Library of Classic Literature
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| Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) | Prometheus Bound | | |
| Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) | Little Women | | |
| Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) | Winesburg, Ohio | | |
| Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) | The Poetics | | |
| Augustine of Hippo (354-430) | The Confessions | | |
| Austen, Jane (1775-1817) | Emma | | |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | | |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey | | |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | | |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility | | |
| Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) | Colonel Chabert | | |
| Balzac, Honore de | Cousin Betty | | |
| Balzac, Honore de | The Country Doctor | | |
| Balzac, Honore de | Father Goriot | | |
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| Bellamy, Edward | Looking Backward | | |
| [Anonymous] | Beowulf | | |
| | The Bible, King James Version | | |
| Blake, William (1757-1827) | Songs of Innocence and Experience | | |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) | The Decameron | | |
| Bronte, Anne (1820-1849) | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | | |
| Bronte, Anne | Agnes Grey | | |
| Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) | Jane Eyre | | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Villette | | |
| Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) | Wuthering Heights | | |
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| Cather, Willa (1873-1947) | My Antonia | | |
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| Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) | Don Quixote | | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca.1343-1400) | The Canterbury Tales | | |
| Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) | The Seagull | | |
| Chekhov, Anton | Uncle Vanya | | |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | | |
| Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) | The Moonstone | | |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Law and the Lady | | |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White | | |
| Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) | Lord Jim | | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Nostromo | | |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Secret Sharer | | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Typhoon | | |
| Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) | The Red Badge of Courage | | |
| Dana, Robert Henry (1815-1882) | Two Years Before the Mast | | |
| Dante, Alighieri (1265-1321) | The Divine Comedy | | |
| Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) | The Origin of Species | | |
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| Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) | Robinson Crusoe | | |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders | | |
| Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) | Bleak House | | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | | |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | | |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | | |
| Dickens, Charles | Nicholas Nickleby | | |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist | | |
| Dickens, Charles | The Pickwick Papers | | |
| Dickens, Charles | Pictures from Italy | | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | | |
| Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) | Collected Poems. | | |
| Donne, John (1572-1631) | Songs and Sonnets | | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881) | Crime and Punishment | | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Double | | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Gambler | | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot | | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Notes from Underground | | |
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| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930) | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Hound of the Baskervilles | | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | His Last Bow | | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes | | |
| Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945) | Sister Carrie | | |
| Dumas, Alexandre, pere, (1802-1870) | The Count of Monte Cristo | | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | | |
| Eliot, George (1819-1880) | Adam Bede | | |
| Eliot, George | Daniel Deronda | | |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch | | |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss | | |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner | | |
| Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) | The Poems | | |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) | Essays | | |
| Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) | The History of Tom Jones | | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) | The Great Gatsby | | |
| Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) | Madame Bovary | | |
| Forster, E. M. (1879-1070) | Howard's End. | | |
| Forster, E. M. | A Room With a View. | | |
| Forster, E. M. | Where Angels Fear to Tread. | | |
| Frost, Robert (1874-1963) | Collected Poems. | | |
| Gibran, Khalil (1883-1931) | The Madman | | |
| Gibran, Khalil | The Prophet | | |
| Gilbert, Olive | The Narrative of Sojourner Truth | | |
| Gissing, George (1857-1903) | New Grub Street | | |
| Gissing, George | The Odd Women | | |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) | The Sorrows of Young Werther | | |
| Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852) | Dead Souls | | |
| Gogol, Nikolai | The Inspector General | | |
| Gogol, Nikolai | The Overcoat | | |
| Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) | Far from the Madding Crowd | | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure | | |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge | | |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Return of the Native | | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) | The Scarlet Letter | | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House of the Seven Gables | | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Blithedale Romance | | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Twice Told Tales | | |
