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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die : The Secret Garden, The Odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Scarlet Letter, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula and others

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words.

This volume includes famous works:

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Homer - The Iliad

Homer - The Odyssey

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Lyman Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House Of The Seven Gables

Thomas Hardy - Jude The Obscure

Robert Louis Stevenson -The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Henry Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

Wilkie Collins - The Woman In White

H. G. Wells - The Island Of Doctor Moreau

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone A Romance

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne Of Green Gables

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Henry Fielding - Amelia

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Euripides - Medea

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime And Punishment

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin A Romance Of Russian Life In Verse

James Fenimore Cooper - The Last Of The Mohicans

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Joseph Conrad - Heart Of Darkness

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

William Shakespeare - Romeo And Juliet

William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

William Shakespeare - Othello

Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray

John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come

Charles Darwin - The Origin Of Species Or The Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life

Alfred Tennyson - Idylls Of The King

Bram Stoker - Dracula

James Joyce - Ulysses

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy

Howard Pyle - Robin Hood

Jane Austen - Emma

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Thomas Hardy - Tess Of The D'urbervilles A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron

Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book


Authors:

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Homer
  • Charles Dickens
  • Lyman Frank Baum
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Henry Haggard
  • Wilkie Collins
  • H. G. Wells
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Henry Fielding
  • Mary Shelley
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Euripides
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Jonathan Swift
  • William Shakespeare
  • Oscar Wilde
  • John Bunyan
  • Charles Darwin
  • Alfred Tennyson
  • Bram Stoker
  • James Joyce
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Howard Pyle
  • Jane Austen
  • Emily Bronte
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Rudyard Kipling

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