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The Well-Read Retiree: Classics - Page 2

Our retired maverick English Teacher comes up with 51 classics of literature he feels should be read and reread. He set 50 as the list limit with only one title per author, but could not decide between "Dubliners" and "Ulysses", so he changed the limit to 51, with 2 works by Joyce.
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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
41
Charles Dickens
Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu)
Tao Te Ching
42
Lao-Tzu
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
43
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Thus Spake Zarathustra
44
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
45
Henry Fielding
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
46
James Joyce
Uncle Silas (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
Uncle Silas
47
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
48
Leo Tolstoy
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White
49
Wilkie Collins
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
50
D. H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
51
Emily Brontë
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