Great Books and Classics

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Bacon is also a candidate for authorship of the plays of William Shakespeare

All links verified on or after March 9, 2017

List of Works
[Advancement of Learning] [Essays] [New Atlantis] [Novum Organum]

Advancement of Learning (1623?) [GBWW,HTR]

HTML (Two pages, 131 KB & 342 KB) at Renascence Editions
HTML (509 KB; 185 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition (Kessinger, 1997).

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Essays (1601) [HTR,HC]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Bartleby.com
Text file (312 KB; 122 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg
Finnish Text file (171 KB; 67 KB zipped; may be abridged) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition (Kessinger Publishing, 1992, 184 pg).

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New Atlantis (1626) [GBWW,HTR,HC]

HTML (Single page, 102 KB) at Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
HTML (Single page, 86 KB) at the Constitution Society
Text file (85 KB) at the Constitution Society
HTML (107 KB; 40 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg
Spanish RTF (direct link) at Diccionario Teológico Mercabá (Translator Unknown)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition (Kessinger, 1997).

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Novum Organum (1620) [GBWW,HTR,HC]

HTML (Single page, 491 KB) at The Constitution Society (Translated by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath)
HTML (Single page, Preface and some aphorisms, 157 KB) at the Hanover Historical Texts Project (Translated by Basil Montague)
Latin HTML (8 pages, indexed) at The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Peter Urbach and John Gibson (Open Court Publishing Company, 1994, 364 pg).