25 Favorite Novels

by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, R.L. Stevenson, Charles Dickens

Overview

Great novels of all times selected by the publisher:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Twenty Thousands Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Treasure Island by R.L.Stevenson
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Notre-Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Time Machine by H.G.Wells
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Call of The Wild by Jack London
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Emma by Jane Austen
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Anne of Green Gables by By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016459691
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	04/12/2013
Series:	Unforgotten Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

In 1801, George Austen retired from the clergy, and Jane, Cassandra, and their parents took up residence in Bath, a fashionable town Jane liked far less than her native village. Jane seems to have written little during this period. When Mr. Austen died in 1805, the three women, Mrs. Austen and her daughters, moved first to Southampton and then, partly subsidized by Jane's brothers, occupied a house in Chawton, a village not unlike Jane's first home. There she began to work on writing and pursued publishing once more, leading to the anonymous publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811 and Pride and Prejudice in 1813, to modestly good reviews.

Known for her cheerful, modest, and witty character, Jane Austen had a busy family and social life, but as far as we know very little direct romantic experience. There were early flirtations, a quickly retracted agreement to marry the wealthy brother of a friend, and a rumored short-lived attachment -- while she was traveling -- that has not been verified. Her last years were quiet and devoted to family, friends, and writing her final novels. In 1817 she had to interrupt work on her last and unfinished novel, Sanditon, because she fell ill. She died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester, where she had been taken for medical treatment. After her death, her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, together with a biographical notice, due to the efforts of her brother Henry. Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

Author biography courtesy of Barnes & Noble Books.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father