The Joy of Reading

Contents

For an alphabetical list of authors and their works.

CHAPTER ONE. The Golden Age

Homer

Hesiod

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

Aesop

Herodotus

Thucydides

CHAPTER TWO. After the Fall

Hippocrates

Plato

Aristotle

Euclid

Archimedes

CHAPTER THREE. The Silver Age of Tyranny

Lucretius

Virgil

Ovid

Tacitus

Plutarch

Epictetus

Marcus Aurelius

CHAPTER FOUR. The Middle Age

Ptolemy

Boethius

Augustine

Anonymous (The Song of Roland)

Anonymous (The Tumbler of Our Lady)

Joseph Bédier

Thomas Aquinas

Dante Alighieri

Geoffrey Chaucer

CHAPTER FIVE. The Renaissance, Part One

François Rabelais

Niccolò Machiavelli

Nicolaus Copernicus

William Gilbert

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Francis Bacon

Michel de Montaigne

William Shakespeare

Miguel de Cervantes

CHAPTER SIX. The Renaissance, Part Two

René Descartes

Jean de La Fontaine

Molière

Blaise Pascal

John Donne

George Herbert

Robert Herrick

Thomas Hobbes

John Milton

Andrew Marvell

Benedict de Spinoza

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Age of Reason

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens

John Dryden

Alexander Pope

Daniel Defoe

William Congreve

Voltaire

CHAPTER EIGHT... 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 NINE. Romantic Spirits

Goethe

Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

Jane Austen

Honoré de Balzac

Stendhal

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

CHAPTER TEN. 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 ELEVEN. 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 TWELVE. 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

Étienne Gilson

James Joyce

Henrik Ibsen

Bernard Shaw

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Entre Deux Guerres

Eugen Herrigel

Isak Dinesen

Virginia Woolf

Franz Kafka

Austin Tappan Wright

Ringgold “Ring” Lardner

Erwin Schrödinger

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-Exupéry

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Hiroshima and After

John Hersey

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Charles 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 FIFTEEN. Only Yesterday

Fred Bodsworth

Primo Levi

Leo Rosten

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

José Saramago

Joseph Heller

John Berger

John le Carré

Alan Furst

Czelaw Milosz

Sébastien Japrisot

Toni Morrison

Cormac McCarthy

Larry McMurtry

Daniel Quinn

JM. Coetzee

Roberto Calasso

Mark Helprin

Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin, and Henning Mankell

Carl Hiaasen

Michael Pollan

Patrick O’Brian

J.K. Rowling

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