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The Telegraph (of U.K.)'s
List of Best 100 Novels
The choices on this list include 41 British authors, 16 American, 12 French, 5 Asian/Indian, 5 German, 5 Russian,
Before and after the recent Millennium, various publications chose 'Best of' lists of all kinds. TIME Magazine published its 'All-TIME 100 Novels'
listing in October 2005; The Editors at Amazon posted their '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime' listing in late 2013;
and Britain's The Telegraph posted their 'Best 100 Novels' listing in Summer 2014.
3 Spanish-language, 3 Italian, and 10 other.
100 Novels, A to Z
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#67 "A Bend In The River" [1979] by V.S. Naipaul [1932-2018]
East African Indian Salim travels to the heart of Africa and finds “The world is what it is”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bend_in_the_River
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#32 "A Dance To The Music of Time" [1951-75] by Anthony Powell [1905-2000]
Twelve-book saga whose most celebrated character wears “the wrong kind of overcoat”.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novels entry at Wikipedia
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#22 "A Passage To India" [1924] by E.M. Forster [1879-1970]
A false accusation exposes the racist oppression of British rule in India.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
stageplay [London 1960, Broadway 1962] by Santha Rama Rau
BBC-TV adaptation of the play by Santha Rama Rau [Nov 1965]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_to_India_(film) [1984]
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#42 "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]
A boy and a runaway slave set sail on the Mississippi River, away from Antebellum 'sivilisation'.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
more details (synopsis, history, author, movies, other media) are on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 1885 Novel & Movies Page
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#78 "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" [1865] and "Through The Looking-Glass" [1871]
by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]
Carroll’s ludic logic makes it possible to believe six impossible things before breakfast.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
more details (synopses, sequels, Broadway musicals, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Alice In Wonderland" Books, Stageplays & Movies Page
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#73 "All Quiet On The Western Front" aka "Im Westen Nichts Neues" [1929]
by Erich Maria Remarque [1898-1970]
The horror of the Great War as seen by a teenage soldier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1930_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1979_film)
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"All Quiet On The Western Front" [Universal 1930] Based on the novel 'Nichts neues im Westens' by Erich Maria Remarque; directed by Lewis Milestone full credits at IMDb |
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#3 "Anna Karenina" [1878] by Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910]
Tolstoy’s doomed adulteress grew from a daydream of “a bare exquisite aristocratic elbow”.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
"Love" [1927 silent]
based on Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"; continuity by Frances Marion; starring Greta Garbo & John Gilbert
Two endings were filmed, one happy and one sad • video not available • full credits from IMDb
"Anna Karenina" [1935] /tt0026071/
starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
"Anna Karenina" [1948] /tt0040098/
Produced by Alexander Korda; starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson
"Anna Karenina" [Focus Features Nov 2012]
 | Lavish 130-minute look at Russian aristocracy circa 1870s, a stirringly epic story of love;
directed by Joe Wright from Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard's bold adaptation of Tolstoy's 1878 novel; starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Jude Law
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
#30 "Atonement" [2001] by Ian McEwan
Puts the 'c' word in the classic English country house novel.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(film)
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#55 "Austerlitz" [2001] by W.G. Sebald [1944-2001]
Paragraph-less novel in which a Czech-born historian traces his own history back to the Holocaust.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WG_Sebald
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#50 "Beloved" [Knopf 2006] by Toni Morrison [b. 1931]
Brutal, haunting, jazz-inflected journey down the darkest narrative rivers of American slavery.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033411/
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#34 "The Big Sleep" hardboiled crime noir [1939 first novel]
by Raymond Chandler [1888-1959]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | After elderly oil magnate General Sternwood hires P.I. Philip Marlowe to stop a man named Geiger from blackmailing Sternwood's wild daughter Carmen, Sternwood's other daughter Vivian quizzes Marlowe about whether he was hired to find her recently-missing ex-husband, Rusty Regan. The case also involves local gangster Eddie Mars, a pornography-on-loan racket, and the murder of Sternwood's chauffeur – after which things get kinda complicated.
Vintage 8x5 pb [8/92] for $8.80 Spanish-language edition "El Sueño Eterno": Alianza pb [6/2005] for $12.95 audio read by Elliott Gould: New Millenium Audio CD [3/2002] for $27.96 |
  | 1946 b&w feature film directed by Howard Hawks Script by Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner & Jules Furthman; starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; listed in National Film Registry (1997) Warner both-version b&w DVD [2/2000] for $6.87 Warner 114-min. b&w 'theatrical release' VHS [3/2000] for $14.95 Warner 135-min. b&w 1945 'pre-release version' VHS [3/2000] for $14.98 M.G.M./Warner 114-min. b&w VHS [9/99] for $2.49 M.G.M./Warner 114-min. b&w VHS [1/99] for $3.48 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [1:48] at YouTube purchase 'Big Sleep' movie posters & photos via AllPosters.com |
 | 1978 color feature film from United Artists Set in 1970s Britain; adapted & directed by Michael Winner; starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, John Justin & Richard Todd Artisan color DVD [4/2002] out of prodn/used Pioneer color DVD [8/2000] out of prodn/used Artisan color VHS [11/99] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
#16 "Brighton Rock" [1938] by Graham Greene [1904-91]
A seaside sociopath mucks up murder and marriage in Greene’s literary Punch and Judy show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(novel)
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#64 "The Cairo Trilogy" [1956-57] by Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006]
Follows three generations of Cairenes through the turbulent years of the British occupation, from the First World War to the coup of 1952.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz - won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature
"Palace Walk" [1956]
"Palace of Desire" [1957]
"Sugar Street" {1957]
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#77 "Catch-22" [1961 bestseller] by Joseph Heller [1923-99]
Yossarian feels a homicidal impulse to machine gun total strangers. Isn’t that crazy?
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | Captain Yossarian tries desperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying – 'catch 22'. A gut-wrenching satire.
Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2010] for $8.80 S&S 8½x5¾ pb [4/2011] for $9.32 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [10/99] for $18.30 |
 | "Catch-22" feature film [Filmways/Paramount June 1970] Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast, including Alan Arkin, Buck Henry & Orson Welles Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2013 for $5.97> Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2001] for $11.99 Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
#52 "The Catcher In The Rye" [1951] by J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]
Expelled from a 'phony' prep school, adolescent anti-hero goes through a difficult phase.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#75 "Cider With Rosie" [1959] by Laurence Edward Alan 'Laurie' Lee, MBE [1914-97]
Protagonist’s 'first long secret drink of golden fire' is under a hay wagon; U.S. title (1960) "The Edge of Day".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Lee
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#33 "Clarissa: or, The History of A Young Lady" [1748] by Samuel Richardson
Epistolary adventure whose heroine’s bodice is savagely unlaced by the brothel-keeping Robert Lovelace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Richardson
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#15 "The Code of The Woosters" [1938] by Sir Pelham Grenville 'P.G.' Wodehouse [1881-1975]
A scrape-prone toff and pals are suavely manipulated by his gentleman’s personal gentleman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PG_Wodehouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_of_the_Woosters
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#92 "Cold Comfort Farm" [1932] by Stella Gibbons [1902-89]
Hilarious satire on doom-laden rural romances. “Something nasty” has been observed in the woodshed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Gibbons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm_(film)
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#26 "Cranford" [1851-53] by Elizabeth Gaskell [1810-65]
Northern villagers turn their bonnets against the social changes accompanying the industrial revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell
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#68 "Crash" [1973] by James Graham 'J.G.' Ballard [1930-2009]
Former TV scientist preaches 'a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JG_Ballard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1973_novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)
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#66 "Crime and Punishment" [1866] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81]
Boy meets pawnbroker; boy kills pawnbroker with an axe; guilt, breakdown, Siberia, redemption.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
There have been over 25 film adaptations of "Crime and Punishment".
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#13 "David Copperfield" [1849-50] by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
full title: "The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield The Younger"
Debt and deception in Dickens’s semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman crammed with cads, creeps, and capital fellows.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1911_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1913_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_History,_Adventures,_Experience,_and_Observation_of_David_Copperfield_the_Younger_(1935)
directed by George Cukor, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Walpole, Lionel Barrymore,
Elsa Lanchester, W.C. Fields, Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Frank Lawton & Maureen O'Sullivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1966_TV_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1969_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1986_TV_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1993_film) = animated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1999_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(2000_film)
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#72 "Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant" [1982] by Anne Tyler
Three siblings are differently affected by their parents’ unexplained separation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Tyler
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#8 "Disgrace" [1999] by John Maxwell 'J.M.' Coetzee
An English professor in post-apartheid South Africa loses everything after seducing a student.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee
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#65 "Doctor Zhivago" [1957] by Boris Pasternak [1890-1960]
Romantic young doctor’s idealism is trampled by the atrocities of the Russian Revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(TV_miniseries)
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#10 "Don Quixote" [1605 & 1615] by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [1547-1616]
Picaresque tale about an elderly gent on a skinny horse tilting at windmills.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
"Don Quixote" Section on the 'Knights of Yore' Film Festival Page at Magic Lantern
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#71 "Dream of The Red Chamber" aka "The Story of The Stone" [1791-92]
by Cao Xueqin, Edited by Gao E & Cheng Weiyuan
Profound and panoramic insight into 18th-century Chinese society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber
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#88 "Eugene Onegin: A Novel In Verse" [1833 & 1837] by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [1799-1837]
Passion, poetry and pistols in this verse novel of thwarted love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onegin_(film)
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#27 "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" [1818 first novel]
by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley [1797-1851]
Human endeavours “to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world” have tragic consequences.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
'Frankenstein's Monster' Section on Magic Lantern's Horror / Monster / Fantasy Movies Page
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#83 "Germinal" [1885] by Émile Zola [1840-1902]
Written to 'germinate' social change, the novel unflinchingly documents the starvation of French miners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(1993_film)
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#57 "The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel)" [1943] by Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
Intellectuals withdraw from life to play a game of musical and mathematical rules.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
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#48 "Go Tell It On The Mountain" [1953] by James Baldwin [1924-87]
Explores the role of the Christian Church in Harlem’s Afro-American community.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Tell_It_on_the_Mountain_(novel)
"Go Tell It On The Mountain" TV movie [ABC-TV 1984]
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#89 "The Golden Notebook" [1962] by Doris Lessing [1919-2013]
Lessing considers communism and women’s liberation in what Margaret Drabble calls 'inner space fiction'.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#49 "The Grapes of Wrath" [Viking 1939] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel, and is listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)
"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel & Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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#38 "The Great Gatsby" [Scribner's 1925] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]
A mysterious millionaire’s love for a woman with 'a voice full of money' gets him in trouble.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Great Gatsby" 1925 Novel & Movies Page
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#62 "Gulliver’s Travels" [1726, amended 1735] by Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
Swift’s scribulous satire on travellers’ tall tales (the Lilliputian Court is really George I’s).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels_Among_the_Lilliputians_and_the_Giants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels_(1939_film) animated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels_(TV_miniseries) [Feb 1996]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels_(2010_film)
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#53 "The Handmaid's Tale" [1985] by Margaret Atwood
After nuclear war has rendered most sterile, fertile women are enslaved for breeding.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038549081X/
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#5 "Heart of Darkness" [1899] by Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]
“The conquest of the earth,” said Conrad, “is not a pretty thing.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
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#97 "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" [1979] by Douglas Adams [1952-2001]
Earth is demolished to make way for a Hyperspatial Express Route. Don’t panic.
author's IMDb listing •
author's official website •
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#98 "The Home and The World (Ghare Baire)" [1916] by Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941]
A rich Bengali noble lives happily until a radical revolutionary appears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home_and_the_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghare_Baire_(film) by Satyajit Ray
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#41 "The Hound of The Baskervilles" [1902] by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
A drug addict chases a ghostly dog across the midnight moors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles
There have been at least 25 film & TV adaptations of "The Hound of The Baskervilles".
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#40 "The House of Mirth" [1905] by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
Lily Bart craves luxury too much to marry for love. Scandal and sleeping pills ensue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(1918_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(TV_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(2000_film)
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#69 "If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler" [1979] by Italo Calvino [1923-85]
International book fraud is exposed in this playful postmodernist puzzle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_traveler
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#6 "In Search of Lost Time (À la Recherche du Temps Perdu)" aka "Remembrance of Things Past"
[French 1913-27, English 1922-31] by Marcel Proust [1871-1922]
Seven-volume meditation on memory, featuring literature’s most celebrated lemony cake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_amour_de_Swann_(film) 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Regained_(film) 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu_(2011_TV_film)
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#7 "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" [1847] by Charlotte Brontë [1816-55]
Poor and obscure and plain as she is, Mr. Rochester wants to marry her. Illegally.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Jane_Eyre
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#70 "The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)" [1958] by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [1896-1957]
Garibaldi’s Redshirts sweep through Sicily, the 'jackals' ousting the nobility, or 'leopards'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Tomasi_di_Lampedusa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard_(1963_film)
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#36 "Les Misérables" [1862 novel] by Victor Hugo [1802-85]
An ex-convict struggles to become a force for good, but it ends badly.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1935_film) starring Fredric March & Charles Laughton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1952_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(radio) by Orson Welles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1958_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1978_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(musical)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1995_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1998_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(2000_TV_miniseries)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(2012_film) of the 1980 musical
manga adaptation by Takahiro Arai [Japan 2013]
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Classics-Miserables-Victor-Hugo/dp/1927925169/
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Classics-Miserables-Victor-Hugo/dp/1927925150/
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#29 "Life: A User’s Manual" [1978] by Georges Perec [1936-82]
The jigsaw puzzle of lives in a Parisian apartment block. Plus empty rooms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Perec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_A_User%27s_Manual
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#54 "Lolita" [Paris 1955, English 1958] by Vladimir Nabokov [1899-1977]
Scholar’s sexual obsession with a prepubescent 'nymphet' is complicated by her mother’s passion for him.
author entry at Wikipedia •
book entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679410430/
plus the 1962 feature film by Stanley Kubrick [1928-99] and another in 1997 by Adrian Lyne
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#59 "London Fields" [1989] by Martin Amis
A failed novelist steals a woman’s trashed diaries which reveal she’s plotting her own murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fields_(novel)
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#100 "The Lord of The Rings Trilogy" [1954-55] by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892–1973]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
W.H. Auden thought this tale of fantastic creatures looking for lost jewellery was a 'masterpiece'.
'Lord of The Rings' & 'The Hobbit' Novels & Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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#35 "Lucky Jim: A Rollicking Miseducation" [1954] by Kingsley Amis [1922-95]
An uncommitted history lecturer clashes with his pompous boss, gets drunk, and gets the girl.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#23 "Madame Bovary" [1857] by Gustave Flaubert [1821-80]
Buying the lies of romance novels leads a provincial doctor’s wife to an agonising end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary
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#1 "Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life" [1874] by George Eliot [1819-80]
“One of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” said Virginia Woolf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch_(1968_TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch_(1994_TV_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch_(2013_stage_adaptation) in 3 parts
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#94 "Midnight's Children: A Novel" [1981] by Salman Rushdie
The children of poor Hindus and wealthy Muslims are switched at birth.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
book won the Booker Prize
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812976533/
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#2 "Moby-Dick: or, The Whale" [1851] by Herman Melville [1819-91]
Monomaniacal Captain Ahab seeks vengeance on the white whale which ate his leg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick!_The_Musical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(2010_film)
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#25 "The Moonstone" [1868] by Wilkie Collins [1824-89]
Hailed by TS Eliot as “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone_(1934_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone_(1959_TV_serial)
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#9 "Mrs. Dalloway" [1925] by Virginia Woolf [1882-1941]
Septimus’s suicide doesn’t spoil our heroine’s stream-of-consciousness party.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway_(film)
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#61 "My Name Is Red" [Turkish 1998, English 2001] by Orhan Pamuk of Turkey
A painter is murdered in Istanbul in 1591. Unusually, we hear from the corpse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Red
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#81 "The Name of The Rose (Il Nome Della Rosa)" [1980] by Umberto Eco
Illuminating historical whodunnit set in a 14th-century Italian monastery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose_(film)
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#44 "Nausea (La Nausée)" [French 1938, English 1949] by Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]
A historian becomes increasingly sickened by his existence, but decides to muddle on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)
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#21 "Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel" [1949 classic]
by George Orwell [1903-50]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | Winston Smith endures a squalid existence as a clerk in a bureaucracy of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, where everyone is under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [9/2013] for $5.68 Signet/NAL mass pb [1961] for $5.98 Plume Centennial Edition 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2003] for $13.04 Plume 8x5¼ pb [4/83] for $9.04 Everyman's Library 8x5 hardcover [11/92] for $11.86 |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" 1949 Novel & Movies Page
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#86 "Old Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot)" [1835] by Honoré de Balzac [1799-1850]
A disillusioning dose of Bourbon Restoration realism. The anti-hero Rastingnac became a byword for ruthless social climbing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A8re_Goriot
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#87 "On The Road" [October 1957 Beat novel] by Jack Kerouac [1922-69]
Beat generation boys aim to 'burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles'.
author entry at Wikipedia •
book entry at Wikipedia
celebrating 50th anniversary of 'On The Road' in Paris, France [Sept 2007]
Jack Kerouac Reads from 'On The Road' (1959 Steve Allen Show) [5:44] on YouTube
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#60 "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [1967] by Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia
"The most important Latin American novel of the XXth Century." — Isabelle Allende
Myth and reality melt magically together in this Colombian family saga.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#96 "One Thousand and One Nights" [traditional Arabic tales; English 1706]
A Persian king’s new bride tells tales to stall post-coital execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
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#80 "Oscar and Lucinda" [1988] by Peter Carey of Australia
An Australian heiress bets an Anglican priest he can’t move a glass church 400km.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_and_Lucinda
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#4 "The Portrait of A Lady" [1881] by Henry James [1843-1916]
An American heiress in Europe 'affronts her destiny' by marrying an adulterous egoist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady_(film)
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#11 "Pride and Prejudice" [1813] by Jane Austen [1775-1817]
Every proud posh boy deserves a prejudiced girl. And a stately pile.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199535566/
Helen Jerome's 1936 stage adaptation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1940_film) starring Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier
1959 Broadway musical "First Impressions" starring Polly Bergen, Farley Granger & Hermione Gingold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1980_TV_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_%26_Prejudice_(2005_film) starring Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen
"Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: The New Musical" [2008] debuted in Rochester, New York
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#46 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" [1961] by Muriel Spark [1918-2006]
A meddling teacher is betrayed by a favorite pupil who becomes a nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Spark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(play)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(TV_series)
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#43 The 'Rabbit' books by John Updike [1932-2009]
A former high school basketball star is unsatisfied by marriage, fatherhood, and sales jobs.
author entry at Wikipedia
"Rabbit, Run: A Novel" [1960]
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run_(film)
"Rabbit Redux" [1971]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Redux
"Rabbit Is Rich" [1981]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Is_Rich
"Rabbit At Rest" [1990]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_at_Rest
"Rabbit Remembered" [2000 novella]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Remembered
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#85 "The Red and The Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century (Le Rouge et le Noir)" [1830]
by Marie-Henri Beyle [1783-1842], known as Stendhal
Plebian hero struggles against the materialism and hypocrisy of French society with his 'force d’ame'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black
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#12 "Robinson Crusoe" [1719] by Daniel Defoe [1660?-1731]
A slave trader is shipwrecked but finds God, and a native to convert, on a desert island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Cruso%C3%A9 1867 operetta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_(1902_film) by cinema pioneer Georges Méliès [1861-1938]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_(1927_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_(1954_film) directed by Luis Buñuel [1900-83]
Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday) (1981), TV adventure-comedy film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_(1997_film)
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#58 "The Savage Detectives (Los Detectives Salvajes)" []
by Roberto Bolaño Ávalos [1953-2003] of Chile & Mexico
Gang of South American poets travel the world, sleep around, challenge critics to duels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Bola%C3%B1o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savage_Detectives
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#18 "Scoop" [1938] by Evelyn Waugh [1903-66]
Waugh based the hapless junior reporter in this journalistic farce on former Telegraph editor Bill Deedes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(1987_film)
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#95 "The Sorrows of Young Werther" [] by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]
Werther loves Charlotte, but she’s already engaged. Woe is he!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Goethe_in_Love
"Young Goethe In Love" [2011] http://www.younggoetheinlove.com/
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#63 "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1886 novella]
by Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94]
Stevenson’s 'bogey tale' came to him in a dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde
There have been over 120 film & TV adaptations of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", not including stage & radio versions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde
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#82 "The Stranger {L'Etranger)" {aka 'The Outsider'}
existentialist fiction [Gallimard 1942] by Albert Camus [1913-60]
Frenchman kills an Arab friend in Algiers and accepts 'the gentle indifference of the world'.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | Translated by Matthew Ward in 1988
Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [8/2012] for $6.95 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/89] for $8.05 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/93] for $13.83 Knopf 8x5¼ hardcover [3/88] orig $20.68 - out of print/used Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [5/2005] 3 disks out of prodn/used French-language original: Gallimard pb [3/2005] for $14.42 Folio mass pb [3/99] for $11.53 |
 | "L'Etranger de Camus / Lu par Albert Camus" April 1954 recording by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] orig $25.99 - out of prodn/used "L'Etranger" [2010] by Albert Camus, read by Michael Lonsdale French & European Publns audio CD [7/2010] 3 disks for $80.96 |
"Lo Straniero" [1967 Italian feature film]
Directed by Luchino Visconti; starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina & Bernard Blier
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
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#31 "Suite Française" [2004] by Irène Némirovsky [1903-42] of France
Published 60 years after their author was gassed at Auschwitz, these two novellas portray city and village life in Nazi-occupied France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_N%C3%A9mirovsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_fran%C3%A7aise_(Ir%C3%A8ne_N%C3%A9mirovsky)
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#91 "The Tale of Genji" [written around 1000 CE, English translation 1882]
by Lady Murasaki [978?-1014?] of Japan
The life and loves of an emperor’s son. And the world’s first novel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu
http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Genji-Japanese-Classic-Illuminated/dp/1588396657/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji_(1951_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji_(1966_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genji_Monogatari_Sennenki
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#17 "Tess of The D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" [1891]
by Thomas Hardy [1840-1928]
Sexual double standards are held up to the cold, Wessex light in this rural tragedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles_(1924_film) lost silent
"Tess of The D'Urbervilles" [1952 TV] /tt1294219/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_(film) [1979] by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Granth [India 1996] by Rajiv Kapoor
"Nishiddha Nadi" feature film [2000] by Bidyut Chakrabarty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_D%27Urbervilles_(TV_serial) [2008]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trishna_(2011_film)
"The Maiden" short film [2013] /tt3242860/ starring Brittany Ashworth
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#39 "Things Fall Apart" [1958 first novel] by Chinua Achebe
'the most widely read book in modern African literature'
A Nigerian yam farmer’s local leadership is shaken by accidental death and a missionary’s arrival.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385474547/
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#84 "The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)" [1844]
by Alexandre Dumas [1802-70] & Auguste Maquet [1813-88]
“One for all and all for one”: the eponymous swashbucklers battle the mysterious Milady.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maquet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers
There have been at least 25 film & TV adaptations of "The Three Musketeers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_in_film
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#56 "The Tin Drum" [German 1959; English 1961] by Günter Grass [b. 1927]
Madhouse memories of the Second World War; key text of European magic realism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum_(film)
 |
Günter Grass's novel, and the film adapted from it, use the tin drum as the perfect metaphor for That Little Voice Inside Your Head. Translation by Ralph Manheim Knopf/Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/90] for $12.76 |
 | "Tin Drum" [Argos/Bioskop 1979] Co-written & directed by Volker Schlöndorff; German title "Die Blechtrommel" Criterion color DVD [5/2004] for $24.99 Kino Video widescreen VHS with English subtitles [11/96] for $39.95 Image Ent letterbox DVD with English subtitles [8/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
#93 "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" [1974] by John le Carré [1931-2020]
Nursery rhyme provides the code names for British spies suspected of treason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(TV_miniseries) [BBC-TV 1979] starring Alec Guinness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(film) [2011] starring Gary Oldman
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#99 "To Kill a Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller]
by (Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic white lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry and racism; won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [7/2014] for $4.73 Grand Central Publng mass pb [10/88] for $4.98 Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $8.46 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $13.43 Heinemann 8x5¾ hardcover [11/99] out of prodn/100+ used HarperCollins slipcover edition [10/2006] out of print/many used HarperCollins 8½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/70+ used Caedmon UNABR audio CD read by Sissy Spacek [8/2006] out of prodn/40+ used |
more details (synopsis, history, author, movies, other media) are on
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#28 "Tom Jones" [1749] by Henry Fielding [1707-54]
full title "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling"
Thigh-thwacking yarn of a foundling boy sewing his wild oats before marrying the girl next door.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jones_(1963_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bawdy_Adventures_of_Tom_Jones
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#76 "The Trial (Der Proceß)" [1925] by Franz Kafka [1883-1924]
K proclaims he’s innocent when unexpectedly arrested – but “innocent of what”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1962_film) by Orson Welles [1915-85]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1993_film) adapted by Harold Pinter
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#20 "Tristram Shandy" [1759-67] by Laurence Sterne [1713-68]
full title: "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84] thought that Sterne’s bawdy, experimental novel was too odd to last. Pah!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cock_and_Bull_Story [2006]
graphic novel [5/2010] by cartoonist Martin Rowson
stageplay adaptation by Callum Hale and the Micawber Theatre Company [February 2014] in London, U.K.
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#24 "Ulysses" [1922] by James Joyce [1882-1941]
Modernist masterpiece reworking of Homer with humour; contains one of the longest 'sentences' in English literature: 4,391 words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(1967_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_in_Nighttown Broadway play 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(broadcast) - 29-hour 1982 radio dramatization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(film) [2003]
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#47 "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" [1984] by Milan Kundera [b. 1929]
A doctor’s infidelities distress his wife; but if life means nothing, it can’t matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being_(film) [1988]
 | "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" [1984] by Milan Kundera, translation by Michael Henry Heim A poetic mix of philosophy & fiction, lightness & darkness, constructed like a Beethoven quartet. Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/99] for $10.40 Isis UNABR audio [1/99] for $69.95 audio CD [12/99] for $99.95 |
 | "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" [Saul Zaentz/Orion 1988] A beautifully-photographed meditation on love, politics & bliss seen thru an expatriate Czech doctor's reactions to the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968. Co-written & directed by Philip Kaufman; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche & Lena Olin MGM/UA color VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 Home Vision widescreen DVD [8/2000] for $25.49 soundtrack CD VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb |
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#90 "Under The Net" [1954 first novel] by Iris Murdoch [1919-99]
A feckless writer has dealings with a canine movie star. Comedy and philosophy combined.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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#51 "Underworld" [1997] by Don DeLillo [b. 1936]
From baseball to nuclear waste, all late-20th-century American life is here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(DeLillo_novel)
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#45 "The Voyeur (Le Voyeur)" [French 1955, English 1958] by Alain Robbe-Grillet [1922-2008]
Did the watch salesman kill the girl on the beach? If so, who heard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Robbe-Grillet
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#74 "Waiting For The Mahatma" [1955] by R.K. Narayan [1906-2001]
Gentle comedy in which a Gandhi-inspired Indian youth becomes an anti-British extremist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Narayan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Mahatma
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#19 "The War of The Worlds" [1897] by H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
Bloodsucking Martian invaders are wiped out by a dose of the sniffles.
details (history, stageplays, books & ebooks, movies & TV, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "The War of The Worlds" 1898 Novel & Movies Page
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#37 "The Warden" [1855] by Anthony Trollope [1815-82]
“Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money.” — W.H. Auden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope
http://www.anthonytrollope.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warden_(TV_series)
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#79 "Wide Sargasso Sea" [1966] by Jean Rhys [1890-1979]
Prequel to Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" [1847] giving moving, human voice to the mad woman in the attic.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea_(1993_film)
"Wide Sargasso Sea" contemporary opera [1997]
"Wide Sargasso Sea" BBC Radio 4 10-part adaptation [2004]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea_(TV) [2006]
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#14 "Wuthering Heights" [1847] by Emily Brontë [1818-48]
Out on the winding, windy moors Cathy and Heathcliff become each other’s 'souls'. Then he storms off.
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1939_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1970_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB%27s_Wuthering_Heights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2009_television_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2011_film)
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