MORE BOOKS BY THE AUTHORS OF THE "BEST" BOOKS (NOS. 27-50)
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More Books by the "Best" Authors (Nos. 27-50)
27) Lucretius
"On the Nature of Things" is his only work.
28) Virgil
Best known for "Georgics" and "Bucolics" ("Eclogues")
29) Marcus Aurelius
"The Meditations" is his only work.
30) Edward Gibbon
He has an Autobiography.
31) Omar Khayyam
His other works are on mathematics and astronomy.
32) George Moore
Look for "A Modern Lover," "A Mummer's Wife," "A Drama in Muslin," :Esther Waters," and "A Mere Accident"
33) Dante Alighieri
34 and 58) Hippolyte Taine
35) Geoffrey Chaucer
36 and 98) Henry Adams
37) Cecil Gray
38) John A. Symonds
Biographies of Shelley and Michelangelo
39) Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography is his only major work.
40) Giorgio Vasari
41) Harald Hoffding
Look for his biography of Darwin.
42) Niccolo Machiavelli
43) Preserved Smith
44) Emile Faguet
look for his bio of Flaubert and Rousseau and Initiation to Literature and Philosophy.
45) Francois Rabelais
"Gargantua and Pantagruel" is his only work. Look for bios by Plattard and Tilley.
46) Michel de Montaigne
His Essays are his only work.
47) Miguel de Cervantes
Look for Moral or Instructive Tales and La Galatea.
48) William Shakespeare
Add his poems and sonnets here. There are 38 plays.
49) Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The "Reflections" are his only major work.
50) Moliere
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