Western World's Greatest Books - Project Gutenberg

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Set out below are more than 500 of the western world's greatest books, spanning the period from BC to 1954. Included are works by authors who died before 1955, and whose works are thus in the public

vis mere domain in Australia.

The list has been compiled from some of the titles appearing in 500 Classics Reviewed, Salem Press, 1995 and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Ed. Peter Boxall, ABC Books, 2006.

How does one decide which books are "great"? Wikipedia, has an article on the Western Canon which aims to address this issue. The article contains references and links to other web sites. vis mindre

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The Education of Henry Adams (1907) af Henry Adams
Orestien (458 BCE) af Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (480 BCE) af Aeschylus
Æsops fabler (600 BCE) af Aesop
Rashomon and Other Stories (1915) af Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Pigebørn eller Meg, Jo, Beth og Amy (1868) af Louisa May Alcott
En by i Ohio (1919) af Sherwood Anderson
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) (9) af Anonymous
The Golden Ass (159) af Apuleius
Summa Theologiae (1265) af Thomas Aquinas
Fuglene (425 BCE) af Aristophanes
Lysistrate (411 BCE) af Aristophanes
Etikken (350 BCE) af Aristotle
Poetikken (350 BCE) af Aristotle
Augustins bekendelser (397) af Saint Augustine
Emma (1815) af Jane Austen
Fornuft og følelse (1811) af Jane Austen
Kærlighed og svaghed (1817) af Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (1814) af Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (1817) af Jane Austen
Stolthed og fordom (1813) af Jane Austen
Bristede forhåbninger (0) af Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet (1833) af Honoré de Balzac
Far Goriot (1835) af Honoré de Balzac
Hell (1908) af Henri Barbusse
Under Fire (1916) af Henri Barbusse
Peter Pan og Wendy (1934) af J. M. Barrie
The Flowers of Evil (1936) af Charles Baudelaire
Vathek (1786) af William Beckford
Oroonoko (1688) af Aphra Behn
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) af Arnold Bennett
Beowulf (1000) af Beowulf Poet
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short story) (1890) af Ambrose Bierce
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789) af William Blake
Dekameron (1469) af Giovanni Boccaccio
The Consolation of Philosophy (525) af Boethius
Boswells London Dagbog 1762-1763 (1950) af James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) af James Boswell
Agnes Grey (1847) af Anne Brontë
Fruen til Wildfell Hall (1848) af Anne Brontë
Shirley (1849) af Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (1847) af Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847) af Emily Brontë
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) af Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Ring and the Book (1912) af Robert Browning
De 39 trin (1915) af John Buchan
Pilegrimmens Vandring fra denne Verden til den tilkommende : fortalt under Lignelsen af en Drøm (1678) af John Bunyan
Camilla (1796) af Fanny Burney
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) af Fanny Burney
Evelina (1778) af Frances Burney
Tarzan, Abernes Konge (1914) af Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (2001) af Richard Burton
Det Land Erewhon (1872) af Samuel Butler
Manfred (1986) af George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) af Lord Byron
Life Is a Dream (1635) af Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Alice i eventyrland (1865) af Lewis Carroll
Alice i Spejlland (1871) af Lewis Carroll
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) af Willa Cather
My Ántonia (1918) af Willa Cather
Paul's Case and Other Stories (1906) af Willa Cather
O Pioneers! (1913) af Willa Cather
The Professor's House (1925) af Willa Cather
Chaereas and Callirhoe (1939) af Khariton
Canterbury Fortællinger (14) af Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard (1904) af Anton Chekhov
Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard (1887) af Anton Chekhov
The Kiss and Other Stories (1945) af Anton Chekhov
The Riddle of the Sands (1903) af Erskine Childers
The Awakening (1899) af Kate Chopin
Fanny Hill : en glædespiges erindringer (1748) af John Cleland
Biographia Literaria (1907) af Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan And Christabel (1914) (1898) af Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and the Conversation Poems (2009) af Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kvinden i hvidt : roman (1859) af Wilkie Collins
Månestenen (1868) af Wilkie Collins
The Way of the World (1700) af William Congreve
Dødssejleren (1917) af Joseph Conrad
Forlis (Lord Jim) (1900) af Joseph Conrad
Den hemmelige agent (1907) af Joseph Conrad
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
Nostromo (1904) af Joseph Conrad
Hjortedræber (1841) af James Fenimore Cooper
Den sidste mohikaner (1826) af James Fenimore Cooper
Le Cid (1636) af Pierre Corneille
The Blue Hotel (1964) af Stephen Crane
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1956) af Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) af Stephen Crane
