Novel Novel Best. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678) A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) By the end of the 19th century no book in English literary history had Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748).
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ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey Ulysses follows its hero Leopold Bloom through the streets of Dublin Overflowing with puns references to classical literature and streamofconsciousness writing this is a complex multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man THE GREAT GATSBY by F Scott Fitzgerald Set in the Jazz Age The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby his decadent parties and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Published in 1916 James Joyce’s semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego Stephen Dedalus is a comingofage story like no other LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita tells the story of middleaged Humbert Humbert’s love for twelveyearold Dolores Haze The concept is troubling but the novel defies any kind of label though it has been heralded as a hilarious satire a bitter tragedy and even an allegory for US.
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The Best Novels in English 1 Emma by Jane Austen 2 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3 Middlemarch by George Eliot 4 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 5 Ulysses by James Joyce.
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A finalist (and in my books at least the front runner) for this year’s National Book Award Susan Choi’s fifth novel Trust Exercise is a novel in three parts There’s a lot of concern over not ruining the twist that comes in part two (and to a lesser extent part three) but it’s impossible to describe quite why this is one of the best novels of the decade without giving it away Jennifer Egan A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010)David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010)Denis Johnson Train Dreams (2011).