1.Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1877)
Anna Karenina is widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy
considered this book his first true novel. Although most Russian critics panned
the novel on its publication as a “trifling romance of high life,”
Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be “flawless as a work of art.” Tolstoy’s style in Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel.
Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be “flawless as a work of art.” Tolstoy’s style in Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel.
2.Gustave
Flaubert - Madame Bovary (1856)
Madame Bovary was attacked
for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de
Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in
January 1857 that made it notorious. The novel focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma
Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to
escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot
is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel’s true art lies in its details and
hidden patterns.
3.Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (1865)
War and Peace was first
published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of
Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of
Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one
of the world’s greatest novels.
4.Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)
Lolita
was first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris. The novel is both
internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its
controversial subject: the book’s narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert
becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.
It is good to see such a great book for the
younger generation on the list. Huckleberry Finn is commonly accounted as one
of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American
novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the
first person by the eponymous Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, best friend of Tom
Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books).
6.William Shakespeare - Hamlet(1599)
It
is no surprise that Mr Shakespeare is on the list. I am not sure that I would
have picked Hamlet as his best book, but who am I to debate 125 brilliant
authors? Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, probably written between
1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts
revenge on his uncle for murdering Hamlet’s father, the King, gaining the
throne through this treachery, and subsequently marrying his mother.
7.F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)
I agree with the inclusion
of this book – it is one of my favorites and one of the best examples of
Fitzgerald’s writing. The Great Gatsby is a tale from the Jazz age of Gatsby –
a wealthy man whose life is surrounded by mystery. A brilliant read.
8.Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (1922)
I appreciate the great
artistic merit in Proust’s writing, but I have to be honest and say that I have
never managed to get more than half way through the first book of this
multiple-book novel. I found it extremely slow paced and boring. This is
Proust’s most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and
the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the “episode of
the madeleine” in which he describes in great (boring) detail, eating a
madeleine dipped in tea.
9.Anton Chekhov - The Stories of Anton Chekhov (1988)
10.Middlemarch George Eliot (1871)
Middlemarch is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era. It was written by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans) and was first published in 1871 to 1872. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry.
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