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

: We need a little LESS war, please! Even though it's not old enough for this list, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENCE by Gene Sharp should be on everyone's must-read list.

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

Mapguy314: I read this many years ago.

camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."

Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.

JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...

karenb: Squeaking by, barely (published 1812)

: yawwwwwwn

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

karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)

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

Veilleur_de_nuit: Des poèmes flamboyants et enflammés par le plus bref poète de la langue espagnole.

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

henkl : Not old enough

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

henkl : Not quite 200 years old.

anthonywillard : Less than 200 years old.