Books: Books of the century In response to Waterstone's `Books of the Century' survey, we ask 12 eminent, and famously well-read, people to choose their 10 favourite works. (Not one picked The Lord of the Rings)

The Sunday Telegraph London | February 9, 1997 | Copyright

ISAIAH BERLIN Historian of ideas

The Golden Bowl (1904)

by Henry James Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James In Search of Lost Time (1913-27) by Marcel Proust Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce Collected Poems by T. S. Eliot Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats Collected Poems by W. H. Auden To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh Philosophical Investigations (1953) by Ludwig Wittgenstein DORIS LESSING Novelist The Outsider (1942) by Albert Camus In Search of Lost Time (1913-27) by Marcel Proust History (1974) by Elsa Morante Nostromo (1904) ...

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