Modets røde kokarde (1894) af Stephen Crane
The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1993) af Stephen Crane
Havets sønner (1840) af Richard Henry Jr. Dana
Dantes guddommelige komedie (1308) af Dante Alighieri
The Descent of Man (1871) af Charles Darwin
Moll Flanders (1722) af Daniel Defoe
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724) af Daniel Defoe
Bleak House (1852) af Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (1850) af Charles Dickens
Et juleeventyr (1843) af Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) af Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (1837) af Charles Dickens
Pickwick Klubbens efterladte papirer 2 bind (1836) af Charles Dickens
Store forventninger (1861) af Charles Dickens
Strenge tider (1854) af Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) af Charles Dickens
Vor fælleds Ven (1865) af Charles Dickens
Fatalisten Jacques og hans herre (1796) af Denis Diderot
The Nun (1796) af Denis Diderot
Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics) (1805) af Denis Diderot
John Donne's Poetry [Norton Critical Edition] (1966) af John Donne
De besatte (1871) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brødrene Karamasov (1880) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Idioten (0) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kældermennesket : optegnelser fra en undergrund (1864) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) af Arthur Conan Doyle
Baskervilles hund (1902) af Arthur Conan Doyle
An American Tragedy (1925) af Theodore Dreiser
Søster Carrie (1900) af Theodore Dreiser
Absalom and Achitophel (1966) af John Dryden
Dronning Margot; I-II (1845) af Alexandre Dumas
De tre Musketerer (1844) af Alexandre Dumas
Greven af Monte Christo (1844) af Alexandre Dumas père
The Absentee (1812) af Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent (1800) af Maria Edgeworth
Ormond (1817) af Maria Edgeworth
Adam Bede (1859) af George Eliot
Daniel Deronda (1876) af George Eliot
Middlemarch (1871) af George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (1860) af George Eliot
Silas Marner (1861) af George Eliot
Representative Men (1850) af Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) af Olaudah Equiano
Tåbelighedens lovprisning (1509) af Desiderius Erasmus
Andromache [in translation] (425 BCE) af Euripides
Bacchanterne (406 BCE) af Euripides
Electra (420 BCE) af Euripides
Hippolytus (428 BCE) af Euripides
In a Glass Darkly (1872) af Sheridan Le Fanu
Amelia (1751) af Henry Fielding
Historien om Joseph Andrews og hans ven pastor Abraham Adams' oplevelser (1742) af Henry Fielding
Tom Jones (1749) af Henry Fielding
Natten er blid (1934) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881) af Gustave Flaubert
Følelsernes opdragelse (1869) af Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (1857) af Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Heart (2004) af Gustave Flaubert
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) af Gustave Flaubert
Effi Briest (1894) af Theodor Fontane
Den gode soldat (1915) af Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End (1925) af Ford Madox Ford
Anne Frank's dagbog (1947) af Anne Frank
The Forsyte Saga (1922) af John Galsworthy
Cranford (1851) af Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton (1848) af Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South (1855) af Elizabeth Gaskell
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1380) af Gawain Poet
The Beggar's Opera (1728) af John Gay
A Scots Quair (1932) af Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Falskmøntnerne (1925) af André Gide
Jordens frugter (1897) af André Gide
Den snævre port (1924) af André Gide
Den umoralske (1902) af André Gide
Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) af Gilgamesh Poet
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories {Tantor AudioBook} (1995) af Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile (1892) af George Gissing
New Grub Street (1891) af George Gissing
Barren Ground (1925) af Ellen Glasgow
Caleb Williams (1794) af William Godwin
Faust : en tragedie i 2 dele (1808) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Den unge Werthers lidelser (1774) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Valgslægtskaberne : en roman (1809) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories (1835) af Nikolai Gogol
Døde Sjæle (1842) af Nikolai Gogol
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (1842) af Nikolai Gogol
The Nose (1836) af Nikolaj Gogol
She Stoops to Conquer (1771) af Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) af Oliver Goldsmith
Oblomov (1859) af Iwan Gontscharow
Moderen (1907) af Maxim Gorki
Familien Artamonov : en købmandsslægts historie (1925) af Maxim Gorky
Vinden i piletræerne (1908) af Kenneth Grahame
The Diary of a Nobody (1892) af George Grossmith
Hun (1886) af H. Rider Haggard
Kong Salomons miner (1882) af H. Rider Haggard
Ensomhedens brønd (1928) af Radclyffe Hall
Markens grøde (1921) af Knut Hamsun
Sult (1890) af Knut Hamsun
Borgmesteren (1886) af Thomas Hardy
