Publication Date: December 17, 2019
Publisher: D.K.
Pages: 16
Format: Audible Audio
Authors: D.K. Publishing, James Canton, Katherine Press, Homer, Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Sophocles, Beowulf, Quan Tangshi, Murasaki Shikibu, Walther von der Vogelweide, Chrétien de Troyes, Dante Alighieri, Luo Guanzhong, Geoffrey Chaucer, François Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, Christopher Marlowe, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, William Shakespeare, Molière, Andrew Marvell, Matsuo Bashō, Chikamatsu Monsaemon, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, William Wordsworth, Samuel Albert Taylor, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jacob Grimm, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, José de Alencar, Charles Baudelaire, Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot, Jules Verne, August Strindberg, Henry James, Mark Twain, Émile Zola, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Natsume Sōseki, Franz Kafka, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Lu Xun, Kahlil Gibran, Thomas Mann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Döblin, Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond Chandler, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Paul Celan, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Yukio Mishima, Jack Kerouac, Chinua Achebe, Harper Lee, Julio Cortázar, Joseph Heller, Seamus Heaney, Truman Capote, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon, Italo Calvino, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Mo Yan, Peter Carey, Derek Walcott, Bret Easton Ellis, Vikram Seth, Donna Tartt, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Hwang Sok-yong, Jonathan Safran Foer, Virgil, Wilhelm Grimm
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A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite them, for students and lovers of literature and reading.
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