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

  2. 3.
    The Tower: A Facsimile Edition
    by William Butler Yeats

  3. 4.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  4. 5.
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    Turning Point
    by Giorgios Seferiades

  5. 6.
    Residence on Earth
    by Pablo Neruda

  6. 7.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

  7. 8.
    Requiem Edition Bilingue
    by Anna Akhmatova

  8. 9.
    Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
    by Bertolt Brecht

  9. 10.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  10. 11.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

  11. 12.
    Ficciones (Spanish Edition)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  12. 13.
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    The Day Before Yesterday
    by S. Y. Agnon

  13. 14.
    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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  15. 17.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  16. 18.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  17. 19.
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    In country sleep: And other poems
    by Dylan Thomas

  18. 20.
    The Lost Steps
    by Alejo Carpentier

  19. 23.
    Voss
    by Patrick White

  20. 24.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  21. 25.
    The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics)
    by R. K. Narayan

  22. 26.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  23. 27.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

  24. 28.
    The Book of Disquiet (A Five Star Title)
    by Fernando Pessoa

  25. 29.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing

  26. 30.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  27. 31.
    The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
    by Mercè Rodoreda

  28. 32.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  29. 33.
    A Personal Matter
    by Kenzaburo Oë

  30. 34.
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    Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-57
    by W H Auden

  31. 35.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  32. 36.
    House Made of Dawn
    by N. Scott Momaday

  33. 37.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

  34. 38.
    The Conservationist
    by Nadine Gordimer

  35. 39.
    Bells In Winter
    by Czeslaw Milosz

  36. 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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bah

One change... — 5 years ago

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




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