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The Globe and Mail's "50 Greatest Books"

"Over the coming year [2008], an international panel chosen by The Globe and Mail will select the 50 Greatest Books ever written. Each week, a single work will be discussed by an expert or a writer passionate about the work in question. "

(found at: http://www.globeandmail.com/arts/)
1. Adventures of Huck Finn
by Mark Twain
  
2.
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 In Search of Lost Time (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Marcel Proust
  
3. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Thrift Edition)
by Charles Darwin
  
4. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
5. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
6. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
7. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
8. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 3 (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Marx
  
9. The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by St. Augustine
  
10. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
11. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
12. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
  
13. The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
  
14. The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund, Freud
  
15. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
16. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
17. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
18. Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)
by Immanuel Kant
  
19. Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
20. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
by Homer
  
21. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
22. T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1st U.S. Edition)
by T.S. Eliot
  
23. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
24. The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
25. Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
26. Ficciones (English Translation)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
27.
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 The Histories
by Herodotus
  
28. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
29.
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 Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
  
30. The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
  
31.
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 The King James Bible (1611) by William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king  
32.
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 Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton
by Isaac Newton
  
33. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
  
34. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science)
by Galileo
  
35.
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 The Theban Trilogy of Sophocles
by Rev W Linwood
  
36. Mahabharata
by William Buck
  
37.
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
38.
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 Social Contract
by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  
39. Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Michel de Montaigne
  
40.
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 Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
41.
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 Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
42. Anton Chekov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  
43.
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 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by Hume
  
44. War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
45.
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 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
  
46. The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
47.
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 Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
48.
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 The Tale of Genji
by Shikibu Murasaki
  
49.
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 a diderot pictorial encyclopedia  
50. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
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Created by Athena on Feb 09, 2008.