To know a lot about the world you live in, reading can be a great tool. Reading is a measn that generally informs you about things and people you’ve never lived to see. Reading is therefore a section of humanity that’s just more like a life skill almost everyone adopts once they begin to get educated.
In this article, ten most prolific writers were asked to opt out their favourite books and writers of past to the 20th century; the writers includes; Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Patchett, Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Norman Mailer. The assignment was that; they should enlist, in order of ranking who or what they consider their ten best and greatest world of fiction of all time; poems, drama, story collection or novels.
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Putting together the exceptional and unfavorable list, the following lists were voted and ranked by the great writers of this century based on whose work was great and who was the greatest writer of all time.
Top 10 Works of the 19th Century
Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain
The stories of Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch written by George Eliot
Moby-Dick written by Herman Melville
Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma written by Jane Austen
Top 10 Writing Works Of The 20th Century
Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time written by Marcel Proust
Ulysses written by James Joyce
Dubliners written by James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury written by William Faulkner
To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf
The complete stories of Flannery O’Connor
Pale Fire written written by Vladimir Nabokov
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Top 10 Authors/Writers By Number Of Books Selected
William Shakespeare – 11
William Faulkner – 6
Henry James – 6
Jane Austen – 5
Charles Dickens – 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky – 5
Ernest Hemingway – 5
Franz Kafka – 5
Raced: James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf – 4
Top 10 Authors Selected By Points Earned During The Voting Process
Leo Tolstoy – 327
William Shakespeare – 293
James Joyce – 194
Vladimir Nabokov – 190
Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177
William Faulkner – 173
Charles Dickens – 168
Anton Chekhov – 165
Gustave Flaubert – 163
Jane Austen – 161
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Pieter Odendaal
November 27, 2021 at 11:06 pm
All the masters!Excellent!
Greatest Writers 20th Century – l will add at least Camus, Samuel Beckett and Montale.