Fjernt Fra Verdens Vrimmel (1874) af Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) af Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (1895) af Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native (1878) af Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) af Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (1887) af Thomas Hardy
The Luck of Roaring Camp And Other Tales (1868) af Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Stories of the American West (1869) af Bret Harte
The Blithedale Romance (1852) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
Det flammende Bogstav (1850) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (1851) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun (1860) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love in Excess (1719) af Eliza Haywood
Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance (1961) af Heliodorus
The Gift of the Magi (1905) af O. Henry
Hyperion (1797) af Friedrich Hölderlin
The House on the Borderland (1908) af William Hope Hodgson
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) af James Hogg
Odysseen (750 BCE) af Homer
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) af William Dean Howells
De elendige (1862) af Victor Hugo
Klokkeren fra Notre Dame (1910) af Victor Hugo
Against Nature (1884) af Joris-Karl Huysmans
Et Dukkehjem (1879) af Henrik Ibsen
Gengangere : [et familjedrama i tre akter] (1881) af Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler : Skuespil i fire Akter (1890) af Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt, et dramatisk Digt (1966) af Henrik Ibsen
En ¤Folkefiende (1882) af Henrik Ibsen
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) af Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle. (1819) af Washington Irving
The Ambassadors (1903) af Henry James
The Bostonians (1886) af Henry James
Daisy Miller (1878) af Henry James
The Golden Bowl (1904) af Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) af Henry James
Skruen strammes (1898) af Henry James
Washington Square (1880) af Henry James
What Maisie Knew (1897) af Henry James
The Wings of the Dove (1902) af Henry James
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) af William James
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) af Sarah Orne Jewett
Lives of the English poets (1779) af Samuel Johnson
Rasselas (1759) af Samuel Johnson
The Alchemist (1610) af Ben Jonson
Bartholomew Fair (1614) af Ben Jonson
Volpone, or The Fox (1606) af Ben Jonson
Dublinfolk (1914) af James Joyce
Finnegans Wake (1939) af James Joyce
Portræt af kunstneren som ungt menneske (1916) af James Joyce
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Amerika (1927) af Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (1915) af Franz Kafka
Processen (1925) af Franz Kafka
Slottet (1925) af Franz Kafka
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) af Immanuel Kant
Digte (Rubaiyat) (1048) af Omar Khayyám
Frygt og bæven (1843) af Søren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death (1849) af Søren Kierkegaard
The Water Babies (1863) af Charles Kingsley
Kim / Rudyard Kipling ; på dansk ved Jesper Ewald (1901) af Rudyard Kipling
Holy Bible (King James Version) (1400) af King James Version
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) af Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Fyrstinden af Clèves (1678) af Madame de La Fayette
Gösta Berlings saga (1891) af Selma Lagerlöf
Tao Te King (400 BCE) af Lao Tzu
Maldorors sange (1868) af Comte de Lautréamont
Lady Chatterleys elsker (1960) af D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (1915) af D. H. Lawrence
Sønner og elskere (1913) af D. H. Lawrence
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) af Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories (1873) af Nikolai Leskov
The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales (1873) af Nikolai Leskov
The Monk (1796) af Matthew Lewis
Arrowsmith (1925) af Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (1922) af Sinclair Lewis
Main Street (1920) af Sinclair Lewis
Jernhælen (1907) af Jack London
Martin Eden (1909) af Jack London
Når naturen kalder (1903) af Jack London
The Sea Wolf (1904) af Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America) (2000) af Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The song of Hiawatha (1855) af Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Byrons Don Juan (1826) af Lord Byron
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (1964) af H. P. Lovecraft
On the Nature of Things (54 BCE) af Titus Lucretius Carus
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) af John Lyly
Fyrsten (1513) af Niccolò Machiavelli
The Man of Feeling (1771) af Henry Mackenzie
Wild Harbour (1936) af Ian Macpherson
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) af Thomas Malory
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) af Frederic Manning
The Garden Party - short story (1922) af Katherine Mansfield
The Betrothed (1827) af Alessandro Manzoni
The Complete Plays (1586) af Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine (1587) af Christopher Marlowe
Den tragiske historie om doktor Faust (1601) af Christopher Marlowe
