50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol 2

by Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:

Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow
Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly
Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
London, Jack: The Call of the Wild
Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness
Mann, Thomas: Royal Highness
Maugham, William Somerset: Of Human Bondage
Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher
Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa
Sand, George: The Devil’s Pool
Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis
Sinclair, May: Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur
Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine
West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Xueqin, Cao: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Zola, Émile: Germinal

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

14160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2019

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

[Malcolm Watson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of "must reads" to consider.
I have picked those that I wanted to read and had not already done so.
A great way to discover books and read old favourites.

[Margaret Lamb]

I just bought this along with Volume 1 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.

[Brian W. Riggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a steal!

Glad I have it a chance, wouldn't have read half these without this collection! I even went back and bought the first volume after reading this one.

[Bela Pitria Hakim Nugraha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ini kayaknya beneran masterpiece cuma akunya aja yang ga ngerti hehehehe

[Shawna Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been reading this on and off.
So far so good .Lots of stories I have never heard of

[Samantha Markins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Traveling on vacation is an ideal time to bring along a companion of stories in a compilation.

[Erin L · Rating 1 out of 5]

Transcriptional nightmare.

Has a great collection of works but is nearly incomprehensible with the astoundingly abysmal transcription. Words that don't exist, barely any punctuation, garbled translations, no grammatical context whatsoever. As a quick list of what to read it's ok at best. If one intends to actually READ any of these collections, get them from some place else because they are unreadable here.

[Susana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have only read one book in the collection: Germinal. I was very engaged with the content, but the translation is very poor. Because I speak more than one language, I can get what they mean, but definitely many of the words used were not the appropriate ones; one word that comes to mind because it's used many times is 'without' in place of outside. And like this, many others. It makes you stop and try to make sense of what they want to say.

[RA2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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