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Invitation to the Classics - Page 2

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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Odes of John Keats
Odes of John Keats
41
Democracy in America (Alexis De Tocqueville)
Democracy in America
42
Alexis De Tocqueville
The Essays of Emerson
The Essays of Emerson
43
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
44
Frederick Douglass
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
45
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
46
Emily Dickinson
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
47
Herman Melville
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
48
Gustave Flaubert
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
49
Charles Dickens
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
50
Fear and Trembling (Sǿren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling
51
Sǿren Kierkegaard
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
52
George Eliot
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
53
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
54
Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
55
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
56
Henry James
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
57
Mark Twain
Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ
Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ
58
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
59
Joseph Conrad
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners
60
Joyce
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
61
Franz Kafka
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
62
Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)
Four Quartets
63
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost Poems
Robert Frost Poems
64
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
The Screwtape Letters
65
C.S. Lewis
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses
66
Waiting for God (Simone Weil)
Waiting for God
67
Simone Weil
Letters and Papers From Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Letters and Papers From Prison
68
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
69
Flannery O'Connor
Greenleaf (Flannery O'Connor)
Greenleaf
70
Flannery O'Connor
Revelation (Flannery O'Connor)
Revelation
71
Flannery O'Connor
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
72
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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