50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

by Louisa May Alcott, Dante Alighieri, Marcus Aurelius

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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.

1. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

2. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

3. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

4. Emma (Jane Austen)

5. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

7. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

8. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)

10. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)

11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)

12. The Richest Man in Babylon (George S. Clason)

13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

14. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

15. A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

16. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

17. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

18. Middlemarch (George Eliot)

19. The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)

20. The Border Legion (Zane Grey)

21. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

22. Think And Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)

23. The Odyssey (Homer)

24. The Iliad (Homer)

25. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)

26. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

27. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

28. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)

29. The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

30. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

31. The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)

32. The Call Of The Wild (Jack London)

33. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

34. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

35. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P Lovecraft)

36. The Call of Cthulhu (H.P Lovecraft)

37. Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

38. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Joseph Murphy)

39. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

40. The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)

41. Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)

42. The Federalist Papers (Publius)

43. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

44. Dracula (Bram Stoker)

45. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark twain)

46. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

47. Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)

48. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace)

49.The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles)

50. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)

Genres: Fiction, Classics

23797 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2020

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old is Gold.

:-) Nostalgic memories from childhood..