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5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The complicated love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy is a classic that has been retold countless times in countless genres. Yep, both Bridget Jones ...
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Ben 1082 books. 71 friends. Craig 348 books. 56 friends. More voters…. « previous 2 3 4 next ». back to top. post a comment ». 106 books based on 1033 votes: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1984 by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Eyre by Charlotte...
91 Light by M John Harrison (2002) One of the most underrated prose writers demonstrates the literary firepower of science fiction at its best. Three narrative strands - spanning far-future ...
Mr.book expert wrote: "I am sure about writer of arabian nights" *sigh* From wiki: The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian ...
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9) Louisa May Alcott's highly original tale aimed at a young female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print. 21. Middlemarch ...
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. Harper Lee, believed to be one of the most influential authors to have ever existed, famously published only a single novel (up until its controversial sequel was published in 2015 just before her death).Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an immediate classic of literature. The novel examines racism in the American South ...
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe. The first English novel. Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Robinson Crusoe. 4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift. A wonderful satire that still works for all ages ...
From love stories to murder mysteries, nonfiction to fantasy, there's something for everybody. 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. This milestone Spanish novel may as well be titled 100 Years on Everyone's Must-Read List — it's just a titan in the world literature canon.
Eudora Welty. On E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web". Eudora Welty's review of this timeless tale is a sheer delight, starting from its headline ("Life in the Barn Was Very Good") and its ...
In 2005, the Book Review repeated the experiment, talking to Susan Choi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer and others about their influences. It felt only ...
Three writers — John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner — received nominations for seven of their books. Other popular authors included James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood and ...
The term "English literature" refers to the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present, ranging from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography and historical writing. Landmark writers range from William Shakespeare and Arundhati Roy to Jane Austen and Kazuo Ishiguro.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 7. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. 8. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. 9. The complete stories of Flannery O'Connor. 10 ...
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The complicated love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy is a classic that has been retold countless times in countless genres. Yep, both Bridget Jones ...
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Set in early 19th-century England, this classic novel revolves around the lives of the Bennet family, particularly the five unmarried daughters. The narrative explores themes of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage within the society of the landed gentry.
Each of these texts had an impact on the way we understand governance. The Republic, Plato. Written around 380 BCE, this text is considered to be one of the most influential pieces ever written. The Republic observes justice in man and politics and discusses the role of the philosopher in society.
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, best known for his novel, Ulysses, and his later novel, Finnegans Wake. He is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Ulysses is a seminal work in which Homer's Odyssey is paralleled in a range of episodes and literary styles.
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878). Ah, Anna Karenina. Lusty love affair or best romance of all time? Most critics pin it as one of most iconic literary love stories, and for good reason.
Famed English writer D. H. Lawrence may have had many controversial stances on literature, but every critic agrees with his statement that The Scarlet Letter is a "perfect work of the American imagination.". Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter deals with the concept of social and religious stigma, specifically with protagonist Hester Prynne having a baby out of wedlock in the 1640s.
Leo Tolstoy, "War And Peace". Russian novelist Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly known as Leo Tolstoy in English, is recognized as one of the greatest writers ever. Two books he wrote, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are often regarded as the pinnacle of realism literature.
We owe it to masters like Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and George Orwell to dive into their elaborate works with the same vigor and excitement we would J.K. Rowling's chain of sorcery-filled novels. To know literature is to know literature at its best. What follows is a list of 10 of the best writers to ever pick up a pen or ...
13 - Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman is an author who writes across several genres, including short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, and films. Gaiman has won several awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards. He is also the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same book, The ...
David Drake, a science fiction and fantasy writer, spent part of his life in North Carolina. Lord of the Isles. is the first book in his fantasy series, blending elements of magic, war and ...
Wordsworth, William. Wynne, Madeline. Wyss, Johann David. Yeats, William Butler. Yezierska, Anzia. Yonge, Charlotte M. Zola, Emile. A list of all authors featured at American Literature, organized alphabetically by last name (in rows, left to right) so that you can find your favorite authors' books, stories, poems and essays quickly and easily.
Mission. The Purdue On-Campus Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. The Purdue Writing Lab serves the Purdue, West Lafayette, campus and coordinates with local literacy initiatives.