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The Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die - cover

The Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die

Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Benito Pérez Galdós, William Shakespeare, Juan Valera, Pedro Calderon 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 Brontë, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, محمد عبدالرحمن, 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, Walter Scott, Theodor Storm, Sun Tzu, H.P. Lovecraft, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley, Ivan Turgenev, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rabindranath Tagore, W. B. Yeats, Kahlil Gibran, Kenneth Grahame, Kakuzo Okakura, Herman Hesse, E. M. Forster, Plato, H. G. Wells, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Lewis, Inazo Nitobé, 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, Homer Homer, John Milton, George Weedon Grossmith, M. Montgomery, Stendhal, Confucius, Voltaire

Publisher: DigiCat

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Summary

In 'The Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die,' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – though historically not the curator of this extensive compilation – is imagined to present a confounding anthology, encompassing seminal literary works from across the globe. The book is not just a mere list but a profound testament of the human spirit's evolution through written expression. It skillfully integrates British classics like Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' with Eastern philosophy reflected in works like 'Tao Te Ching.' The anthology is structured to reflect both the temporal progression and geographical spread of literary mastery, offering insights into the very fabric of cultural discourse. Its literary style is inherently analytical and comparatist, engaging deeply with the literary context from which each masterpiece emerges, thus providing the reader with a framework to understand the universality of human experience as portrayed in these timeless texts.

Regarded as a titan of German literature, Goethe himself penned works of towering significance such as 'Faust,' which reverberate with universal themes of desire, knowledge, and morality. While Goethe did not literally create this collection, embodying the spirit of Goethe's diverse interests, the collection mirrors his lifelong quest for Weltliteratur, or 'world literature,' a concept he championed as a means of promoting cross-cultural literary dialogue. The works chosen are likely to reflect the kind of profound influence that can be seen in Goethe's own oeuvre – a confluence of philosophy, rich characterization, and an unwavering exploration of the human condition.

Recommendation to readers is implicit in the anthology's title itself, yet affirming its value unequivocally—'The Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die' is an essential compass for navigating the vast sea of world literature. This carefully curated journey through the most pivotal narratives and ideas that have shaped our literary heritage is not just recommended but posited as invaluable to any true literary aficionado or anyone seeking to comprehend the breadth of human thought and emotion distilled through ages of poetic and narrative excellence. To delve into this anthology is to engage with the very essence of humanity's intellectual and creative achievements.
Available since: 10/11/2022.
Print length: 47067 pages.

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