What is the most famous story ever told? Google tell's me it is Homer's Odyssey. After that? It seems to be Uncle Tom's Cabin. The most popular authors of the top 100 stories were Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka, with three stories each. This list comes from the BBC HERE. They describe the methodology - itself an interesting story.
Top 100
The list was determined via ranked ballots and first placed into descending order by number of critic votes, then into descending order by total critic points, then alphabetically (for 73 to 100, the titles listed are tied).
1. The Odyssey (Homer, 8th Century BC) 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852) 3. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) 5. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958) 6. One Thousand and One Nights (various authors, 8th-18th Centuries) 7. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1605-1615) 8. Hamlet (William Shakespeare, 1603) 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967) 10. The Iliad (Homer, 8th Century BC) 11. Beloved (Toni Morrison, 1987) 12. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri, 1308-1320) 13. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, 1597) 14. The Epic of Gilgamesh (author unknown, circa 22nd-10th Centuries BC) 15. Harry Potter Series (JK Rowling, 1997-2007) 16. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985) 17. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922) 18. Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945) 19. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847) 20. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1856)
At the other end of the spectrum, HERE's an article that describes how our modern technology would ruin the great classic storylines. Here are the first three:
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote checks Google maps and sees that the giants on the horizon are windmills.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every day, @great_gatz creates an Instagram Story about his great, great life and religiously checks to see if Daisy has watched it.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Autocorrect.
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