For my part, one of the most striking things which I recall from my youth was reading Dumas' _The Count of Monte Cristo_ and the Abbé Faria contending that everything a gentleman needed to make his way in life was contained in less than 100 books --- which he had memorized the content of, and could impart to the young Edmond Dantes.
A naïve younger me tried to brute force this by reading one non-fiction book from each major section of the Dewey Decimal system catalog, but was stymied by the paucity of a high school library in a county in the second smallest tax base in the state....
Since then, I've actually been trying to put that list together (and lightly updating it for availability from Project Gutenberg/Librivox).
A naïve younger me tried to brute force this by reading one non-fiction book from each major section of the Dewey Decimal system catalog, but was stymied by the paucity of a high school library in a county in the second smallest tax base in the state....
Since then, I've actually been trying to put that list together (and lightly updating it for availability from Project Gutenberg/Librivox).
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...
Suggestions and comments and recommendations welcome.