tknowlton's "Essential Western Canon"

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Nine books that Harold Bloom identifies as essential in chapter one of his book.

  1. 1.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer
  2. 2.
    The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer
  3. 3.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  4. 4.
    The Torah

  5. 5.
    Harmony of the Four Gospels, A: The New International Version
    by Orville E. Daniel
  6. 6.
    Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri
  7. 7.
    The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  9. 9.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Created by tknowlton on Apr 12, 2009.
 

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