The Wings of the Dove / The Trial / The Old Man and the Sea / Under the Volcano / The Long Goodbye / The Sun Also Rises / Gone with the Wind / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Crime and Punishment / The Quiet American / The Great Gatsby / The House of Mirth / To the Lighthouse / A Farewell to Arms / A Tale of Two Cities / A Christmas Carol / On the Road / Bang the Drum Slowly / Heart of Darkness / /
NaturalFeature
Wuthering Heights / West Coast / Mount McCabe / /
Person
Vladimir Nabokov / Albert Camus / Constance Garnett / Dean Moriarty / Ralph Ellison / Saul Bellow / Richard Powers / William T. Vollmann / Richard Wright / Thomas Pynchon / Emily Brontë / Gertrude Stein / Joseph Heller / Christopher Unborn / William S. Burroughs / Gabriel García Márquez / Voltaire / Carlos Fuentes / Franz Kafka / William H. Gaddis / Graham Greene / Jack Kerouac / Virginia Woolf / Patrick Bowles / C. K. Scott Moncrieff / Philip Roth / Ernest Hemingway / Margaret Atwood / George Orwell / Robert M. Adams / Don DeLillo / Jane Austen / Lewis Carroll / Willa Muir / Willa Cather / William H. Gass / Theodore Dreiser / Samuel Beckett / Chris Andrews / Matthew Ward / William Makepeace Thackeray / Gilbert Sorrentino / Robert Penn Warren / Mark Harris / James Joyce / John Hawkes / William Faulkner / James Crumley / Mason Hoffenberg / John Gardner / Laurence Sterne / William Weaver / Edith Wharton / Margaret Mitchell / Herman Melville / Gregory Rabassa / Terence Kilmartin / Malcolm Lowry / Charles Dickens / Kate Chopin / J. D. Salinger / Mary Shelley / Toni Morrison / William Gaddis / George Eliot / Richard Brautigan / Walter Abish / Patrick White / Joseph Conrad / Salman Rushdie / John Barth / Henry James / Marcel Proust / James Weldon Johnson / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Alfred MacAdam / Roberto Bolaño / Edwin Muir / Ronald Sukenick / Miguel de Cervantes / Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Willie Masters / Zora Neale Hurston / Tiny Tim / Kathy Acker / Brian Evenson / Kurt Vonnegut / Stuart Gilbert / Robert Coover / John Rutherford / John Updike / Raymond Chandler / Billy Pilgrim / /
Position
first author / King / rocking-chair / Confederate General / Artist / judge / Catcher / /
100 Best Last Lines from Novels 1. …you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. –Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953; trans. Samuel Beckett) 22. You have fallen into art—return to life –William H. Gass, Willie