Greatest Books Voted by Authors (1915)

Given by New York Times

35 Obras 278,039 Libros 3,587 Reseñas ½ 3.8
Believing that a discussion of a literary topic of the widest interest might: be not without volte as a momentary relief to mind which have constantly before them the tragic spectacle of the mostrar más world's greatest war, The New Yok Times recently asked a few of the most distinguished novelists of America and England to reply to this question:

"Which, in your opinion, are the six best novels in the English language?"

The answers received have shown great diversity of opinion and indicate that the taste of novelists is often at variance with that of the public for which they write. The letters have been printed in several instalments, and the opinions of their authors art today summarized. Two letters previously crowded out art published after the summary. mostrar menos
ObraOrden de etiquetaAño
La Feria De Las Vanidades por William Makepeace Thackeray
11848
Tom Jones por Henry Fielding
21749
La Letra Escarlata por Nathaniel Hawthorne
31850
David Copperfield por Charles Dickens
31850
Robinson Crusoe por Daniel Defoe
41719
El camino de la carne por Samuel Butler
51903
Una historia en dos ciudades por Charles Dickens
51859
Westward Ho! por Charles Kingsley
51855
Ivanhoe por Sir Walter Scott
51819
When Valmond came to Pontiac: The story of a lost Napoleon por Gilbert Parker
62012
Sons and Lovers por D. H. Lawrence
61913
Bajo la mirada de occidente / Under Western Eyes (Spanish Edition) por Joseph Conrad
61911
Fraternity por John Galsworthy
61909
Tono-Bungay por H. G. Wells
61909
A Certain Rich Man por William Allen White
61909
The Awakening of Helena Richie por Margaret Deland
61906
What Maisie Knew por Henry James
61897
Sentimental Tommy por J. M. Barrie
61896
The Damnation of Theron Ware por Harold Frederic
61896
Trilby por George Du Maurier
61894
Los traficantes de naufragios por Robert Louis Stevenson
61892
Diana of the Crossways por George Meredith
61885
The Story of an African Farm por Olive Schreiner
61883
Los Grandissime por George Washington Cable
61880
El regreso del nativo por Thomas Hardy
61878
Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer por Mark Twain
61876
Ana Karenina por Leo Tolstoy
61875
Las torres de Barchester por Anthony Trollope
61857
Casa desolada por Charles Dickens
61852
The History of Pendennis por William Makepeace Thackeray
61848
Handley Cross por R. S. Surtees
61843
El espía por James Fenimore Cooper
61821
El Vicario de Wakefield por Oliver Goldsmith
61766
Sir Charles Grandison por Samuel Richardson
61753
The Guarded Flame por W.B. Maxwell
61969
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