Classic & Older Gothic

The Iliad

by Homer

Achilles withdraws from battle after a quarrel with Agamemnon, and the Greeks begin to lose the war. Homer's epic of rage, honor, and the cost of glory on the Trojan plain — the founding text of Western literature.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie
• A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
• Harry Potter: The Complete Collection — J.K. Rowling
• 道德經 (Dao De Jing / Tao Te Ching) — Lao Tzu
• Little Women — Anna Bond
• South of the Border, West of the Sun — Haruki Murakami

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