50 Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die: Volume 2 - Unleash Your Inner Bookworm

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, Pocket Classic, Gustave Flaubert

Summary

Embark on a transformative journey through time and cultures with Vol. 2 of our acclaimed "50 Masterpieces" collection!
Dive into timeless tales from literary giants like James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Leo Tolstoy. Experience the thrills of adventure with classics like
"Treasure Island" and "Moby Dick." Explore the depths of human nature with "The Scarlet Letter" and "War and Peace." This meticulously curated volume features easy-to-navigate HTML tables of content for a seamless reading experience."A must-have for any bibliophile! A fantastic selection that will keep you turning pages long into the night." - Bookish Blog
Don't miss this opportunity to expand your literary horizons and discover the transformative power of great storytelling. Start reading today!
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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"

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