23 сент. 2018 г. · I picked up a few the other day and am now reading Frankenstein which made me think about how amazing it is that it's 200 years old and still so relevant today.

16 апр. 2023 г. · "The Histories" by Polybius, "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, "The Commentaries on the Gallic Wars" by Julius Caesar, "The Aeneid" by ...

26 июл. 2019 г. · The oldest manuscripts still extant are papyrus fragments from dynastic Egypt. The very oldest date from about 2600 BC and were only discovered ...

22 мар. 2019 г. · A copy of the Diamond Sutra, dated to 868m is considered the oldest printed book by the British Library.

2 янв. 2024 г. · The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton springs to mind for me. It was published in 1920, but something about it feels so current.

19 нояб. 2021 г. · Yeah probably Gilgamesh is the oldest one that I enjoyed. I've also read the Iliad, the Odyssey, Beowulf, various early English novels (took a ...

22 февр. 2017 г. · TIL the world's oldest printed book is 'The Diamond Sutra' and it was created in 868 A.D. by a man named Wang Jie. · Why Reading Matters · Reading ...

25 февр. 2022 г. · We still read the Bhagavad Gita, Machiavelli's The Prince, and the plays of Shakespeare because they wrestle with themes that we still wrestle with.

9 мар. 2022 г. · It's worth it especially if you're really into research. You can see why the inaccuracies or debunked statements are not applicable anymore.

14 сент. 2020 г. · But medieval people mostly read the Conte du Graal with its Continuations. 12 out of 15 surviving manuscripts have at least one Continuation in ...