50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

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: Classic Echo
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9782700198140
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of human nature, this collection offers a rich variety of classic reading in one volume. Across these works, readers encounter timeless themes of love, ambition, courage, betrayal, freedom, morality, social injustice, identity, fate, loss, and the struggle to find meaning. Although written in different periods and styles, these masterpieces continue to demonstrate the enduring power of great literature. Whether you're discovering classic literature for the first time or revisiting familiar favorites, this collection provides an opportunity to explore influential works from British, American, European, and world literature. For readers who enjoy classic novels, short stories, poetry, drama, adventure, romance, mystery, philosophy, and literary fiction, 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 is an engaging addition to any classic literature collection. Turn the page and discover another 50 unforgettable works that have stood the test of time. Explore 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 and continue your journey through the greatest traditions of classic literature.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Jerome, Jerome K.: “Three Men in a Boat”
• Joyce, James: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
• Joyce, James: “Ulysses”
• Kingsley, Charles: “The Water-Babies”
• Kipling, Rudyard: “Kim”
• La Fayette, Madame de: “The Princess of Clèves”
• Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: “Dangerous Liaisons”
• Lawrence, D. H.: “Sons and Lovers”
• Lawrence, D. H.: “The Rainbow”
• Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan: “In a Glass Darkly”
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory: “The Monk”
• Lewis, Sinclair: “Main Street”
• London, Jack: “The Call of the Wild”
• Lovecraft, H. P.: “At the Mountains of Madness”
• Mann, Thomas: “Royal Highness”
• Maugham, W. Somerset: “Of Human Bondage”
• Maupassant, Guy de: “Bel-Ami”
• Melville, Herman: “Moby-Dick”
• Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
• Proust, Marcel: “Swann’s Way”
• Radcliffe, Ann: “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
• Richardson, Samuel: “Clarissa”
• Sand, George: “The Devil’s Pool”
• Scott, Walter: “Ivanhoe”
• Shelley, Mary: “Frankenstein”
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk: “Quo Vadis”
• Sinclair, May: “Life and Death of Harriett Frean”
• Sinclair, Upton: “The Jungle”
• Stendhal: “The Red and the Black”
• Stendhal: “The Chartreuse of Parma”
• Sterne, Laurence: “Tristram Shandy”
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: “Treasure Island”
• Stoker, Bram: “Dracula”
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
• Swift, Jonathan: “Gulliver’s Travels”
• Tagore, Rabindranath: “The Home and the World”
• Thackeray, William Makepeace: “Vanity Fair”
• Tolstoy, Leo: “War and Peace”
• Tolstoy, Leo: “Anna Karenina”
• Troloppe, Anthony: “The Way We Live Now”
• Turgenev, Ivan: “Fathers and Sons”
• Twain, Mark: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
• Verne, Jules: “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”
• Wallace, Lew: “Ben-Hur”
• Wells, H. G.: “The Time Machine”
• West, Rebecca: “The Return of the Soldier”
• Wharton, Edith: “The Age of Innocence”
• Wilde, Oscar: “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
• Xueqin, Cao: “The Dream of the Red Chamber”
• Zola, Émile: “Germinal”