Great Books of the Western World Year Nine

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The following is the ninth 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.

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PLATO: The Sophist

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

THUCYDIDES: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book VII-VIII]

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

ARISTOTLE: Politics [Book VII-VIII]

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

NEW TESTAMENT [The Gospel According to St. John, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians]

http://librivox.org/john-by-king-james-version/

http://librivox.org/romans-king-james-version/

http://librivox.org/1-corinthians-king-james-version/

Other Bible versions are available. Please check the catalog.

ST. AUGUSTINE: The City of God [Book V, XIX]

http://librivox.org/the-city-of-god-by-st-augustine-of-hippo/

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part II-II, QQ 1-7]

https://librivox.org/group/523

GILBERT: On the Loadstone

DESCARTES: Rules for the Direction of the Mind

DESCARTES: Geometry

PASCAL: The Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration

MONTESQUIEU: The Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]

http://librivox.org/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1-by-montesquieu/

FARADAY: Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter

HEGEL: Philosophy of Right [Part III]

MARX: Capital [Part III-IV]

http://librivox.org/capital-volume-1-by-karl-marx/

FREUD: Civilization and Its Discontents

APOLLONIUS: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42-55]

FIELDING: Tom Jones

http://librivox.org/history-of-tom-jones-by-henry-fielding/

FOURIER: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1-2]

MOLIÈRE – Tartuffe

http://librivox.org/tartuffe-by-moliere/

AUSTEN – Emma

http://librivox.org/emma-version-6-by-jane-austen/

PLANCK – Scientific Autobiography (published 1949, thus still in copyright)

VEBLEN – The Theory of the Leisure Class

http://librivox.org/theory-of-the-leisure-class-by-thorstein-veblen/

JOYCE – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

http://librivox.org/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-by-james-joyce/

HEMINGWAY – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (published 1936, thus still in copyright)