The Age of Enlightenment, 1637-1789
Dated from the publication of Descartes' Discourse on Method in 1637, to the French Revolution in 1789.
England
- Thomas Hobbes, 1588–1679
- Leviathan
- Robert Herrick, 1591-1674
- Poems.
- Samuel Butler, 1612-1680
- Hudibras.
- Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678
- Poems.
- John Dryden, 1631-1700
- Poetry and Plays; Critical Essays.
- Aphra Behn, 1640-1689
- The Rover; Oroonoko.
- Jane Barker, 1652-1732
- The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia.
- Daniel Defoe, 1661?-1731
- Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; A Journal of the Plague Year.
- Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
- A Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels; Shorter Prose Works; Poems.
- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
- Poems.
- John Gay, 1685-1732
- The Beggar's Opera.
- Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
- Clarissa; Pamela; Sir Charles Grandison.
- Henry Fielding, 1707-1754
- Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
- John Cleland, 1709-1789
- Fanny Hill.
- Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
- Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; The Adventures of Roderick Random.
- Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784
- Works.
- James Boswell, 1740-1795
- Life of Johnson; Journals.
- Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774
- The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer; The Traveller; The Deserted Village.
- William Cowper, 1731-1800
- Poetical Works.
- Edmund Burke, 1729–1797
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France.
- Edward Gibbon, 1737–1794
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
- The School of Scandal; The Rivals.
- Fanny Burney, 1752-1840
- Evelina.
France
- Jean de La Fontaine, 1621-1695
- Fables.
- Molière, 1622-1673
- The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The Learned Ladies; Don Juan; School for Husbands; Ridiculous Precieuses; The Would-Be Gentleman; The Miser; The Imaginary Invalid.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623–1662
- Pensées.
- Voltaire, 1694-1778
- Zadig; Candide; Letters on England; The Lisbon Earthquake.
- Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 1712–1778
- The Confessions; Émile; La Nouvelle Héloïse.
Italy
- Giacomo Casanova, 1725-1798
- Memoirs
China
- Cao Xueqin (ca. 1717-1763)
- The Dream of the Red Chamber
