The Western Canon The Books and School of the Ages

The Norton Anthology English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt

The Rise of the Novel Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding

Ian P. Watt

Gardner's Art Through The Ages

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Literary Visions of the Middle East An Anthology of Canonical Masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew Fiction (mid-19th to Early 21st Centuries)

Stephan Guth

Literature

Robert Eaglestone

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Literary Theory An Anthology

Julie Rivkin

The Literature Book

DK

A History of English Literature

Michael Alexander

The Discarded Image An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C. S. Lewis

The Norton Anthology American Literature

Wayne Franklin

The Norton Anthology English Literature : The Sixteenth Century And The early seventeeth century

M.H Abrams

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FANTASY LITERATURE

Farah Mendlesohn

Why the West Rules

Ian Morris

The Classical Tradition

Anthony Grafton

Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino

Modernism

Tim Armstrong

Literary Theory

Terry Eagleton

Civilization A New History of the Western World

Roger Osborne

A History of the Modern World

R.R Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd Kramer

Literary Theory and Criticism

Patricia Waugh

501 must read books

The re-enchanment of the west

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History of reading in the west

A brief history of western civilization: The unfinshed legacy

Mark Kishlansky

Civilization in the West

Mark Kishlansky

Story of Libraries From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age

Fred Lerner

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Carol T. Christ

Invitation to the Classics

Louise Cowan

Great books of the western world

A Guide to Chinese Literature

Wilt Idema

A history of western political thought

J. S.

The Western

Phil Hardy

Wisdom of the West

Bertrand Russell

Art of the Western world

Denise Hooker

tradition and dream

walter allen

Great Contemporaries

Winston S. Churchill

Civilization

Niall Ferguson

The free world