What is the best literary work(s) of all time? I have seen several lists of all time best books, I was interested to see what others thought were the best.
2006-08-01 09:59:51 · 7 answers · asked by Doctor of PT 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Other than strictly religious texts...these are some noteworthy books everyone should at least try to read...
Dante's Inferno
Paradise Lost
Pilgrim's Progress
Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake)
Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Candide
No Exit (Satre)
Of Mice and Men
Jane Eyre
Gone With the Wind
The Canterbury Tales
The Jungle Book
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Wind in the Willows
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Tale of Two Cities
Dubliners (Joyce)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Faust (Goethe)
War and Peace
Jude the Obscure
Night (Wiesel)
The Chosen (Potok)
The Yearling
Doll's House (Ibsen)
The Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
The Hobbit
Le Morte Darthur (Malory)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Dr. Zhivago
Animal Farm
1984
Lord of the Flies
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Hollow Men (Eliot)
2006-08-01 10:26:33 · answer #1 · answered by ashcatash 5 · 19⤊ 0⤋
Gone With The Wind
Pride & Prejudice
The Count of Monte Cristo
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Pilgrim's Progress
Frankenstein
2006-08-01 10:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anna Karenina
Hedda Gabler
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2006-08-01 12:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by splath63 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone with the Wind , biographies and autobiographies of famous people, I would say Catcher in the Rye....but I didn't get to THAT part....you know the part, for fiction.....JAWS...any Robert Ludlum(Road to Gandolfo was funny)....Haven't gotten to War and Peace.....looks like a 2-pot of coffee one.
2006-08-01 10:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Jedi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sobre héroes y tumbas (Ernesto Sábato)
2006-08-01 11:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by babyface 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not going to bore you with endless lists but there is one book series that i really recommend and it is the otherland series.
2006-08-01 10:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by Hades, Depressed & Dangerous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to kill a mockingbird
great expectations
death of a salesmen
anne frank's diary
2006-08-01 10:03:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