Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson . Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm . . . . . . . . . . . . T he most recently published book on the Modern Library's list is William Kennedy's Ironweed , which first appeared in 1983. A majority of the writers on the list are Americans.
T here are eight women novelists represented on the list.
U lysses is one of the great triumphs of modernism, a defining movement of the twentieth century. N ovelists go in and out of fashion. Many of these books were quite unsuccessful. Predict a top ten list of books of all languages. And predict a top ten list of the best books of all time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .