Books Circa 1950 or Before

[GloryofGreece]

What are some classics of history or literature really worth reading that are old, or even ancient you enjoyed reading?

-New Testament
-Confessions of St. Augustine
-Imitation of Christ
-Tao Te Ching
-Rumi Poetry
-Machiavelli Prince
-Decameron
-Heptameron
-Divine Comedy
-Canterberry Tales
-Hamlet
-Merchant of Venice
-Great Expectations
-Homage to Catalonia

[Speaker to Animals]

Deerslayer
Last of the Mohicans

Kim
Jungle Tales

Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby

Tarzan
Princess of Mars



Just off the top of my head..

[GloryofGreece]

Deerslayer
Last of the Mohicans

Kim
Jungle Tales

Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby

Tarzan
Princess of Mars



Just off the top of my head..

Deerslayer looks real interesting.

[GloryofGreece]

Will Durant's Renaissance is great , and read by Grover is real nice as well. As are all the Autobiographies of Mark Twain read by him too.

I also have to say that Plutarch's Lives are awesome. The translation/s are clunky at times but if you can get a good on it is well worth read.

[TheReal_ND]

Dostoevsky

Paradise Lost looks like it would jive well with your list as well. I personally enjoyed it. Found myself rooting for Satan tbh

[C-Mag]

Lewis and Clark Journals


Random selection from May 8th, 1805

The White or brown bear feed very much on this root, which their tallons assist them to procure very readily. the white apple appears to me to be a tastless insipid food of itself tho' I have no doubt but it is a very healthy and moderately nutricious food. I have no doubt but our epicures would admire this root very much, it would serve them in their ragouts and gravies in stead of the truffles morella.

We saw a great number buffaloe, Elk, common and Black taled deer, goats beaver and wolves. Capt C. killed a beaver and a wolf, the party killed 3 beaver and a deer. We can send out at any time and obtain whatever species of meat the country affords in as large quantity as we wish. we saw where an Indian had recently grained, or taken the hair off of a goatskin; we do not wish to see those gentlemen just now as we presume they would most probably be the Assinniboins and might be troublesome to us. Capt C. could not be certain but thought he saw the smoke and some Indian lodges at a considrable distance up Milk river.
https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/i ... 1805-05-08

[heydaralon]

The Hunger Games

[Montegriffo]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Published 1819.

[GloryofGreece]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Published 1819.

Never heard of it but looks cool.

[brewster]

Anything by CS Forester, notably the Hornblower series.

A few Kiplings were mentioned, one of my favorites is his first major collection, Plain Tales from the Hills. It could have been titled "Nihilistic Stories of the Raj". Another favorite I need to reread is The Light That Failed, a story about a ex combat artist who becomes a painter at the dawn of expressionism but goes blind from an old wound. My favorite scene in it is when someone asks him what is his best painting, and he says it was painted in the hold of a doomed tramp steamer he was on, a portrait of the captain's mistress, using black and yellow, the only paint available.

Of course you mustn't forget Conrad, Heart of Darkness among his other great works.