180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2)
By Virginia Woolf, P. B. Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Kenneth Grahame, Rabindranath Tagore, George Weedon Grossmith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, James Fenimore Cooper, George MacDonald, James Matthew Barrie, Alexandre Dumas, Homer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Dante, William Dean Howells, Kakuzo Okakura, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, John Buchan, Edgar Wallace, William Walker Atkinson, Emile Coué, G. K. Chesterton, D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Émile Zola, Theodor Storm, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Fielding, Jerome K. Jerome, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Edgar Allan Poe, Willkie Collins, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Gaston Leroux, H.G. Wells, Lewis Wallace, Washington Irving, Machiavelli, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Confucius, Laozi, John Milton, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Von Arnim & Cao Xueqin
- Release Date: 2020-12-17
- Genre: Classics
Description
180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) presents an unparalleled assembly of literary greatness, convening the works of seminal authors from diverse epochs and regions in a single volume. This anthology spans myriad literary periods and styles, from the classical poise of Homer to the modernist complexities of Virginia Woolf. The collection navigates through a vast landscape of thematic profundities, exploring human consciousness, societal norms, and existential dilemmas. Highlighted within are pieces renowned for shifting the literary paradigm, offering readers a comprehensive spectrum of revolutionary thought and narrative innovation. The authors and editors selected for this anthology are not merely writers but architects of culture and thought, each contributing uniquely to various literary and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and the Enlightenment. Figures like Dickens and Tolstoy offer perspectives steeped in the sociopolitical fabrics of their times, while poets like Yeats and Shelley echo the timeless human condition through lyrical profundity. This tapestry of literary genius not only reflects the historical and cultural zeitgeist of multiple eras but also presents a cohesive exploration of core human themes through a multitude of narrative lenses. '180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2)' is an essential tome for any lover of literature. It promises an enriching journey through the corridors of global literary heritage, providing not just stories, but windows into varying eras and intellects. This anthology is recommended for both the scholarly inclined and the casually curious, promising both breadth and depth in insights, and an exceptional opportunity to witness a dialogic encounter between some of the most influential voices in world literature.
