← The Fifth Desk

Desk III · Language, text-based

Literary Arts

Prose and fiction, poetry, the play and the screenplay as written: the work is read. Every work the desk has reviewed here, ranked by standing.

21 works · mean standing 9.2 · Literature 21

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri · Literature

9.7 · Tier V

The Iliad

Homer · Literature

9.6 · Tier V

King Lear

William Shakespeare · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

Paradise Lost

John Milton · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

The Aeneid

Virgil · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

The Book of Job

Anonymous · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

The Odyssey

Homer · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

The Oresteia

Aeschylus · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

Ulysses

James Joyce · Literature

9.5 · Tier V

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · Literature

9.4 · Tier V

Hamlet

William Shakespeare · Literature

9.4 · Tier V

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · Literature

9.4 · Tier V

Jerusalem

William Blake · Literature

8.9 · Tier IV

The Pale Criminal

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.9 · Tier IV

Hard Labour for Hard Men

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.7 · Tier IV

Graceland

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.6 · Tier IV

The Gentle Collapsing

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.6 · Tier IV

The Burdens of Ordinary Kindness

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.4 · Tier IV

His Long Home

Dionysus Flambouras · Literature

8.2 · Tier IV