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Topic: Classical Education

Cesca and I started this project on the old boards.  It's a list of books someone should read before they die.

I'll start with a bunch and Cesca will follow up with some.  Then we'll see where it leads.  All of these are open to debate.


The Iliad - Homer

The Odyssey - Homer

The Histories - Heroditous

Beowulf - Scribe A and Scribe B

Don Quixote - Cervantes

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

Huckleberry Finn - Twain

Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway

As I Lay Dieing - Faulkner

In Cold Blood - Capote

A Streetcar Named Desire - Williams

Death of a Salesman - Miller

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

The Raven - Poe

Madame Bovary - Flaubert

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The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

The Foundation series - Asimov

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

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Re: Classical Education

I heartily agree with both Sock and Ikky's lists.

As we are not confining it to "English lit" the panapoly of choices widens even fiurther:

on the Sci/fantasy front:

Dune                            Frank Herbert

anything by                  Heinline

     "                              Niven/Pournelle

On the "lit" front

Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
Taming of the Shrew          Shakespear

Goooseberries                    Chekov

poems by                           Shelley

   "                                      Tennyson

   "                                      Byron

   "       Kublai Khan            Coleridge

Phineas reddux                  Trollope

Pilgrims Progress                Bunyan

America a Prophecy            Blake

anything by                        Voltaire

Mort D'Arthur                       Mallory



Essential Philosophy:

Plato

Aristotle

Descartes

Aquinas

Hobbes

Locke

Hume

Kant

Hegel

Nietzsche

Wittgenstein

Machiavelli

Dirkheim

Weber

Marx

This is the bitterest pain among men,
To have much knowledge , but no power.

Herodotus