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) af Charles Maturin
Albigenses: A Romance (1824) af Charles Robert Maturin
Pierre et Jean (French Edition) (1887) af Guy de Maupassant
Smukke ven (1885) af Guy de Maupassant
Billy Budd, fortopsgast (1924) af Herman Melville
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen (1851) af Herman Melville
Skriveren Bartleby (1853) af Herman Melville
Om friheden (1859) af John Stuart Mill
Om Trykkefrihed (1644) af John Milton
Samson Agonistes (1957) af John Milton
Det tabte paradis (1667) af John Milton
Borte med blæsten (1936) af Margaret Mitchell
The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics) (1666) af Molière
Essais 1-3 (1580) af Michel de Montaigne
Utopia (1553) af Thomas More
News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (1890) af William Morris
Max Havelaar eller Det hollandske Handelskompagnis kaffeauktioner (1860) af Multatuli
Manden uden egenskaber (1930) af Robert Musil
Den unge Törless (1906) af Robert Musil
Således talte Zarathustra (1885) af Friedrich Nietzsche
Anna Christie (1921) af Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under The Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra (1924) af Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh (1946) af Eugene O'Neill
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
Burma dage (1934) af George Orwell
Kammerat Napoleon (1945) af George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) af George Orwell
En mundfuld frisk luft (1939) af George Orwell
Ovids metamorfoser (8) af Ovid
Tanker (1669) af Blaise Pascal
Marius the Epicurean (1885) af Walter Pater
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) af Luigi Pirandello
Seks Personer søger en Forfatter : et uskrevet Skuespil (1921) af Luigi Pirandello
The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) (1961) af Plato
Staten (380 BCE) af Plato
Lives of the Noble Romans (100) af Plutarch
Plutarch's Lives (100) af Plutarch
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1824) af Edgar Allan Poe
Poe: Poetry and Tales (1984) af Edgar Allan Poe
An essay on man (1734) af Alexander Pope
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (1741) af Alexander Pope
The Poems of Alexander Pope (1856) af Alexander Pope
Fortunata and Jacinta: Two Stories of Married Women (1887) af Benito Pérez-Galdós
På sporet af den tabte tid (1913) af Marcel Proust
Jevgenij Onegin (1964) af Alexander Pushkin
Gargantua og Pantagruel, 1-5 (1532) af François Rabelais
Phaedra (1677) af Jean Racine
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) af Ann Radcliffe
The Devil in the Flesh (1921) af Raymond Radiguet
Ti dage der rystede verden (1919) af John Reed
Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady, Riverside edition (Abridged) (1962) af Samuel Richardson
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) af Samuel Richardson
Duino Elegies / The Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) af Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) af Rainer Maria Rilke
Hadrian the Seventh (1904) af Frederick Rolfe
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) af Edmond Rostand
Radetzkymarch : Roman (1932) af Joseph Roth
The Confessions (1784) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile eller om opdragelsen (1762) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Julie, or, The New Héloise (1761) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782) af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Impressions of Africa (French Surrealism) (1910) af Raymond Roussel
Locus Solus (1914) af Raymond Roussel
The 120 Days of Sodom (1785) af Marquis de Sade
Justine (1788) af Marquis de Sade
The Open Window [short story] (1914) af Saki
Sappho: A New Translation (580) af Sappho
Ivanhoe (1819) af Sir Walter Scott
The Monastery (1820) af Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy (1817) af Sir Walter Scott
All's Well That Ends Well (1623) af William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra (1623) af William Shakespeare
As You Like It (1599) af William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (1623) af William Shakespeare
Hamlet (1603) af William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) af William Shakespeare
Henry V (1600) af William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar (1623) af William Shakespeare
King Lear (1608) af William Shakespeare
Købmanden i Venezia (1600) af William Shakespeare
Lige for lige (1623) af William Shakespeare
Macbeth (1606) af William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (1598) af William Shakespeare
Othello (1604) af William Shakespeare
Richard II (1597) af William Shakespeare
Romeo og Julie (1599) af William Shakespeare
Samlede Shakespeare (1589) af William Shakespeare
En skærsommernatsdrøm (1603) af William Shakespeare
Sonetter : med original engelsk tekst (1609) af William Shakespeare
Trold kan tæmmes (1623) af William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (1601) af William Shakespeare
Uvejret (1610) af William Shakespeare
Vintereventyret (1623) af William Shakespeare
