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paganel on April 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Mi...

As far as classical literature goes, if you're read Balzac, Stendhal and Tolstoy then you've read them all. Problem solved :)

fagiano on April 20, 2011 [–]

... and the two giants of western literature Shakespeare and Dante. We can't gloss over Joyce and Proust. And "Don Quixote", surely we can't miss that. Maybe Milton. Montaigne? And the Greeks, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides at least. Molière and Goethe...

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