The Library of World Literature

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The editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked the 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature: These are books that have had a decisive impact on the cultural history of the world and also left an individual mark on the authors own thinking and imagination.

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    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Hans Andersen Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
    by Hans Christian Andersen

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    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Le père Goriot
    by Honoré de Balzac

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    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
    by Samuel Beckett

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    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Borges: Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

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    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Alfred Doblin

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    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Besy.
    by Dostoevsky F.

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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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    Medea
    by Euripides

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    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
    by Garcia Lorca

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Faust (Bantam Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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    The Book of Job
    by Raymond P. Schiendlin

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    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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    Franz Kafka The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Sound of the Mountain
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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    Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

It should be Diary of a Madman and other stories by Lu Xun, not by Gogol


Besy — 2 years ago

The Dostoevsky work “Besy” refers to “The Devils”. I had to look it up:)