Paradise Lost
John Milton · Early Modern · Epic poetry
Subject guide
Freedom
Explore 43 works associated with Freedom in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza · Early Modern · Philosophy
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Ethics
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · Victorian · Political philosophy
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novella, philosophy
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · Modern · Philosophy, social theory
Discourses
Epictetus · Ancient · Philosophy
Enchiridion
Epictetus · Ancient · Philosophy
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola · Renaissance · Philosophy / humanism
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatley · Enlightenment · Poetry
The Robbers
Friedrich Schiller · Romantic · Drama / philosophy
Don Carlos
Friedrich Schiller · Romantic · Drama / philosophy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano · Enlightenment · Autobiography
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller · Romantic · Drama / philosophy
Wallenstein
Friedrich Schiller · Romantic · Drama / philosophy
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 19th Century · Autobiography / oratory
The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novel / novella
My Past and Thoughts
Alexander Herzen · 19th Century · Memoir / political thought
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass · 19th Century · Autobiography / oratory
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novel / novella
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novel / novella
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 19th Century · Novel / novella
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 19th Century · Autobiography / oratory
The Journals of André Gide
André Gide · Modern · Novel / memoir
Bayou Folk
Kate Chopin · Modern · Fiction
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · Modern · Fiction
The Immoralist
André Gide · Modern · Novel / memoir
The Counterfeiters
André Gide · Modern · Novel / memoir
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir · Modern · Philosophy / fiction
The Magus
John Fowles · Postwar · Novel
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles · Postwar · Novel
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy