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Books like Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

12 books with a reading profile close to Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman, Rosalind Lefeber, Sheldon I. Pollock. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a demanding read.

1

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Following their departure from the pit of Hell, Dante and his guide Virgil ascend the island-mountain of Purgatory.
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
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The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1899 multivolume collection compiles the major literary output of Count Lev Tolstoy, encompassing his psychological epics, shorter fiction, and philosophical treatises.
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Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1882 collection consolidates the literary output of Lev Tolstoy, organizing his major novels, short fiction, and emerging pedagogical essays.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk, dominates his subjects until the gods create Enkidu, a feral man, to challenge him.
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Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1730 collection organizes the complete dramatic and poetic output of William Shakespeare, encompassing comedies, histories, and tragedies alongside his lyrical sequences.
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
10

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Ishmael, a schoolmaster seeking relief from a melancholy spirit, joins the crew of the Pequod, a whaling vessel departing from Nantucket.
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Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

In this four-act drama, George Bernard Shaw uses the character of John Tanner, an intellectual revolutionary, to argue that women are the primary pursuers in human courtship.

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