"50 Masterpieces of World Literature" is a unique collection of works of literature that everyone should read in order to consider themselves an educated person. The authors and their works were selected as a result of painstaking analysis of readership demand over the past 100 years. This book is for those who want to know the world around them and themselves, learn history, understand catchphrases and phrases from literary works. Content: Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Homer Iliad Sun Tzu The Art of War Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Niccolo Machiavelli Sovereign William Shakespeare King Lear Frederick Schiller The Maid of Orleans Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Suffering of Young Werther Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Provincial Manners Frederic Stendhal Red and Black Franz Kafka Transformation George Byron Childe Harold Eliot George Mill on Flosse Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Mark Twain Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Arthur Conan Doyle Marakotova Abyss H.G. Wells The Invisible Man Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo vadis Joseph Conrad Secret Agent Jack London Martin Eden Edgar Allan Poe The Golden Beetle Arthur Schopenhauer About the insignificance and sorrows of life Sigmund Freud Psychology of the masses and analysis of the human "I" George Orwell 1984, Animal Farm Evgeny Zamyatin We Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Alexander Pushkin The Queen of Spades Mikhail Lermontov Masquerade Nikolay Gogol Taras Bulba Ivan Goncharov Oblomov Nikolay Leskov The Enchanted Wanderer Ivan Turgenev First love Anton Chekhov Steppe Ivan Bunin Dark alleys Alexander Kuprin Duel Maxim Gorky The Life of Klim Samgin Alexey Tolstoy Aelita Mikhail Bulgakov White Guard Valentin Rasputin French lessons Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Predatory things of the century