101 masterpieces of literature in English1.Beowulf(anon, abt. 8th century)2.Geoffrey Chaucer -The Canterbury Tales(bef. 1400)3.Christopher Marlowe -Doctor Faustus(abt.1589)4.Edmund Spenser -The Faerie Queene(1590)5.Philip Sidney -Astrophil and Stella(bef. 1591)6.William Shakespeare -A Midsummer Nights Dream(abt. 1596)7.William Shakespeare -Romeo and Juliet(abt. 1597)8.William Shakespeare -Hamlet(abt. 1602)9.William Shakespeare -Othello(abt. 1604)10.Ben Jonson -Volpone(1605)11.Thomas Hobbes -Leviathan(1651)12.Samuel Pepys -The Diary of Samuel Pepys(1660-1669)13.John Milton -Paradise Lost(1667)14.John Bunyan -The Pilgrims Progress(1678)15.Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe(1719)16.Daniel Defoe -Moll Flanders(1722)17.Jonathan Swift -Gullivers Travels(1726)18.Alexander Pope -Essay on Man(1734)19.Laurence Sterne -The Life and Opinionsof Tristram Shandy, Gentleman(1759-1767)20.Oliver Goldsmith -The Vicar of Wakefield(1766)21.Laurence Sterne -A Sentimental JourneyThrough France and Italy(1768)22.William Blake -Songs of Innocence and of Experience(1789-1794)23.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Lyrical Ballads(1798)24.Jane Austen -Sense and Sensibility(1811)25.Lord Byron -Childe Harolds Pilgrimage(1812-1818)26.Jane Austen -Pride and Prejudice(1813)27.Mary Shelley -Frankenstein(1818)28.James Fenimore Cooper -The Last of the Mohicans(1826)29.Edgar Allan Poe -The Fall of the House of Usher(1839)30.Charlotte Brontë -Jane Eyre(1847)31.Emily Brontë -Wuthering heights(1847)32.William Makepeace Thackeray -Vanity Fair(1848)33.Herman Melville -Moby-Dick(1851)34.Harriet Beecher Stowe -Uncle Toms Cabin(1852)35.Anthony Trollope -Barchester Towers(1857)36.Charles Dickens -A Tale of Two Cities(1859)37.Edward FitzGerald -The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám(1859)38.Wilkie Collins -The Woman in White(1860)39.Charles Dickens -Great Expectations(1860-1861)40.George Eliot -Silas Marner(1861)41.Anthony Trollope -Framley Parsonage(1861)42.Lewis Carroll -Alices Adventures in Wonderland(1865)43.George Eliot -Middlemarch(1871-1872)44.Mark Twain -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876)45.Thomas Hardy -The Return of the Native(1878)46.Henry James -Daisy Miller(1878)47.Robert Louis Stevenson -Treasure Island(1883)48.Mark Twain -Adventures of HuckleberryFinn(1884)49.Thomas Hardy -The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886)50.Robert Louis Stevenson -The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886)51.Oscar Wilde -The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891)52.Thomas Hardy -Tess of the dUrbervilles(1891)53.Oscar Wilde -The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)54.Bram Stoker -Dracula(1897)55.Oscar Wilde -The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898)56.Joseph Conrad -Heart of Darkness(1899)57.Rudyard Kipling -Kim(1901)58.Arthur Conan Doyle -The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902)59.Henry James -The Ambassadors(1903)60.J.M. Barrie -Peter Pan(1904)61.E. M. Forster -Howards End(1910)62.G.K. Chesterton -The Innocence Of Father Brown(1911)63.George Bernard Shaw -Pygmalion(1912)64.James Joyce -A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man(1916)65.Edith Wharton -The Age of Innocence(1920)66.T.S. Eliot -The Waste Land(1922)67.James Joyce -Ulysses(1922)68.E. M. Forster -A Passage to India(1924)69.Virginia Woolf -Mrs. Dalloway(1925)70.F. Scott Fitzgerald -The Great Gatsby(1925)71.A. A. Milne -Winnie-the-Pooh(1926)72.D.H. Lawrence -Lady Chatterleys Lover(1928)73.Virginia Woolf -A Room of Ones Own(1929)74.Aldous Huxley -Brave New World(1932)75.Robert Graves -I, Claudius(1934)76.Henry Miller -Tropic of Cancer(1934)77.William Faulkner -Absalom, Absalom!(1936)78.J. R. R. Tolkien -The Hobbit or There and Back Again(1937)79.Ernest Hemingway -For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940)80.John Steinbeck -The Grapes of Wrath(1940)81.George Orwell -Animal Farm(1945)82.Alan Paton -Cry, The Beloved Country(1948)83.Arthur Miller -Death of a Salesman(1949)84.George Orwell -Nineteen Eighty-Four(1949)85.Ernest Hemingway -The Old Man and the Sea(1952)86.Saul Bellow -The Adventures of Augie March(1953)87.Samuel Beckett -Waiting for Godot(1954)88.William Golding -Lord of the Flies(1954)89.J. R. R. Tolkien -The Lord of the Rings(1954-1955)90.Vladimir Nabokov -Lolita(1955)91.Jack Kerouac -On the Road(1957)92.Harper Lee-To Kill a Mockingbird(1960)93.Joseph Heller -Catch-22(1961)94.Sylvia Plath -The Bell Jar(1963)95.Truman Capote -In Cold Blood(1965)96.Maya Angelou -I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(1969)97.Charles Bukowski -Post Office(1971)98.Raymond Carver -Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?(1976)99.Douglas Adams -The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy(1979-1992)100.Margaret Atwood -The Handmaids Tale(1985)101.Vikram Seth -A Suitable Boy(1993)
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