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/lit/izens: if you had to make a list of 20 books you think best represent the western canon, which would you choose?

>> No.15468360

>>15468350
>represent
Why this word? What do you mean?

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Plato's Republic
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Odyssey
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Bible, Gospel of Mathew if you're specific
The City of God by Augustine
The Prince by Machiavelli
Beowulf
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare but if i had to pick a play Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet
Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle.
Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther
Westminster Standards
Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
War and Peace
The Hobbit
Essays on Catholicism, Socialism and Liberalism
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Path to Freedom by Michael Collins
Ulysses by Joyce
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

Last one isn't because its a good book or a reflection of Western Civilization but the realization of how wrong Fukyama was.

>> No.15468565

hehheee funny monkey :)

>> No.15468571

One of my most vivid childhood dreams was being at my Grandmas house, but a monkey peaked through her window and the entire room began to spin