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Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:13:54 2018 No.12233923 [Reply] [Original]

top ten books written in the english language? or top five if you dont want to name ten. list 'em please.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:18:45 2018 No.12233939 1. King James Bible 2. Hamlet 3. Whale book 4. The Origin of Species 5.The Culture of Critque

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:21:17 2018 No.12233953 >>12233939 i should have stipulated, i meant fiction books, literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:28:43 2018 No.12233973 >>12233953 alright then i will add Paradise Lost, The faerie Queene, and Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:32:51 2018 No.12233988 File: 45 KB, 499x499, pepe_blink_by_fazboggle-d97slqh.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12233973 But then that's 6 books of fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 18:34:02 2018 No.12233996 >>12233988 i owe this bamboozling to my own incaution

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 15 19:01:31 2018 No.12234098 >>12233988 redpilled

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 00:11:24 2018 No.12235296 >>12233939 >5.The Culture of Critque

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 00:15:49 2018 No.12235304 >>12233988 not a big fan of the origin of species either 2bh

Anonymous Sun Dec 16 09:34:49 2018 No.12236783

>>12233923
Literature:
Shakespeare's Plays
Milton's Verse
Donne's Sermons (this is a mammoth, largely unexplored territory in English letters)
Gibbon's History
Boswell's Life
Johnson's Lives
Coleridge's Biographia
Wordsworth's Verse
Emerson's Essays
Dickinson's Verse & Letters
*though I acknowledge these 'best,' few are my favorites; also, Donne is more a figurehead of a neglected form than the best composer of sermons.
The best English novelist is Dickens; the best American novelist is Melville; the best hybrid is Henry James, if not the best overall--

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 09:36:49 2018 No.12236788 Read Infinite Jest ten times.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 09:47:11 2018 No.12236817 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Finnegans Wake Ulysses Watt At Swim Two Birds Murphy The Third Policeman A Tale of a Tub A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Gulliver's Travels

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 16 10:16:14 2018 No.12236911 Tom Jones Treatise on Human Nature Pickwick Papers Book of Common Prayer The Ambassadors

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