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The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics
The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics
Great Books For The Short Attention Span  
By Greg Nagan
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Author's Introduction: Why Read the Great Books?
The Five-Minute History of Western Civ
The Iliad by Homer
The Divine Comedy: Part I, Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Ulysses by James Joyce
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Acknowledgments