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The Odyssey is much older than that, GR says 800 BC, I would probably mark it for a century later. I do wonder where someone has found a birth date for Homer...I have been meaning to read The Thirteenth Tale but haven't really found time for it.
(I don't think they know when it was written, so I just chose one of the theories and put a "?" behind it. :) )I've been meaning to read it since it came out. I think it's high time I finally read it!
No, they don't even know if Homer existed. But in any case it's usually said to have been written about 2000 years earlier than 1188...
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Very interesting list!I have Of Human Bondage on my list as well. =)
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1. The Odyssey by Homer. (1188?)
2. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. (1842)
3. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. (1868)
1900 to 1999
4.
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. (1940)5.
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway. (1970)6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. (1932)
My Wild Card Six
7. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. (1881)
8. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. (1915)
9. When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom. (2014)
10. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (1922)
11. The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton. (1911)
12. River God by Wilbur Smith. (1994)
Alternates:
1. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. (2001)
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. (2006)