Most Important Writings Of All Time

Miguel Cervantes, a contemporary of Shakespeare, actually dying the day before the Bard, is without doubt the most important writer in the history of the modern novel and, indeed, one of the most important in the history of literature. His novel, Don Quixote, was written at the beginning of the form’s development but has not been surpassed

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A true great now from Russian Literature – Fyodor Dostoyevsky created an impressive body of work that explored the human condition, psychology and contentious issues like religion. Take Crime and Punishment, for example, which deals with the weighty concept of morality.

• I can't be certain, but I'd guess that the auto-change occurred as a multi-step process: 1) a voter added Swann's Way to the list; 2) a librarian did an automated search for duplicate volumes on the list to clean it up; 3) the Goodreads database happened to interpret In Search of Lost Time and Swann's Way as different editions of the same volume and combined them into the most.

• 'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel. Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Moby-Dick . 22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert