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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3 books in this part of One Hundred Best Books.

Walt Whitman

The complete unexpurgated edition of all his poems, with his prose works and Mr. Traubel's books about him as a further elucidation.

Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean. Studies in the Renaissance. Imaginary Portraits. Plato and Platonism. Gaston de Latour. Walter Pater's writings are…

W. Somerset Maugham

In this remarkable book Mr. W. Somerset Maugham surpasses by a long distance the average novels of recent appearance. The portion of the…

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