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Shakespeare, All’S Well That Ends Well #

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Shakespeare, As You Like It #

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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing #

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Shakespeare, Antony And Cleopatra #

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Shakespeare, Coriolanus #

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Shakespeare, Cymbeline #

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Shakespeare, Comedy Of Errors #

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Shakespeare, Hamlet #

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Shakespeare, Julius Caesar #

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Shakespeare, Love’S Labour’S Lost #

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Shakespeare, King Lear #

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Shakespeare, The Rape Of Lucrece #

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Shakespeare, Measure For Measure #

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Shakespeare, Midsummer Night #

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Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice #

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Shakespeare, Macbeth #

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Shakespeare, Othello #

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Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet #

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Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew #

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Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen Of Verona #

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night #

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Shakespeare, Timon Of Athens #

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Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus #

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Shakespeare, The Tempest #

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Shakespeare, Troilus And Cressida #

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Shakespeare, Venus And Adonis #

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Shakespeare, The Winter’S Tale #

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Shakespeare, The Merry Wives Of Windsor #

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Shakespeare, Richard II #

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Shakespeare, Richard III #

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Shakespeare, Henry Iv #

Shakespeare, Henry V #

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Boswell’s Life of Johnson #

Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson #

Homer (Achilles and Patroclus) #

Jane Austen (Mansfield Park) #

Homer (Odyssey) #

Homer (Trojan War) #

Homer (attributed), Margites #

Jane Austen (brother and sister conversation) #

Sophocles (plays) #

Homer (troops image) #

A Bridge to Terabithia #

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court #

Shelley on poetry #

Washington Irving, History of New York #

Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples #

A Light in the Forest #

C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost #

Rabbi Jacob Neusner, A Rabbi Talks with Jesus #

A Tale of Two Cities #

Irving, A Tour on the Prairies #

Aeneid #

Sophocles, Ajax #

Dryden, Alexander’s Feast #

Dryden, Alexander’s Feast (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day) #

