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

Descrizione
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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Declino e caduta dell'impero romano
di Edward Gibbon
3,224 utenti
41 recensioni
½ 4.3
Classifica globale 36
39 Members
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Spiegazioni
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...
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L'arte della guerra
di Sun Tzu
23,072 utenti
253 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 32
45 Members
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: 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.