15 all-time classic novels

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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
1.  Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
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  "A strange work of genius"
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
2.  Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "By the greatest master of prose in the English language"
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "Perfect. A compact parable for our times"
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Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
4.  Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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  "No other novel in English can touch it"
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The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004)
5.  The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J. R. R. Tolkien
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  "Not a novel - a whole universe"
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Crime And Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)
6.  Crime And Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  "Few novelists reach Dostoyevsky's spiritual heights"
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
7.  Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "The greatest novel by the greatest novelist"
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The Heart Of The Matter
8.  The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
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  "An unforgettable exploration of love"
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The Old Man and the Sea (Vintage Classics)
9.  The Old Man and the Sea (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
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  "A powerful meditation on courage and endurance"
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The Portrait of a Lady (Oxford World's Classics)
10.  The Portrait of a Lady (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
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  "The Master"
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Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
11.  Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics) by D. H. Lawrence
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  "Has anyone even now written this well about the working class?"
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To the Lighthouse
12.  To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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  "A character's inner life, drawn with unparalleled sensitivity"
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
13.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
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  "Not so much a book as a force of nature"
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)
14.  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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  "The 18th Century precursor to 'post-modernism', genius"
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
15.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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