Book Reviews

This page is dedicated to book reviews, primarily from Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World. The books are organized chronologically with oldest works at the top. Authors with multiple notable works will have their own sub-list.

Classical Age

• Homer
  • The Iliad
  • The Odyssey
• Aeschylus
  • The Suppliant Maidens
  • The Persians
• Sophocles
  • The Oedipus Cycle
    • Oediupus the King
    • Oedipus at Colonus
    • Antigone
• Euripides
• Aristophanes
• Herodotus
  • The Histories
• Plato
  • Phaedrus
  • Symposium
  • Euthyphro
  • Apology
  • Crito
  • Phaedo
  • Gorgias
  • The Republic
• Aristotle
  • Nicomachean Ethics
• Marcus Aurelius
  • Meditations
• Saint Augustine
  • The Confessions
  • The City of God

Medieval Age

• Dante Alighieri
  • The Inferno
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Canterbury Tales

Post-Reformation

• Nicolo Machiavelli
  • The Prince
• Michel de Montaigne
  Essays
• William Shakespeare
  • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
  • As You Like It
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • King Lear
  • MacBeth
  • Coriolanus
• John Milton
  • Paradise Lost
  • English Minor Poems
    • On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
• Adam Smith
  • The Wealth of Nations
• American State Papers
  • The Decleration of Independence
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Constitution of the United States of America