The greatest pieces of literature written: OF ALL TIME

Discover the greatest pieces of literature of all time—timeless classics and iconic books that shaped history. Explore must-read masterpieces from legendary authors across generations.

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge …
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Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey

Story of the Stamper family and their struggles in the Oregon timber country.
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions …
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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

A book about love and courage and decency and glory. It is written with a wisdom that washes the mind and cools it. With an …
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Three Novels

by Samuel Beckett

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized …
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The Great Gatsby

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865­–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius …
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Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told …
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote–pursuing …
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

by William Shakespeare

After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of …
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The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, …
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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by laboring as Dust Bowl migrants.
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