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The Iliad (c. 750 BCE) is one of the oldest works of literature in existence and continues to stir the imagination of contemporary readers thanks to its epic depictions of martial prowess, heroism, and tragedy.

Aiming to bring the legendary story to a new audience, Samuel Butler eschewed the traditional poetical style in favor of a prose translation more akin to that used in the 18th and 19th centuries without losing any of the beauty of the original. The narrative details the fall of Troy and the many tragedies that befall both sides of the war. Heroes clash in sweeping and brutal battle as the Gods watch on in delight, Kings rise and fall by their honor-bound mandates while their men toil in the mundanity of war, and lovers die desperately trying to turn the tides of fate. The Iliad is a meditation on fate, honor, and heroism, painting a world in which the chaos of humanity’s clashing vanities means something greater to not only ourselves, but the Gods above.

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What lies in wait at the nexus of heartbreak and unrequited love? In teasing out the answer to this question, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe produced The Sorrows of Young Werther, one of history’s first bestsellers and the book that would propel Goethe to celebrity status and the heights of the Sturm and Drang movement that defined Germany’s literary scene during the late 1700s.

The novel follows Werther, a young and sensitive artist, through his letters written to his friend Wilhelm concerning his all-encompassing yet unrequited love for Charlotte, a woman already engaged to a man eleven years her senior. The devastation that ensues turned the only 26-year-old Goethe into a celebrity almost overnight, with figures like Napoleon Bonaparte extolling the story as one of the greatest novels of their time. Ultimately, Goethe would distance himself from Young Werther, regretting the fame it brought him and the unwanted attention it placed on the companions of his youth that he drew inspiration from. Even in his lament, Geothe’s undeniable mastery of language shines through: “If Werther had been my brother and I had killed him, I could scarcely have been so persecuted by his avenging ghost.” History, however, will always remember The Sorrows of Young Werther as one of the greatest works of Romanticism ever produced and an enduring glimpse into the potential for love, rejection, and tragedy that lives within us all.

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The Return of the Native (1878) returns readers to the fictional Edgon Heath, a quiet village on the English countryside, where a taboo tale of thwarted desire pits societal norms against humanity’s natural appetites.

Through a cast of tragic characters, Hardy constructs a web of deceit and heartbreak in the quiet village of Edgon Heath, its denizens shackled by their conflicting desires for romance and status. Eustacia Vye takes center stage, her agency and flawed ideals propelling the plot along towards its deadly conclusion. To undercut these notably modern themes and characters, the novel also retains an air of classical tragedy. The more each character struggles against their fate, the more they are ensnared by the tendrils of time, place, and action. Those who wish to leave the quiet village to live a lavish life find themselves trapped, while those who wish only to live by their good works find a tumultuous world that refuses to accept them. It is a cautionary tale, a clear warning that when ephemeral societal norms trump humanity’s fundamental drive towards passion and love, only grief will follow.

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Plato’s Republic is structured as a dialogue between Socrates and three different challengers, laying out Plato’s views on justice, utopia, and the attributes of the ideal citizen within such a society.

Plato purports that true justice provides meaning for both the individual and the community. As a hammer derives meaning from its true purpose of driving home the nail, so too does every person find meaning in their true purpose of creating and maintaining a just society. Broadening his scope, he then posits that the ideal society would consist of three classes: the philosopher kings who dictate laws and morals, the warriors to provide protection, and the producers to keep the wheels turning. Plato’s seminal work is still fiercely critiqued and studied within professional and academic circles with the goal of better understanding and improving the opalescent fabric of society. Many influential works of philosophy and literature, including Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984, have taken The Republic as a key starting point for the dissection and discussion of societal norms and trends.

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Still a staple in history classrooms to this day, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is at once a portal to a crucible moment in American history and a lyrical investigation into the origins of shame, bravery, and redemption within the human spirit.

In the face of unrelenting and senseless brutality, why do some people flee while others stand their ground? This question is at the heart of the novel. The narrative follows Private Henry Fleming, a young soldier full of romantic ideals about war and heroism. In the heat of battle, that bravery and heroism melt away to reveal something closer to cowardice and self-preservation. Fleming feels an overwhelming desire to get far away from the bloodshed and never look back, even if that means living with the shame of deserting his comrades. Crane forces the reader to wrestle with this internal dilemma amidst a shockingly realistic depiction of one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history, a conflict whose razor-wire line of morality pitted countryman against countryman and brother against brother.

