Guardian Essential Library

Given by The Guardian

100 Works 567,939 Books 7,949 Reviews ½ 3.9
Clear your shelves of dog-eared airport novels, forgettable potboilers and half-read works of non-fiction. We asked eminent writers to choose 10 books from their respective fields to make up a vis mere capsule library of indispensable volumes. The only rules were that the books had to be in print and readily available in the UK. From art to science via fiction and memoir, these are their selections for the Guardian's Essential Library of 100 vital books. Collect them, then read them... http://books.guardian.co.uk/guardianessentiallibrary/0,12530,814635,00.html vis mindre
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Essays on Music (2002) af Theodor Adorno
Art and Music
The Painter of Modern Life (1964) af Charles Baudelaire
Art and Music
Beethoven's Letters (1926) af Ludwig van Beethoven
Art and Music
Ways of Seeing (1972) af John Berger
Art and Music
Kunstens historie (1950) af E. H. Gombrich
Art and Music
The Glenn Gould Reader (1984) af Glenn Gould
Art and Music
Doktor Faustus : den tyske komponist Adrian Leverkühns liv, fortalt af en ven (1949) af Thomas Mann
Art and Music
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1971) af Charles Rosen
Art and Music
Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition (2002) af Igor Stravinsky
Art and Music
The Lives of the Artists (1957) af Giorgio Vasari
Art and Music
Brief Lives (1898) af John Aubrey
Biografi
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) af James Boswell
Biografi
Henry James: A Life (1985) af Leon Edel
Biografi
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) af Elizabeth Gaskell
Biografi
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) af Andrew Hodges
Biografi
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (1993) af Richard Holmes
Biografi
Eminent Victorians (1918) af Lytton Strachey
Biografi
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) af A. J. A. Symons
Biografi
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) af Claire Tomalin
Biografi
Orlando (1928) af Virginia Woolf
Biografi
Kærlighed og svaghed (1817) af Jane Austen
Fiction
Vor fælleds Ven (1865) af Charles Dickens
Fiction
Middlemarch (1871) af George Eliot
Fiction
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fiction
Den gode soldat (1915) af Ford Madox Ford
Fiction
Det flammende Bogstav (1850) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady (1908) af Henry James
Fiction
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Fiction
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) af John Updike
Fiction
The Custom of the Country (1913) af Edith Wharton
Fiction
Mesteren og Margarita (1966) af Mikhail Bulgakov
Fiction in Translation
Madame Bovary (1857) af Gustave Flaubert
Fiction in Translation
Effi Briest (1894) af Theodor Fontane
Fiction in Translation
A Hero of Our Time (1840) af Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
Fiction in Translation
På sporet af den tabte tid (1913) af Marcel Proust
Fiction in Translation
Jevgenij Onegin (1964) af Alexander Pushkin
Fiction in Translation
Anna Karenina (1875) af Leo Tolstoy
Fiction in Translation
Fædre og sønner (1862) af Ivan Turgenev
Fiction in Translation
Candide eller Optimismen (1759) af Voltaire
Fiction in Translation
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Set 3 Vol) (1949) af Fernand Braudel
Historie
Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics) (1991) af William Hazlitt
Historie
The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) af Johan Huizinga
Historie
The Face of Battle (1976) af John Keegan
Historie
Om ikke nu, hvornår så? (1985) af Primo Levi
Historie
The Armada (1959) af Garrett Mattingly
Historie
English Society in the Eighteenth Century (1982) af Roy Porter
Historie
The Annals of Tacitus (117) af P. Cornelius Tacitus
Historie
Leoparden (1958) af Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Historie
Experience (2000) af Martin Amis
Memoir and Autobiography
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) af Maya Angelou
Memoir and Autobiography
Testament of Youth (1933) af Vera Brittain
Memoir and Autobiography
Diaries (1993) af Alan Clark
Memoir and Autobiography
The Naked Civil Servant (1968) af Quentin Crisp
Memoir and Autobiography
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... (1998) af John Diamond
Memoir and Autobiography
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) af Robert Graves
Memoir and Autobiography
If This Is a Man / The Truce (1947) af Primo Levi
Memoir and Autobiography
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1994) af Nelson Mandela
Memoir and Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) af Malcolm X
Memoir and Autobiography
The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) af Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry
Troilus and Cressida (1374) af Geoffrey Chaucer
Poetry
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955) af Emily Dickinson
Poetry
The Waste Land (1922) af T. S. Eliot
Poetry
The Poetry of Robert Frost (1968) af Robert Frost
Poetry
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems (1976) af Thomas Hardy
Poetry
The Complete Poems (1979) af Christina Rossetti
Poetry
Sonetter : med original engelsk tekst (1609) af William Shakespeare
Poetry
Collected Poems (1921) af Edward Thomas
Poetry
The Prelude (1850) af William Wordsworth
Poetry
Statslære (4 BCE) af Aristotle
Politics
Tanker om den franske revolution (1790) af Edmund Burke
Politics
The Federalist Papers (1787) af Alexander Hamilton
Politics
Leviathan eller Materie, form & magt i et almenvel civilt og kirkeligt (1651) af Thomas Hobbes
Politics
Det kommunistiske manifest (1848) af Karl Marx
Politics
Orwell and Politics (Penguin Modern Classics) (2001) af George Orwell
Politics
On the Social Contract (1762) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Politics
Development as Freedom (1999) af Amartya Sen
Politics
Democracy in America (1835) af Alexis de Tocqueville
Politics
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (2000) af David Bodanis
Science
Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) af Richard Dawkins
Science
Den tredje chimpanse : storhed og fald (1991) af Jared M. Diamond
Science
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution (2000) af Richard Fortey
Science
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) af Stephen Jay Gould
Science
Manden som kun elskede tal (1998) af Paul Hoffman
Science
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation (1980) af Carl Sagan
Science
Kodebogen : videnskaben om hemmelige budskaber - fra oldtidens Ægypten til kvantekryptering (1999) af Simon Singh
Science
Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements (2000) af Paul Strathern
Science
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) af James D. Watson
Science
The Road to Oxiana (1937) af Robert Byron
Travel
In Xanadu: A Quest (1989) af William Dalrymple
Travel
Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain (2001) af Miranda France
Travel
Eothen (1844) af Alexander William Kinglake
Travel
A Time of Gifts (1977) af Patrick Leigh Fermor
Travel
Donau : en følsom rejse fra den store flods kilder til Sortehavet (1989) af Claudio Magris
Travel
Sun Dancing (1997) af Geoffrey Moorhouse
Travel
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (1981) af Jonathan Raban
Travel
The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) af Paul Theroux
Travel
In Siberia (1999) af Colin Thubron
Travel
Hvis dette er et menneske (1947) af Primo Levi
Fyrsten (1513) af Niccolò Machiavelli
The Social Contract and Discourses (1950) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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