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Greatest Novels Of The 20th Century

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We have many (not all) greatest novels presented here that were taken FROM the list of 100 greatest novels of The 20th Century.

The list contains 100 greatest novels - English language - published in The 20th Century since 1900. These greatest novels were choosen by a board of 10 members at The Modern Library (Random House). They are Shelby Foote, Christopher Cerf (son of Random House founder Bennett Cerf), Gore Vidal, Daniel J. Boorstin, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., William Styron, Vartan Gregorian and .A.S. Byatt. Note that one novel, "Sophie's Choice" at number 96, was written by board member William Styron.

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James Joyce
Ulysses
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A


D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence, English author
Sons and Lovers


Samuel Butler
Way of All Flesh, The


Sherwood Anderson American short-story writer, novelist
Winesburg, Ohio


Henry James
Ambassadors, The


Ford Madox Ford
Good Soldier, The


Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie


E M Forster
Howards End


Joseph Conrad
Secret Agent, The
Nostromo


D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence, English author
Women in Love


Edith Wharton American novelist, short-story writer
Age of Innocence, The


Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson


W. Somerset Maugham English novelist, short-story writer, playwright
Of Human Bondage


Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness


Sinclair Lewis American novelist, satirist, playwright, 1930 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Main Street


Edith Wharton American novelist, short-story writer
House of Mirth


Rudyard Kipling 1907 Nobel Prize Winner, British short-story writer, novelist, poet
Kim


E M Forster
Room With A View, A


Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim


Arnold Bennett
Old Wives' Tale, The


Jack London Prolific American author, novelist, short story writer
Call of the Wild, The




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