Great Books of the Western World Year Three

Great Books of the Western World Ten Year Reading Plan - Year Three

Check the Great Books of the Western World main page with links to all other years.

The following is the third year of the suggested ten year reading plan for the Second Edition, linked to public domain versions of each of the readings. Note that preference is given to completed audio versions on LibriVox. If there is no completed audio version but the work is in progress, then a link is provided to the forum thread. If there is no version in progress, then a link is provided to a public domain text source.

AESCHYLUS: Prometheus Bound

Browning Translation: http://librivox.org/prometheus-bound-browning-translation-by-aeschylus/

Buckley Translation: http://librivox.org/prometheus-bound-by-aeschylus/

Thoreau Translation: http://librivox.org/prometheus-bound-by-aeschylus-2/

HERODOTUS: The History [Book VII-IX]

http://librivox.org/herodotus-histories-vol-1/

http://librivox.org/herodotus-histories-vol-2/

http://librivox.org/herodotus-histories-vol-3-by-herodotus-of-halicarnassus/

THUCYDIDES: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book I-II, V]

http://librivox.org/the-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-by-thucydides/

PLATO: Statesman

http://librivox.org/statesman-by-plato/

ARISTOTLE: On Interpretation [Ch. 1-10]

http://librivox.org/on-interpretation-by-aristotle/

ARISTOTLE: Politics [Book III-V]

http://librivox.org/politics-by-aristotle/

EUCLID: Elements [Book I]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076

TACITUS: The Annals

http://librivox.org/annals-vol-1-by-tacitus/

http://librivox.org/tacitus-annals-vol-2-trans-church-and-brodribb/

http://librivox.org/tacitus-annals-vol-3-church-and-brodribb/

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 90-97]

https://librivox.org/group/523

CHAUCER: Troilus and Cressida

Available in Middle English: http://librivox.org/troilus-and-criseyde-by-geoffrey-chaucer/

SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth

http://librivox.org/the-tragedy-of-macbeth-by-william-shakespeare/

MILTON: Paradise Lost

http://librivox.org/paradise-lost-by-john-milton/

LOCKE: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book III, Ch. 1-3, 9-11]

https://librivox.org/an-essay-concerning-humane-understanding-by-john-locke/

KANT: Science of Right Couldn´t find a PD translation.

MILL: Representative Government [Ch. 1-6]

http://librivox.org/considerations-on-representative-government-by-john-stuart-mill/

LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry [Part I]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30775

DOSTOEVSKY: The Brothers Karamazov [Part I-II]

http://librivox.org/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/

FREUD: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38219

TWAIN – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by-mark-twain-version-2/

LEVI-STRAUSS – Structural Anthropology [Selections] NOT PD

POINCARÉ – Science and Hypothesis [Part I - II]

http://librivox.org/science-and-hypothesis-by-henri-poincare/