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  • The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

    Here you can find our list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. ... Read more

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  • The Scarlet Letter (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #39]

    "The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country." —Henry James"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." —Malcolm Cowley"There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than 'The Scarlet Letter'”. —D. H. Lawrence"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, ... Read more

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  • Heart of Darkness (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #28]

    Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story. ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #90]

    "I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly." —Robert Louis Stevenson"A masterpiece which remains as fresh and living as if it were written yesterday." —Jean Lucas-Dubreton"Dumas had genius of a certain kind — the genius that comes of vigour and a sense of the dramatic." —André MauroisOne of the most celebrated and ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Red Chamber (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #56]

    "The tragedy of tragedies." —Wang Guowei"['The Dream of the Red Chamber'] is to the Chinese very much what 'The Brothers Karamazov' is to Russian and 'In Search of Lost Time' is to French literature… It is beyond question one of the great novels of all literature." —Anthony West“'The Dream of the Red Chamber' and 'The Tale of Genji' are the two greatest works of prose fiction in all the history of ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy (Centaur Classics)

    «The Divine Comedy» is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. ... Read more

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  • Middlemarch (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #14]

    "One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." —Virginia Woolf"What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory — except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on immortality.' George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the 'mysteries of redemption,' for the infinite we only suppose, while we see the finite." —Emily Dickinson"‘Middlemarch’ is ... Read more

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  • The Call of the Wild (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #69]

    Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit... ... Read more

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  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #65]

    "Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination." —Irving Howe"What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace — I don’t know which." —D. H. Lawrence"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists." —Virginia Woolf"A singular beauty and charm." —Henry JamesHardy tells the story of Tess ... Read more

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  • War and Peace

    "The last word of the landlord's literature and the brilliant one at that." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"The best ever Russian historical novel." —Nikolai Leskov"One of the most remarkable books of our age." —Ivan Turgenev"This is the first class work!… This is powerful, very powerful indeed." —Gustave Flaubert"The best novel that had ever been written." —John Galsworthy"This work, like life itself, has no ... Read more

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  • Fathers and Sons (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #54]

    "['Fathers and Sons'] stirs the mind… because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity." —Dmitry Pisarev"[Turgenev] was of the stuff of which glories are made." —Henry James"Turgenev is much the most difficult of the Russians to translate because his style is the most beautiful." —Constance Garnett"What an amazing language!" —Anton ChekhovConsidered Ivan Turgenev ... Read more

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  • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

    "‘In Search of Lost Time’ is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." —Harold Bloom"At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman’." —Bengt Holmqvist"Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" —Virginia Woolf"The greatest fiction to ... Read more

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