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(Re)Reading the Classics

I have read many of these works before, though not in years, and some only in part. These are the books with which, if I'm really going to take my writing more seriously, I need a greater familiarity.

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Pride and Prejudice

Phase 1

Works before the novel, or roughtly 1600.

  1. Metamorphoses, Ovid, 8 AD
  2. Five Books of Moses, c. 1200-200 BC ??
  3. Iliad, Homer, c. 800-700 BC
  4. Odyssey, Homer, c. 800-600 BC
  5. New Testament, c. 45-140 AD
  6. Beowulf, Anon, c. 700 AD
  7. Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, 1470 AD
  8. Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1380 AD
  9. Selected works, William Shakespeare, c. 1592-1613 AD
    1. Richard III, 1592
    2. The Comedy of Errors, 1592
    3. The Taming of the Shrew, 1593
    4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595
    5. Romeo and Juliet, 1596
    6. The Merchant of Venice, 1596
    7. Julius Caesar, 1599
    8. Hamlet, 1600
    9. Twelfth Night, 1602
    10. Othello, 1603
    11. King Lear, 1603
    12. Macbeth, 1603
    13. The Tempest, 1611

Phase 2

Works after the advent of the novel.

  1. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
  2. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851
  3. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884
  4. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1909-1922
  5. Ulysses, James Joyce, c. 1920

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