ALBERT CAMUS (1913–60) Algeria/France; Of Nobel Prize winners in literature only >> Rudyard Kipling was younger than Camus was when he received the award in 1957. According to the judges, he received the prize for work which ‘illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times’. This work ranges from The Plague, a novel set in a quarantined North African town, and The Fall, the record of one man’s disillusionment with the life he had...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835–1902) Poet, painter, musician, critic, amateur scientist, and philosopher, Samuel Butler was a polymathic but faintly ridiculous figure in late 19thcentury culture, as likely to pursue eccentric hobbyhorses (his belief that Homer was a woman, for example) as he was to produce significant works of literature. However, Erewhon, his satirical novel about a society where Victorian values were turned on their heads, remains brilliantly readable and The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously, is a...
The half-wild foundling Heathcliff, introduced as a child into the Earnshaw family, falls in love with Cathy Earnshaw as they grow up but any chance of future happiness together is thwarted by Cathy’s own ambivalent feelings (she is strongly attracted to Heathcliff yet feels that marriage to him would be socially impossible) and by the fierce antagonism of Hindley, Cathy’s brother. Heathcliff chooses exile rather than the humiliation of staying at Wuthering Heights and disappears...
The history of the Brontë family, with its record of illness, alcoholism, unrequited loves and early deaths, is as compelling as any of the books written by the Brontë sisters. All three sisters published their first novels in 1847. Anne’s story was Agnes Grey and >> Emily’s Wuthering Heights. Charlotte, the eldest of the three, made her debut with Jane Eyre, in which a young governess falls in love with her brooding employer but cannot marry...
Hello everyone, I hope you are fine. I'm glad to visit my blog, please enjoy reading my posts and contact me if you have any question:To day I chose to post this IMPORTANT list of novels which linked to 10+ "Top 100" book lists from different sources, the lists were compared with each other and see what books are most recommended in top lists. The books are sorted by the number of lists in which...
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME (2010).A - BThe Adventures of Augie MarchAll the King’s MenAmerican PastoralAn American TragedyAnimal FarmAppointment in SamarraAre You There God? It’s Me, MargaretThe AssistantAt Swim-Two-BirdsAtonementBelovedThe Berlin StoriesThe Big SleepThe Blind AssassinBlood MeridianBrideshead RevisitedThe Bridge of San Luis ReyC - DCall It SleepCatch-22The Catcher in the RyeA Clockwork OrangeThe Confessions of Nat TurnerThe CorrectionsThe Crying of Lot 49A Dance...
Elizabeth Bowen: Born into the Anglo-Irish gentry (her family home was Bowen’s Court, near Dublin), Elizabeth Bowen set her finest works not in Ireland but in London. The Heat of the Day, for example, is one of the most effective of all evocations of London in the Blitz and examines the love affair of Stella Rodney and Robert Kelway, doomed by both the large-scale upheaval in which it is conducted and by the sinister machinations...
