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

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

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Post by interfixus » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:09 AM UTC

The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861

Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"), A. Einstein, 1905

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

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Post by awat » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:12 AM UTC

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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

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Post by hristov » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:12 AM UTC

Victory - Joseph Conrad

Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky (there is a bunch of other brilliant Dostoyevsky books)

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

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Post by atlacatl_sv » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:13 AM UTC

i enjoyed reading this one:A History of Freedom of Thought http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10684/10684-h/10684-h.htm

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

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Post by glial » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:14 AM UTC

Spinoza's Ethics

Euclid's Elements

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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

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Post by cbanek » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:14 AM UTC

The Prince by Machiavelli, 1532

Chuang-tzu, 4th century BC

The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 5th century BC

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, 14th century AD

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

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Post by ioman » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:15 AM UTC

Candide by Voltaire

It was the first book I read for school that made me laugh out loud and realize that some of these old boring books were actually pretty awesome (which is why people are still reading them centuries later)

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

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Post by pinewurst » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:15 AM UTC

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

North of Boston by Robert Frost

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (+ the other Sherlock Holmes')

Candide by Voltaire (was reminded by other posting - this is great!)

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

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Post by jeffdavis » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:18 AM UTC

On Being the Right Size:

https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

Only 90 years old, but it came to mind and it was close enough that I needed to check the date.

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

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Post by dominotw » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 2:19 AM UTC

Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools 5th Edition