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Titolo: [LUNGHISSIMO] I migliori romanzi di tutti i tempi: Classifica dell'Observer

Amando molto confrontarmi con elenchi di titoli (forse perchè mi piacciono
le liste e la loro spiccata inutilità) e dato che in questi giorni vorrei
leggere alcuni dei classici della letteratura inglese ho trovato
interessante questa classifica. Premettendo che praticamente la considero
una classifica del romanzo inglese e americano, dato che i titoli non
anglosassoni sono pochissimi, vorrei un vostro parere più che sulle scelte,
sui volumi citati che più meritano, in particolare se non sono celebri in
Italia.
 ...e mi è venuto subito un attacco "bibliografico" (che poi è la cosa più
interessante delle liste straniere...)! Dopo alcune ricerche sui titoli di
cui non ero sicuro esistesse un'edizione italiana ho appurato che molti
titoli sono disponibili in catalogo in Italia con poche eccezioni. Quelli
che non riesco a trovare in italiano e FORSE sono inediti sono seguiti da un
commento in maiuscolo. Qualcuno può risolvere i miei quesiti?
The 100 greatest novels of all time
Robert McCrum
Sunday October 12, 2003
The Observer
1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced
readers for centuries.
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. (L'ULTIMA EDIZIONE E'
DEL 1985)
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The first English novel.
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of
Swift's vision.
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot
of sex ending in a blissful marriage.
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for
its own good.
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and
ferocious.
9. Emma Jane Austen
Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never
fails to fascinate and annoy.
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron.
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
A classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel.
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked. Non
riesco a capire che titolo è! Lo so che sono ignorante, mi aiutate?
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in
post-Napoleonic France.
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of
adventure writing.
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary
genius. INEDITO?
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best.
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible
to ignore.
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
The improving tale of Becky Sharp.
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
A classic investigation of the American mind.
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel.
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and
miss the point entirely.
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental
cruelty.
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still
baffles most kids.
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls.
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England. QUESTO NON
E' IN CATALOGO; NON SO SE ESISTE IN VECCHIE EDIZIONI...
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man.
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot
A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment.
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best.
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly
moral and still incredibly influential.
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural
storyteller.
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
One of the funniest English books ever written.
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
A coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured
homosexuality.
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character
of Mr Pooter. INEDITO?
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels.
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in
the Irish republican rising. INEDITO?
38. The Call of the Wild Jack London
The story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death.
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics.
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son.
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest
novel on this list.
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife.
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic
of unreliable narration.
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and
suspense.
45. Ulysses James Joyce
Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than
read.
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English
novelists.
47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster
The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire.
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The quintessential Jazz Age novel.
49. The Trial Franz Kafka
The enigmatic story of Joseph K.
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first
attracted notice.
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a
masterpiece of linguistic innovation.
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
A strange black comedy by an American master.
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford).
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh
The supreme Fleet Street novel.
55. USA John Dos Passos
An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express
the story of America. NON SO SE E' STATA PUBBLICATA TUTTA LA TRILOGIA...
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone.
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans.
58. The Plague Albert Camus
A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran.
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been
appropriated the world over.
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the
author of Waiting for Godot.
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises.
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South.
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White
How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider.
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
Enough said!
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.
CATERVE DI LIBRI DEL FIGLIO MA DEL PADRE NIENTE?
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding
Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature.
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene
Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac
The Beat Generation bible.
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and
narrative.
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany.
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature.
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut
glass.
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Scout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial
prejudice in the Deep South.
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
'[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he
was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have
to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.'
75. Herzog Saul Bellow
Adultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago.
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A postmodern masterpiece.
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
A haunting, understated study of old age. INEDITO?
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain.
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
The definitive novelist of the African-American experience.
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
Macabre comedy of provincial life. INEDITO?
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is
possibly his masterpiece. QUAL'E' IL TITOLO ITALIANO?
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
A strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading.
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily
reminiscent of Heart of Darkness. INEDITO?
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner.
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations
of women. INEDITO?
86. Lanark Alasdair Gray
Seething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic. INEDITO?
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s.
88. The BFG Roald Dahl
A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages.
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi
A prose poem about the delights of chemistry.
90. Money Martin Amis
The novel that bags Amis's place on any list.
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of
friends and family.
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by
double Booker prizewinner. INEDITO?
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical
fusion of history, autobiography and ideas.
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
In this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself.
95. La Confidential James Ellroy
Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their
corrupt and violent careers.
96. Wise Children Angela Carter
A theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism.
97. Atonement Ian McEwan
Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising
narrative conviction.
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman
Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great
contemporary children's book. INEDITO?
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth
For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has
enjoyed an extraordinary revival.
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from
memory, photographs and the German past. INEDITO?

