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

1 点作者 samcgraw大约 5 年前

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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.

pinewurst大约 5 年前

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

mixmastamyk大约 5 年前

I much enjoyed Ben Franklin's autobiography.

gregjor大约 5 年前

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