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  • The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

    Here you can find our list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #28]

    Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story. ... Read more

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  • Nostromo (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #50]

    Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South American republic, spins a colorful tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men — corrupting and destroying some, revealing the strengths of others. ... Read more

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  • The Scarlet Letter (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #39]

    "The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country." —Henry James"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." —Malcolm Cowley"There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than 'The Scarlet Letter'”. —D. H. Lawrence"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy (Centaur Classics)

    «The Divine Comedy» is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #90]

    "I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly." —Robert Louis Stevenson"A masterpiece which remains as fresh and living as if it were written yesterday." —Jean Lucas-Dubreton"Dumas had genius of a certain kind — the genius that comes of vigour and a sense of the dramatic." —André MauroisOne of the most celebrated and ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Red Chamber (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #56]

    "The tragedy of tragedies." —Wang Guowei"['The Dream of the Red Chamber'] is to the Chinese very much what 'The Brothers Karamazov' is to Russian and 'In Search of Lost Time' is to French literature… It is beyond question one of the great novels of all literature." —Anthony West“'The Dream of the Red Chamber' and 'The Tale of Genji' are the two greatest works of prose fiction in all the history of ... Read more

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  • Les Misérables (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #3]

    "One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world." —Upton Sinclair"The greatest of all novels." —Leo Tolstoy"Hugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth century." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"I sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things." —Susan Sontag«Les Misérables» is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century ... Read more

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  • The Call of the Wild (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #69]

    Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit... ... Read more

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  • Fathers and Sons (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #54]

    "['Fathers and Sons'] stirs the mind… because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity." —Dmitry Pisarev"[Turgenev] was of the stuff of which glories are made." —Henry James"Turgenev is much the most difficult of the Russians to translate because his style is the most beautiful." —Constance Garnett"What an amazing language!" —Anton ChekhovConsidered Ivan Turgenev ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #27]

    «Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero» is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel. Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim's progress: a never-ending ... Read more

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  • Tristram Shandy (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #26]

    Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate "hero" Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr. Slop, ... Read more

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