Zeit's Library of 100 Books (1983)
The Zeit Library of 100 Books was an educationally ambitious series of articles by the feuilleton section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Launched in 1978, a review of a work of world literature was published every week for the following two years .
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
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The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 10 lists
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Daphnis and Chloe
Longus · 1717 · 2 lists
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Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · 6 lists
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One Thousand and One Nights
Unknown · 2018 · 4 lists
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Parzival
Wolfram Eschenbach · 1885 · 2 lists
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Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg · 1823 · 3 lists
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The Nibelungenlied
Unknown · 1962 · 4 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516 · 10 lists
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Utopia
Thomas More · 1518 · 3 lists
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais · 1930 · 7 lists
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Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1618 · 11 lists
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Simplicius Simplicissimus
Hans von Grimmelshausen · 1901 · 1 list
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Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1672 · 6 lists
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 · 11 lists
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · 1749 · 11 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 18 lists
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2017 · 4 lists
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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot · 1962 · 1 list
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Siebenkäs
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter · 1796 · 1 list
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Hyperion
Friedrich Hölderlin · 1799 · 2 lists
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The Waste Books
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg · 2000 · 1 list
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Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1962 · 2 lists
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Stories
Heinrich von Kleist · 1953 · 2 lists
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The Treasure Chest
Johann Peter Hebel · 1994 · 1 list
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Household Tales
Brothers Grimm · 2004 · 1 list
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
E.T.A. Hoffman · 2006 · 2 lists
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History of My Life
Giacomo Casanova · 1970 · 2 lists
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The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Joseph von Eichendorff · 2018 · 2 lists
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
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Lenz
Georg Büchner · 1944 · 2 lists
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Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac · 1988 · 3 lists
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 1838 · 5 lists
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
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Either Or
Soren Kierkegaard · 1992 · 2 lists
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Germany, a Winter Tale
Heinrich Heine · 1936 · 2 lists
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 12 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen · 2007 · 8 lists
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Green Henry
Gottfried Keller · 1987 · 2 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov · 1913 · 3 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev · 1907 · 5 lists
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2015 · 1 list
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Germinal
Émile Zola · 1885 · 5 lists
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The Son of a Servant
August Strindberg · 1913 · 1 list
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Hunger
Knut Hamsun · 1890 · 8 lists
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1891 · 11 lists
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos · 1925 · 3 lists
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The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1907 · 8 lists
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Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 1927 · 8 lists
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov · 1932 · 8 lists
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Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1909 · 11 lists
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The Stechlin
Theodor Fontane · 1995 · 2 lists
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The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil · 1906 · 4 lists
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke · 1910 · 4 lists
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The Loyal Subject
Heinrich Mann · 1717 · 2 lists
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek · 1921 · 6 lists
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin · 1929 · 6 lists
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Track
Ernst Bloch · 1 list
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud · 1930 · 2 lists
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My Life
Leon Trotsky · 1970 · 1 list
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Light in August
William Faulkner · 1931 · 9 lists
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 1996 · 4 lists
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Journals
André Gide · 1939 · 2 lists
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The Seventh Cross
Anna Seghers · 2010 · 2 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
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Querelle of Brest
Jean Genet · 1947 · 1 list
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · 15 lists
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I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch · 1901 · 4 lists
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Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 · 2 lists
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Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett · 1959 · 2 lists
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The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 1959 · 9 lists
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The Words
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1964 · 1 list
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Stories of Mr. Keuner
Bertolt Brecht · 2001 · 2 lists
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Anniversaries
Uwe Johnson · 1995 · 4 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2000 · 7 lists
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Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer · 1970 · 1 list
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Perpetual Peace
Immanuel Kant · 1795 · 1 list
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Anti Goeze
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1905 · 1 list
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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1858 · 3 lists
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Anton Reiser
Karl Philipp Moritz · 1886 · 3 lists
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller · 1795 · 1 list
