1001 books you must read before you die

Если читать в среднем 2 книги в месяц, то на чтение всех книг из списка пойдет лет 40.

A complex exploration of psychological development, David Copperfield—a favorite of Sigmund Freud—succeeds in combining elements of fairy tale with the open-ended form of Bildungsroman.

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is referred to in The Tale of Genji as "the ancestor of all romances". It is also the oldest surviving Japanese work of fiction.

But the storytelling that Sheherazade invents, in order to stay alive, is a kind of storytelling that is not able to end, that never reaches a climax. Rather, the stories are inhabited by a kind of insatiable desire, an open unfinishedness that keeps us reading and panting, eager for more,