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My List Of The 25 Landmarks Of World Literature

Posted on 02/13/2017 11:09:14 PM PST by goldstategop


1. Iliad
2. Odyssey
3. Bible
4. Dialogues Of Plato
5. Ethics Aristotle
6. Politics Aristotle
7. Voyage Of Argo Apolonius Of Rhodes
8. Metamorphoses Ovid
9. Aeneid Virgil
10. City Of God Augustine
11. Summa Theologica Thomas
12. Divine Comedy Dante
13. Decameron Boccacio
14. Essays Montaigne
15. Don Quixote Cervantes
16. Complete Works Shakespeare
17. Pensees Pascal
18. Wealth Of Nations Smith
19. Federalist Hamilton
20. Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels
21. Les Miserables Hugo
22. War And Peace Tolstoy
23. Ulysses Joyce
24. In Search Of Lost Time Proust
25. Lord Of The Rings Tolkien


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: landmarks; list; worldliterature
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To: goldstategop

Putting the entire Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare rather than some particular work are both somewhat cheating. And even if you don’t like it, any list of most influential books has to include the Koran.


81 posted on 02/14/2017 5:16:09 AM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: goldstategop

Wealth of Nations? As applied to today’s economy it should be called “Destruction of Nations” or “Marx’s Dream”.


82 posted on 02/14/2017 5:23:53 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: eclecticEel

The title is a bit misleading. In his comment, the OP says “that have shaped Western thought”.

Confucius’ Annalects, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita have influence far beyond many of the works mentioned, but minimal in Western Civ.


83 posted on 02/14/2017 5:27:03 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: MV=PY

You’re welcome.


84 posted on 02/14/2017 5:32:20 AM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: goldstategop

I think I would have added.
26) The once and Future King
27) Orlando Furioso
28) The Journey to the West


85 posted on 02/14/2017 5:49:44 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: goldstategop
My List ...

Exactly, your list.

My list would have some of the titles on your list and some that are not on your list. That would be my list.

I find no fault with your list other that it is too short. I think fifty to a hundred would be a minimum.

86 posted on 02/14/2017 6:30:57 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: goldstategop

can’t get to your list without “Dick and Jane”


87 posted on 02/14/2017 6:41:12 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Vendome

Please!


88 posted on 02/14/2017 6:42:32 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: outofsalt; Maine Mariner
You and your sons received a fine education in the liberal arts!

that was the goal! :)

89 posted on 02/14/2017 6:44:56 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: goldstategop
No Juvenal?
90 posted on 02/14/2017 6:46:19 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: goldstategop

My parents bought Great Books of the Western World in the 50’s, so I had read them by the time I finished high school. Since then I read most of the rest on your list. Good collection.


91 posted on 02/14/2017 10:50:10 AM PST by grwcfl537 (Sed libera nos a malo. NTOWY)
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To: dr_lew

It is a great book, and very funny, at times. Melville had some other great books, not read as much. Of course, when Melville denied, he was not noted as a great author.


92 posted on 02/14/2017 11:07:49 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ReaganGeneration2

I would rate Borges as a much better South American writer than Marquez, and also Cortázar.


93 posted on 02/14/2017 11:09:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: goldstategop

Missing Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Clifford D. Simak, John Campbell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, many others.


94 posted on 02/14/2017 3:13:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: outofsalt
The Art of War ~Sun Tsu

I keep that displayed on a shelf at work. Once in a while, I take it down and thumb through its pages. I was lucky several years ago and found it in the bargain bin, hardcover, about $1.50.

95 posted on 02/14/2017 5:10:18 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: goldstategop
I arranged them in chronological order.

Parts of the Bible were written long before Homer.

96 posted on 02/14/2017 9:02:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: goldstategop
#3, #16, #19 & #25 are the only ones I've read—in whole or in part—and I consider myself well-read!

LOTR will always be a favorite, and underrated, I believe, in orthodox circles. IMHO it's the greatest piece of literature from the 20th century.

I have read Catch-22, which someone mentioned as being "great", and also Beowulf; I'm not completely illiterate...

97 posted on 02/14/2017 9:46:35 PM PST by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: goldstategop

Thanks for the explanation. Accepted.


98 posted on 02/15/2017 10:47:20 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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