The Compleat Angler
Book by Izaak Walton
1600s
Hamlet
Tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29,551 words
King Lear
Tragedy written by William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Tragedy by William Shakespeare
Othello
Tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary OttomanVenetian War fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, since 1489 a possession of the Venetian Republic
The Tempest
Play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 16101611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone
Pensees
Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal
Paradise Lost
Epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton . The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse
Don Quixote
Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished …