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Classics

Best ClassicsJohn Sutherland's Top 12 Classics



François Rabelais

Pantagruel (1533) and Gargantua (1534)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote of La Mancha (1605, 1615)

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels (1726)

J. W. von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

Jane Austen

Emma (1816)

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist (1837–9)

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary (1857)

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers (1857)

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (1873–7)

Henry James

What Maisie Knew (1897)

James Joyce

Ulysses (1922)

D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionClassics: John Sutherland