E-Books →The Literary 100 A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All TimeOUT OF PRINT

All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.
New writers include:
Chinua Achebe
W.H. Auden
Bertolt Brecht
Robert Frost
Nikolai Gogol
Seamus Heaney
Heinrich Heine
Horace
Ben Jonson
Kalidasa
Doris Lessing
Li Po
Christopher Marlowe
Arthur Miller
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Toni Morrison
George Orwell
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello
Samuel Richardson
Rainier Maria Rilke
Sappho
Edmund Spenser
Tennessee Williams
Kawabata Yasunari.