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"Of things, some depend upon ourselves, others do not depend upon ourselves." This simple opening line of The Enchiridion (c. 125 CE), the defining handbook on stoicism, contains Epictetus’ entire philosophy boiled down to its most essential: control what you can control and do not concern yourself with what you cannot.

A direct influence on legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus prescribes constant vigilance for the burgeoning stoic. Vigilance not just of the physical world, but of the internal reactions to the physical world. It is those reactions, he argues, that cause true discomfort and pain. To achieve this vigilance, it is necessary to ground oneself in logic and reason, seeing the trials and tribulations of the world as trials to overcome by force of will and strategy rather than personal attacks or unscalable barriers. For the modern reader, The Enchiridion offers a simple and direct guide for living unshackled by the burdens of hyper-individualization and a digestible doorway into stoic philosophy.

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In the formative years of democracy for any nation, it is essential to find cultural ties that bind together seemingly disparate sects of society. In Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death of the Archbishop, she posits that religious faith, wielded not as a tool of domination but of coexistence, can bring meld what seem at first as incompatible civilizations.

Set in the late 19th century in the newly acquired New Mexico territory, the novel is based on the lives of Catholic missionaries Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf. Jean Marie Latour, the analogue for Jean-Baptiste Lamy, acts as the protagonist and the main instrument of Cather’s views on religion as a vessel for coexistence. Latour demonstrates that faith leaders must extend a hand outward to those outside their flock and offer them kindness and succor before any talk of conversion or even of God can begin. That being said, the book is far from idealistic. Cather does not shy away from the brutal realities of the Colonial Southwest, showing many of the establishment priests and bishops to be corrupted by their power and cruel towards the indigenous population. In a world where political and social divisions grow wider by the day, Death of the Archbishop offers modern readers an optimistic look at how cultures can coexist and thrive under shared values and mutual respect.

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Written during one of the lowest points in German author Herman Hesse’s life, Steppenwolf is a rumination on the eternal outsider—the individual who cannot find joy in society and for whom isolation brings only psychic torment.

The novel’s protagonist Harry Haller believes he is split into two beings: the civilized “man” and the instinctual “wolf.” Throughout the novel, Hesse goes to great lengths to dispel this myth, positing through multiple characters that the self is multi-faceted and that the illusion of duality is what traps Haller in his misery. The novel operates on several layers of literary irony: its name is derived from the German steppe wolf despite taking place entirely in a dense urban environment, the manuscript itself is presented as a manuscript written by protagonist Henry Haller with commentary by his landlady’s nephew, and the narrative is a showcase for isolationist thought and debaucherous decline while ostensibly keeping the cosmic door open for change and redemption. It is this final aspect that Hesse felt was the most misunderstood, lamenting in later editions that readers focused too heavily on the tragic elements of Henry Haller’s life without considering underlying possibility of transcendence and recovery. Ultimately, Hesse’s clarity on the dangers of self-isolation acts as a tonic to a modern world beset by isolation and individualism.

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When a man collapses from a stab wound in the queue for a West End performance, Inspector Grant must piece together the truth from a band of disinterested witnesses and the lone possession of the dead man: a loaded gun.

A subversive and underappreciated gem from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, The Man in the Queue exposes the fallibility of circumstantial evidence and paints the picture of a truly human detective, one who can make mistakes despite what seems to be irrefutable logic. In Scotland Yard’s Inspector Grant, Josephine Tey subverts the detective genre in a way that will ring true to modern readers who enjoy complex protagonists over one-note symbols of virtue and argumentation. Originally taking the pseudonym Gordon Daviot, Tey would go on to publish five more volumes following Inspector Grant under her own name, each building off this impressive start and even receiving film adaptations from the likes of Alfred Hitchock.

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Decline and Fall (1928) is a biting satire and black comedy concerning British society in the 1920s. Evelyn Waugh drew from his own experiences to craft the novel, including his schooldays at Lancing college, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his time spent as a teacher at the Arnold House in northern Wales.

