World Literature
The study of World Literature is an integral part of any meaningful education. The following is cosmopolitan and chronologically eclectic selection of literary classics in English
Ancient Greek and Roman:
Isoctrates, Areopagiticus
Demosthenes, Public Orations, vol. 1
Xenophon, Anabasis
Cicero, Selected Works (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria: Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library)
British:
John Milton, Areopagitica
Samuel Johnson, The Patriot
John Ruskin, Stones of Venice
Walter Horatio Pater, The Renaissance
William Ralph Inge Outspoken Essays
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
Bruce Chatwin, Utz
Polish:
Wladyslaw Reymont, The Promised Land, The Revolt
Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times
Spanish:
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, The Critic
Miguel de Unamuno, Saint Manuel the Good, Martyr
Czech:
Karel Čapek, Apocryphal Tales
Jaroslav Hasek, Soldier Shveik
French:
Charles de Montesquieu, Persian Letters
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories
Anatole France, Revolt of Angels
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties
Jaques Attali, Millennium
Italian:
Lorenzo Valla, On True Good and False
Luigi Pirandello, Right You Are – If You Think You Are
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount, The Nonexistent Knight, Invisible Cities
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
South American:
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
Carlos Fuentes, Death of Artemio Cruz
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
Austrian:
Stefan Zweig, The Tide of Fortune, Buchmendel, Fantastic Night, The World of Yesterday
Klaus Ebner, Hominid
German:
Goethe, Italian Journey, Elective Affinities
Hermann Hesse, Demian, In Sight of Chaos
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back