The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written Explained

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today
Author:Martin Seymour-Smith
Cover Artist:Francis Cugat
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Published:September 1998, Citadel
Media Type:Print (hardcover and paperback)
Isbn:978-0806520001
Oclc:38258131

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1]

The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Hippocratic Corpus and the Corpus Aristotelicum.

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  1. Book: Seymour-Smith, Martin. The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today. 1998. Carol Publ. Group. Secaucus, New Jersey. 978-0806520001. 38258131 .