Gateway to the great books: 10 volumes

"Gateway to the Great Books are great writings which selections include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, and letters. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe and themselves. There are over 135 Authors, 225 Selections and 95 original illustrations. Selections include works from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Mark Twain and more. This set will help introduce oneself to good literature and the Great Books of the Western World."-- Provided by publisher How to go to your page ......Page 2 Volume 1: Introduction & Syntopical Guide......Page 4 Introduction: I The Ways—and Whys—of Reading......Page 8 II Human Imagination......Page 27 III Human Society......Page 44 IV Science and Mathematics......Page 65 V Philosophy......Page 79 VI The Endless Journey......Page 96 Syntopical Guide......Page 99 Appendix: A Plan of Graded Reading......Page 316 Volume 2: Imaginative Literature......Page 325 Daniel Defoe......Page 331 Robinson Crusoe......Page 335 Rudyard Kipling......Page 452 Mowgli's Brothers......Page 456 Victor Hugo......Page 472 The Battle with the Cannon from Ninety-three......Page 476 Guy de Maupassant......Page 485 Two Friends......Page 489 Ernest Hemingway......Page 495 The Killers......Page 499 Sir Walter Scott......Page 508 The Two Drovers......Page 512 Joseph Conrad......Page 536 Youth......Page 540 Voltaire......Page 567 Micromégas......Page 571 Oscar Wilde......Page 587 The Happy Prince......Page 591 Edgar Allan Poe......Page 599 The Tell-Tale Heart......Page 603 The Masque of the Red Death......Page 608 Robert Louis Stevenson......Page 614 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde......Page 618 Mark Twain......Page 672 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg......Page 676 Charles Dickens......Page 717 A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers......Page 721 Nikolai Gogol......Page 779 The Overcoat......Page 782 Samuel Butler......Page 809 Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians from Erewhon......Page 813 Sherwood Anderson......Page 837 I'm a Fool......Page 841 Anonymous......Page 851 Aucassin and Nicolette......Page 853 Volume 3: Imaginative Literature......Page 883 Stephen Crane......Page 890 The Open Boat......Page 894 Herman Melville......Page 916 Billy Budd......Page 920 Ivan Bunin......Page 988 The Gentleman from San Francisco......Page 991 Nathaniel Hawthorne......Page 1013 Rappaccini’s Daughter......Page 1017 George Eliot......Page 1042 The Lifted Veil......Page 1046 Lucius Apuleius......Page 1083 Cupid and Psyche from The Golden Ass......Page 1086 Ivan Turgenev......Page 1102 First Love......Page 1106 Fyodor Dostoevsky......Page 1161 White Nights......Page 1165 John Galsworthy......Page 1209 The Apple-Tree......Page 1212 Gustave Flaubert......Page 1257 The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller......Page 1260 F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 1282 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz......Page 1286 Honoré de Balzac......Page 1321 A Passion in the Desert......Page 1325 Anton Chekhov......Page 1337 The Darling......Page 1341 Isaac Singer......Page 1352 The Spinoza of Market Street......Page 1355 Alexander Pushkin......Page 1370 The Queen of Spades......Page 1373 D. H. Lawrence......Page 1397 The Rocking–Horse Winner......Page 1401 Henry James......Page 1415 The Pupil......Page 1419 Thomas Mann......Page 1458 Mario and the Magician......Page 1462 Isak Dinesen......Page 1500 Sorrow-Acre......Page 1504 Leo Tolstoy......Page 1531 The Death of Ivan Ilyitch......Page 1535 The Three Hermits......Page 1589 What Men Live By......Page 1596 Volume 4: Imaginative Literature......Page 1618 Molière......Page 1622 The Misanthrope......Page 1627 The Doctor in Spite of Himself......Page 1673 Richard Sheridan......Page 1703 The School for Scandal......Page 1706 Henrik Ibsen......Page 1781 An Enemy of the People......Page 1785 Anton Chekhov......Page 1868 The Cherry Orchard......Page 1870 George Bernard Shaw......Page 1916 The Man of Destiny......Page 1921 John M. Synge......Page 1960 Riders to