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tknowlton's "Essential Western Canon"

Nine books that Harold Bloom identifies as essential in chapter one of his book.
1. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
2. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
3. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
4. The Torah  
5. A Harmony of the Four Gospels: The New International Version
by Orville Daniel
  
6. Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
7.
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 The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
8. Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Signet Classics)
by William Shakespeare
  
9. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
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Created by tknowlton on Apr 12, 2009.