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Literary Canon and Classics for Assiduous Readers and Completist Book Collectors

Combining these collections or lists, in their varied editions: Harold Bloom’s Western Literary Canon, Penguin Classics, Puffin Classics, Modern Library, Everyman’s Library, Library of America, Easton Press, Folio Society.

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1. Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse  
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
3. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
by E. A. Wallis Budge
  
4.
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 Holy Bible (Authorized King James Version)  
5. The Holy Bible: King James Version
by Barry Moser
  
6. The Apocrypha - The Folio Society  
7.
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 Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers
by R. Travers Herford
  
8. Mahabharata
by William Buck
  
9.
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 The Mahabharata: A Play
by Jean-Claude Carriere
  
10. The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
by Barbara Miller
  
11. The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
12. Ramayana
by William Buck
  
13. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)
by R. K. Narayan
  
14. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
15. The Iliad (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Robert Fitzgerald
  
16. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
17. The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Homer
  
18. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
by Homer
  
19.
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 Homer, The Iliad
by Robert-translated by; Knox, Bernard-introduction and notes by Fagles
  
20. The Odyssey (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Homer
  
21. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
22. The Odyssey (Puffin Classics)
by Homer
  
23.
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 Homer, The Odyssey
by Robert-translated by; Knox, Bernard-intrduction and botes by Fagles
  
24. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
25. Hesiod: The Works and Days, Theogony, the Shield of Herakles  
26. Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics)
by Hesiod
  
27.
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 Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age
by Guy Davenport
  
28.
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 The Odes of Pindar
by Pindar
  
29. The Odes (Penguin Classics L209)
by Pindar
  
30. The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus
  
31. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (Everyman's Library)
by Aeschylus
  
32.
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 The Oresteia Aeschylus Translated Robert Fagles
by Aeschylus
  
33. Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Aeschylus
  
34. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian (Penguin Classics)
by Philip Vellacott
  
35. Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles
  
36. The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Sophocles
  
37. The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles
  
38. Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by Sophocles
  
39. Electra and Other Plays (Classics)
by Sophocles
  
40. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides II
by Euripides
  
41. Heracles and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
  
42. Alcestis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
  
43. Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
  
44. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides III (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Euripides
  
45. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
by Euripides
  
46. The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
  
47. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides IV (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Euripides
  
48. Orestes and Other Plays (The Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
  
49. Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Euripides
  
50. Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion: Adaptations from Euripides
by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  
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Created by Laurie A on Oct 08, 2007.