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.

Jonathan Swift

Swift's mysterious and saturnine character, his outbursts of terrible rage; his exquisite moments of tenderness; his sledge-hammer blows…

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice. what Jane Austen's delicate and ironic art will remain unassailable through all changes of taste and varieties of…

Joseph Conrad

Youth. Almayer's Folly. Published by Doubleday Page & Co. with a critical monograph, so admirably written (it is given gratis) by Wilson…

John Galsworthy

The Country House. The Man of Property. Fraternity. John Galsworthy is almost alone among modern writers in the possession of a genius…

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