Nikos Kazantzakis
Born
in Greece
February 18, 1883
Died
October 26, 1957
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Zorba the Greek
384 editions
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published
1946
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The Last Temptation of Christ
by
153 editions
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published
1955
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Christ Recrucified
by
182 editions
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published
1948
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تصوف: منقذو الآلهة
by
51 editions
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published
1927
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Report to Greco
105 editions
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published
1961
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Freedom or Death
98 editions
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published
1953
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The Fratricides
67 editions
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published
1963
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Saint Francis
88 editions
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published
1956
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Serpent and Lily: A Novella with a Manifesto: The Sickness of the Age
by
21 editions
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1906
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The Rock Garden
31 editions
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published
1936
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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
―
own.”
―
Polls
June 2017 New School Classic Poll
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pgs, 1905
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 295 pgs, 1982
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 218 pgs, 1996
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 471 pgs, 1940
My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pgs, 1918
The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448, 1969
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 304 pgs, 1969
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, 308 pgs, 1967
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 231 pgs, 1939
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 654 pgs, 1913
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, 459 pgs, 1969
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 335 pgs, 1946
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pgs, 1931
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pgs, 1950
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 189 pgs, 1954
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, 224 pgs, 1989
Titanic by Filson Young, 236 pgs, 1912
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, 320 pgs, 1964
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