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Finest Works of Fiction

In Novels and Novelists, A Guide to the World of Fiction (1980) Seymour-Smith and the other contributors selected about 55 works of fiction as receiving full marks on the four criteria used for evaluation: Readability, Characterization, Plot, and Literary Merit. These represent, for the contributors, the finest works of fiction that have been written.
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Decamerone (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decamerone
1
Giovanni Boccaccio
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
2
Miguel De Cervantes
Amelia
Amelia
3
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders
4
Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
5
Jane Austen
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
6
Jane Austen
Adolphe (Benjamin Constant)
Adolphe
7
Benjamin Constant
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
A Hero of Our Time
8
Mikhail Lermontov
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
9
Nikolai Gogol
The Betrothed
The Betrothed
10
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
11
Hans Christian Anderson
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
Cousin Bette
12
Honoré De Balzac
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
13
Emily Bronte
The Blithedale Romance (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Blithedale Romance
14
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oblomov (Ivan Goncarov)
Oblomov
15
Ivan Goncarov
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
16
George Eliot
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
17
Ivan Turgenev
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
19
Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
20
Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
21
Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
22
George Eliot
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
23
Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
24
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of a Lady
25
Henry James
Huckelberry Finn
Huckelberry Finn
26
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
27
Thomas Hardy
The Maias (Eca De Queiros)
The Maias
28
Eca De Queiros
Mysteries (Knut Hamsun)
Mysteries
29
Knut Hamsun
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
30
Thomas Hardy
Young Torless
Young Torless
31
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
32
Marcel Proust
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
33
Franz Kafka
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
34
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Confessions of Zeno
Confessions of Zeno
35
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
36
E.M. Forster
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
37
Theodore Dreiser
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
38
Franz Kafka
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney
39
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
40
William Faulkner
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