Childhood to the age of 14 or so

• The story of Joseph from the Bible Enormous
• Tales from The Thousand and One Nights: the 40 Thieves, Prince Qam-al-Zaman Great
• The Little Black Hen by Pogorelsky V. great
• Russian byliny: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich. Folk Tales Enormous
• Puskin’s poems: Napoleon Great

Age 14 to 20

• Matthew’s Gospel: Sermon on the Mount Enormous
• Sterne’s Sentimental Journey V. great
• Rousseau: Confessions Enormous
• Emile Enormous
• Nouvelle Héloise V. great
• Puskin’s Yevgeny Onegin V. great
• Schiller’s Die Räuber V. great
• Gogol’s Overcoat, The Two Ivans, Nevsky Prospect Great
• Viy [a story by Gogol] Enormous
• Dead Souls V. great
• Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches V. great
• Druzhinin’s Polinka Sachs V. great
• Grigorovich’s The Hapless Anton V. great
• Dickens’ David Copperfield Enormous
• Lermontov’s A Hero for our Time, Taman V. great
• Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico Great

Age 20 to 35

• Goethe. Hermann and Dorothea V. great
• Victor Hugo. Notre Dame de Paris V. great
• Tyutchev’s poems Great
• Koltsov’s poems Great
• The Odyssey and The Iliad (read in Russian) Great
• Fet’s poems Great
• Plato’s Phaedo and Symposium (in Cousin’s translation) Great

Age 35 to 50

• The Odyssey and The Iliad (in Greek) V. great
• The byliny V. great
• Victor Hugo. Les Misérables Enormous
• Xenophon’s Anabasis V. great
• Mrs. Henry Wood. Novels Great
• George Eliot. Novels Great
• Trollope, Novels Great

Age 50 to 63

• All the Gospels in Greek Enormous
• Book of Genesis (in Hebrew) V. great
• Henry George. Progress and Poverty V. great
• Theodore Parker. Discourse on religious subject Great
• Frederick William Robertson’s sermons Great
• Feuerback (I forget the title; work on Christianity) [“The Essence of Christianity”] Great
• Pascal’s Pensées Enormous
• Epictetus Enormous
• Confucius and Mencius V. great
• On the Buddha. Well-known Frenchman (I forget) [“Lalita Vistara”] Enormous
• Lao-Tzu. Julien [S. Julien, French translator] Enormous