Books: What to Know
Classic Stories Without the Homework
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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1,001 classics
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Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Edmund Spenser · poetry
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Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
Edmund Spenser · poetry
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Standard Selections
Robert I. Fulton · ideas
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Statesman
The Eleatic Stranger treats a city like a flock of sheep, and it gets surprisingly technical.
Plato · dialogue
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Stories from the Iliad
H. L. -1913 Havell · novel
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Stories from the Odyssey
H. L. -1913 Havell · novel
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Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)
John Addington Symonds · play
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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3
W. E. Gladstone · myth
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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Symposium
Seven men agree to praise love at a dinner party; nobody stops talking until sunrise.
Plato · dialogue
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 02
Jean de La Fontaine · poetry
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 19
Jean de La Fontaine · short story
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Tales Of Hearsay
Joseph Conrad · short story
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Tam O'Shanter
Robert Burns · poetry
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Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1
A Scythian shepherd trades his crook for a crown, cages the Turkish Emperor, and redefines the limits of human ambition.
Christopher Marlowe · play
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Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2
Christopher Marlowe · play
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Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite
A man takes in a holy beggar. The beggar immediately starts asking for his wife.
Molière · play
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Terence's Andrian, a comedy, in five acts
Terence · play
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
A village girl loses her innocence to a liar and her reputation to everyone else.
Thomas Hardy · novel
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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
A tax collector turned moralist sketches the 17th-century French court with enough sharp detail to make everyone recognize their neighbor.
Jean de La Bruyère · ideas
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The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero · ideas
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The Acharnians
Aristophanes · play
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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 1 (of 3)
Alain René Le Sage · novel
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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 2 (of 3)
Alain René Le Sage · novel
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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 3 (of 3)
Alain René Le Sage · novel
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
A puppet wants to be a real boy, but keeps getting distracted by swindling foxes.
Carlo Collodi · novel
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The Adventures of Puss in Boots
myth
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
A boy wants to avoid school, witness his own funeral, and find treasure without doing any actual chores.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen · novel
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The Aeneid
A survivor flees a burning city, survives a goddess's grudge, and finally finds a place to land.
Virgil · myth
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The Aeneid of Virgil
Virgil · poetry
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The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose
Virgil · poetry
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The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse
Virgil · myth
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The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse
Virgil · poetry
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
A king returns from ten years of war to find his welcome mat is a death trap.
Aeschylus · play
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The Age of Dryden
Richard Garnett · history
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The Age of Tennyson
Hugh Walker · history
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The Amores; or, Amours
Ovid · poetry
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
A teacher keeps talking, his students keep asking, and the local government keeps ignoring the advice.
Confucius · ideas
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The Apology
Socrates faces his executioner, declares he has no desire for a long, senile life, and walks away.
Xenophon · ideas