2021 Reading Classic Books Challenge - hosted by brokenspine

Read a classic written before 1800
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

The Theban Plays #1–3

Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, Sophocles

430 pages • first pub -450 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging dark reflective fast-paced
The Letters of a Portuguese Nun by Mariana Alcoforado

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Mariana Alcoforado

108 pages • first pub 1668 (editions)

nonfiction classics reflective medium-paced
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

688 pages • first pub 1390 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging funny slow-paced
The Iliad by Homer

The Iliad

Homer

576 pages • first pub -750 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging slow-paced
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory, R.M. Lumiansky

Le Morte D'Arthur

Le Morte d'Arthur #1-2

Thomas Malory, R.M. Lumiansky

750 pages • first pub 1485 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy challenging informative slow-paced
Ethics by Edwin M. Curley, Stuart Hampshire, Baruch Spinoza, Edwin Curley

Ethics

Edwin M. Curley, Stuart Hampshire, Baruch Spinoza, Edwin Curley

186 pages • first pub 1677 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy reflective slow-paced
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