Can you name the books from the Penguin Great Ideas series? by joebobs

Series 1
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Saint Augustine
Thomas � Kempis
Niccolò Machiavelli
Michel de Montaigne
Jonathan Swift
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Paine
Mary Wollstonecroft
William Hazlitt
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Arthur Schopenhauer
John Ruskin
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Virginia Woolf
Sigmund Freud
George Orwell

Series 2
Confucius
Sun-Tzu
Plato
Lucretius
Cicero
Author Unknown (from The Bible)
Marco Polo
Christine de Pizan
Baldesar Castiglione
Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
Sir Thomas Browne
Voltaire
David Hume
Carl von Clausewitz
Søren Kierkegaard
Henry David Thoreau
Thorstein Veblen
Albert Camus
Hannah Arendt

Series 3
Plutarch
Robert Burton
Blaise Pascal
Adam Smith
Edmund Burke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Søren Kierkegaard
John Ruskin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leo Tolstoy
William Morris
Frederick Jackson Turner
Marcel Proust
Leon Trotsky
Sigmund Freud
Walter Benjamin
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Frantz Fanon
Michel Foucault

Series 4
Lao Tzu
Various (Ancient Far Eastern Texts)
Thomas More
Michel de Montaigne
William Shakespeare
John Locke
Samuel Johnson
Immanuel Kant
Joseph de Maistre
Thomas de Quincey
Arthur Schopenhauer
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William James
Robert Louis Stevenson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Virginia Woolf
George Orwell
John Berger

Series 5
Chuang Tzu
Epictetus
Nicolo Machiavelli
Rene Descartes
Giacomo Leopardi
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Charles Mackay
Jacob Burckhardt
George Eliot
Charles Baudelaire
Sigmund Freud
Theodore Herzl
Rabindranath Tagore
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Winston Churchill
Jorge Luis Borges
George Orwell
Chinua Achebe

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Penguin Great Ideas Quiz

by joebobs

Created Sep 2, 2010 in Literature
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	joebobs:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 17:29 GMT		1 point
	I realise this is very difficult. Would people prefer one where you were given the titles and had to name the authors? It might be easier. Also, this quite a long quiz, so I may have missed the odd alternative answer, so please suggest any alternatives. I've done lots to try and make it easier, but I've probably missed some. If I've made any typos please do point them out ASAP. Also, thoughts on time length would be welcomed. Finally, is it possible to make each column a different colour (i.e. to match with the series)?

	dollymix:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 18:16 GMT		2 points
	It's a good list of books, but it's tough because a lot of them are collections of essays or excerpts not normally known under these titles (e.g. the Robert Burton entry is I believe excerpts from "Anatomy of Melancholy", "Why I Am So Wise" is part of "Ecco Homo", the Foucault entry is from "Discipline and Punish", etc.). I think giving the titles and maybe years and having you guess the author would make it better.

	joebobs:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 18:30 GMT		1 point
	I did want to include the original year of publishing too, but sporcle won't allow for an extra column. I'll redo it again with titles given and authors to be guessed.

	LaviniaB:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 19:15 GMT		2 points
	Excellent quiz!

	Jam1:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 20:44 GMT		2 points
	Wow, insanly hard! I like your layout and your color scheme though, well done :)

	joebobs:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 22:13 GMT		1 point
	Thanks people! The colours are taken from the second and fifth series of the collection, just because I thought they would go best. :D It'd be best if I could put a different colour for each column, to match the series, but I can't see a way to do it. I'll redo this with titles and authors reversed, should be more do-able.

	joebobs:	Sep 5th, 2010 at 01:09 GMT		1 point
	I've now made the quiz the reverse of this, where you are given the titles and have to guess the authors: http://www.sporcle.com/games/joebobs/penguinauthors

	cheesenewyorkbob:	Jun 12th, 2011 at 10:55 GMT		0 points
	No darn it, I've played all of you quizzes ( yes ALL of them ) and that wasn't one of your great ones. You've been cnyb'ed Laters.