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The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Turkey suggested by Saj Maqsood. The Library of Celsus is considered an architectural marvel, and is one of the only remaining examples of great libraries of the ancient world located in the Roman Empire. It was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world behind only those of Alexandria and Pergamum, believed to have held around 12,000 scrolls. Celsus is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated marble sarcophagus. The interior measured roughly 180 square metres (2,000 square feet). (Photo by Mel and Pat Oakes May, 2011) |
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The Library of Celsus (Photo by Mel and Pat Oakes, May 2011) |
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The Library of Celsus (Photo by Mel and Pat Oakes, May 2011) |
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 In 1874, the Public Library of Cincinnati opened in a small building originally intended to be an opera house. (Thanks to Dennis Murphy for sending this photo.) |
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Public Library of Cincinnati ened in a small building originally intended to be an opera house. (Thanks to Dennis for sending the top photo.) |
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In 1955, the Public Library of Cincinnati was sadly demolished. | |
Iowa State Law Library, Des Moines, 1894 |
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Iowa State Library, Des Moines, 1894 |
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Trinity College Library, Ireland |
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The Library of El Escorial, Spain |
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George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
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Libraries Now |
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Below are some list of books and short stories that have been recommended by faculty at various universities.
| UT Unrequired Reading List | ||||
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| Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior | |
| Philosophy and other topics | The Problems of Philosophy B. Russell The Worldly Philosophers R. Heilbroner The Religions of Man H. Smith The Republic Plato A History of Western Philosophy B. Russell The Social Contract J. J. Rousseau |
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Democracy in America A. de Tocqueville Genesis, Exodus, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, & Amos Old Testament Luke, John, Acts, Galatians, & Ephesians New Testament The Prince N. Machiavelli Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed P. Hallie The Theory of Social and Economic Organization M. Weber |
Utilitarianism On Liberty J. S. Mill Purposes of Art, Second Edition A. Elsen The Varieties of Religious Experience W. James Pragmatism W. James Meaning in Western Architecture C. Norberg-Schulz Witness W. Chambers |
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals I. Kant The Federalist Hamilton, Madison, & Jay; Ed. B. F. Wright The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis The Road to Serfdom F. Hayek The Road to Wigan Pier G. Orwell A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy K. Marx |
| Science | The Double Helix J. Watson Awakenings O. Sacks The Lives of a Cell L. Thomas The Discoverers D. Boorstin The Panda's Thumb S. Gould King Solomon's Ring K. Lorenz |
Microbe Hunters P. De Kruif Science and the Modern World A. N. Whitehead The First Three Minutes S. Weinberg The Creative Explosion J. Pfeiffer Knowledge and Wonder V. Weisskopf Einstein J. Bernstein |
A Mathematician's Apology G. Hardy The Rise of Scientific Philosophy H. Reichenbach The Cosmic Code H. Pagels One Human Nature E. O. Wilson The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution C. P. Snow Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems J. Ravetz |
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus M. Gardner The Structure of Scientific Revolution T. Kuhn Mankind Evolving T. Dobzhansky The Growth of Biological Thought E. Mayr Chance and Necessity J. Monod The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air M. Minnaert |
| Literature | The Odyssey Homer (T. E. Lawrence translation) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Sun Also Rises E. Hemingway Antigone Oedipus Rex Sophocles Pride and Prejudice J. Austen Heart of Darkness J. Conrad |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass L. Carroll Richard II W. Shakespeare Moby Dick H. Melville Paradise Lost J. Milton Tom Jones H. Fielding Brideshead Revisited E. Waugh |
Candide F. Voltaire Hamlet W. Shakespeare The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition Don Quixote M. Cervantes Hard Times C. Dickens To the Lighthouse V. Woolf |
A Midsummer Night's Dream W. Shakespeare The Brothers Karamazov F. M. Dostoyevsky Bread and Wine I. Silone War and Peace L. N. Tolstoy Light in August W. Faulkner The Magic Mountain T. Mann |
| History | The Historian's Craft M. Bloch The American Political Tradition R. Hofstadter Young Man Luther E. Erikson Samuel Johnson J. Wain The Making of the Middle Ages R. Southern The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin B. Franklin |
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada G. Mattingly This Hallowed Ground B. Catton Melbourne D. Cecil The Education of Henry Adams H. Adams History of the Conquest of Mexico W. Prescott Origins of the New South C. Vann Woodward |
The White Nile A. Moorehead The Crisis of the Old Order A. Schlesinger Hitler: A Study of Tyranny A. Bullock Huey Long T. H. Williams The Old Regime and the French Revolution A. de Tocqueville The Raven M. James |
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin G. Kennan Tumultuous Years R. Donovan Stillwell and the American Experience in China B. Tuchman Stalin as Revolutionary R. Tucker The Rebel A. Camus Autobiography of Malcom X M. Little |
| Masterpieces of Short Fiction |
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| by Professor Michael Krasny San Francisco State University and The Great Courses’ Company |
| 1. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| 2. Hawthorne's “Goodman Brown" |
| 3. Gogol's "Overcoat" |
| 4. Maupassant's "The Necklace" |
| 5. Chekhov, "The Lady with the Dog" |
| 6. James, "The Real Thing" |
| 7. Joyce's “Araby" |
| 8. Babel's "My First Goose" |
| 9. Hemingway's "The Killers" |
| 10. Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist" |
| 11. Lawrence's “Rocking-Horse Winner" |
| 12. Mansfield's "Party" |
| 13. Jackson's "The Lottery" |
| 14. O`Conner‘s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find“ |
| 15. Paley's "An Interest in Life" |
| 16. Garcia Márquez's The “Enormous Wings" |
| 17. Malamud's "The Jewbird" |
| 18. Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" |
| 19. Updike's “A & P" |
| 20. Kingston's "No Name Woman" |
| 21. Atwood's "Happy Endings" |
| 22. Gordimer's “Moment Before" |
| 23. Carver's “Cathedral" |
| A Day’s Read |
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| by Professors Arnold Weinstein(Brown U), Grant L. Voth(Monterey Peninsula College) and Emily Allen(Purdue U.) Course Available from The Great Courses’ Company |
| Kafka, “A Country Doctor” |
| Prévost, "Manon Lescaut" |
| Flaubert, “A Simple Heart” |
| Faulkner, “Pantaloon in Black” |
| Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" & "Emma Zunz" |
| Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| O’Connor, "The River" & "Judgement Day" |
| Lagerkvist, "The Sybil" |
| Vesaas, "The Ice Palace" |
| Calvino, "Invisible Cities" |
| Duras, "The Lover" |
| Coetzee, "Disgrace" |
| Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea" |
| Austen, "Lady Susan" |
| Balzac, "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" |
| Meredith, "Modern Love" |
| Huysmans, "Against the Grain" |
| Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" |
| Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" |
| James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
| Joyce, “The Dead” |
| Proust, "The Lemoine Affair" |
| Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” |
| McEwan, "On Chesil Beach" |
| Cather, "Alexander’s Bridge" |
| Lu Xun, "Diary of a Madam" & Upstairs in a Wineshop" |
| Chopin, "The Awakening" |
| Melville, "Billy Budd" |
| McCullers, "Ballad of the Sad Café" |
| Chekhov, "The Party" & "The Lady with the Dog" |
| Hersey, "Hiroshima" |
| Satrapi, "Persepolis" |
| Jataka Story Selections |
| Munro, "Walker Brothers Cowboy" & "The Peace of Utrecht" |
| Basho, "The Narrow Road of the Interior" |
