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The Vanity of Human Wishes
Dictionary
Rasselas
The Lives of the Poets
( esp. the essays on Milton and Pope )
76. • •David Hume ( 1711-1776 )
Treatise of Human Nature
Essays Moral and Political
• An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding 77. • •Jean Jacques Rousseau ( 1712-1778 )
•on the Origin of Inequality
•on Political Economy
Emile
0The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne ( 1713-1768 )
• Tristram Shandy
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 79. Adam Smith ( 1723-1790 )
The Theory of the Moral Sentiments
•Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
80. • •Immanuel Kant ( 1724-1804 )
•Critique of Pure Reason
•Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
•critique of Practical Reason
0The Science of Right
•critique of Judgment
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80. Immanuel Kant, continued
Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon ( 1737-1794 )
•rhe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Autobiography
82. James Boswell ( 1740-1795 )
Journal
( esp. London Journal )
•Life of Samuel Johnson Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier ( 1743-1794 )
• Elements of Chemistry
84. John Jay ( 1745-1829 }, James Madison ( 1751-1836 ), and Alexander Hamilton ( 1757-1804 )
• Federalist Papers
( together with the • Articles of Confederation, the •constitution of the United States, and the
• Declaration of Independence )
85. Jeremy Bentham ( 1748-1832 )
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749-1832 )
•Faust
Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier ( 1768-1830}
• Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770-1831 ) Phenomenology of Spirit
• Philosophy of Right
• Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 )
Poems
( esp. Lyrical BaUads, Lucy poems, sonnets; The Prelude )
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772-1834 ) Poems
( esp. "Kubla Khan,"
Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
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90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, continued
Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen ( 1775-1817 )
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
92. • •Karl von Clausewitz ( 1780-1831 ) On War
93. Stendhal ( 17�1842 )
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
On Love
94. George Gordon, Lord Byron ( 1788-1824 ) Don Juan
95. • • Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788-1860 ) Studies in Pessimism
96. • •Michael Faraday ( 1791-1867)
Chemical History of a Candle
• Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. • •charles Lyell ( 1797-1875 )
Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte ( 1798-1857 )
The Po.wtive Philosophy
99. • • Honore de Balzac ( 1799-1850 )
Pere Goriot
Eugenie Grandet
100. • •Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803-1882 ) Representative Men
Essays
Journal
101. • •Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1804-1864 ) The Scarlet Letter
102. • • Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1805-1859) Democracy in America
103. • •John Stuart Mill ( 1806-1873)
A System of Logic
•on Liberty
• Representative Government
• Utilitarianism
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103. John Stuart Mill, continued
The Subfection of Women
Autobiography
104. • •charles Darwin ( 18�1882 )
•The Origin of Species
0The Descent of Man
Autobiography
105. • •charles Dickens ( 1812-1870 )
Works
( esp. Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Hard Times )
106. • •claude Bernard ( 1813-1878 )
Introduction to the Study of Experimental
Medicine
107. • •Henry David Thoreau ( 1817-1862 ) Civil Disobedience
Walden
108. Karl Marx ( 1818-1883)
•Capital
( together with the •communist Manifesto ) 109. George Eliot ( 1819-1880 )
Adam Bede
Middlemarch
110. • •Herman Melville ( 1819-1891 )
•Moby Dick
Billy Budd
111. • •Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-1881 )
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
0The Brothers Karamazov
112. • •Gustave Flaubert ( 1821-1880)
Madame Bovary
Three Stories
113. • •Henrik Ibsen ( 1828-1906)
Plays
( esp. Hedda Gabler, A Dolfs House,
The Wild Duck)
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114. • •Leo Tolstoy ( 1828-1910 )
•war and Peace
Anna Karenina
What Is Art?
Twenty-three Tales
115. • •Mark Twain ( 1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry