Complete set of the Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time, produced between 1974 and 1982. Each volume is a limited edition hardcover, bound in premium full leather with a hubbed spine and distinctive cover design. The set is tailored for discerning collectors and includes profusely illustrated volumes, featuring moire endleaves and a satin ribbon page marker. All pages are accented in real 22KT gold with gilded edges. The construction includes Smyth-sewn pages for enhanced strength and durability, and the text is printed on high-quality, acid-neutral paper. Accompanying the set are 100 editors' notes that provide insights into each featured work. Upon inspection, the books look unread and never opened. The gilt edges are in very good condition. The books may have very slight wear from being moved on the shelf, but are in otherwise very good condition. Copyright by Franklin Library. To include: "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal, "Don Quixote de La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev, "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray, "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert, "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin, "Essays" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Candide" by Voltaire, "The Flowers Of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire, "The Basic Works of Sigmund Freud", "Twelve Illustrious Lives" by Plutarch, "The Ambassadors" by Henry James, "The Song of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Thomas Paine" by Political Writings, "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, "Thomas Mann Five Stories", "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence, "Favorite Household Tales" by The Brothers Grimm, "Guy de Maupassant Stories", "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Satyricon" by Petronius, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy, "The Republic" by Plato, "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Aristotle Politics", "The Poetry of Robert Frost", "John Donne Poems", "Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats", "John Keats Poems", "T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962", "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan, "Four Plays" by Eugene O'Neill, "Bernard Shaw Three Plays", "Plays" by Henrik Ibsen, "Anton Chekhov Plays", "Euripides Plays", "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding, "Jean Jacques Rousseau Political Writings", "Henry James Nine Tales", "The Trial" by Franz Kafka, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, "Moliere Seven Plays", "The Federalist" by Alexander Hamilton, "Rene Descartes Philosophical Works", "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe, "The Tragedies of Sophocles", "Jean Racine Six Tragedies", "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne, "Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth, "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper, "The Analects of Confucius", "Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot, "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, "Pensees" by Blaise Pascal, "John Stuart Mill Political Writings", "Nana" by Emile Zola, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, "The Sound and The Fury" by William Faulkner, "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" by Edward B. Pusey, "Tales from the Arabian Nights" by Sir Richard F. Burton, "William Shakespeare Poems", "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, "The Aeneid" by Virgil, "Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales", "William Shakespeare Eight Comedies", "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe", "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, "William Shakespeare Six Histories", "Six Tragedies" by William Shakespeare, "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, "Oresteia" by Aeschylus, "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams, "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Iliad" of Homer, "The Odyssey" of Homer, "Aristophanes Five Comedies", "Sir Francis Bacon Selected Writings", "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rabelais, and "Michel de Montaigne Essays". This item originates from the estate of John A. Williams, a distinguished philanthropist and renowned collector. Mr. Williams and his partner Dewitt Hart were influential members of San Francisco's art society and were celebrated for their discerning taste in modern, ethnographic, and fine art. Over the years, they hosted numerous exhibitions in their home, showcasing their prestigious collection to appreciative audiences. All proceeds of items from this estate benefit the Hart Williams Rainbow Fund, a nonprofit working with the LGBTQIA+ community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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