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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5 books in this part of One Hundred Best Books.

Shakespeare

It is time Shakespeare was read for the beauty of his poetry, and enjoyed without pedantry and with some imagination. The less usual and…

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici and Urn Burial. In the "Scott Library” Series. The very spirit of ancient Norwich, the mellowest and most historic of all…

Sudermann

Song of Songs. Translation into English published by Huebsch of New York. Sudermann is the most remarkable and characteristic of modern…

Strindberg

Strindberg has obtained, because of his own neurotic and almost feminine clairvoyance, a diabolical insight into the perversities of the…

Sir Walter Scott

Guy Mannering. Bride of Lam- Heart of Midlothian. mermoooг. The large, easy, leisurely manner of Scott's writing, its digressiveness, its…

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