& gt& gt All these books are above most levels-beyond many levels. Therefore, in order to understand and appreciate this kind of books, these books will force most readers to grow mentally. Of course, if you want to improve your reading skills, this kind of book is what you should look for, and you will also find out what great ideas and sayings have existed in our cultural tradition.

& gt& gt Among them, those that appear in the great works of the western world are marked with asterisks; Please mark it with two asterisks if it appears in The Gate of Great Books. 1. Homer (9th century BC? ) * Iliad * Odyssey 2. Old Testament 3. Aeschylus (525-456 BC) * Tragedy 4. Sophocles (495-406 BC) * Tragedy 5. Herodotus (484-425 BC) * History 6. Euripides (BC) * Medical Works 9. Aristophanes (448-380 BC) * Comedy (especially clouds, birds and frogs) 10. Plato (427-347 BC) * Dialogues (especially The Republic, Drinking and Fiji)1/. Aristotle (384-322 BC) * works (especially instrumentalism, physics, metaphysics, soul theory, Kyle ethics, politics, rhetoric and poetics). Letter to Minos 13. Euclid (active in 300 BC) * Geometrical Principles 14. The works of Archimedes (287-2 BC12) * (especially about the balance of plane figures, the calculation of floating bodies and grains). Conic curve theory 16. * * Cicero's (BC 106-43) works (especially speeches, on friendship and on old age) 17. Lucretius (95-55 BC) * on nature. Works 19. Horace (65-8 BC) works (carols and short sentences, poetic art) 20. History of Rome in Li Wei (59 BC-BC 17) 2 1. Ovid (43 BC-BC 17) Biography of Greek and Roman Celebrities 23. * * Tacitus (55- 1 17) * History * Agricultural Chronicle, Germania 24. Nico Kyle of jerash (active in 100) * Introduction to Mathematics was active in 127- 15 1) * Astronomical masterpiece 27. * * Lucian's (120- 190) works (especially historical writing methods, true stories and selling philosophy). Meditation 29. Galen (130-200) * About Natural Function 30. New testament 3 1. Plotinus (205-270) * Chapter 9, Section 32. Works of Saint Augustine (354-430) (especially) 34. Song of Nybrann Roots (13rd century? ) 35. Saga (Nordic Myth) 36. Thomas Aquinas (1225- 1274) * theological encyclopedia 37. * * Dante (1265- 13265438) Works (0) troilus and Christa, * Canterbury Tales 39. Da Vinci (1452- 15 19) Notes 40. Machiavelli (1469- 1527) * The Theory of Monarchy, Top Ten Books of Li Wei 4 1. Erasmus (1469- 1536), Ode to a Fool 42. Copernicus (1473- 1543) * on the motion of celestial bodies 43. Thomas Moore (1478- 1535), Utopia 44. Martin Luther (1483- 1546), three conversations, conversation at dinner 45. Biography of the giant 46. John calvin (1509- 1564) Christianity 47. Montaigne (1533- 1592) * Essay 48. William Gilbert (1540-. On the magnet 49. Cervantes (1547-1616) * Don Quixote 50. Edmund spenser (1552- 1599), Premarital Melody and Fairy Queen 565489.199999996 Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Shakespeare (1564 ——1616) * Op.53. On two new sciences and their mathematical evolution. Kepler (1571-1630) * Overview of Copernicus Astronomy "On the Harmony of the World" 55. William harvey (1578- 1657) * The painstaking efforts of animals on animal reproduction 56. Thomas Hobbes (1588- 1679) * Leviathan 57. Rene descartes (1596- 1650) * The guiding rules of mind about method * geometry *. Short Poem, * On Freedom of the Press, * Paradise Lost, * Samson) 59. * * Moliere (1622-1673) comedies (especially misers, wives' schools, feuds, hating themselves), etc. Pascal (1623- 1662) * Letters to outsiders * Records of thoughts * Scientific papers 6 1. Christiaan huygens (1629- 1695) * on optics. Morality 63 John Locke (1632- 1704) * on tolerance * on government * on human understanding 64. Jean-batiste Racine (1639- 1699). Mathematical principles of natural philosophy * optics 66. Leibniz (1646- 17 16), Introduction to Metaphysics, New Theory of Human Reason and Monogram Theory 67. * * daniel defoe (1660-65438). Jonathan swift's (1667- 1745) wooden bucket story, a letter to Stella Gulliver's travel notes, and some suggestions. William congreve (1670- 1729) is such a world. Principles of human knowledge 7 1. Alexander pope (1688-1744), on criticism, the story of robbery in twists and turns, on people 72. Montesquieu (1689-1748) Voltaire (1694- 1778) Letters to England, and A Dictionary of Philosophy. Henry fielding (1707- 1754), Joseph Andrews * tom jones 75. * * samuel johnson (1709- 1784) Illusion