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Special features
of note

How the 'Greatest Literature' choices were made
  • Editor Eric's
     Criteria

Science Fiction: the history and problems of trying to define it
  • What Counts
      as SF?

Most of what you read in English was not written in English. Does it matter which translation you read? How do you choose the best one?
  • Translations

What's the Greatest Literature of All Time?
Editor Eric's famous list of the 1,000 greatest literary works in the world—from 2000 BCE to 2000 CE, from Gilgamesh to Get Shorty. 

• The Great Lit pages
• Go right to the list

Now with over 250 commentaries. Recent:
A Man In Full  •  Tom Wolfe  •  The Galton Case  •  Ross Macdonald  •  The Long Goodbye  •  Madame Bovary  •  Robinson Crusoe  •  Oliver Twist  •  John Steinbeck  •  Tristram Shandy  •  A Christmas Carol  •  I, Claudius  •  Robert Graves  •  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde  •  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  •  Washington Irving  •  The Mill on the Floss  •  The Murders in the Rue Morgue  •  Buddenbrooks  •  Charlotte and Emily Brontλ  •  Jane Eyre  •  Wuthering Heights  •  Thomas Mann   •  Dracula
                     • Selected Authors
                     • Selected Works

NEW CONTEST!
IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!
 missing graphic Many writers have put  thinly disguised versions of themselves in their works.
Can you name the fictional counterparts of the authors in this contest?
Name them and WIN the books! 

• New contest #20
• Previous answers:
Contest #19

Movies for Book Lovers
Guide to over 120 films, from the silly to the authentic, based on the greatest literature.
•
The Movie pag
es

The Greatest Canadian
Literature of All Time

A separate database of the best from the great white north.
• The CanLit pag
es

The Greatest SF of All Time
The 200 greatest works of speculative and science fiction ever published.
• The SF pages

Aliens?
A skeptics introduction to skepticism about the paranormal and pseudoscience

Messages from beyond? UFOs? Miracle cures?
Use critical thinking to find the truth about extraordinary claims.
• Editor Eric's
   guide to
   modern
   skepticism

Toronto Reads
Eric's reviews of current books, as published in his monthly column in the Town Crier community newspapers.

Recent reviews:
Toronto Noir  •  Murder in A-major  •  Still Waters  •  Finding Home  •  Cut to the Quick  •  Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet  •  Starring Brian Linehan
            • The Toronto Reads pages

 

COMING
The greatest crime writing of all time.

• Get your murderous suggestions in to Eric


Beatles 1970-2002The Unknown Beatles?
Has the myth of their breakup in 1970 kept you from appreciating their later recordings?
• The Beatles 1970-2002.
   

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