The Greatest English Novels to Read in a Lifetime: 50 Penguin Classics in One Collection |
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| Authors: | Various |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000, FIC004000 |
| ISBN: | 9780525507901, Related ISBNs: 0525507906, 9780525507901 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 9999, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: Fifty timeless novels in one collection, plus additional bonus classics:
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
The Brontë Sisters by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Three Novels of New York by Edith Wharton Gray
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
The Brontë Sisters by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Three Novels of New York by Edith Wharton Gray
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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