100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)
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- Amazon just released their "100 books to read in a lifetime." The oldest of which was published in 1813. That's a crying shame. Let's compile and vote on a list of the rest.
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av Homer
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- -pilgrim- : There is another version on page 1 of list
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- Veilleur_de_nuit: Des poèmes flamboyants et enflammés par le plus bref poète de la langue espagnole.
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- Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que c'est un texte fondamental de l'Occident et que la première règle est une règle d'or : "Ecoute".
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- Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que Burke a une vision lucide sur ce que va devenir la Révolution Française, en particulier dans ses dérives.malmorrow: This is an English polemic of the Enlightenment. 'Reflections' is unsurpassed in this, and equalled only by pamphlets by Paine and Wollstonecraft. Burke set an extremely high standard for sustained rhetoric, providing a foundation for the classic speeches and political writing of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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- Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que ces petites fables expliquent l'âme humaine avec beaucoup d'humour et d'à-propos.
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