List :: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian

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  #1

  Don Quixote

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 61

  291 points

  "Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.Prologue: Idle..."

  

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  #2

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  by John Bunyan

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 195

  99 points

  "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.(Introduction to the..."

  

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  #3

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 88

  211 points

  

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  #4

  Gulliver's travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 81

  225 points

  "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."

  

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  #5

  Tom Jones

  by Henry Fielding

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 68

  255 points

  "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

  

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  #6

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 85

  215 points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #7

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 74

  244 points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #8

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 217

  93 points

  "Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you!"

  

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  #9

  Emma

  by Jane Austen

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 54

  310 points

  "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the..."

  

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  #10

  Frankenstein

  by Mary Shelley

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 84

  219 points

  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  

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