The Guardian: 100 najboljih romana napisanih na engleskom
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100 picks in “The Guardian: 100 best novels written in English”, curated by TheBookworm on TheLysts.

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NameTitleAuthorYearSynopsis
11Sybil—Benjamin Disraeli1845The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.
12Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë1847Charlotte Brontë’s erotic, gothic masterpiece became the sensation of Victorian England. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.
13Wuthering Heights—Emily Brontë1847Emily Brontë’s windswept masterpiece is notable not just for its wild beauty but for its daring reinvention of the novel form itself.
14Vanity Fair—William Thackeray1848William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the top of his game.
15David Copperfield—Charles Dickens1850David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpieces.
16The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne1850Nathaniel Hawthorne’s astounding book is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe.
17Moby-Dick—Herman Melville1851Wise, funny and gripping, Melville’s epic work continues to cast a long shadow over American literature.
18Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—Lewis Carroll1865Lewis Carroll’s brilliant nonsense tale is one of the most influential and best loved in the English canon.
19The Moonstone—Wilkie Collins1868Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.
20Little Women—Louisa May Alcott1868-9Louisa May Alcott’s highly original tale aimed at a young female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print.
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