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Permalink Reply by Abilash Achuthan on September 27, 2016 at 22:16

Guardian created an exhaustive list of the best 1000 novels of all time. 

http://www.listchallenges.com/guardians-1000-novels-everyone-must-read

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Abilash A

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Permalink Reply by pc Rebecca Lalhlimpuii on October 17, 2016 at 16:18

Thanks Sir for your inf

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on September 28, 2016 at 19:47

Dear Ms. pc Rebecca Lalhlimpuii

Thanks for your post.I appreciate your employer's attitude however, there are certain subtle issues which need to be addressed. First what type of classics you want to retain and whether in original form or any adapted version. For Instance, we have The Ramayana & The Mahabharatha which are quite voluminous and written in Sanskrit. For your Library do you want to keep the original text or any adaptation. Similarly, in my childhood, my father bought me a book Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare which had all the works of Shakespeare in abridged form for school children. So you have to decide what are the types of materials you want to keep and in what Languages.Incidentally, the Sahitya Academy publish the Classics and selective and collective works of Nobel Laureates in English. So you can choose from that list as well.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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Permalink Reply by pc Rebecca Lalhlimpuii on October 17, 2016 at 16:20

Yes,Sir I agree. its the famous classics from each country It too vast,i clarify they said the famous books of their country's classics Thanks alot for your inf.

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