> Jim wrote: > I came across this list while Goololligagging (my word, I made it up) > instead of working: >
Here a great book: http://www.amazon.com/Top-Ten-Writers-Their-Favorite/dp/0393328406/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219031646&sr=1-8 Operating on the theory that no one knows more about great books than great writers, J. Peder Zane, book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 British and American writers (Andrea Barrett, Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Reynolds Price and Tom Wolfe, among them) to "provide a list, ranked, in order, of what you consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time." Zane suggests that these lists (and reconfigurations of the most often cited titles into various categories -- top ten works of the 19th century, living writers, comic works and so on) are "detailed road maps to the land of literary possibilities": "Part Rand-McNally, part Zagat's . . . it takes the anxiety out of bibliophilia by offering a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the world's best books." To get you started, here's "The Top Top Ten": 1. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy 2. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 3. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy 4. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain 6. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare 7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust 9. The stories of Anton Chekhov 10. Middlemarch, by George Eliot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
