100 Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss

Die englischen Klassiker, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben erleben sollte – in dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Literatur: die bewegenden und zeitlosen Liebesgeschichten, die großen Abenteuerromane und Reiseberichte, die meisterhaften Klassiker des Horrors und der Science-Fiction, die einflussreichen psychologischen und philosophischen Werke sowie die gesellschaftskritischen Romane von bleibender Bedeutung:

Die Canterbury-Erzählungen (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Doktor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)

Sonnete (William Shakespeare)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Romeo und Juliette (William Shakespeare)

Macbeth (William Shakespeare)

Ein Sommernachtstraum (William Shakespeare)

Viel Lärm um Nichts (William Shakespeare)

Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (William Shakespeare)

Coriolanus (William Shakespeare)

Richard III. (William Shakespeare)

König Lear (William Shakespeare)

Othello (William Shakespeare)

Das verlorene Paradies (John Milton)

Lieder und Balladen (Robert Burns)

Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen)

Emma (Jane Austen)

Überredung (Jane Austen)

Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Königin Mab (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Manfred (Lord Byron)

Don Juan (Lord Byron)

Gedichte (John Keats)

Gedichte (William Wordsworth)

Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten (Charles Dickens)

David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

Sturmhöhe (Emily Brontë)

Die Herrin von Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)

Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Middlemarch (George Eliot)

Lady Chatterleys Liebhaber (D. H. Lawrence)

Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

Bartleby, der Schreiber (Herman Melville)

Schau heimwärts, Engel! (Thomas Wolfe)

Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad)

Die Hauptstraße (Sinclair Lewis)

Grashalme (Walt Whitman)

Der Rabe (Edgar Allan Poe)

Die denkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Artur Gordon Pym (Edgar Allan Poe)

Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)

Das schwatzende Herz (Edgar Allan Poe)

Das Geschenk der Weisen (O. Henry)

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Die Bedeutung des Ernstseins (Oscar Wilde)

Drei Mann in einem Boot (Jerome K. Jerome)

Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)

Drakula (Bram Stoker)

Die Zeitmaschine (H. G. Wells)

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

Ben Hur (Lew Wallace)

Der letzte Mohikaner (James Fenimore Cooper)

Gullivers Reisen (Jonathan Swift)

Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Die Schatzinsel (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers (Mark Twain)

Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Alice im Wunderland (Lewis Carrol)

Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)

Rob Roy (Walter Scott)

Die letzten Tage von Pompeji (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Onkel Toms Hütte (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Das Dschungelbuch (Rudyard Kipling)

Kleine Frauen (Louisa May Alcott)

Anne auf Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

Der geheime Garten (Francis Hodgson Burnett)

Die Forsyte-Saga (John Galsworthy)

Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)

Der große Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Eine Studie in Scharlachrot (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolfsblut (Jack London)

Martin Eden (Jack London)

Walden (Henry David Thoreau)

Menschenskind (G. K. Chesterton)

Zeit der Unschuld (Edith Wharton)

Porträt einer Dame (Henry James)

Die Drehung der Schraube (Henry James)

Tess von den d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore)

Vom Winde verweht (Margaret Mitchell)

Das Gartenfest (Katherine Mansfield)

Das Erwachen (Kate Chopin)

O Pioniere! (Willa Cather)

Der Cthulhu-Mythos (H. P. Lovecraft)

Ulysses (James Joyce)

Die gelbe Tapete (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

Farm der Tiere (George Orwell)

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H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft was a master of horror and gothic fiction, influencing a generation of writers and creating dark worlds that still haunt the speculative fiction of today. In his early years Lovecraft corresponded with amateur writers and editors, wrote essays, poetry and reviews for amateur magazines. In the 1920s he began to sell to the popular pulp magazines of the day, like Weird Tales and Astonishing Tales.
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William Wordsworth
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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John Milton
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Mary Shelley
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. The novel’s violence and passion shocked the Victorian public and led to the belief that it was written by a man. Although Emily died young (at the age of 30), her sole complete work is now considered a masterpiece of English literature.
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Charlotte Brontë
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Anne Brontë
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George Eliot
George Eliot, born as Mary Ann Evans in 1819, grew up in England, quickly learning about the Victorian culture around her despite the country¿s increasing growth of industrialism. Eliot did exceptionally well at the boarding schools she attended as a child. Her road to success was being paved. At the age of seventeen her mother died, leaving her to manage the household with the help of her sister. Yet Eliot would become much more than a homemaker. Soon she began writing for the Westminster Review, eventually rising to the rank of assistant editor. It was here where she met the already married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived until his death. It was this relationship which helped her rise in the ranks of the literary community, eventually becoming a famous author. Eliot’s move to London in 1849 marked a new beginning for her promising career, quickly improving her circle of literary friends. Soon she was disowned by her family when they realized she was living in sin with Lewes, whom she regarded as her true, if not legal, husband. Eliot would also leave her church, deciding that she didn’t believe in the faith any longer. Despite her rejection by her family and others for these matters, Eliot would soon gain acceptance as one of the foremost (and highest paid) novelists of her time. Silas Marner was published in 1861 under the penname of George Eliot, when she was forty-two years of age.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. After his father's death he left school for a series of clerical jobs before going to sea as a young man of nineteen. At twenty-one he shipped aboard the whaler Acushnet and began a series of adventures in the South Seas that would last for three years and form the basis for his first two novels, Typee and Omoo. Although these two novels sold well and gained for Melville a measure of fame, nineteenth-century readers were puzzled by the experiments with form that he began with his third novel, Mardi, and continued brilliantly in his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. During his later years spent working as a customs inspector on the New York docks, Melville published only poems, compiled in a collection entitled Battle-Pieces, and died in 1891 with Billy Budd, Sailor, now considered a classic, still unpublished.
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Virginia Woolf
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Oscar Wilde
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Washington Irving
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H.G. Wells
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Daniel Defoe
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Jonathan Swift
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
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Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and is regarded as his most notable work.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Margaret Mitchell
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American author and journalist. As a former newspaper reporter, she began Gone with the Wind in 1926. Only two people—the author and her husband—saw the manuscript before it reached the publisher. Gone with the Wind was awarded the National Book Award in 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and is one of the most bestselling novels of all time.
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Willa Cather
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Celebrated feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She is perhaps best remembered as the author of the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, which details a woman’s descent into madness after she is cooped up in a misguided attempt to restore her to health. The story was a clear indicator of Gilman’s views on the restraints of women and related to her own treatment for postpartum depression.
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James Joyce
James Joyce (1882–1941) is best known for his experimental use of language and his exploration of new literary methods. His subtle yet frank portrayal of human nature, coupled with his mastery of language, made him one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century. Joyce’s use of “stream-of-consciousness” reveals the flow of impressions, half thoughts, associations, hesitations, impulses, as well as the rational thoughts of his characters. The main strength of his masterpiece novel, Ulysses (1922) lies in the depth of character portrayed using this technique. Joyce’s other major works include Dubliners, a collection of short stories that portray his native city, a semi-autobiographical novel called A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (1916), and Finnegan’s Wake (1939).
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), was a Canadian author best known for her series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, which was an immediate success. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. She was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is best known for Little Women (1868), which is loosely based on her own life and proved to be one of the most popular children’s books ever written. Three sequels followed: Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo’s Boys (1886). Alcott was the daughter of the famous transcendentalist Bronson Alcott and was friend of Emerson and Thoreau. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher, governess, and Civil War nurse, as well as being an advocate of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance. She died in 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. One of the most revered writers in recent history, many of his works are deemed classic literature. To this day, he maintains an avid following and reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of the past two centuries. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1936, but his stories live on—even eighty years after his passing.
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100 Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss

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1984

George Orwell

La Ferme des Animaux

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La Ferme des animaux

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La ferme des animaux

George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

La Ferme des animaux

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1984

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

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Why I Write

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Politics and the English Language

George Orwell

Looking Back On The Spanish War

George Orwell

Farm der Tiere : Eine fesselnde dystopische Fabel

George Orwell

George Orwell

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

H. P. Lovecraft

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Milton

William Shakespeare

Mary Shelley

Emily Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Anne Brontë

George Eliot

D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville

Virginia Woolf

Joseph Conrad

Edgar Allan Poe

Oscar Wilde

Washington Irving

Bram Stoker

H.G. Wells

Daniel Defoe

James Fenimore Cooper

Jonathan Swift

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mark Twain

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jack London

Edith Wharton

Henry James

Thomas Hardy

Margaret Mitchell

Willa Cather

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

James Joyce

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Louisa May Alcott

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