Candida (1897) af George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara (1905) af George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman (1903) af George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion (1913) af George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan (1923) af George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein (1818) af Mary Shelley
Adonais (1902) af Percy Bysshe Shelley
Den løste Prometheus (1820) af Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias (1999) af Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quo Vadis (1895) af Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Life and Death of Harriet Frean (1922) af May Sinclair
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle {complete} (1751) af Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) af Tobias Smollett
Roderick Random (1748) af Tobias Smollett
The Real Charlotte (1894) af Edith Somerville
Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899) af E. Œ. Somerville
Ødipus i Kolonos (401 BCE) af Sophocles
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) af Sophocles
Sofokles' Antigone (441) af Sophocles
Ødipus (429 BCE) af Sophocles
The Faerie Queene (1590) af Edmund Spenser
Ethics (1677) af Baruch Spinoza
Alice B. Toklas' selvbiografi (1933) af Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans (1934) af Gertrude Stein
Three Lives (1909) af Gertrude Stein
Klosteret i Parma (1839) af Stendhal
Rødt og sort (1830) af Stendhal
The Charwoman's Daughter (1912) af James Stephens
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) af Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandys levned og meninger (1759) af Laurence Sterne
Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde (1886) af Robert Louis Stevenson
Junkeren af Ballantrae (1888) af Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnappet (1886) af Robert Louis Stevenson
Skatteøen (1883) af Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (1897) af Bram Stoker
By the Open Sea (1984) af August Strindberg
Hemsöboerne (1887) af August Strindberg
Miss Julie (1888) af August Strindberg
Det røde værelse : skildringer fra kunstner- og forfatterlivet (1879) af August Strindberg
Zenos bekendelser (1930) af Italo Svevo
Gullivers rejser (1727) af Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (1729) af Jonathan Swift
A Tale of A Tub (1704) af Jonathan Swift
The Playboy of the Western World (1907) af John Millington Synge
Idylls of the King (1939) af Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam (Norton Critical Edition) (1973) af Alfred Lord Tennyson
Vanity Fair (1848) af William Makepeace Thackeray
Under Mælkeskoven (1954) af Dylan Thomas
Walden / Civil Disobedience (1849) af Henry David Thoreau
Walden eller Livet i skovene (1854) af Henry David Thoreau
Democracy in America (1835) af Alexis de Tocqueville
Anna Karenina (1875) af Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Iljitjs død : roman (1886) af Leo Tolstoy
Kreutzer-sonaten (1889) af Leo Tolstoy
Krig og fred (1869) af Leo Tolstoy
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) af Robert Tressell
Barchester Towers (1857) af Anthony Trollope
Castle Richmond (1860) af Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right (1869) af Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) af Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn (1869) af Anthony Trollope
Mågen : skuespil i 4 akter (1896) af Anton Tschechow
The Three Sisters (1901) af Anton Tschechow
Uncle Vanya (1897) af Anton Tschechow
Foraarsbølger (1872) af Ivan Turgenev
Fædre og sønner (1862) af Ivan Turgenev
A King Lear of the Steppes/Rudin (2005) af Ivan Turgenev
On the Eve (1860) af Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil (1877) af Ivan Turgenev
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper (1881) af Mark Twain
Toms eventyr. Med tegn. af Louis Moe. På dansk ved N. P. Jensen. Omslagstegn. efter Louis Moe af Oskar Jørgensen. Overs. efter The adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) af Mark Twain
En yankee ved kong Arthurs hof (1889) af Mark Twain
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920) af Sigrid Undset
The House by the Medlar Tree (1881) af Giovanni Verga
Jorden rundt i 80 dage (1873) af Jules Verne
Rejsen til jordens indre (1864) af Jules Verne
En verdensomsejling under havet (1870) af Jules Verne
Vergils Aeneide (29 BCE) af Virgil
Candide eller Optimismen (1759) af Voltaire
Ben Hur : en Fortælling fra Kristi Tid (1880) af Lew Wallace
The Castle of Otranto (1764) af Horace Walpole
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) af H. G. Wells
Klodernes kamp (1897) af H. G. Wells
Tidsmaskinen (1895) af H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay (1909) af H. G. Wells
Den usynlige mand (1897) af H. G. Wells
Fru Hjertesorg (1933) af Nathanael West
The Age of Innocence (1920) af Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass (1855) af Walt Whitman
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) af Thomas Wolfe
Mrs. Dalloway : roman (1925) af Virginia Woolf
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
The Years (1937) af Virginia Woolf
Vi (1921) af Yevgeny Zamyatin
Thérèse Raquin (1867) af Émile Zola
Germinal (1885) af Émile Zola

