Prolegomena to Homer

by Friedrich August Wolf

He wants to show that Homer was not an actual person.

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Prolegomena to Homer

by Friedrich August Wolf

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Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)