I bet that if you surveyed the leading humanities professors worldwide the list of ten greatest works of literature would look something like this (in no particular order):
King Lear
The Pentateuch
The Iliad
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
The Aeneid
Don Quixote
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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