Lists of Bests: World Literature Today's 40 Most Important Works in the World http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16123 The most important fiction, plays, and poetry from around the world, as compiled by World Literature Today. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:07:26 GMT en-us 0 50 40 0 0 To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0856684910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083862198_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico Garcia Lorca</div> The Tower: A Facsimile Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247424 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247424"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743247280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Butler Yeats</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Turning Point http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312617 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giorgios Seferiades</div> Residence on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46501 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811215814.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pablo Neruda</div> Independent People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19065 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679767924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122554083_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Halldor Laxness</div> Requiem Edition Bilingue http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186054 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186054"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2707302066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129957169_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Akhmatova</div> Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653437 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653437"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/155970361X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139327991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Four Quartets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156332256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422686_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> Ficciones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1261256 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1261256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/8420633127.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110587215_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Day Before Yesterday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312672 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by S. Y. Agnon</div> Snow Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679761047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/390218 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/390218"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080215042X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavio Paz</div> Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2180965 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2180965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/052184004X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Graver</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> In country sleep: And other poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312697 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dylan Thomas</div> The Lost Steps http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816638071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056496509_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> The Devil to Pay in the Backlands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65087 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joao Guimaraes Rosa</div> The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375413316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> Voss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237100 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237100"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099324717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick White</div> Things Fall Apart: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385474547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/920086 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/920086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. K. Narayan</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964298 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375420576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113651330_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> A House for Mr. Biswas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375707166.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438435_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> The Book of Disquiet (A Five Star Title) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33162 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33162"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1852427582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fernando Pessoa</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093140X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464691_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352246 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0915308754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Merce Rodoreda</div> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</div> A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oë</div> Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-57 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312734 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W H Auden</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> House Made of Dawn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221786 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0072434201.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by N. Scott Momaday</div> Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4124 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4124"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156453800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Conservationist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65389 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140047166.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nadine Gordimer</div> Bells In Winter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27163 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27163"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0880014563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504072_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw Milosz</div> Red Sorghum: A Novel of China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994586 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994586"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140168540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676346_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mo Yan</div>