MortSahlFan — 6 years ago(October 09, 2019 08:01 PM)

WORKS WHICH MADE AN IMPRESSION
Childhood to the age of 14 or so
The story of Joseph from the Bible - Enormous
Tales from The Thousand and One Nights: the 40 Thieves, Prince Qam-al-Zaman - Great
The Little Black Hen by Pogorelsky - V. great
Russian byliny: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich. Folk Tales - Enormous
Puskin’s poems: Napoleon - Great
Age 14 to 20
Matthew’s Gospel: Sermon on the Mount - Enormous
Sterne’s Sentimental Journey - V. great
Rousseau Confessions - Enormous
Emile - Enormous
Nouvelle Héloise - V. great
Pushkin’s Yevgeny Onegin - V. great
Schiller’s Die Räuber - V. great
Gogol’s Overcoat, The Two Ivans, Nevsky Prospect - Great
"Viy" - Enormous
Dead Souls - V. great
Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches - V. great
Druzhinin’s Polinka Sachs - V. great
Grigorovich’s The Hapless Anton - V. great
Dickens’ David Copperfield - Enormous
Lermontov’s A Hero for our Time, Taman - V. great
Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico - Great
Age 20 to 35
Goethe. Hermann and Dorothea - V. great
Victor Hugo. Notre Dame de Paris - V. great
Tyutchev’s poems - Great
Koltsov’s poems - Great
The Odyssey and The Iliad (read in Russian) - Great
Fet’s poems - Great
Plato’s Phaedo and Symposium (in Cousin’s translation) - Great
Age 35 to 50
The Odyssey and The Iliad (in Greek) - V. great
The byliny - V. great
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables - Enormous
Xenophon’s Anabasis - V. great
Mrs. [Henry] Wood. Novels - Great
George Eliot. Novels - Great
Trollope, Novels - Great
Age 50 to 63
All the Gospels in Greek - Enormous
Book of Genesis (in Hebrew) - V. great
Henry George. Progress and Poverty - V. great
[Theodore] Parker. Discourse on religious subject - Great
[Frederick William] Robertson’s sermons - Great
Feuerbach (I forget the title; work on Christianity) [“The Essence of Christianity”] - Great
Pascal’s Pensées - Enormous
Epictetus - Enormous
Confucius and Mencius - V. great
On the Buddha. Well-known Frenchman (I forget) [“Lalita Vistara”] - Enormous
Lao-Tzu. Julien [S. Julien, French translator] - Enormous
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