100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)
- Beskrivning
- 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 Jane Austen
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- Förklaringar
- cemanuel : Agreed. The purpose of this list is specifically for alternatives to Amazon's. Great book though.
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av John Milton
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- Förklaringar
- lorax : Thumbing down just to counteract psdavid's proselytizing. I think parts are worth reading for basic cultural literacy, but nobody likes being preached at in a forum like this.aulsmith : Again, parts of it. But the whole thing? Knowing some of it was done from unreliable manuscripts? Nah.psdavid: A book in two parts, the old testament which is the new testament hidden and the new testament which is the old testament revealed. Every one of the 66 books (39 Old testament and 27 new testament) interlinks and joins with every other, written in original languages by 40+ authors spanning 2,000 years and many cultures. A book that attracts lively debate as to authenticity and yet every day sees more of its writings and dates confirmed by archaeological finds.
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- Förklaringar
- ErykaSosa91: I have been wanting to reread thus epic poem for the longest!!
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av Plato
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av Jane Austen
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av John Donne
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- aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.
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- karenb : Taking Chretien de Troyes instead.camainc : A better choice would be Idylls of the King by Tennyson.Betelgeuse: Idylls of the King is too recent: published between 1859-1885.