Can you name the 100 greatest writers of all time?

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RankWriterMajor work
1The Sound and the Fury
2The Trial
3Hamlet
4Ulysses
5The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
6Paradise Lost
7Waiting for Godot
8Lolita
9The Cherry Orchard
10In Search of Lost Time
11Crime and Punishment
12Divine Comedy
13The Canterbury Tales
14Mrs. Dalloway
15Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
16Great Expectations
17Odyssey
18'The Second Coming'
19Moby-Dick
20Tristram Shandy
21Don Quixote
22The Bacchae
23The Red and the Black
24Nineteen Eighty-Four
25Don Juan
26A Dictionary of the English Language
27Songs of Innocence and of Experience
28Metamorphoses
29Lyrical Ballads
30'Endymion'
31The Ambassadors
32'Kubla Khan'
33'The Red Wheelbarrow'
34Lady Chatterley's Lover
RankWriterMajor work
35Leaves of Grass
36'Because I could not stop for Death'
37Aeneid
38Frankenstein
39'The Drunken Boat'
40The Sea, the Sea
41The Island
42Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
43Lord Weary's Castle
44The Flowers of Evil
45Fathers and Sons
46Madame Bovary
47Mourning Becomes Electra
48The Grapes of Wrath
49The Maximus Poems
50Song of Solomon
51Faust
52Antigone
53Four Quartets
54The Scarlet Letter
55A Streetcar Named Desire
56War and Peace
57Wise Blood
58Wuthering Heights|Jane Eyre
59Gravity's Rainbow
60'September 1, 1939'
61Hedda Gabler
62'The Raven'
63My Ántonia
64Under the Volcano
65Ficciones
66'The Man with No Family To Take Leave Of'
67Go Tell It on the Mountain
68The Dream Songs
RankWriterMajor work
69The Birthday Party
70'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
71George Mills
72A Death in the Family
73'Ozymandias'
74Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
75The Cantos
76Gulliver's Travels
77The Adventures of Augie March
78Hopscotch
79At Swim-Two-Birds
80The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
81A Farewell to Arms
82One Hundred Years of Solitude
83Lunch Poems
84The Horse's Mouth
85I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
86Out of Africa
87Omeros
88Glengarry Glen Ross
89Middlemarch
90For Paul
91Stranger in a Strange Land
92Tropic of Cancer
93Those Winter Sundays
94The Rings of Saturn
95Masnavi
96'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'
97Pygmalion
98The Captive Mind
99La Comédie humaine
100Heart of Darkness
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100 Greatest Writers of All Time Quiz

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  • Created Jun 14, 2010 in Literature
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