Greatest Books Voted by Authors (1915)

Given by New York Times

35 Works 278,039 Books 3,587 Reviews ½ 3.8
Believing that a discussion of a literary topic of the widest interest might: be not without volte as a momentary relief to mind which have constantly before them the tragic spectacle of the show more world's greatest war, The New Yok Times recently asked a few of the most distinguished novelists of America and England to reply to this question:

"Which, in your opinion, are the six best novels in the English language?"

The answers received have shown great diversity of opinion and indicate that the taste of novelists is often at variance with that of the public for which they write. The letters have been printed in several instalments, and the opinions of their authors art today summarized. Two letters previously crowded out art published after the summary. show less
WorkOrder LabelYear
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
11848
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
21749
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
31850
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
31850
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
41994
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
51903
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
51859
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
51855
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
51819
When Valmond came to Pontiac: The story of a lost Napoleon by Gilbert Parker
62012
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
61913
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
61911
Fraternity by John Galsworthy
61909
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
61909
A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White
61909
The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland
61906
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
61897
Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie
61896
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
61896
Trilby by George Du Maurier
61894
The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
61892
Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
61885
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
61883
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life by George Washington Cable
61880
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
61878
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
61876
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
61875
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
61857
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
61852
The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
61848
Handley Cross by R. S. Surtees
61843
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
61821
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
61766
Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson
61753
The Guarded Flame by W.B. Maxwell
61969
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