literature
2006-09-18 00:01:24 · 10 answers · asked by tricky_thekid 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
william shakespere: othello
steven king : pet cemetery
2006-09-18 00:03:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shakespeare: Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Merchant of Venice
Plato: The Republic, Symposium
Aristotle: Ethics
Homer: Illiad, Odyssey
Ibsen: The Doll's House
Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the Durbervilles
Hugo: Les Miserables
Voltaire: Candide
Joyce: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Henry James: A Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando
Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
Chekov: Cherry Orchard
2006-09-18 07:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by Steven S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Impossible to answer, because you didn't put the question into a cultural context. You've had many answers drawn from Western literature, as you'd expect, but from a Chinese perspective the writers would include Confucious, Lao Tzu and Mencius and from an Indian one the Buddha, Shankara and Nehru. I'm surprised that nobody (at least up until this posting) suggested any writers from the Bible. Anyway, in the spirit of your question, I would say Shakespeare's works (all of them) are pretty much beyond compare, Homer is a bit suspect because "he" or "she" may have been several people (controversial subject), Plato (Phaedo, The Republic, The Symposium) was almost divine and has had an enormous impact on generations of poets and writers, while Goethe (Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, the Wilhelm Meister novels) is often described as having had one of the most brilliant minds in history.
2006-09-18 16:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth and Hamlet are the greatest works of Shakespeare.
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Milton's Paradise Lost
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov and Crime & Punishment
Divine Comedy by Dante
Metamorphisis by Ovid
Don Quixote by Cervantes
2006-09-18 07:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by Robert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such top-lists are very relative, indeed. There are plenty of great writers and so many brilliant pieces of writing...
From my personal point of view, I would make such a list:
1. Homer ("The Iliad")
2. Shakespeare ("Hamlet")
3. Dante ("The Divine Comedy")
4. Leo Tolstoy ("War and Peace")
5. Dostoevsky ("Crime and Punishment")
6. Goethe ("Faust")
7. Kafka ("The Metamorphosis")
but that's all so relative...
2006-09-18 10:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you're looking for english writers you might want to see this site...http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
... but if you ask me i would include Tolstoy (anakarenina, war and peace) dante aligheri (divine comedies), alexander dumas (count of monte cristo, 3 musketeers), niccolo machiaveli (the prince), william faulkner (the sound and the fury) george orwell (animal farm, 1984), shakespeare (too many to tell), paul coelho (the alchemist, 11 minutes), antoine st. exupery (the little prince), gabriel marquez (100 years of solitude), steinbeck (of mice and men, the pearl) hemingway (the old man and the sea), esquivel (like water for chocolate) james joyce (portrait of the artist as a young man, ulysses).... and a lot more...
i got these writers from the three of our literature classes in school... i guess the reason why we studied them because they are the best...
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2006-09-18 14:09:37 · answer #6 · answered by snuffles_1816 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Dostovysky
The Idiot by Dostovysky
Pickwick Papers by Dickens
Tom Jones by Fielding
Candide by Voltaire
Da Vinci Code by Brown
2006-09-18 07:22:39 · answer #7 · answered by Rustic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth) and Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers).
2006-09-18 08:08:25 · answer #8 · answered by ♫Pavic♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd add Plato, but am delighted to see the field well-covered in other answers. From the illiteracy I generally see on the site, I wouldn't have expected it! Hooray!
2006-09-18 07:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
homer - illiad and the odessey
shakespeare -- romeo and juliet
bernard shaw -- the pygmalion
vera brittain - the chronicles of the youth
julian barnes - flaubert's parrot
lea marie canaria -- pounded on the table
=)
2006-09-18 07:06:10 · answer #10 · answered by The Lioness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