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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
The Oresteia
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The Persian Wars (Herodotus)
The Persian Wars (Herodotus)
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Oedipus Rex (Greece)
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
5
The Bacchae & Other Plays (Euripides)
The Bacchae & Other Plays (Euripides)
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Five Comedies of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
Five Comedies of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Plato)
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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
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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
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The Second Shepherds' Play (The Wakefield Master)
The Second Shepherds' Play (The Wakefield Master)
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Everyman (Anonymous)
Everyman (Anonymous)
18
Utopia (Thomas More)
Utopia (Thomas More)
19
Luther's Small Catechism
Luther's Small Catechism
20
The Prince
The Prince
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)
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King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
25
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
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The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
27
Donne: The Divine Poems (Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.)
Donne: The Divine Poems (Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.)
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The Temple (George Herbert)
The Temple (George Herbert)
29
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
30
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
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The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
33
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley)
34
Rasselas
Rasselas
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
36
Confessions
Confessions
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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