90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.II)

Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy

• Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Theodor Storm, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Confucius,, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, William Dean Howells, Kalidasa, Virginia Woolf, William Walker Atkinson, Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Wilkie Collins, Ford Madox Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Kate Chopin, John Milton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Laozi, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kakuzo Okakura, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, W. Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Wallace, Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, George Bernard Shaw, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Válmíki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Émile Coué, George Weedon Grossmith, D.H. Lawrence, Machiavelli,
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Pages: 27947
• OTHER: EAN:8596547723219
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical ,

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