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The GPGC Bookstore - The Great Books - The Modern Age, 1700 - 1900 AD

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Life and Opinons of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding

The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondant, Baron de Montesquieu

A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Weath of Nations by Adam Smith

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. Kant's other works include The Critique of Practical Reason, The Critique of Judgement, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysics of Morals

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Mill's other works include Utilitarianism and Representative Government.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell

Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel. Hegel also wrote The Philosophy of Right.

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Das Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Principles of Psychology, Volume One by William James. Don't forget Volume Two.

The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud

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