A novelist's hundred best books, chosen “frankly subjective” in 1916 — with an essay on reading that picks a fight with every other such list.

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2 books in this part of One Hundred Best Books.

Dante's Divine Comedy

Best edition the "Temple Classics," in three small volumes, with the Italian original and English prose translation on opposite pages…

Dostoievsky

The Brothers Karamazov. The Insulted and Injured. The Possessed. Translated by Constance Garnett and published by Macmillan. Other…

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