Lot of 96 books in the "125 Greatest Books Ever Written" series published by Easton Press. Leather bindings, raised spine bands, all edges gilt. Frontispieces and illustrations by various artists.
Includes works by Poe, Joyce, Whitman, Shakespeare, Plato, etc.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle
The Aeneid by Virgil
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Browning – Collected Poems by Robert Browning
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard/Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine of Hippo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
History of Early Rome by Livy
Iliad by Homer
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
John Keats – Collected Poems by John Keats
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant
Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Politics by Aristotle
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Republic by Plato
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
The Talisman by Walter Scott
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
William Butler Yeats – Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
The Birds and The Frogs by Aristophanes
The Comedies by William Shakespeare
Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers Of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
The Histories by William Shakespeare
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Medea – Hippolytus – The Bacchae by Euripides
Oresteia by Aeschylus
Three Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Two Plays by Moliere
Two Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Poems by John Donne
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
Short Stories by Charles Dickens
The Symposium by Plato
The Tragedies by William Shakespeare
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
The Effayes by Francis Bacon
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin