Literature

About this Collection

Serious discussions of liberty are not limited to academic works. Poets, playwrights, and novelists have had much to contribute as well.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Literature section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• Goethe’s Works, 5 vols. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Goethe’s Works, vol. 1 (Poems) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 and 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Goethe’s Works, vol. 3 (Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Tarquato Tasso, etc) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Goethe’s Works, vol. 4 (Recreations of the German Emigrants, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Goethe’s Works, vol. 5 (W. Meister’s Travels; Elective Affinities) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, 3 vols. (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 1 (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 2 (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 3 (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Little Clay Cart (King Shudraka)
• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Suetonius Tranquillus)
• The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus (Aeschylus)
• The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day) (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)
• A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare)
• The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, in 2 vols. (Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
• Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1 (Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
• Miscellaneous Writings, Vol.2 (Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
• Oeuvres complètes d’Éstienne de la Boétie (Etienne de la Boétie)
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (Gilgamesh)
• The Book of Job (KJV) (Job)
• The Book of Psalms (KJV) (King David)
• The Philosophical Works of David Hume, vol. 3 (Essays Moral, Political, and Literary) (1828 ed.) (David Hume)
• The Poems and Glossary (Oxford ed.) (William Shakespeare)
• The Poems and Fragments (Hesiod)