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Books That Changed the World: Part A

"Scholar Robert B. Downs selects the 'great works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe - and ourselves'."
This is one of the 122 source lists used to compile the master list at thegreatestbooks.org. The list does NOT contain all the books mentioned in Downs' work.
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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Confessions (St. Augustine)
Confessions (St. Augustine)
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Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
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The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
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Newton Principia Mathematica
Newton Principia Mathematica
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Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
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The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
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An Essay on the Principle of Population (Thomas Malthus)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Thomas Malthus)
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Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
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On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
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Capital (Karl Marx)
Capital (Karl Marx)
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The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson/USA)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson/USA)
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Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
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Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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Persians (Aeschylus)
Persians (Aeschylus)
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The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
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Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophacles
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophacles
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Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
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Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
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Ajax (Sophocles)
Ajax (Sophocles)
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Women of Trachis
Women of Trachis
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Electra (Sophocles)
Electra (Sophocles)
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Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
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The Bacchae (Euripides)
The Bacchae (Euripides)
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Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Euripides)
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The Trojan Women (Euripides)
The Trojan Women (Euripides)
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Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hippolytus (Euripides)
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Lysistrata (Aristophenes)
Lysistrata (Aristophenes)
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The Clouds (Aristophanes)
The Clouds (Aristophanes)
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The Birds (Aristophanes)
The Birds (Aristophanes)
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Herodotus -- The Histories
Herodotus -- The Histories
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The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
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Parallel Lives (Plutarch)
Parallel Lives (Plutarch)
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De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)
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