Other
works on the list are: The Odyssey by Homer (8th Century
BC), Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1952), Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley (1818), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949), One
Thousand And One Nights by Various Authors (8th – 18th Century), Don
Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605 – 1615), Hamlet by William
Shakespeare (1603), One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
and The
Iliad by Homer (8th Century BC)
In a recent release, the BBC
said that the writers, critics and academics who participated in the opinion poll voted
these works “as the most influential and enduring works of fiction” ever published.