100 Greatest Novels (Observer) Pt. 1

Explore the Observer's 100 Greatest Novels (Part 1) featuring a curated list of timeless literary masterpieces. Discover must-read books that shaped literature.

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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.
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Clarissa

by Samuel Richardson

"Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!" Pressured by her unscrupulous family to …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the …
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Emma

by Jane Austen

Introduction by A. Walton Litz “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best …
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed …
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Relates a sailor's preparation for and execution of revenge against the three men responsible for his fifteen years in prison.
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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an …
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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death …
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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

In New England during the Civil War, four sisters experience joys and hardships together.