FIFTEEN BOOKS: BEST CLASSIC WORKS / Charles Dickens / Leo Tolstoy / Bram Stoker / H. G. Wells / Jack London - FLT CLASSICS

by Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, FLT (Compiler)

Overview

FIFTEEN THE BEST CLASSIC WORKS OF WORLD LITERATURE

-- volume one --

TABLE of CONTENTS:

1. Charles Dickens, «A Christmas Carol»
2. Jules Verne, «A Journey to the Centre of the Earth»
3. Leo Tolstoy, «Anna Karenina»
4. Rudyard Kipling, «Captains Courageous»
5. Bram Stoker, «Dracula»
6. Charles Dickens, «Great Expectations»
7. R. D. Blackmore, «Lorna Doone»
8. Gustave Flaubert, «Madame Bovary»
9. Joseph Conrad, «Nostromo»
10. H. G. Wells, «The Time Machine»
11. H. G. Wells, «The War of the Worlds»
12. Robert Louis Stevenson, «Treasure Island»
13. D. H. Lawrence, «Women in Love»
14. Jack London, «John Barleycorn»
15. Agatha Christie, «The Secret Adversary»

FIFTEEN BOOKS / BEST CLASSIC WORKS § Charles Dickens § Leo Tolstoy § Bram Stoker § H. G. Wells § Jack London / FLT

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148714156
Publisher:	FLT
Publication date:	06/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington