World Lit From 1600 to the Present: Basic Seminar Texts

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 4.21 avg rating — 9,179 ratings
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,242 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century 4.22 avg rating — 3,572 ratings
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The Portable Enlightenment Reader
The Portable Enlightenment Reader 3.84 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,495 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,838 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version
by: Nina Baym
4.01 avg rating — 711 ratings
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The Portable James Joyce
The Portable James Joyce 4.12 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,769 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,205 ratings
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
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War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,973 ratings
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The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Things Fall Apart and Related Readings
Things Fall Apart and Related Readings 3.49 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida 4.29 avg rating — 625 ratings
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The Romantic Ladies / The Misanthrope / Don Juan or The Feast of the Statue / Tartuffe / George Dandin / The Would-be Gentleman / The School for Wifes / The School for Wifes Critisized / The Miser: Comedies of Molière
The Romantic Ladies / The Misanthrope / Don Juan or The Feast of the Statue / Tartuffe / George Dandin / The Would-be Gentleman / The School for Wifes / The School for Wifes Critisized / The Miser: Comedies of Molière
by: H. Baker
4.22 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,396 ratings
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The Portable Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner 4.30 avg rating — 888 ratings
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Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,348 ratings
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,640 ratings
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James Joyce
James Joyce 4.34 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Masterwork Revealed
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Masterwork Revealed 4.04 avg rating — 771 ratings
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A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (A History of Britain, #2)
A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (A History of Britain, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: 1650 To the Present
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: 1650 To the Present 3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings
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A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 (A History of Britain, #3)
A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 (A History of Britain, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth 4.42 avg rating — 18,027 ratings
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The American Future: A History
The American Future: A History 3.69 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments 4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Four Comedies: As You Like It / The Tempest / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Twelfth Night
Four Comedies: As You Like It / The Tempest / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Twelfth Night 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend
Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance
Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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And Quiet Flows the Don
And Quiet Flows the Don 4.11 avg rating — 12,974 ratings
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories 3.82 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Victorian People and Ideas
Victorian People and Ideas 3.77 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,993 ratings
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry 3.83 avg rating — 386 ratings
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A Treasury of Asian Literature: Arabia, India, China, and Japan
A Treasury of Asian Literature: Arabia, India, China, and Japan 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Volumes 1 and 2)
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Volumes 1 and 2) 4.31 avg rating — 460 ratings
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On the Aesthetic Education of Man 3.94 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary
South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Don Karlos: Infant von Spanien
Don Karlos: Infant von Spanien 3.51 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader 4.21 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Uhuru's Fire: African Literature East to South
Uhuru's Fire: African Literature East to South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English
The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English 4.30 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,573 ratings
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English Romantic Poetry
English Romantic Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment 3.57 avg rating — 116 ratings
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John Donne and the New Philosophy
John Donne and the New Philosophy 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespearean Tragedy 4.11 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Classics of Modern Fiction
Classics of Modern Fiction 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,957 ratings
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The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama: A Global Perspective
The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama: A Global Perspective 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Death in Venice and Other Tales 3.92 avg rating — 16,075 ratings
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L'Œuvre au noir
L'Œuvre au noir 4.02 avg rating — 5,935 ratings
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900
The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Black Voices
Black Voices 4.36 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Combined Set
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Combined Set 4.14 avg rating — 806 ratings
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New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature
New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do 4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
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Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)
Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books for History: U.S.) 4.45 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)
Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present-25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoods
Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present-25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoods
by: Jay David
4.24 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers 4.15 avg rating — 17,691 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy 4.13 avg rating — 40,910 ratings
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The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,173 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,945 ratings
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An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture 4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing 3.73 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Portable Voltaire
The Portable Voltaire
by: Voltaire
4.20 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.42 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Transcendentalism: A Reader
Transcendentalism: A Reader 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Slave Narratives
Slave Narratives 4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,621 ratings
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Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,138 ratings
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments
Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments 3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature, Volume 2
The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature, Volume 2 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Five Jacobean Tragedies
Five Jacobean Tragedies 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 4.13 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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The Metaphysical Poets
The Metaphysical Poets 4.21 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Classics of the Modern Theater: Realism and After
Classics of the Modern Theater: Realism and After 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Seventeenth-Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion
The Seventeenth-Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Year of the French
The Year of the French 4.09 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
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The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2)
The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2) 4.11 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The End of the Hunt (Irish Trilogy, Book 3)
The End of the Hunt (Irish Trilogy, Book 3) 4.21 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,969 ratings
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Classic Irish Drama
Classic Irish Drama 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4.03 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Nana / Germinal
Nana / Germinal 4.25 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard 4.17 avg rating — 6,710 ratings
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Ibsen's Selected Plays
Ibsen's Selected Plays 4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Mississippi Writings: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mississippi Writings: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Pudd’nhead Wilson 4.46 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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