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  1. Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · 2h 23m
  2. MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · 1h 51m
  3. MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1h 48m
  4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 2h 16m
  5. The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · 1h 8m
  6. A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · 2h 44m
  7. The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 33m
  8. The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde · 2h 31m
  9. The Tao Teh KingLaozi · 1h 1m
  10. The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx · 1h 10m
  11. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 22m
  12. Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles · 1h 57m

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By era

  1. 01Ancient PhilosophyWhere Western thought begins.44
  2. 02Theology & Medieval ThoughtFaith seeking understanding.6
  3. 03Early Modern & EnlightenmentDoubt, reason and daring to know.25
  4. 04EmpiricismKnowledge starts with experience.9
  5. 05German IdealismKant, Hegel and the architecture of reason.14
  6. 0619th-Century PhilosophyA century of big systems and bigger doubts.26
  7. 07American Philosophy & PragmatismSelf-reliance, experience and ideas judged by what they do.24
  8. 08Analytic PhilosophyClarity above all.4

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The best-known books

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  1. The OdysseyHomer · 10h 33m
  2. Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · 10h 43m
  3. Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 10h 59m
  4. The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · 44h 22m
  5. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 34h 35m
  6. DraculaBram Stoker · 14h 9m
  7. FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 6h 44m
  8. HamletWilliam Shakespeare · 3h 11m
  9. Moby DickHerman Melville · 20h 5m
  10. UlyssesJames Joyce · 28h 40m
  11. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 4h 37m
  12. Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky · 19h 52m

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