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Tolstoy's Reading List for all ages >CHILDHOOD TO ~14
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Tolstoy's Reading List for all ages

>CHILDHOOD TO ~14
Tales from The Thousand and One Nights: The 40 Thieves, Prince Qam-al-Zaman
Pushkin’s Poems: “Napoleon”
The Little Black Hen by Pogorelsky
The story of Joseph from The Bible
The Byliny folk tales: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich

>AGE 14 TO 20
The Conquest of Mexico by William Prescott
Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol: “Overcoat,” “The Two Ivans,” “Nevsky Prospect”
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
A Hero for Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Hapless Anton by Dmitry Grigorovich
Polinka Saks by Aleksandr Druzhinin
A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller
Yevgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Gospel of Matthew: “Sermon on the Mount”
The Confessions by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
Emile: Or on Education by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
“Viy” from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

>AGE 20 TO 35
Poems by F.T. Tyutchev
Poems by Koltsov
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]
Poems by Afanasy Fet
The Symposium and The Phaedo by Plato
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

>AGE 35 TO 50
The novels of Mrs. Henry Wood
The novels of George Eliot
The novels of Anthony Trollope
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [in greek]
The Byliny
Xenophon’s Anabasis
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

>AGE 50 TO 63
Discourse on Religious Subject by Theodore Parker
Robertson’s Sermons
The Book of Genesis
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
The Complete Gospels*
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Epictetus
Confucius and Mencius
The Lalita-Vistara: Or Memoirs Of The Early Life Of Sakya Sinha by Rajendralala Mitra
Lao-Tzu
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Of coures that socialist faggot would want to indoctrinate the kids with a bunch of Rousseau LOL
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>>7504466
insulting count tolstoy on christmas

sweet life you have faggot!!!!!!!!
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>The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]

lol tolstoy was a pleb
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>>7504475
He just thinks it should take you 35 years to learn Greek
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So people should only stop being plebd at about 50?
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>>7504475
Tolstoy recommends read them twice, first translated, then in greek.

>Age 35 to 50
>The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [in greek]
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this seems like a made up list and i doubt he read Feuerbach
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>>7504439
Why is there no Pynchon?

This list used to have Pynchon
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>>7504584
Tolstoy and Pynchon had a falling out.
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I wonder why would I read the books listed above at certain age? I mean does it really matter? I really freaking respect Tolstoy for his huge talent and especially for his novel Anna Karenina, but it's starting to get on my nerves. What a stupidity.
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>>7504627
>>>/autism/
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>>7504588
kek
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>>7504633
> >>>/autism/
is this addressed to me?
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>>7504667
Merry Christmas you old sod
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>>7504671
What is fucking wrong with you? How is it even related to what i've said above about the list of Tolstoy's? Get a life, swamp
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>>7504685
That's what she said
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>>7504685
Wow man I was being silly about the autism, but maybe you ought to get yourself checked out
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>>7504685
ayy lmao
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>>7504685
What car do you drive?
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>>7504713
I'm russian, no car
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>>7504713
i drive a red corvette and id probably laugh if i saw you on the highway you low life
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>>7504713
My mum doesn't let me drive. Is that fucking relevant though?
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