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Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Benito Pérez Galdós, William Shakespeare, Juan Valera, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Herman Melville, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, L Frank Baum, Emily Bronte, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Wilkie Collins, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marcus Aurelius, Laozi Laozi, Kate Chopin, James Fenimore Cooper, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Frederick Douglass, William Makepeace Thackeray, Laurence Sterne, Anne Brontë, George MacDonald, Lewis Wallace, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, William Dean Howells, Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Henry Fielding, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Baudelaire, Theodor Storm, Sun Tzu, H. P. Lovecraft, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley, Iván Turguénev, G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rabindranath Tagore, W. B. Yeats, Kahlil Gibran, Kenneth Grahame, Kakuzo Okakura, Hermann Hesse, E.M. Forster, Plato, H. G. Wells, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Lewis, Inazo Nitobe, Elizabeth von Arnim, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Cao Xueqin, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante, Apuleius, Thomas Hardy, Válmíki, Jack London, Kalidasa, Jules Verne, Soseki Natsume, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Miguel de Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Gaston Leroux, P. B. Shelley, Princess Der Ling, John Milton, George Weedon Grossmith, M. Montgomery, Stendhal, Confucius, Voltaire, Gustave Flaubert, Walter Scott, Homer Homer

Summary

The Bucket List Collection: Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die is an unparalleled anthology weaving together the timeless threads of human experience across diverse literary landscapes. Spanning genres, styles, and epochs, this collection captures the essence of storytelling through its rich tapestry of narrative voices. Notable selections explore themes of love, power, identity, and the human condition, each offering unique insights into the complexities of life. From the ethereal musings of fairytales to the piercing depths of philosophical treatises, readers will encounter a symphony of literary excellence and innovation. The anthology brings together a remarkable assembly of authors whose collective literary contributions have left indelible marks on world literature. Figures like Goethe, Tolstoy, Austen, and Confucius represent a tapestry of historical and cultural thought, reflecting their varied contexts and inspirations. This assembly of luminaries enriches the anthology'Äôs thematic exploration, providing a kaleidoscope of perspectives that engages with movements such as Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Through their combined voices, the collection reflects the evolution of literary art and thought across cultures and time periods. The Bucket List Collection offers readers the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a global dialogue among the masters of literature. Whether you seek to explore the expanse of human imagination or to deepen your understanding of literary movements, this volume serves as a gateway to a world of intellectual and artistic discovery. Each work fosters a conversation across time and space, encouraging readers to consider the enduring truths and transformative power of timeless narratives. This anthology is not just a collection but an invitation to engage with the rich heritage of literary craftsmanship and insight.

Available since: 12/10/2023.

Print length: 47067 pages.

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