The Learning Channel Great Books
Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel. Premiering on September 8, 1993, to coincide with International Literacy Day, the series took in-depth looks at some of literature's greatest fiction and nonfiction books, along with the authors who created them. Most of the narration was provided by Donald Sutherland. Episodes feature insights from historians, scholars, novelists, artists, writers, and filmmakers who were directly influenced by the books showcased and discussed.
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
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Native Son
Richard Wright · 1940 · 18 lists
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
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Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897 · 16 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954 · 14 lists
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962 · 13 lists
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 12 lists
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929 · 11 lists
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud · 2018 · 10 lists
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley · 1968 · 9 lists
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915 · 9 lists
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One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous · 2005 · 8 lists
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 1906 · 8 lists
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer · 1948 · 8 lists
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 8 lists
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 · 7 lists
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane · 1855 · 7 lists
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells · 1898 · 7 lists
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · 7 lists
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The Republic
Plato · 375 · 6 lists
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 1900 · 6 lists
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2001
Arthur C. Clarke · 1968 · 5 lists
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe · 1979 · 5 lists
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 1870 · 5 lists
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo · 1953 · 4 lists
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Le Morte dArthur
Thomas Malory · 1557 · 3 lists
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 1910 · 2 lists
