101 of the World's Greatest Books (1950)

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101 of the World's Greatest Books (Book), 100 Books

101 of the World's Greatest Books by Spencer Armstrong, 1950 edition. I could not find much information about Spencer Armstrong.

This list was originally published in 1950 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
352 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1766 British English
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
450 Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 British English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
179 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 1862 Russian Russian
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
486 Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 British English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
1176 Carmen Prosper Mérimée 1845 French French
13361 An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886 French French
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
1396 Pierre et Jean Guy de Maupassant 1888 French French
1013 Green Mansions W. H. Hudson 1904 British English
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
115 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
13361 The Red Lily Anatole France 1894 French French
739 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
122 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Italian Italian
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
1555 Troilus And Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1385 British Middle english
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
699 The Nibelungenlied Unknown 1200 German Middle high german
11546 Idyls Of The King Alfred Tennyson 1859 British English
1815 The Ring And The Book Robert Browning 1868 British English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
3288 Stories of Washington Irving Washington Irving 1820 American English
4175 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1867 Norwegian Norwegian
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
5392 Mademoiselle De Maupin Théophile Gautier 1835 French French
3221 Aphrodite Pierre Louÿs 1896 French French
195 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 American English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
1483 Tono Bungay H. G. Wells 1909 British English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
256 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 American English
1740 The Forty Days Of Musa Dagh Franz Werfel 1933 Austrian German
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
1212 A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1920 Austrian German
152 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1532 Italian Italian
934 The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1899 American English
527 The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 French French
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
328 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
1540 Decline of the West Oswald Spengler 1918 German German
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
125 Antigone Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
307 Medea Euripides -431 Greek Ancient greek
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
984 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
3637 The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1775 Irish English
1918 The Lady Of The Camellias Alexandre Dumas 1848 French French
877 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904 Russian Russian
424 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 Norwegian Norwegian
1308 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1897 French French
3637 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
371 History of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
1936 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 1728 Italian Italian
275 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
689 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
220 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
402 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle -334 Greek Ancient greek
8519 Novum Organum Francis Bacon 1620 British Latin
1030 Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes 1641 French Latin
374 Ethics Baruch de Spinoza 1677 Dutch Latin
1327 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke 1689 British English
621 Analects Confucius -479 Chinese Classical chinese
458 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
1515 The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
11546 Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1863 British English
4079 The Life Of Jesus Ernest Renan 1863 French French
851 Essays, First And Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
316 Pensées Blaise Pascal 1670 French French
13533 The Writings Of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson 1903 American English
1539 On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 German German
12067 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
13712 Creative Evolution Henri Bergson 1907 French French
667 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
75 Essays Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
1083 Upanishads Unknown -799 Indian Sanskrit