| Preface | |
| The Early Renaissance: Return To Classical Roots, 1400-1494 | |
| Selections from On the Dignity of Man | |
| Selection from On Painting Book II | |
| The High Renaissance And Early Mannerism, 1494-1564 | |
| Poems '3' '43' '98' '104' '151' | |
| Selections from The Book of the Courtier Book I Book III | |
| Selections from The Prince Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII | |
| Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, And Late Mannerism: 1500-1603 | |
| Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel Book I | |
| Selection from The Praise of Folly | |
| Selection from Utopia Book II | |
| Selection from Essays Book I | |
| Hamlet Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V | |
| Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses | |
| Selection from Don Quixote Part I | |
| The Baroque Age: Glamour And Grandiosity: 1600-1715 | |
| Poem and Essay 'In which she condemns the inconsistency of men, who blame women for what they themselves have caused' | |
| Repuesta a Sor Filotea (The Reply to Sister Filotea) | |
| Selection from The Misanthrope Act I | |
| Selection from Paradise Lost Book I | |
| Selection from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: A True History | |
| The Baroque Age II: Revolutions In Scientific And Political Thought: 1600-1715 | |
| Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican To the Discerning Reader The First Day | |
| Selection from Essays Of Studies | |
| Selections from Discourse on Method Part II Part IV | |
| Selection from Leviathan Part I | |
| Selections from the Second Treatise of Civil Government Chapter IX Chapter XIX | |
| The Age Of Reason: 1700-1789 | |
| Selection from 'Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?' | |
| Selections from Encyclopédie | |
| Selection from Confessions Book I | |
| Selections from Candide Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter XXX | |
| Selections from An Essay on Man | |
| Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response: 1760-1830 | |
| Selection from The Declaration of Independence Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | |
| Selections from Pride and Prejudice Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III | |
| 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' | |
| Selection from Faust, Part I Night | |
| Selection from Don Juan Canto I | |
| Poems 'Ozymandias' 'England in 1819' 'Ode to the West Wind' | |
| Poems 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 'To Autumn' | |
| Selections from Frankenstein Chapter IV Chapter V | |
| Selection from Reason in History III. The Idea of History and Its Realization | |
| The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie: 1830-1871 | |
| Selection from The Communist Manifesto | |
| Selection from The Descent of Man | |
| Selection from Jan | |
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