The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Journey across centuries of epic poetry with some of the most influential voices in world literature. The Epic Poems Anthology brings together major epic works associated with Homer, Virgil, Marcel Proust, and John Milton, with Samuel Butler contributing as translator. From the legendary heroes of ancient Greece and Rome to Milton's monumental vision of Paradise, temptation, rebellion, and redemption, this collection explores the enduring themes that have shaped epic literature for centuri...

What if a single taste, scent, or sound could unlock an entire lost world? In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is one of the monumental achievements of modern literature—a vast exploration of memory, time, love, art, society, desire, and human consciousness. Through the narrator's reflections and experiences, Proust transforms seemingly ordinary moments into profound explorations of the past. Memories return unexpectedly, relationships evolve, and the passage of time changes how people...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

A man tastes a madeleine soaked in tea and the whole of his childhood returns unbidden — the most famous few pages in modern fiction open a novel that is, in fact, about how little we control what we remember. Proust wrote through the night in a cork-lined room and could not find a publisher for the first volume; he paid for it himself.

"‘In Search of Lost Time’ is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." —Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman’." —Bengt Holmqvist "Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" —Virginia Woolf "The greatest fiction to date." —W. Somerset Maugham "Proust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century." —Graham ...

Journey through some of the greatest poetic achievements in literary history with this remarkable collection of timeless classics. Discover "The Epic Poems Anthology," an inspiring collection that brings together celebrated works by legendary authors including Homer, Virgil, John Milton, and others. Spanning centuries of literary tradition, this anthology showcases the enduring power of epic poetry and classic verse through unforgettable narratives, legendary heroes, and profound reflectio...

Experience one of the greatest achievements in world literature through Marcel Proust's timeless masterpiece. Discover "In Search of Lost Time," Marcel Proust's monumental novel, celebrated as one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literature. Renowned for its remarkable psychological depth, lyrical prose, and profound exploration of memory and human experience, this literary masterpiece continues to captivate readers around the world. Through richly developed characters an...

Memory. Time. Desire. The most introspective journey in literature begins here. In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) is the monumental literary achievement of Marcel Proust, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written. Spanning seven volumes, this introspective masterpiece delves deep into the human psyche, exploring the elusive nature of time, the power of memory, and the fragile beauty of life itself. With exquisite prose and philosophical depth, Proust r...

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...