Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life

Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life « Series from 2025

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What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime of its author?

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Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history—works that shaped the minds of great individuals and offer an extraordinary gift of wisdom.

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Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison

Homer, Iliad

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Bhagavad Gita

Book of Exodus

Gospel of Mark

Koran

Gilgamesh

Beowulf

Book of Job

Aeschylus, Oresteia

Euripides, Bacchae

Plato, Phaedo

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

George Orwell, 1984

Vergil, Aeneid

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Confucius, The Analects

Machiavelli, The Prince

Plato, Republic