| Hesse, Herman (1877-1962) | Siddharthe | | |
| Homer (ca. 800 B.C.) | The Iliad | | |
| Homer | The Odyssey | | |
| Huxley, Aldous(1894-1963) | Brave New World | | |
| Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) | A Doll's House | | |
| James, Henry (1843-1916) | Daisy Miller | | |
| James, Henry | The Ambassadors | | |
| James, Henry | The American | | |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | | |
| James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady | | |
| James, Henry | Washington Square | | |
| Joyce, James (1882-1941) | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | | |
| Joyce, James | The Dubliners | | |
| Keats, John (1795-1821) | Collected Poems | | |
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| Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) | Sons and Lovers | | |
| Lawrence, D. H. | Women in Love | | |
| Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) | Main Street | | |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbit | | |
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| London, Jack (1876-1916) | The Call of the Wild | | |
| Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469-1527) | The Prince | | |
| Malory, Thomas (1430-1471) | Le Morte d'Arthur | | |
| Marlowe, Christopher (1564 - 1593) | Dr. Faustus | | |
| Marx, Karl (1818-1883) | A Communist Manifesto | | |
| Melville, Herman (1819-1891) | Bartleby, the Scrivener | | |
| Melville, Herman | Billy Budd | | |
| Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick | | |
| Melville, Herman | Typee | | |
| Meredith, George (1828-1909) | The Egoist | | |
| Milton, John (1608-1674) | Paradise Lost | | |
| Milton, John | Paradise Regained | | |
| Moliere (1622-1673) | The Miser | | |
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| More, Thomas, Sir, Saint (1478-1535) | Utopia | | |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) | Beyond Good and Evil | | |
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| Orwell, George (1903-1950) | Animal Farm | | |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | | |
| Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) | Common Sense | | |
| Plato (c. 427-BC - c. 347 BC) | The Republic | | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) | The Gold Bug | | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | The Mystery of Marie Roget | | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | The Purloined Letter | | |
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| Sand, George (1804-1876) | Mauprat | | |
| Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) | Ivanhoe | | |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | Sonnets | | |
| Shakespeare, William | All's Well That Ends Well | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Antony and Cleopatra | | |
| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Comdey of Errors | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar | | |
| Shakespeare, William | King Lear | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Macbeth | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Merchant of Venice | | |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Much Ado About Nothing | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Othello | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet | | |
| Shakespeare, William | Twelfth Night | | |
| Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) | Candida | | |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion | | |
| Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) | Frankenstein | | |
| Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968) | The Jungle | | |
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| Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC) | The Oedipus Trilogy | | |
| Sterne, Lawrence (1713-1768) | Tristram Shandy | | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) | Treasure Island | | |
| Stoker, Bram (1847-1912) | Dracula | | |
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| Sunzi | The Art of War | | |
| Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) | A Modest Proposal | | |
| Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) | Idylls of the King | | |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) | Vanity Fair | | |
| Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) | On Civil Disobedience | | |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden Pond | | |
| Thucydides (ca. 460 BC) | History of the Peloponnesian Wars | | |
| Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) | Anna Karenina | | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | | |
| Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) | The Way We Live Now | | |
| Twain, Mark (1835-1910) | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | | |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | | |
| Twain, Mark | The Innocents Abroad | | |
| Twain, Mark | Life on the Mississippi | | |
| Twain, Mark | On Lying | | |
| Twain, Mark | The Mysterious Stranger | | |
| Twain, Mark | The Prince and the Pauper | | |
| Twain, Mark | Pudd’nhead Wilson | | |
| | US Constitution | | |
| Verne, Jules (1828-1905) | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | | |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days | | |
| Voltaire (1694-1778) | Candide | | |
| Wells, H. G. (1866-1946) | War of the Worlds | | |
| Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine | | |
| Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) | The Age of Innocence | | |
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth | | |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | | |
| Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) | Leaves of Grass | | |
| Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) | The Picture of Dorian Grey | | |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | | |
| Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) | Lyrical Ballads | | |
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