Modern library's 100 Best novels since 1900

"The goal of the “100 Best” project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings — more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their favorite books and the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course quickly responded with rival list of 100 Best Novels."-Modern LIbrary

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A clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess.This is a dystopian Novella published in 1962.It explores the themes of extreme youth violence,free-will(order in society vs freedom of choice),the necessity of evil in human nature and the interdependence of life and art.

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The Sound And The Fury

The Fury

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The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically. The novel is separated into four distinct sections.

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Best Dystopian Books

Best Dystopian Novels

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. – "After Ford" – in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and operant conditioning that combine to profoundly change society

Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York. The protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged literature professor and hebephile Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. His private nickname for Dolores is Lolita. Unreliable Narrator, Modern Library, Avid Reader, People Talk, Great Books, Thing 1 Thing 2, Favorite Books

Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York. The protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged literature professor and hebephile Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. His private nickname for Dolores is Lolita.

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Ulysses (Modern Library)

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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce. The story describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce .The novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised."Souce:Wikipedia

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The Great Gatsby Book

The Great Gatsby is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story takes place in 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. The book received critical acclaim and is generally considered Fitzgerald's best work. It is also widely regarded as a "Great American Novel" and a literary classic, capturing the essence of an era. The Modern Library named it the second best English language novel of the 20th century."-Source-Wikipedia

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Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement"."Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking."-Source :Wikipedia http://www.randomhouse.com/book/88933/ulysses-by-james-joyce/9780679600114/