The World's Best Loved Books Collection, 100 Volumes

The Collector’s Library of the World’s Best-Loved Books

Franklin Library – Limited Edition

100 Volumes – Complete Collection – FINE Condition

Includes Notes from the Editors

This is a beautiful collection that features some of the finest book ever written. The editors researched records over the past three centuries to select one hundred timeless masterpieces that have been universally praised and acclaimed by readers.  From the publisher, “The great books that comprise this collection have all won the lasting affection of readers the world over. Each one has eminently stood the most difficult test of all – the test of time.” These books feature all the usual Franklin Library fineries including full leather covers, silk moire endpapers, gold gilding and gilting, and satin bookmarks. The books in the collection are:

A Light in August – William Faulkner

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Aesop’s Fables – Aesop

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope

Candide – Voltaire

Captain Courageous – Rudyard Kipling

Collected Poems – Edgar Allan Poe

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Eight Tales by – Joseph Conrad

Essays: First and Second – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Four Plays – Henrik Ibsen

From Here to Eternity – James Jones

Giant – Edna Ferber – 1979

Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

History of Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

In Memoriam and Other Poems – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott – 1978

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

Lorna Doone – Richard D. Blackmore

Lost Horizon – James Hilton

Lust for Life – Irving Stone

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Main Street – Sinclair Lewis

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

Mutiny on the Bounty – Nordhoff & Hall

Nana – Emile Zola

Paradise Lost – John Milton

Peasants and other Stories – Anton Chekhov

Pere Goriot – Honore De Balzac

Plays – Anton Chekhov – 1979

Plays by – Eugene O’Neill

Poems – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poems – William Shakespeare

Poems of John Keats

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – Edward Fitzgerald

Selected Poems – Walt Whitman

Selected Tales by Henry James

Seven Comedies – William Shakespeare

Silas Marner – George Eliot

Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser

Six Tragedies – William Shakespeare

Sixteen Stories by Bret Harte

Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. – Washington Irving

Snow White and other Tales – The Brothers Grimm

Stories – Guy De Maupassant

Stories of Three Continents – Ernest Hemingway

Tales – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tales from the Arabian Nights – Sir Richard Burton

Tales from The East and West – W. Somerset Maugham

The Best of Saki – H. H. Munro

The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk

The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper

The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Man of Property – John Galsworthy

The Masque of the Red Death & Other Tales – Edgar Allan Poe

The MoonStone – Wilkie Collins

The Oregon Trail – Francis Parkman

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope

The Red and the Black – Stendhal

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sea Wolf – Jack London

The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss

The Tale of Genji: The Uji Chapter – Murasaki Shikibu

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Thurber Carnival – James Thurber

The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith

The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Three Christmas Stories – Charles Dickens

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne

Two Years Before The Mast – Richard Henry Dana

Uncle Remus – Joel Chandler Harris

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Walden or Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Included with the collection are the Notes From The Editors that accompanied each edition. There are 97 booklets in the cases that accompany the books. The notes for Lust for Life, Swiss Family Robinson, and Tales by Hawthorne are not present. Overall, the books are in FINE condition with some volumes evidencing very minimal shelf wear.Please note that the photograph used for this listing is a stock photograph that is representative to appearance of the books in the collection. The cost of shipping by USPS Media Mail with delivery confirmation is included in the price.