If you could save thirteen of literature what would you chose

[warspite1805]

Say for arguments sake that Earth was going to establish a colony in a distant solar system and you was designated with the task of being able to select thirteen pieces of literature to be taken to the new colony, which ones would you chose. The only thing is that each ework must have a different author.

Mine would be
1). Homer's Iliad
2). Virgil's Aeneid
3). The Bible
4). Milton's Paradise Lost
5). Dante's Divine Comedy
6). Ovid's Metamorphoses
7). Tolkien's Silmarilion (ver almost chose Lord of the Ring's instead)
8). Shakespear's Hamlet
9). Euripdes Medea
10). Sophocles' Aax
11). Aeschylus' Agamemnon
12). Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles
13). Carl von Clausewuitz's On War

[Gingold]

I'm not arguing that these are the greatest or most important works- just grabbing some of my favorites.

1. O'Brien- The Dalkey Archive
2. Twain- Huckleberry Finn
3. Melville- Moby Dick
4. Dante- Divine Comedy
5. Shakespeare- King Lear
6. Orwell- Animal Farm
7. Ellison- Invisible Man
8. Chandler- The Long Goodbye
9. Calvino- if on a winter's night a traveler
10. Heller- Catch-22
11. White- Charlotte's Web
12. Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
13. Joyce- Ulysses

[Drew Van T.]

13). Carl von Clausewuitz's On War

Because, when you're setting out for the ultimate frontier that we as a species can aspire to, the important thing to remember is how we can most effectively fight amongst ourselves? :confused:

It's remarkable to what extent you manage to live up to your screen name, Warspite. :)

[StoneGold]

All about Green Eggs and Ham.

[warspite1805]

Because, when you're setting out for the ultimate frontier that we as a species can aspire to, the important thing to remember is how we can most effectively fight amongst ourselves? :confused:

It's remarkable to what extent you manage to live up to your screen name, Warspite. :)

I do try :D

[BlairH]

1) The Bible
2) 1984
3) The Brothers Karamazov
4) Catch 22
5) The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
6) The Lord of the Rings
7) The Stand
8) The Iliad
9) A collection of the works of Scottish poet Robert Burns