I am planning to apply to Harvard in two years. On the Harvard’s website there is recommendation to read classics of the world literature. I know what kind of writers and books I should read, but could you please list a couple of books that are basics, please?
Tags: Classics, Literature, World
–The Iliad–Homer
–The Canterbury Tales–Chaucer
–Crime and Punishment–Dostoevsky
–Doctor Faustus–Marlowe
–Dracula–Stoker
–Great Expectations–Dickens
–Heart of Darkness–Conrad
–Les Miserables–Hugo
–Middlemarch–Eliot
–The Oedipus Trilogy: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus–Sophocles
–A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man–Joyce
–Tess of the d’Urbervilles–Thomas Hardy
–War and Peace–Tolstoy
–Anna Karenina–Tolstoy
a couple of years back they polled authors around the world with this question
Don Quixote by Cervantes came out top
The rest are on herehttp://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guide…