the Sea......Page 1963 Eugene O'Neill......Page 1974 The Emperor Jones......Page 1978 Volume 5: Critical Essays......Page 2005 Virginia Woolf......Page 2011 How Should One Read a Book?......Page 2015 Matthew Arnold......Page 2025 The Study of Poetry......Page 2029 Sweetness and Light......Page 2052 Sainte-Beuve......Page 2072 What Is a Classic?......Page 2075 Montaigne......Page 2086 Sir Francis Bacon......Page 2100 Of Beauty......Page 2104 Of Discourse......Page 2105 Of Studies......Page 2107 David Hume......Page 2109 Of the Standard of Taste......Page 2113 Arthur Schopenhauer......Page 2130 On Style......Page 2134 On Some Forms of Literature......Page 2147 On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art......Page 2153 Friedrich Schiller......Page 2161 On Simple and Sentimental Poetry......Page 2165 Percy Bysshe Shelley......Page 2222 A Defence of Poetry......Page 2226 Walt Whitman......Page 2253 Preface to Leaves of Grass......Page 2257 William Hazlitt......Page 2270 My First Acquaintance with Poets......Page 2274 On Swift......Page 2290 Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen......Page 2294 Charles Lamb......Page 2306 My First Play......Page 2310 Dream Children, a Reverie......Page 2314 Sanity of True Genius......Page 2318 Samuel Johnson......Page 2321 Preface to Shakespeare......Page 2326 Thomas De Quincey......Page 2364 Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power......Page 2368 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth......Page 2372 Thomas Stearns Eliot......Page 2377 Dante......Page 2381 Tradition and the Individual Talent......Page 2414 Volume 6: Humanity and Society......Page 2423 John Stuart Mill......Page 2430 Childhood and Youth from Autobiography......Page 2434 Mark Twain......Page 2477 Learning the River from Life on the Mississippi......Page 2479 La Bruyère......Page 2528 Characters......Page 2531 Thomas Carlyle......Page 2535 The Hero as King......Page 2539 Ralph Waldo Emerson......Page 2575 Thoreau......Page 2579 Nathaniel Hawthorne......Page 2595 Sketch of Abraham Lincoln......Page 2597 Walt Whitman......Page 2601 Death of Abraham Lincoln......Page 2603 Virginia Woolf......Page 2613 The Art of Biography......Page 2615 Xenophon......Page 2622 The March to the Sea from The Persian Expedition......Page 2625 The Character of Socrates from Memorabilia......Page 2652 William H. Prescott......Page 2656 The Land of Montezuma from The Conquest of Mexico......Page 2660 Haniel Long......Page 2673 The Power within Us......Page 2675 Pliny the Younger......Page 2691 The Eruption of Vesuvius from Letters......Page 2693 Cornelius Tacitus......Page 2700 François Guizot......Page 2728 Civilization from History of Civilization in Europe......Page 2731 Henry Adams......Page 2747 The United States in 1800 from History of the United States of America......Page 2751 John Bagnell Bury......Page 2789 Herodotus......Page 2793 Lucian......Page 2813 The Way to Write History......Page 2816 Great Documents......Page 2836 The English Bill of Rights......Page 2838 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen......Page 2841 The Virginia Declaration of Rights......Page 2844 The Declaration of Independence......Page 2847 Charter of the United Nations......Page 2851 Universal Declaration of Human Rights......Page 2881 Thomas Paine......Page 2886 A Call to Patriots—December 23, 1776 from The Crisis......Page 2890 George Washington......Page 2898 Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army......Page 2903 The Farewell Address......Page 2913 Thomas Jefferson......Page 2927 The Virginia Constitution from Notes on Virginia......Page 2931 First Inaugural Address......Page 2947 Biographical Sketches......Page 2951 Benjamin Franklin......Page 2958 A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America......Page 2962 Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania......Page 2965 Jean de Crèvecoeur......Page 2972 The Making of Americans from Letters from an American Farmer......Page 2975 Alexis de Tocqueville......Page 2989 Observations on American Life and Government from Democracy in America......Page 2993 Henry David Thoreau......Page 