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The Whole Tome

Every book in the canon, read and remembered. A Seal of the Highest Order has been struck.

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Master of the Globe

Complete all 19 Shakespeare works in the canon. The rest is silence.

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Epic Succession

Complete the three-epic tradition: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. Homer to Virgil, across seven centuries.

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Dante's Virgil

Complete the Aeneid and the Divine Comedy — the full inheritance. The Latin poet becoming his own character in the Italian poem.

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The Two Christian Epics

Complete both Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy — the two great Christian epics that close and extend the classical line. Dante writes the vision; Milton writes the loss.

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Epic Succession Complete

Complete the full classical-to-Christian epic line: Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Paradise Lost. Homer to Virgil to Milton — across twenty-six centuries.

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The Matter of Britain

Complete the full Arthurian cycle in the Tome catalog — Tennyson's Idylls of the King and (forthcoming) Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh Mabinogion. The three sources from which the Arthurian tradition in English is built.

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Englisc

Complete the full Anglophone Epic Line: Beowulf, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, Don Juan, and Idylls of the King. Five epics across 900 years of English composition — from the Old English mead-hall through Victorian moral-allegorical cycle.

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The Russian Soul

Complete all 19 Russian tradition books in the canon. From Pushkin to Chekhov, the soul endures.

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Queen of the Circulating Library

Complete all 71 Victorian tradition books. An entire age conquered.

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E Pluribus Unum

Complete all 43 American tradition books. From many voices, one literature.

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Polymath

Fifty books completed — your mind ranges widely.

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Encyclopedist

One hundred books — a feat worthy of Diderot himself.

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Custodian of the Canon

Two hundred books — you are a guardian of the written word.

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Eternal Flame

A full year of daily reading. The flame is eternal.

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Demiurge

One million wisdom — you have shaped a world of knowledge.

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The Wealth of Nations

Completed The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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The Whole of Russia

Lived through Napoleon's invasion with the families of Moscow.

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Yes I Said Yes

Wandered Dublin with Leopold Bloom on one extraordinary day.

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The Sound and the Fury

Witnessed the Compson family's decline through four fractured voices.

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Nostromo

Completed Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.

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Beyond Good and Evil

Completed Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Clarissa

Completed Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

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Demons

Completed Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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History of the Peloponnesian

Completed History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.

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In Search of Lost Time

Completed In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

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Leviathan

Completed Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

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The Magic Mountain

Completed The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

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Hudibras

Completed Hudibras by Samuel Butler.

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Master of the Serial

Read all 8 Dickens works. You have earned every weekly instalment.

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The Whole of Hertfordshire

Complete all 6 Austen novels. Every neighbourhood has its share of beauty.

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The Grand Inquisitor

Complete all 6 Dostoevsky works. Beauty will save the world.

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Both Homers

Complete the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Odyssey Master Trial. The wrath and the return, in sequence.

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Pius Aeneas

Complete the Aeneid and pass the Aeneid Master Trial — a fifteen-question synthesis of Juno's wrath, the fall of Troy, Dido, the descent to Anchises, Pallas, and Turnus.

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Justify the Ways

Complete Paradise Lost and pass its Master Trial — a fifteen-question synthesis of the fall of the angels, the council in Hell, the Creation, Eden, the Fall, the expulsion, and Michael's prophetic vision.

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The Old Order Changeth

Complete Idylls of the King and pass its Master Trial — a fifteen-question synthesis of the cycle's twelve idylls, the Malory and Mabinogion sources, the Victorian moral frame, and the doubled closing line that brackets Tennyson's whole work.

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The Blood Upon the Stage

Complete all Shakespeare tragedies in the canon. From Hamlet to Coriolanus, the stage runs red.

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What Fools These Mortals Be

Complete all Shakespeare comedies in the canon. Love, mischief, and mistaken identity.

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The Castle on the Moor

Complete the Gothic canon: from Frankenstein to the Phantom, shadows lurk in every passage.

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The Great Exhibition

Read 50 Victorian tradition books. An era displayed in full.

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Make It New

Complete all 25 Modernist tradition books. The centre cannot hold — but you have.

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The Complete Renaissance

Complete all 24 Renaissance tradition books. The light shines fully.

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The Motherland of Letters

Complete all 19 Russian tradition books. From Pushkin to Chekhov.

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La Grande Tradition

Complete all 18 French tradition books. Vive la littérature!

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Crown of Laurels

Complete all 13 Ancient Greek tradition books. Worthy of the Olympic wreath.

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The Fourth Wall

Complete all dramatic works in the canon. The curtain falls, the applause begins.

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The Examined Life

Complete all philosophy works in the canon. Wisdom itself is your reward.

