The Greatest 20th Century Novels

Given by Waterstone

23 teosta 496,829 kirjaa 7,814 arvostelua ½ 4.0

Waterstone’s 1999 poll of the greatest 20th century novels, according to British writers. This appeared to be the result of muddle in the way questions were put to and answered by the 47

näytä lisää authors, critics and media personalities who voted in the poll.




näytä vähemmän
TeosOrder LabelVuosi
Odysseus (tekijä: James Joyce)
11922
Sopiva nuori mies (tekijä: Vikram Seth)
1993
The Van (tekijä: Roddy Doyle)
1991
Money: A Suicide Note (tekijä: Martin Amis)
1984
Keskiyön lapset (tekijä: Salman Rushdie)
1981
Earthly Powers (tekijä: Anthony Burgess)
1980
Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys (tekijä: Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
1967
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring (tekijä: Anthony Powell)
1962
Me sotasankarit (tekijä: Joseph Heller)
1961
Talo Mr Biswasille (tekijä: V. S. Naipaul)
1961
Lolita (tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov)
1955
Onnellinen Jim : romaani (tekijä: Kingsley Amis)
1954
Jutun loppu (tekijä: Graham Greene)
1951
Sieppari ruispellossa (tekijä: J. D. Salinger)
1951
Vuonna 1984 (tekijä: George Orwell)
1949
Kourallinen tomua (tekijä: Evelyn Waugh)
1934
Majakka (tekijä: Virginia Woolf)
1927
Oikeusjuttu (tekijä: Franz Kafka)
1925
Kultahattu (tekijä: F. Scott Fitzgerald)
1925
Poikia ja rakastajia (tekijä: D. H. Lawrence)
1913
Kadonnutta aikaa etsimässä (tekijä: Marcel Proust)
1913
Pimeyden sydän (tekijä: Joseph Conrad)
1899
Naisen muotokuva (tekijä: Henry James)
1881
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