10 large-scale books that do not mind the time

Agree, read a great book - a special pleasure. During reading time to time with a head dive into the world created by the writer, as well as get used to the characters - their habits, thoughts - that they meet every day in the pages of the book already as old friends

. The selection Website only great novels that will give you this unhurried pleasure.

James Joyce's "Ulysses" This is unique in the world literature work has opened up new ways for the prose of the XX century. In one day, who lives a simple citizen in Dublin at the beginning of this century, the author is not a joke, but seriously is similar to the life and adventures of the mythical hero Odysseus. Carefully analyzing, the author of the novel gives one of the most profound and comprehensive characteristics of the individual and society as a whole.

Charles Palliser 'Kvinkanks "" Kvinkanks "- the paradox of modern English bestsellers, ambitious postmodern pastiche of the Victorian novel
. From early childhood, John Huff forced to wrestle with that for unknown sinister force pursues him with his mother, threatening their lives. The answer lies in a single document.

John Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga" The story of three generations of the Forsyte clan still attracts millions of readers around the world.
On the pages of the novel, the author gives a comprehensive picture of England late XIX - early XX century

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John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath" During the Great Depression devastated the family farmers are forced to leave their home in Oklahoma. According to the famous Road 66 across America, like millions of other unemployed, they go, they go and even crawl to the west, in the coveted California. But what awaits them there? And whether there is at least some hope for a brighter future?

Marcel Proust
"In Search of Lost Time» Magnum opus of the French writer-modernist - a semi-autobiographical cycle of 7 novels, which was published in France in 1913-1927, respectively. Proust is rightly called the creator of "the greatest of the French books of the XX century»
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Mikhail Sholokhov "Quiet Don" epic novel, brought in 1965 by Mikhail Sholokhov Nobel Prize.
Large-scale narrative about the fate of the Don Cossacks in the most controversial, the critical period of our nation's history - during the First World War, Revolution and Civil War. An exciting family saga of love, hate and betrayal.

Robert Musil "The Man Without Qualities" The main character of the novel Ulrich, faced with the "human solitude in the desert detail", trying to dissociate itself from the splendor and misery of the external world with the help of his "I". The story of his life can be read as a painstaking study of the soul of modern man, has not lost the ability to dream and to endow the world a meaningful purpose.

Romain Rolland "The Enchanted Soul" In the novel, the author reflected the spiritual quest after the First World War and the end result of this search.
Rolland embodied in the story the most important life processes of the era - the death of the old world and the birth of a new - recreated the highways and byways of western intellectuals whistleblowers, their errors and breakthroughs to the truth of their defeat and victory

Milorad Pavic "Dictionary of the Khazars" The novel, called by critics "the first novel of the XXI century", brought its author fame of the writer, who opened a new chapter in the history of world literature.
The validity of this assessment is easy to verify by opening any page of "Dictionary of the Khazars" - the book wildly sophisticated and infinitely beautiful, full of poetic and philosophical depth of human history and culture

Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" Tolstoy's most famous novel, like no other work of the writer, reflects his attitude and philosophy. This book covers the basic components of human existence: life and death, love and betrayal, heroism and cowardice, war and peace

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