50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

by Joseph Conrad

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!

The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the eBook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

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

• The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
• Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
• Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
• Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm
• The Iliad – Homer
• The Odyssey – Homer
• Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
• The Portray of a Lady - Henry James
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
• Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Red and the Black – Stendhal
• The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
• Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Also available :

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol 02
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol 03
Classics Authors Super Set Series 01

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Ebooks, Reference, Anthologies, Literature, Amazon

25022 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2019

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.

Reviews

[John Gwynant · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Rebel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boring

Some classic literature is more "thesis" writing than it is for simple reading enjoyment. This is one of them. Boring!

[Kyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Their all there! Can’t say I’ve read close to all.

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

For one dollar you have access to so many amazing works in the western cannon. I read Father Goriot on a whim and was so surprised by its depth. A year later and I’m still thinking about it.

[Brian McLoughlin · Rating 1 out of 5]

The contents would be magnificent if only I could read them on my Kindle. It malfunctioned and got stuck while reading ! Repeatedly. So I had to give up and delete it. It seems that the Kindle cannot handle the whole set of novels,

[Margaret Lamb]

I just bought this because it includes so many books that I want to read, and more that I have read and would like to read again. I'm sure I won't read all 50 books, but it was a real bargain from Kobo, so it will be worth the price even if I only end up reading 5 or 10 of them.

[Richard L Colemere · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too big of a bore. Can't stay with it. Give it up. Wasted time.

[Bill Geertsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Mr Donald J Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic writing - timeless.

[Kathleen Markrush Sousa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this many years ago , loved the series but only got to the 7th heaven. I decided to start over.

[Susan Feaster · Rating 5 out of 5]

I downloaded this to my Kindle for just $1. What a great investment! A numbers of favorites are the included as well as some I hadn’t previously read.

[Malcolm Watson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful compendium of "Classics", however, I did not get as much out of this as I did the first volume.
There are great stories here, many of which I had read.
A useful book to dip into.

[Karlene Gould · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just had to read and indulge in the next set too! Come on and read to enjoy the classics.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

A more accurate title would be - 50 books the snob literary elite class as masterpieces that you should at least attempt to get past page 5 on before you die....

[Peter Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Volume one of all the works of this incomparable author. Brilliant value. Superb and I have not read much of the lesser known works previously. Literally a great read

[Eric]

This edition that starts with The Divine Comedy is considered by Goodreads to be effectively the same as another that I -also- have downloaded- atm this review will therefore appear with both- that begins with Little Women and continues with Pride & Prejudice. They should be separated, as they are not in any way basically the same.

[Glenda Person · Rating 1 out of 5]

So many errors in ‘Little Women’ I had to stop reading. I kept getting returned to previous pages, or maybe the pages were repeated, I didn’t check, this has happened to me before with collections.
I do not recommend ever purchasing Collections. I suppose you could try removing the download, and download again, that will probably reset the collection to the beginning.