The New Lifetime Reading Plan
The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown · 0 lists
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 0 lists
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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 2006 · 0 lists
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Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles · 2020 · 0 lists
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Hippolytus
Euripides · 1756 · 0 lists
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The Trojan Women
Euripides · 1905 · 0 lists
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The Bacchae
Euripides · 1954 · 0 lists
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The Histories of Herodotus
Herodotus · 1899 · 0 lists
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 1526 · 0 lists
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 1910 · 0 lists
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes · 1872 · 0 lists
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The Clouds
Aristophanes · 1935 · 0 lists
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The Birds
Aristophanes · 1889 · 0 lists
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The Complete Works of Plato
Plato · 2005 · 0 lists
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Corpus Aristotelicum
Aristotle · 2016 · 0 lists
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Mahabharata
Vyasa · 2010 · 0 lists
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Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian · -90 · 0 lists
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De Rerum Natura
Lucretius · 1991 · 0 lists
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The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 0 lists
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 170 · 0 lists
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Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · 0 lists
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Platform Sutra
Hui-Neng · 1967 · 0 lists
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The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon · 1967 · 0 lists
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The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 2000 · 10 lists
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald · 1952 · 0 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong · 1644 · 3 lists
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1478 · 0 lists
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One Thousand and One Nights
Unknown · 2018 · 0 lists
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1515 · 0 lists
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais · 1930 · 0 lists
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Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en · 1980 · 0 lists
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Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1618 · 0 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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First Folio
William Shakespeare · 1953 · 0 lists
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
John Donne · 1941 · 0 lists
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The Plum in the Golden Vase
Unknown · 0 lists
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo · 1953 · 0 lists
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes · 1651 · 0 lists
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Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes · 1937 · 0 lists
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Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 · 0 lists
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
John Milton · 2007 · 0 lists
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The Misanthrope
Molière · 1666 · 0 lists
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Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1672 · 0 lists
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Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1678 · 0 lists
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Two Treatises of Government
John Locke · 1690 · 0 lists
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsuo Bashō · 1966 · 0 lists
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 · 11 lists
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1748 · 0 lists
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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · 1749 · 11 lists
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin · 1958 · 5 lists
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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1858 · 0 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell · 1791 · 0 lists
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Basic Documents in American History
Richard Brandon Morris · 1956 · 0 lists
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The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay · 2004 · 0 lists
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 · 9 lists
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Complete Poetry & Prose
William Blake · 1929 · 0 lists
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The Prelude
William Wordsworth · 1850 · 0 lists
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Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth · 1798 · 0 lists
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798 · 0 lists
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The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1954 · 0 lists
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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Emma
Jane Austen · 1815 · 12 lists
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
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Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · 2012 · 0 lists
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Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac · 1868 · 4 lists
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 2000 · 0 lists
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
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Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1837 · 0 lists
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · 1945 · 0 lists
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1859 · 0 lists
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The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill · 1869 · 0 lists
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin · 1839 · 0 lists
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 · 0 lists
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 0 lists
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1994 · 0 lists
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
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Hard Times
Studs Terkel · 1970 · 0 lists
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 6 lists
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 1857 · 0 lists
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The Warden
Anthony Trollope · 1855 · 0 lists
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope · 1867 · 3 lists
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The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope · 1872 · 0 lists
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The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope · 1875 · 0 lists
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An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope · 2017 · 0 lists
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · 7 lists
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Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · 0 lists
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev · 1907 · 5 lists
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Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 1848 · 0 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 0 lists
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Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville · 1853 · 0 lists
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot · 1800 · 3 lists
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Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
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The Poems of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman · 1918 · 0 lists
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Democratic Vistas
Walt Whitman · 1871 · 0 lists
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 · 0 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1890 · 0 lists
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 2 lists
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 1871 · 0 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1919 · 5 lists
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The Principles of Psychology
William James · 1890 · 0 lists
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Pragmatism
William James · 1999 · 0 lists
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The Meaning of Truth
William James · 1909 · 0 lists
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 1902 · 0 lists
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The Ambassadors
Henry James · 1903 · 8 lists
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2011 · 0 lists
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On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2018 · 0 lists
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2009 · 0 lists
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud · 2018 · 0 lists
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud · 2021 · 0 lists
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud · 1930 · 0 lists
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Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw · 2012 · 0 lists
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad · 1904 · 9 lists
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Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov · 1897 · 0 lists
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Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov · 1914 · 0 lists
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov · 1904 · 0 lists
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov · 1932 · 0 lists
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The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton · 1913 · 0 lists
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920 · 17 lists
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905 · 8 lists
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Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats · 1994 · 0 lists
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Autobiographies
William Butler Yeats · 1791 · 0 lists
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The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats · 1963 · 0 lists
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Kokoro
Natsume Soseki · 1914 · 4 lists
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
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The Poems of Robert Frost
Robert Frost · 1991 · 0 lists
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924 · 18 lists
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Call to Arms
Lu Xun · 2000 · 0 lists
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · 20 lists
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928 · 11 lists
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf · 1931 · 9 lists
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The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
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The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1907 · 8 lists
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 1996 · 0 lists
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Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence · 1913 · 11 lists
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Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence · 1920 · 9 lists
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The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · 1948 · 0 lists
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill · 1932 · 0 lists
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The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill · 1946 · 0 lists
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill · 1956 · 0 lists
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Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot · 1936 · 0 lists
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The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot · 1967 · 0 lists
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932 · 17 lists
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 0 lists
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Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway · 1930 · 0 lists
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Beauty and Sadness
Yasunari Kawabata · 1964 · 0 lists
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Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges · 2005 · 5 lists
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Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges · 1960 · 0 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1962 · 13 lists
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov · 1951 · 0 lists
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Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 · 15 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 0 lists
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Burmese Days
George Orwell · 1934 · 2 lists
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The English Teacher
R. K. Narayan · 1945 · 0 lists
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Vendor Of Sweets
R. K. Narayan · 1967 · 0 lists
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1989 · 0 lists
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Endgame
Samuel Beckett · 1957 · 0 lists
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Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett · 1959 · 0 lists
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Poems of W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden · 1979 · 0 lists
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The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947 · 7 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow · 1953 · 11 lists
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Herzog
Saul Bellow · 1961 · 10 lists
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow · 1975 · 3 lists
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The First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968 · 2 lists
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Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1969 · 2 lists
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn · 1962 · 0 lists
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Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima · 1949 · 0 lists
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima · 1956 · 0 lists
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
