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PenséesBlaise Pascal · 1657On 7 lists The City of GodAugustine · 413-426On 6 lists The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri · c. 1308-1320On 6 lists King LearWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1605-1606On 6 lists Paradise LostJohn Milton · 1667On 6 lists FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808On 6 lists PoeticsAristotle · c. 335 BCEOn 5 lists AnnalsTacitus · c. 115-120On 5 lists The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky · 1880On 5 lists GenesisAnonymous · c. 10th c. BCEOn 4 lists MedeaEuripides · 431 BCEOn 4 lists MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1606On 4 lists Discourse on MetaphysicsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1686On 4 lists On the Genealogy of MoralsFriedrich Nietzsche · 1887On 4 lists Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud · 1930On 4 lists The BibleAnonymous · c. 1000 BCEOn 3 lists JobAnonymous · c. 6th c. BCEOn 3 lists InfernoDante Alighieri · c. 1308-1314On 3 lists OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604On 3 lists CandideVoltaire · 1759On 3 lists Moby-DickHerman Melville · 1851On 3 lists Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1899On 3 lists The Book of PsalmsAnonymous · c. 10th c. BCEOn 2 lists Prometheus BoundAeschylus · c. 430 BCEOn 2 lists PhiloctetesSophocles · 409 BCEOn 2 lists An Essay on ManAlexander Pope · 1733-1734On 2 lists FrankensteinMary Shelley · 1818On 2 lists Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 1845On 2 lists Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · 1866On 2 lists Three StoriesGustave Flaubert · 1877On 2 lists The Exaltation of InannaEnheduanna · c. 2300 BCEOn 1 list AmosThe Bible · c. 750 BCEOn 1 list IsaiahThe Bible · 8th c. BCEOn 1 list JonahThe Bible · c. 6th c. BCEOn 1 list The Trojan WomenEuripides · 415 BCEOn 1 list Buddhist WritingsAnonymous · c. 3rd c. BCEOn 1 list The Second Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansPaul the Apostle · c. 55-56 CEOn 1 list Gospel of JudasAnonymous · c. 150 CEOn 1 list On the IncarnationAthanasius · c. 318On 1 list On Free Choice of the WillAugustine · 388-395On 1 list The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius · 524On 1 list BodhicaryavataraShantideva · c. 700 CEOn 1 list BeowulfAnonymous · c. 8th c.On 1 list ShowingsJulian of Norwich · c. 1373-1393On 1 list Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1592-1593On 1 list Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1598-1599On 1 list The Duchess of MalfiJohn Webster · c. 1613On 1 list Appeal Concerning the PriestsFelipe Guamán Poma de Ayala · c. 1615On 1 list Don JuanMolière · 1665On 1 list Philosophical EssaysGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1686-1716On 1 list The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern PhilosophyAnne Conway · c. 1670On 1 list St. Matthew PassionJohann Sebastian Bach · 1727On 1 list A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift · 1729On 1 list The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against SmallpoxEdward Jenner · 1798-1800On 1 list On the Tragedies of ShakespeareCharles Lamb · 1811On 1 list Children's and Household TalesJacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812-1857On 1 list The CenciPercy Bysshe Shelley · 1819On 1 list The BetrothedAlessandro Manzoni · 1827On 1 list Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the WorldDavid Walker · 1829On 1 list TalesHans Christian Andersen · 1835-1872On 1 list The Contagiousness of Puerperal FeverOliver Wendell Holmes · 1843On 1 list PoemsEdgar Allan Poe · 1827-1849On 1 list Cousin BetteHonoré de Balzac · 1846On 1 list Studies in PessimismArthur Schopenhauer · 1851On 1 list Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs · 1861On 1 list Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · 1865On 1 list The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky · 1869On 1 list Billy BuddHerman Melville · 1886On 1 list The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James · 1902On 1 list Twenty-Three TalesLeo Tolstoy · 1872On 1 list The Mysterious StrangerMark Twain · 1897On 1 list The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1915On 1 list Thoughts for the Times on War and DeathSigmund Freud · 1915On 1 list The Word of God and the Word of ManKarl Barth · 1924On 1 list Mother Courage and Her ChildrenBertolt Brecht · 1939On 1 list No ExitJean-Paul Sartre · 1944On 1 list If This Is a ManPrimo Levi · 1947On 1 list The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt · 1951On 1 list Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett · 1952On 1 list A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor · 1953On 1 list The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of MexicoMiguel León-Portilla (ed.) · 1959On 1 list Personal Responsibility Under DictatorshipHannah Arendt · 1964On 1 list Cancer WardAleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968On 1 list The First CircleAleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968On 1 list BelovedToni Morrison · 1987On 1 list OmerosDerek Walcott · 1990On 1 list