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The Bard's Mantle

Complete all epic poetry in the canon. Sing of arms, of heroes, of gods.

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Bibliophile

Twenty-five books stand on your shelf of memory.

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Vestal

One hundred days — the sacred flame endures.

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Oracle

Two hundred thousand wisdom — your insight rivals the ancients.

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Shadows on the Wall

Ascended from the cave with Plato toward the light.

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Nicomachean Ethics

Completed Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

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Knight of the Round Table

Completed Le Morte d'Arthur — all twenty-one of Caxton's books, from the sword in the stone to the barge departing for Avalon.

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Better to Reign in Hell

Witnessed the fall of angels and the loss of Eden.

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The Social Contract

Completed The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Call Me Ishmael

Pursued the white whale across the vastest of oceans.

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The Grand Inquisitor

Witnessed three brothers wrestling with God, guilt, and freedom.

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She Would Buy the Flowers Herself

Spent one perfect June day in London with Clarissa Dalloway.

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To the Lighthouse

Completed To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

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The Portrait of a Lady

Completed The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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Bleak House

Completed Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

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Howards End

Completed Howards End by E. M. Forster.

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Look Homeward, Angel

Completed Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe.

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Women in Love

Completed Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

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The Rainbow

Completed The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence.

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The Good Soldier

Completed The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.

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Lord Jim

Completed Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

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The Secret Agent

Completed The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

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A Passage to India

Completed A Passage to India by E. M. Forster.

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A Study of Provincial Life

Surveyed the vast web of English society with George Eliot.

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Vanity Fair

Completed Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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The Idiot

Completed The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Resurrection

Completed Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy.

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Leaves of Grass

Completed Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

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Nothing Will Come of Nothing

Endured the storm on the heath with a broken king.

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A Portrait of the

Completed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

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A Vindication of the

Completed A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Agamemnon

Completed Agamemnon by Aeschylus.

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An Enquiry Concerning Human

Completed An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.

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Buddenbrooks

Completed Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann.

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Cane

Completed Cane by Jean Toomer.

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Dangerous Liaisons

Completed Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

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Daniel Deronda

Completed Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

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Dialogues

Completed Dialogues by Seneca.

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Discourses on Livy

Completed Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Dombey and Son

Completed Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

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Idylls of the King

Completed Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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Jacob's Room

Completed Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf.

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Jude the Obscure

Completed Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

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Kusamakura

Completed Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki.

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Manhattan Transfer

Completed Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos.

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As I Lay Dying

Completed As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

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The Castle

Completed The Castle by Franz Kafka.

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Sir Gawain and the

Completed Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous.

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The Counterfeiters

Completed The Counterfeiters by André Gide.

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The Lusiads

Completed The Lusiads by Luís de Camões.

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The Consolation of Philosophy

Completed The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.

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The Adventurous Simplicissimus

Completed The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

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The Night Land

Completed The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

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Last and First Men

Completed Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

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Pan Tadeusz

Completed Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz.

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Progress and Poverty

Completed Progress and Poverty by Henry George.

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Democracy and Education

Completed Democracy and Education by John Dewey.

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Culture and Anarchy

Completed Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold.

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What Is Property?

Completed What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

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Player of the Globe

Read 10 works by William Shakespeare. The play's the thing.

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Yasnaya Polyana

Complete all 5 Tolstoy works. All great literature asks the same question.

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It Can't Happen Here

Complete all 5 Sinclair Lewis novels. America's first Nobel satirist.

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The Mississippi Pilot

Complete all 4 Twain works. The reports of literature's death are greatly exaggerated.

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The Heart of the Sea

Complete all 4 Conrad works. Into the darkness, and back again.

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Only Connect

Complete all 4 Forster works. The prose and the passion shall meet.

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The Rainbow Seeker

Complete all 4 D.H. Lawrence works. The blood knows what the mind forgets.

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The Web of Affinities

Complete all 4 George Eliot works. The finest of Victorian tapestries.

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Wessex Wanderer

Complete all 4 Hardy works. The landscape endures what the heart cannot.

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The Mask of Thebes

Complete all 3 Sophocles works. The chorus falls silent at last.

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Beyond the Cave

Complete all 3 Plato works. You have stepped into the sunlight.

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The Green Light

Complete all 3 Fitzgerald works. So we beat on, boats against the current.

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Dear Dirty Dublin

Complete all 3 Joyce works. The conscience of a race, forged in silence.

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The Waves Within

Complete all 3 Woolf works. A room of one's own, and the consciousness to fill it.

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The Door Slams Shut

Complete all 3 Ibsen works. The drawing room will never be the same.

