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                    Author                                                      Title                                                                  
                                                                          Beowulf (PR1583 .H43 2001
                                                                          Bible (BS185 .PA43 2008)
                                                                          I Ching (BL1830 .I23 L43 1963)
                                                                          Koran (BP109 .A7 1986)
                                                                          Upanishads (BL1124.54 .E5 1987)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas                                Summa Theologica (BX1749 .T5 1952 )
Aristotle                                                          Nicomachean Ethics (B430 .A5 R3 2003)
                                                                          Poetics (PN1040 .A5 E4 1967)
                                                                          Politics (PA3612 .A8 1959)
Augustine, Saint                                            Confessions (BR65. A6 E5 1963)
Austen, Jane                                                  Pride and Prejudice (PR4034 .P7 1998)
Blake, William                                                Selected poems (PR4140 - PR4141.5)
Bronte, Charlotte                                           Jane Eyre (PR4167 .J3 1996)
Bronte, Emily                                                 Wuthering Heights (PR4172 .B7 W8 1972)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de                  Don Quixote (PQ6329 .A2 2003)
Chaucer, Geoffrey                                         Canterbury Tales (PR1870 .A1 E27 1993)
Chekhov, Anton                                           Cherry Orchard (PG3456 .A19 2006)
Conrad, Joseph                                              Heart of Darkness (PR6005 .O4 H4 2002)
                                                                          Lord Jim (PR6005 .O4 L86 1920)
Dante Alighieri                                               Divine Comedy (PQ4302 .F77 1977)
Darwin, Charles                                             On the Origin of the Species (QH365 .O2 2008)
Descartes, Rene                                             Meditations on First Philosophy
                                                                         (B1853 .E5 C671 1986)
Dickens, Charles                                           Hard Times (PR4561 .S35 1989)
                                                                         Great Expectations (PR4560 .A1 1976)
                                                                         David Copperfield (PR4558 .A1 1991)
Donne, John                                                  Songs & Sonnets (PR2246 .G27 1965)
                                                                         Divine poems (PR2246 .G26 1978)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor                                  Brothers Karamazov (PG3326 .B7 1976)
Douglass, Frederick                                      Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
                                                                         an American Slave (E449. D749 2003)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von                   Faust (PT2026 .F2 A75 1976)
Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay,
and James Madison                                     The Federalist (JK154 1961)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel                                  Scarlet Letter (PS1868 .A2 1990)
Hemingway, Ernest                                      The Sun Also Rises (PS3515 .E37 S8 1995)
Hobbes, Thomas                                           Leviathan (JC153 .H65 1997)
Homer                                                             Iliad (PA4025 .A2 L66 1997)
                                                                        Odyssey (PA4025 .A5 M43 2004)
Ibsen, Henrik                                                A Doll’s House (PT8854 .A7 1911)
Joyce, James                                                 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
                                                                        (PR6019 .O9 P64 1978)
Kafka, Franz                                                  Metamorphosis (PT2621 .A26 A243 1996)
                                                                        The Trial (PT2621 .A26 P713 1995)
Kant, Immanuel                                             Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of
                                                                        morals (B2766 .E6 G7 1998)
Keats, John                                                   Selected poems (PR4830 - PR4837)
Lawrence, D.H.                                             Sons and Lovers (PR6023 .A93 S6 1992b)
Locke, John                                                  Second Treatise of Government (JC153 .L85 1980)
Machiavelli, Niccolo                                    The Prince (JC143 .M3813 2005)
Marx, Karl                                                      Communist Manifesto (HX39.5 .A5213 1998)
                                                                         Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
                                                                        Available in (Writings of the Young Marx on
                                                                         Philosophy and Society  - HX39.5 .A223 1967)
                                                                        (The Portable Karl Marx - HX39.5 .A224 1983)
Melville, Herman                                          Billy Budd (PS2384 .B5 1975)
Mill, John Stuart                                           On Liberty (JC585 .M6 2005)
Milton, John                                                  Paradise Lost (PR3560 .M56 1975)
Moliere                                                           Misanthrope (PQ1837 .A485 1965)
                                                                        Tartuffe (PQ1825 .E5 F68 1981)
Nietzsche, Friedrich W.                               Beyond Good and Evil (B3313 .J43 E5 1973) 
                                                                        Thus Spake Zarathustra (B3313 .A43 E5 1920)
Plato                                                               Meno (B377 .A5 S4513 1985)
                                                                        Republic (JC71 .P513 2004)
                                                                        Apology (B358 .C48 1989)
                                                                        Symposium (B385 .A5 B46 2001)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques                             Social Contract (JC179 .R86 1967)
Shakespeare, William                                  Antony and Cleopatram (PR2802 .A2 B48 1990)
                                                                        As You Like It (PR2803 .A2 K5 1967)
                                                                        Hamlet (PR2807 .A2 R34 2003)
                                                                        Henry IV (PR2810 .A2 H85 1960 (part 1)
                                                                        PR28110.A2 M4 1989 (part 2)
                                                                        Julius Caesar (PR2808 .A25 1996)
                                                                        King Lear (PR2819 .A2 H24 1992)
                                                                        Macbeth (PR2823 .A2 M78 1979)
                                                                        Measure for Measure (PR2824 .A2 L47 1965)
                                                                        Merchant of Venice (PR2750 .B25 2007) 
                                                                        Othello (PR2750 .B29 2007)
                                                                        Tempest (PR2833 .A2 D9 2000)
                                                                        Twelfth Night (PR2837 .A2 L6 1975)
Shaw, Bernard                                              Saint Joan (PR5360 .F71 1970)
                                                                        Major Barbara (PR5360 .F71 1970)
                                                                        Pygmalion (PR5360 .F53 1953)
Sophocles                                                     Oedipus Rex Antigone (PA4414 .A7 B7 1989)
Swift, Jonathan                                             Gulliver’s Travels (PR3724 .G8 1940)
Thoreau, Henry David                                 Walden (PS3048 .A2 C73 2004)
Tocqueville, Alexis de                                 Democracy in America (JK216 .T13 2000b)
Tolstoy, Leo                                                  War and Peace (PG3366 .V6 1983)
Twain, Mark                                                  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
                                                                        (PS1305 .A1 1996b)
United States                                                 Declaration of Independence
                                                                         Constitution of the United States of America
                                                                        (KF4525 1987a)
Virgil                                                                Aeneid (PA6807 .A5 R83 2008)
Whitman, Walt                                              Leaves of Grass (PS3201 1993)

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