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Is it a novel with beautiful, captivating figurative language? Or one with gritty realism? A novel that has had an immense social impact? Or one that has more subtly affected the world? Here is a list of 12 novels that, for various reasons, have been considered some of the greatest works of literature ever written.
The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.”
All the books on the list "Masterpieces of World Literature" from Frank N. Magill. Scholar Frank N. Magill’s famous literary studies reference book. A selection of over 200 of the greatest works of literature of all time.
106 books based on 1031 votes: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1984 by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Eyre by Charlotte...
Books shelved as 100-masterpieces-of-literature: The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, ...
26 maj 2022 · Everyone loves a classic novel, but where to start? From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, Toni Morrison to Fyodor Dostoevsky, the fiction canon is so vast you can easily get lost in it. So we asked our readers to tell us about their favourite classic books.
12 Essential English Novels Everyone Should Read. The classic novels on this list are my (non-exhaustive) selection of ‘must-read’ books for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of English literature.
