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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Reader's List

After the Modern Library posted it's 100 Best Novels chosen by the board, a poll was conducted to find the 100 Best chosen by reader's.

Board's List

1. Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged
This is a riveting mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events--with a ruthlessly brilliant plot and irresistible suspense. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, male and female, charged with awesome questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a giant novel--the supreme triumph and ultimate testament of one of the towering geniuses of our time.
2. Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead

On the surface, it is a story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with the beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. In his fight for success, he first discovers then rejects the seductive power of fame and money, finding that creative genius must ultimately triumph. This novel also addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism.
3. L. Ron Hubbard. Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth unfolds against a vast canvas of intergalactic conflict and intrigue, adventure and danger, defeat and victory.Earth has been dominated for one thousand years by the giant, gas-breathing invaders from the aggressor planet Psychlo. Now, at the bleak dawn of the third millennium, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, one of the handful of human beings that have survived ten centuries of conquest and annihilation, decides to boldly venture out of his dwindling, stricken community in the Rocky Mountains.
4. J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
5.Harper Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird
The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice.
6. George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four
To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform his life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.
7. Ayn Rand. Anthem
In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.
8. Ayn Rand. We The Living
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans.
 
9. L. Ron Hubbard. Mission Earth
An advanced species of aliens discovers Earth and fears that its developing technology can someday endanger their empire. Thus begins Mission Earth a spectacular series following the aliens' intricate infiltration of Earth society to bring about its downfall.
10. L. Ron Hubbard. Fear
The terrifying tale of a man who loses four hours of his life and begins to go mad as he tries to remember what happened.
11. James Joyce. Ulysses
Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing -- and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts give physical reality extra color and perspective.
12. Joseph Heller. Catch-22
Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting.
13. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby 's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsby 's vision, becomes his confidante and accomplice in his plan to recapture the heart of Daisy Buchanan.
14. Frank Herbert. Dune
Set on the desert planet Arrakis begins the story of a great family's plan to bring to fruition an unattainable dream.
15. Robert A. Heinlein. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The tale of a Lunar revolution in 2076. Led by a one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient, all-knowing computer, the revolution's proclamation--"TANSTAAFL" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)--remains a slogan of the libertarian movement today.
16. Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land
A Mars-born earthling arrives on this planet for the first time as an adult, and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons.
17. Nevil Shute. A Town Like Alice
During the war against Japan a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Years later, wanting to repay the support given to her by the Malays, Jean Paget decides to return to the village.
18. Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present-- considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
19. J. D. Salinger. The Catcher In The Rye
Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
20. George Orwell. Animal Farm
Farm is a devastating satire of the Soviet Union by the man V. S. Pritchett called "the conscience of his generation". A fable about an uprising of farm animals against their human masters, it illustrates how new tyranny replaces old in the wake of revolutions and power corrupts even the noblest of causes.
21. Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century.
22. John Steinbeck. The Grapes Of Wrath
Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
23. Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
24. Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind
A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.
25. William Gerald Golding. Lord Of The Flies
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
26. Jack Warner Schaefer. Shane
In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.
 
27. Nevil Shute. Trustee From The Toolroom
From an unpeturbed basement workshop to the paradise of the broad Pacific ocean, a middle-aged man, more comfotable at his workbench than jetting across the world, takes on a mission to retrieve a treasure he himself hid in the ballast of his sister & brother-in-law's wrecked sail boat.
28. John Irving. A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving's seventh novel begins in 1953, as Owen Meany and his best friend, both 11, are playing in a Little League baseball game. Owen hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he's convinced he is God's instrument. What happens to him after that foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
29. Stephen King. The Stand
A classic study of the battle between good and evil in a future world, where virtually the entire planet's population has been wiped out by a deadly flu virus--accidentally unleashed by a Defense Department accident.
30. John Fowles. The French Lieutenant's Woman
A woman , ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past. The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel.
31. Toni Morrison. Beloved
Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade.
 
