World Great Writers (Final)
WORLD GREAT WRITERS Contents Preface vii 1. Adams, Henry 1 2. Ambler, Eric 5 3. Anand, Mulk Raj 10 4. Andersen, Hans Christian 17 5. Asimov, Isaac 23 6. Austen, Jane 31 7. Balzac, Honoré de 35 8. Beckett, Samuel 40 9. Camus, Albert 48 10. Canetti, Elias 54 11. Carroll, Lewis 58 12. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 65 13. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 70 14. Chaucer, Geoffrey 77 15. Christie, Agatha 82 16. Clarke, Arthur C. 92 17. Defoe, Daniel 98 18. Dickens, Charles 102 19. Eliot, T. S. 111 20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott 117 21. Hammett, Dashiell 122 22. Hugo, Victor 125 23. James, Henry 134 24. Kafka, Franz 141 25. Lawrence, D. H. 147 26. Miller, Arthur 157 27. Naipaul, V.S. 164 28. O. Henry 171 29. Orwell, George 176 30. Pope, Alexander 183 31. Pushkin, Aleksandr 187 32. Russell, Bertrand 193 33. Rushdie, Salman 203 34. Salinger, J.D. 211 35. Seth, Vikram 216 36. Shakespeare, William 223 37. Shaw, George Bernard 232 38. Singh,Khushwant 239 39. Tolstoy, Leo 244 40. Twain, Mark 252 41. Verne, Jules 260 42. Voltaire 267 43. Wilde, Oscar 274 (vii) Preface A world without books is hard to imagine. From childhood onwards man is greatly influenced by books. Blessed are the men who can pen down their thoughts. Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Vikram Seth and so many more, all of these has influenced us in one way or another. This book is dedicated to these man and women. It was not easy to decide whom to include in our volume.
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