Major Works
Taine's principal works, in chronological order, are:
- De personis Platonicis. Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine (1853)
- Essai sur Tite-Live (1854)
- Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées (1855)
- Les philosophes français du XIXe siècle (1856)
- Essais de critique et d'histoire (1857)
- La Fontaine et ses fables (1860)
- Histoire de la littérature anglaise, 4 vol. L'idéalisme anglais, étude sur Carlyle. Le positivisme anglais, étude sur Stuart Mill (1864)
- Les écrivains anglais contemporains. Nouveaux essais de critique et d'histoire.
- Philosophie de l'art (1865)
- Philosophie de l'art en Italie. Voyage en Italie (1866)
- Notes sur Paris. L'idéal dans l'art (1867)
- Philosophie de l'art dans les Pays-Bas (1868)
- Philosophie de l'art en Grèce (1869)
- De l'intelligence (2 vol., 1870)
- Du suffrage universel et de la manière de voter. Un séjour en France de 1792 à 1795. Notes sur l'Angleterre (1871)
- Origines de la France contemporaine (1876–1894):
- Vol. I: L'ancien régime
- Vols. II through IV: La Révolution
- Vols. V and VI: Le Régime moderne
- Derniers essais de critique et d'histoire (1894)
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