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Sixty Books on CDROM that Ayn Rand read, with a few she might have, books mostly scanned from the originals into pdf format.
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Contents of CDROM, these books are here because she has mentioned them in her writings:
Aristotle Works Volume 8 1910 (When doesn't she mention Aristotle, her favorite philosopher?)
Aristotle Works Volume 9 1910
Aristotle Works Volume 10 1910
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Helmholtz 1875
Architecture and democracy by Claude Bragdon 1918
The Man Versus the State by Herbert Spencer 1902
The School and Society, being Three Lectures, supplemented by a statement of the University Elementary School by John Dewey 1907
Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt 1916
The Egoist, A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith 1897
History of Ancient Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband 1910
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Volume 1 (She read Kant, but she certainly didn't like him)
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Volume 2
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics 1898
System of Positive Polity by August Comte 1875 (she despised Mr. Altruism even more)
Ninety-three by Victor Hugo 1874
The Metaphysics of Ethics by Kant 1898
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Case for Capitalism by Hartley Withers 1920 This is a book I can imagine her reading, I don't know if she ever did. The same goes for the next book:
Socialism: The Creed of Despair by George Hugo and James Carey 1909
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Immanuel Kant, his Life and Doctrine 1902 by Freidrich Paulsen
Plato's Republic
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
On liberty by John Stuart Mill 1878 (She didn't like this one either)
The Myth of a Guilty Nation by Albert Jay Nock 1922
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples 1921
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll 1898
The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner 1913
The Elements of Politics by Henry Sidgwick 1897
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1896
The Case of Wagner: The Twilight of the Idols; Nietsche Contra Wagner by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Common - 1896 - 341 pages
The Will to Freedom: Or, The Gospel of Nietzsche and the Gospel of Christ by John Neville Figgis - 1917 - 310 pages
The Radical - An Autobiography of John Galt 1832 plus Autobiography of John Galt (Volume 1) 1833 I am not sure if Rand even knew of this John Galt, but it is interesting to me that there was such a person and had some renown.
The Gospel of Superman: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henri Lichtenberger, John McFarland Kennedy - 1912
On the Future of Our Educational Institutions: Homer and Classical Philology by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, John McFarland Kennedy - Education - 1909 - 160 pages
Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism by Paul Carus 1914 - 161 pages
Egoists, a Book of Supermen: Stendahl, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France by James Gibbon Huneker, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen- 1909 - 362 pages Partly republished from various periodicals.
The birth of tragedy, or Hellenism and pessimism (1923) Nietzsche
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (text format)
The Great Instauration by Francis Bacon 1620
The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History by Francis Bacon
The New Organon by Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Hamlett by Shakespeare (19th Century Publication)
Othello by Shakespeare (19th Century Publication)
Macbeth by Shakespeare (19th Century Publication)
The Works of Shakespeare (Julius Caeser) (19th Century Publication)
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Johnathan Swift
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Altruism, Its nature and varieties 1919 by George Palmer (I don't know is she read this, but it would have been something she might have liked to.)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 1898
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Constitution of the USA and the Decaration of Independence in German, French and English in Parallel Columns 1888
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