3120 Civil Disobedience......Page 3124 A Plea for Captain John Brown......Page 3143 Abraham Lincoln......Page 3162 Address at Cooper Institute......Page 3166 First Inaugural Address......Page 3176 Letter to Horace Greeley......Page 3185 Meditation on the Divine Will......Page 3187 The Gettysburg Address......Page 3188 Second Inaugural Address......Page 3189 Last Public Address......Page 3191 Volume 7: Humanity and Society......Page 3196 Sir Francis Bacon......Page 3202 Of Youth and Age......Page 3204 Of Parents and Children......Page 3206 Of Marriage and Single Life......Page 3208 Of Great Place......Page 3210 Of Seditions and Troubles......Page 3213 Of Custom and Education......Page 3219 Of Followers and Friends......Page 3221 Of Usury......Page 3223 Of Riches......Page 3226 Jonathan Swift......Page 3229 Resolutions when I Come to Be Old......Page 3233 An Essay on Modern Education......Page 3234 A Meditation upon a Broomstick......Page 3241 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country......Page 3243 David Hume......Page 3251 Of Refinement in the Arts......Page 3253 Of Money......Page 3263 Of the Balance of Trade......Page 3273 Of Taxes......Page 3286 Of the Study of History......Page 3290 Plutarch......Page 3294 Of Bashfulness......Page 3298 Robert Louis Stevenson......Page 3311 The Lantern-Bearers......Page 3313 John Ruskin......Page 3323 An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age......Page 3327 William James......Page 3338 On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings......Page 3342 The Energies of Men......Page 3358 Great Men and Their Environment......Page 3372 Arthur Schopenhauer......Page 3396 On Education......Page 3398 Michael Faraday......Page 3405 Observations on Mental Education......Page 3409 Edmund Burke......Page 3434 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol......Page 3438 John C. Calhoun......Page 3473 The Concurrent Majority from A Disquisition on Government......Page 3477 Thomas Babington Macaulay......Page 3492 Machiavelli......Page 3496 Voltaire......Page 3531 English Men and Ideas from Letters on the English......Page 3533 Dante Alighieri......Page 3580 On World Government from De Monarchia......Page 3584 Jean Jacques Rousseau......Page 3601 A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe......Page 3606 Immanuel Kant......Page 3638 Perpetual Peace......Page 3642 Karl von Clausewitz......Page 3677 What Is War?......Page 3680 Thomas Robert Malthus......Page 3699 The Principle of Population from Population: The First Essay......Page 3703 Volume 8: Natural Science......Page 3733 Sir Francis Bacon......Page 3739 The Sphinx......Page 3740 John Tyndall......Page 3743 Michael Faraday from Faraday as a Discoverer......Page 3746 Eve Curie......Page 3767 The Discovery of Radium......Page 3770 Charles Robert Darwin......Page 3781 Autobiography......Page 3785 Jean Henri Fabre......Page 3832 A Laboratory of the Open Fields......Page 3835 The Sacred Beetle......Page 3843 Loren Eiseley......Page 3858 On Time from The Immense Journey......Page 3861 Rachel L. Carson......Page 3868 The Sunless Sea......Page 3870 J. B. S. Haldane......Page 3885 On Being the Right Size......Page 3887 Thomas Henry Huxley......Page 3893 On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals......Page 3898 On a Piece of Chalk......Page 3943 Sir Francis Galton......Page 3961 The Classification of Human Ability from Hereditary Genius......Page 3965 Claude Bernard......Page 4000 Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies......Page 4004 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov......Page 4029 Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals......Page 4032 Friedrich Wöhler......Page 4048 On the Artificial Production of Urea......Page 4050 Sir Charles Lyell......Page 4053 Geological Evolution from The Principles of Geology......Page 4057 Galileo Galilei......Page 4063 The Starry Messenger......Page 4068 Tommaso Campanella......Page 4094 Michael Faraday......Page 4103 The Chemical History of a Candle......Page 4106 Dmitri Mendeleev......Page 4178 The Genesis of a Law of Nature