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Classics: From the Iliad to Midnight's Children (Paperback)



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ISBN-13: 9788122204988
Language: English

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Imprint: Orient Publishing

Publication Date: 05 Jul, 2010

Pages Count: 256 Pages

Weight: 290.00 Grams

Dimensions: 5.50 x 8.50 Inches


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About the Book:

A celebration of the greatest works of literature: why they matter, what they give us and why they continue to be regarded as important.

What are the qualities that give some books a passionate new readership with every new generation, even centuries after their authors' lifetime? Classics journeys into our reading past to rediscover the great masterpieces that move and inspire us, and to learn why they still resonate with us today. It also identifies some to the great books of the present times and why are they called 'modern classics'.

These books are invaluable for their insights into the human heart and soul; for their wisdom and humour; for their worth as records of social, political and economic life in other times and places; and for their extraordinary mastery of language — so extraordinary, that each book serves as a storehouse of literary quality, of style, rhythm, vocabulary, and ingenuity of expression.

This masterly selection of books, Classics, is an inspiring feast of all-time great books of the world — books that are read, loved, treasured, and re-read.

It is your invitation to those great works you always wanted to read to understand human culture and explore some of the most enduring writings of the world. It represents a small cosmos of 2,500 years of our literary heritage.

These are some of the best loved books, books which have endured and will continue to live on.

Introduction

  1. Iliad by Homer
  2. Aeneid by Virgil
  3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  6. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  7. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  8. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  9. The Marbel Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  10. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
  14. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  16. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  18. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  19. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  22. Pan by Knut Hamsun
  23. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  24. Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
  25. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  26. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
  27. Howards End by E M Forster
  28. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  29. Ulysses by James Joyce
  30. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  31. Women in Love by D H Lawrence
  32. Prelude by Katherine Mansfield
  33. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  34. Nighthood by Djuna Barnes
  35. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
  36. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  37. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  38. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  39. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  40. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  41. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
  42. The Outside by Albert Camus
  43. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
  44. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
  45. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  46. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
  47. The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
  48. The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal
  49. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  50. Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee
  51. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

 

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