Grant,
James Joyce has been mentioned twice, Woolf once... and your top 10 are?
but you're right about Proust.
Thanks
Robert C
On 10/9/10 8:31 AM, Grant Holland wrote:
What? Nobody mentioned Proust, James Joyce or Woolf? (I'm not going to.)
Grant
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On 10/8/2010 11:54 PM, Alison Jones wrote:
After 10 years of lurking something I can finally comment on.
In no particlular order:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Sometime a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
There are so many more!
Alison
(Yeah, I know it is 11. And you are so right Robert (Holmes), I
should really say Pevear and Volokhonsky's Karenina ☺)
On Oct 8, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Ok, so I've decided my literary education is somewhat lacking and
would like to know this group's recommendations for the "10 Best
Literary Works" I should read. They have to be works of fiction and
available in English and not just say of 2009 but of all time.
Google searches tend to list the best of a year or be listed by one
particular publisher. This is a good group to poll since you all
(most) have at least some kind of scientific/technical bent. So I
know the suggestions will be good ones for me!
Once I have a list of all suggestions maybe I'll ask you all to vote
on them.
My list currently starts with Frank's recommendation today:
"Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac
McCarthy
Thanks!
Robert C.
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