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Works whose difficulty changes by section, translation, edition, or reader familiarity with the form. Start with The Bible by Various, the highest-ranked work here.
Start with The Bible by Various, ranked #18 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
One Thousand and One Nights: Scheherazade's legendary tales of magic, adventure, and survival. The story collection that shaped world literature.
The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe: tales of horror, mystery, and poetry from the dark genius who invented the detective story and modern horror.
Shakespeare's First Folio: the complete plays that defined Western literature. Comedies, tragedies, and histories of unmatched genius.
Emily Dickinson's Poems: nearly 1,800 works of compressed brilliance on death, love, nature, and immortality.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes: all four novels and fifty-six stories. The game is afoot at 221B Baker Street.
W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems: The full sweep of a supreme poetic career. Irish mythology, love, politics, and the wisdom of age.