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Are there any good books written by people over 80?

>> No.19982002
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19982002

>>19981993
>"no"

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>Barzun published the book when he was 93 years old, and described the book in its prefatory note as the culmination of "a lifetime" of study of Western thought.

>> No.19982017

>>19981993
Faust II.

>> No.19982055

My diary desu, but I'm only 19 so you can't read it yet

>> No.19982775

>>19981993
And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Santmyer is probably the most underrated example of this. It’s doubly interesting because she basically labored in obscurity for the entire time before that, before being finally thrust into the spotlight in her 80s at a time when people thought traditionally “great American novels” were dead and killed by Gaddis and co. Must have probably been the most delayed orgasm of her life.

>> No.19982998

didn't junger write eumeswil at that age?

>> No.19983036

>>19981993
Homer is thousands of years old and I hear he had some pretty good books.