Classics, which won the time

The epidemic of book ratings walks on the planet. The leading English-language writers were asked to name the best book by an individual interview. The results are interesting in their braking of Russian stereotypes. Goes like this: Russian culture is loved but into another way. The best writer of all times is recognized as a writer Leo Tolstoy. And this fact the Russian public is ready to accept at least. But the best book of the 20th century is recognized as a novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. Although, from the

Soviet era there is a myth: that one is about sex."Anna Karenina" is a leader among other books of the 19th century. This fiction is about sexual relations indeed. Unfortunately, the average Russian citizen does not remember why Tolstoy sent Anna under the train. The author describes adultery (synonym for sex in its outdated Interpretation). It sounds a little bit paradoxical.Second place here was taken by "Madame Bovary" (Gustavo Flaubert), the fourth - "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain). Stories of Anton Chekhov got to fifth place. Sixth place was given to "Middlemarch" (George Eliot), the seventh - "Moby Dick" (Herman Melville), the eighth - "Great Expectations" (Charles Dickens). Fyodor Dostoevsky was ninth with his "Crime and Punishment" and the tenth - "Emma" by Jane Austen.

 

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