Great Books of the 20th Century

Great Books of the 20th Century is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books released at the end of the 20th century. ^{[1] [2]}

The following novels are included in the series: ^[3]

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899–1902) ^[4]
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913)
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (1915)
• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1914–16)
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
• Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (1920) ^[5]
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) ^[6]
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948)
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953) ^[7]
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) ^[8]
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (1980)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
• White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) ^[5]

See also

• Penguin Essentials
• Penguin Red Classics

References

1. McClurg, Jocelyn (April 16, 1999). "Book Publishers Jump on "Best of" Bandwagon". The Capital Times . p. 13.
2. McClurg, Jocelyn (April 11, 1999). "Publishers Jumping on Top 100 Bandwagon". Hartford Courant . p. G2.
3. "Great Books of the 20th Century". The Penguin Checklist Project. 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
4. Sheen, B. A.; Kozlowski, Matthew (2004). English Writers: A Bibliography with Vignettes. Nova Science Publishers. p. 206. ISBN   9781590332603.
5. Andrew La Croix, ed. (2004). Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction. R. R. Bowker. pp. 351, 359.
6. "Golden Oldies Are Ready for Rediscovery". The Orlando Sentinel . August 8, 1999. p. 112.
7. "For Bellow, As For Others, Death Often Best Career Move". Hartford Courant . April 7, 2005. p. D2.
8. Kesey, Ken (2009). "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Volume IV. Facts On File, Inc. p. 223.