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The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 1 - William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy Jane Austen Herman Melville Charlotte Brontë Fyodor Dostoyevsky Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Twain Victor Hugo - cover

The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 1 - William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy Jane Austen Herman Melville Charlotte Brontë Fyodor Dostoyevsky Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Twain Victor Hugo

William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

This pocket library of world classics includes the most treasured and influential works by the greatest novelists and poets in history.  
This volume presents:
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works 
Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels 
Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels 
Jane Austen: The Complete Novels 
Herman Melville: The Complete Novels
Charlotte Brontë: The Complete Novels
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels
Mark Twain: The Complete Novels
Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels
Available since: 07/19/2024.
Print length: 40000 pages.

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