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Minimal Canon

Pruning down the Western Canon to the most essential reads for influence on other works.

The Odyssey
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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
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