Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

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On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course released its own list of the century's top 100 novels. The Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled its list at the request of the Modern Library and vis mere formally presented its list to the Modern Library's Board Chairman Christopher Cerf on July 24 in Cambridge. "Students studying at Radcliffe today will be the leaders of the publishing industry tomorrow," said Cerf. "Their insights and observations give all of us a sneak-preview into the publishing trends of the 21st century." The 100 Radcliffe publishing students were assigned the task of creating their own list of the 20th century's top 100 novels written in English. Like the Modern Library list, the students' lists were selected from 400 possible titles. Instructors of the course compiled and quantified the students' lists, creating the final Radcliffe Publishing Course list vis mindre
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Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
1
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
2
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
3
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
4
Farven lilla (1982) af Alice Walker
5
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
6
Elskede : roman (1987) af Toni Morrison
7
Fluernes herre (1954) af William Golding
8
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
9
Brølet og vreden (1929) af William Faulkner
10
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
11
Mus og mænd (1937) af John Steinbeck
12
Charlotte's Web (1952) af E. B. White
13
Portræt af kunstneren som ungt menneske (1916) af James Joyce
14
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
15
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
16
Kammerat Napoleon (1945) af George Orwell
17
Solen går sin gang (1926) af Ernest Hemingway
18
As I Lay Dying (1930) af William Faulkner
19
Farvel til våbnene (1929) af Ernest Hemingway
20
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
21
Peter Plys (1926) af A. A. Milne
22
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) af Zora Neale Hurston
23
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
24
Salomons sang (1977) af Toni Morrison
25
Borte med blæsten (1936) af Margaret Mitchell
26
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright
27
Gøgereden (1962) af Ken Kesey
28
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
29
Hvem ringer klokkerne for (1940) af Ernest Hemingway
30
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
31
Den gamle mand og havet (1950) af Ernest Hemingway
32
Når naturen kalder (1903) af Jack London
33
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
34
The Portrait of a Lady (1908) af Henry James
35
Råb det fra bjergene (1953) af James Baldwin
36
Verden ifølge Garp (1978) af John Irving
37
All the King's Men (1946) af Robert Penn Warren
38
Værelse med udsigt (1908) af E. M. Forster
39
Ringenes herre (1954) af J. R. R. Tolkien
40
Schindler's Ark (1982) af Thomas Keneally
41
The Age of Innocence (1920) af Edith Wharton
42
Kun den stærke er fri. Overs. efter den amerikanske originaludg. The fountainhead af Karina Winfeld-Hansen (1943) af Ayn Rand
43
Finnegans Wake (1939) af James Joyce
44
Junglen (1906) af Upton Sinclair
45
Mrs. Dalloway : roman (1925) af Virginia Woolf
46
Troldmanden fra Oz (1900) af L. Frank Baum
47
Lady Chatterleys elsker (1960) af D. H. Lawrence
48
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
49
The Awakening (1899) af Kate Chopin
50
My Ántonia (1918) af Willa Cather
51
Howards End (1910) af E. M. Forster
52
Med koldt blod (1965) af Truman Capote
53
Franny og Zooey (1955) af J. D. Salinger
54
De sataniske vers (1988) af Salman Rushdie
55
Jazz (1992) af Toni Morrison
56
Sophies valg (1979) af William Styron
57
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) af William Faulkner
58
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
59
Ethan Frome (1911) af Edith Wharton
60
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955) af Flannery O'Connor
61
Natten er blid (1934) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
62
Orlando (1928) af Virginia Woolf
63
Sønner og elskere (1913) af D. H. Lawrence
64
Forfængelighedens bål (1987) af Tom Wolfe
65
Da verden gik under (1963) af Kurt Vonnegut
66
A Separate Peace (1959) af John Knowles
67
Forløsning i august (1932) af William Faulkner
68
The Wings of the Dove (1902) af Henry James
69
Alt falder fra hinanden (1958) af Chinua Achebe
70
Rebecca (1938) af Daphne Du Maurier
71
Håndbog for vakse galakse-blaffere (1979) af Douglas Adams
72
Nøgen frokost (1962) af William S. Burroughs
73
Gensyn med Brideshead : kaptajn Charles Ryders åndelige og verdslige erindringer (1945) af Evelyn Waugh
74
Når kvinder elsker (1920) af D. H. Lawrence
75
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) af Thomas Wolfe
76
In Our Time (1925) af Ernest Hemingway
77
Alice B. Toklas' selvbiografi (1933) af Gertrude Stein
78
Ridderfalken (1930) af Dashiell Hammett
79
De nøgne og de døde (1948) af Norman Mailer
80
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) af Jean Rhys
81
Hvid støj (1984) af Don DeLillo
82
O Pioneers! (1913) af Willa Cather
83
Krebsens vendekreds (1934) af Henry Miller
84
Klodernes kamp (1897) af H. G. Wells
85
Forlis (Lord Jim) (1900) af Joseph Conrad
86
The Bostonians (1886) af Henry James
87
An American Tragedy (1925) af Theodore Dreiser
88
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) af Willa Cather
89
Vinden i piletræerne (1908) af Kenneth Grahame
90
This Side of Paradise (1920) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
91
Og verden skælvede (1957) af Ayn Rand
92
Den franske løjtnants kvinde (1969) af John Fowles
93
Babbitt (1922) af Sinclair Lewis
94
Kim / Rudyard Kipling ; på dansk ved Jesper Ewald (1901) af Rudyard Kipling
95
De smukke og fortabte (1922) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
96
Hare hop (1960) af John Updike
97
De gode græd (1905) af E. M. Forster
98
Main Street (1920) af Sinclair Lewis
99
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
100

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