Since I have finished my undergraduate studies, my objective today was to tidy up my desk, which is engulfed with textbooks and reference material. I thought to myself, I don't need all this anymore. The spanish textbook and dictionary can be placed on a distant bookshelf. While rummaging through old notes and anthropological articles, I found my old reading ledger. The reading ledger came with a bookish set that contained bookplates, which I never used, matching library checkout cards, and pencils. Inside the reading ledger it includes a check list of the 100 world classics according to W. John Campbell PH.D. From the list it is apparent that Mr. Campbell likes Shakespeare.
From: The Book of Great Books, A Guide to 100 World Classics
The List:
1. Aeneid by Virgil
2. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
3. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
6. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8. Beowulf by Anonymous
9. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
10. The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
13. Candide by Voltaire
14. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
17. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
19. Daisy Miller by Henry James
20. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
21. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
22. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
23. The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante
24. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
25. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
26. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
27. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
28. Euthyphro, Apology , Crito, Phaedo by Plato
29. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
30. Faust, Parts 1 and 2 by J. W. von Goethe
31. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
32. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
33. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
34. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
35. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
36. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
37. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Ftzgerald
38. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
39. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
40. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
41. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
42. Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
43. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
44. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
47. Iliad by Homer
48. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
49. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
50. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
51. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
52. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
53. King Lear by William Shakespeare
54. Light in August by William Faulkner
55. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
56. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
57. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
58. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
59. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
60. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
61. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
62. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
63. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
64. Native Son by Richard Wright
65. 1984 by George Orwell
66. Odyssey by Homer
67. The Oedipus Trilogy by Soppocles
68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
69. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
70. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
72. Othello by William Shakespeare
73. Paradise Lost by John Milton
74. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
75. The Plague by Albert Camus
76. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
77. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
78. The Prince by Niccoló Machiavelli
79. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
80. Republic by Plato
81. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
82. Richard III by William Shakespeare
83. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
84. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
85. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
86. Silas Marner by George Eliot
87. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
88. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
89. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
90. The Stranger by Albert Camus
91. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
92. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
93. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
94. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
95. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
96. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
97. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
98. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
99. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
100. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1 comment:
Thanks for this list. I was looking for it the past few days.
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