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World Lit From 1600 to the Present: Basic Seminar Texts
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1
by:
M.H. Abrams
4.21 avg rating — 9,180 ratings
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Anna Karenina
by:
Leo Tolstoy
4.10 avg rating — 906,346 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
by:
M.H. Abrams
4.22 avg rating — 3,573 ratings
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The Portable Enlightenment Reader
by:
Isaac Kramnick
3.84 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
by:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.38 avg rating — 369,550 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
by:
Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,877 ratings
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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
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James Joyce
4.12 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
by:
Ray Bradbury
3.97 avg rating — 2,719,184 ratings
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Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
4.21 avg rating — 830,251 ratings
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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François Rabelais
3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
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War and Peace
by:
Leo Tolstoy
4.17 avg rating — 357,001 ratings
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The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
by:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Things Fall Apart and Related Readings
by:
Chinua Achebe
3.49 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
by:
Robert Chandler
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
by:
H. Baker
4.22 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
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The New Press
3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Arabian Nights
by:
Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,397 ratings
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The Portable Faulkner
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William Faulkner
4.30 avg rating — 888 ratings
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Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
3.70 avg rating — 51,357 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
3.71 avg rating — 363,693 ratings
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James Joyce
by:
Richard Ellmann
4.34 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Masterwork Revealed
by:
Joseph Campbell
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)
by:
Simon Schama
4.02 avg rating — 1,936 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: 1650 To the Present
by:
Maynard Mack
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)
by:
Simon Schama
4.03 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
by:
William Shakespeare
4.42 avg rating — 18,030 ratings
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The American Future: A History
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Simon Schama
3.69 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
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
by:
William Shakespeare
4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend
by:
J.C.J. Metford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance
by:
Mary Spongberg
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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And Quiet Flows the Don
by:
Mikhail Sholokhov
4.11 avg rating — 12,975 ratings
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
by:
Roberto González Echevarría
3.82 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Victorian People and Ideas
by:
Richard D. Altick
3.77 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
by:
Jane Austen
4.29 avg rating — 4,633,738 ratings
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
by:
Cleanth Brooks
3.83 avg rating — 386 ratings
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A Treasury of Asian Literature: Arabia, India, China, and Japan
by:
John D. Yohannan
3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Volumes 1 and 2)
by:
Sandra M. Gilbert
4.31 avg rating — 460 ratings
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
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Friedrich Schiller
3.94 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary
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Njabulo S. Ndebele
4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Don Karlos: Infant von Spanien
by:
Friedrich Schiller
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
by:
Daniel J. Boorstin
4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
by:
David Levering Lewis
4.21 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Uhuru's Fire: African Literature East to South
by:
Adrian A. Roscoe
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
by:
Phillis Levin
4.30 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by:
Haruki Murakami
4.14 avg rating — 306,606 ratings
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English Romantic Poetry
by:
Stanley Appelbaum
3.93 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Enlightenment
by:
Roy Porter
3.57 avg rating — 116 ratings
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John Donne and the New Philosophy
by:
Charles M. Coffin
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shakespearean Tragedy
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A.C. Bradley
4.11 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Classics of Modern Fiction
by:
Irving Howe
3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Tin Drum
by:
Günter Grass
3.95 avg rating — 45,959 ratings
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The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama: A Global Perspective
by:
Michael L. Greenwald
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction
by:
Colm Tóibín
3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
by:
Thomas Mann
3.92 avg rating — 16,075 ratings
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L'Œuvre au noir
by:
Marguerite Yourcenar
4.02 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
by:
Harold Scheub
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900
by:
Peter Thomson
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Black Voices
by:
Abraham Chapman
4.36 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Combined Set
by:
M.H. Abrams
4.14 avg rating — 806 ratings
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New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature
by:
Abraham Chapman
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
by:
Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
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Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)
by:
Juan Williams
4.45 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)
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Stanley Appelbaum
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
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
by:
Will Durant
4.15 avg rating — 17,693 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by:
Harriet Ann Jacobs
4.17 avg rating — 56,858 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell
4.13 avg rating — 40,911 ratings
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The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,195 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by:
Gabriel García Márquez
4.12 avg rating — 1,070,082 ratings
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An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
by:
Nicholas Rzhevsky
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
by:
Rob Spillman
3.73 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Portable Voltaire
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Voltaire
4.20 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
by:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.42 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Transcendentalism: A Reader
by:
Joel Myerson
3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Slave Narratives
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William L. Andrews
4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
3.52 avg rating — 234,632 ratings
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Dubliners
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James Joyce
3.84 avg rating — 170,156 ratings
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments
by:
Arthur F. Kinney
3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature, Volume 2
by:
Emir Rodríguez Monegal
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Five Jacobean Tragedies
by:
Thomas Middleton
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
by:
Vincent B. Leitch
4.13 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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The Metaphysical Poets
by:
Helen Gardner
4.21 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Classics of the Modern Theater: Realism and After
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ALVIN B. KERNAN
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
by:
Basil Willey
3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Year of the French
by:
Thomas Flanagan
4.09 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
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The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2)
by:
Thomas Flanagan
4.11 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The End of the Hunt (Irish Trilogy, Book 3)
by:
Thomas Flanagan
4.21 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under
by:
Phyllis F. Edelson
3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
by:
Álvaro Uribe
3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Middlemarch
by:
George Eliot
4.03 avg rating — 174,985 ratings
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre
by:
Simon Shepherd
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Classic Irish Drama
by:
William Arthur Armstrong
3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by:
Donald Keene
4.03 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Nana / Germinal
by:
Émile Zola
4.25 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
by:
Anton Chekhov
4.17 avg rating — 6,711 ratings
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Ibsen's Selected Plays
by:
Henrik Ibsen
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
by:
Mark Twain
4.46 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
by:
Daniel David Moses
3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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