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... Tale of Genji - a nice short one :)
The Magic Mountain or Buddenbrooks
David Copperfield or Pickwick Papers
The Histories - something a bit different
Vanity Fair
The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot
First Circle or Cancer Ward
166, xicanti: I always thought if he didn't know something, he made it up, at least in The Persian Wars. Or, perhaps to be more fair, he always leaned heavily in favour of his personal biases. But he tells a wonderful tale. ... it really has somewhat influenced western literature :)
Wow, after that, I'm a bit intimidated, but here goes:
The Histories
The Confessions
David Copperfield
Zuleika Dobson
I was choking on all that reading so I picked something "light" for the last one.
I'll save ... ...
3. Electra and Other Plays, Euripides
4. Medea and Other Plays, Euripides
5. Bacchae and Other Plays, Euripides
6. The Histories, Herodotus
7. The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
8. The Art of War, Sun-Tzu ... the series binding for the first edition of the Homeric epics was the same as the series binding for the first edition of The Histories of Herodotus and that this was "artificial leather" quarter binding. My Iliad and my first FS Odyssey had a leather-like binding and the colophon simply ... ... reviewer copy)
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (mooched)
Once upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
A History of Histories by John Burrow
Better Basics for the Home by Annie Berthold-Bond (my wife's, really)
Life Work by Donald Hall
Elizabeth's Spymaster by Robert ... ... putting it in order, other than roughly chronological order:
1. Gilgamesh
2. The Illiad
3. The Odyssey
4. The Histories
5. The Old Testament
6. The Bhagavad Gita
7. The Tale of Genji
8. Don Quixote
9. Candide
10. Tom Jones
11. Pride and Prejudice
12. ... ... and Pantagruel; Candide by Voltaire; Hunger; Simplicius Simplicissimus; History of the Peloponnesian War; The Histories by Herodutus; The Mabinogion; The Brothers Karamazov; Pensees; Ficciones; If On A Winter's Night a Traveler; Runaway Horses; The Count of Monte Cr ... ...
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Histories by Herodotus
I find it helps me to read from several different genres at once so as not to become burnt out reading any one particular genre. Hence, the ... ... nearly halfway through the fourth.
1. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
2. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
3. Herodotus, The Histories
4. Plato, Meno
5. Plato, Gorgias
6. Sophocles, Antigone
7. Plutarch, Greek Lives
8. Plato, Republic
9. Aristophanes, Clouds
10. Plato, Apol ... ... it made me more interested in learning more about the real history behind the movie, but I don't know what translation of The Histories would be the best to read from. What do you think would be a good translation? Thanks! ... wrong way.
16:Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
A fascinating read, to be sure. I couldn't finish Herodotus last time I tackled it, and am planning on trying again this spring with The Landmark Herodotus. (I didn't make it all the way through The Landmark Thucydi ... ... the Irish Saved Civilization
2. The Old World's Gifts to the New
3. Empire State Catholics
4. Great Heresies
5. The Histories
6. Bible History
7. The Story of the Church
8. Iron Fleet: The Great Lakes in World War II
VIII. Education
1. Real Learning
2. A Thomas Jeffer ... ... The Aeneid
888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings -- Great Dialogues, Plato
930 History of ancient world -- The Histories, Herodotus
938 History of ancient world; Greece -- The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales -- The Year 10 ... ... more so than my TBR for that category, The Agricola and the Germania! I might have to switch that.
I started the Histories several years ago and got bogged down about a third of the way through, so we'll see how it goes the second time around. ... Field
916--Africa: Dark Star Safari
917--North America: Day Trips from Houston
930--History of the ancient world: The Histories
936--History of the ancient world; Europe north & west of Italy: The Agricola and the Germania
951--General history of Asia; China & adjacent areas: Tib ... ... please!
Does oldest mean, oldest published? Oldest copy?
If not, I have The History of the Peloponnesian War and The Histories; and I'm sure someone can drag out a translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh; I think I've got a Project Gutenberg e-book of that.
... and Lincoln Child
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins ... a few interesting finds, and another thrift shop brought me one volume closer to a complete set of Agatha Christie:
The Histories by Herodotus (undoubtedly my best find; I've wanted a good, unabridged translation for years, but they're so bloody expensive in new bookstores!)
Jason ... ... a couple books in one day, but it's not common. There are many books I read a bit at a time, say over the course of a year (The Histories, for example). And I usually take short story collections slowly, enjoying them a story or two a day.
... Fagles
Old Testament KJV Job, Genesis
Greek Lyrics by Lattimore
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Histories by Herodotus
Medea by Euripedes
Hippolytus by Euripedes
The Bacchae by Euripedes
The Birds by Aristophanes
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Peloponnesia ... ... How are you finding him? I think he's a lot of fun. He's just like an old gossip. I need to get a personal copy of The Histories.
I think I'm going to start in on The Name of the Rose next, but I'm not too sure. I'm coming off of a really big fantasy kick, and I'm not sure that ... I read Beyond the Summerland by L.B. Graham
I am reading The Greek Historians currently I am on The Persian Wars by Herodotus
... Suskind, and am hoping to dip into Herodotus every now and then too. I’ve heard so many quotes, and reports from The Histories, but have always had problems with the classics in the past
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