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What books are the most classic and essential books of all time,

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What books are the most classic and essential books of all time, books which are referenced throughout all other books and parodied and other books stand on the shoulders of? Probably Ulysses and Paradise Lost, stuff like that? I never read those.
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 18:24:48 Post No.8285477
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 18:24:48 Post No.8285477 [Report]
(In Western Civ.)
The Bible
The Illiad/Odyssey
Canterbury Tales
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
Don Quixote
Paradife Loss
Moby Dick
Ulysses
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 18:53:05 Post No.8285598
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 18:53:05 Post No.8285598 [Report]
>>8285477
nice list
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 18:57:33 Post No.8285623
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>>8285477
>Paradife Loss
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 19:03:07 Post No.8285643
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 19:03:07 Post No.8285643 [Report]
>>8285477

You could probably add:

some Jane Austen novels
Tolstoy and Doesteywewvskey
some Henry James novels
In Search of Lost Time
Short stories of Kafka
a little bit of Hemmingway
Plays of Beckett
Short stories of Borges
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