The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759) Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.Ħ.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)Ī satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in EnglishĬlarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.” Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.ģ.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)īy the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations.
0 kommentar(er)