The narrative follows Paul Pennyfeather, a modest and by all appearances average theology student who is wrapped up in the drunken antics of the Bollinger Club, a high-society group known for raucous engagements. He is thereupon expelled from Oxford and travels to Wales to find work as a teacher. There begins his spiral down the moral vacuum, as he takes up with a wealthy widow, the Honourable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, who operates a chain of upscale brothels in Latin America. He even goes so far as to travel to Marseille on her behalf to grease the palms of French authorities who are holding up the widow’s trafficked girls bound for Brazil. Waugh’s intention in writing was never subtle, taking deliberate aim at various parts of British society he found unsavory, including cultural confusion, moral disorientation, and social bedlam. However, it must be remembered that this is a work of satire and, in the author’s own words from the first edition, “IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.”

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Mary Wollestonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) is a foundational piece of feminist philosophy and staple in modern philosophy classrooms.

The essay itself was written in response to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord’s 1791 report to the French National Assemble, which called for the restriction of education for French women to only the domestic spheres. While Wollstonecraft never argued for the true equality of sexes (her own ideals were more rooted in religious morality and the maintenance of certain gender roles), she argued fervently against the double standards that plagued the women of her time. Chief among these were the exclusion of women from higher education and the responsibility of women to remain virtuousness in marriage while men could sin as they pleased. She also argued against the rampant sensibility of the time and suggested that, to become productive members of society, women must decouple themselves from the excessive emotions they have been taught to cultivate for centuries. In the style of the text itself, Wollstonecraft’s tendency to combine male and female sensibilities shines in her notably philosophical framing of the essay as a “treatise” and her personal usage of “I” and “you” and expressive punctuation like dashes and exclamation marks. While undoubtedly an important piece of feminist thought, historians and philosophers stress the importance of resisting the temptation to impress modern ideals of gender, revolution, and politics onto someone whose views were very much shaped by the prevailing politics and moral beliefs of her own time.

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Originally contracted to report on the American prison system, Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the nascent country and found that a greater study needed to take place, that which showed why representative democracy seemed to be thriving in America while failing across the world. The results of this study are compiled in his landmark work, Democracy in America, the first volume of which would be published in 1835 and the second in 1840.

The book fundamentally changed the way Americans perceived their own country and how the world perceived Americans. Tocqueville dives deep into several unique aspects of American society, most notably its foundation in social equality, the seemingly impossible mix of religious fervor and political freedom, and the vast differences between the different states and regions. He also predicts that the US and Russia will rise as rival superpowers, that race will continue to dominate American politics even after the abolition of slavery, and that majority rule could mutate into social coercion without the minority feeling safe to dissent. Tocqueville’s outsider-focused research and prescient ideas make the book a refreshing and valuable resource for modern readers who want to deepen their understanding of American history and the history of Democracy as a whole.

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Dostoevsky’s most turbulent and brutal novel, The Possessed (also translated as Demons/Devils/The Devils) (1872) is a tragedy in its truest form and a biting critique of nihilism and all other “isms” that plagued late 19th century Russian society.

Similar in form to his other works, the novel is “polyphonic,” relying less on the commentary of the narrator and more on the restless collision of his characters and their ideals. The many branching characters and storylines serve to form a powerful allegory of the potentially devastating results of the public shift towards political and moral nihilism occurring during the author’s lifetime in Russian society. Influenced by real-world events like the murder of Ivan Ivanov by the radical group known as the Nechayvists, Dostoevsky envisions a small Russian town that is brought to the point of collapse after being caught in the epicenter of an attempted revolution. Dostoevsky, in his continuous pursuit of humanity, diverges from his contemporaries by painting nihilists not as inherently evil and amoral but as ordinary people who are driven towards debaucherous behavior by their own faults, slipping into nihilist and fatalist beliefs without the safety net of religion and clear morality to catch them.

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The archetypal rags-to-riches story, Nicholas Nickleby (1839) follows the titular Nicholas and his family as they fall onto hard times after the death of their father. With no other options, they are forced to beg for help from their wealthy and ruthless uncle, Ralph Nickleby.

