The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in Volume One with fresh discoveries and enduring favorites. A companion for readers who want their classics without limits, this anthology proves the world's great literature is vast, varied, and endlessly rewarding. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in a clean, fully reflowable format for all e-readers.
