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What are the most /lit/ non-fiction pieces, philosophy and religious texts not included (so no bible-posters).
I'd probably guess The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire or one of the Greek/Roman non-fiction pieces (maybe Herodotus').

>> No.13656139

>>13655883
Philosophical texts, particularly the well-written ones (think Pascal or Schopenhauer, also most of the French Enlightenment writers, while borderline philosophers, were often enjoyable writers of non-fiction).

In the same vein important texts on laws and their underlying philosophy, think the Federalist Papers.

>> No.13656146

The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup

>> No.13656533

Don’t read that, it’s poorly written and inaccurate trash. Read someone like Momsen.

For /lit/ non-fiction: de Quincey’s essays, Coleridge’s Table-Talk, Nabokov’s lectures, Macaulay’s History

>> No.13656593

>>13656533
Terrible opinion. Gibbons prose is amazing, though Momsen holds up better as a scholar

>> No.13656648

>>13656593
His prose is hilariously bad and repetitive with an obnoxious tone