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• Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1601 — 32,001 words · about 3 hours · regard 99 of 100
• Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1320 — 114,991 words · about 11 hours · regard 99 of 100
• Iliad by Homer, c. 750 BCE — 155,081 words · about 11 hours · regard 98 of 100
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913 — 1,214,362 words · about 134 hours · regard 97 of 100
• King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1606 — 27,834 words · about 3 hours · regard 97 of 100
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 — 231,036 words · about 26 hours · regard 96 of 100
• Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667 — 82,098 words · about 9 hours · regard 95 of 100
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, c. 429 BCE — 12,892 words · about 1 hours · regard 94 of 100
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884 — 110,544 words · about 8 hours · regard 94 of 100
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813 — 121,713 words · about 8 hours · regard 94 of 100
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 — 220,957 words · about 15 hours · regard 94 of 100
• Aeneid by Virgil, c. 19 BCE — 107,489 words · about 9 hours · regard 93 of 100
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857 — 115,600 words · about 13 hours · regard 93 of 100
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1862 — 558,988 words · about 51 hours · regard 92 of 100
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1861 — 184,582 words · about 12 hours · regard 92 of 100
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, 1904 — 17,974 words · about 1 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818 — 87,196 words · about 9 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871 — 312,432 words · about 22 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Tao Te Ching by Laozi, c. 400 BCE — 25,357 words · about 2 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855 — 130,047 words · about 9 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842 — 141,142 words · about 10 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 — 130,520 words · about 11 hours · regard 91 of 100
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899 — 38,005 words · about 4 hours · regard 90 of 100
• Candide by Voltaire, 1759 — 33,698 words · about 3 hours · regard 90 of 100
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 1925 — 63,364 words · about 5 hours · regard 89 of 100
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847 — 185,475 words · about 13 hours · regard 88 of 100
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 180 — 45,529 words · about 3 hours · regard 83 of 100

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