Voltaire (historian, philosopher, writer)
http://www.biography.com/people/voltaire-9520178
Major works:
http://www.biography.com/people/voltaire-9520178?page=1#major-works
I’d recommendthe following:
Henriade (1723)
Play: Oedipus
Plato's Dream (1756)
Dictionnaire philosophique
The last two are his philosophical works
Molière
Playwright
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and
actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
Dante’s Inferno
http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index2.html
http://historylists.org/art/9-circles-of-hell-dantes-inferno.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhugo.htm
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) (NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS)
Les Misérables (1862)
Gustave Flober
Madame Bovary
Honoré de Balzac
La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy)
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet, pen name Voltaire))
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/voltaire.html
Candide
Socrates
(you can find e-texts at:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/voltaire.html#books)
Stendhal (pen name, his real name is Marie-Henri Beyle
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Le Rouge et le Noir (variously translated as Scarlet and Black, Red and Black,
The Red and the Black, 1830)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal#Novellas)
Erich Maria Remarque
(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm)
Three Comrades
Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
The Magic Mountain
F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
Jane Eyre /ˈɛər/ (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English
writer Charlotte Brontë. I
John Galsworthy (http://www.online-literature.com/john-galsworthy/)
The Forsyte Saga
Irving Stone
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Greek Treasure
Passions of the Mind
William Makepeace Thackeray
(http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wmt/wmtbio.html)
Vanity Fair
William Somerset Maugham
(http://www.online-literature.com/maugham/)
Of Human Bondage
The Moon and Sixpence
Theodore Dreiser
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dreiser.htm
The Financier
The Titan
The Genius
An American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Leo Tolstoy (http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/)
War and Peace
Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm)
Crime and Punishment
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/)
Short Stories
Michel Eyguem De Montaigne
The Essayes (it’s also spelled as The Essays) – vol. 5
(http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-essays_contents.html)
Here’s the site that recommends the best books to read – I’d recommend them too:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/264.Books_That_Everyone_Should_Read_At_Leas
t_Once
Another one, also solid recommendations:
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-100-books-everyone-must-read-2014-2