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

by Jane Austen

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names

- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka]
- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]
- The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne]
- The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne]
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne]
- The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells]
- The Time Machine [H. G. Wells]
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Ebooks, Reference, Literature

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Published August 25, 2019

About the author

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but brought her little fame in her lifetime. She wrote two other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1817—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.
Since her death Austen's novels have rarely been out of print. A significant transition in her reputation occurred in 1833, when they were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series (illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering and sold as a set). They gradually gained wide acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience. Her work has inspired a large number of critical essays and has been included in many literary anthologies. Her novels have also inspired many films, including 1940's Pride and Prejudice, 1995's Sense and Sensibility and 2016's Love & Friendship.

Reviews

[Charlie Doggett]

I just finished the first book in this collection, "Little Women," which was a pretty realistic history of a family of four daughters and what happened to each as they became adults - kind of a "prim and proper" Victorian soap opera that overall was a good picture of life in early America, and though a little boring at times, I basically enjoyed the book many had to read in high school but I then thought it was a "girl's book" and chose other options like Mark Twain or James Fennimore Cooper. :-)

The next book in this collection is "Jane Austen" and I may decide to skip over another "girl's book" and check out a different one I haven't read. We will see. :-) I'm a long way from reading all 50 books in this big volume, though many I have already read in the past.

[Rebel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love These Writer's

You can never go wrong when you have a compilaton of great writer's in one book. I usually don't get books that have more than 1 writer because it seems like a cheap way of writing as little as possible but charging you the max. I had just finished reading a volume paranormal book but if the stories are good and keep you interested I can't put them down until I finish.

[Pam McCallister · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book