Classics: 11 Great Books

by Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Jane Austen

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The Collection
•Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
•Moby Dick by Herman Melville
•Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
•Art of War by Sun Tzu
•King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles
•The Odyssey by Samuel Butler
•The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
•The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
•The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
•This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
•Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kindle Edition

First published August 18, 2015

About the author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.