100 great books : masterpieces of all time / edited by John Canning.

"First published 1966."

Introduction by Lawrence Durrell.

Introduction -- Editor's Note -- THE ILIAD Homer / Andrew Ewart -- HERODOTUS'S HISTORY / Richard Gregory -- THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Thucydides / Andrew Ewart -- THE BHAGAVADGITA / E. Royston Pike -- THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO / Edward Ashcroft -- ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS / Richard Gregory -- THE AENEID Vergil / Andrew Ewcnt -- PLUTARCH'S LIVES / Edward Ashcroft -- THE OLD TESTAMENT / Edward Ashcroft -- THE NEW TESTAMENT / E. Poyston Pike -- THE KORAN / E. Poyston Pike -- THE DIVINE COMEDY Dante Alighieri / Ronald Seth -- THE CANTERBURY TALES
Geof&ey Chaucer / Richard Gregory -- UTOPIA Sir Thomas More / Richard Gregory -- THE PRINCE Machiavelli / Richard Gregory -- GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL Francois Rabelais / Richard Gregory --

MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS / Edward Ashcroft -- DON QUIXOTE Miguel de Cervantes / Ian Fellowes-Cordon -- LA ROCHEFOUCAULD'S MAXIMS / Edward Ashcroft -- PARADISE LOST John Milton / E. Royston Pike -- THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS John Bunyan / Malcolm Thomson -- THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS / Richard Gregory -- ROBINSON CRUSOE Daniel Defoe / Geoffrey Williamson -- GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift / Ian Fellowes-Gordon --
TOM JONES Henry Fielding / Edward Ashcroft -- THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV Voltaire / Edward Ashcroft -- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT J.-J. Rousseau / Richard Gregory -- THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD Oliver Goldsmith /Richard Gregory -- THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Adam Smith / E. Royston Pike -- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Edward Gibbon / E. Royston Pike -- THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Immanuel Kant / Ronald Seth -- THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON James Boswell / Edward Ashcroft -- A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN Mary Wollstonecraft / E. Royston Pike