50 Masterpieces You Have to Read

Volume Two - A Second Library of World Literature

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Madame de La Fayette, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D. H. Lawrence, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Marc

• Publisher: Chronicle Vault
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9782700110760
• Subtopic: Classics

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in Volume One with fresh discoveries and enduring favorites. A companion for readers who want their classics without limits, this anthology proves the world's great literature is vast, varied, and endlessly rewarding. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in a clean, fully reflowable format for all e-readers.

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”