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1. Tolstoy, War and Peace
2. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
3. Cervantes, Don Quixote
4. Plato, Cratylus
5. Milton, Paradise Lost
I’m sure if I thought about it, I could come up with dozens.
Then perhaps you could save me some time and give me the executive summary of the Cratylus?
Like Roderick, I've read every book that's ever been written . . . in the original languages, of course.
The "many more" is of course true for me also.
1. Anything by Aeschylus
2. Ulysses S. Grant, "Personal Memoirs
3. Moby Dick - Melville
4. The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
5. Nietzche's - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
and many more... obviously...
Paradise Lost is a lot of fun to listen to on tape. Perhaps that is also the best way to tackle War and Peace (which I have not read either).