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Classic Literature

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Title Genre Author Date
Hamlet Drama William Shakespeare 1601
The Tempest Drama William Shakespeare 1611
Macbeth Drama William Shakespeare 1606
Iliad Poem Homer 8th century BC
Pride and Prejudice Novel Jane Austen 1813
Moby-Dick Novel Herman Melville 1851
The Great Gatsby Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1925
Paradise Lost Poem John Milton 1667
Faust Poem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
King Lear Drama William Shakespeare 1605
The Merchant of Venice Drama William Shakespeare 1596
1984 Novel George Orwell 1948
A Midsummer Night's Dream Drama William Shakespeare 1595
The Scarlet Letter Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850
Crime and Punishment Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1866
Romeo and Juliet Drama William Shakespeare 1594
As You Like It Drama William Shakespeare 1599
Oedipus Tyrannus Drama Sophocles 430 BC
Jane Eyre Novel Charlotte Brontë 1847
The Divine Comedy Poem Dante Alighieri 1314
The Canterbury Tales Poem Geoffrey Chaucer 1387
Othello Drama William Shakespeare 1622
Candide Novel Voltaire 1759
Little Women Novel Louisa May Alcott 1868
Vanity Fair Novel William Makepeace Thackeray 1848
Billy Budd: Foretopman Novel Herman Melville 1891
Julius Caesar Drama William Shakespeare 1599
Our Town Drama Thornton (Niven) Wilder 1938
Aeneid Poem Virgil 19 BC
To Kill a Mockingbird Novel (Nelle) Harper Lee 1960
A Streetcar Named Desire Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1947
War and Peace Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1865
Les Misérables Novel Victor(-Marie) Hugo 1862
The Grapes of Wrath Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1939
A Farewell to Arms Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1929
A Tale of Two Cities Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1859
Odyssey Poem Homer 8th century BC
Chicago Poem Carl (August) Sandburg 1916
Heart of Darkness Novella Joseph Conrad 1902
The Call of the Wild Novel Jack London 1903
Much Ado about Nothing Drama William Shakespeare 1598
For Whom the Bell Tolls Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1940
Anna Karenina Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1877
Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852
The Waste Land Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1922
Pilgrim's Progress Novel John Bunyan 1678
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Novel Mark Twain 1884
The Red Badge of Courage Novel Stephen Crane 1895
Pygmalion Drama George Bernard Shaw 1912
Twelfth Night Drama William Shakespeare 1623
The Jungle Novel Upton (Beall) Sinclair 1906
Ulysses Novel James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce 1922
Lolita Novel Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov 1955
Long Day's Journey Into Night Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1956
The Catcher in the Rye Novel J(erome) D(avid) Salinger 1951
A Doll's House Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1879
The Taming of the Shrew Drama William Shakespeare 1593
Don Quixote Novel Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605
Great Expectations Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1861
Wuthering Heights Novel Emily Brontë 1847
Animal Farm Novel George Orwell 1945
Brave New World Novel Aldous (Leonard) Huxley 1932
Things Fall Apart Novel (Albert) Chinua(lumogu) Achebe 1958
The Three Musketeers Novel Alexandre Dumas (père) 1844
The Sun Also Rises Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1926
Oliver Twist Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1838
The Count of Monte Cristo Novel Alexandre Dumas (père) 1845
David Copperfield Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1850
One Hundred Years of Solitude Novel Gabriel García Márquez 1967
The Crucible Drama Arthur Miller 1953
A Raisin in the Sun Drama Lorraine Hansberry 1959
The Tyger Poem William Blake 1794
Beowulf Poem Anonymous 8th century
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1797
Catch-22 Novel Joseph Heller 1961
Ivanhoe Novel Sir Walter Scott 1820
All the King's Men Novel Robert Penn Warren 1946
The House of the Seven Gables Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Novel Thomas Hardy 1891
Death of a Salesman Drama Arthur Miller 1949
The Merry Wives of Windsor Drama William Shakespeare 1600
Antigone Drama Sophocles 441 BC
Lord of the Flies Novel William (Gerald) Golding 1954
Ode on a Grecian Urn Poem John Keats 1819
Inferno Poem Dante Alighieri c. 1310-1314
Decameron Poem Giovanni Boccaccio 1353
The Rape of the Lock Poem Alexander Pope 1714
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Mark Twain 1876
Main Street Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1920
Sense and Sensibility Novel Jane Austen 1811
Slaughterhouse Five Novel Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1969
All Quiet on the Western Front Novel Erich Maria Remarque 1929
The Color Purple Novel Alice (Malsenior) Walker 1982
The Sound and the Fury Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1929
Richard III Drama William Shakespeare 1593
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1961
Lyrical Ballads Collection William Wordsworth
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1798
The Glass Menagerie Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1945
Absalom, Absalom! Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1936
The Turn of the Screw Novel Henry James 1898


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