
|
Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Edmund Burke
|
|
1792
|
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women
|
|
Mary Wollstonecraft
|
|
1798
|
|
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Thomas Malthus
|
|
1813
|
|
Pride and Prejudice
|
|
Jane Austen
|
|
1818
|
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Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
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Mary Shelley
|
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1820
|
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Ivanhoe
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|
Walter Scott
|
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1831
|
|
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Victor Hugo
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1832
|
|
Indiana
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George Sand
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1835
|
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Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville
|
|
1835
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The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
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David Friedrich Strauss
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1839
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Organization of Work
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Louis Blanc
|
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1840
|
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What Is Property?
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
|
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1843
|
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The Ugly Duckling
|
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Hans Christian Andersen
|
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1844
|
|
The Three Musketeers
|
|
Alexandre Dumas
|
|
1845
|
|
The Condition of the Working Class in England
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Friedrich Engels
|
|
1847
|
|
Wuthering Heights
|
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Emily Brontë
|
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1850
|
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The Prelude
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|
William Wordsworth
|
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1854
|
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Hard Times
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|
Charles Dickens
|
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1854
|
|
The Charge of the Light Brigade
|
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Alfred Tennyson
|
|
1856
|
|
Madame Bovary
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|
Gustave Flaubert
|
|
1859
|
|
On Liberty
|
|
John Stuart Mill
|
|
1859
|
|
On the Origin of Species
|
|
Charles Darwin
|
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1864
|
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth
|
|
Jules Verne
|
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1865
|
|
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
|
|
Lewis Carroll
|
|
1867
|
|
Das Kapital
|
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Karl Marx
|
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1869
|
|
War and Peace
|
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
|
1874
|
|
Middlemarch
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|
George Eliot
|
|
1880
|
|
The Brothers Karamazov
|
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
|
|
1885
|
|
Thus Spake Zarathustra
|
|
Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
1886
|
|
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
|
1890
|
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray
|
|
Oscar Wilde
|
|
1894
|
|
The Jungle Book
|
|
Rudyard Kipling
|
|
1895
|
|
The Jewish State
|
|
Theodor Herzl
|
|
1897
|
|
Dracula
|
|
Bram Stoker
|
|
1898
|
|
J'accuse
|
|
Émile Zola
|
|
1899
|
|
The Interpretation of Dreams
|
|
Sigmund Freud
|
|
1902
|
|
The Hound of the Baskervilles
|
|
Arthur Conan Doyle
|
|
1905
|
|
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
|
|
Max Weber
|
|
1908
|
|
Reflections on Violence
|
|
Georges Sorel
|
|
1915
|
|
The Metamorphosis
|
|
Franz Kafka
|
|
1918
|
|
The Decline of the West
|
|
Oswald Spengler
|
|
1922
|
|
Ulysses
|
|
James Joyce
|
|
1925
|
|
Mein Kampf
|
|
Adolf Hitler
|
|
1929
|
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
|
Erich Maria Remarque
|
|
1934
|
|
Murder on the Orient Express
|
|
Agatha Christie
|
|
1937
|
|
The Hobbit
|
|
J.R.R. Tolkien
|
|
1945
|
|
Animal Farm
|
|
George Orwell
|
|
1950
|
|
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
|
|
C.S. Lewis
|
|
1953
|
|
Casino Royale
|
|
Ian Fleming
|
|
1954
|
|
Lord of the Flies
|
|
William Golding
|
|
1957
|
|
Dr. Zhivago
|
|
Boris Pasternak
|
|
1962
|
|
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
|
|
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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