90 Masterpieces of World Literature (VolI) (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Novels Poetry Plays Short Stories Essays Psychology & Philosophy
Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Selma Lagerlöf, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, Plato, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Herman Melville, James Allen, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Agatha Christie, Upton Sinclair, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Proust, Washington Irving, Juan Valera, Charles Baudelaire, William Makepeace Thackeray, Theodore Dreiser, Voltaire, Apuleius, Stephen Crane, Frederick Douglass, John Keats, James Joyce, Kahlil Gibran, Ernest Hemingway, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, L. Frank Baum, H. G. Wells, H. A. Lorentz, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H.P. Lovecraft, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Wallace D. Wattles, R. D. Blackmore, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Brothers Grimm, Margaret Cavendish, Hermann Hesse, Sun Tzu
Publisher: e-artnow
Summary
90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol. I) gathers an extraordinary constellation of fiction, philosophy, poetry, drama, memoir, and speculative writing, tracing the evolution of world letters from antiquity to modernity. Its range extends from classical dialogue and Renaissance tale-cycles to Gothic romance, realist social critique, adventure narrative, psychological fiction, and early science fiction. Works associated with Hamlet, Moby-Dick, Jane Eyre, The Odyssey-like romance of Apuleius, and visionary modernist and symbolist forms illuminate the breadth of human imagination. The volume's contributors represent many of the decisive cultural and literary movements of global literary history: Enlightenment satire, Romanticism, Victorian realism, Russian psychological and spiritual fiction, American transcendentalism, fin-de-siècle decadence, naturalism, modernism, and emergent popular genres such as detective fiction and scientific romance. Philosophers, novelists, dramatists, poets, reformers, and fabulists collectively examine power, conscience, desire, faith, empire, childhood, reason, and the self, offering a richly comparative view of civilizations in conversation. This anthology is ideal for readers seeking both breadth and intellectual depth in a single volume. It offers an unusually capacious encounter with canonical and cross-cultural traditions, encouraging readers to compare forms, historical moments, and moral visions. As an educational resource and literary companion, it invites sustained exploration of the dialogues that great books continue to generate across languages, centuries, and cultures. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection. - Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer. - A combined Synopsis (Selection) briefly outlines the key plots or arguments of the included pieces, helping readers grasp the anthology's overall scope without giving away essential twists. - A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds. - Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.
Available since: 12/05/2023.
Print length: 28094 pages.
