FINAL TERM PORTFOLIO IN GREAT BOOKS
Greatest Literary Books
By: Tiffany Jaylord Casuyon
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Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text that was used from the beginning of the New Kingdom to around 50 BCE and was generally written on papyrus.
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in around 1321. It is often regarded as the best piece of literature in the entire globe and the best work of Italian literature.
The Holy Bible
The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology – a compilation of texts of a variety of forms – originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.
The Book of Days
Analects of Confucius is believed to have been written by his disciples around 2500 years ago, and has remained one of the most influential texts in China to this day.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin focuses on the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights is a story straight out of a romance novel. It's an epic collection of Arabic folk tales written during the Islamic Golden Age.