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

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

(found at: http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/whatsnew/top40.html)
1. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
2. Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
  
3. The Tower: A Facsimile Edition
by William Butler Yeats
  
4. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
5.
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 Turning Point
by Giorgios Seferiades
  
6. Residence on Earth
by Pablo Neruda
  
7. Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
  
8. Requiem Edition Bilingue
by Anna Akhmatova
  
9. Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
by Bertolt Brecht
  
10. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
11. Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
  
12. Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
13.
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 The Day Before Yesterday
by S. Y. Agnon
  
14. Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
15. The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre
by Octavio Paz
  
16. Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
by Lawrence Graver
  
17. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
18. Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
19.
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 In country sleep: And other poems
by Dylan Thomas
  
20. The Lost Steps
by Alejo Carpentier
  
21.
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 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  
22. The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Naguib Mahfouz
  
23. Voss
by Patrick White
  
24. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
25. The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics)
by R. K. Narayan
  
26. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
  
27. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
  
28. The Book of Disquiet (A Five Star Title)
by Fernando Pessoa
  
29. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
30. Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
31. The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
by Merce Rodoreda
  
32. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
33. A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo)
by Kenzaburo Oë
  
34.
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 Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-57
by W H Auden
  
35. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
36. House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
  
37. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Italo Calvino
  
38. The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
  
39. Bells In Winter
by Czeslaw Milosz
  
40. Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
by Mo Yan
  
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Created by Perlle on Oct 09, 2006.