The Seventeenth century was a time of upheaval and change in Europe, and this was reflected in the literature of the time. The best Seventeenth-century writers captured the spirit of the Renaissance, which was still roaring through Europe. In England the so-called Jacobean era was still in full flame with the plays of some of …
A simple selection of the ten best Russian novels would be problematic as it would be dominated by the books of two writers – Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy – so to avoid that we have selected only one book by any one writer. Even so, the choices are obvious and most of the books on this …
The best science fiction writers as a group include some very fine writers who, like George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, stand as being among some of the best fiction writers of any type, including literary fiction. Science fiction is a genre that goes back, perhaps surprisingly, to sixteenth-century writers like Thomas More and Francis Godwin, …
The best twenty-first century novels are hard to define, but we’ve given it a good go below. One of the most striking aspects of the century is the rapid development of technology and twenty-first century fiction writers can’t avoid it as a major characteristic of their time, which accounts for science fiction being lifted out …
