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Invitation to the Classics

A classic, according to Mark Twain is "a book that people praise and don't read." So I make this list to challenge myself and others. These titles are drawn from the book by the same title. Invitation to the Classics is a guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. It provides a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings.
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The Iliad and the Odyssey (Homer)
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
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The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
Aeschylus
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The Persian Wars (Herodotus)
The Persian Wars
Herodotus
4
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
5
The Bacchae & Other Plays (Euripides)
The Bacchae & Other Plays
Euripides
6
Five Comedies of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
Five Comedies of Aristophanes
Aristophanes
7
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
Plato
8
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nichomachean Ethics
Aristotle
9
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
Virgil
10
Saint Augustine--Confessions
Saint Augustine--Confessions
11
Beowulf (Michael Alexander (Translator))
Beowulf
Michael Alexander (Translator)
12
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica
13
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
14
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous
15
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Second Shepherds' Play (The Wakefield Master)
The Second Shepherds' Play
The Wakefield Master
17
Everyman (Anonymous)
Everyman
Anonymous
18
Utopia (Thomas More)
Utopia
Thomas More
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Luther's Small Catechism
Luther's Small Catechism
20
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
21
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
22
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
23
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
24
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
William Shakespeare
25
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
26
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
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Donne: The Divine Poems (Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.)
Donne: The Divine Poems
Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.
28
The Temple (George Herbert)
The Temple
George Herbert
29
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
John Milton
30
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Pensees
Blaise Pascal
31
The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
32
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
33
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
34
Rasselas
Rasselas
35
The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
36
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
Saint Augustine
37
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
38
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
39
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
40
Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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