Beskrivelser

Set out below are more than 500 of the western world's greatest books, spanning the period from BC to 1954. Included are works by authors who died before 1955, and whose works are thus in the public domain in Australia.

The list has been compiled from some of the titles appearing in 500 Classics Reviewed, Salem Press, 1995 and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Ed. Peter Boxall, ABC Books, 2006.

How does one decide which books are "great"? Wikipedia, has an article on the Western Canon which aims to address this issue. The article contains references and links to other web sites.

(English, Award granter)
URL: http://gutenberg.net.au/greatest-books-a.html
THIS IS A LIST / NOT AN AWARD

http://gutenberg.net.au/greatest-book... (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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1001(10,011) 1001 books(11,223) 19th century(42,874) 20th century(10,182) adventure(13,130) American(7,468) American literature(14,523) British(19,305) British literature(22,141) classic(96,924) classic fiction(8,446) classic literature(14,412) classics(115,386) drama(32,308) ebook(14,720) England(17,818) English(13,742) English literature(27,015) fantasy(12,195) fiction(287,017) Folio Society(9,498) France(7,722) French(9,188) French literature(11,494) gothic(7,549) historical fiction(16,050) history(10,296) horror(10,130) Kindle(14,150) literature(81,931) mystery(7,497) non-fiction(12,042) novel(54,089) own(14,057) philosophy(30,500) play(12,768) plays(17,839) poetry(37,509) read(32,175) Roman(9,262) romance(18,082) Russia(7,896) Russian(7,448) Russian literature(10,999) science fiction(19,111) theatre(11,453) to-read(121,316) unread(16,843) Victorian(9,867) William Shakespeare(23,258)

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