of Human Hope, English Dictionary, Biography of La Silas and Poet 76. * * david hume (1711-1776). Jean-Jean-jean-jacques rousseau (1712-1778) * On the origin and basis of human inequality * On political economy * Emil * On social contract 78. Laurence sterne (17 13-65438. Tristram Shandi, Affectionate Travels 79. Adam Smith (1723- 1790), On Moral Sentiments * On the Wealth of Nations 80. * * Kant (1724- 1804) * Critique of Judgment, Theory of Permanent Peace 8 1. Edward gibbon (1737- 1794) * The decline and fall of the Roman Empire * Autobiography 82. James boswell (1740- 1795). Biography of Dr. Johnson 83. Lavoisier (1743- 1794) * Principles of Chemistry 84. John jay (1745- 1829), James Madison (175 1). Federalists' Anthology (together with Confederacy and Permanent Union Regulations, American Constitution, Declaration of Independence) 85. Introduction to Jeremy Bentham's moral and legislative principles. Goethe (1749-6549) Faust, Poetry and Truth 87. Jean-Baptist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) * Thermal analysis theory 88. Hegel (1770- 183 1). Lecture on philosophy of history. William wordsworth (1770-1850) Poetry (especially lyric ballads, Lucy's poems, sonnets, overtures) 90. Samuel coleridge (1772— 1834. Literary biography 9 1. Jane Austen (1775- 18 17) Pride and Prejudice Emma 92. * * karl von Clausewitz (1780- 183 1) on war 93. Stendhal (1783- 1842), Red and Black, Parma Monastery and Love Theory 94. Byron (65438 Schopenhauer (1788- 1860) pessimism anthology 96. * * Chemical history of Faraday (179 1- 1867) candle * Experimental study on electricity 97. * * Geological Principles of Lyell Charles (1797- 1875) 98. Auguste Comte (1798- 1857) positive philosophy 99. * * Balzac (1799- 1857). Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803- 1882), representative figure, prose, diary10/. * * nathaniel hawthorne (1804- 1864), The Scarlet Letter, 65434.199666666 Aleksi de Tocqueville (1805- 1859. * * john stewart Mill (1806- 1873) logical system * On freedom * Charles Darwin (1809- 1882) * Origin of species * Origin of human beings+autobiography 105. * * Charles Dickens (18 12- 1870). Claude Bernard (1813 ——1878) Introduction to Experimental Medical Research 107. * * henry david thoreau (1817-1862) on citizens' disobedience to Walden Lake 108. Karl Marx (18 1883) * On Capital. Manifesto of the Productive Party) 109. George Eliot (18 19- 1880), Adam Bede, Middlemarch 1 10. * * herman melville (65438. Moby Dick (Moby Dick) and Billy Budd. * * Dostoevsky (1821-18865438), Crime and Punishment Gustav Flaubert (1821-1880). * * henrik ibsen (1828— 1906). Lev tolstoy (1828 ——1910) * "War and Peace" Anna karenin "What is art? Twenty-three stories 1 15. * * Mark Twain (1835- 19 10), Huckleberry Finn, the mysterious stranger 1 16. * * william james (. Principles of psychology, various religious experiences, pragmatism and papers on thorough empiricism 1 17. * * Henry James (1843- 19 16), American, appointment book, 1 18. Nietzsche (1844- 1900), Zarathustra. 54- 19 12) science and hypothesis, science and method 120. Sigmund freud (1856- 1939) * Interpretation of dreams * Introduction to psychoanalysis * Civilization and its dissatisfaction * A new theory of psychoanalysis 12 1. Shaw's plays (and prefaces) (especially Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Flower Girl, etc.). Science autobiography 123. * * henri bergson (1858- 194 1), time and free will, matter and memory, evolutionary creation, two sources of morality and religion 124. * * john dewey (. Democracy and education, experience and nature, logic: exploratory theory 125. * * alfred north whitehead (1861-1947), Introduction to Mathematics, Science and Modern World, Educational Objectives, etc. george santayana (1863- 1952), Rational Life, Skepticism and Animal Belief. Nikolai Lenin (1870- 1924), State and Revolution. 56538+029. 1666667* * Bertrand Russell (1872- 1970) Philosophical problems, spiritual analysis, exploration of meaning and truth, human knowledge: its scope and limit 130. * * thomas mann (1875 Albert Einstein (1879- 1955), the meaning of relativity, the method of theoretical physics, the evolution of physics (co-authored with L. infeld) 132. * * James Joyce's (1882- 194 1) Dubliners 133 Portraits of the dead and a young artist. Jacques Maritain (1882- 1973) trial (1883- 1924), Castle 135. Arnold toynbee (1889- 1975), historical research, civilization under test 136. Jean-Paul Sartre.