v.1. Ecclesiastes -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles -- On dreams / Sigmund Freud -- The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Faust, Part one / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe v.2. First principals of morals / Immanuel Kant -- A Simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- On personal identity / David Hume -- Thus spoke Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Inferno / Dante Alighieri. v.3. Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke / The Education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- King Lear / William Shakespeare -- On tragedy / Aristotle -- The Republic / Plato.