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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as classical)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,207,967 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 341 times as classical)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,627 ratings — published -800
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as classical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,866,627 ratings — published 1813
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 251 times as classical)
avg rating 3.88 — 144,910 ratings — published -19
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as classical)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,981,904 ratings — published 1925
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as classical)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,024 ratings — published 8
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as classical)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,954,195 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as classical)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349,451 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as classical)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,914,147 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as classical)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,185,601 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as classical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,551,456 ratings — published 1948
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as classical)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,842,486 ratings — published 1590
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as classical)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,108 ratings — published -400
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as classical)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,625,796 ratings — published 1945
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as classical)
avg rating 3.73 — 239,428 ratings — published -429
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as classical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927,657 ratings — published 1818
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as classical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,102,149 ratings — published 1866
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as classical)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,485,595 ratings — published 1868
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,307,950 ratings — published 1811
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 123 times as classical)
avg rating 3.69 — 179,085 ratings — published -441
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as classical)
avg rating 4.28 — 358,430 ratings — published 180
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as classical)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,409 ratings — published -458
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as classical)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,233 ratings — published 1951
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as classical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,495,813 ratings — published 1897
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as classical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,038,238 ratings — published 1844
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as classical)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,048 ratings — published -430
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,063,856 ratings — published 1601
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as classical)
avg rating 4.05 — 994,839 ratings — published 1815
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as classical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,231,828 ratings — published 1954
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as classical)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,483 ratings — published -431
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as classical)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,868,213 ratings — published 1937
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as classical)
avg rating 4.10 — 941,955 ratings — published 1878
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as classical)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,237 ratings — published -450
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as classical)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,286 ratings — published 1623
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as classical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,881,129 ratings — published 1953
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as classical)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018,944 ratings — published 1859
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as classical)
avg rating 3.87 — 53,959 ratings — published -423
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as classical)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,477 ratings — published -2000
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as classical)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,865 ratings — published -411
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as classical)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,977 ratings — published 1862
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,668 ratings — published -380
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as classical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,461,256 ratings — published 1915
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,287 ratings — published 1321
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as classical)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,329,774 ratings — published 1952
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,470 ratings — published 1320
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as classical)
avg rating 3.80 — 880,307 ratings — published 1861
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as classical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,098,968 ratings — published 1932
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as classical)
avg rating 4.15 — 786,884 ratings — published 1817
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as classical)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,342,967 ratings — published 1885
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as classical)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,116 ratings — published -560
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.
With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.”
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With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.”
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“Pavlov’s dogs will drool at the site of any food,
So go ahead and ring the bell,
Sing a classical song about it and
Then advertises what sells”
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So go ahead and ring the bell,
Sing a classical song about it and
Then advertises what sells”
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