According to the Modern Library, the three best novels of all time are (1) Ulysses by James Joyce; (2) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and; (3) Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) is often cited as the founder of the modern English novel. Defoe established principles for the genre that are still followed today. Those rules include a dominant, unifying theme, a strong thesis, and an attempt to depict reality.
Henry Fielding (Tom Jones) was the first writer to call himself a novelist. Though many of his contemporaries considered the form “lowbrow” writing and shied away from the title of novelist, Fielding embraced it.
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) is often characterized as the greatest novelist of manners. Her books deal exclusively with the minutiae of upper-class society and landed gentry.
Sabtu, 06 September 2008
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