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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,892,389 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,188,113 ratings — published -700
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,882,181 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,781,178 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,859,614 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,432,203 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,875,853 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,036,101 ratings — published 1847
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047,297 ratings — published 1601
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,315,824 ratings — published 1847
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,415,961 ratings — published 1915
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,867,557 ratings — published 1890
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,521 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,082 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,457 ratings — published 1615
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,391,067 ratings — published 1942
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,074,122 ratings — published 1866
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,815,867 ratings — published 1590
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,569 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,017,098 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,475 ratings — published 1850
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,526,959 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,825,023 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,408 ratings — published 1885
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,069,934 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,624 ratings — published 1955
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,745 ratings — published 1939
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 872,079 ratings — published 1861
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,822,226 ratings — published 1953
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,089 ratings — published -19
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,307,348 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,613 ratings — published 1922
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 373,753 ratings — published 1856
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,093 ratings — published 1667
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 557,170 ratings — published 1899
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.78 — 355,365 ratings — published 1925
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,470,573 ratings — published 1897
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,443 ratings — published 1595
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,213,335 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,451,666 ratings — published 1868
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 384,575 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,976 ratings — published 1869
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,010,709 ratings — published 1859
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,822 ratings — published 1320
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,665 ratings — published 1929
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,606 ratings — published 1400
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,766 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,240 ratings — published 1961
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 178,818 ratings — published 1872
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,442,189 ratings — published 1937
“Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.”
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“Между тем, истинный художник хочет не своего во что бы то ни стало, а прекрасного, объективно-прекрасного, то есть художественно воплощенной истины вещей, и вовсе не занят мелочным смаолюбивым вопросом, первым ли или сотым говорит он об истине. Лишь бы это была истина, - и тогда ценность происведения сама собою установится. Как всякий, кто живет, занят мыслью, живет ли он по правде или нет, а не тем, оказывается ли его жизнь похожей на жизнь соседа, - живет сам в себе для истины и убежден, что искренняя жизнь для истины непременно индивидуальна и в самой сути своей никак не повторима, истинной же может быть лишь в потоке всечеловеческой истории, а не как нарочито-выдумываемая - так не иначе и жизнь художественная: и художник, опираясь на всечеловеческие художественные каноны, когда таковые здесь или там найдены, чрез них и в них находит силу воплощать подлинно созерцаемую действительность и твердо знает, что дело его, если оно свободнои, не окажется удвоением чужого дела, хотя предмет беспокойства его - не это совподение с кем-то, а истинность изображенного им.”
― Iconostasis
― Iconostasis
