Essential literature that can be read in a day

Essential literature that can be read in a day.

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a clockwork orange

most of Marlowe's and the Greek's plays

duly noted ty

Biographia Literaria, on a Sunday.
But.. The White Devil comes to mind.

Conrad and Melville short stories and novellas

Seconded

That fucking slang tho.

>Essential literature that can be read in a day
Theogony.

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any piece of literature can be read in a day

Shakespeare's plays.

You'll have a very hard time making it through the summa theologica in a day

Metarmophosis, most of Camus, most of Lovecraft, Shakespear's plays, Candide,

Most of it, really.

The Iliad
The Republic
Ulysses

>Lovecraft
>essential literature

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The Stranger
Death in Venice
Greek Plays
Confederacy of Dunces

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Thomas Bernhard, all of him. He is to be read in one sitting.

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>Confederacy of Dunces

It's 400+ pages...

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Oscar Wilde's notable bibliography.

got it ty

Utopia
Shakuntala
Aura
Winesburg, Ohio
Hunger
Kreutzer Sonata

What are you, a brainlet?

Oh, I remember reading it in one night since its a pretty light read.

fuck hamlet. AM I RIGHT?!

The Metamorphosis

Not the guy you replied to, but what if I just take my time through a big book like that? I wouldn't say I'm a slow reader but 400+ pages is more than a week for me

>Alice in Wonderland
Is it actually good? I tried to rewatch the Disney movie a few weeks ago, and while the animation was beautiful, I had to stop after 30 minutes. Granted, a disney adaption might not be the best way to judge a book's quality, but it seems like something that has little to offer if you're not a child anymore.

Milt Kahl is still based as fuck though
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Benjamin Button

>still trying to act like he's read it
lmfao it's a full novel retard

Any of Plato's dialogues, Shakespeare's and Racine's plays, Edgar Allen Poe's stories, Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, Candide, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I read A Clockwork Orange in a day. Slang isnt really that bad once you get a page or two in. Most of the words that aren't used enough for you to learn you can infer.

If you don't have to leave the house, you can definitely read 400 pages in a day.

It's just not readable in one hour or two like a lot of other things posted in this thread.

Well most plays really...

Candide, Yeats' The Tower, Civilization and its Discontents, Flatland, DHL's Studies in Classic American Lit, Sam Johnson's Rasselas, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, John Hersey's Hiroshima.. come first to mind. Also, Wilde's The Critic as Artist, and The Decay of Lying.

Thomas L'Obscure
Genesis
Urne Burial
Illuminations
The Wasteland
Four Quartets
Endgame
The Juniper Sprigs
Helen in Egypt
Trilogy (H.D)

>The Juniper Sprigs
what is that one i tried googling it

>Phaedra
Rasselas
Illuminations, The Waste Land,

Many thanks, if you can think of anymore please post them!

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zadig is good too

nausea and waiting for godot are both easy short reads. brautigan and vonnegut can be read quickly. steinbeck and a lot of borroughs can be on that list.

I should add that if you read one comedy and one tradgedy by shakespeare

read midsummer nights and king lear

he has deeper cuts, but those are both really accessible and fun to discuss.

add aristotle's poetics and doestoevsky's gambler while youre at it.

wew lad. you should read oscar's letters to gide. steamy stuff m8.

books of aphorisms can be read very quickly. bresson's notes on cinematography and wiggenstein's on culture both provide a master's insight into specific problems of the work.

Weird seeing this post because I actually started reading it today. It's actually a fairly easy read if you enjoy it. I read the first half earlier and plan to finish it later this morning.

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As I Lay Dying (i know it's a bit longer than most of the books in the thread, but it is so powerful when read in one sitting).

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night

Siddartha

Gilgamesh.

This book was so fucking shit

This. Then watch the movie for bonus points

just based on what I have recently read in car journeys

Theban Plays
The Republic
First Love
Brave New World
The Bell Jar

Beowulf

Alice is good.
I have a friend whos 80 years old and he bought me an annotated alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. I'm always getting books and recommendations from him.

for some reason i just imagined the old man and the sea as disney movie, sorcerers apprentice style.

The Sun Also Rises
Sorrow of Young Werther
Notes From Underground

desu aside from the extremely long books lit likes to meme most books CAN be read in a day. some are just better suited for it

these are really good recommendations. I appreciate it.

The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. 140 pages, but it's written in a readable and flowing style so that it could be read in one day if you started early. A novella about an undercover policeman who infiltrates an anarchist group in London.

I read it from time to time because it's comfy as fuck. It just feels like it's gonna surprise you at every read with a small detail you didn't notice before.
Alice is best girl too (no pedo)

I also remember The Road being quite short and absorbing