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The list was criticized for its perceived bias towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
Ernest Dowson, "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynara". The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck. Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Great Work of Time. John Crowley. Andrew Marvell, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland". The Green Bay Tree. Louis Bromfield.
Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a 1998 list of the best English-language novels published during the 20th century, [a] as selected by Modern Library from among 400 novels published by Random House, which owns Modern Library. [1] The purpose of the list was to "bring the Modern Library to public attention ...
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
Authors of comic books are not included unless they have been published in book format (for example, comic albums, manga tankÅbon volumes, trade paperbacks, or graphic novels). Authors such as Jane Austen, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack ...
Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. [ 1] Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest novels and writes about the books and the authors. The ten novels are: This book was originally a series of magazine articles commissioned by Redbook .
The Book of Virtues (subtitled A Treasury of Great Moral Stories) is a 1993 anthology edited by William Bennett. It consists of 370 passages across ten chapters devoted to a different virtue, each of the latter escalating in complexity as they progress. Included in its pages are selections from ancient and modern sources, ranging from the Bible ...