Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: B. The Aristocratic Age

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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,576 members
229 reviews
4.1
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Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]
by Jonathan Swift
411 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
8 Members
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
25,008 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
699 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,773 members
304 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding
8,985 members
104 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Defoe
840 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
8 Members
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Candide
by Voltaire
23,071 members
345 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2]
by Miguel de Cervantes
3,087 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,661 members
130 reviews
4
7 Members
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
20,364 members
197 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
by John Donne
1,064 members
4 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
by William Shakespeare
1,599 members
7 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
8,564 members
111 reviews
½ 3.5
5 Members
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7,327 members
106 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6,100 members
44 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Song of Roland
by Anonymous
6,217 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
by Fanny Burney
2,838 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Utopia
by Thomas More
13,660 members
135 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
11,405 members
133 reviews
4
3 Members
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke
3,278 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
by Samuel Richardson
2,852 members
48 reviews
2.9
3 Members
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Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
9,823 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus
4,556 members
59 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
8,054 members
57 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9,219 members
150 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays
by Christopher Marlowe
1,830 members
11 reviews
4
3 Members
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Troilus and Cressida
by Geoffrey Chaucer
2,108 members
9 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Princess of Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
2,589 members
60 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Complete Poems
by Andrew Marvell
786 members
3.9
2 Members
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Orlando Furioso
by Ludovico Ariosto
1,560 members
23 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Revenger's Tragedy
by Thomas Middleton
445 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The prose works of Jonathan Swift
by Jonathan Swift
19 members
2 Members
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The School for Scandal
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1,173 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
1,297 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by Tobias Smollett
1,676 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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La Vita Nuova
by Dante Alighieri
2,572 members
28 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Paradise Regained
by John Milton
372 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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40
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1,054 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,591 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
5,562 members
57 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
4,064 members
74 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
1,934 members
26 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Misanthrope / Tartuffe
by Molière
827 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
2,867 members
27 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith
3,503 members
63 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
1,680 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3,567 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
by Laurence Sterne
1,958 members
27 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
by Anónimo
3,071 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
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Froissart's Chronicles [complete]
by Jean Froissart
236 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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The Knight of Olmedo
by Lope de Vega
418 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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The Celestina
by Fernando de Rojas
2,472 members
61 reviews
½ 3.5
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Fuenteovejuna
by Lope de Vega
1,016 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
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57
The Poems of Alexander Pope
by Alexander Pope
289 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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58
A Tale of A Tub
by Jonathan Swift
612 members
13 reviews
½ 3.3
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59
Jonson: Complete Plays
by Ben Jonson
61 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7
Member
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60
Select Plays
by Francis Beaumont
60 members
1 review
3
Member
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61
Sermons
by John Donne
55 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
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62
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
935 members
17 reviews
½ 3.4
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63
The Complete Poems
by Thomas Wyatt
202 members
1 review
½ 4.7
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64
The poems of John Dryden
by John Dryden
71 members
5
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65
Life Is a Dream
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
2,025 members
29 reviews
4
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66
Complete Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Christopher Marlowe
124 members
1 review
4.1
Member
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67
Gargantua and Pantagruel
by François Rabelais
5,348 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
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68
The Rivals
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
592 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
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69
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (New Mermaids)
by Martin Wiggins
262 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
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70
Jerusalem Delivered
by Torquato Tasso
886 members
9 reviews
4
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71
The poems of Sir Walter Ralegh
by Sir Walter Raleigh
55 members
2 reviews
4.1
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72
The Lusiads
by Luís Vaz de Camões
1,875 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
The Poems of St. John of the Cross
by Saint John of the Cross
987 members
19 reviews
4.1
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74
Poems
by Henry Howard
40 members
1 review
4
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75
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
8,299 members
59 reviews
4.1
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EGBERTINA
76
Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
7,068 members
51 reviews
4
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EGBERTINA
77
Émile; or, On Education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2,110 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
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EGBERTINA
78
Gedichte
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77 members
5
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79
Elective Affinities
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2,299 members
28 reviews
3.8
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80
Areopagitica
by John Milton
405 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
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81
The Spectator
by Joseph Addison
216 members
2 reviews
4
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82
Samson Agonistes
by John Milton
239 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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83
Fables
by Jean de La Fontaine
2,219 members
19 reviews
3.9
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84
Roderick Random
by Tobias Smollett
810 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
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85
The temple : sacred poems and private ejaculations
by George Herbert
246 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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86
Robert Herrick
by Robert Herrick
74 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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87
The Essays
by Francis Bacon
2,550 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
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88
The Poems Of Richard Lovelace: Lucasta, Etc.
by Richard Lovelace
19 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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89
Orlando innamorato
by Matteo Maria Boiardo
201 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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90
Comus, Lycidas and Other Poems
by John Milton
2 members
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91
Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
5,780 members
46 reviews
3.9
Member
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92
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
2,362 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
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93
The Miser
by Molière
1,394 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
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94
Rameau's Nephew
by Denis Diderot
514 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
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95
A Defence of Poetry
by Sir Philip Sidney
373 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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96
The Way of the World
by William Congreve
722 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
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97
The Complete Poems
by Ben Jonson
307 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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98
History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]
by Edward Gibbon
3,639 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
99
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
2,825 members
29 reviews
3.9
100
The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
2,450 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3