50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die: Vol. 2

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne

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

13166 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2019

About the author

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.

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 · 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.

[Deborah]

Love to have so many classics around my finger tips. Reread Wuthering Heights. Left with same impressions as years ago: Nasty people hurting friends and relatives.

[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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