Minimal Canon 55 books by Tei

The Iliad of Homer. Translated with an Introduction by Richmond Lattimore

ByHomer,Richmond Lattimore

1951 • 2 Readers • 527 pages

The Odyssey Homer

ByRobert Fitzgerald

1963 • 506 pages

The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

ByAeschylus,Sophocles,+1 more

2017 • 3 Readers • 866 pages • 4.5

Aeneid

ByVirgil,Frederick Ahl

-19 • 2 Readers • 532 pages • 5

Metamorphoses

ByOvid,Rolfe Humphries(Translator)

8 • 19 Readers • 500 pages • 4.3

King James Bible

ByGordon Campbell

2010 • 1 Reader • 1,520 pages

Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno

ByDante Alighieri

1889 • 416 pages

The Canterbury Tales

ByGeoffrey Chaucer,Gerald J. Davis(Translator)

1400 • 35 Readers • 672 pages • 3.5

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

ByWilliam Shakespeare

2022 • 3 Readers • 2,532 pages

#10

Don Quixote

ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1605 • 1 Reader • 3

#11

The Works of Moliere

ByMolière,Henri Van Laun

2016 • 380 pages

#12

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Paradise Lost

ByJohn Milton

1667 • 567 Readers • 512 pages • 3.6

#13

Gulliver's Travels

ByJonathan Swift

198 • 535 Readers • 462 pages • 3.4

#14

Cozy Classics

Pride and Prejudice

ByJane Austen

1811 • 2,879 Readers • 342 pages • 4.2

#15

Frankenstein

ByMary Shelley

181 • 2,728 Readers • 353 pages • 3.8

#16

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

ByJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

1808 • 366 Readers • 354 pages • 3.9

#17

Dead Souls

ByNikolai Gogol,Bernard Guilbert Guerney(Translator)

1842 • 252 Readers • 520 pages • 3.8

#18

Wuthering Heights

ByEmily Brontë

197 • 1,804 Readers • 376 pages • 3.6

#19

Moby-Dick

ByHerman Melville

1851 • 7 Readers • 543 pages • 5

#20

Madame Bovary

ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 616 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

#21

Les Miserables

ByVictor Hugo

1862 • 62 Readers • 1,468 pages • 4.3

#22

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ByLewis Carroll

1864 • 941 Readers • 132 pages • 3.9

#23

Crime and Punishment

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1857 • 2,128 Readers • 602 pages • 4.3

#24

War and Peace

ByLeo Tolstoy

190 • 1,001 Readers • 1,396 pages • 4

#25

Graffex

Great Expectations

ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 1,007 Readers • 548 pages • 3.5

#26

Anna Karenina

ByLeo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1877 • 1,438 Readers • 1,480 pages • 4

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Andrew H. MacAndrew(Translator)

1878 • 1,306 Readers • 796 pages • 4.4

#28

In Search of Lost Time

ByMarcel Proust

1927 • 21 Readers • 728 pages • 5

#29

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

ByJames Joyce

1920 • 702 Readers • 656 pages • 3.8

#30

The Magic Mountain

ByThomas Mann

1924 • 247 Readers • 752 pages • 3.9

#31

The Trial

ByFranz Kafka,Willa Muir(Translator),+1 more

1925 • 919 Readers • 255 pages • 4

#32

The Sun Also Rises

ByErnest Hemingway

1926 • 734 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#33

To the Lighthouse

ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 631 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#34

The Sound and the Fury

ByWilliam Faulkner

1929 • 469 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#35

A Farewell To Arms

ByErnest Hemingway

199 • 621 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

#36

As I Lay Dying

ByWilliam Faulkner

1930 • 454 Readers • 231 pages • 3.6

#37

Waiting for Godot

BySamuel Beckett

1952 • 428 Readers • 136 pages • 3.9

#38

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

Molloy

BySamuel Beckett

1958 • 53 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

#39

Gravity's Rainbow

ByThomas Pynchon

1973 • 496 Readers • 760 pages • 4.1

#40

Blood Meridian

ByCormac McCarthy

1985 • 1,054 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 500 Readers • 810 pages • 4.1

The Human Comedy, Vol. I

ByHonoré de Balzac

The Red and the Black

ByStendhal

2021 • 3 Readers • 555 pages

The Charterhouse of Parma

ByStendhal,Margaret Mauldon(Translator)

1839 • 52 Readers • 560 pages • 3.5

Emma

ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

6 • 1,135 Readers • 334 pages • 3.9

Bleak House

ByCharles Dickens

1852 • 250 Readers • 682 pages • 4

The Picture of Dorian Grey

ByOscar Wilde

1890 • 2,572 Readers • 186 pages • 4.1

The Great Gatsby

ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 3,588 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

Dracula

ByBram Stoker

1897 • 2,260 Readers • 410 pages • 3.9

Eugene Onegin

ByAlexander Pushkin

1825 • 160 Readers • 408 pages • 4

Jane Eyre

ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 2,076 Readers • 580 pages • 4

1951 • 2 Readers

1349 • 135 Readers • 418 pages • 3.5

#1-5 of 2 in Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel

ByFrançois Rabelais,M.A. Screech(Translator)

1564 • 60 Readers • 1,041 pages • 3.2

#2 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

ByMark Twain

1876 • 1,350 Readers • 327 pages • 3.6

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