The Great Books Online!
Our Mr Baxter has painstakingly tracked down the works included in Mortimer Alder’s Great Books series he compiled for Encyclopedia Brittanica. As a public service, and so that Mr Baxter’s efforts will not be lost in the wilderness of comment boxes, I reprint his collection of The Great Links. The words below are his:
Here’s so far the first seven volumes, tediously tracked down whenever possible:
VOLUME 1
The Great Conversation — excerpt only — http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/pdf/The_Great_Conversation.pdf
VOLUME 2
Syntopicon I — not found
VOLUME 3
Syntopicon II — not found
VOLUME 4
Homer
The Iliad — Pope translation http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130
The Odyssey — Pope translation http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3160
VOLUME 5
Aeschylus
The Suppliant Maidens http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8714
The Persians http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8714
Seven Against Thebes http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8714
Prometheus Bound http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8714
The Oresteia
1. Agamemnon http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aeschylus/aeschylus_eumenides.htm or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14417
2. Choephoroe http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aeschylus/aeschylus_eumenides.htm
3. The Eumenides http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aeschylus/aeschylus_eumenides.htm
Sophocles
The Oedipus Cycle
1. Oedipus the King http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31
2. Oedipus at Colonus http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31
3. Antigone http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31
Ajax http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/ajax.htm
Electra http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/euripides/electra.htm or http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/electra.html
The Trachiniae http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/WomenofTrachis.htm
Philoctetes http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Philoctetes.htm
Euripides
Medea http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Hippolytus http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Alcestis http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Heracleidae http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
The Suppliants http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/euripides/suppliants/ or http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/SuppliantWomen.htm
Trojan Women http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10096
Ion http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Ion.htm
Helen http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/EuripidesHelen.htm
Andromache http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/EuripidesAndromache.htm
Electra http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14322
Bacchantes http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Hecuba http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Heracles Mad http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/EuripidesHerakles.htm
Phoenician Women http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/EuripidesPhoenicianWomen.htm
Orestes http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Iphigeneia in Tauris http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Iphigeneia at Aulis http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15081
Cyclops http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Cyclops.htm
Aristophanes
The Acharnians http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8688
The Knights http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8688
The Clouds http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8688 or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2562
The Wasps http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689
Peace http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8688
The Birds http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689 or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3013
The Frogs http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689 or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7998
Lysistrata http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7700
Thesmophoriazusae http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689
Ecclesiazousae http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689
Plutus http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8689
VOLUME 6
Herodotus
The History http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 and http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2456
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7142
VOLUME 7
Plato
Charmides http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Lysis http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Laches http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Protagoras http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Euthydemus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Cratylus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Phaedrus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Ion http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Symposium http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=111
Meno http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
Euthyphro http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
Apology http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
Crito http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
Phaedo http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
Gorgias http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=766&Itemid=99999999
The Republic http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=767&Itemid=99999999
Timaeus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=767&Itemid=99999999
Critias http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=767&Itemid=99999999
Parmenides http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=768&Itemid=99999999
Theaetetus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=768&Itemid=99999999
Sophist http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=768&Itemid=99999999
Statesman http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=768&Itemid=99999999
Philebus http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=768&Itemid=99999999
Laws http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=769&Itemid=99999999
The Seventh Letter http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/seventh_letter.html
VOLUME 8
Aristotle
Categories http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/categories/
On Interpretation http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/interpretation/
Prior Analytics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8pra/
Posterior Analytics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8poa/
Topics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8t/
Sophistical Refutations http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/sophistical/
Physics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/physics/
On the Heavens http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/heavens/
On Generation and Corruption http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/corruption/
Meteorology http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/meteorology/
Metaphysics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/metaphysics/
On the Soul http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8so/
Minor biological works — not found (What does this contain?)
