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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

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

Cather, Willa (1873-1947) My Antonia

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

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

Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles

Doyle, Arthur Conan Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan His Last Bow

Doyle, Arthur Conan The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945) Sister Carrie

Dumas, Alexandre, père, (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) Siddhartha

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

Koran

Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers

Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) Main Street

Lewis, Sinclair Babbit

London, Jack (1876-1916) The Call of the Wild

Machiavelli, Niccolò (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

More, Thomas (1478-1535) Utopia

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) Beyond Good and Evil

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

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

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

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