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Minimal Canon

  • June 25, 2023
  • 55 Books
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Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.

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

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The Odyssey Homer

The Greek Plays: 33 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Aeneid
Metamorphoses
King James Bible
Dante's Divine comedy, The Inferno
The Canterbury Tales
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Don Quixote
The Works of Moliere
Paradise Lost
Gulliver's Travels
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Faust
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Moby-Dick
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Great Expectations
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
The Magic Mountain
The Trial
The Sun Also Rises
To the Lighthouse
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell To Arms
As I Lay Dying
Waiting for Godot
Molloy
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
Middlemarch
The Human Comedy, Vol. I
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
Emma
Bleak House
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Great Gatsby
Dracula
Eugene Onegin
Jane Eyre
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Portrait of a Lady

The Decameron
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn