George Eliot |
FINEST WORKS OF FICTION |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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George Eliot |
FINEST WORKS OF FICTION |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
In Novels and Novelists, A Guide to the World of Fiction (1980) Seymour-Smith and the other contributors selected about 55 works of fiction as receiving full marks on the four criteria used for evaluation: Readability, Characterization, Plot, and Literary Merit. These represent, for the contributors, the finest works of fiction that have been written. (See also "Seymour-Smith's Recommended Works of Fiction" for those works rated 16-19 using these criteria.)
| Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales (Complete) 1835-1872 |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice. 1813 |
| Jane Austen | Emma. 1816 |
| Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette. 1846 |
| Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift. 1975 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron. 1360 |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights. 1847 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote. 1605-1615 |
| Anton Chekhov | The Tales. (Complete) |
| Benjamin Constant | Adolphe. 1816 |
| Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders. 1722 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment. 1866 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot. 1868 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov. 1879-1880 |
| Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy. 1925 |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss. 1860 |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch. 1871-72 |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury. 1929 |
| William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom. 1936 |
| Henry Fielding | Amelia. 1751 |
| Gustave Flaubert | The Sentimental Education. 1869 |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India. 1924 |
| Gabriel Garcia-Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1968 |
| Nicolai Gogol | Dead Souls. 1842 |
| Ivan Goncharov | Oblomov. 1859 |
| Knut Hamsun | Mysteries. 1892 |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge. 1886 |
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure. 1895 |
| L.P. Hartley | The Go-Between. 1953 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Blithedale Romance. 1852 |
| Henry James | Portrait of a Lady. 1881 |
| Franz Kafka | The Castle. 1926 |
| Franz Kafka | Metamorphosis (Stories) |
| Mikhail Lermontov | A Hero of Our Time |
| Malcolm Lowry | Under the Volcano. 1947 |
| Allesandro Manzoni | The Betrothed. 1842 |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Complete Short Stories. 1951 |
| Robert Musil | Young Torless. 1906 |
| Cesare Pavese | The Political Prisoner (Stories) 1955 |
| Cesare Pavese | The Moon and the Bonfires. 1950 |
| Marcel Proust | Remembrance of Things Past. 1913-27 |
| Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros | The Maias. 1888 |
| Henry Handel Richardson | The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney. 1917-29 |
| Alan Silitoe | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. 1959 |
| Isaac Beshevis Singer | Gimpel the Fool (Stories) |
| Isaac Beshevis Singer | Short Friday (Stories) |
| Isaac Beshevis Singer | The Seance (Stories) |
| Christina Stead | The Man Who Loved Children. 1920 |
| Italo Svevo | Confessions of Zeno. 1923 |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace. 1865-69 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina. 1875-77 |
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons. 1862 |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. 1886 |
| Nathanael West | The Complete Works. 1957 |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin | We. 1920 |
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