The Greatest Literary Classics Of All Time
By Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, George Weedon Grossmith, H.G. Wells, Willkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, James Matthew Barrie, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, L.M. Montgomery, Homer, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Gaston Leroux, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kalidasa, Valmiki, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Cao Xueqin, Princess Der Ling, Inazo Nitobe, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, L. Frank Baum, Theodor Storm, Juan Valera & Rudyard Kipling
- Release Date: 2020-12-17
- Genre: Literary Criticism
Description
The 'Greatest Literary Classics of All Time' is a monumental anthology that encapsulates a diverse array of profound narratives, each sculpted by distinct literary styles and epoch-defining insights. Spanning genres from epic poetry to foundational philosophical treatises, this collection showcases seminal works that have each, in their own right, shaped the contours of world literature. From the intricate psychological novels of James and the gothic horrors of Poe and Stoker, to the societal critiques of Austen and Dickens, and the existential musings of Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche, each piece stands out, contributing uniquely to this veritable mosaic of human thought and creativity. This collection draws from a wealth of literary traditions and movements, with contributors who hail from the annals of both Western and Eastern literary canons. These authors bring with them not only their geographical and cultural backgrounds but also the rich intertextuality of their eras—Renaissance humanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism. The anthology thus offers a panoramic view of the cultural dialogues that have persistently influenced and propelled literary innovation and cultural discourse over centuries. 'Readers and scholars alike will find in 'The Greatest Literary Classics of All Time' an invaluable resource and a compelling invitation to delve into the rich tapestry of global literary heritage. This anthology is not merely a collection but a dialogue across time, providing an unparalleled opportunity to explore the intersections of narrative form, philosophical inquiry, and the perennial quest to understand human nature and society. For anyone seeking to comprehend the breadth and depth of literary genius, this book promises an enlightening and endlessly engaging journey.
