2007-06-26 03:45:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
False Moby Dick!
2007-06-26 03:53:01 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with luminous regarding Gone With the Wind. Moby Dick, the "official" best according to the literary canon, belongs in the 19th century even though I like it. The Scarlet Letter is also a great novel from that century.
TG is right about The Old Man not being Hemingway's best. I think the committee of the Swedish Academy felt he deserved the Nobel Prize for his previous work, and gave to him when The Old Man came out, after several years of Hemingway not publishing a novel.
For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises are his best novels.
2007-06-26 04:49:35 · answer #2 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False: The corect statement is: Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the sea" is ONE OF THE greatest novel even written
2007-06-26 04:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by lool 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree- it's without a question on of the best, but not THE best. I don't think you'll ever be able to define the best. Opinions differ too much, plus there are so many good books on equal footing out there. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick... these are all brilliant. Personally I like To Kill a Mockingbird the most. I almost cried when I found out it was Harper Lee's only novel.
2007-06-26 09:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by belle 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. It isn't even Hemmingway's best.
I'm going with The Grapes of Wrath as the quintessential great American novel.
2007-06-26 04:41:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a great novel, but I don't think it's the GREATEST novel. I will have to agree with some of the other answers on here. I think Gone With the Wind and Huckleberry Finn are better.
2007-06-26 07:30:16 · answer #6 · answered by Starr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the greatest American novel ever written. It was written by an American about America. It is still relevant and will always be relevant.
2007-06-26 04:05:54 · answer #7 · answered by David 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. Yes, you should be required to read it in high school, but it isn't the greatest. I think To Kill a Mockingbird is the greatest American novel ever written.
2007-06-26 03:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by lyndsey7323 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the greatest American novel. Period.
2007-06-26 05:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by BoRhapInBlue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
has there ever been a category for the best American novel? I think "Gone With The Wind" is the greatest.
2007-06-26 03:54:48 · answer #10 · answered by luminous 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no such thing as the greatest anything novel ever written. who decides? a bunch of stuffy academicians? people with no life that vote on the internet? politicians? teachers? a novel is the greatest novel ever written if you think so. personally i'd go for catcher in the rye... or... slaughterhouse 5 or... catch 22 or... dammm..... too many to choose from.
2007-06-26 04:40:39 · answer #11 · answered by joe the man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