The 100 greatest novels of all time (guardian.co.uk)

作者 : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
出版社 : Modern Library

评语 : The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries.

作者 : John Bunyan
出版社 : Oxford University Press, USA

评语 : The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair.

作者 : Daniel Defoe
出版社 : Modern Library

评语 : The first English novel.

作者 : Jonathan Swift
出版社 : Oxford University Press, USA

评语 : A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision.

作者 : Henry Fielding
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage.

作者 : Samuel Richardson
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.

作者 : Laurence Sterne

评语 : One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good.

作者 : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos/Douglas Parm'ee/David Coward
出版社 : Oxford University Press, USA

评语 : An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious.

作者 : Jane Austen
出版社 : Wordsworth Editions Ltd

评语 : Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy.

作者 : Mary Shelley
出版社 : Mediasatgroup

评语 : Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron.

作者 : Thomas Love Peacock
出版社 : Penguin Books Ltd

评语 : A classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel.

作者 : Honoré de Balzac
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked.

作者 : Stendhal
出版社 : Modern Library

评语 : Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France.

作者 : Alexandre Dumas père
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing.

作者 : Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield/ Smith, Sheila
出版社 : Oxford Univ Pr

评语 : Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius.

作者 : Charles Dickens
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best.

作者 : Emily Brontë
出版社 : Bantam Classics

评语 : Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore.

作者 : Charlotte Bronte
出版社 : Bantam Classics

评语 : Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.

作者 : William Makepeace Thackeray
出版社 : Wordsworth Editions Ltd

评语 : The improving tale of Becky Sharp.

作者 : Nathaniel Hawthorne
出版社 : Penguin Popular Classics

评语 : A classic investigation of the American mind.

作者 : Herman Melville
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : 'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel.

作者 : Gustave Flaubert
出版社 : Penguin Classics

评语 : You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely.

作者 : Wilkie Collins
出版社 : Bantam Classics

评语 : Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty.

作者 : Lewis Carroll
出版社 : Wordsworth Editions Ltd

评语 : A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids.

作者 : Louisa May Alcott
出版社 : Aladdin

评语 : Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls.