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ALL-TIME 15 NOVELS
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30.       aenigma x
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:41 pm

Quoting AllTooHuman:

2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley



Yes yes and Bram Stoker's Dracula.. wonderful

31.       AllTooHuman
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:44 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

This is so hard, but have made an attempt to select my favourite 15:-

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Emma - Jane Austin
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expery
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
I, Claudius - Robert Graves



appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment.

32.       SuiGeneris
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:45 pm

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

it was my term work in prep class in high school... we used to watch its movie together with my family

33.       aenigma x
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:47 pm

Quoting AllTooHuman:


appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment.



I disagree - 9 of the 15 is not bad, considering I am British

34.       AllTooHuman
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:49 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting Elisa:


Ohhhh, mr Darcy....



"IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

lol



Hehehe... with reference to this point, my favourite opening sentence is placed in Anna Karenina:

"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

35.       AllTooHuman
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:51 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting AllTooHuman:


appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment.



I disagree - 9 of the 15 is not bad, considering I am British



well.. accepted... be it so...

36.       aenigma x
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:51 pm

Quoting AllTooHuman:

Well... Here are my first and second top fifteen list according to the two slightly different definitions of novel.

novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

novel: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
6. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. The Trial - Kafka
8. War and Peace - Tolstoy
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. Frankenstein - Marry Shelley
11. Search of Lost Time (whole series) - Marcel Proust
12. The Iron Heel - Jack London
13. Modam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Grapes of Wratf - John Steinbeck
15. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov



..appears you have not listed a single novelist from your OWN country

37.       duda
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:52 pm

One of the most human books I ever read: "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin. And maybe "Waterbabies" by Charles Kingsley... Now I am becoming sentimental... it's the fault of the man in yellow coat...

38.       AllTooHuman
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:56 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting AllTooHuman:

Well... Here are my first and second top fifteen list according to the two slightly different definitions of novel.

novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

novel: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
6. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. The Trial - Kafka
8. War and Peace - Tolstoy
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. Frankenstein - Marry Shelley
11. Search of Lost Time (whole series) - Marcel Proust
12. The Iron Heel - Jack London
13. Modam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Grapes of Wratf - John Steinbeck
15. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov



..appears you have not listed a single novelist from your OWN country



Because, I am and must be, unlike you, objective. I don't see any Turkish novel among any top-fifteen-list. As back as 120 years or so our own novel tradition goes.

39.       aenigma x
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 08:01 pm

Quoting AllTooHuman:

Because, I am and must be, unlike you, objective. I don't see any Turkish novel among any top-fifteen-list. As back as 120 years or so our own novel tradition goes.



Piff! How can you decide that my list was not objective. It most certainly was!! You imagined that the majority of my list were British authors when in fact only 9 of 15 were. What next will you accuse me of - bad detective work ....?? lol

40.       duda
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 18 Feb 2007 Sun 08:04 pm

AllTooGoodDetectiveWork, Aenigma... Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... Do you like Sherlock Holmes, by the way?

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