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1.Moby
Dick by Herman Melville
Even if you’re allergic to allegory,
Moby Dick is a great adventure story and a compelling description of
one man’s obsession.
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The quixotic adventures of the brave knight Don
Quixote and Sancho Panza, his humble squire. Its rich
characterizations and ironic tone have earned it the designation as
the first modern novel.
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3.
Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen Beneath Austen’s acerbic wit and
keen character-studies is one of the best romance stories ever
written.
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4.
Tom
Jones by Henry Fielding
The bawdy tale of Tom Jones, who starts life as an
abandoned infant and charms his way through life towards his
ultimate fortune and happiness.
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The
Odyssey by
Homer Part ancient history, part fantasy, and
nobody's quite sure exactly where the border between the two lies.
The Odyssey is a great adventure story and a broadening
experience. It reminds one that human nature never changes but human
culture does. While Odysseus is the prototypical hero of our modern
age, brave and crafty, ancient Greece as depicted here was a very
violent, very foreign and very politically incorrect world.
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6.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain A book that all ages can enjoy, with
adventure, social commentary and humor. Twain said, “A classic is
something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to
read.”
Huckleberry Finn is the exception to Twain’s own rule.
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
With the French Revolution as the backdrop, this is
the life story of Jean Valjean, who steals a loaf of bread to feed
his starving children and becomes a criminal pursued by detective
Javert.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, set during the Napoleonic wars in Russia, is
an epic and passionate human story within the bounds of Tolstoy’s
deterministic view of history.
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David Copperfield by
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens’s nostalgic and
semi-autobiographical novel of childhood and young adulthood in
nineteenth-century England,
David Copperfield is at times wistful, scathing and
hilarious.
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10.
Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky Raskolnikov, a
poverty-stricken student and self-described genius, theorizes that
compassionate ends excuse evil means. This leads to his murder of a
St. Petersburg pawnbroker. He is overcome with guilt, and it is
Dostoyevsky’s narrative of his tortured psyche that make
Crime and Punishment such an exceptional psychological
thriller.
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