VOLUME 9
Aristotle
History of Animals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/history/
Parts of Animals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/parts/
On the Motion of Animals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/motion/
On the Gait of Animals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/gait/
On the Generation of Animals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/generation/
Nicomachean Ethics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/nicomachean/
Politics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8po/
The Athenian Constitution http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/athenian/
Rhetoric http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8rh/
Poetics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/poetics/
VOLUME 10
Hippocrates
Works — TOO VAGUE, NOT FOUND. However, an approximation may be considered: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24456
Galen
On the Natural Faculties http://classics.mit.edu/Galen/natfac.html
VOLUME 11
Euclid
The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
Archimedes (Approximation considered)
On the Sphere and Cylinder http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
Measurement of a Circle http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
On Conoids and Spheroids http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
On Spirals http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
On the Equilibrium of Planes http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
The Sand Reckoner http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
The Quadrature of the Parabola http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
On Floating Bodies http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
Book of Lemmas http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14118937M/The_works_of_Archimedes
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems http://archive.org/details/cu31924005730563
Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html#apollonius
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic http://archive.org/details/NicomachusIntroToArithmetic
VOLUME 12
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/785
Epictetus
The Discourses http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/epictetus/e65d/
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marcus_aurelius/meditations/
VOLUME 13
Virgil
Eclogues http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/230
Georgics http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/232
Aeneid http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/228
VOLUME 14
Plutarch
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/674
VOLUME 15
P. Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tacitus/t1a/
The Histories http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tacitus/t1h/
VOLUME 16
Ptolemy
Almagest (approximation) http://www.brycecorkins.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/PtolemysAlmagest.pdf
Nicolaus Copernicus
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Copernicus.html
Johannes Kepler
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V) NOT FOUND
The Harmonies of the World (Book V) NOT FOUND
VOLUME 17
Plotinus
The Six Enneads http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plotinus/p72e/
VOLUME 18
Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/augustine/a92c/
The City of God http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102
On Christian Doctrine http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102
VOLUMES 19 and 20
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=summa+theologica (also here: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/)
VOLUME 21
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8800
VOLUME 22
Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/257
The Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383
VOLUME 23
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207
VOLUME 24
François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1200
VOLUME 25
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600
VOLUMES 26 and 27
William Shakespeare
… but rather than bother linking each one, consider:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100
VOLUME 28 — better versions needed
William Gilbert
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies http://rack1.ul.cs.cmu.edu/is/gilbert/
Galileo Galilei
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/tns_draft/index.html
William Harvey NO GOOD VERSION FOUND
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of Blood
On the Generation of Animals
VOLUME 29
Miguel de Cervantes
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35993
VOLUME 30
Sir Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5500
Novum Organum http://www.constitution.org/bacon/nov_org.htm
New Atlantis http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2434
VOLUME 31
René Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the Mind http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the_Mind
Discourse on the Method http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59
Meditations on First Philosophy http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfbits/desco5.pdf
The Geometry http://archive.org/details/geometryofrene00desc
Benedict de Spinoza
Ethics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/ethics/
VOLUME 32
John Milton
English Minor Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31706
Paradise Lost http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20
Samson Agonistes http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml
Areopagitica http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/608
VOLUME 33
Blaise Pascal
The Provincial Letters http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pascal/blaise/p27pr/
Pensées http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pascal/blaise/p27pe/ or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18269
Scientific and mathematical essays (approximation) http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pascal/blaise/geom/
VOLUME 34
Sir Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Principles_of_Natural_Philosophy_(1846)
Optics http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504
Christian Huygens
Treatise on Light http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14725
VOLUME 35
John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2375&Itemid=27
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7370
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 and http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10616
George Berkeley
The Principles of Human Knowledge http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4723
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9662
VOLUME 36
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/829
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079
VOLUME 37
Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593
VOLUME 38
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws http://books.google.com/books?id=5zZJAAAAMAAJ and http://books.google.com/books?id=x9QtAAAAYAAJ
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11136
A Discourse on Political Economy http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Discourse_On_Political_Economy.html?id=juSozQM25bIC
The Social Contract http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm
VOLUME 39
Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
VOLUMES 40 and 41
Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375
VOLUME 42
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4280
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5682
Critique of Practical Reason http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5683
Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5682
Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5684
General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16m/
The Science of Right http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16sr/
The Critique of Judgement http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16ju/
VOLUME 43
American State Papers
Declaration of Independence http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
Articles of Confederation http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053/the-articles-of-confederation
