{"id":4598,"date":"2024-07-07T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:21:26","slug":"the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been thinking about reading some of the classics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a list of books that I acquired from Artificial Intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list didn’t include full canons, such as those from Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which of these have you read? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you recommend any of these?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there any books on this list that you haven’t read – but wished that you had?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve placed an asterisk beside the titles that I’ve read.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ancient Classics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Iliad<\/strong> by Homer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Odyssey<\/strong> by Homer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Aeneid<\/strong> by Virgil<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Metamorphoses<\/strong> by Ovid<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. The Republic<\/strong> by Plato<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Classical Literature<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. The Divine Comedy<\/strong> by Dante Alighieri<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. The Canterbury Tales<\/strong> by Geoffrey Chaucer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Don Quixote<\/strong> by Miguel de Cervantes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Renaissance to Enlightenment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Paradise Lost<\/strong> by John Milton<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Gulliver’s Travels<\/strong> by Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Candide<\/strong> by Voltaire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        19th Century<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
          \n
        1. Pride and Prejudice<\/strong> by Jane Austen<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Moby-Dick<\/strong> by Herman Melville<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Wuthering Heights<\/strong> by Emily Bront\u00eb *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. Jane Eyre<\/strong> by Charlotte Bront\u00eb *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. Great Expectations<\/strong> by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. War and Peace<\/strong> by Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        7. Anna Karenina<\/strong> by Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        8. Crime and Punishment<\/strong> by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        9. Madame Bovary<\/strong> by Gustave Flaubert *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        10. Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/strong> by Victor Hugo *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        11. The Brothers Karamazov<\/strong> by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        12. Middlemarch<\/strong> by George Eliot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Early 20th Century<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Ulysses<\/strong> by James Joyce<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. The Great Gatsby<\/strong> by F. Scott Fitzgerald *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          3. 1984<\/strong> by George Orwell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          4. Brave New World<\/strong> by Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          5. To the Lighthouse<\/strong> by Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          6. The Sound and the Fury<\/strong> by William Faulkner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Mid to Late 20th Century<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
              \n
            1. Catch-22<\/strong> by Joseph Heller<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            2. One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/strong> by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            3. Lolita<\/strong> by Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            4. Invisible Man<\/strong> by Ralph Ellison<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            5. To Kill a Mockingbird<\/strong> by Harper Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            6. Beloved<\/strong> by Toni Morrison *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            7. The Catcher in the Rye<\/strong> by J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            8. Slaughterhouse-Five<\/strong> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

              Non-English Classics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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              1. The Tale of Genji<\/strong> by Murasaki Shikibu (Japan)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              2. Journey to the West<\/strong> by Wu Cheng’en (China)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              3. One Thousand and One Nights<\/strong> (Middle Eastern collection)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              4. Things Fall Apart<\/strong> by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              5. The Master and Margarita<\/strong> by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                Modern Classics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                  \n
                1. The Road<\/strong> by Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                2. The Handmaid’s Tale<\/strong> by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                3. Midnight’s Children<\/strong> by Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                  This list includes works from various cultures and periods, representing a broad spectrum of the human experience through literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  I’ve been thinking about reading some of the classics. This is a list of books that I acquired from Artificial Intelligence. The list didn’t include full canons, such as those from Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. Which of these have you read? Would you recommend any of these? Are there any books on this list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-1ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}