{"id":171,"date":"2005-07-16T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:23:18","slug":"monte-cristo-150-well-chosen-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-150-well-chosen-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Cristo: 150 Well-Chosen Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0679601996\/qid=1121566467\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\">The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a>, the Abb\u00e9 Faria tells Edmond Dant\u00e8s: \u201cI  possessed nearly 5000 volumes in my library at Rome, but after reading them over many times, I  found that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete  analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful  or desirable to be acquainted with.\u00a0 I devoted  three years of my life to reading and studying these 150 volumes, till I  knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very  slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as  readily as though the pages were open before me.\u00a0 I  could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus  Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornand\u00e8s, Danta, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza,  Machiavel, and Bossuet.\u00a0 Observe, I merely quote  the most important names and writers.\u201d (p. 176)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Count of Monte Cristo, the Abb\u00e9 Faria tells Edmond Dant\u00e8s: \u201cI possessed nearly 5000 volumes in my library at Rome, but after reading them over many times, I found that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or &#8230; <a title=\"Monte Cristo: 150 Well-Chosen Books\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-150-well-chosen-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Monte Cristo: 150 Well-Chosen Books\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}