| Description |
xiii, 318 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318). |
| Contents |
Fiction: Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813 ; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818 ; Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838 ; Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847 ; Vanity fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847 ; Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 ; War and peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867-1869 ; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1885 ; The hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 ; Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1904 ; The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 ; Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926 ; All quiet on the western front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929 ; Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936 ; The hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 ; The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 ; For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940 ; Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell, 1949 ; The catcher in the rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951 ; From here to eternity, James Jones, 1951 ; Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953 ; Lord of the flies, William Golding, 1954 ; Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 ; The cat in the hat, Dr. Seuss, 1957 ; Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957 ; To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 ; The spy who came in from the cold, John Le Carré, 1963 ; Valley of the dolls, Jacqueline Susann, 1966 ; The godfather, Mario Puzo, 1969 ; The day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth, 1971 ; Carrie, Stephen King, 1974 ; Jaws, Peter Benchley, 1974 ; Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie, 1981 ; The color purple, Alice Walker, 1982 ; Hollywood wives, Jackie Collins, 1983 ; Bridget Jone's diary, Helen Fielding, 1996 ; Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, J. K. Rowling, 1997 ; True history of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey, 2000 ; The Da Vinci code, Dan Brown, 2003. |
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authorship.
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Best sellers.
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| Added Author |
Sheedy, Chris.
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| ISBN |
9780143113645 |
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014311364X |
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