The Ultimate Summer Read - Collection of 150 Masterpieces of the World Literature in One Volume
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 Brontë, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Niccolo 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, Ivan Turgenev, 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, Nikolái Gógol, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Lewis, Inazo Nitobé, Elizabeth von Arnim, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Cao Xueqin, L. M. Montgomery, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante, Apuleius, Thomas Hardy, ValmĪki, 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, Stendhal, Confucius, Voltaire, Gustave Flaubert, Sir Walter Scott, Homer Homer
Publisher: DigiCat
Summary
The Ultimate Summer Read presents an awe-inspiring tapestry of literary masterpieces that traverse time and genre, weaving a rich mosaic of human experience. This grand anthology brings together an extraordinary selection of works that span the globe and centuries, offering an unparalleled journey through stories that range from poignant to whimsical, profound to adventurous. From epic poetry to revolutionary philosophical discourse, and from the breathless suspense of Gothic tales to the heartfelt narratives of Victorian realism, this collection embodies the diversity and depth of storytelling itself. Among its treasures, the anthology shelves epics, novels, and stories that resonate with enduring themes of identity, freedom, and the complexities of the human spirit. Uniting voices as eclectic and profound as Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Austen, and Shakespeare, The Ultimate Summer Read stands as a testament to the timeless dialogue among the world's most influential literary figures. The authors encompass not only a cross-section of cultures and epochs but also an array of movements and ideologies, from the Enlightenment through Romanticism and into the sensibilities of Modernism. Culminating with the insightful compositions of Tagore, Whitman, and Nietzsche, these authors collectively enrich an exploration of universal questions in ways that are as varied as they are illuminating. For readers and scholars alike, this anthology offers the unparalleled pleasure of engaging with an array of perspectives and stylistic nuances within a single volume. It invites a profound appreciation of the interplay between distinct voices across time, revealing an intricate dialogue on the nature of existence and creativity. The Ultimate Summer Read is not only an enduring repository of exemplary literature but also an invaluable key to understanding the continuum of human thought and emotion, making it an essential companion for the intellectually curious and the literary aficionado.
Available since: 05/17/2022.
Print length: 47068 pages.
