◊ The Epic of Gilgamesh c. 2150 BCE
◊ The Book of the Dead (trans. and ed. E.A. Wallis Budge) c. 1600 BCE
◊ The Bible (King James Version) c. 1450 BCE - 95 AD
◊ The Iliad by Homer (trans. William Cowper) c. 800 BCE
◊ The Odyssey by Homer (trans. William Cowper) c. 800 BCE
◊ Aesop’s Fables c. 650 BCE, first collected c. 300 BCE
◊ Mahabharata c. 500 - 400 BCE
◊ Ramayana (trans. Ralph T.H. Griffith) c. 500 - 100 BCE
◊ The Oresteia by Aeschylus 458 BCE
◊ Medea by Euripides 431 BCE
◊ Alcestis by Euripides 438 BCE
◊ Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (trans. Francis Storr) 406 BCE
◊ Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles (trans. Francis Storr) 429 BCE
◊ Antigone by Sophocles (trans. Francis Storr) 442 BCE
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◊ Lysistrata by Aristophanes 411 BCE
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◊ The Birds by Aristophanes 414 BCE
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◊ The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes c. 300 BCE
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◊ Metamorphoses by Ovid (trans. Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden et al.) 8 AD
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◊ Aeneid by Virgil (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor) 19 BCE
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◊ The Golden Ass by Apuleius c. 158 - 190
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◊ Beowulf (trans. Francis Barton ) c. 700 - 1000
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◊ A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights/The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night) (trans. Sir Richard Francis
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◊ The Mabinogion (trans. Lady Charlotte Schreiber) c. 1060 - 1200
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◊ The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki c. 1185 - 1333
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◊ Nibelungenlied (Song of the Nibelungs) (trans. George Henry Needler) c. 1200
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◊ The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri 1321
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◊ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. Paul Deane) c. 1350 - 1400
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◊ The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. John Payne ) 1353
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◊ Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory vol. 1; vol. 2 1470
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◊ Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais 1532
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◊ The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser 1590
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◊ Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 1604 quarto; 1616 quarto 1592
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◊ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare c. 1595
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◊ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare c. 1595
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◊ The Merchant of
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◊ Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare 1597
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◊ Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 1599
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◊ As You Like It by William Shakespeare 1599
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◊ Hamlet by William Shakespeare c. 1600
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◊ Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 1601
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◊ Othello by William Shakespeare c. 1603
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◊ Macbeth by William Shakespeare c. 1603 - 1606
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◊ King Lear by William Shakespeare c. 1603 - 1606
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◊ Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (trans. John Ormsby) 1604
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◊ The Tempest by William Shakespeare c. 1611
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◊ The Misanthrope by Moliere 1666
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◊ The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan 1678
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◊ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 1719
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◊ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 1722
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◊ Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 1726
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◊ Pamela by Samuel Richardson 1740
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◊ Clarissa by Samuel Richardson: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3; vol. 4; vol. 5; vol. 6; vol. 7; vol. 8; vol. 9 1748
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◊ Fanny Hill by John Cleland 1748
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◊ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 1749
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◊ Candide by Voltaire 1751
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◊ Dream of the Red Chamber (also translated as The Story of the Stone) by Cao Zhan: vol. 1; vol. 2 mid-18th century
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◊ Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne 1759 - 1769
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◊ The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 1764
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◊ The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774
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◊ The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 1794
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◊ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 1811
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◊ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 1813
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◊ Emma by Jane Austen 1816
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◊ Persuasion by Jane Austen 1816
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◊ Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818
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◊ Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 1819
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◊ Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Bayard Taylor ) 1829
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◊ The Red and the Black by Stendhal 1830
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◊ The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (trans. Isabel Hapgood) 1831
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◊ Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (trans. Henry Spalding ) 1832
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◊ Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 1835 (though based on older oral literature)
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◊ Father Goriot (Pere Goriot) by Honore de Balzac 1835
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◊ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 1838
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◊ Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842
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◊ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 1843
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◊ The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, pere 1844
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◊ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, pere 1844
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◊ Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 - 1848
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◊ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1847
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◊ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850
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◊ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 1850
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◊ Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 1851
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◊ Bleak House by Charles Dickens 1852 - 1853
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◊ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (trans. Eleanor Aveling ) 1856
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◊ Phantastes by George Macdonald 1858
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◊ Oblomov by Victor Goncharov 1859
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◊ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 1859
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◊ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860
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◊ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 1860 - 1861
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◊ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 1862
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◊ Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862
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◊ Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky (trans. Constance Garnett ) 1866
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◊ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 1868
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◊ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Louise and
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◊ The Idiot by Feodor Dostoevsky (trans. Eva Martin ) 1869
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◊ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 1870
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◊ Erewhon by Samuel
◊ The Possessed (also translated as The Devils or Demons) by Feodor Dostoevsky 1872
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◊ Middlemarch by George Eliot 1872
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◊ Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 1873
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◊ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett ) 1873 - 1877
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◊ A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 1879
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◊ The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoevsky (trans. Constance Garnett ) 1880
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◊ Germinal by Emile Zola 1885
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◊ Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886
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◊ Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 - 1914
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◊ Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890 (trans. George Egerton)
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◊ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1890
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◊ Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 1891
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◊ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 1895
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◊ The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 1895
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◊ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895
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◊ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 1895
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◊ Dracula by Bram Stoker 1897
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◊ The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 1898
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◊ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 1899
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◊ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 1900
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◊ Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 1900
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◊ Kim by Rudyard Kipling 1900 - 1901
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◊ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel
◊ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 1904
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◊ The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 1909 - 1910
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◊ Remembrance of Things Past (also translated as In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust (trans. M. Scott Moncrieff) 1909 - 1922
-Swann’s Way
-Within a Budding Grove
-The Guermantes Way
-Cities of the Plain
-The Captive
-The Sweet Cheat Gone
-Time Regained (this last trans. Stephen Hudson)
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◊ Howards End by E.M. Forster 1910
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◊ Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm 1911
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◊ Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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◊ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 1912
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◊ O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 1913
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◊ Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 1913
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◊ Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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◊ The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence 1915
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◊ The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 1915
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◊ The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 1915
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◊ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 1915
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◊ My Antonia by Willa Cather 1918
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◊ Winesburg,
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◊ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920
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◊ Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 1920
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◊ Ulysses by James Joyce 1920
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◊ The Trial by Franz Kafka (trans. David Wyllie) 1925
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◊ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
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◊ Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 1925
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◊ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 1927
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◊ The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 1929
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◊ Animal Farm by George Orwell 1945
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◊ 1984 by George Orwell 1949
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