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Daniel S. Burt holds a Ph.D. from New York University and has taught literature at Wesleyan University since 1989. He has also taught English at New York University and worked as a freelance editor. He reside in Middletown, CT. (Bowker Author Biography)

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I plan on picking this back up whenever I read one of the one hundred novels listed.

One thing I really like is the inclusion of what some authors thought of other authors' works and who influenced whom.
 
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auldhouse | 1 weitere Rezension | Jun 14, 2022 |
I own and have browsed many books like this, but The Novel 100 is the only one I've read straight through cover to cover, as a testament how good it is. Each of the 100 essays/chapters is an infectious rhapsody to the power and beauty of great novels. Burt's insights range from the historically contextual, aesthetic merits, existential meaning, summary, and just plain old personal recommendation. While the list doesn't offer any great surprises (Ch.1 Don Quixote, Ch.2 War and Peace, Ch.3 Ulysses etc..) what it does offer is motivation to actually read these works. Or for me, motivation on which ones to skip (for now) because they are too dark, complex or esoteric. As Harold Bloom once said, the trick is not what to read, but what not to read. About 25 books I've already read, about 26 Burt convinced me are worth reading yet, and the rest, well, maybe one day I'll get to Finnegans Wake. Overall this is one of the better guides to the classics I've come across, at least those in the arbitrary 100 or 1000 list-type. It also contains a runner-up of 100 additional books in an appendix.

--Review by Stephen Balbach, via CoolReading (c) 2010 cc-by-nd
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Stbalbach | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 20, 2010 |
There is no exact top one hundred. This book does not give writers their "offical" rankings. Furthermore, I was shocked to not see Tolkien in the top one hundred, nor even given an honorable mention. This man put his life into his work. "The Lord of the Rings" is so much more than a three-part book. It's too bad the one solitary editor of this book doesn't feel that way. Man, to be judged. Should we hope for so high an opinion as to appeal to Daniel S. Burt?
 
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