1,747 books
—
111 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Classical Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,799
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as classical)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,265,382 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as classical)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,398 ratings — published -750
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as classical)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,981,891 ratings — published 1813
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 261 times as classical)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,971 ratings — published -19
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as classical)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,111,913 ratings — published 1925
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as classical)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,606 ratings — published 8
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as classical)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,401,623 ratings — published 1847
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as classical)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,090,574 ratings — published 1960
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as classical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,984,402 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as classical)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,277,293 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as classical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,720,438 ratings — published 1949
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as classical)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,882,255 ratings — published 1590
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as classical)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,990 ratings — published -400
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,729 ratings — published 1945
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as classical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,145,968 ratings — published 1866
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as classical)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,988,265 ratings — published 1818
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as classical)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,963 ratings — published -429
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as classical)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,531,478 ratings — published 1868
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,331,875 ratings — published 1811
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as classical)
avg rating 4.27 — 377,258 ratings — published 180
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 119 times as classical)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,974 ratings — published -441
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as classical)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,074,117 ratings — published 1846
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as classical)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,457 ratings — published 1951
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as classical)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,312 ratings — published -458
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,532,056 ratings — published 1897
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as classical)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,073 ratings — published -430
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,404 ratings — published 1601
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as classical)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,017,660 ratings — published 1815
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as classical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,300,031 ratings — published 1954
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as classical)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,499 ratings — published 1878
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as classical)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,934,540 ratings — published 1937
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as classical)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,031,200 ratings — published 1859
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as classical)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,395 ratings — published -1800
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as classical)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,087 ratings — published -450
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as classical)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,856 ratings — published 1623
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as classical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,968,064 ratings — published 1963
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as classical)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,689 ratings — published -423
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as classical)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,495 ratings — published -431
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as classical)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,427 ratings — published -411
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as classical)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,488 ratings — published 1862
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as classical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,533,119 ratings — published 1915
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,760 ratings — published -380
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as classical)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,608 ratings — published 1320
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as classical)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,223 ratings — published 1321
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as classical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,640 ratings — published 1932
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as classical)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,366,143 ratings — published 1952
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as classical)
avg rating 3.80 — 892,238 ratings — published 1861
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as classical)
avg rating 4.15 — 805,632 ratings — published 1817
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as classical)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,451 ratings — published 1885
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as classical)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,874 ratings — published -560
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.
With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.”
―
With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.”
―
“Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.”
― Meaning in the Visual Arts
― Meaning in the Visual Arts
