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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofJoseph Conradwhich are Heart of Darkness andLord Jim. After a sea-faring career in the French and British merchant marines, Joseph Conrad wrote short stories and novels which combined his experiences in remote places with an interest in moral conflict and the dark side of human n...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofStendhalwhich are The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for t...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of George Sandwhich areThe Devil's Pool and Mauprat. Sand's writing was immensely popular during her lifetime and she was highly respected by the literary and cultural elite in France. Victor Hugo, in the eulogy he gave at her funeral, said "George Sand was an idea. She has a unique place in our age. Others are grea...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Lewis Carrollwhich are Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through t...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Ernest Bramah which are The Secret of the League and Kai Lung's Golden Hours. Ernest Bramah humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with ...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofAnatole Francewhich areThais andThe Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. Anatole France was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements"....

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Thomas Wolfe wich are Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again. Thomas Wolfe was an American writer best known for his first book, Look Homeward, Angel, and his other autobiographical novels.After Wolfe's death, contemporary author William Faulkner said that Wolfe may hav...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Paul Heysewhich areThe Children of the World and The Romance of the Canoness.Paul Heyse was a distinguished German writer and translator. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Lit...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofJoseph Furphywich areSuch is Life and Rigby's Romance. Joseph Furphy novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. Novels selected for this book: - Such is Life. - Rigby's Romance. Th...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Thomas Hardywhich areJude the ObscureandTess of the d'Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Author of works of great importance, known for the radical pessimism that characterizes his novels. Novels selected for this book: - Jude the Obscure - Tess of the d...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Charles Maturin which are Melmoth the Wanderer and Leixlip Castle. Charles Maturin is remembered primarily for his novel Melmoth the Wanderer, which is considered among the finest examples of Gothic fiction in the English language. More popular in France than in England or Irela...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofMaria Edgeworthwhich areBelinda and Leonora. Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held ad...