Can you name the Authors of the Great Books of the Western World? by Jek5

Title	Author
The Iliad; the Odyssey
Prometheus Bound; the Orestia
Oedipus the King; Antigone
Medea; the Trojan Women
The Clouds; the Wasps; the Frogs
Histories (c. 420 BC)
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Republic; the Symposium
Physics; Metaphysics; Poetics
Medical Works (c. 400 BC)
On the Natural Faculties
Elements (c. 300 BC)
The Sand-Reckoner; On Sphere and Cylinder
Introduction to Arithmetic (c. 100 AD)
On the Nature of Things
The Discourses
The Meditations
The Eclogues; the Aeneid
The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
The Annals; the Histories (c. 110 AD)
The Algamast
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
The Harmonies of the World
The Enneads
Confessions; City of God
Summa Theologica
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Prince
Leviathan
The Praise of Folly
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Essays (1580 AD)
Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; the Sonnets
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
On the Circulation of Blood
Don Quixote
The School for Wives; Tartuffe
Bérénice; Phèdre
Novum Organum; New Atlantis

Title	Author
Meditations on First Philosophy; Discourse on Method
Ethics (1677 AD)
Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes
Pensées; The Provincial Letters
Candide
Rameau's Nephew
Optics; Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Treatise on Light
Second Essay Concerning Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The Principles of Human Knowledge
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Gulliver's Travels
The Spirit of the Laws
The Social Contract; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Judgement
The Federalist Papers
On Liberty; Utilitarianism
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Elements of Chemistry
Experimental Researches in Electricity
The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History
Faust
Fear and Trembling
Beyond Good and Evil
Moby Dick
The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man
Das Kapital; Manifesto of the Communist Party
Democracy in America
Cousin Bette
Emma
Middlemarch
Little Dorrit
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
A Doll's House; The Wild Duck
The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism
The Interpretation of Dreams; Civilization and Its Discontents
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903 AD)
Experience in Education

Title	Author
Science and the Modern World; An Introduction to Mathematics
The Problems of Philosophy
What is Metaphysics?
Philosophical Investigations
The Word of God and the Word of Man
Science and Hypothesis
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The Expanding Universe
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature
A Mathematician's Apology
Physics and Philosophy
What is Life?
Genetics and the Origin of Species
The Nature of Life
The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Acquisitive Society
The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money
The Golden Bough
Essays in Sociology
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Structural Anthropology
The Beast in the Jungle
Saint Joan
Heart of Darkness
Uncle Vanya
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Remembrance of Things Past
A Lost Lady
Death in Venice
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
To The Lighthouse
The Metamorphosis
The Prussian Officer
The Waste Land
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Great Gatsby
A Rose for Emily
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Animal Farm
Waiting for Godot

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Authors of the Great Books Quiz

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Created Oct 5, 2009 in Literature
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	sporcloid:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 02:50 GMT		1 point
	I really enjoyed it, particularly since I own the majority of these. A couple of comments, though: Rousseau is misspelled, and a couple are fairly ambiguous (Histories is also the title given to Tacitus' work, and many authors' works have been titled The Essays and Ethics).

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 03:12 GMT		1 point
	You've misspelt Euripides and Rousseau.

	mikedraven:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:29 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, although it's a shame that I've missed so many obvious ones... And no Harry Potter! What a relief! :D

	johnlk:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 14:05 GMT		1 point
	Poincare, not Poincaire

	Lady_Galadriel:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT		1 point
	Awesome quiz! I can't believe I blanked on Cervantes' name for a while there...Huh. I thought I typed Thomas Aquinas...guess it doesn't take it without the Saint, or I should have gone with plain Aquinas. Wow, there's like half a dozen mythology related works on here. Wonder how Britannica came to the conclusion that mythology never contains/inspires/influences the evolution of ideas...not that I'd want more mythology in place of any of these other fine works, just saying...ah well, I can't expect the world to cater to my interests...it's just strange...

	Foxen:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz! I could've used more time, though, particularly since it's long enough that you have to scroll down up and down to see the lower ones.

	itzDMad:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 21:01 GMT		0 points
	the author of the federalist papers should really be Publius, since that's how they're all signed

	magister:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT		1 point
	Eclogues, not Ecologues.

	RandallPinkston:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:33 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz. If you'd like to increase your chances of getting this published, it shouldn't be that hard to find a non-Wiki source for the list.

	Jek5:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 05:29 GMT		1 point
	I fixed the typos, added some dates to clear up ambiguities, and changed my source to the Official Britannica website for the books. As such, Fielding, Sterne, Apollonius and Fourier are now off the list as it appears that they were dropped for the second edition.

	cocky:	Oct 20th, 2009 at 09:57 GMT		0 points
	Strategy for quizzes like this....Just type in all the famous authors you can think of and then go back through to see what's left.

	HenryClay1:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 20:50 GMT		3 points
	Not enough time what with the scrolling required.

	Barzuniac:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 14:45 GMT		0 points
	good quiz, lot of mid 19th century omissions in american belles lettres tho - thoreau, emerson, poe, you even left whitman out for god's sake. also - no robinson crusoe? only boswell's johnson? etc etc. good list tho.

	Barzuniac:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 14:46 GMT		1 point
	ah i see now you didn't compile this yourself. so no blame, but also no credit, which i would've given for the inclusion of the two stoics.

	brazenchild:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 18:58 GMT		1 point
	It should be Blaise Pascal, not Blaine.

	Jek5:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT		1 point
	Fixed Pascal. Thanks for the catch. Also, time has been upped.

	tallsaul:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 23:47 GMT		0 points
	I agree about the time... I could have gotten more if just for another minute or two... really fun!

	michael1:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 00:20 GMT		1 point
	The Golden Bough's author is Frazer, not Frazier.

	Jek5:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 05:12 GMT		1 point
	Fixed it. Thanks!

	pbysr:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 17:22 GMT		1 point
	"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story and not a book. It was published in book form along with other stories as "The Snows of Kilamanjaro."

	Jek5:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 03:40 GMT		1 point
	Yes, but just that short story is included in the collection known as the "Great Books".

	ctbrainiacs:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 15:55 GMT		1 point
	The most frustrating part for me was that Saint Augustine had to be spelled out...likewise Alexis de Tocqueville, while Cervantes worked without a first name...Why? Or am I the only one who struggled with typing, spacing, spelling issues?

	gvigary:	Feb 26th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT		1 point
	I surely can't have been alone in looking down the list of names I'd missed, seeing Henri Bergson and saying to myself "Never 'eard of 'im"

	JoelleJay:	Jan 28th, 2012 at 01:52 GMT		1 point
	It's "Lodestone," not "Loadstone." Otherwise, very good!