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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
1
Homer
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
2
Aeschylus
The Persian Wars (Herodotus)
The Persian Wars
3
Herodotus
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
4
The Bacchae & Other Plays (Euripides)
The Bacchae & Other Plays
5
Euripides
Five Comedies of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
Five Comedies of Aristophanes
6
Aristophanes
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
7
Plato
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nichomachean Ethics
8
Aristotle
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
9
Virgil
Saint Augustine--Confessions
Saint Augustine--Confessions
10
Beowulf (Michael Alexander (Translator))
Beowulf
11
Michael Alexander (Translator)
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica
12
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
13
Dante Alighieri
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
14
Anonymous
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Second Shepherds' Play (The Wakefield Master)
The Second Shepherds' Play
16
The Wakefield Master
Everyman (Anonymous)
Everyman
17
Anonymous
Utopia (Thomas More)
Utopia
18
Thomas More
Luther's Small Catechism
Luther's Small Catechism
19
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
20
Niccolò Machiavelli
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
21
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
22
Miguel De Cervantes
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
23
William Shakespeare
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
24
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
25
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
26
William Shakespeare
Donne: The Divine Poems (Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.)
Donne: The Divine Poems
27
Donne, J. Ed. Gardner, H.
The Temple (George Herbert)
The Temple
28
George Herbert
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
29
John Milton
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Pensees
30
Blaise Pascal
The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Pilgrim's Progress
31
John Bunyan
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
32
Jonathan Swift
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
33
George Berkeley
Rasselas
Rasselas
34
The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
The Life of Samuel Johnson
35
James Boswell
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
36
Saint Augustine
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist Papers
37
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
38
Jane Austen
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
39
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads
40
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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