I'm only including free ebooks and for a couple I was only able to find pdfs.
Volume 1
The Great Conversation (pdf)
Note: Volume 2 & 3 are the Syntopicon, an index and guide on the ideas contained within the rest of the series. These are not included for download. Also, the volume numbering in the following post is based on the first edition, not the current second edition.
Volume 4
Homer-
(Note: When choosing translations, I've favored verse over prose)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Volume 5
Aeschylus-
(first four download as one book)
The Suppliant Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia:
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The Euminides
Sophocles-
(All download as one book)
The Oedipus Cycle (Oedipus the King/ Oedipus at Colonus/ Antigone)
Ajax (in link titled 'Aias')
Electra
The Trachiniae (in link titled 'The Trachinian Maidens')
Philoctetes
Euripedes-
Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The Suppliants
Trojan Women
Ion
Helen
Andromanche
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles Mad
Phoenician Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in Tauris
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Cyclops
Aristophanes-
(What follows is the order the plays are set forth in the Great Books)
The Acharnians
The Knights
The Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The Birds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
Downloadable in two volumes (Volume 1 and Volume 2)
Volume 6
Herodotus-
The History
Thucydides-
History of the Peloponnesian War
Volume 7
Plato-
Volume 8
Aristotle-
Minor Biological Works (I do not know what this would include)
Volume 9
Aristotle-
Volume 10
Hippocrates-
Works:
On Airs , Waters, and Places
Aphorisms
On the Articulations
Of the Epidemics
On Fistulae
On Fractures
On Injuries of the Head
On Hemorrhoids
The Law
On Ancient Medicine
The Oath
The Book of Prognostics
Instruments of Reduction
On Regimen in Acute Diseases
On the Sacred Disease
On the Surgery
On Ulcers
Galen
On the Natural Faculties
Archimedes-
On the Sphere and Cylinder
Measurement of a Circle
On Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the Equilibrium of Planes
On the Sand Reckoner
The Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating Bodies
Book of Lemmas
(All the above in one fascimile)
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga-
(Note: On Conic Sections does not appear in the second edition)
On Conic Sections (facsimile)
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic (facsimile)
Volume 12
Lucretius-
On the Nature of Things
Epictetus-
The Discourses
Marcus Aurelius-
The Meditations
Volume 13
Virgil-
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
Volume 14
Plutarch-
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Volume 15
P. Cornelius Tacitus-
The Annals
The Histories
Volume 16
Ptolemy-
The Almagest
NOTE: There are no English translations of The Almagest that are out of copyright.
Nicolaus Copernicus-
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (pdf)
Johannes Kepler-
NOTE: I was unable to find any free English translations of either Kepler piece;
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (book IV and V)
The Harmonies of the World (Book 5)
Volume 17
Plotinus-
The Six Enneads
Volume 18
Augustine of Hippo-
The Confessions
The City of God (Volume 1 and Volume 2 facsimiles)
On Christian Doctrine (facsimile)
Volume 19 & 20
(NOTE: In the Great Books, vol. 19 contains the first part of summa theologica and selections from the second. Volume 20 contains selections from the second and third. I do not know which selections were made, so I have included all of all three parts.
Thomas Aquinas-
Summa Theologica
Part 1
First half of Part 2
Second half of Part 2
Part 3
2nd edition:
John Calvin-
Institutes on the Christian Religion
Volume 21
Dante Alighieri-
The Divine Comedy:
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradisio
Volume 22
Geoffrey Chaucer-
(NOTE: The following links contain the original Middle English versions of the works. I did not see any more recent translations of Troilus and Criseyde. For The Canterbury Tales, you can find a couple other, more accessible versions here.)
Troilus and Criseyde
The Canterbury Tales
Volume 23
Niccolò Machiavelli-
The Prince
Thomas Hobbes-
Leviathan
2nd edition
Erasmus-
The Praise of Folly
Volume 24
François Rabelais-
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Volume 25
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-
Volume 26
William Shakespeare-
Volume 27
William Shakespeare-
Volume 28
William Gilbert-
Galileo Galilei-
William Harvey-
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of Blood
On the Generation of Animals
(all the above are in this one fascimile)
Volume 29
Miguel de Cervantes-
Volume 30
Sir Francis Bacon-
Volume 31
René Descartes-
Rules for the Direction of the Mind (facsimile)
Discourse on the Method
Meditations on First Philosophy (facsimile)
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies (pdf)
The Geometry (facsimile)
Benedict de Spinoza-
Ethics
2nd edition
Molière-
The School for Wives
The Critique for the School for Wives
(the above two are in this facsimile)
Don Juan (facsimile)
Rean Racine-
Bérénice (facsimile)
Volume 32
John Milton-
English Minor Poems
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes (facsimile)
Areopagitica
Volume 33
Blaise Pascal-
The Provincial Letters (facsimile)
Pensées
Scientific and mathematical essays (NOTE: I have no idea what this contains, as such there is nothing here)
Volume 34
Sir Isaac Newton-
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (facsimile)
Optics
Christian Huygens-
Treatise on Light (facsimile)
2nd Edition
Voltaire-
Candide
Denis Diderot-
Rameau's Nephew (NOTE: I was unable to find a free English translation)
Volume 35
John Locke-
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley-
The Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume-
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Volume 36
Jonathan Swift-
Gulliver's Travels
Laurence Sterne-
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(NOTE: Tristram Shandy does not appear in the second edition of the Great Books)
Volume 37
Henrey Fielding-
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
(NOTE: Tom Jones does not appear in the second edition of the Great Books)
Volume 38
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu-
The Spirit of the Laws (facsimile: Volume 1 and Volume 2)
Jean Jacques Rousseau-
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
A Discourse on Political Economy
The Social Contract
(All are included in this facsimile)