32. E.R. Eddison. The Worm Ouroboros
33. William Faulkner. The Sound And The Fury
By turns lyrical and dramatic, hilarious and heartbreaking, The Sound and the Fury is the tragic story of beautiful Caddy Comapson and the dissolution of her family.
34. Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl.
35. Charles De Lint. Moonheart
Sweeping from ancient Wales to the streets of Ottawa today, "Moonheart" entrances the reader with the tale of two young women who are drawn into an enchanted land after discovering artifacts.
36. William Faulkner. Absalom, Absalom!
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
37. W. Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.
38. Flannery O'Connor. Wise Blood
The story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith.
39. Malcolm Lowry. Under The Volcano
The Consul staggers from bar to bar hoping to find salvation. The dissolute life suits him until his former wife Yvonne returns with Hugh, the Consul's half-brother. As the trio enjoys a local Mexican festival, they discover the dead body of a peasant, thus beginning a series of events that will decide the Consul's fate. In the course of one day an entire life is chronicled.
40. Robertson Davies. Fifth Business
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous.
41. Charles de Lint. Someplace To Be Flying
Lily is a photojournalist, stealing away from the music scene she usually covers to pursue bizarre rumors of "animal people" living in the ruins of the Tombs - the city's darkest slums. Hank, on the other hand, knows the crumbling Tombs all too well. This is the part of the city he calls home, creating a life and a ragtag family on streets where many fear to tread.
42. Jack Kerouac. On The Road
On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico, with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West". As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty", the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
43. Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness
His narrator, Marlow, travels into the heart of the Congo to retrieve Mr. Kurtz, a promising young agent who has disappeared into the bush. Throughout Marlow's harrowing journey, Conrad maintains an unflinching focus on the crassness and avarice of which human society is capable, ultimately revealing that "the horror" Kurtz fears lies within us all.
44. Charles De Lint. Yarrow
Cat Midhir has made a name for herself as the author of many popular fantasy novels. When a thief steals Cat's mysterious Otherworld--a real place where she wandered at night with bright lords and the horned woman--she cannot write and becomes trapped in the everyday world.
45. H.P. Lovecraft. At The Mountains Of Madness
46.Mickey Spillane. One Lonely Night
In Mickey Spillane's classic private eye novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love -- they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption.
 
47. Charles De Lint. Memory And Dream
From her mentor, Rushkin, Isabell Copley had learned to paint creatures that come to life--literally--and years after these creatures have ruined her life, Isabelle returns to painting, haunted by memories, dreams, and the threat of her mentor's return.
48. Virginia Woolf. To The Lighthouse
A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores the subjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.
49. Walker Percy. The Moviegoer
Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
50. Charles De Lint. Trader
Max Trader is a solitary, quiet, responsible guitar maker. Johnny Devlin is a lady-killer, a drunk, and a chronically unemployed, but charming, loser. When they inexplicably awake in each others' bodies, Devlin gleefully moves into Trader's comfortable and stable existence, leaving Trader penniless, friendless, and homeless, with no place left to go but beyond the streets of Newford to an otherworld of dreams and spirits--where he must confront both the unscrupulous Devlin and his own deepest fears.
51. Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Just before the Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect.
52. Carson McCullers. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
A sensitive teenage girl discovers the meaning of loneliness.
53. Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale
Set in the Republic of Gilead, during the late twentieth century, when declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure. All young women, who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerfull regime men. This is the story of one of these young women.
54. Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
55. Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author. This disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.
56. Nevil Shute. On the Beach
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
57. James Joyce. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
First published in 1916, this classic portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and growing awareness of his artistic vocation.
58. Charles De Lint. Greenmantle
Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on Midsummer's Evening. He is chased by the hunt and shadowed by the wild girl. When he touches your dreams, your life will never be the same again.
59. Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game
The story of Ender Wiggin, a boy genetically engineered to be a superior military mind, and bred to win Earth's long war with an alien insectoid race by completely destroying their homeworld.
 
60. Charles de Lint. The Little Country
When musician Janey Little discovers an ancient unpublished manuscript of The Little Country, she taps into a magic power that will transport her across miles and back into time to confront her destiny.
 
61. William Gaddis. The Recognitions
62. Robert A. Heinlein. Starship Troopers
A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.
63. Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
the story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.
64. John Irving. The World According To Garp
Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.
65. Ray Bradbury. Something Wicked This Way Comes
Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions, destroying every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. Two boys--best friends Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade--are about to learn the secret of its smoke, mazes and mirrors as they confront a nightmarish evil that will change their lives forever.
66. Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House
The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
67. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying
The harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
68. Henry Miller. Tropic Of Cancer
Chronicles the bohemian life of a penniless artist living in Paris between the world wars.
69. Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man
An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
 
70. Terri Windling. The Wood Wife
When Maggie Black comes to the desert home of poet Davis Cooper, seeking an answer to the riddle of his death, she begins a journey of self-discovery that will change her forever, coming face to face with the wild spirits that inhabit that strange and magical place.
71. John Fowles. The Magus
Nicholas Urfe, an evasive young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where his friendship with a reclusive, demonic millionaire lures him into "the godgame": an elaborate series of staged hallucinations, riddles, and psychological traps meant to test his concept of being and reality.
 
