2 Responses to “World Literature?”

1. ck1 says:

   November 6, 2009 at 1:23 pm

   The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
   A Hundred Years of Solitude by García Marquez
   The Perfume by Patrick Suskind
   The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga
   Any book by Milan Kundera
2. allielov says:

   November 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   There are some lengthy but good ones like:
   -War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
   -Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
   -The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
   -The Idiot by Fydor Dostoevsky
   -Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
   -Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
   -The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
   -Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
   -The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
   -The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
   -The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
   -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
   If you can include England, Ireland & Scotland, I’d suggest:
   -Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
   -Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
   -Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
   -The Woman in White (or The Moonstone) by Wilkie Collins
   -Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
   -Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (or any of hers)
   -A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (or any of his)
   -Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
   -The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (or Treasure Island, Kidnapped, David Balfour, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and more)
   -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
   -Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
   There are a great many more, but those are some I would recommend.