Masterpiece


1984
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune (Dune, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Metamorphosis
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMiddlemarch by George EliotRebecca by Daphne du MaurierTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyA Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Books Adapted by Masterpiece Theatre
255 books — 16 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareEast of Eden by John SteinbeckKobzar by Taras ShevchenkoLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Magnum Opus
107 books — 17 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioUltime lettere di Jacopo Ortis by Ugo FoscoloI Malavoglia by Giovanni VergaL'amica geniale by Elena Ferrante
Masterpieces of Italian Literature
46 books — 9 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books for Smart People
710 books — 148 voters


Robert A. Heinlein
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, ...more
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Sol Luckman
Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a great artist painting a masterpiece of joy, love, success, and fulfillment.
Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

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