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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 - cover

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Emily Brontë, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Anne Brontë, Honoré de Balzac, Willa Cather, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce, E. E. Cummings, Miguel de Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert

Publisher: Zenith Whispering Pines Publishers

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Novels
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"

Available since: 12/18/2025.

Print length: 12300 pages.

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