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ITT: Favourite books written before 1900.
buying some books, making a shopping list

>> No.1043314

All the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

>> No.1043312
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1043312

The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.1043326

Persuausion

>> No.1043327

probably most things Dostoyevsky

>> No.1043328

>>1043312
Thanks, looks interesting
>>1043314
Got em, but thanks for reminding me about that, still haven't read them

>> No.1043330

>>1043327
Yeah, I'm buying Crime and Punishment now and probably the rest next time I order books

>> No.1043348

War and Peace

>> No.1043354

The Bible

>> No.1043362

Paradise Lost and Inferno

>> No.1043408

>>1043354

The Canterbury Tales. Everything good was written before 1900.

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1043436

Trilby by George Du Maurier

>> No.1043457

Les Miserables

>> No.1043464

Wuthering Heights
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Far From the Maddening Crowd
Uncle Silas
Vathek

>> No.1043560

try reading Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom - it will turn your little world upside down

>> No.1043583

>>1043312
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>> No.1043586

the gospels, god and the state.

>> No.1043591

its crazy how much a better writer Dumas was than Dostoevsky.

especially since they both lived in pretty much the same period, both saw revolution and political reform.

russian writers really are just shit.