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Classic Books in 30 Minutes: Western and World Literature for Busy People — 156 episodes
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1899)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (~1008)
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo) by Plato (~399 BCE - 387 BCE)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides) by Aeschylus (458 BCE)
Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859)
The Ramayana by Valmiki (~5th century BCE to 3rd century CE)
The Elements by Euclid (~300 BCE)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume (1751)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (~1596)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
The Mahabharata by Vyasa (400BCE-400CE)
The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1922)
The Book of Healing by Ibn Sina (1027)
The Red and the Black by Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1830)
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Mahendranath Gupta (1897-1932)
Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1689)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913-1927)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600)
Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
The General Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1915)
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (1853)
The Platform Sutra by Huineng (8th Century)
The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu (1748)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1861)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1881)
Promotheus Bound by Aeschylus (5th Century BCE)
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1927)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (1867)
The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel (1807)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fil (1848)
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson (1859-1885)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1872)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1903)
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1879)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1904)
On Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (2nd Century)
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1819)
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides (1190)
The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer (1818)
Carmen by Prosper Mérimée (1845)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
How We Think by John Dewey (1910)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler (1923)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (429 BCE)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1722)
The Taming of the Shew by William Shakespeare (1592)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
The Book of Mormon (1830)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (16th Century)
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1781/1787)
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin (1837)
City of God by Saint Augustine (413-426)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819)
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1641)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (1687)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (1298)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (1606)
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle (4th Century BCE)
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas (1265-1274)
Tartuffe by Molière (1664)
Othello by William Shakespeare (1603)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898)
The Vedas (~1500-500 BCE)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
The Dhammapada (Attributed to the Buddha) (Compiled Around the 3rd Century BCE)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
Candide by Voltaire (1759)
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (1810)
The Aenid by Virgil (19 BCE)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667/1674)
Das Kapital by Karl Marx (1867)
Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou (4th to 3rd Century BCE)
The Zohar by Moses de Leon (Attributed to Simeon Ben Yochai) 13th Century (Attributed to the 2nd Century)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
The Upanishads
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
MacBeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1846)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
Beowulf (~1000 CE)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway (1929)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1897)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1888)
The Analects by Confucius (479 BCE)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The Quran (7th Century CE)
The Old Testament (the Tanakh)
The New Testament (1st Century CE)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
The Bhagavad Gita
The Republic by Plato (~380 BCE)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/1832)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605/1615)
The Odyssey by Homer
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
The Tao Te Ching by Laozi (4th Century BCE)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
The Iliad by Homer
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