Great Books Index - Plato. Charmides . Lysis . Laches . Protagoras . Euthydemus . Cratylus . (Classics Archive) (Adelaide, 60KB) -- Translated by Benjamin Jowett. (Perseus, Tufts) -- Translated by W.R.M. [Back to Top of Page] (Columbia, 130KB) (Classics Archive) -- Translated by Harold North Fowler. (Mirror, 130KB) (Columbia, 130KB) (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 230KB) -- Includes a long introductory essay, presumably by Jowett. (Columbia, 40KB) (Adelaide, 40KB) (Columbia, 80KB) (Clarke) -- Part of "The Last Days of Socrates" website. -- Jowett translation, good annotations and illustrations. -- Requires a browser with graphics capabilities. (Constitution, 70KB) (Constitution, 70KB) (Michigan) 30 Very Funny Books.
It's a dreary day, so I thought I'd indulge myself and come up with a list of my favorite comedies.
A caveat, however: this is not a fancy English-professor-y list of the finest, most exquisitely crafted, most erudite or intellectually sophisticated works on paper in the language. This is a list of the books that make me laugh until my mascara starts to run. These are books to read over your first cup of coffee or just before you go to sleep . Remember: a day you've laughed is day you haven't wasted--even if you didn't get out of bed. Some days you need a jump-start to get to the funny parts of life. You've probably heard of most of these titles, and maybe you've already read several of them. You ready? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cult Fiction - Top 10 List - Top Ten List - Top 10 Existential Novels - Fight Club - Journey to the End of the Night - Man's Fate - Steppenwolf - Woman in the Dunes - Nausea - The Trial - Invisible Man - Notes from Underground - The Stranger - Albert Camu.
Top 10 Existential Novels #10 - FIGHT CLUB [1996] Chuck Palahniuk "It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. " #09 - JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT [1932] Louis-Ferdinand Celine "The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. . #08 - MAN'S FATE [1932] Andre Malraux "The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
" #07 - STEPPENWOLF [1928] Hermann Hesse "I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the motive power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. "