Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels [1] of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House. Criticism of the Modern Library list includes that it did not include enough novels by women (and that only one woman was on the panel) and not enough novels from outside North America and Europe. [2] In addition, some contend it was a "sales gimmick," since most of the titles in the list are also sold by Modern Library.[3] Others[who?] note that both Modern Library and Random House USA, the parent company, are US companies. Critics have argued that this is responsible for a very American view of the greatest novels. A Reader's List 100 Best Novels was published separately by Modern Library in 1999. A separate Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century was created the same year. Lists[edit] Editors' list (20th Century Great Novels)[edit] Notes[edit]

Все русские народные сказки о животных, волшебные, бытовые. Для детей и взрослых. Coming into the Country Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Readers of McPhee’s earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers—ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America’s notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.

Trevanian Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 – Dec 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He published the non-fiction The Language of Film under his own name. Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each.[1] He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer." Life[edit] Born in Granville, New York, Whitaker became enthralled with stories as a boy. Whitaker earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Washington.[2] While there he wrote and directed his three-act play Eve of the Bursting, which was his Master's thesis production in the UW Playhouse. Whitaker died December 14, 2005, in the English West Country. Literary works[edit]

Arthur O'Shaughnessy Arthur O'Shaughnessy, ca 1875. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet of Irish descent, born in London.[1] Biography[edit] At the age of seventeen, in June 1861, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. The artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown were among O'Shaughnessy's circle of friends, and in 1873 he married Eleanor Marston, the daughter of author John Westland Marston and sister of the poet Philip Bourke Marston. Cultural usage[edit] The line "We are the music makers / and we are the dreamers of dreams" has been quoted or used in many different media.