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¿Question #5016?
dakarp: Do you have a favorite book written before 1900? What is it?

pricero1: Vanity Fair.
VincentDarlage: Yes. "Frankenstein."
spacerx: "Gargantua and Pantagruel" or maybe "The Golden Ass"
syphon: Flatland.
the manatee: Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.
rseater: Beowulf.
ladri: origin of species
Hendal: yes, I will not tell unless I receive some GG
Kalidor: I believe Poe's tales were written in the mid 1800's...so, any of them. Master of Horror.
Spirit of 70: "Phantasts", by George McDonald
hatemachine: The Monk (1796) by Matthew G. Lewis
GrimJester: Frankenstein
Great_Mazinga: bible, heh :)
aleo09: the Bible.
pitferret: Fragments of Isabella. The first book to make me cry while reading.
tickmanfan: Bible
Jeff Horger: The Art of War
dogzard: Does Jules Verne count? 20k Leagues Under the Sea
echdareez: Necronomicon
Thick As A Brick: The Mill On The Floss
philoiz: Tale of Two Cities
terp8in: Last of the Mohicans. What a crock as a classic, eh? It reads like a trashy western novel. I love it.
DHEK: No I don't.
Eric Haas: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine is near the top of my list.
Leo-T: Hamlet
POvidiusNaso: Yes. The Iliad or the Histories of Herodotus. Or Don Quixote.
pethulhu: faust
Boomer: The wealth of nations
2amp: art of war
jeffwolfe: Fiction: something by Jules Verne; Non-fiction: Wealth of Nations
dictator555: A Little Princess byFrances Hodgson Burnett
ZombyDawg: Hardee's Infantry Tactics (by the way, the Bible, is not a book, per se, but a collection of documents)
jester27: Anything by Oscar Wilde
Nandalfnarcoleptic: the bible
janiera: No
nibuen: Paradise Lost if that counts
Cromaa: Nope
SatanicEssence: Sir Aglovale de Gailis
engdy: bible (yeah, you prolly got a lot of this for an answer)
jasta6: no...........................................
Shotmagnet: War and Peace
Debate: Flatland
Toxidyne: Frankenstien
dietevil: Pride and Prejudice, Ivanhoe
mrspank: Anything by Mark Twain.
confuse_a_cat: several, the Bible and numerous philosophical texts come to mind
Jim_P: Even with all the endless narratives... I've always been fond of Jules Verne's novels
haraggan: The Iliad. If you don't consider that a book, then The Three Muskateers.
starbug: It's impossible to choose just one. I can't even choose between War and Peace, Dead Souls, The Idiot, and Eugene Onegin.
LemonyFresh: THGttG
skrutsch: no
Sheylon: The Brothers Karamazov
SgtTodd: 20,000 Legues Under the Sea
Loquutus: The Prince or The Art of War
chrisisapimp: i wasn't even born then
ssmooth: No, but I'm a fan of Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte. Robert Louis Stevenson and Louisa May Alcott were quite good, too.
ctalbot: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Cavedog_pdx: Extroardinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Tushratta: Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. I have a copy from 1896.
skelebone: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus is pretty good.
jttm: When was Sherlock Holmes written?
CDRodeffer: The Bible
sos1: Too many to pick one favorite. Books by Twain, Dumas, Homer, Weyman, Cervantes, Grimmelshausen, etc., and plays by Moliere, Wilde - oh, really, too many to list.
Dave: Uncle Tom's Cabin?
chaddyboy_2000: The Bible.
Lord_Prussian: Bible
CortexBomb: Many...the absolute best is probably Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment, but a goodly portion of my library is books that are that old, so my choice is subject to change :-)