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This "reading list 1" provides links to online editions, if available, of the great books readings which have been recommended as the "first reading list" by the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas.

Plato --

• Apology
  
• Crito
  
• The Republic [Books 1 and 2]
  

Sophocles --

• Oedipus the King
  
• Antigone
  

Aristotle --

• Nicomachean Ethics [Book 1]
  
• Politics [Book 1]
  

Plutarch's Lives --

• Lycurgus
  
• Numa Pompilius
  
• Lycurgus and Numa
  
• Alexander
  
• Caesar
  

The Bible - Old Testament --

• The Book of Job
  

St Augustine --

• Confessions [Books 1 to 8]
  

Montaigne --

• Essays
  "Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received"
  "Of Pedantry"
  "Of the Education of Children"
  "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity"
  "Of Cannibals"
  "That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure Upon the Opinion We Have of Them"

William Shakespeare --

• Hamlet
  

John Locke --

• Concerning Civil Government (Second Essay)
  

Jonathan Swift --

• Gulliver's Travels
  

Edward Gibbon --

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Chapters 15 and 16]
  

USA Founding Documents --

• Declaration of Independence
  
• U.S. Constitution
  
• The Federalist Papers
  Numbers 1 to 10, 15, 31, 47, 51, and 68 to 72.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels --

• The Manifesto of the Communist Party
  

Most of the online editions to which this index links are on other web page servers, were prepared by someone else with an interest in that particular author, and are maintained by that person. From time to time a link will not work because the material has been moved. Please inform me of any such problems so that they may be resolved if possible.

For some works, more than one online edition is listed. Some editions are alternative translations, and some are presented in a different format (HTML pages, text file via ftp or gopher, etc). Some editions are identical, but are at different network sites; if one site is down, you may be able to access the work at another site.

Some editions may not be accessed from the U.S. for copyright reasons. Please observe these restrictions.

This great books index is a personal interest project, and is not sponsored by or associated with the Encyclopaedia Britannica corporation.

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