Literature - Seeds of Culture

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1 Heinrich Böll, Ansichten eines Clowns 1 Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge 1 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha 1 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crimen y Castigo
2 Michael Ende, Momo 2 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 2 Anónimo, El Poema del Mío Cid 2 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Los hermanos Karamazov
3 Michael Ende, Die unendliche Geschichte 3 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 3 Anónimo, El Lazarillo de Tormes 3 Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
4 Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Kinder - und Hausmaerchen 4 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 4 Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina 4 Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires
5 Robert Schneider, Schlafes Bruder 5 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 5 Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño 5 Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
6 Otfried Preussler, Krabat 6 Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! 6 Félix Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna 6 Sófocles, Antígona
7 Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter 7 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7 Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla 7 Sófocles, Edipo Rey
8 E.T.A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann 8 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 8 José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio 8 Homero, La Iliada
9 Das Nibelungenlied 9 C.S. Lewis,The Great Divorce 9 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rimas y leyendas 9 Homero, La Odisea
10 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame 10 C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe 10 Benito Pérez Galdós, Episodios nacionales 10 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Comedia
11 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Physiker 11 CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory 11 Leopoldo Alas Clarín, La Regenta 11 Dante Aligheri, Vita Nuova
12 Stefan Zweig, Die Schachnovelle 12 Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 12 Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba 11 Virgilio, La Eneida
13 Erich Kästner, Fabian 13 William Shakespeare, A Merchant of Venice 13 Camilo José Cela, La Colmena 12 Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Ducking
14 Heinrich von Klesit, Die Marquise von O 14 William Shakespeare, Hamlet 14 Carmen Martín Gaite, El cuarto de atrás 13 Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
15 Heinrich von Klesit, Erdbeben in Chili 15 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 15 Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad 14 Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes
16 Heinrich von Klesit, Michael Kohlhaas 16 William Shakespeare, Macbeth 16 Don Juan Manuel, El conde Lucanor 15 Thomas More, Utopia
17 Heinrich von Klesit, DIe Verlobung in Santo Domingo 17 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 17 Santa Teresa de Ávila, El libro de la vida 16 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
18 Heinrich von Klesit, Das Bettelweib von Locarno 18 William Shakespeare, The Tempest 18 Santa Teresa de Ávila, Las moradas 17 Eurípides, Las bacantes
19 Herman Hesse, Demian 19 Mario Puzo, The Godfather 18 Esquilo, Prometeo encadenado
20 Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder 20 Beowulf 19 Aristófanes, Las ranas
21 Theodor Fontane, Effie Briest 21 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales 20 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
22 Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung 22 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 21 Leo Tolstoy, War and peace
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust 23 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 22 George Bernanos, Diary of A Country Priest
24 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival 24 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockinbird 23 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
25 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit 24 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
26 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 25 Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdattar
27 Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table 26 Sigrid Undset, Master of Hestviken
28 Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book 27 Sigrid Undset, Catherine of Siena
29 Jane Austen, Sense and sensibility 28 Evgeni Vodolazkin, Laurus
30 Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice
31 Jane Austen, Mansfield park
32 Jane Austen, Emma
33 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
34 Jane Austen, Persuasion
35 John Milton, Paradise lost
36 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's travels
37 T.S. Eliot, The waste land
38 Herman Melville, Moby Dick
39 G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown series
40 G.K. Chesterton, The man who was Thursday
41 Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
42 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
43 Willa Cather, Death Comes For the Archbishop
44 Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
45 Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
46 Graham Greene, End of the Affair
47 Graham Greene, Power and the Glory
48 Walter Miller, Canticle for Liebowitz
49 Cormac McCarthy, The Road
50 Michael O’Brien, Fr Elijah
51 Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
52 Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
53 Pearl Poet, The Pearl
54 Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
55 Evelyn Waugh, Helena
56 Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited