Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?

#1

Post by marceee0901 » Sun, Sep 08, 2019, 11:52 PM UTC

For example, "On The Shortness of Life" by Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?

#2

Post by steerpike » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a pretty obvious one for this demographic.

#3

Post by perilunar » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 12:43 AM UTC

My Airships, by Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1904

#4

Post by h13g » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 12:43 AM UTC

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, 1888 [1]

#5

Post by perl4ever » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC

What is Man? And Other Essays by Mark Twain

#6

Post by abhiyerra » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:10 AM UTC

“Civilization and its Discontents” by Freud

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly

“Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

#7

Post by zawerf » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

The Count of Monte Cristo

#8

Post by chris5745 » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:14 AM UTC

The Secret Doctrine [0]

#9

Post by dantodor » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:16 AM UTC

Plato's Dialogues

#10

Post by 033803throwaway » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:18 AM UTC

Progress & Poverty (1879) by Henry George

Orthodoxy (1908) by G.K. Chesterton

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky