50 Classic Books: Volume One [Kindle Edition]

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An anthology of 50 classic books with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for.

Works include:
"20,000 Leagues Under the Seas" by Jules Verne
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Afterglow" by George Allan England
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
"Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
"Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
"Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis
"The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"Emma" by Jane Austen
"Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
"Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
"Howards End" by E.M. Forester
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance" by H.G. Wells
"Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf
"Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757" by James Fenimore Cooper
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis
"Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
"Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe
"My Man Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse
"The Nigger of the ''Narcissus" by Joseph Conrad
"Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad
"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain
"The Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
"A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad
"Silas Marner" by George Eliot
"Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte
"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Trial" by Franz Kafka
"Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells
"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope
"Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 37940 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00359FETU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,643 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help with table of contents, November 30, 2010

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This review is from: 50 Classic Books: Volume One (Kindle Edition)

For those of you who are having trouble finding the "Table of Contents", I thought I would share what I did and perhaps it will help. First I went to the "Cover Page", I then selected "Go to Location" from the "Menu". I then typed in 2000000. That brought me to the very end of the book, and the last page of the "Table of Contents". I then backed up a few pages to the beginning of the "Table of Contents" and then "Added a bookmark" from the "Menu". I hope this helps. I have just started reading one of the books but so far I have not found any problems. This is a great price for so many great books.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I should have known better, July 1, 2010

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This review is from: 50 Classic Books: Volume One (Kindle Edition)

Though in the description it says it has an active table of contents it does not. I should have been more wary of fifty great novels going for a paltry price of $2.99. In fact I can't even find any of the authors because this great mass of text is not indexed.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong since I've only had my Kindle for about four hours.

Indeed it was not that I was doing something wrong, it's that I discovered that the Kindle 2 indexes new books upon rebooting (slide the power switch and hold for about 15 seconds). Now I did a search for the authors/books I wanted to read first and bookmarked them. Not elegant, but worth spending a little effort to read classic works.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents does not work, August 20, 2010

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Michelle Stone "litebkt" (Mariposa, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 50 Classic Books: Volume One (Kindle Edition)

The Table of Contents only shows the first 13 titles. How are you supposed to get to the books you want to read without reading the whole set from front to back? And without access to the internet, how can you remember which 50 books are in this set? (Whispernet does not work where I live). Searching does not work either. It keeps telling me to "try back later". When? I think that this is the worst review I've ever written. The next should be worse because it involves a similar problem in volume two where there is NO table of contents.

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