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Each of the 100 books selected for inclusion have made significant impacts upon different aspects of our lives, including world religions, politics, sciences, arts and theater, and social awareness. Books from ancient times, such as Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Koran and The Republic by Plato are included. So are Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Cartaguena Manifesto by Simon Bolivar, and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Some of the more contemporary books are: Ulysses by James Joyce, and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780912517483 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks |
| Publication date: | 10/15/2001 |
| Series: | Bluewood One Hundred Series |
| Pages: | 100 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.24(d) |
| Age Range: | 12 - 17 Years |
About the Author
Miriam Raftery is a mother of two children and freelance writer. She is the author of Apollo's Fault (1996) for Leisure Books. She has also had over 2,000 nonfiction articles published in numerous historical articles in national and regional publications, including Writer's Digest, Woman's Day, and Arizona Highways. She is a former columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune and editor of the Nutrition Business Journal. Ms. Raftery was the winner of "Best Historical Article" by the National Federation of Press Women and "Best News and Feature Articles" by the California Press Women.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 7 | |
| 1. | Epic of Gilgamesh (C. 2700-1500 B.C.) | 8 |
| 2. | The Egyptian Book of the Dead (C. 2400-1420 B.C.) | 9 |
| 3. | Iliad (C. 800 B. C.) | 10 |
| 4. | Aesop's Fables (C. 600-560 B.C.) | 11 |
| 5. | Hippocratic Corpus (C. 5th Century B.C.) | 12 |
| 6. | The History of Herodotus (C. 440 B.C.) | 13 |
| 7. | The Analects of Confucius (429 B.C.) | 14 |
| 8. | Republic (C. 378 B.C.) | 15 |
| 9. | Nicomachean Ethics (C. 330 B.C.) | 16 |
| 10. | On the Republic (51 B.C.) | 17 |
| 11. | Koran (C. A.D. 652) | 18 |
| 12. | The Tale of Genji (C. 1010) | 19 |
| 13. | The Travels of Marco Polo (C. 1300) | 20 |
| 14. | The Divine Comedy (C. 1320) | 21 |
| 15. | Gutenberg Bible (1455) | 22 |
| 16. | The Prince (1513) | 23 |
| 17. | Utopia (1516) | 24 |
| 18. | Ninety-Five Theses (1517) | 25 |
| 19. | The Fabric of the Human Body (1543) | 26 |
| 20. | On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543) | 27 |
| 21. | Romeo and Juliet (1594) | 28 |
| 22. | Don Quixote De La Mancha (1605) | 29 |
| 23. | Treatise on Painting (1651) | 30 |
| 24. | The Pilgrim's Progress (1678;1684) | 31 |
| 25. | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1689) | 32 |
| 26. | Two Treatises of Government (1690) | 33 |
| 27. | Robinson Crusoe (1719) | 34 |
| 28. | Poor Richard's Almanack (1732-1757) | 35 |
| 29. | The Social Contract (1762) | 36 |
| 30. | Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) | 37 |
| 31. | Common Sense (1776) | 38 |
| 32. | The Federalist Papers (1787-1788) | 39 |
| 33. | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) | 40 |
| 34. | Cartagena Manifesto (1812) | 41 |
| 35. | Pride and Rejudice (1813) | 42 |
| 36. | The Last of the Mohicans (1826) | 43 |
| 37. | Nature (1836) | 44 |
| 38. | A Christmas Carol (1843) | 45 |
| 39. | Tales (1845) | 46 |
| 40. | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) | 47 |
| 41. | Wuthering Heights (1847) | 48 |
| 42. | Civil Disobedience (1849) | 49 |
| 43. | David Copperfield (1849-1850) | 50 |
| 44. | The Scarlet Letter (1850) | 51 |
| 45. | Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) | 52 |
| 46. | Moby Dick (1851) | 53 |
| 47. | On the Origin of Species (1859) | 54 |
| 48. | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) | 55 |
| 49. | Das Kapital (1867) | 56 |
| 50. | Little Women (1868) | 57 |
| 51. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) | 58 |
| 52. | The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) | 59 |
| 53. | Treasure Island (1883) | 60 |
| 54. | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) | 61 |
| 55. | War and Peace (1886) | 62 |
| 56. | A Study in Scarlet (1887) | 63 |
| 57. | The Jewish State (1896) | 64 |
| 58. | The War of the Worlds (1898) | 65 |
| 59. | The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) | 66 |
| 60. | Up From Slavery (1901) | 67 |
| 61. | The Story of My Life (1902) | 68 |
| 62. | The Call of the Wild (1903) | 69 |
| 63. | The Jungle (1906) | 70 |
| 64. | Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) | 71 |
| 65. | O Pioneers! (1913) | 72 |
| 66. | Sons and Lovers (1913) | 73 |
| 67. | Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) | 74 |
| 68. | Siddhartha (1922) | 75 |
| 69. | Ulysses (1922) | 76 |
| 70. | The Great Gatsby (1925) | 77 |
| 71. | Mein Kampf (1925; 1927) | 78 |
| 72. | The Sun Also Rises (1926) | 79 |
| 73. | The Oxford English Dictionary (1928) | 80 |
| 74. | All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) | 81 |
| 75. | The Sound and the Fury (1929) | 82 |
| 76. | The Maltese Falcon (1930) | 83 |
| 77. | The Good Earth (1931) | 84 |
| 78. | Brave New World (1932) | 85 |
| 79. | Story of Civilization (1935-1975) | 86 |
| 80. | Gone with the Wind (1936) | 87 |
| 81. | The Grapes of Wrath (1939) | 88 |
| 82. | Native Son (1940) | 89 |
| 83. | The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) | 90 |
| 84. | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) | 91 |
| 85. | Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) | 92 |
| 86. | The Second World War (1948-1954) | 93 |
| 87. | The Catcher in the Rye (1951) | 94 |
| 88. | Lord of the Flies (1954) | 95 |
| 89. | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | 96 |
| 90. | Catch-22 (1961) | 97 |
| 91. | Silent Spring (1962) | 98 |
| 92. | The Feminine Mystique (1963) | 99 |
| 93. | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) | 100 |
| 94. | Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) | 101 |
| 95. | Quotations of Chairman Mao (1966) | 102 |
| 96. | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) | 103 |
| 97. | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971) | 104 |
| 98. | The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975) | 105 |
| 99. | Beloved (1987) | 106 |
| 100. | A Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded (1998) | 107 |
| Trivia Quiz & Projects | 108 | |
| Index | 109 |
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