The Constitution of the United States of America http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
The Federalist http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1404
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34901
Considerations on Representative Government http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5669
Utilitarianism http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11224
VOLUME 44
James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1564
VOLUME 45
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Elements of Chemistry http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30775
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Analytical Theory of Heat http://archive.org/details/analyticaltheory00fourrich
Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14986
VOLUME 46
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/hegel/right.pdf
The Philosophy of History http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/hegel/history.pdf
VOLUME 47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14591
VOLUME 48
Herman Melville
Moby Dick; or, The Whale http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
VOLUME 49
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2300
VOLUME 50
Karl Marx
Capital http://books.google.com/books?id=afUtAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=capital+marx#v=onepage&q=capital%20marx&f=false
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31193
Other parts:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/
VOLUME 51
Count Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
VOLUME 52
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054
VOLUME 53
William James
The Principles of Psychology http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/index.htm
VOLUME 54
Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
I didn’t want to bother with Freud, so consider
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/freud/sigmund/index.html
The Second Edition included:
VOLUME 20
John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion (Selections) — NOT FOUND, but complete edition here http://self.gutenberg.org/details.aspx?bookid=694952
VOLUME 23
Erasmus
The Praise of Folly http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9371
VOLUME 31 — NOT COMPLETE
Molière
The School for Wives
The Critique of the School for Wives
Tartuffe http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28488
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9070
Jean Racine
Bérénice
Phèdre
Alternatively, consider: http://archive.org/details/dramaticworksofm02moliiala
VOLUME 34
Voltaire
Candide http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942
Denis Diderot
Rameau’s Nephew http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700101h.html
VOLUME 43
Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling http://archive.org/details/selectionsfromwr00kieruoft or http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2068
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4363
VOLUME 44
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815 and http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816
VOLUME 45
Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Bette http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1749
VOLUME 46
Jane Austen
Emma http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/158
George Eliot
Middlemarch http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/145
VOLUME 47
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/963
VOLUME 48
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32325
VOLUME 52
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542
The Wild Duck (better link needed) — http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IbsWild.html
Hedda Gabler http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19183
The Master Builder http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4070
The six volumes of 20th century material consisted of the following:
VOLUME 55
William James
Pragmatism http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5116
Henri Bergson
An Introduction to Metaphysics http://www.archive.org/details/anintroductiont00berggoog
John Dewey
Experience and Education http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/ndemers/colloquium/experienceducationdewey.pdf
Alfred North Whitehead
Science and the Modern World http://archive.org/details/scienceandthemod010766mbp
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827
Martin Heidegger
What Is Metaphysics? — NOT FOUND
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations — better version needed http://www.postmoderntherapy.com/Wittgenstein/
Karl Barth
The Word of God and the Word of Man — NOT FOUND
VOLUME 56
Henri Poincaré
Science and Hypothesis http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37157
Max Planck
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers — NOT FOUND
Alfred North Whitehead
An Introduction to Mathematics http://books.google.com/books/about/AN_INTRODUCTION_TO_MATHEMATICS.html?id=OrYg5Ql6ADkC
Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5001
Arthur Eddington
The Expanding Universe — NOT FOUND
Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections) — NOT FOUND
Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/dk/bohr.htm
G. H. Hardy
A Mathematician’s Apology — ONLY IN PUBLIC DOMAIN IN CANADA
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heisenb2.htm
Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life? whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin of Species (better link needed, only Chapters 1, 6, 9 available) — http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/dobzhansky_genetics.html
C. H. Waddington
The Nature of Life — NOT FOUND
VOLUME 57
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
R. H. Tawney
The Acquisitive Society http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33741
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money http://www.scribd.com/doc/11392072/The-General-Theory-of-Employment-Interest-and-Money
VOLUME 58
Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough (selections) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623
Max Weber
Essays in Sociology (selections) http://archive.org/details/frommaxweberessa00webe
Johan Huizinga
The Autumn of the Middle Ages http://archive.org/details/waningofthemiddl007061mbp
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology (selections) http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/levistra.htm
VOLUME 59
Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1093
George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200811h.html
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526
Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1756
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author http://www.eldritchpress.org/lp/six.htm
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past: “Swann in Love” (IS THIS SWANN’S WAY? IF SO) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7178
Willa Cather
A Lost Lady http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200451.txt
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice http://www.scribd.com/doc/protected/985179
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217
VOLUME 60
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200
D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22480
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321
Eugene O’Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily http://flightline.highline.edu/tkim/Files/Lit100_SS2.pdf
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/sword/Short%20Story/The%20Short%20Happy%20Life%20of%20Francis%20Macomber.pdf2520Macomber.pdf&ei=re3OT6zaGZLE2QXlzqy7DA&usg=AFQjCNERUT3KlTIisTW-dEfKpXRG4MEsJQ&sig2=7JdFLSpIn4_B62KZ7pn-OQ
George Orwell
Animal Farm NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN http://books.google.com/books?id=SGAZdjNfruYC
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot NOT USA PUBLIC DOMAIN
There are undoubtedly errors, and certainly not all of these are the best versions online.
Incidentally, I also found a listing of the Harvard Classics, often referred to as the Five Foot Shelf. It was apparently a similar project.But this should get you guys started.
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