20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......

This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:

Anonymous: “Beowulf”

Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan”

Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita”

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars”

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes”

Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Carroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking Glass”

Chesterton, G. K.: “The Man Who Was Thursday”

Dickens, Charles: “A Christmas Carol”

Dunsany, Lord: “The King of Elfland’s Daughter”

Eddison, E. R.: “The Worm Ouroboros”

Howard, Robert E.: “The Hour of the Dragon”

Howard, Robert E.: “Solomon Kane”

MacDonald, George: “Phantastes”

MacDonald, George: “The Princess and the Goblin”

Malory, Thomas: “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”

Ruskin, John: “The King of the Golden River”

Twain, Mark: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”

1760 books
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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2717 books
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
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484 books
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) is best known for his creation of Tarzan of the jungle and of the heroic John Carter who adventured on Mars, although he is also the author of many other novels in a range of genres.
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302 books
J. M. Barrie
J.M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892. Peter Pan, first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story of Peter Pan first appeared in book form (titled Peter and Wendy, and later Peter Pan and Wendy) in 1911. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.
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728 books
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four “lost” novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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581 books
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
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20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......

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Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Edgar Rice Burroughs

J. M. Barrie

L. Frank Baum

Lewis Carroll