Teddy Rook Book Club

A Tale of Two Cities

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens • 1859 • ~340 pages

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Revolution, sacrifice, and resurrection in London and Paris.

Anna Karenina

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy • 1877 • ~864 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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Beowulf

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beowulf

Anonymous • 1000 • ~120 pages

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The oldest surviving epic in English. Heroism, monsters, and the fleeting nature of glory.

Candide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Candide

Voltaire • 1759 • ~130 pages

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Crime and Punishment

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1866 • ~545 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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Don Quixote

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes • 1605 • ~1072 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 14

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Faust, Part I

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Faust, Part I

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808 • ~200 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 19

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Fear and Trembling

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard • 1843 • ~160 pages

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The knight of faith and the teleological suspension of the ethical. A profound meditation on Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac.

Hamlet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hamlet

William Shakespeare • 1600 • ~152 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 46

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Leaves of Grass

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman • 1855 • ~450 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 42

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Macbeth

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Macbeth

William Shakespeare • 1606 • ~90 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 46

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Meditations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius • 180 • ~192 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 2

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Moby-Dick

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville • 1851 • ~635 pages

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Epic tale of obsession and the sea. Ahab’s pursuit of the white whale is one of literature’s greatest studies in monomania and the sublime.

Nicomachean Ethics

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle • -350 • ~200 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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The foundation of Western moral philosophy. What is the good life? Virtue as a habit and the golden mean.

On the Origin of Species

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin • 1859 • ~502 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 11

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Paradise Lost

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paradise Lost

John Milton • 1667 • ~350 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 4

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Pride and Prejudice

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen • 1813 • 432 pages A timeless romance of manners, wit, and the perils of first impressions. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy navigate love, class, and personal growth in Regency England.

Swann's Way

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Swann’s Way

Marcel Proust • 1913 • ~450 pages

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The famous madeleine moment. Memory, time, and the search for lost meaning. The beginning of one of the greatest novels ever written.

The Aeneid

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Aeneid

Virgil • -19 • ~400 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 13

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin • 1791 • ~300 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 1

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The Brothers Karamazov

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1880 • ~840 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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The Divine Comedy

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri • 1321 • ~432 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 20

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The Federalist Papers (Selections)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Federalist Papers (Selections)

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay • 1788 • ~250 pages

Harvard Classics Vol. 43

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The Iliad

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Iliad

Homer • -750 • ~450 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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The Magic Mountain

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann • 1924 • ~700 pages

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A young man visits a sanatorium in the Alps and stays for seven years. A sweeping novel of ideas about time, illness, and European civilization on the brink of war.

The Master and Margarita

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov • 1967 • ~402 pages

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Satan visits Soviet Moscow. A brilliant, funny, and profound novel about art, courage, and the devil in a totalitarian society.

The Odyssey

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Odyssey

Homer • -800 • ~350 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 22

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The Pilgrim's Progress

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan • 1678 • ~320 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 15

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The Prince

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli • 1513 • ~140 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 36

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The Republic

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Republic

Plato • -380 • ~300 pages Great Books of the Western World

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The Sun Also Rises

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway • 1926 • ~250 pages

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The Lost Generation in Paris and Pamplona. Sparse, powerful prose about love, bullfighting, and the search for meaning after the Great War.

The Wealth of Nations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith • 1776 • ~800 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 10

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee • 1960 • ~376 pages

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A classic of American literature about justice, prejudice, and growing up in the South. Atticus Finch remains one of the great moral heroes in fiction.

Utopia

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Utopia

Thomas More • 1516 • ~128 pages Harvard Classics Vol. 36

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War and Peace

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy • 1869 • ~1225 pages

Great Books of the Western World

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