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"50 Masterpieces of World Literature" is a unique collection of works of literature that everyone should read in order to consider themselves an educated person. The authors and their works were selected as a result of painstaking analysis of readership demand over the past 100 years. This book is for those who want to know the world around them and themselves, learn history, understand catchphrases and phrases from literary works.
Content:
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Homer Iliad
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Niccolo Machiavelli Sovereign
William Shakespeare King Lear
Frederick Schiller The Maid of Orleans
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Suffering of Young Werther
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Provincial Manners
Frederic Stendhal Red and Black
Franz Kafka Transformation
George Byron Childe Harold
Eliot George Mill on Flosse
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Mark Twain Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Arthur Conan Doyle Marakotova Abyss
H.G. Wells The Invisible Man
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo vadis
Joseph Conrad Secret Agent
Jack London Martin Eden
Edgar Allan Poe The Golden Beetle
Arthur Schopenhauer About the insignificance and sorrows of life
Sigmund Freud Psychology of the masses and analysis of the human "I"
George Orwell 1984, Animal Farm
Evgeny Zamyatin We
Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Alexander Pushkin The Queen of Spades
Mikhail Lermontov Masquerade
Nikolay Gogol Taras Bulba
Ivan Goncharov Oblomov
Nikolay Leskov The Enchanted Wanderer
Ivan Turgenev First love
Anton Chekhov Steppe
Ivan Bunin Dark alleys
Alexander Kuprin Duel
Maxim Gorky The Life of Klim Samgin
Alexey Tolstoy Aelita
Mikhail Bulgakov White Guard
Valentin Rasputin French lessons
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Predatory things of the century