Six Professors from "Esteemed" Universities Favorite Books

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Democrat and Chronicle (Newspaper), 48 Books

A newspaper article from the "Democrat and Chronicle" from 1982 where they asked 6 esteemed professors to list books that theyh would recommend to anyone as worth reading during a lifetime.

The voters were: Louis Rubin, Joseph Summers, R.W.B Lewis, Clark Blaise, Edward Rosenheim, and William Chace

This list was originally published in 1982 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
105 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
124 Antigone Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
2088 Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill 1931 American English
1123 Ajax Sophocles -440 Greek Ancient greek
1125 Women of Trachis Sophocles -450 Greek Ancient greek
1124 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
137 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 1839 French French
126 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
985 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
29 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
128 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
303 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 British English
226 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 French French
1744 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume 1779 British English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
307 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
1251 A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1920 Austrian German
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
344 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
21 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
10958 Stop Time Frank Conroy 1967 American English
3827 Stories Of Three Decades Thomas Mann 1936 German German
10261 The Ascent Of Man Jacob Bronowski 1973 British English
665 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
352 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
388 The Complete Works of Plato Plato -387 Greek Ancient greek
404 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 1787 American English
2809 The Golden Apples Eudora Welty 1949 American English
3630 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
8231 Old Times On The Mississippi Mark Twain 1876 American English
3600 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
52 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
110 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
13 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian