The Greatest Stories Ever Told
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Books
The Sydney Morning Herald published this list in their newspaper on Saturday 13th, 1994. They asked a "panel of experts" what the greatest story ever told was. The voters were: Donald Horne, Rosemary Dobson, Gwen Harwood, David Ireland, Barry Jones, and Marian Halligan
This list was originally published in 1994 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 | French | French | |
| 18 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | Russian | Russian | |
| 8 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 7 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American | English | |
| 10 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russian | Russian | |
| 51 | The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | 1759 | British | English | |
| 42 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | French | French | |
| 25 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | German | German | |
| 12 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russian | Russian | |
| 83 | Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 | British | English |