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The Dual Nature

Complete all 3 Stevenson works. X marks the spot on every map.

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Elementary, My Dear

Complete all 3 Conan Doyle works. The game is always afoot.

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The Time Traveller

Complete all 3 Wells works. The future belongs to those who read it.

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The Gilded Cage

Complete all 3 Wharton works. Old New York yields its secrets reluctantly.

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The Russian Spring

Complete all 3 Turgenev works. Father and son, old and new, forever entwined.

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The Prairie Voice

Complete all 3 Cather works. The land belongs to the future.

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The Fabian Wit

Complete all 3 Shaw works. The reasonable man adapts; the unreasonable one changes the world.

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Fate of the Labdacids

Complete the Theban plays of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Ajax.

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The Wine-Dark Sea

Complete both Homeric epics: The Iliad and The Odyssey.

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Nostos

Complete the Odyssey's full twenty-four-book return — Calypso to the covenant.

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The Hollow Crown

Complete the Henriad: Henry IV Parts I & II and Henry V.

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The Game Is Afoot

Complete all Sherlock Holmes novels: The Hound, A Study in Scarlet, and The Sign of the Four.

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The Moors in the Blood

Complete the works of all three Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

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The Symposium of Truth

Complete all three Platonic dialogues: The Republic, Symposium, and Apology.

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Parlour Scholar

Read 25 Victorian tradition books. You could fill a lending library.

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The American Dream

Read 20 American tradition books. Coast to coast in pages.

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The Universal Man

Read 16 Renaissance tradition books. A mind well-furnished.

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The Age of Reason

Complete all 10 Enlightenment tradition books. Sapere aude!

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The Wanderjahre

Complete all 9 Germanic tradition books. From Hesse to Nietzsche.

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The Sublime and Beautiful

Complete all 5 Romantic tradition books. Nature and passion reign.

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The Pilgrim's Road

Complete all 6 Medieval European tradition books. The old roads still lead to Canterbury.

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S.P.Q.R.

Complete all 3 Roman tradition books. The eternal city lives in letters.

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The Ten Thousand Things

Complete all 4 Eastern tradition books. The Way that can be named is not the eternal Way.

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The Northern Light

Complete all 3 Scandinavian tradition books. The midnight sun reveals all.

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The Nursery Shelf

Complete all children's literature in the canon. The enchantment never fades.

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The Locked Room

Complete all mystery and detective works in the canon. Every puzzle has a solution.

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The Shape of Things to Come

Complete all science fiction works in the canon. The future was always here.

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A Library of One

Ten books completed — you carry a library within.

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Hearth-Tender

Thirty days of unbroken reading — a fire well-tended.

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Sage

Fifty thousand wisdom — few have come this far.

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Complete the required books to reveal this seal.

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Complete the required books to reveal this seal.

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Complete the required books to reveal this seal.

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The Wrath of Achilles

Witnessed the rage that launched ten years of war beneath the walls of Troy.

Your Seals

The Whole Tome

Master of the Globe

Epic Succession

Dante's Virgil

The Two Christian Epics

Epic Succession Complete

The Matter of Britain

Englisc

The Russian Soul

Queen of the Circulating Library

E Pluribus Unum

Polymath

Encyclopedist

Custodian of the Canon

Eternal Flame

Demiurge

The Wealth of Nations

The Whole of Russia

Yes I Said Yes

The Sound and the Fury

Nostromo

Beyond Good and Evil

Clarissa

Demons

History of the Peloponnesian

In Search of Lost Time

Leviathan

The Magic Mountain

Hudibras

Master of the Serial

The Whole of Hertfordshire

The Grand Inquisitor

Both Homers

Pius Aeneas

Justify the Ways

The Old Order Changeth

The Blood Upon the Stage

What Fools These Mortals Be

The Castle on the Moor

The Great Exhibition

Make It New

The Complete Renaissance

The Motherland of Letters

La Grande Tradition

Crown of Laurels

The Fourth Wall

The Examined Life

The Bard's Mantle

Bibliophile

Vestal

Oracle

Shadows on the Wall

Nicomachean Ethics

Knight of the Round Table

Better to Reign in Hell

The Social Contract

Call Me Ishmael

The Grand Inquisitor

She Would Buy the Flowers Herself

To the Lighthouse

The Portrait of a Lady

Bleak House

Howards End

Look Homeward, Angel

Women in Love

The Rainbow

The Good Soldier

Lord Jim

The Secret Agent

A Passage to India

A Study of Provincial Life

Vanity Fair

The Idiot

Resurrection

Leaves of Grass

Nothing Will Come of Nothing

A Portrait of the

A Vindication of the

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