Ask HN: What is your favorite book written before 1900?

1 pointsby samcgrawabout 5 years ago

4 comments

jimmyvalmerabout 5 years ago

Count of Monte Cristo has to be way up there. Compared to the plodding, sententious pace of his contemporaries, Dumas was the veritable Michael Bay of nineteenth century writers.

pinewurstabout 5 years ago

Candide by Voltaire<p>The History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison By Henry Adams

mixmastamykabout 5 years ago

I much enjoyed Ben Franklin's autobiography.

gregjorabout 5 years ago

<i>Mad Trist</i> by Sir Launcelot Canning.