Jane Austen: The Complete Collection

EXCLUSIVE AND UNPARALLELED COLLECTION OF THE WORLD'S BEST NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND POEMS!!!

THE COMPLETE HARVARD CLASSICS LIBRARY - "THE SHELF OF FICTION"

Selected by Harvard University and fully revised and updated.

200 OF THE GREATEST WORKS EVER WRITTEN - NOW AVAILABLE IN A SINGLE, FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED, EBOOK VOLUME

This incredible Harvard Classics Library Complete Shelf of Fiction collection represents a lifetime of reading, carefully selected by the world's leading experts on literature and philosophy at Harvard University. The publication of the Harvard Classics Library Complete Shelf of Fiction represents a milestone literary event. For the first time ALL of these works are available in a single volume.

These are 200 works that everyone should read before they die. It includes such well known classics as Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, the Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, as well as relatively unfamiliar works.

As former Harvard University president Charles Eliot writes, "There is no work in the series which does not illustrate good literary form, and none which may not be read over and over again with pleasure and profit. It provides the intellectually ambitious family with a body of interesting and enjoyable literature, good not only for the present generation but for their children and grandchildren."

SELECTED EXTRACT FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

- The Complete Sonnets and Major Poems By William Shakespeare
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling By Henry Fielding
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy By Laurence Sterne
- Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
- Guy Mannering By Sir Walter Scott
- Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray
- David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
- The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
- The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Rip Van Winkle By Washington Irving
- Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter By Edgar Allan Poe
- The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Idyl of Red Gulch By Francis Bret Harte
- Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog By Mark Twain
- The Man without a Country By Edward Everett Hale
- Portrait of a Lady By Henry James
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame By Victor Marie Hugo
- Old Goriot By Honore de Balzac
- The Devil's Pool By George Sand
- The Story of a White Blackbird By Alfred de Musset
- Two Friends By Guy de Maupassant
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship By J. W. von Goethe
- The Banner of the Upright Seven By Gottfried Keller
- The Rider on the White Horse By Theodor Storm
- Trials and Tribulations By Theodor Fontane
- Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Fathers and Sons By Ivan Turgenev
- Pepita Jimenez By Juan Valera
- A Happy Boy By Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Skipper Worse By Alexander L. Kielland

and hundreds of pages of more works of outstanding literature!

ESPECIALLY FORMATTED FOR NOOK WITH INTERACTIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS AND FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY SCHOLARS!

- Fully eBook enabled

- Interactive table of contents

- Color illustrations

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EVERY SINGLE NOVEL BY LEO TOLSTOY

(INCLUDING WAR AND PEACE, ANNA KARENINA, CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH, THE COSSACKS, KREUTZER SONATA)

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• Photographs of Tolstoy and his family
• Additional biographical and historical materials on various aspects of Tolstoy's life and literary legacy
• Fully eBook enabled with fully interactive table of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- LEO TOLSTOY: BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

- CHILDHOOD
- BOYHOOD
- YOUTH

- FAMILY HAPPINESS

- THE COSSACKS

- WAR AND PEACE
- ANNA KARENINA
- THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH

- THE KREUTZER SONATA
- RESURRECTION
- HADJI MURAD

Excerpt:

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it."

- Anna Karenina

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Illustrated in Color with Extensive Critical and Historical Commentary and The Complete Biography of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell!

CONTAINS ALL OF THE UNABRIDGED WORKS OF ANNE BRONTE, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, AND EMILY BRONTE AS WELL AS

• OVER 10 COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
• EXTENSIVE HISTORICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARY
• CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE OF THE BRONTE SISTERS, AS WELL AS THE
• COMPLETE ACCLAIMED BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE BY ELIZABETH GASKELL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Anne Brontë
  • Poems by Acton Bell
  • Agnes Grey
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• Charlotte Brontë
  • Poems by Currer Bell
  • Jane Eyre
  • Shirley
  • Villette
  • The Professor

• Emily Brontë
  • Poems by Ellis Bell
  • Wuthering Heights

• Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë

• CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAY: THE LITERARY LEGACY OF THE THREE BRONTE SISTERS

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1. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION eBooks are priced as low as possible in order to offer unbelievable value and hours of reading pleasure for readers. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION eBooks bring together ALL the complete works of a classic literary author, character or series in a single, extremely low priced volume in a single download, thereby freeing up valuable space and visual clutter on your eBook device.

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43 works of William Shakespeare
English poet and playwright (1564-1616)

This ebook presents a collection of 43 works of William Shakespeare. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.

Table of Contents:
- A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare
- A Lover’s Complaint
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV - Part I
- Henry IV - Part II
- Henry V
- Henry VI - Part I
- Henry VI - Part II
- Henry VI - Part III
- Henry VIII
- History of Troilus and Cressida
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- King Richard II
- King Richard III
- Loues Labour's Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Life of Timon of Athens
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Winter's Tale
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis

Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. With the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", Dostoyevsky wrote Notes from Underground (1864), which has been called the "best overture for existentialism ever written" by Walter Kaufmann. He is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. Now, you have the opportunity to read his greatest works, all in one book: The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Gambler and Notes from the Underground. Enjoy!

Pride and Prejudice is the story of Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular books ever written maintaining its attraction for modern readers due to its timeless themes of love, marriage and morality.

This Book Contains :

PERSUASION

   NORTHANGER ABBEY

   MANSFIELD PARK

   EMMA

   LADY SUSAN

   LOVE AND FREINDSHIP AND OTHER EARLY WORKS

   PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

   SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.[B] From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.
Biographical information concerning Jane Austen is "famously scarce", according to one biographer. Only some personal and family letters remain (by one estimate only 160 out of Austen's 3,000 letters are extant), and her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the letters were originally addressed) burned "the greater part" of the ones she kept and censored those she did not destroy. Other letters were destroyed by the heirs of Admiral Francis Austen, Jane's brother. Most of the biographical material produced for fifty years after Austen's death was written by her relatives and reflects the family's biases in favour of "good quiet Aunt Jane". Scholars have unearthed little information since.