 memory, photographs and the German past. INEDITO?
No, almeno guardare su IBS!
Nella lista:
The Promessi sposi by don Lisander
The Bello Antonio do  zu vitaliano Brancati
The Fratelli d'Italia by Alberto Arbasino
L'affreux pastis de la rue des Meules di C.E. Gadda (il gaddus!) and so
on...
oh yes!
Nando Meliconi
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 No, almeno guardare su IBS!
l'ho fatto per tutti quelli dubbi, l'ultimo mi era sfuggito!
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 il titolo è stato tradotto letteralmente?
e' stato tradotto come "Diario di un nessuno"
Ti consiglio anche di consultare il metacatalogo delle
biblioteche italiane (da dove ho preso il titolo sopra):
http://azalai.cilea.it/mai/
e (ma non per questo titolo) anche un sito di libri usati
(120mila libri offerti da varie persone):
www.comprovendolibri.it
ciao,
g.

 memory, photographs and the German past. INEDITO?
Questi due sono editi; il primo a suo tempo da Tea e da poco ripubblicato
dalla Corbaccio; il secondo mi sembra dall'Adelphi...
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 le liste e la loro spiccata inutilità) e
[omissis]
Solo un commento:
PROUST FUORI DAI PRIMI QUARANTA?????
Ma cosa aveva fumato questo tizio? Comunque è la dimostrazione che stilare 
classifiche è il modo migliore e più pulito per sputtanarsi dicendo cazzate.
Ciao,
John Lord 

Ma nessuno conosce questi titoli? Me ne parlerebbe?
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. (L'ULTIMA EDIZIONE E'
DEL 1985)
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England. QUESTO NON
E' IN CATALOGO; NON SO SE ESISTE IN VECCHIE EDIZIONI...
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in
the Irish republican rising. INEDITO?
55. USA John Dos Passos
An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express
the story of America. NON SO SE E' STATA PUBBLICATA TUTTA LA TRILOGIA...
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.
CATERVE DI LIBRI DEL FIGLIO MA DEL PADRE NIENTE?
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
A haunting, understated study of old age. INEDITO?
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
Macabre comedy of provincial life. INEDITO?
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is
possibly his masterpiece. QUAL'E' IL TITOLO ITALIANO?
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily
reminiscent of Heart of Darkness. INEDITO?
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations
of women. INEDITO?
86. Lanark Alasdair Gray
Seething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic. INEDITO?
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman
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Nel complesso mi pare una classifica redatta da un ubriaco. Gradite notizie
dei molti autori e libri a me sconosciuti
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Inviato via 
http://arianna.libero.it/usenet/

 ...uno dei libri più inutili che abbia mai letto, buon film però.>
inutile rispetto a quale fine?
-- 
...ale...
http://lermocolle.splinder.com

 [ecc. ecc. ecc.]
Boh, che dire, si ci sono tanti capolavori ma tantissimi altri sono stati
tagliati fuori senza pietà! A parte il fatto (non per essere nazionalisti,
sia chiaro) che l'unico italiano che figura è Primo Levi e con un'opera che
a me piace da morire -essendo chimico;-) - ma che non è senz'altro fra le
sue maggiori. Trascurando anche Manzoni (che non mi pare poi l'ultimo
cretino) non c'è Guerra e Pace, non c'è Delitto e Castigo...boh, mi pare
una cosa fatta un po' con i piedi e -concedetemelo- con uno stile
tipicamente americano del "ti propino questo pacchetto di roba per
conoscere LA letteratura", lo stesso stile del "ti faccio vedere
Roma-Firenze-Napoli-Venezia in 1 settimana". Già in generale questo genere
di classifiche serve a poco e niente, ma almeno se proprio la si vuole fare
sia una cosa come Cristo comanda!
-- 
"La sintesi organica è la chimica che fa Dio quando ha voglia di divertirsi
un po'. Se Dio è un chimico" (A.R.)
Albert Ruggi
albert...@virgilio.it
www.chimicavita.cjb.net
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