One Hundred Best Books

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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4 books in this part of One Hundred Best Books.

Homer

The Odyssey. Butcher and Lang's Prose Translation. The Odyssey must continue to appeal to adventurous persons more powerfully than any…

Horace

Any selection in Latin of The Odes of Horace and complete prose translation published by Macmillan. Flawlessly hammered out, as if from…

Hauptmann

The Fool in Christ, translation published by Huebsch, New York. Hauptmann seems, of all recent Teutonic authors, the one who has in the…

Henry James

The Ambassadors. The Tragic Muse. The Soft Side. The Better Sort. The Wings of the Dove. The Golden Bowl. Henry James is the most purely…

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