FIFTY GREAT NOVELS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 21

FIFTY GREAT NOVELS

AX AMERICAN SELECTION No two authorities would agree in their choice of "50 great novels of all time." Certainly some novels would find a place in everyone's list, but tho last thirty places or so would have wide competition. Professor William 11. F. Lamont, who is noted for his lectures on the novel, has compiled tho following list at the request of several leading libraries in the United States. The list is arranged chronologically, and it will be observed that it includes six novels of the last decade: Fielding, "Tom Jones'}; Goethe, "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"; Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"; Scott, "Guy Maunoring"; Cooper, "Last of the Mohicans"; Manzoni, "The Bethrothed"; Hugo, "Notre Dame"; Balzac, "Pere Goriot"; Beyle, "Rongc ct Noir"; Dumas, "Three Musketeers"; C. Bronte, "Jane Eyre"; E. Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"; Thackeray, "Vanity Fair"; Thackeray, "Henry Esmond"; Dickens, "David Copperfield"; Dickens, "Great Expectations'-'; Hawthorne, "Scarlet Letter"; Melville, "Moby Dick"; Freytag, "Debit and Credit"; Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"; Eliot, "Adam Bede"; Reade, "Cloister and Hearth"; Turgenief, "Fathers and Sons"; Dostoievsky, "Crime and Punishment"; Tolstoy, "Anna Karcnina"; James, "The American"; Hardy, "Return of the Native"; Hardy, "Tess of the d'UrImrvillcs"; Meredith, "The Egoist"; Zola, "Nima"; France, "Crime of Sylvestro Bonnurd"; Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"; Ho wells, "Rise of Silas Laphiim"; Lagerlof, "Gosta Berling's Saga"; Mann, "Buddcnbrooks"; Conrad, "Nostromo"; Wharton, "House of Mirth"; Bennett, "Old Wives' Tale"; Dreiser, "Jennie Gerhardt"; Proust,. "Swann's Way"; Lawrence, "Sons and Lovers"; Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"; Nexo, "Pellc the Conqueror"; Cabell, "Jurgen"; Wassermaiui, "World's Illusion"; Hamsun, "Growth of the Soil"; Undset, "The Bridal Wreath"; Galsworthy, "The Forsyte Saga"; Glasgow, "Barren Ground"; Zweig, "Case of Sergeant Grischa.''

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