Volume 39
Adam Smith-
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Volume 40 & 41
Edward Gibbon-
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(NOTE: The above was split into two volumes of the Great Books)
Volume 42
Immanuel Kant-
Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals:
- Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience
- General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
- The Science of Right
The Critique of Judgment
Volume 43
The American State Papers-
The Declaration of Independence
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution of the United States of America
(All are included in this facsimile)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay-
The Federalist Papers
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Considerations on Representative Government
Utilitarianism
2nd Edition
Søren Kierkegaard-
Fear and Trembling
Friedrich Nietzsche-
Beyond Good and Evil
Volume 44
James Boswell-
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2nd edition
Alexis de Tocqueville-
Democracy in America
Volume 45
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier-
Elements of Chemistry
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier-
Analytical Theory of Heat (facsimile)
(NOTE: This does not appear in the second edition of the Great Books)
Michael Faraday-
Experimental Researches in Electricity (Volume 1 and facsimiles of Volume 2 and Volume 3)
2nd edition
Honoré de Balzac-
Cousin Bette
Volume 46
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel-
The Philosophy of Right (facsimile)
The Philosophy of History (facsimile)
2nd edition
Jane Austen-
Emma
George Eliot-
Middlemarch
Volume 47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
Faust
2nd edition
Charles Dickens-
Little Dorrit
Volume 48
Herman Melville-
Moby Dick; or, The Whale
2nd edition
Mark Twain-
Huckleberry Finn
Volume 49
Charles Darwin-
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Volume 50
Karl Marx-
Capital (facsimile)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels-
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Volume 51
Count Leo Tolstoy-
War and Peace
Volume 52
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky-
The Brothers Karamazov
2nd edition
Henrik Ibsen-
A Doll's House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
The Master Builder
Volume 53
William James-
The Principles of Psychology
Volume 54
Sigmund Freud-
(NOTE: I was unable to find many of these. If there is no link, I was unable to find it)
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis (facsimile)
Selected Papers on Hysteria (facsimile)
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Theory
Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents (pdf)
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
(NOTE: Volumes 55-60 were added as part of the second edition of the Great Books)
Volume 55
William James-
Pragmatism
Henri Bergson-
An Introduction to Metaphysics (facsimile)
John Dewey-
Experience and Education (Not in public domain)
Alfred Whitehead-
Science and the Modern World (Not in public domain)
Bertrand Russell-
The Problems of Philosophy
Martin Heidegger-
What is Metaphysics (Not in public domain)
Ludwig Wittgenstein-
Philosophical Investigations (Not in public domain)
Karl Barth-
The Word of God and the Word of Man (Not in public domain)
Volume 57
Henri Poincaré-
Science and Hypothesis
Max Planck-
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (Not in public domain)
Alfred North Whitehead-
An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert Einstein-
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Arthur Eddington-
The Expanding Universe (Not in public domain)
Niels Bohr-
Selections from Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (facsimile)
(NOTE: I don't know what selections were made from Atomic Theory so you get the whole thing)
Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology (Not in public domain)
G. H. Hardy-
A Mathematician's Apology (Not in public domain)
Werner Heisenberg-
Physics and Philosophy (Not in public domain)
Erwin Schrödinger-
What Is Life? (pdf)
Theodosius Dobzhansky-
Genetics and the Origin of Species (Not in public domain)
C. H. Waddington-
The Nature of Life (Not in public domain)
Volume 57
Thorstein Veblen-
The Theory of the Leisure Class
R. H. Tawney-
The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard Keynes-
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Volume 58
Sir James George Frazer-
Selections from The Golden Bough
(NOTE: I don't know what selections were made, so you get the whole thing.)
Max Weber-
Selections from Essays in Sociology (facsimile)
(NOTE: I don't know what selections were made, so you get the whole thing.)
Johan Huizinga-
The Autumn of the Middle Ages (facsimile)
Claude Lévi-Strauss-
Selections from Structural Anthropology (Not in public domain)
WARNING!!!!!!
According to Australian copyright law, any works published by authors who died prior to 1955 are in the public domain in Australia. As such, if you aren't Australian and download certain of the following books, you could be guilty of (drumroll) copyright infringement. So I'm just going to assume that you are all upstanding citizens who would never dare download anything in a manner that might constitute (dramatic music) copyright infringement!
Volume 59
Henry James-
The Beast in the Jungle
George Bernard Shaw-
Saint Joan (Not in public domain)
Joseph Conrad-
Heart of Darkness
Anton Chekov-
Uncle Vanya
Luigi Pirandello-
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Marcel Proust-
Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"
(NOTE: To the best I've been able to determine, "Swann in Love" is a section in the first volume of In Search of Lost Time)
Willa Cather-
A Lost Lady
Thomas Mann-
Death in Venice (Not in public domain)
James Joyce-
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Volume 60
Virginia Woolf-
To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka-
The Metamorphosis
D. H. Lawrence-
The Prussian Officer
T. S. Eliot-
The Waste Land
Eugene O'Neill-
Mourning Becomes Electra
F. Scott Fitzgerald-
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner-
A Rose for Emily (Not in public domain)
Bertolt Brecht-
Mother Courage and Her Children (Not in public domain)
Ernest Hemingway-
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (Not in public domain)
George Orwell-
Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett-
Waiting for Godot (Not in public domain)
This is an amazing resource. Thanks!
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