Classic Books You Should Know About

A cultural literacy lesson on the novel, exploring the context, general premise, and trivia surrounding some of the most important works in literary fiction.

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:37 - Don Quixote
0:03:31 - Gulliver’s Travels
0:05:15 - Candide
0:07:05 - The Sorrows of Young Werther
0:08:51 - Pride and Prejudice
0:10:49 - Frankenstein
0:14:05 - The Count of Monte Cristo
0:15:58 - Jane Eyre
0:17:18 - Wuthering Heights
0:18:21 - David Copperfield
0:19:07 - Moby Dick
0:21:57 - Madame Bovary
0:23:19 - Les Miserables
0:25:07 - Alice in Wonderland
0:26:32 - War and Peace
0:28:33 - Middlemarch
0:29:48 - The Brothers Karamazov
0:31:59 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
0:33:13 - Heart of Darkness
0:34:31 - Ulysses
0:37:06 - In Search of Lost Time
0:39:12 - The Trial
0:42:02 - The Great Gatsby
0:44:18 - To The Lighthouse
0:45:53 - Steppenwolf
0:47:53 - The Sound and the Fury
0:49:43 - Brave New World
0:52:35 - Tropic of Cancer
0:54:24 - The Stranger
0:56:34 - Ficciones
0:57:52 - Brideshead Revisited
0:59:32 - 1984
1:01:07 - The Catcher in the Rye
1:03:51 - Invisible Man
1:05:05 - The Old Man and the Sea
1:06:54 - East of Eden
1:07:58 - Lord of the Flies
1:09:40 - Lolita
1:11:44 - Giovanni's Room
1:13:11 - On the Road
1:15:08 - Atlas Strugged
1:17:01 - Naked Lunch
1:18:23 - Catch 22
1:20:35 - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1:22:23 - A Clockwork Orange
1:24:15 - Stoner
1:27:17 - Flowers for Algernon
1:29:23 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
1:31:08 - Gravity's Rainbow
1:33:59 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1:35:25 - White Noise
1:37:20 - Blood Meridian
1:39:31 - A Confederacy of Dunces
1:41:16 - The Secret History
1:43:15 - Infinite Jest
1:45:11 - Fin