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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 3 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics) - cover

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 3 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, G.K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Golden Deer Classics

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen] - The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] - Meditations [Marcus Aurelius] - Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen] - Lady Susan par [Jane Austen] - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum] - The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie] - The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish] - The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland] - The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins] - Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad] - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe] - The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens] - A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens] - Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky] - The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky] - The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas] - The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] - This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] - Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell] - King Solomon's Mines [Henry Rider Haggard] - The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo] - Kim [Rudyard Kipling] - Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling] - The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling] - Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence] - The Son of the Wolf [Jack London] - The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz] - The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] - At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] - The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli] - The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery] - The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche] - The Republic [Plato] - The Last Man [Mary Shelley] - Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain] - The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana
Available since: 01/12/2013.

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