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.

The Bacchanals

Euripides, the favourite poet of John Milton and Goethe, is the most modern in feeling, the most romantic in mood of all the Greek poets…

Theodore Dreiser

Of all modern novelists Theodore Dreiser most entirely catches the spirit of America. Here is the huge torrential stream of material…

Turgeniev

Translated by Constance Garnett. And "Lisa" in Everyman's Library. Turgeniev is by far the most "artistic" as he is the most disillusioned…

Thackeray

Thackeray is a writer who occupies a curious and very interesting position. Devoid of the noble and romantic sympathies of Scott, and…

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbevilles. The Return of the Native. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Far from the Madding Crowd. Wessex Poems. Thomas Hardy…

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