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2007-03-06 23:14:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hmmmmm....... The Bible.
(Surprised none said it before)
2007-03-06 23:45:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For my personal ranking.
Rank Title of Great Novel Year Author Religious Affiliation of Author
1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox
3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)
4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust Jewish Catholic
5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox
6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville Transcendentalist
7 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert Catholic
8 Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot Anglican; agnostic
9 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann Lutheran
10 The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu Buddhist/Shinto culture
2007-03-07 07:24:45 · answer #2 · answered by My code 0 178 356 7433 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to objectively ascertain the greatest novel. Even panels of literary "experts" will disagree. Here are some from my reading experience, which really should be called "my favorites" rather than "greatest" or contenders for such:
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Burden of Proof - Scott Turow
2007-03-07 12:28:49 · answer #3 · answered by Ray 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pride and Prejudice just got voted top in Britain, but I'd say 1984 by George Orwell. It's good to compare it to today's society when you read it. Everytime I read it it seems to get more and more true!
2007-03-07 08:16:46 · answer #4 · answered by sketch_r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me its the diary of Anne Frank. I don't know if it is considered as a novel but it was something really heartwrenching.
2007-03-07 07:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by tachabei 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The phone book. Thin on plot but the characters are fabulous.
2007-03-07 07:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by PartyTime 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its not a fiction but i love all 'God's children need traveling shoes' by Maya Angelou.
2007-03-07 07:34:12 · answer #7 · answered by Jamaican Princess 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
da vince code.
2007-03-07 07:18:50 · answer #8 · answered by cloudboy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