10 BEST BOOKS
OF FICTION © Farouk Asvat
THE JOYS OF LITERATURE
towards an
international library
a beginner's
guide to the essential books of fiction:
to understand the
cultures of the world in the context of our time.
these are the 10 perfect books of fiction:
● HAMLET: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● DEMONS: Fýodor Dostoyevsky (russia)
● ANNA KARENINA: Leo Tolstoi (russia)
● GERMINAL: Émile Zola (france)
● PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Jane Austen (britain)
● HEART OF DARNESS: Joseph Conrad (poland / britain)
● ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● MY NAME IS RED: Orhan Pamuk (turkeye)
● THE SOUND AND THE FURY: William Faulkner (usa)
● THE SEA OF FERTILITY: Yukio Mishima (japan)
[] + 5 LIST:
● LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES: Choderlos de Laclos (france)
● DAVID COPPERFIELD: Charles Dickens (britain)
● THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ: Carlos Fuentes (méxico)
● ZORBA THE GREEK: Nikos Kazantzakis (greece)
● LABYRINTHS: Jorge Luis Borges (argentina)
[] + 5 anthologies of POEMS:
● THE ESSENTIAL RUMI: Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi (afghanistan - turkey) [tr. c
barks & j moyne]
● SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF
EXPERIENCE: William Blake (britain)
● GITANJALI: Rabindranath Tagore (india)
● SELECTED POEMS: William Butler Yeats (ireland)
● SELECTED POEMS: Pablo Neruda (chile) [tr. nathaniel tarn]
© farouk asvat
composed: 2010 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
10 Best Books of Fiction was previously published in:
Weapons
of Words (kindle, 2016);
Weapons
of Words (amazon paperback, p115, 2016).
___________________________________________________________________________
[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love
(novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs
(poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short
stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature
& literary criticism)
¨ all my books are now available
on amazon: in paperback & kindle
___________________________________________________________________________
[] please check out my blogs @:
weapons of words: https://faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
piquante: https://faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
streetwise: https://faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com
quran lectures: https://faroukasvat-quran.blogspot.com
biography: https://faroukasvat-bio.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: https://faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com
[] please join me on:
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faroukasvat
twitter: https://twitter.com/faroukasvat
___________________________________________________________________________
© farouk asvat. All
rights reserved.
FEEL FREE TO USE THIS LIST FOR TEACHING
PURPOSES.
Farouk Asvat
asserts his moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be
reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means
whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing, photocopying,
or via any computerised means or media, including the internet. This publication shall also not be stored in
a retrieval system. And the writing
shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or
cover other than that in which it is published,
without
the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission to
publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the
author.
Reproduction of
this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is liable to a
payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the NOVEL Sadness In The House
Of Love by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: in paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
#love #literature #fiction #novel #poetry #southafrica
#apartheid #books #classics
#faroukasvat #weapons #of #words #comparative #literature
#literary #criticism
#weapons
#of #words #viewpoint
#10bestbooks #10 #best
#books #of #all #time #readinglist
