World Literature Today's 40 Most Important Works in the World

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The most important fiction, plays, and poetry from around the world, as compiled by World Literature Today.

  1. 1.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  2. 2.
    Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics)
    by Federico Garcia Lorca

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  3. 3.
    The Tower: A Facsimile Edition
    by William Butler Yeats

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  4. 4.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Turning Point
    by Giorgios Seferiades

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  6. 6.
    Residence on Earth
    by Pablo Neruda

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  7. 7.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  8. 8.
    Requiem Edition Bilingue
    by Anna Akhmatova

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  9. 9.
    Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
    by Bertolt Brecht

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  10. 10.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  11. 11.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

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  12. 12.
    Ficciones
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    The Day Before Yesterday
    by S. Y. Agnon

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  14. 14.
    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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  16. 17.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  17. 18.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  18. 19.
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    In country sleep: And other poems
    by Dylan Thomas

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  19. 20.
    The Lost Steps
    by Alejo Carpentier

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  20. 21.
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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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  21. 23.
    Voss
    by Patrick White

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  22. 24.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  23. 25.
    The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics)
    by R. K. Narayan

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  24. 26.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  25. 27.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  26. 28.
    The Book of Disquiet (A Five Star Title)
    by Fernando Pessoa

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  27. 30.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  28. 31.
    The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
    by Merce Rodoreda

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  29. 32.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  30. 33.
    A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo)
    by Kenzaburo Oë

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    Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-57
    by W H Auden

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  32. 35.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  33. 36.
    House Made of Dawn
    by N. Scott Momaday

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  34. 37.
    Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
    by Italo Calvino

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  35. 38.
    The Conservationist
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  36. 39.
    Bells In Winter
    by Czeslaw Milosz

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  37. 40.
    Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
    by Mo Yan

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Created by Perlle on Oct 09, 2006.
 

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One change... — 2 years ago

I hope you don’t mind, but I changed the critical work about The Stranger (by Camus) to the actual book.