Great Books is inspired by a curriculum and a book list, as well as a method of education. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:1. the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;2. the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit;3. the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.This Great Book Collection has active table of contents to make it easy to navigate. Authors and works include:Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: The Federalist PapersCharles Dickens: David Copperfield Hard Times The Pickwick PapersDaniel Defoe: Robinson CrusoeDesiderius Brasmus: The Praise of FollyEdmund Spenser: The Faerie QueenFrancois Rabelais: Gargantua and PantagruelGeoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Trolius and CriseydeHerman Melville: Moby DickHomer: The Iliad The OdysseyJane Austen: Emma Pride and PredjudiceJonathan Swift: A journal to Stella A Modest Proposal A Tale of a Tub Gullivers TravelsLeonardo da Vinci: The NotebooksMarcus Aurelius: MeditationsMark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Mysterious StrangerMichel de Montaigne: EssaysMiguel de Cervantes: Don QuixoteSt. Augustine: ConfessionsWilliam Congreve: The Way of the World