Joseph Conrad : Victory
"Whatever you do, read Conrad's latest -- Victory. Read it, if you have to pawn your watch to buy it. Conrad has exceeded himself. I am glad that I am alive, if, for no other reason, because of the joy of reading this book." Jack London, 1915
The Brothers Karamazov
"I've been wondering about Dostoevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?" (Ernest Hemingway)
A Way of Man (Miehen Tie) - a Nobel-winning work that doesn't exist in English
Frans Eemil Sillanpää might well be one of the least known best storytellers in history.