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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
James Mustich
Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first performed play, written in French and then translated by the author into English. It is one of the signal accomplishments in twentieth-century theater and one of the touchstones of modern literature. It is also, as one contemporary critic said of its two ...show more
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The title of Joseph Heller’s first novel has become—aptly enough—a catchphrase, common parlance for the kind of double bind that bureaucracies breed with astonishing fecundity. Captain John Yossarian, the protagonist of Heller’s pioneering and influential satire, is “moved very deeply by the absolut...show more
The Iliad
Homer
If you want to see how current conflicts are echoes of our history, then you must read Homer.
