2007-06-30 18:34:42 · 25 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abraham and isaac sitting on a fence
Youd get right to work if you had any sense
You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench.
2007-06-30 18:43:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
humm I agree since you seemed to already make up your mind..I think it was
The Night Before Christmas bye Clement Clarke Moore.
was one of the greatest stories my dad ever read to me as a child. I loved it.. ohhh also
Santa Mouse.. very cute was one of my favorit stories when I was in first grade. aww thanks for the memorie jolt.
OH yeah I love anne rice vampire chronicles--Lestadt too.. those are some great reads.
But according to this these are the top 100 books of all time
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby ****
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
Hope that helps
God Bless you
2007-07-01 01:46:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
The greatest story ever told was imparted in a classic book by Dr. Seuss entitled "Happy Birthday to You!" It tells the story of a boy's coming-of-age birthday and the events that transpire. (No spoiler here.) If you haven't read it, it is a must-read book.
My favorite line in the book is,
"If you'd never been born, well then what would you be?
You might be a fish? Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag of hard green tomatoes!
Or worse than all that- why, you might be a WASN'T!
A WASN'T has no fun at all. No, he doesn't."
There are several poetic lines like this that are quite memorable. I suggest that if more people read Dr. Seuss' work instead of squabbling over religious books, the world would be a simpler, more enjoyable place.
2007-07-01 02:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by Candidus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is the name of a book written by Fulton Oursler and a movie made in 1965 by George Stevens. Both are the story of Jesus of Nazareth.
2007-07-01 01:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by KIZIAH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Greatest Story Ever Told" is the title of a movie about the life of Jesus. The best story I ever read is "The Stand" by Stephen King.
2007-07-01 01:39:51 · answer #5 · answered by Native Spirit 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Fall of Adam and Eve is the greatest story ever told. It started with first man. Life started from ther and everything got its start.
2007-07-01 01:38:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The life of Jesus as told by the film director George Stevens.
2007-07-01 01:42:08 · answer #7 · answered by Doug B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Finding Nemo" - are you talking children's stories?
Adults have different ideas about the greatest stories - some like westerns, others like spy novels. It's a wide subject.
The classics are always a great source of the "greatest", but sorry ...
I can't answer you. :(
2007-07-01 01:40:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am not sure what you mean by "great". But I'll go with the story of Jesus Christ/Nazareth, as it has made the most impact, for better or worse then any other "story".
2007-07-01 01:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by ✡ 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Eragon and the sequel eldest. Pretty amazing stuff for a teenage dude.
2007-07-01 02:10:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