top ten literary works

[chris abraham]

Professors'  Top Ten List of Most Important Literary Works of All Time

1)	Homer, Iliad
2)	Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
3)	Bible, The Book of Genesis
4)	Dante, The Divine Comedy
5)	Plato, The Republic
6)	Shakespeare, King Lear
7)	Homer, Odyssey
8)	Aristotle, The Poetics
9)	Shakespeare, As You Like It
10	James, The Portrait of a Lady
			-Professor Ormand Seavey

1)	Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus
2)	T.E. Lawrence, The Mint
3)	Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire
4)	F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
5)	Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
6)	Robert Frost, "Home Burial" (poem)
7)	Henry Roth, Call it Sleep
8)	The Declaration of Independence
9)	John Reed, Ten Days that Shook The World
10)	Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
			-Professor Jamie Brown

1)	Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence
2)	Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
3)	Petronius, Satyricon
4)	The Bible
5)	Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo
6)	Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
7)	Sun Tzu, The Art of War
8)	Edgar Allen Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
9)	J. G. Ballard, Crash
10)	History of the Iroquois Confederacy
			-Professor Jonathan White

1)	James Joyce, Ulysses
2)	Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
3)	Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era
4)	George Eliot, Middle March
5)	Gilbert & Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic
6)	Richard Poirier, A World Elsewhere
7)	Edward Said, Beginnings
8)	Shakespeare, Hamlet
9)	Beckett, ENDGAME
10)	Stanley Fish, Surprised by Sin
			-Professor Heather Cook (Calhon)


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