Literature

Classical education is more important now than ever. 12 great works of literature that every young man must read, and why (thread) 🧵

1. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (c.1321)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
3. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
4. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
5. Le Morte d’Arthur - Thomas Malory (1485)
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1616)
8. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
9. Beowulf (c. 8th century)
10. The Odyssey - Homer (c.8th century)
11. The Iliad - Homer (c.8th century)
12. The Bible

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