Thursday, 24 February 2011

my subjective view on the greatest world’s classics

Homer “Iliad”, “Odyssey”
Dante Alighieri “Divine Comedy” 
Giovanni Boccaccio “Decameron” 
William Shakespeare “Hamlet”
Miguel de Cervantes “The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha”   
Voltaire “The Maid of Orleans”  
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust”   
Daniel Defoe “Robinson Crusoe”  
Jonathan Swift “Gulliver’s Travels”
Hans Christian Andersen “The Snow Queen”, “The Little Match Girls” 
Lord Byron “Don Juan”    
Herman Melville “Moby-Dick”
Virginia Woolf “To the Lighthouse”, “Orlando” 
Alexander Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”, “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin”   
Fyodor Dostoyevsky “The Idiot”, “The Gambler”  
Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”
Mikhail Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”, “The heart of a Dog” 
Anton Chekhov “The Lady with the Little Dog”, “Kashtanka”, “The Seagull”, “Uncle Vanya”.
Vladimir Nabokov “The Gift”, “Lolita”, “King, Queen, Knave”
Mikhail Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time”
Aleksandr Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet”
Nikolai Gogol “The Inspektor-General”, “Dead Souls”, “The Nose”, “The Overcoat”
Saltykov-Shchedrin “The History of a Town”, “Boy in pants and boy without”
Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, “Through the Looking-Glass”
Mary Shelley “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus”
Jack London “The Call of the Wild”
Ernest Hemingway “The Sun also Rises”, “The Old Man and the Sea”
Oscar Wild “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Gustave Flaubert “Madame Bovary”
Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”
Truman Capote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
Theodore Dreiser “An American Tragedy”
Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis”, “Amerika”
Astrid Lindgren “The Pippi Longstocking”
Mark Twain “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” 
Arthur Conan Doyle “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
Herbert Wells “The Invisible Man”, “The War of the Worlds”

What else would you add to this little snobby library?  



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