72. Robert A. Heinlein. The Door Into Summer
73. Robert M. Pirsig. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Both the autobiography of a troubled man who motorcycled across the country with his 11-year-old son and a harrowing look at insanity and the terrors of the mind as well.
74. Robert Graves. I, Claudius
Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to become emperor in 41 A.D. A masterpiece.
75. Jack London. The Call Of The Wild
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
76. Flann O'Brien. At Swim-Two-Birds
The story of an Irish college student who -- half to amuse himself and half to avoid work -- writes an irreverent novel about the figures of Irish myth and legend in which characters come to life and riot against their author.
77. Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a short novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch".
78. Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith
Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
79. Richard Adams. Watership Down
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
80. William S. Burroughs. Naked Lunch
Hustler-addict Bill Lee travels from New York to Tangiers, running from the police and searching for a place to take drugs, until he enters the hallucinatory fantasy world of Interzone, where individual freedom confronts the forces of totalitarianism.
81. Tom Clancy. The Hunt For Red October
Can all-out war be avoided? A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine takes place across 4,000 miles of ocean. The deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in the murky depths of the Atlantic brings the superpowers to the brink of disaster.
82. Laurell K. Hamilton. Guilty Pleasures
Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most people don't even bat an eye at vampires since they've been given equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better--she's seen their victims. . . . A serial killer is murdering vampires, however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita to find the killer.
83. Robert A. Heinlein. The Puppet Masters
Earth was being invaded by aliens and the top security agencies were helpless: the aliens were controlling the mind of every person they encountered. So it was up to Sam Cavanaugh, secret agent for a powerful and deadly spy network, to find a way to stop them--which meant he had to be invaded himself!
84. Stephen King. It
They were teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now it is calling them back to Derry, Maine -- a force they cannot withstand, an evil without a name...
85. Thomas Pynchon. V.
The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.
86. Robert A. Heinlein. Double Star
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped.
 
87. Robert A. Heinlein. Citizen Of The Galaxy
A youth who has known only the primitive life of a galaxy slave is purchased by a beggar who turns out to be a man with many extracurricular activities.
88. Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited
Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.
89. William Faulkner. Light In August
The story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
90.Ken Kesey. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
91. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms
By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front.
92. Paul Bowles. The Sheltering Sky
Bowles examines the ways in which three American travelers apprehend an alien culture in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II -- and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them.
93. Ken Kesey. Sometimes A Great Notion
94. Willa Cather. My Antonia
Tells the story of a remarkable woman whose strength and passion epitomize the pioneer spirit. Antonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, Nebraska, to made a fresh start after eloping with a railway conductor following the tragic death of her father. Accustomed to living in a sod house and toiling alongside the men in the fields, she is unprepared for the lecherous reaction her lush sensuality provokes when she moves to the city.
 
95. Charles de Lint. Mulengro
96. Cormac McCarthy. Suttree
The story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.  Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
 
97. Robert Holdstock. Mythago Wood
The mystery of Ryhope Wood consumed George Huxley to the point of madness. After his death, his sons take up his life's work. What they discover goes beyond all conception. For the wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia. A realm where love and beauty haunt your dreams and propel terrifying freedom of insanity.
 
98. Richard Bach. Illusions
A lighthearted, mystical adventure story about two barnstorming vagabonds, Illusions is a thought-provoking dialogue between a guy named Richard and a real Messiah who quit ... a startling look at the way many of us could live, and the way some of us do.
99. Robertson Davies. The Cunning Man
Following a mysterious death at the High Altar on Good Friday, holistic doctor Jonathan Hullah takes a critical look at his past and the individuals who shaped his life, and reevaluates his personal philosophies.
100. Salman Rushdie. The Satanic Verses
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures fall to the sea, later washing up, alive, on a beach. It was an ambiguous miracle, for both seem to have acquired curious changes. Both have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil.



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