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War and Peace
1860s
Five aristocratic families during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel as total world.
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Ulysses
1920s
One day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. The novel as total artistic achievement.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
1960s
Seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo. The founding text of magical realism.
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In Search of Lost Time
1910s
Memory, time, and the social world of Belle Époque France across seven volumes.
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Books 1950s
Things Fall Apart
An Igbo leader confronts colonialism. The most important African novel in English.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Books 1850s
Moby-Dick
Call me Ishmael. A captain's obsessive hunt for a white whale. America's greatest novel.
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Books 1600s
Don Quixote
A man who reads too many romances rides out as a knight. The first modern novel.
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Books 1860s
Crime and Punishment
A student murders a pawnbroker and spirals into guilt. The psychology of transgression.
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Books 1870s
Anna Karenina
A married aristocrat's affair and its consequences. The Russian novel at full power.