Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
243 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Justine / Lawrence Durrell -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native sons / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- |
Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Books and reading.
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Best books.
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ISBN |
0963124676: $16.95 |
Standard No. |
9780963124678 |
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