Note:
All lists are political. The political statement of this list is
not really one
we care to make. The list is insufficiently
inclusive of women and non-Europeans. The works presented here
are, however, ones that have been highly influential in English
literary history. They are those most likely to be expected
of
aspiring graduate students . We think they are wonderful books--but
so are many others not listed here.
| Homer: |
The Iliad and The Odyssey |
| Sappho: |
Poems |
| Aeschylus: |
Oresteia |
| Sophocles: |
Oedipus Rex |
| Euripides: |
The Trojan Women |
| Vergil: |
The Aeneid |
| Dante: |
The Divine Comedy |
| Murasaki: |
The Tale of Genji |
| Boccaccio: |
The Decameron |
| Rabelais: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Cervantes: |
Don Quixote |
| Racine: |
Phedre |
| Moliere: |
Tartuffe |
| De Lafayette: |
The Princess of Cleves |
| Voltaire: |
Candide |
| Goethe: |
Faust |
| Stendahl: |
The Red and the Black |
| Flaubert: |
Madame Bovary |
| Tolstoy: |
War and Peace
Anna Karenina |
| Dostoyevsky: |
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment |
| Ibsen: |
A Doll's House |
| Chekhov: |
The Cherry Orchard |
| Kafka: |
The Trial |
| Proust: |
Swann's Way |
| Mann: |
The Magic Mountain |
