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

1

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

af William Blake

4,041 medlemmer

38 anmeldelser

4.2

Global Rank 35

2

Gulliver's Travels

af Jonathan Swift

1,131 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Global Rank 8

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Forklaringer: : yawwwwwwn

3

Grimm's Fairy Tales (Penguin Popular Classics)

af Jacob Grimm

258 medlemmer

3.9

Global Rank 15

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Forklaringer: karenb: Squeaking by, barely (published 1812)

4

Fyrsten

af Niccolò Machiavelli

23,586 medlemmer

253 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Global Rank 13

5

Æsops fabler

af Aesop

3,587 medlemmer

50 anmeldelser

3.9

Global Rank 23

6

The Arabian Nights

af Sir Richard Burton

410 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Global Rank 26

7

Stolthed og fordom

af Jane Austen

80,482 medlemmer

1,365 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Global Rank 12

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Forklaringer: cemanuel : Agreed. The purpose of this list is specifically for alternatives to Amazon's. Great book though.

8

En skærsommernatsdrøm

af William Shakespeare

19,774 medlemmer

177 anmeldelser

4

Global Rank 16

9

Herodots Historie

af Herodotus

10,068 medlemmer

85 anmeldelser

4.1

Global Rank 25

10

The History of the Peloponnesian War

af Thucydides

7,868 medlemmer

59 anmeldelser

4

Global Rank 30

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Forklaringer: Mapguy314: I read this many years ago.

11

Essais 1-3

af Michel de Montaigne

4,788 medlemmer

48 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Global Rank 47

12

The Histories

af P. Cornelius Tacitus

1,465 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.9

Global Rank 51

13

Le Morte d'Arthur

af Thomas Malory

7,083 medlemmer

52 anmeldelser

3.9

Global Rank 63

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Forklaringer: karenb : Taking Chretien de Troyes instead.
camainc : A better choice would be Idylls of the King by Tennyson.
: boring and more white dudes
Betelgeuse: Idylls of the King is too recent: published between 1859-1885.

14

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

af Daniel Defoe

736 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Global Rank 90

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Forklaringer: aulsmith : Awful. Instead of an adventure story, I got a White Man triumphs over nature with a sermon.
Betelgeuse: Wonderful. A gripping adventure and morality tale. More than a shipwreck story, it is also about repentance and humility. Defoe's novel has several Biblical parallels, including Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, the parable of Jonah, and the sufferings of Job. Lessons can be learned from this book, if one overlooks Crusoe's anachronistic imperialism. But Robinson Crusoe is not a dour sermon. It is surprisingly fast-paced, and the first-person narrative gives it even more immediacy. Everyone knows the basics of the plot: the shocking discovery of the footprint, the appearance of Friday, the threat of cannibals, Crusoe's mastery of the island and its elements. There are also lesser known action sequences, such as the exciting wolfpack scene near the end of the book. A great early novel.