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Van Doren, Charles Lincoln
Adult Nonfiction 011.73 V
Van Doren, Charles Lincoln
Adult Nonfiction 011.73 V
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| Contents | Page |
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| Chapter 1 - The Golden Age Homer | |
| Hesiod | |
| Aeschylus | |
| Sophocles | |
| Euripides | |
| Aristophanes | |
| Aesop | |
| Herodotus | |
| Thucydides | |
| Chapter 2 - After the Fall | |
| Hippocrates | |
| Plato | |
| Aristotle | |
| Euclid | |
| Archimedes | |
| Chapter 3 - The Silver Age of Tyranny | |
| Lucretius | |
| Virgil | |
| Ovid | |
| Tacitus | |
| Plutarch | |
| Epictetus | |
| Marcus Aurelius- | |
| Chapter 4 - The Middle Age | |
| Ptolemy | |
| Boethius | |
| Augustine | |
| Anonymous (The Song of Roland) | |
| Anonymous (The Tumbler of Our Lady) | |
| Joseph BTdier | |
| Thomas Aquinas | |
| Dante Alighieri- Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| Chapter 5 - The Renaissance, Part One | |
| Frantois Rabelais | |
| Niccol= Machiavelli Nicolaus Copernicus | |
| William Gilbert | |
| Johannes Kepler | |
| Galileo Galilei- Francis Bacon | |
| Michel de Montaigne | |
| William Shakespeare | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | |
| Chapter 6 - The Renaissance, Part Two | |
| RenT Descartes | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | |
| MoliFre | |
| Blaise Pascal | |
| John Donne | |
| George Herbert | |
| Robert Herrick | |
| Thomas Hobbes | |
| John Milton | |
| Andrew Marvell | |
| Benedict de Spinoza | |
| Chapter 7 - The Age of Reason | |
| Isaac Newton | |
| Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens | |
| John Dryden | |
| Alexander Pope | |
| Daniel Defoe | |
| William Congreve | |
| Voltaire | |
| Chapter 8 - . . . and Revolution | |
| John Locke | |
| John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| Henry Fielding | |
| James Boswell | |
| Robert Burns | |
| William Blake | |
| William Wordsworth | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| Thomas Jefferson | |
| Abraham Lincoln | |
| Chapter 9 - Romantic Spirits | |
| Goethe | |
| Lord Byron | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
| John Keats | |
| Jane Austen | |
| HonorT de Balzac | |
| Stendhal | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay | |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| Chapter 10 - Critics and Seers | |
| Claude Bernard | |
| Charles Darwin | |
| John Stuart Mill | |
| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | |
| Charles Baudelaire | |
| Charles Dickens | |
| George Eliot | |
| Walt Whitman | |
| Emily Dickinson | |
| Matthew Arnold | |
| Mark Twain | |
| Henry Adams | |
| Chapter 11 - Some Victorians and Others | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Herman Melville | |
| Ivan Turgenev | |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| Leo Tolstoy | |
| Robert Browning Lewis Carroll | |
| Thomas Hardy | |
| William James | |
| Henry James | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Rudyard Kipling | |
| Chapter 12 - Turn of the Century | |
| Sigmund Freud | |
| C.P. Cavafy | |
| Alfred North Whitehead | |
| William Butler Yeats | |
| J.M. Synge | |
| Beatrix Potter | |
| Robert Frost | |
| Wallace Stevens | |
| Thomas Mann | |
| Edith Wharton | |
| Willa Cather | |
| +tienne Gilson | |
| James Joyce | |
| Henrik Ibsen | |
| Bernard Shaw | |
| Chapter 13 - Entre Deux Guerres Eugen Herrigel | |
| Isak Dinesen | |
| Virginia Woolf | |
| Franz Kafka | |
| Austin Tappan Wright | |
| Ringgold "Ring" Lardner | |
| Erwin Schr÷dinger | |
| William Carlos Williams | |
| Marianne Moore | |
| T.S. Eliot | |
| Ezra Pound | |
| Eugene O'Neill | |
| Nancy Mitford | |
| C.S. Lewis | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
| E.B. White | |
| James Thurber | |
| Archibald MacLeish | |
| Mark Van Doren | |
| Antoine de Saint-ExupTry | |
| Chapter 14 - Hiroshima and After | |
| John Hersey | |
| Walter M. Miller, JrCharles Galton Darwin Fernand Braudel | |
| Mortimer J. Adler | |
| John Steinbeck | |
| George Orwell | |
| T.H. White | |
| Samuel Beckett | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | |
| W.H. Auden | |
| Margaret Wise Brown | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | |
| Tennessee Williams | |
| Richard Wilbur | |
| Albert Camus | |
| Arthur Miller | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | |
| J.D. Salinger | |
| Julian Jaynes | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | |
| Chapter 15 - Only Yesterday | |
| Fred Bodsworth | |
| Primo Levi | |
| Leo Rosten | |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr | |
| JosT Saramago |
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