National Bestseller and Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Osc

Rates and evaluates one hundred noteworthy novels, from the medieval Japanese "Tale of Genji" to contemporary works, and provides summaries, details about their

Provides a list of one hundred world classics, offering information on plot, characters, main themes, symbolism, and composition for each book.

The hundred books discussed here have radically altered the course of civilisation , whether they have embodied religions practised by millions, achieved the pi