World's Greatest Classics in One Volume: Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, War and Peace, Art of War, Faust, Don Quixote, Bushido...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Stendhal · Jules Verne · Gustave Flaubert · Lewis Carroll · Henrik Ibsen · Charles Dickens · Plato · Honoré de Balzac · Mark Twain · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Rabindranath Tagore · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Walt Whitman · Niccolò Machiavelli · Oscar Wilde · Robert Louis Stevenson · James Fenimore Cooper · Edgar Allan Poe · William Shakespeare · Giovanni Boccaccio · Confucius, · George MacDonald · Bram Stoker · Charlotte Brontë · Emily Brontë · Henry David Thoreau · Weedon Grossmith · Jack London · Henry James · Louisa May Alcott · Victor Hugo · Arthur Conan Doyle · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Joseph Conrad · Jane Austen · Herman Melville · George Eliot · Laurence Sterne · Thomas Hardy · Jonathan Swift · Edith Wharton · Benito Pérez Galdós · Daniel Defoe · Henry Fielding · Alexandre Dumas · Kalidasa · Kenneth Grahame · Marcel Proust · Willa Cather · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Homer · Gaston Leroux · Charles Baudelaire · Wilkie Collins · William Makepeace Thackeray · Voltaire · Kate Chopin · Apuleius · John Milton · Frederick Douglass · Laozi · John Keats · James Joyce · Ann Ward Radcliffe · Kahlil Gibran · Kakuzo Okakura · Soseki Natsume · Princess Der Ling · H. G. Wells · W. B. Yeats · J. M. Barrie · G. K. Chesterton · T. S. Eliot · L. M. Montgomery · C. S. Lewis · D. H. Lawrence · E. M. Forster · H. P. Lovecraft · Marcus Aurelius · Friedrich Nietzsche · Lewis Wallace · Ivan Turgenev · Anton Chekhov · Leo Tolstoy · Nikolai Gogol · Sir Walter Scott · George Bernard Shaw · Miguel de Cervantes · Mary Shelley · Cao Xueqin · Emile Zola · Válmíki · Bankim Chandra Chatterjee · P. B. Shelley · Elizabeth von Arnim · Herman Hesse · Dante · Pedro Calderon de la Barca · Sun Tzu · Inazo Nitobé

Dec 2023 · Good Press

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