What is the greatest peice of literature ever written?

Question

All types of literature.

Answer 1

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Though the absolutely scariest and well written book is called The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.

Answer 2

"Mi Ultimo Adios" by Jose Mercado Rizal The author wrote this "last Farewell" hours before he faced a firing squad of spanish soldiers. The filipino rennaisance man who studied and lived in Madrid, Spain where he wrote the very book that cause his untimely death: "Noli me Tangere" (Touch me not) The novel deals with the oprressive church doctrines and the Spanish repressive colonization of the Philippines. The "Noli" became the bible of the successful people's revolution of 1896 against Spain. No other poem has captured the patriotism and love for freedom than Jose Rizal"s "MI Ultimo Adios" His pen proved to be mightier than the sword and as the news of his death spread around, the fire of Philippine revolution against Spain went wild and the fury of the uprising ended only when the Spain double crossed the filipinos by selling the country to the US for 20 million dollars. Rizal's poem inspired filipinos to continue fighting the american colonizers to uphold its country's sovereignty.

Answer 3

Cien Años de Soledad/ 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Answer 4

I Cannot Live Without You




I CANNOT live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf

The sexton keeps the key to,
Putting up
Our life, his porcelain,
Like a cup

Discarded of the housewife,
Quaint or broken;
A newer Sevres pleases,
Old ones crack.

I could not die with you,
For one must wait
To shut the other's gaze down, --
You could not.


And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege?


Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace

Glow plain and foreign
On my homesick eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.

They'd judge us -- how?
For you served Heaven, you know,
Or sought to;
I could not,

Because you saturated sight,
And I had no more eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise.

And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the heavenly fame.

And were you saved,
And I condemned to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.

So we must keep apart,
You there, I here,
With just the door ajar
That oceans are,
And prayer,

And that pale sustenance,
Despair!




- Emily Dickinson



From: Poems by Emily Dickinson Series One

Answer 5

Valley of the Dolls. KIDDING!!! Thanks dude. This answer got me to level 2. And by the way, anyone who answers "the bible" has never read the book from cover to cover. If a writer went to a publishing company now with that book, it would NEVER get published. Horrible characters, stupid plotlines, plot holes you can drive a truck through, INCREDIBLE amounts of boring repetition (and Joe begot Sam who begot Susie who begot Biff.......and on and on and on and on), and a crappy ending. Oh, so its the most published book. That does not make it great lit. Lets see, number two on the list? "Quotations from Chairman Mao". At number three, the "American Spelling Book". Number four, "The Guinness Book of Records". Do you see a trend here, not great lit, just big sellers.

Answer 6

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Answer 7

The greatest book EVER written is the Bible. Without it we would all be lost and trying to get ice water in that very HOT place.

Answer 8

i am reading some book now called shantaram < real life journey similar to that of the alchemist. nice books anyway..
but something that i think is a great peice of litriture is mark twains .. the war prayer - very suitable for this day n age..

Answer 9

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Answer 10

Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger or On The Road by Jack Kerouac.