100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que ce long poème dit les horreurs de la guerre et les douceurs de l'amour, et parce qu'il a façonné l'imaginaire occidental.

Mapguy314: Means I have it in my library, not necessarily that I have read it, although I have read some of them

-pilgrim- : There is another version on page 1 of list

aulsmith : Definitely parts of it, but the whole thing? Nah.

ErykaSosa91: I have been wanting to reread thus epic poem for the longest!!

Mapguy314: I read this many years ago.

karenb: Squeaking by, barely (published 1812)

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.

: Why not read one of the better translations, if you're going to read the whole wretched Bible in the first place?

PietWester: Geschreven in 1759 en nog steeds een van de geestigste werken uit de wereldliteratuur.

: another white dude book and religion - bah

aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.

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.

aulsmith : There are four editions of this work on this list. One is more than enough.

Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que c'est un texte fondamental de l'Occident et que la première règle est une règle d'or : "Ecoute".

aulsmith : His non-English writings add nothing remarkable to the corpus I already rejected.

anthonywillard : Less than 200 years old.

karenb : Agree that it's too late (1835, 1840) for this list

henkl : Not old enough