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1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE GENERAL EDITOR PETER BOXALL A Quintessence Book First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Cassell Illustrated A division of Octopus Publishing Group Limited Endeavour House, 189 Shaftesbury Avenue London, WC2H 8JY www.octopusbooks.co.uk An Hachette UK Company www.hachette.co.uk This eBook first published in 2011 By Octopus Publishing Group Ltd Copyright © 2006 Quintet Publishing Limited. Copyright © 2008 Quintessence Editions Limited. Reprinted in 2008 and 2011 by Cassell Illustrated All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the permission of the copyright holder. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 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TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE SERIES Contents Preface Introduction Contributors Pre-1800 The Thousand and One Nights The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter The Tale of Genji Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Water Margin The Golden Ass Tirant lo Blanc La Celestina Amadis of Gaul The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Gargantua and Pantagruel The Lusiad Monkey: A Journey to the West Unfortunate Traveller Thomas of Reading Don Quixote The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda The Conquest of New Spain The Adventurous Simplicissimus The Princess of Clèves Oroonoko Robinson Crusoe Love in Excess Moll Flanders Gulliver’s Travels A Modest Proposal Joseph Andrews Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Pamela Clarissa Tom Jones Fanny Hill Peregrine Pickle The Female Quixote Candide Rasselas Julie; or, The New Eloise Émile; or, On Education The Castle of Otranto The Vicar of Wakefield Tristram Shandy A Sentimental Journey The Man of Feeling Humphry Clinker The Sorrows of Young Werther Evelina Reveries of a Solitary Walker Dangerous Liaisons Confessions The 120 Days of Sodom Anton Reiser Vathek Justine A Dream of Red Mansions The Adventures of Caleb Williams The Interesting Narrative The Mysteries of Udolpho Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship The Monk Camilla Jacques the Fatalist The Nun Hyperion 1800s Castle Rackrent Henry of Ofterdingen Rameau’s Nephew Elective Affinities Michael Kohlhaas Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Rob Roy Frankenstein Ivanhoe Melmoth the Wanderer The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Life of a Good-for-Nothing Last of the Mohicans The Betrothed The Red and the Black The Hunchback of Notre Dame Eugene Onegin Eugénie Grandet Le Père Goriot The Nose Oliver Twist The Lion of Flanders The Charterhouse of Parma The Fall of the House of Usher Camera Obscura A Hero of Our Times Dead Souls Lost Illusions The Pit and the Pendulum The Three Musketeers Facundo The Devil’s Pool The Count of Monte-Cristo Jane Eyre Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights The Tenant of Wildfell Hall David Copperfield The Scarlet Letter Moby-Dick The House of the Seven Gables Uncle Tom’s Cabin Cranford Bleak House Walden Green Henry North and South Madame Bovary Indian Summer Adam Bede Oblomov The Woman in White The Mill on the Floss Max Havelaar Great Expectations Silas Marner Fathers and Sons Les Misérables The Water-Babies Notes from the Underground Uncle Silas Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Journey to the Center of the Earth Crime and Punishment Last Chronicle of Barset Thérèse Raquin The Moonstone Little Women The Idiot Maldoror Phineas Finn Sentimental Education War and Peace King Lear of the Steppes Alice Through the Looking Glass Middlemarch Spring Torrents Erewhon The Devils In a Glass Darkly Around the World in Eighty Days The Enchanted Wanderer Far from the Madding Crowd Pepita Jimenéz The Crime of Father Amado Drunkard Anna Karenina Martín Fierro The Red Room Ben-Hur Nana The Portrait of a Lady The House by the Medlar Tree The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Bouvard and Pécuchet Treasure Island A Woman’s Life The Death of Ivan Ilyich Against the Grain The Regent’s Wife Bel-Ami Marius the Epicurean The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Germinal King Solomon’s Mines The Quest The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Manors of Ulloa The People of Hemsö Pierre and Jean Under the Yoke The Child of Pleasure Eline Vere Hunger By the Open Sea La Bête Humaine Thaïs The Kreutzer Sonata The Picture of Dorian Gray Down There Tess of the D’Urbervilles Gösta Berling’s Saga New Grub Street News from Nowhere The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Diary of a Nobody The Viceroys Jude the Obscure Effi Briest The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau Quo Vadis Dracula What Maisie Knew Compassion Pharaoh Fruits of the Earth The War of the Worlds As a Man Grows Older Dom Casmurro The Awakening The Stechlin Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. 1900s Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem Sister Carrie None but the Brave Kim Buddenbrooks The Hound of the Baskervilles Heart of Darkness The Wings of the Dove The Immoralist The Ambassadors The Riddle of the Sands The Call of the Wild Memoirs of my Nervous Illness The Way of All Flesh Hadrian the Seventh Nostromo The House of Mirth Professor Unrat Solitude Young Törless The Forsyte Saga The Jungle The Secret Agent Mother The House on the Borderland The Old Wives’ Tale The Inferno A Room with a View Strait is the Gate The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Howards End Impressions of Africa Fantômas Ethan Frome The Charwoman’s Daughter Death in Venice Sons and Lovers The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Platero and I Tarzan of the Apes Locus Solus Kokoro The Thirty-Nine Steps The Rainbow Of Human Bondage The Good Soldier Rashomon Under Fire A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Underdogs Pallieter Home and the World Growth of the Soil The Return of the Soldier Tarr The Storm of Steel Women in Love Main Street The Age of Innocence Crome Yellow Life of Christ Ulysses Babbitt Claudine’s House Life and Death of Harriett Frean