Landmarks of World Literature

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Cambridge University, 24 Books

This series provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre and cumulatively forms a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read masterpieces.

This list was originally published in 2012 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
365 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
122 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Italian Italian
283 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
766 Adolphe Benjamin Constant 1816 Swiss French
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
888 Drunkard Émile Zola 1877 French Unknown
1441 The Cantos Ezra Pound 1933 American English
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
523 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós 1887 Spanish Spanish
282 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 German German
1186 Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg 1210 German Middle high german
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
90 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German German
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
1177 Phèdre Jean Racine 1677 French French
2901 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
51 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English