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.

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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