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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.”
The top 100 titles for the world literature classroom, ranked in order of popularity, chosen by literature teachers from across the country. This list was originally published in 2017 and was added to this site about 10 years ago.
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...
16 maj 2024 · Let me introduce to you, the 31 masterpieces of literature, and see if you have read any of these novels. 1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This book is a literary masterpiece because it is not only a simple literary work, but also a social encyclopedia integrating philosophy, aesthetics, religion, and so on.
30 sty 2012 · The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers—including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce ...
26 maj 2022 · 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.
