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This Special edition prepared for subscribers to the Oxford Library of the World's Great Books Franklin Library & Oxford University Press WORLD'S GREAT BOOKS complete in 50 volumes illustrated by various artists Franklin Library has been selected by the Oxford University Press as publisher of the Oxford Library of the World's Great Books Full leather bindings in profuse gilded decoration with elaborate stamped patched embossed front cover design Copyright by Franklin Library Hubbed Spine, Bound in Premium Full Leather Distinctive Cover Design, Profusely Illustrated Moire/marble Endleaves, Satin Ribbon Page Marker Accented in Real 22KT Gold, Gilded Page Edges Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper LIST OF TITLES: a complete series in 50 volumes: 1. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBRRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE), by Mark Twain, with illustrations from the 1885 First Edition by Edward Windsor Kemble 2. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, by Daniel Defoe, with the color woodcuts of Pierre Falke 3. THE AENEID OF Virgil, the translation of John Dryden, illustrated with the woodcuts of Johann Gruninger 4. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, by Lewis Carroll, with the illustrations of John Tenniel 5. ANNA KARENINA, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with the paintings of James Tissot 6. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, illustrated by Herbert Tauss 7. CANDIDE, by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, the translation of Tabias Smollet, with the illustrations of Antoni Clave 8. CANTERBURY TALES, by Geoffrey Chaucer, in contemporary verse of J U Nicolson, with the woodcuts of William Caxton 9. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W B YEATS, definitive edition, with the author's final revisions, with illustrations by Jack B Yeats 10. COMEDIES, by Moliere, translated by Donald M Frame, with wood-engraved illustrations after Tony Johnnot 11. THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, the translation of Edward Bouverie Pusey, illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese 12. THE DECAMERON, by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G H McWilliam, with the woodcuts by Jose Narro 13. THE DIVINE COMEDY, by Dante Alighieri, translated by John Ciardi, with the engravings of Gustave Dore 14. DON QUIXOTE de la Mancha: The Ingenious Gentleman, by Miguel de Cervantes, with the illustrations of Jose and Luis Jiminez y Aranda 15. FAUST: Parts One and Two, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Goerge Madison Priest, with the illustrations of Engelbert Siebertz 16. FOUR PLAYS, by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Eva Le Gallienne, illustrated by Tony Eubanks 17. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, by Charles Dickens, with the illustrations of F W Pailthrope 18. THE GREAT GATSBY, by F Scott Fitzgerald, illustrated by Bruce Dean 19. THE GREAT TRAGEDIES OF Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, illustrated by Quentin Fiore 20. GREATEST COMEDIES OF William Shakespeare, with the illustrations of Rockwell Kent 21. GREATEST HISTORIES OF William Shakespeare, with the illustrations of Rockwell Kent 22. GREATEST PLAYS, by Anton Chekhov, translated by Elisaveta Fen, illustrated by Stan Hunter 23. GREATEST TRAGEDIES OF William Shakespeare, with the illustrations of Rockwell Kent 24. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, by Jonathan Swift, with the illustrations of Thomas Morten 25. THE HISTORIES OF GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, by Francois Rabelais, translated by John M Cohen, with the illustrations of Frank C Pape 26. THE HISTORIES OF TOM JONES, by Henry Fielding, with the illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson 27. THE ILIAD, by Homer, in contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald, illustrated by W Mars 28. JANE EYRE, by Charlotte Bronte, illustrated by Skip Liepke 29. LORD JIM: A Tale, by Joseph Conrad, illustrated by Walt Sptzmiller 30. MADAME BOVARY: A Story of Provincial Life, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller, illustrated by Malcolm Liepke 31. THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by Thomas Mann, translated from the German by H T Lowe-Porter, illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca 32. MOBY-DICK or The Whale, by Herman Melville, with a portfolio of nineteenth sentury whaling prints selected and introduced by Willard Thorp 33. THE ODYSSEY, by Homer, in contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald, illustrated by W Mars 34. PARADISE LOST, by John Milton, with the illustrations of Gustave Dore 35. PERE GORIOT, by Honore de Balzac, with the illustrations of Albert Lynch 36. POEMS, by John Donne, eidted by Sir herbert Grierson, with sixteenth- and seventeenth century engravings 37. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by Henry James, illustrated with drawings by John Singer Sargent 38. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen, with portraits by Chris Duke 39. THE RED AND THE BLACK, by Stendhal, translated by Charles Tergie, with the illustrations of Jean Paul Quint 40. ROMANTIC POETS: Willaim Blake to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by W H Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, illustrated by Eugene Karlin 41. THE SCARLET LETTER: A Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by Chris Duke 42. SELECTED ESSAYS, by Michel de Montaigne, the translation of Donald M Frame, illustrated by Carol Wald 43. THE SOUND AND FURY, by William Faulkner, illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey 44. SWANN'S WAY, by Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, illustrated by Malcolm Liepke 45. TALES OF MYSTERY, by Edgar Allen Poe, with the illustrations of Harry Clarke 46. TESS OF THE d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy, with the illustrations of Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A. 47. THE TRIAL, by Franz Kafka, illustrated by Jarmila Maranova 48. ULYSSES, by James Joyce, illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey 49. VANITY FAIR: A Novel Without a Hero, by William Makepeace Thackeray, with the illustrations of the author 50. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, by Emily Bronte, with a preface by Charlotte Bronte, illustrated by Alan Reingold CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Each and every book is in like new and unread condition: binding is tight, crisp & bright inside pages, and solid hardcover. It will make a great addition to any library SHIPPING HANDLING: The huge set of books will be shipped via USPS media mail with delivery confirmation, special care will be taken during packing to ensure you receive the books as described

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