The 32 books included are: 1. On Man in the Universe by Aristotle; 2. The Beginnings of Modern Science by Holmes Boynton; 3. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac; 4. Essays and New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; 5. Selected Poems by Robert Browning; 6. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler; 7. Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov; 8. Selected Works by Cicero; 9. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; 10. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; 11. A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens; 12. Essays, Poems, Addresses by Ralph Walso Emerson; 13. Discourses by Epictetus; 14. The History of Plymouth Colony by William Bradford; 15. Thais, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France; 16. The Law of War and Peace by Grotius; 17. Seven Plays by Henrik Ibsen; 18. On Politics and Education by John Locke; 19. Selected Poems by Horace; 20. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (The Five Authorized Versions) translated by FitzGerald; 21. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius; 22. Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton; 23. Selected Essays by Montaigne; 24. The Golden Treasury, Edited by Palgrave; 25. Five Great Dialogues by Plato; 26. Selected Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe; 27. Selected Lives and Essays by Plutarch; 28. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; 29. Walden by Henry David Thoreau; 30. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev; 31. Selected Poems by Walt Whitman 32. Henry Esmond by William Thackeray
