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Lady Gray's "Literary Sciences Reading List"

This Fall, I’m starting my Literary Sciences study in The Netherlands. We were given this list to read before we start. 150 days for 113 books: Let the race begin!

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1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
by Anonymous
  
2.
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 The Odyssey
by Homer
  
3.
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 Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
  
4.
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 The Aeneid
by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)
  
5.
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 Roelandslied
by Anonymous
  
6.
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 Il Canzoniere
by Petrarca
  
7.
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 The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
by Anonymous
  
8.
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 Beowulf  
9.
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 La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
  
10. The Decameron (Signet Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
11.
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 Yvain, knight of the lion
by Chretien de Troyes
  
12. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
13.
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 De vermakelijke lotgevallen van Tijl Uilenspiegel (Dutch Edition)  
14. The Lus'iads (The World's Classics)
by Luis De Camoes
  
15. The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
by Baldassare Castiglione
  
16.
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 Lof der Zotheid
by Desiderius Erasmus
  
17. Montaigne: Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
  
18.
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 Utopia
by Thomas More
  
19.
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 Gargantua et Pantagruel
by Rabelais
  
20.
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 Gerusalemme Liberate
by Torquato Tasso
  
21.
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 The Man in the Moon
by Francis Godwin
  
22. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
23.
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 Le Cid
by Pierre Corneille
  
24. Marlowe - The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
  
25.
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 Paradise Lost
by John Milton
  
26.
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 Pensees
by Blaise Pascal
  
27.
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 Contes de ma mère l’Oye (Stories of Mother Goose)
by Charles Perrault
  
28. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
29. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
30. Hyperion
by Friedrich Holderlin
  
31.
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 Lettres Persanes
by Montesquieu
  
32. An Essay on Man
by Alexander Pope
  
33.
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 The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
  
34.
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 Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
35. Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
36. Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Francois Voltaire
  
37.
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 The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
38. Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
  
39.
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 Een nagelaten bekentenis (Dutch Edition)
by Marcellus Emants
  
40.
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 Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
  
41.
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 Verzen
by Herman Gorter
  
42.
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 The Book of Songs
by Heinrich Heine
  
43.
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 Nachtstücke
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
  
44.
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 Heinrich von Kleist
by Der Zerbrochene Krug
  
45. Collected Poems
by Stéphane Mallarmé
  
46.
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 Lelia
by George Sand
  
47. The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics)
by Stendhal
  
48.
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 Les Illusions perdues
by Balzac
  
49.
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 Les Fleurs du Mal
by Baudelaire
  
50.
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 Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
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Created by Lady Gray on Mar 26, 2009.