Books of the Western Canon: 797 Great Books by 204 Essential Authors

This collection of books on CD is based on the lists of "great books and essential authors" in the appendixes of "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom. Here we provide the full-text of many of the books he recommends, from the Theocratic, Aristocratic, and Democratic Ages (from the dawn of civilization up through the end of World War I), organized the way he presents them: 797 books by 204 authors. Many of these books would be very hard to find and very costly in printed form. Books originally written in languages other than English appear here in English translation, but not the translations mentioned by Bloom, which, for the most part, are still protected by copyright. (Original-language versions of many of these appear in other CD collections of ours; as well as original-langauge versions of "western canon" books for which public domain translations are not available). Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format (not audio, not video), organized for easy access. You read them on your computer screen.