Lit. Hum. Reading List Columbia University (as of 2004)

Explore Columbia University's 2004 Lit. Hum. reading list featuring essential classics and influential works. Discover the must-read books that shaped the prestigious Literature Humanities curriculum.

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The Odyssey of Homer

by Homer

The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.
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The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, …
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Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he …
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has …
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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …