Who is the greatest author of all time?

Who is the greatest author of all time?

Leo Tolstoy – 327. William Shakespeare – 293. James Joyce – 194. Vladimir Nabokov – 190. Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177. William Faulkner – 173. Charles Dickens – 168. Anton Checkhov – 165.

What is considered the greatest novel ever written?

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. First published in 1851, Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.”

Who are the top five authors?

William Shakespeare. Ah, The Bard. George Orwell. True, Orwell (whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair) isn’t everyone’s taste, especially those who do not share his views on totalitarianism. J.K. Rowling. Like her or not, Ms. Kurt Vonnegut. Virginia Woolf. Ernest Hemingway. William Faulkner. Ayn Rand.

What is the name of 10 famous book?

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Who has sold the most books ever?

Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history.

What is the biggest selling book of all time?

The Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, having sold around 5 billion copies to date. The book had several authors and can be roughly divided into two parts: The Old Testament and the New Testament.