“Perhaps the greatest novel of the century.”
Source: Criticism, L. P. Hartley on The Leopard, quoted in Robin Healey Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) p. 146.
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Criticism
“The greatest evolutionist of our century.”
Stephen Jay Gould, When a Fact Is Not a Fact; Awake! magazine, July 22, 1987.
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“The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.”
Werner Erhard on L. Ron Hubbard — quoted in [L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1987, Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 15, 0818404442]
Attributed
“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”
from an interview given to Alberto Statera published in La Stampa in April 1994
“One of the greatest writers of [the 20th] century.”
Arthur C. Clarke, quoted on the backcover of Time and the Gods, the second volume of the Fantasy Masterworks series
About
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"
“Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century.”
Epilogue, p. 1206
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
Context: Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
“Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.”
2001-06-11
Mind Over Skepticism
John G.
Stackhouse
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/june11/19.74.html