from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements......Page 4180 H. L. F. von Helmholtz......Page 4185 On the Conservation of Force......Page 4189 Leopold Infeld......Page 4223 The Rise and Decline of Classical Physics from The Evolution of Physics......Page 4228 Sir Arthur Eddington......Page 4299 The Running-Down of the Universe......Page 4303 Sir James Jeans......Page 4319 Beginnings and Endings......Page 4323 Kees Boeke......Page 4335 Cosmic View......Page 4338 Volume 9: Mathematics......Page 4384 Lancelot Hogben......Page 4389 Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization......Page 4391 Andrew Russell Forsyth......Page 4412 Mathematics, in Life and Thought......Page 4414 Alfred North Whitehead......Page 4435 On Mathematical Method from An Introduction to Mathematics......Page 4439 On the Nature of a Calculus......Page 4456 Bertrand Russell......Page 4467 The Study of Mathematics......Page 4472 Mathematics and the Metaphysicians......Page 4483 Definition of Number......Page 4499 James R. Newman......Page 4506 New Names for Old......Page 4509 Beyond the Googol......Page 4525 Tobias Dantzig......Page 4551 Fingerprints......Page 4553 The Empty Column......Page 4566 Leonhard Euler......Page 4578 The Seven Bridges of Königsberg......Page 4581 Norman Robert Campbell......Page 4590 Measurement......Page 4592 Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science......Page 4610 William Kingdon Clifford......Page 4627 The Postulates of the Science of Space......Page 4631 Henri Poincaré......Page 4648 Space......Page 4653 Mathematical Creation......Page 4682 Chance......Page 4693 Pierre Simon de Laplace......Page 4709 Probability from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities......Page 4713 Charles Sanders Peirce......Page 4727 The Red and the Black......Page 4730 Volume 10: Philosophical Essays......Page 4738 John Erskine......Page 4744 The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent......Page 4748 William Kingdon Clifford......Page 4757 The Ethics of Belief......Page 4759 William James......Page 4780 The Will to Believe......Page 4782 The Sentiment of Rationality......Page 4801 John Dewey......Page 4831 The Process of Thought from How We Think......Page 4835 Epicurus......Page 4957 Letter to Herodotus......Page 4959 Letter to Menoeceus......Page 4973 Epictetus......Page 4977 The Enchiridion......Page 4979 Walter Horatio Pater......Page 4998 The Art of Life from The Renaissance......Page 5001 Plutarch......Page 5005 Contentment......Page 5007 Cicero......Page 5025 On Friendship......Page 5029 On Old Age......Page 5060 Sir Francis Bacon......Page 5087 Of Truth......Page 5089 Of Death......Page 5091 Of Adversity......Page 5093 Of Love......Page 5094 Of Friendship......Page 5096 Of Anger......Page 5102 George Santayana......Page 5104 Lucretius......Page 5108 Goethe's Faust......Page 5134 Henry Adams......Page 5163 St. Thomas Aquinas......Page 5165 Voltaire......Page 5194 John Stuart Mill......Page 5218 Nature......Page 5220 Ralph Waldo Emerson......Page 5252 Nature......Page 5255 Self-Reliance......Page 5268 Montaigne; or, the Skeptic......Page 5289 William Hazlitt......Page 5306 On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth......Page 5308 Sir Thomas Browne......Page 5314 Immortality from Urn-Burial......Page 5318 Gateway to the Great Books are great writings which selections include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, and letters. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe and themselves. There are over 135 Authors, 225 Selections and 95 original illustrations. Selections include works from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Mark Twain and more. This set will help introduct oneself to good literature and the Great Books of the Western World. Gateway to the Great Books is a ten volume series of books which include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, letters and extracts from longer works written by over one hundred authors. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe. The series constitutes an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World put together by the same editors in 1952.