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The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors

The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
by Maria Popova Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list — so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point. In introducing the lists, David Orr offers a litmus test for greatness: If you’re putting together a list of ‘the greatest books,’ you’ll want to do two things: (1) out of kindness, avoid anyone working on a novel; and (2) decide what the word ‘great’ means. From David Foster Wallace (#1: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. The book concludes with an appendix of “literary number games” summing up some patterns and constructing several overall rankings based on the totality of the different authors’ picks. Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Great Gatsby by F. Donating = Loving

Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature The Classics Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Textbooks Math and Science Children’s Books Philosophy and Religion Plays

100 cuentos de Julio Cortázar y Jorge Luis Borges Twitter21.3K 21.3Kfacebook636K 636Kpinterest698 698google plus2649Share2649stumbleupon93.1KShare93.1Kmeneame561Share561tumblr141Share141 Según el argentino, basta preguntarse por qué un determinado cuento es malo. No es malo por el tema, porque en literatura no hay temas buenos ni temas malos, hay solamente un buen o un mal tratamiento del tema. Tampoco es malo porque los personajes carecen de interés, ya que hasta una piedra es interesante cuando de ella se ocupan un Henry James o un Franz Kafka. Uno de los mejores cuentistas latinoamericanos y, además, uno de los máximos exponentes del Boom Latinoamericano, dijo sobre el cuento casi todo lo que los narradores contemporáneos definen como tal, fue él uno de los grandes cimientos del relato corto contemporáneo y comparaba al cuento con una esfera; es algo, decía, que tiene un ciclo perfecto e implacable; algo que empieza y termina satisfactoriamente como la esfera en que ninguna molécula puede estar fuera de sus límites precisos. Cortázar

Libros que tienes que leer cuando tu vida no tiene rumbo Llega un punto en la vida de todos en el que sentimos que no tenemos rumbo alguno y que vamos a la deriva por el mundo. Sin una idea fija de lo que queremos de nuestra vida, la gente a nuestro alrededor parece tan convencida de lo que quiere y lo que hace y nosotros… Simplemente no. Cuando esto pasa, es bueno saber que no estamos solos y que hay personajes e historias similares a la nuestra. Discos esenciales para una mañana perfecta Películas que solamente disfruta la gente extremadamente inteligente 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

50 Essential Young Adult Novels Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein At the risk of stating the obvious, Young Adult fiction is hot right now. And I mean really hot. Suzanne Collins’ bestselling Hunger Games Trilogy has captured the imaginations of readers of all ages, male and female, and has been turned into a series of films that has ‘tweens and teens (and their parents) lining up for hours, just as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga before it and just as Veronica Roth’s Divergent series after. And we can’t talk about blockbuster YA series without mentioning the masterpiece that started the current trend – Harry Potter. While the first book of J.K. Young Adult is fiction written for and⁄or marketed to adolescents and young adults. But regardless of who a book is intended for, when those of us who aren’t familiar with Harry, Katniss, Bella, and Edward think of Young Adult, we often have less–than–pleasant flash–backs to those dusty, difficult, and sometimes dated tomes we were forced to read in high school. Feed by M.T.

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