The Greatest Fiction of Every Decade (1800–2000) | Jack & Milo’s Picks

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In this video Jack and Milo discuss their favourite works of fiction decade by decade, starting in 1800 and going 200 years, decade by decade, until they reach the borders of our present century. If you would like to be interviewed by us about your favourite books, please send an email.

1800s

Jack: Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich Von Kleist

Milo: Heinrich Von Ofterdingen - Novalis

1810s

Jack: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Milo: Persuasion - Jane Austen

1820s

Jack: Don Juan - George Gordon Byron (If only prose allowed, The Red and the Black - Stendhal)

Milo: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - ETA Hoffmann

1830s

Jack: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe

Milo - Nevsky Prospect - Nikolai Gogol

1840s

Jack: Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Milo: Mr. Prokharchin - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1850s

Jack: David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Milo: The Whale - Herman Melville

1860s

Jack: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Milo: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

1870s

Jack: Middlemarch - George Eliot

Milo: Middlemarch - George Eliot

1880s

Jack: Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome

Milo: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

1890s

Jack: The Lady with the Dog - Anton Chekhov

Milo: New Grub Street - George Gissing

1900s

Jack: The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton

Milo: The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton

1910s

Jack: Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham

Milo: The Great Wall of China - Franz Kafka

1920s

Jack: To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Milo: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

1930s

Jack: Die Blendung/ Auto de fe - Elias Canetti

Milo: The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein

1940s

Jack: The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery

Milo: The Plague - Albert Camus

1950s

Jack: The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

Milo: The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis

1960s

Jack: Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Milo: The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

1970s

Jack: The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

Milo: Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

1980s

Jack: Extinction - Thomas Bernhard

Milo: Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

1990s

Jack: Before and During - Vladimir Sharov

Milo: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

00:00:00 Intro

00:04:45 1800s

00:12:52 1810s

00:24:20 1820s

00:30:24 1830s

00:37:38 1840s

00:48:35 1850s

00:55:22 1860s

00:59:29 1870s

01:05:25 1880s

01:10:41 1890s

01:17:42 1900s

01:22:07 1910s

01:28:50 1920s

01:37:22 1930s

01:47:48 1940s

01:53:51 1950s

02:05:49 1960s

02:12:44 1970s

02:19:49 1980s

02:27:15 1990s

02:36:12 Conclusion