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    The Republic would be in the top 5 greatest books ever written.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bardamu View Post
    The Republic would be in the top 5 greatest books ever written.
    Plato's Republic? I found it to be a very hard book to comprehend; I think Plato got carried away with his own philosophical eloquence in more than a few places there.

    OR... I just have a crappy translation.

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    In Bloom's book about the 100 Geniuses in Literature, he puts these five on the top:

    SHAKESPEARE - CERVANTES - MONTAIGNE - MILTON - TOLSTOI

    As the big consolidators of the masterpiece Drama, the masterpiece Novel, the masterpiece Essay, the masterpiece Poem and the masterpiece Story, creators of everlasting archetypes, feelings and visions of the world.

    (In my humble opinion, I'd change Milton for Dante, but well...)

    So according to him, the top 5 books could be..

    The Play


    The Novel


    The Essay


    The Poem


    (As I said, I'm sorry, but I'll always prefer Dante's Inferno to Milton's Paradise)



    The Tale


    ^ Of course Tolstoy's novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are second to none, too.
    < La Catalogne peut se passer de l'univers entier, et ses voisins ne peuvent se passer d'elle. > Voltaire

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    Good List, I don't get how is it possible that James Joyce is ranked higher than Dostoyevski and Dickens?

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    I really think this author or book should be on the list.

    Eça De Queirós.



    Great novel.

    Eça de Queiroz (1846-1900)



    Novelist and short-story writer, Eça de Queirós introduced naturalism and realism to Portuguese literature. He is considered the major novelist of his generation. The French writer Emile Zola admired him greatly and said that Eça was “greater than Flaubert”.

    Some or his most known works are The Relic, The Maias and The Crime of Father Amaro.

    The Relic was an episodic story of religious hypocrisy and truth. Its writing coincided with his marriage and drew on the travels with his wife’s brother to Egypt and the Near East

    The Maias portrays the intense saga of the Maias, a very wealthy family, in a decadent period of portuguese history and through several generations. The novel focuses, through this setting, on the inevitability of fate; it also uses the family to send a tough criticism to society.

    The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria in the 1870s, and follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Amelia, and their interactions with Amelia’s mother, her atheist suitor, and her mother’s lover, the priest Canon Dias.

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    Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    The Odyssey by Homer
    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
    Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
    The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
    Inferno/From an Occult Diary by August Strindberg
    Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
    The Transcendent Unity of Religions by Frithjof Schuon
    The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
    Hunger by Knut Hamsun
    And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
    Candide by Voltaire
    Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
    The U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
    Ask the Dust by John Fante
    The Cantos by Ezra Pound
    4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vache
    The Golden Sayings by Epictetus
    Love is A Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski

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    you guys should've added Lenin and Marx to that list.

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    Cant take a list seriously that doesnt put the Bible and Quran on the top of the list. To me, greatest = influential...any other criteria is subjective

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    Of course the Bible As said polish traveler and journalist Wojciech Cejrowski, this book is the greatest bestseller in the world

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    Would you consider Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell a great book?

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