50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol 1

James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hug

• Publisher: Bygone Books
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9791070135105
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Alcott, Louisa May: “Little Women”
• Austen, Jane: “Pride and Prejudice”
• Austen, Jane: “Emma”
• Balzac, Honoré de: “Father Goriot”
• Barbusse, Henri: “The Inferno”
• Brontë, Anne: “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
• Brontë, Charlotte: “Jane Eyre”
• Brontë, Emily: “Wuthering Heights”
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes”
• Butler, Samuel: “The Way of All Flesh”
• Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
• Cather, Willa: “My Ántonia”
• Cervantes, Miguel de: “Don Quixote”
• Chopin, Kate: “The Awakening”
• Cleland, John: “Fanny Hill”
• Collins, Wilkie: “The Moonstone”
• Conrad, Joseph: “Heart of Darkness”
• Conrad, Joseph: “Nostromo”
• Cooper, James Fenimore: “The Last of the Mohicans”
• Crane, Stephen: “The Red Badge of Courage”
• Cummings, E. E.: “The Enormous Room”
• Defoe, Daniel: “Robinson Crusoe”
• Defoe, Daniel: “Moll Flanders”
• Dickens, Charles: “Bleak House”
• Dickens, Charles: “Great Expectations”
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: “Crime and Punishment”
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: “The Idiot”
• Doyle, Arthur Conan: “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
• Dreiser, Theodore: “Sister Carrie”
• Dumas, Alexandre: “The Three Musketeers”
• Dumas, Alexandre: “The Count of Monte Cristo”
• Eliot, George: “Middlemarch”
• Fielding, Henry: “Tom Jones”
• Flaubert, Gustave: “Madame Bovary”
• Flaubert, Gustave: “Sentimental Education”
• Ford, Ford Madox: “The Good Soldier”
• Forster, E. M.: “A Room with a View”
• Forster, E. M.: “Howards End”
• Gaskell, Elizabeth: “North and South”
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
• Gogol, Nikolai: “Dead Souls”
• Gorky, Maxim: “The Mother”
• Haggard, H. Rider: “King Solomon’s Mines”
• Hardy, Thomas: “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The Scarlet Letter”
• Homer: “The Odyssey”
• Hugo, Victor: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
• Hugo, Victor: “Les Misérables”
• Huxley, Aldous: “Crome Yellow”
• James, Henry: “The Portrait of a Lady”