Geoffrey Chaucer Selections from The Canterbury Tales : “General Prologue,” “Wife of Bath,” “Pardoner’s Tale,” and “Knight’s Tale” (late 14th century) ~ Anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th …

Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580) (Frame translation)

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) The Comedy of Errors ~ The Taming of the Shrew ~ As You Like It ~ Twelfth Night ~ A Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ The …

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Romeo and Juliet ~ Julius Caesar ~ Macbeth~ Hamlet ~ King Lear ~ Othello ~ Sonnets ~

Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (1605) ~ John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) ~ Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719) ~ Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (1726) ~ Laurence Sterne The Life and …

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) ~ Faust, Part 1 (1808) ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) The Birth of Tragedy (1876) Beyond …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762) ~ The Declaration of Independence (1776) ~ The Constitution of the United States of America (1789) ~ Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in …

Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Selections from Essays (1830) ~ Arthur Schopenhauer On the Basis of Morality (1839) ~ Soren Kierkegaard Fear …

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813) ~ Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1823) ~ Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) ~ Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1846) ~ Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre …