Entertainment50 Most Notable Writers
Sun, Jan 6 2007By making a little survey we managed to find some of the most favorite and most readed books. So, here we represent you with the 50 timeless works of literature.
| Name | Year | Nationality | Most Famous Work | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homer | ~ 800BC | Greek | Iliad |
| 2 | Virgil | ~70BC | Roman | Aeneid |
| 3 | Dante Alighieri | 1265-1321 | Italian | The Divine Comedy |
| 4 | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | Italian | Decameron |
| 5 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | English | The Canterbury Tales |
| 6 | Miguel De Cervantes | 1547-1616 | Spanish | Don Quixote |
| 7 | William Shakespeare | 1564 - 1616 | English | Romeo And Juliet |
| 8 | John Milton | 1608-1674 | English | Paradise Lost |
| 9 | John Bunyan | 1628-1688 | English | The Pilgrim's Progress |
| 10 | Henry Fielding | 1707-1754 | English | Tom Jones |
| 11 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1748-1832 | German | Faust |
| 12 | William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | English | Lyrical Ballads |
| 13 | Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | English | Pride and Prejudice |
| 14 | Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | English | Frankenstein |
| 15 | Honore de Balzac | 1799-1850 | French | Le Père Goriot |
| 16 | Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | French | Les Miserables |
| 17 | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | English | Oliver Twist |
| 18 | George Eliot | 1819-1880 | English | Middlemarch |
| 19 | Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | American | Moby-Dick |
| 20 | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | American | Leaves of Grass |
| 21 | Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | French | Madame Bovary |
| 22 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821-1881 | Russian | Crime and Punishment |
| 23 | Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | Russian | War and Peace |
| 24 | Emile Zola | 1840-1902 | French | Germinal |
| 25 | Henry James | 1843-1916 | American | The Portrait of a Lady |
| 26 | Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | British | Heart of Darkness |
| 27 | Rabindranath Tagore | 1861-1941 | Indian | Gitanjali |
| 28 | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | Irish | The Tower |
| 29 | Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | French | A la recherche du temps perdu |
| 30 | Paul Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | German | Der Zauberberg |
| 31 | Edward Morgan Forster | 1879-1970 | English | A Passage to India |
| 32 | James Joyce | 1882-1941 | Irish | Ulysses |
| 33 | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | English | To the Lighthouse |
| 34 | Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | Jewish-Bohemian (Austria-Hungary) | The Trial |
| 35 | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | English | Sons and Lovers |
| 36 | T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | American | The Waste Land |
| 37 | Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960 | Russian | Doctor Zhivago |
| 38 | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | English | Brave New World |
| 39 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | American | The Great Gatsby |
| 40 | Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | American | The Old Man and the Sea |
| 41 | Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | Russian | Lolita |
| 42 | Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | Argentinean | El jardÃn de senderos que se bifurcan |
| 43 | John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | American | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 44 | George Orwell | 1903-1950 | English | Animal Farm |
| 45 | Evelyn Waugh | 1903-1966 | English | Brideshead Revisited |
| 46 | Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | Chilean | Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada |
| 47 | Graham Greene | 1901-1991 | English | The Power and the Glory |
| 48 | William Golding | 1911-1993 | English | Lord of the Flies |
| 49 | Patrick White | 1912-1990 | Austrian | Voss |
| 50 | Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | French | The Stranger |
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