50 Classics in Brief (no Shakespeare)

The premise Take 50 classic texts and produce an author biography, text summary and critique. All in about 500 words. The 50: 1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 2. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 6. Beowulf 7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 8. Ulysses by James Joyce 9. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 11. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 12. The Republic by Plato 13. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 14. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 15. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 17. Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville 18. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 19. Dracula by Bram Stoker 20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 21. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 22. Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy 23. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 24. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 25. Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten 26. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 27. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 29. The Story of a Stuffed Elephant by Laura Lee Hope 30. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 31. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 32. Emma by Jane Austen 33. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 34. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 35. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 36. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 37. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 38. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 39. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 40. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 41. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 42. Dubliners by James Joyce 43. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 44. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 45. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 46. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 47. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 48. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 49. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 50. Persuasion by Jane Austen This book is designed with the student, academic and new reader in mind. If you want essential information on a text and its writer for an essay or a gentle introduction to a text without having to wade through a dense commentary to understand it then this text is for you. Why no Shakespeare? We feel that there are more than enough texts that summarise, analyse and extol the virtues of his work. We hope you enjoy our humble offering! it is not is in depth as Touch of Classics by Stevens W. Anderson, but offers a light introduction to popular classics.