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100 Years, 100 Novels, One List : NPR  May 7, 2009 ... In 1998, the Modern Library published a list of the best 100 English-language novels of the 20th century. A few years later, at dinner with my...
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`Ulysses' on Top Among 100 Best Novels - The New York Times  Jul 20, 1998 ... The 20th Century's 100 Best Books in English? ... has been voted the finest English-language novel published this century by a jury of scholars and writers. ... the list of 100 novels drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library, ... 23) as well as three works by Henry James -- "The Wings of the Dove (No.
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The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The ...  Aug 17, 2015 ... By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had .... This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play ... but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the 20th century. ... to excess unleashed one of literature's greatest modern monsters in...
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The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of ...  The following list of the 20th Century's Greatest Literary Hits is all of the ... The following list was inspired by the list of the "100 Greatest English Language Novels" ... five "Top 10" works that were not included in the Modern Library list at alli.e., ... 1. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 [The most audaciously conceived novel...
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100 Best Novels  Modern Library  Home of the Modern Library, renowned publisher of classics, chronicles, ... Living Language ... Top 100  100 Best Novels  100 Best Nonfiction  Radcliffe's Rival 100 Best Novels List .... AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft; ONE LONELY NIGHT by ... The Only Game In Town  3 Days Before the Shooting.
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James Joyce - McGill School Of Computer Science  He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial ... As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his ... Many of the friends he made at University College Dublin would appear as .... work on Dubliners in 1906, Joyce considered adding another story featuring a Jewish...
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1701 in literature - Wikipedia  In poetry: 1698  1699  1700  1701  1702  1703  1704  Art  Archaeology  Architecture; Literature; Music  Philosophy  Science +... This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1701. ... Marsh's Library in Dublin is established by Narcissus Marsh (Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)) as the first...
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James Joyce's use of topography in Ulysses - UR Scholarship ...  detailed locale plays an important role in the novel, revealing many of Joyce's ... of the Liffey river in Dublin and the actual structure of Ulysses as it reveals ... place he visited-- Bedford ... because Joyce allows us to see the many various worlds of Dublin. "We see ... his mother's death until he returns to Sandymount Strand in.
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Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977, The Great American Novel, My Life ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Philip Roth, acclaimed author of Portnoy's Complaint, The ... Book 3 of 7 in the Library of America: Philip Roth Series .... Perhaps as a result of this freedom, the 70s was, for Roth, a decade of experimentation .... The Great American Novel shows a writer trying his hand at whatever appeals...
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'The Boarding House' | The James Joyce Centre  On 7 July 1915 Joyce wrote to HL Mencken. Mencken had published two stories from Dubliners in the Smart Set magazine, the first time that Joyce's work ... Joyce wrote to thank Mencken for this and to tell him about his other works. ... The stories  'The Boarding House' and 'A Little Cloud'  appeared in the May 1915 [].
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Samuel Beckett - Trinity Writers : Trinity College Dublin  Dec 21, 2015 ... Samuel Barclay Beckett, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, an affluent Dublin suburb, on 13 April (Good Friday) 1906. ... He then went to Trinity College Dublin from 19231927, where he studied modern languages and, despite much stress, passed the...
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1900 to 1950 - Books That Shaped America | Exhibitions - Library of ...  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, is the first fantasy written by an .... The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be Fitzgerald's finest work and the book for which he is best known, is a portrait of the Jazz Age (1920s) in all its ... The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's fourth novel, was his own favorite, and...
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Dublin Travel Guide | Discover Dublin | Aegean Airlines  Dublin Writers' Museum: The unparalleled literary history of Dublin and its famous authors is ... The museum's rich collection includes busts and portraits, original letters, ... and the personal belongings of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, ... Celtic-inspired jewellery (Claddagh rings), crystal pieces (from Waterford),...
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National Endowment for the Arts - NEA Big Read  Only 300 copies of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), ... in ten days; it arrived in the same year as his classic The Sun Also Rises. ... Not (1937) is as neglected today as For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) is celebrated. ... yearsmost notably the Paris memoir A Moveable Feast (1964), and the two...
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The 100 best novels: No 45 - The Age of Innocence by Edith ...  Jul 28, 2014 ... Strangely, when it won the 1921 Pulitzer prize, the judges praised it for ... of A Little Girl by Joshua Reynolds, was first serialised in four parts ... In 1921, The Age of Innocence became the first novel written by a ... Really enjoyed this novel, I think Wharton goes down alongside Roth and Lee as a writer who...
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THE NOVELS AND SHORT-STORIES OF F. SCOTT ... - Amazon.com  Look inside this book. ... FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS 1920 (8 classic stories) ... Read F. Scott Fitzgerald's first two novels and first two collections of short ... At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. ... published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous...
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Lifeworlds: Literary Geographies in 1930s Ireland - Trinity College ...  Sep 21, 2005 ... Literary Revival, stunned his audience by declaring: The future of Irish ...... 165 Lewis likened landscape to a book whose pages are missing, torn, and smudged; .... language novels written and published by Irish authors between the ...... 352 Conor Kostik, Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to...
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On this day26 September | The James Joyce Centre  Sep 26, 2013 ... Eliot wrote to Joyce in May 1921 expressing his admiration for the 'Oxen of ... He also pointed to the significance of using Homer's Odyssey as a base, ... Joyce's Work in Progress, publishing Anna Livia Plurabelle in 1930, ... Tales Told of Shem and Shaun in 1932, and finally Finnegans Wake itself in 1939.
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The 100 best novels: No 53  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest ...  Sep 22, 2014 ... In addition, The Sun Also Rises, like most novels of the 1920s, is a ... to Arms (1929); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); A Moveable Feast (1964). ... Death in the Afternoon, is one of my most-thumbed books, but I have never yet...
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The Hours | Books | Michael Cunningham  A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the ... In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his ... draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a ... of Virginia Woolf." Vanity Fair: "Inspired. . .Michael Cunningham dazzles."
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Island Ireland: Irish Literature  The database also includes similar material on Irish serial publications and ... Columbia University's Bartleby.com includes information and online works J.M. Synge, Padraic Colum, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, G. B.Shaw, and Oliver Goldsmith. .... which provides information on Bram Stoker; the novel Dracula; the historical...