Great Books is inspired by a curriculum and a book list, as well as a method of education. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:
1. the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times; 2. the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; 3. the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.
This Great Book Collection has active table of contents to make it easy to navigate. Authors and works include:
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: The Federalist Papers Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Hard Times The Pickwick Papers Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Desiderius Brasmus: The Praise of Folly Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Trolius and Criseyde Herman Melville: Moby Dick Homer: The Iliad The Odyssey Jane Austen: Emma Pride and Predjudice Jonathan Swift: A journal to Stella A Modest Proposal A Tale of a Tub Gullivers Travels Leonardo da Vinci: The Notebooks Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Mysterious Stranger Michel de Montaigne: Essays Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote St. Augustine: Confessions William Congreve: The Way of the World