True to form, Ralph sets each of the family members on equally unpleasant paths: Nicholas to teach at a notoriously abusive boarding school and his sister Kate and his mother to live in squalid conditions while Kate works for a milliner who humiliates her on a daily basis. Through Nicholas’ cunning, courage, and good nature, he is able to escape the boarding school and free his mother and sister from their oppressive arrangements. He falls madly in love with a wealthy artist who is also wrapped up in his uncle’s schemes and, in the end, manages to free her as well, leading to the downfall of Ralph and the ascendence of Nicholas and his family. True to form, Charles Dickens delivers the story with astute prose and witty humor, crafting a narrative that is at once satirical, melodramatic, and heartfelt.

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The twenty-third entry in the Oz series and the ninth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, the inheritor of the series after L. Frank Baum’s passing, Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) features everything an Oz reader could want: a journey to the Emerald City, strange inhabitants with even stranger predicaments, and magic items that never fail to save the day in unexpected ways.

Peter Brown, a Philadelphia-born boy first introduced in The Gnome King of Oz (1927), finds himself intolerably bored on a rainy day. With no baseball to be played, he holes up in his attic and, while perusing the sack of gold coins gleaned from his last journey to Oz, notices one of the coins is different from the rest. When he rubs the odd coin and thinks of the Land of Oz, he suddenly finds himself transported back, haphazardly placed in the backyard of the titular Jack Pumpkinhead. Jack agrees to take him to the Emerald City, and along the way the two meet many strange characters, most notably the friendly yet discouraged Snif the Iffin, a griffin who has lost his “gr-” and can no longer growl. With the help of Jack, Snif, and many other strange characters, Peter does his darndest to settle local disputes while making his way back to the Wizard of Oz, his only way back home.

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The Tragedy of Richard the Third (1597), frequently shortened to Richard III, chronicles the Machiavellian ascension and untimely toppling of King Henry III of England.

The finale of Shakespear’s first historical tetralogy is labeled both a history and a drama and is notable for its early adaptation of the anti-hero as its protagonist, the titular King Richard both acknowledging and lamenting his own wretchedness while lashing from one mood to the next in ways irrevocable to those around him and the story itself. As with most works from the Bard, the language of Richard III has crept its way across the centuries, with “Now is the winter of our discontent” being adapted into book titles (Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent), referenced in film and television (Star Trek, House, M.D., Mad Men, The Simpsons, and many more), and used to label contemporary moments of crisis (the UK “Winter of Discontent” from 1978-1979).

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Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928) is the controversial final novel of D.H. Lawrence that, both on and off the page, challenged the rigid norms governing class, love, and sexuality that dominated early-19th century society.

The novel explores in shocking detail the life and desires of the titular Lady Chatterly. After her handsome and able-bodied husband sustains an injury during The Great War that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, Lady Chatterly begins an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, in an attempt to find the passionate satisfaction that her husband is now unable and unwilling to offer. Through this affair, Lawrence explores the gulf between the social classes of the time and the idea that love requires stimulation of both the mind and body, a particularly controversial notion for 1929, especially with respect to women. The novel was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial, ultimately won by the publisher (who, it should be noted, sold exponentially more copies of the book than it would have without the publicity driven by the scandal), that still serves as the benchmark for freedom of expression in literature. Despite its initial publication after the trial in 1932, the “complete and unexpurgated” edition was not released in the US and UK until 1960.

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Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) is a semi-autobiographical and picaresque novel written by German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmeslhausen.

The novel follows in the style of Spanish picaresque novels, which are defined largely by their lower-class, roguish, and often darkly appealing heroes as they expose the corrupt nature of society through their courage and cunning. The novel follows the titular Simplicius, a wanderer who is so simple that he does even know his own name, leading to his acquiring the now-famous moniker. Simplicius roams the chaotic landscape brought on by the Thirty Year’s War, learning about the nature of the world from different teachers and pursuits. After his family is killed, he is taken in by a hermit before being conscripted to fight for the Imperial Army upon the hermit’s death. Combat, as it so often does, acts as a means of advancement for the young Simplicius and leads him towards a life of bourgeois decadence. In the end, he resolves to become a hermit himself, convinced the evils of the world were widespread and root deep.

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