The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote 87

PARTTHREE

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works 93

John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works 94

Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin PHng Mei) 97

Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Ttvo Chief World Systems 100

Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Leviathan 103

Renй Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method 105

John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Chrisfs Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica 107

Moliиre, 1622-1673, Selected Plays 109

Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensйes) 111

John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrims Progress 114

John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government 115

Matsuo Bashх, 1644-1694, The Narrotv Road to the Deep North 117

Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe 120

Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gullivers Traveis 122

Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works 124

David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 126

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones 127

Ts'ao Hsьeh-ctTin, 1715-1763, The Dream of the

Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone) 129

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions 131

Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy 134

James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson 136

Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris 138

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787, edited by Clinton Rossiter 139

PART FOUR

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust 143

William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works 144

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800) 147

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare 150

Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice, Emma 152

Stendhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black 154

Honorй de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pиre Goriot, Eugйnie Grandet, Cousin Bette 156

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works 158

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales 160

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America 162

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty, The Subjection ofWomen 164

Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species 166

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls 170

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works 171

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair 173

Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers, David Coppetfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, Old Curiosity Shop, Liff/e Dorrit 175

Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, Warden, Lъ^ Chronicle ofBarset, 77ie Eustace Diamonds, 77ie Way W^ Lfi;^ Now;, Autobiography 177

The Brontк Sisters 179

79A. Charlotte Brontк, 1816-1855, /ane Јt/r^ 180

79B. Emily Brontк, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights 182

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden, Civil Disobedience 183

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons 186

Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895, 77ie Communist Manifesto 187

Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrнvener 189

George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch 192

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855), A Backward Glance 0'er Travelled Roads 195

Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary 198

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov 200

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Warand Peace 202

Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1906, Selected Plays 204

Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems 206

Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Бlice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass 208

Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn 210

Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams 212

Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayorof Casterbridge 214

William James, 1842-1910, The Principies of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning ofTruth, The Varieties of Religious Experience 216

Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors 218

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morais, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works 220

PART FIVE