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100 Essential Penguin Classics

Fan of classic fiction or looking for a new read? Here’s a list of important Penguin Classics. We’re celebrating our 70th anniversary all year with the hashtag #PenguinClassics70!
  1. Far from the Madding Crowd Book Cover Picture
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    Far from the Madding Crowd

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  2. The Bloody Chamber Book Cover Picture
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    The Bloody Chamber

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  3. The Histories Book Cover Picture
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    The Histories

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  4. The River Between Book Cover Picture
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    The River Between

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  5. Les Miserables Book Cover Picture
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    Les Miserables

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  6. The Poetics of Space Book Cover Picture
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    The Poetics of Space

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  7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Book Cover Picture
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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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  8. On Being Different Book Cover Picture
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    On Being Different

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  9. Twelve Years a Slave Book Cover Picture
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    Twelve Years a Slave

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  10. My Inventions and Other Writings Book Cover Picture
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    My Inventions and Other Writings

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  11. White Noise Book Cover Picture
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    White Noise

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  12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Cover Picture
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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  13. Revolutionary Suicide Book Cover Picture
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    Revolutionary Suicide

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  14. Pride and Prejudice Book Cover Picture
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    Pride and Prejudice

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  15. Candide Book Cover Picture
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    Candide

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  16. Lady Chatterley's Lover Book Cover Picture
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    Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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  17. The Snow Leopard Book Cover Picture
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    The Snow Leopard

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  18. On the Road: The Original Scroll Book Cover Picture
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    On the Road: The Original Scroll

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  19. Metamorphosis and Other Stories Book Cover Picture
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    Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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  20. The Pillow Book Book Cover Picture
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    The Pillow Book

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  21. Under the Sea Wind Book Cover Picture
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    Under the Sea Wind

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  22. Ceremony Book Cover Picture
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    Ceremony

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  23. The Haunting of Hill House Book Cover Picture
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    The Haunting of Hill House

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  24. The Odyssey Book Cover Picture
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    The Odyssey

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  25. Gravity's Rainbow Book Cover Picture
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    Gravity’s Rainbow

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  26. The Divine Comedy Book Cover Picture
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    The Divine Comedy

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  27. Twelve Angry Men Book Cover Picture
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    Twelve Angry Men

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  28. Jane Eyre Book Cover Picture
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    Jane Eyre

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  29. The Grapes of Wrath Book Cover Picture
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    The Grapes of Wrath

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  30. The New York Trilogy Book Cover Picture
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    The New York Trilogy

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  31. Therese Raquin Book Cover Picture
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    Therese Raquin

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  32. The Quiet American Book Cover Picture
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    The Quiet American

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  33. The Aleph and Other Stories Book Cover Picture
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    The Aleph and Other Stories

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  34. Anna Karenina Book Cover Picture
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    Anna Karenina

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  35. Storm of Steel Book Cover Picture
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    Storm of Steel

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  36. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Book Cover Picture
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    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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  37. Sixty Stories Book Cover Picture
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    Sixty Stories

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  38. The Art of War Book Cover Picture
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    The Art of War

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  39. Democracy in America and Two Essays on America Book Cover Picture
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    Democracy in America and Two Essays on America

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  40. The Count of Monte Cristo Book Cover Picture
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    The Count of Monte Cristo

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  41. Frankenstein Book Cover Picture
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    Frankenstein

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  42. Utopia Book Cover Picture
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    Utopia

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  43. Lysistrata and Other Plays Book Cover Picture
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    Lysistrata and Other Plays

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  44. Dracula Book Cover Picture
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    Dracula

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  45. Robinson Crusoe Book Cover Picture
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    Robinson Crusoe

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  46. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Book Cover Picture
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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

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  47. The Last Days of Socrates Book Cover Picture
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    The Last Days of Socrates

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  48. The Crucible Book Cover Picture
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    The Crucible

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  49. Middlemarch Book Cover Picture
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    Middlemarch

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  50. The Bhagavad Gita Book Cover Picture
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    The Bhagavad Gita

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  51. Gulliver's Travels Book Cover Picture
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    Gulliver’s Travels

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  52. Don Quixote Book Cover Picture
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    Don Quixote

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  53. Herzog Book Cover Picture
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    Herzog

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  54. The Canterbury Tales Book Cover Picture
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    The Canterbury Tales

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  55. Pygmalion Book Cover Picture
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    Pygmalion

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  56. Passing Book Cover Picture
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    Passing

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  57. The Prince Book Cover Picture
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    The Prince

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  58. The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Cover Picture
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray

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  59. Great Expectations Book Cover Picture
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    Great Expectations

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  60. Madame Bovary Book Cover Picture
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    Madame Bovary

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  61. Moby-Dick Book Cover Picture
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    Moby-Dick

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  62. Siddhartha Book Cover Picture
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    Siddhartha

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  63. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Book Cover Picture
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    One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  64. The Scarlet Letter Book Cover Picture
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    The Scarlet Letter

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  65. The Tale of Genji Book Cover Picture
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    The Tale of Genji

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  66. The Communist Manifesto Book Cover Picture
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    The Communist Manifesto

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  67. Hamlet Book Cover Picture
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    Hamlet

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  68. A Room with a View Book Cover Picture
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    A Room with a View

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  69. Treasure Island Book Cover Picture
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    Treasure Island

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  70. Personal Memoirs Book Cover Picture
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    Personal Memoirs

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  71. How the Other Half Lives Book Cover Picture
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    How the Other Half Lives

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  72. North and South Book Cover Picture
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    North and South

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  73. The Souls of Black Folk Book Cover Picture
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    The Souls of Black Folk

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  74. The Age of Innocence Book Cover Picture
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    The Age of Innocence

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  75. Of Mice and Men Book Cover Picture
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    Of Mice and Men

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  76. My Antonia Book Cover Picture
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    My Antonia

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  77. Dubliners Book Cover Picture
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    Dubliners

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  78. Little Women Book Cover Picture
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    Little Women

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  79. The Last of the Mohicans Book Cover Picture
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    The Last of the Mohicans

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  80. Fear and Trembling Book Cover Picture
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    Fear and Trembling

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  81. The Jungle Book Cover Picture
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    The Jungle

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  82. The Three Theban Plays Book Cover Picture
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    The Three Theban Plays

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  83. Walden and Civil Disobedience Book Cover Picture
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    Walden and Civil Disobedience

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  84. Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Cover Picture
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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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  85. The Analects Book Cover Picture
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    The Analects

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  86. The Faerie Queene Book Cover Picture
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    The Faerie Queene

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  87. Notes from Underground; the Double Book Cover Picture
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    Notes from Underground; the Double

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  88. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Book Cover Picture
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    The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

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  90. Medea and Other Plays Book Cover Picture
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    Medea and Other Plays

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  91. Confessions Book Cover Picture
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    Confessions

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  92. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Book Cover Picture
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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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  93. Leaves of Grass Book Cover Picture
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    Leaves of Grass

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  94. The Epic of Gilgamesh Book Cover Picture
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    The Epic of Gilgamesh

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  95. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Book Cover Picture
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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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  96. The Travels Book Cover Picture
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    The Travels

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  97. The Song of Roland Book Cover Picture
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    The Song of Roland

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  98. Beowulf Book Cover Picture
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    Beowulf

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  99. The Aeneid Book Cover Picture
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    The Aeneid

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  100. Metamorphoses Book Cover Picture
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    Metamorphoses

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