This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street London, Jack: The Call of the Wild Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness Mann, Thomas: Royal Highness Maugham, William Somerset: Of Human Bondage Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa Sand, George: The Devil's Pool Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis Sinclair, May: Life and Death of Harriett Frean Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Stendhal: The Red and the Black Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island Stoker, Bram: Dracula Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray Xueqin, Cao: The Dream of the Red Chamber Zola, Émile: Germinal
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Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal, Mark Twain, James Joyce, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K. Chesterton, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Vatsyayana, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Pieter Harting, O. Henry, Arthur Morrison
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2]
by Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal, Mark Twain, James Joyce, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K. Chesterton, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Vatsyayana, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Pieter Harting, O. Henry, Arthur Morrison
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