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Complete Set! 110pc. Franklin Library Greatest Masterpieces of American Literatire Series. This includes 101 of the "Notes from the Editors". The Franklin Library was one of the largest and most sought-after publishers of fine leather-bound books from 1973 until their permanent closure in 2000. The Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series was produced between 1976 and 1984 and included 100 volumes bound in full leather with 22K gold leaf imprinting and sewn-in bookmarks. Approx. Net Weight: 260 lbs. Keywords: Collectible, writings; Ref: BD2022

  • Provenance: This is a lot of books and will be extremely heavy to ship please get a shipping quote before bidding.
  • Medium: Leather, Paper, Gold
  • Circa: 1970s-1980s
  • Notes: Includes: A Farewell to Arms (1979) – Ernest Hemingway, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1975) – Lewis Carroll, Candide (1978) – Voltaire, Canterbury Tales (1974) – Geoffrey Chaucer, Collected Poems 1909 to 1962 (1976) – T. S. Eliot, Crime and Punishment (1975) – Feodor Dostoevsky, David Copperfield (1976) – Charles Dickens, Don Quixote De La Mancha (1976) – Cervantes, Eight Comedies (1978) – William Shakespeare, Eight Plays (1976) – Anton Chekhov, Essay (1981) – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays (1980) – Michel De Montaigne, Essays (1982) – Sir Francis Bacon, Fairy Tales (1982) – Hans Christian Andersen, Fathers and Sons (1981) – Ivan Turgenev, Faust (1979) – Goethe, Favorite Household Tales (1981) – The Brothers Grimm, Five Comedies (1982) – Aristophanes, Five Stories (1977) – Thomas Mann, Four Plays (1978) – Eugene O’Neill, Great Expectations (1982) – Charles Dickens, Gulliver’s Travels (1974) – Jonathan Swift, Jane Eyre (1981) – Charlotte Bronte, Laurence Sterne (1980) – Tristam Shandy, Leaves of Grass (1981) – Walt Whitman, Lord Jim (1977) – Joseph Conrad, Lyrical Ballads (1982) – William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Madame Bovary (1978) – Gustave Flaubert, Moby Dick (1974) – Herman Melville, Molly Flanders (1978) – Daniel Defoe, Nana (1981) – Emile Zola, Nine Plays (1976) – Euripides, Nine Tales (1977) – Henry James, Oresteia (1980) – Aeschylus, Paradise Lost – John Milton, Pensees (1979) – Blaise Pascal, Pere Goriot (1977) – Honore De Balzac, Philosophical Works (1981) – Rene Descartes, Poems (1978) – John Donne, Poems (1980) – William Shakespeare, Poems of John Keats (1982), Political Works (1982) – Jean Jacques Rousseau, Political Writing (1982) – John Stuart Mill, Political Writings (1978) – Thomas Paine, Politics (1977) – Aristotle, Pride and Prejudice (1980) – Jane Austen, Robinson Crusoe (1977) – Daniel Defoe, Satyricon (1980) – Petronius, Selected Poems (1979) – William Butler Yeats, Seven Plays (1980) – Moliere, Six Histories (1981) – William Shakespeare, Six Plays (1977) – Henrik Ibsen, Six Tragedies (1975) – William Shakespeare, Six Tragedies (1982) – Jean Racine, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1980) – William Blake, Stories (1980) – Guy De Maupassant, Swann’s Way (1982) – Marcel Proust, Tales from The Arabian Nights (1977) – Sir Richard F. Burton, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1974), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1975) – Mark Twain, The Aeneid (1975) – Virgil, The Ambassadors (1980) – Henry James, The Analects of Confucius (1980), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1979), The Basic Works of Sigmund Freud (1978), The Confessions of Saint Augustine (1976), The Decameron (1979) – Giovanni Boccaccio, The Divine Comedy (1977) – Dante Alighieri, The Education of Henry Adams (1982) – Henry Adams, The Federalist (1977) – Hamilton Jay Madison, The Flowers of Evil (1977) – Charles Baudelaire, The Great Gatsby (1974) – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1978) – Francois Rabelais, The History of the Peloponnesian War (1980) – Thucydides, The Iliad (1975) – Homer, The Last of the Mohicans (1979) – James Fenimore Cooper, The Mill on the Floss (1982) – George Eliot, The Odyssey (1976) – Homer, The Origin of Species (1975) – Charles Darwin, The Pilgrim’s Progress (1976) – John Bunyan, The Poetry of Robert Frost (1979), The Prince (1978) – Machiavelli, The Red and the Black (1979) – Stendhal, The Red Badge of Courage (1979) – Stephen Crane, The Republic (1975) – Plato, The Return of the Native (1978) – Thomas Hardy, The Scarlet Letter (1978) – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Sound and the Fury (1976) – William Faulkner, The Tragedies of Sophocles (1981), The Trial (1977) – Franz Kafka, Three Plays (1979) – Bernard Shaw, Tom Jones (1979) – Henry Fielding, Treasure Island (1975) – Robert Louis Stevenson, Twelve Illustrious Lives (1981) – Plutarch, Ulysses (1976) – James Joyce, Vanity Fair (1977) – William Makepeace Thackeray, Walden (1976) – Henry D. Thoreau, War and Peace (1981) – Leo Tolstoy, Women in Love (1979) – D. H. Lawrence, Wuthering Heights (1975) – Emily Bronte; also included is 10 extra books: The Yearling (1984) - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Eleanor and Franklin (1984) – Joseph P. Lash, The Grape’s of Wrath (1983) – John Steinbeck, Humboldt’s Gift (1983) – Saul Bellow, Our Town (1983) – Thornton Wilder, The Reivers (1983) - William Faulkner, The Education of Henry Adams (1982) - Henry Adams, A Stillness at Appomattox (1983)- Bruce Catton, Benjamin Franklin (1983)- Carol Van Doren, The Good Earth (1983) Pearl S. Buck.
  • Condition: These books are in EXCELLENT condition with no visible signs of wear or storage damage. Please review the picture for complete condition.

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