Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1901

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Kim by Rudyard Kipling	2
Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique by Octave Mirbeau	1
The First Men In The Moon by H.G. Wells	1
The Illustrious House Of Ramires by Eça de Queirós	1
The Village In The Treetops by Jules Verne	0
The Sea Serpent by Jules Verne	0
The Fall Of The King by Johannes V. Jensen	0
The Tangled Skein by Emma Orczy	0
The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel	0
Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof	0
Martin Birck's Youth by Hjalmar Söderberg	0
The City & The Mountains by Eça de Queirós	0
L'Esclusa by Luigi Pirandello	0
Ídolos Rotos by Manuel Díaz Rodrigues	0
Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore	0
Officialdom Unmasked by Li Baojia	0
Powers Of Darkness by Valdimar Ásmundsson	0
The Queen Of The Caribbean by Emillio Salgari	0
Slave Of The Huns by Géza Gárdonyi	0
Lysbeth by H. Rider Haggard	0
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann	0
The Inheritors by Ford Maddox Ford & Joseph Conrad	0
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin	0
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi	0
The Crisis by Winston Churchill (not that one)	0
Dot And Tot Of Merryland by Frank L. Baum	0
The Helmet Of Navarre by Bertha Runkle	0
Internere by William Alexander Taylor	0
The Making Of A Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett	0
The Marrow Of Tradition by Charles W Chesnutt	0
The Master Key by Frank L. Baum	0
Mr.Munchausen by John Kendrick Bangs	0
The Octopus: A Story Of California by Frank Norris	0
The Sacred Fount by Henry James	0
Springtime And Harvest by Upton Sinclair	0
The Devastators by Ada Cambridge	0
Anna Lombard by Annie Sophie Cory	0
Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler	0
The House With The Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown	0
Three Of Them by Maxim Gorky	0

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 August 2020 10:21 (five years ago)

Wow, Buddenbrooks is that old, eh

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 August 2020 10:23 (five years ago)

Yeah, I was surprised too!

Going for Illustrious House, which is a funny and moving final work from Queirós, despite the somewhat tedious historical novel-inside-a-novel.

The Purple Cloud is a trip, often tedious but memorably misanthropic.

Liked the film of My Brilliant Career.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 August 2020 10:24 (five years ago)

Sorry lol "year by year". Damn!

I've only read Kim.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 August 2020 10:47 (five years ago)

Voted for Kim without a second thought.

― Lily Dale, Monday, 31 August 2020 18:42 (five years ago)

Shit, blank on this one too. I might buy the winning book from each year (and not read it - see other thread).

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 31 August 2020 19:07 (five years ago)

The City & The Mountains by Eça de Queirós

Just ordered The Maias by same author, pretty excited.

― lukas, Monday, 31 August 2020 19:33 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

I only know Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique and love voting for it. A highly funny nihilistic masterpiece!

It was published 20-odd years before The Magic Mountain and contains even earlier reflections on/struggles with the wondrous technology of x-rays and how this changed the understanding of ontology. It's as funny as it is grim and at times just bonkers.

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 07:58 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1902

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 10:25 (five years ago)

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