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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 (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  2. 2.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  3. 3.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  4. 4.
    The Torah

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  5. 5.
    A Harmony of the Four Gospels: The New International Version
    by Orville Daniel

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  6. 6.
    Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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  7. 7.
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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  9. 9.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Created by tknowlton on Apr 12, 2009.