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The 100 best novels: #8 – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
The summer of 1816 was a washout. After the cataclysmic April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, part of what is now I...
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The 100 best novels: #7 – Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
How on earth to choose just one Jane Austen novel? Austen, for some, is simply the supreme English novelist, on any list. Some will say: sh...
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The100 best novels: #6 – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)
Tristram Shandy and its author, Laurence Sterne , are so intensely modern in mood and attitude, so profanely alert to the nuances of the hu...
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The 100 best novels: #5 – Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
How many readers, if they are honest, discovered some of the greatest novels through film or television? Gatsby ? Pride and Prejudice ? The ...
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The 100 best novels: #4 – Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
After Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe , the next landmark in English fiction is a towering monument of approximately 970,000 wo...
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The 100 best novels: #3 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
Seven years after the publication of Robinson Crusoe , the great Tory essayist and poet Jonathan Swift – inspired by the Scriblerus club, wh...
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The 100 best novels: #2 – Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
English fiction began with The Pilgrim's Progress , but nearly 50 turbulent years, including the Glorious Revolution, passed before it m...
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The 100 best novels: #1 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
The English novel begins behind bars, in extremis. Its first author, John Bunyan, was a Puritan dissenter whose writing starts with sermons ...
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The 100 best novels: an introduction
Robert McCrum introduces our definitive list of the greatest novels written in English, a 100-week project that begins with John Bunyan'...
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