15 Most Boring Literary Classics

Historical Literary

Based on a 1950 survey by the Columbia University Press bulletin * (1) 'The Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan * (2) 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville * (3) 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton * (4) 'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser * (5) 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by James Boswell * (6) 'Pamela' by Samuel Richardson * (7) 'Silas Marner' by George Eliot * (8) 'Ivanhoe' by Walter Scott * (9) 'Don Quixote' by Miguel Cervantes * (10) 'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * (11) 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy * (12) 'Remembrance of Things Past' by Marcel Proust * (13) 'Das Kapital' by Karl Marx * (14) 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray * (15) 'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot

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John Bunyan

Author

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Herman Melville

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John Milton

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Edmund Spenser

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James Boswell

Author

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Samuel Richardson

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George Eliot

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Walter Scott

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Miguel De Cervantes

Author

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Leo Tolstoy

Author

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Marcel Proust

Author

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Karl Marx

Philosopher

47.39% (145 of 306 votes)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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George Eliot

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