WEB POSTED 01-01-2001

Read--In the Name of Thy Lord

About six months ago, this column mentioned a list of books which can be found in any public library. However, they are neither displayed nor advertised. Like most valuable knowledge in this society, if you don�t already know enough to seek it, you will never encounter it.

The books seem more or less commonplace, unless you know what you are looking at and looking for. However, they are labeled "THE WORLD�S GREAT BOOKS". As I have stated before, I expected to find a list of esoteric, deeply philosophical books which were hidden in the secret libraries of special people. Instead, these books are in all public libraries, and many of them are used in public schools. I also pointed out that, as prominent as "GULLIVER�S TRAVELS" has been in our classrooms, the author, Jonathan Swift was forbidden, under penalty of death, to set foot in his native England for writing the book.

Also, read "FRANKENSTEIN" again and compare it to a course taught in some schools called "NEGRO HISTORY".

Enough said�here is the list. They are so well known, the Authors� names are not necessary to identify the book.

1. The Iliad

2. The Odyssey

3. The Aeneid

4. Beowulf

5. The Divine Comedy

6. The Travels of Macro Polo

7. Canterbury Tales

8. Don Quixote

9. Paradise Lost

10. The Pilgrim�s Progress

11. Robinson Crusoe

12. Moll Flanders

13. Gulliver�s Travels

14. Tom Jones

15. Candide

16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

17. The Tragedy of Faust

18. The Lady of the Lake

19. Ivanhoe

20. Pride and Prejudice

21. Frankenstein

22. The Red and the Black

23. The Last of the Mohicans

24. The Three Musketeers

25. Carmen

26. Jane Eyre

27. Wuthering Heights

28. Vanity Fair

29. David Copperfield

30. A Tale of Two Cities

31. Great Expectations

32. The Scarlet Letter

33. Camille

34. Moby Dick

35. Jane Eyre No. 2

36. Idyls of the King

37. Silas Marner

38. Middlemarch

39. Les Miserables

40. Fathers and Sons

41. Crime and Punishment

42. The Brothers Karamazov

43. Little Women

44. Far From the Madding Crowd

45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

46. The Prince and the Pauper

47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur�s Court

49. Anna Karenina

50. War and Peace

51. The Return of the Native

52. Tess of the D�Urbervilles

53. The Portrait of a Lady

54. The Turn of the Screw

55. Treasure Island

56. The Picture of Dorian Gray

57. The Time Machine

58. Dracula

59. The Way of All Flesh

60. Call of the Wild

61. Babbitt

62. An American Tragedy

63. The Great Gatsby

64. A Farewell to Arms

65. For Whom the Bell Tolls

66. The Old Man and the Sea

67. The Maltese Falcon

68. Of Mice and Men

69. The Grapes of Wrath

70. To Kill a Mockingbird

71. The Republic

72. The Prince

73. The Social Contract

74. The Wealth of Nations

75. The Origin of Species

76. Das Kapital

77. The Decline of the West

78. The Wealth of Nations No. 2

79. Oedipus Rex

80. The Taming of the Shrew

81. Hamlet

82. Othello

83. Macbeth

84. The Tempest

85. Tartuffe

86. Peer Gynt

87. A Doll�s House

88. The Importance of Being Earnest

89. Cyrano de Bergerac

90. The Cherry Orchard

91. Our Town

92. Death of a Salesman

93. The Nicomachean Ethics

94. Meditations

95. Critique of Pure Reason

96. The World as Will and Idea

97. Nature

98. Self-Reliance

99. Walden

100. How We Think