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The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
During the early decades of the 20th century the Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), and John Masefield (1878–1967, Poet Laureate from 1930) maintained a conservative approach to poetry by combining romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism, sandwiched as they were between the Victorian era, with ...
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" and stimulate sales of its books. [2]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Black British writers and Category:20th-century British male writers and Category:20th-century British women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Alexander (magician) [1] – The Life and Mysteries of the Celebrated Dr. Q and other books and pamphlets. James Allen (author) [2] – As A Man Thinketh (1903); Above Life's Turmoil (1910); Byways to Blessedness
The Generation of '98 (Spanish: Generación del 98), also called Generation of 1898 (Spanish: Generación de 1898), was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898), committed to cultural and aesthetic renewal, and associated with modernismo.
[n 1] The technology of the 20th century is unchanged from Madden's own era; the focus is instead on the political and religious state of the world in the future. In Madden's future history, much of the world has come to be dominated by the Jesuits.
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]