One Hundred Best Books (1916)

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John Cowper Powys, 98 Books

John Cowper Powys’ Best 100 Books published more than a century ago, in 1916. John Cowper Powys (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet.

This list was originally published in 1916 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
13921 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
943 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
3635 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
3128 Attis And Other Poems Catullus -53 Roman Latin
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
343 The Sonnets William Shakespeare 1609 British English
11110 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
3637 Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne 1643 British English
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
721 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1795 German German
2151 Conversations Of Goethe With Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann 1836 German German
222 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
7794 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
3222 Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche 1908 German German
13362 The Prose Writings Of Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine 1834 German German
14698 The Song Of Songs Hermann Sudermann 1908 German German
6131 The Fool In Christ Gerhart Hauptmann 1910 German German
2685 Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen Henrik Ibsen 1900 Norwegian Norwegian
14212 The Confession Of A Fool August Strindberg 1893 Swedish Swedish
3238 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
2925 The Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855 American English
3104 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
14404 The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1914 American English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
7576 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
533 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 French French
432 Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 1837 French French
341 The Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac 1830 French French
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
14212 The Opinions Of Jerome Coignard Anatole France 1893 French French
14630 The Elm Tree On The Mall Anatole France 1905 French French
15615 My Friend's Book Anatole France 1913 French French
14650 A Night In The Luxembourg Remy de Gourmont 1906 French French
14093 The Disciple Paul Bourget 1889 French French
1187 Jean Christophe Romain Rolland 1904 French French
2155 The Flame Of Life Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900 Italian Italian
5159 The Triumph Of Death Gabriele D'Annunzio 1894 Italian Italian
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
11543 Humiliated And Insulted Fyodor Dostoevsky 1861 Russian Russian
1149 A Sportsman's Notebook Ivan Turgenev 1852 Russian Russian
13796 Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev 1877 Russian Russian
14435 Foma Gordeyev Maxim Gorky 1899 Russian Russian
1402 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 1896 Russian Russian
14067 Sanin Mikhail Artsybashev 1907 Russian Russian
51 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
1742 A Tale Of A Tub Jonathan Swift 1704 British English
2164 Essays Charles Lamb 1823 British English
1362 The Heart Of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott 1818 Scottish English
6298 Guy Mannering Sir Walter Scott 1815 Scottish English
978 The History Of Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray 1852 British English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
13586 The Adventures Of Harry Richmond George Meredith 1871 British English
235 The Ambassadors Henry James 1903 American English
376 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 American English
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
14113 The Tragic Muse Henry James 1890 British English
7677 The Soft Side Henry James 1900 British English
14554 The Better Sort Henry James 1903 British English
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
358 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English
739 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
674 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 British English
15615 Chance Joseph Conrad 1913 British English
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
14411 Youth, A Narrative Joseph Conrad 1898 British English
13555 Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad 1895 British English
1558 Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater 1885 British English
1825 Studies In The History Of The Renaissance Walter Pater 1873 British English
5570 Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1887 British English
14212 Plato And Platonism Walter Pater 1893 British English
14377 Gaston De Latour Walter Pater 1896 British English
2628 Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw 1976 Irish English
880 Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
1382 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde 1895 Irish English
4630 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
14680 The Country House John Galsworthy 1907 British English
2981 The Man of Property John Galsworthy 1906 British English
7731 Fraternity John Galsworthy 1909 British English
292 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
15615 Round The Corner Gilbert Cannan 1913 British English
15685 The Good Girl Vincent O'Sullivan 1933 New Zealand Unknown
15615 The Story Of Louie G. Oliver Onions 1913 British English
2994 Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1910 British English
4816 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English