[≤ 450BC]
[449-400BC]
[399-350BC]
[349-1BC]
[1AD-199]
[200-1499]
[1500-1599]
[1600-1649]
[1650-1699]
[1700-1749]
[1750-1789]
[1790-1829]
[1830-1859]
[1860-1889]
[1890-1909]
[1910-1929]
[≥ 1930]
 De Magnete (1600)
 As You Like It (1601)
Essays (Bacon) (1601)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1601)
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (1602)
All's Well That Ends Well (1603)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1604)
Measure For Measure (1605)
Othello, Moor of Venice (1605)
King Lear (1606)
Macbeth (1606)
Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
Coriolanus (1608)
The Declaration of Sentiments (1608)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608)
Timon of Athens (1608)
Cymbeline, King of Britain (1609)
Sonnets (Shakespeare) (1609)
The Starry Messenger (1610)
King Henry the Eighth (1611)
The Winter's Tale (1611)
The Tempest (1612)
Don Quixote (1615)
Sermons (Donne) (c. 1615-1631)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (1618-1621)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Novum Organum (1620)
Advancement of Learning (1623?)
New Atlantis (1626)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628)
 Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1628)
Minor Poems (Milton) (1632-1674)
Religio Medici (1635)
Discourse on Method (1637)
Geometry (1637)
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640; rev. 1658)
Scientific Treatises (Pascal) (1640-1658)
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies (1641)
Letters (Pascal) (1643-1661)
Areopagitica (1644)
On Education (1644)
The Book of Five Rings (1645)
On the Circulation of the Blood (1649)
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"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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Ferdowsi |
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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!). |
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Holy Bible |
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