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Recommended Works of Literature

01/24/25

philosophy
literature
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  • Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey

  • Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy

  • Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

  • John Milton: Paradise Lost

  • Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

  • Voltaire: Candide

  • Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

  • Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers

  • Herman Melville: Moby Dick

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

  • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities

  • Victor Hugo: Les Misérables

  • Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov

  • Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace and Anna Karenina

  • Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • James Joyce: Ulysses

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

  • Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

  • Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

  • John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

  • George Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm

  • J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

  • Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

  • J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

  • Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Joseph Heller: Catch-22



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