The City of God
Augustine of Hippo · Late Antiquity · Theology, political thought
Subject guide
History
Explore 70 works associated with History in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 19th Century · Philosophy
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 19th Century · Novel / adventure
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · American Renaissance · Novel / stories
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 19th Century · Novel, history
Capital, Volume I
Karl Marx · 19th Century · Political economy / philosophy
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · Postwar · Novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · Modern / Latin American Boom · Novel, magical realism
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · Contemporary · Novel
The New Science
Giambattista Vico · Enlightenment · Philosophy of history
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Johann Gottfried Herder · Enlightenment / Romantic · Philosophy of culture
Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity
Johann Gottfried Herder · Enlightenment / Romantic · Philosophy of culture
What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Critique of Judgment
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Perpetual Peace
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Science of Logic
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 19th Century · Philosophy
Waverley
Walter Scott · Romantic · Historical novel
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Walter Scott · Romantic · Historical novel
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott · Romantic · Historical novel
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 19th Century · Philosophy
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo · 19th Century · Novel / poetry
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 19th Century · Philosophy
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 19th Century · Novel / adventure
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx · 19th Century · Political economy / philosophy
The German Ideology
Karl Marx · 19th Century · Political economy / philosophy
The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas · 19th Century · Novel / adventure
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne · American Renaissance · Novel / stories
The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne · American Renaissance · Novel / stories
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx · 19th Century · Political economy / philosophy
The Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo · 19th Century · Novel / poetry
The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo · 19th Century · Novel / poetry
Penguin Island
Anatole France · 19th / 20th Century · Novel / satire
The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · 19th / 20th Century · Novel / satire
The Cantos
Ezra Pound · Modernism · Poetry
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound · Modernism · Poetry
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Light in August
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Residence on Earth
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter · Modern · Stories / novel
The Wild Palms
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
The Hamlet
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren · Modern · Novel / poetry
The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier · Latin American · Novel
Canto General
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier · Latin American · Novel
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass · Postwar · Novel
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes · Latin American Boom · Novel
The Open Work
Umberto Eco · Postmodern · Novel / essays
Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter · Modern · Stories / novel
The Reivers
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal · Postwar · Novel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez · Latin American Boom · Novel / stories
Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes · Latin American Boom · Novel
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal · Postwar · Novel
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · Contemporary · Novel / essays
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