Animal Farm #

Anna Karenina #

Sophocles, Antigone #

Josephus, Antiquities #

Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua #

Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua #

Aristotle’s lost work on Homer #

Aristotle, Odyssey (Homer) #

Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights #

Autobiography of St Margaret Mary Alacoque #

Dickens, Bleak House #

Brave New World #

C.S. Lewis #

Sallust, Catiline’s Conspiracy #

Chaucer #

Chronicle of Fernando the Saint (Washington Irving) #

Terence, comedies #

Consolation of Philosophy V #

Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann #

Cosi fan tutte #

Crime and Punishment #

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment #

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) #

Dante #

David Copperfield #

Vegetius, De re militari #

Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy) #

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) #

Moynihan, Defining Deviancy Down #

Tocqueville, Democracy in America #

Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena #

Diary of St. Faustina #

Dante, Divine Comedy #

Dante, Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) #

Don Giovanni #

Burnett, Early Greek Philosophy #

Sophocles, Electra #

Spenser’s Epithalamion #

Pope, Essay on Man #

Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy) #

Father Brown mysteries (Chesterton) #

Goethe, Faust #

Fielding #

Flowers for Algernon #

For Whom the Bell Tolls #

Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger) #

Weisheipl, Friar Thomas d’Aquino #

Tacitus, Germania #

Gettysburg Address #

Great Expectations (Dickens) #

Waugh, Helena #

Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (preface) #

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones #

Thackeray, Henry Esmond #

Henry VI #

Henry VIII (prologue) #

Hero and Leander (Marlowe) #

Herodotus #

Hesiod #

Machiavelli, History of Florence #

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) #

Homer #

Plutarch, How to Benefit from Your Enemies #

I Ching #

Homer, Iliad #

Homer, Iliad (Achilles mourning Patroclus) #

Homer, Iliad and Margites #

Homer, Iliad and Odyssey #

Dante, Inferno #

Dante, Inferno (the suicides) #

Paul Johnson, Intellectuals #

Jane Austen #

Jane Eyre #

Fielding, Joseph Andrews #

Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides #

Hopkins poem (Justus quidem es tu, Domine) #

Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme #

Leaves of Grass (Whitman) #

Letter to Goethe (John Paul II) #

Johnson, letter to Bennet Langton #

Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude #

Washington Irving, Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus #

Plutarch, Life of Alexander #

Plutarch (on Caesar) #

Life of Columbus (Washington Irving) #

Irving, Life of George Washington #

Washington Irving, Life of Goldsmith #

Boswell, Life of Johnson #

Washington Irving, Life of Oliver Goldsmith #

Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson #

Life of Socrates #

Poe, Ligeia #

Literary Converts (Joseph Pearce) #

Plutarch’s Lives #

Samuel Johnson on the poets and languages #

Jane Austen, Love and Friendship #

Lycidas (Milton) #

Washington Irving, Mahomet and His Successors #

Chesterton, Manalive #

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park #

Margites #

Tennyson, Maud #

Meditation on the Passion (St. Alphonsus) #

Saint Alphonsus, Meditations on the Incarnation #

St Alphonsus de Liguori, Meditations on the Passion #

Richard Nixon, Memoirs #

Molière #

Washington Irving, Mount Joy #

Washington Irving, Mountjoy #

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey #

Dryden, Ode on the Feast of Saint Cecilia #

Odyssey #

Sophocles, Oedipus #

Oedipus Rex #

Oedipus at Colonus #

Sophocles, Oedipus the King #

Oedipus the King (Sophocles) #

Washington Irving on Goldsmith #

Aeschylus, Oresteia #

Orlando Furioso #

Chesterton, Orthodoxy #

Oscar Wilde (quotation on rational animal) #

Hawthorne, Our Old Home #

Milton, Paradise Lost #

Milton, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained #

Plutarch, Parallel Lives #

Plutarch’s Lives (Life of Solon) #

Paston letters #

Thucydides, Peloponnesian War #

Pericles #

Sophocles, Philoctetes #

Plutarch #

C.S. Lewis, Preface to Paradise Lost #

Pride and Prejudice #

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice #

Spenser’s Prothalamion #

Dante, Purgatorio #

Quintilian #

Revelations of St. Gertrude #

Revelations of Saint Gertrude #

Johnson on friendship #

Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) #

Shakespeare (definition of reason: large discourse) #

George Eliot, Silas Marner #

Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God #

Whitman, Song of Myself #

Sophocles #

Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther #

Story of a Soul (Thérèse of Lisieux) #

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy #

Surprised by Joy (C. S. Lewis) #

Terence’s comedies #

Mozart, The Abduction from the Seraglio #

Conan Doyle, The Norwood Builder #

Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random #

Washington Irving (on Spain and the Alhambra) #

C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love #

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow #

Hopkins, The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe #

The Brothers Karamazov #

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Grushenka) #

Sallust, Catilinarian Conspiracy #

Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade #

The Closing of the American Mind #

The Cloud of Unknowing #

Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich #

Chesterton, The Dumb Ox #

The Education of Henry Adams #

Chesterton, The Everlasting Man #

Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker #

The Federalist Papers #

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique #

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves #

The Four Men (Belloc) #

Alphonsus de Liguori, The Glories of Mary #

The Heiress #

Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven #

Imitation of Christ #

The Inns and Taverns of Old London (Henry Shelley) #

Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson #

Washington Irving, The Life of Washington #

The Lord of the Rings #

The Marriage of Figaro #

The Misanthrope #

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail #

The Pearl (Steinbeck) #

The Phoenix and the Turtle #

Alphonsus Liguori, The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ #

Poe, The Purloined Letter #

The Raven (Poe) #

William McNeill, The Rise of the West #

The Scarlet Letter #

C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters #

The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis) #

Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (Rip Van Winkle) #

Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (The Wife) #

Sorrows of Young Werther #

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) #

The Spy #

The Third Man #

The Way of the Pilgrim #

Hesiod, Theogony #

Hardy novels #

Fielding, Tom Jones #

Tom Jones (Fielding) #

Towards an Evaluation of Music (essay in The Thomist) #

Austin Ostley, Towards an Evaluation of Music (The Thomist) #

Trachiniae #

Smollett, Travels through France and Italy #

Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God #

Uncle Tom’s Cabin #

Thomas More, Utopia #

Valerius Maximus #

Vanity Fair #

Vanity Fair (Thackeray) #

Washington Irving, Spanish romance passage (Geoffrey Crayon) #

Wealth of Nations #

Chesterton, book on America #

Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World #

Whittaker Chambers, Witness #

Sophocles, Women of Trachis #

Hesiod, Works and Days #

Wuthering Heights #

C. S. Lewis on Addison #

Chesterton on conversion #

C. S. Lewis on the love of angels #

C. S. Lewis passage quoted in a popular introduction to logic #

Emily Dickinson poem on books #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 1 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 3 #

Homer, Iliad Book 18 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 #

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 24 #

Catch-22 #

Sonnet 23 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 24 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 30 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 36 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 37 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 60 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 62 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 66 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 74 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 87 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 99 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 128 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 129 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 138 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 #

Shakespeare, Sonnet 148 #

Mozart String Quintets K. 515 and K. 516 #

Mozart quintets K.515 and K.516 #

1984 #