| Description |
xii, 625 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Facts on File library of world literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Includes a list of the 125 novels by year of publication, and a list of a second hundred (honorable mentions). |
| Summary |
This revised edition includes 25 additional titles (125 total). The author uses "a self-imposed selection criteria to try to identify the novels that have exerted the strongest impact, that have changed or altered the form in significant ways, and, based on critical consensus and the test of time, that continue to deliver importance, relevance, and enjoyment years, decades, or centuries after publication." --from the Preface to Revised Edition, p. ix. |
| Contents |
Don Quixote -- War and peace -- Ulysses -- In search of lost time -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Moby Dick -- Madame Bovary -- Middlemarch -- The magic mountain -- The tale of Genji -- Emma -- Bleak house -- Anna Karenina -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Tom Jones -- Great expectations -- Absalom, Absalom! -- The ambassadors -- One hundred years of solitude -- The great Gatsby -- To the lighthouse -- Crime and punishment -- The sound and the fury -- Vanity fair -- Dead souls -- Le Père Goriot -- The portrait of a lady -- Women in love -- The red and the black -- Tristram Shandy -- Finnegans wake -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- Buddenbrooks -- Invisible man -- The man without qualities -- A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Molloy, Malone dies, the Unnamable -- The tin drum -- Wuthering heights -- Pride and prejudice -- The scarlet letter -- Gravity's rainbow -- Beloved -- Nostromo -- Fathers and sons -- The trial -- Lolita -- Mrs. Dalloway -- Dream of the red chamber -- Clarissa -- Persuasion -- Jane Eyre -- David Copperfield -- Petersburg -- Things fall apart -- The Princess of Cleves -- The stranger -- The red badge of courage -- The counterfeiters -- The grapes of wrath -- The golden notebook -- Sons and lovers -- The good soldier -- |
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A passage to India -- Daniel Deronda -- Germinal -- My Ántonia -- An American tragedy -- Hunger -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Midnight's children -- U.S.A. trilogy -- Les leaisons dangereuses -- The charterhousr of Parma -- The sorrows of young Werther -- Cities of salt -- A farewell to arms -- The death of Artemio Cruz -- Herzog -- Candide -- The sleepwalkers -- The last chronicle of Barset -- The awakening -- Robinson Crusoe -- Call it sleep -- Waverly -- Oblomov -- Their eyes were watching God -- Under the volcano -- Snow country -- Nineteen eighty-four -- As I lay dying -- The Pickwick papers -- The betrothed -- Pale fire -- The last of the Mohicans -- Les misérables -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Doctor Zhivago -- Native son -- On the road -- Frankenstein -- The leopard -- The age of innocence -- Dom Casmurro -- A hero of our time -- The catcher in the rye -- Moll Flanders -- The good soldier Švejk -- The Master and Margarita -- Brideshead revisited -- The unbearable lightness of being -- American pastoral -- The handmaid's tale -- Manon Lescaut -- The woman in white -- Some prefer nettles -- A bend in the river -- Cold nights -- Dracula -- The woman in the dunes -- Gone with the wind -- The three musketeers -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Treasure Island. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Fiction -- Themes, motives.
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| Added Title |
Novel one hundred |
| ISBN |
9780816078592 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816078599 (hc : alk. paper) |
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