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The Greatest British Classics: Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Hamlet…
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices:
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Odes (John Keats)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
Howards End (E. M. Forster)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw)
The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
Phantastes (George MacDonald)
Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Odes (John Keats)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
Howards End (E. M. Forster)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw)
The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
Phantastes (George MacDonald)
Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
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Published December 21, 2018
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Charles Dickens
12.1k books31k followersCharles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
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September 3, 2024I find I don’t read large collections, but at a low price, I bought it anyway. There might be some works in it which I otherwise would not have.
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