Great Books and Classics

"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism." - C.S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books

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Most Recent Updates/Additions
Apr. 7, 2013:	Format fix	Corrected obsolete HTML that led to the index sometimes pushing the page contents off the screen to the right.
Oct. 11, 2012:	Murasaki	Added listing for Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, with links to Japanese etexts and English Amazon.com copies (thanks for the suggestion, Nick!).
Oct. 11, 2012:	Ferdowsi	Added listing for Hakim Abol Qasem Ferdowsi Tousi's epic poem Shahnameh, with links to English etexts and Amazon.com copies (thanks for the suggestion, Nick!).
Sept. 10, 2012:	Index fix	Fixed Author indices for Core, GBWW and Great Ideas reading lists; I had incorrectly omitted Hume (thanks John!).
May 12, 2012:	Ptolemy	Added Greek text and English translation of Tetrabiblos (thanks Bill!).
	*Holy Bible*	Added parallel Greek/English/Latin version (thanks Bill!)
	Tacitus	Added new online English translations of Agricola, the Annals, and the Histories (thanks Bill!)

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