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Bible

The Holy Bible - American Standard Version

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Augustine of Hippo

The City of God

Jane Austen

Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Honoré de Balzac

Novels (40) - click to collapse or expand
Albert Savarus
The Alkahest
Beatrix
The Brotherhood of Consolation
Bureaucracy
Catherine De Medici
The Chouans
The Collection of Antiquities
The Country Doctor
Cousin Betty
Cousin Pons
A Daughter of Eve
The Deputy of Arcis
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Eugénie Grandet
Eve and David
Father Goriot
The Hated Son
An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
The Lesser Bourgeoisie
Letters of Two Brides
The Lily of the Valley
Louis Lambert
Love in a Mask; Or, Imprudence and Happiness
The Magic Skin
The Marriage Contract
Modeste Mignon
The Muse of the Department
An Old Maid
Pierrette
Rise and Fall of César Birotteau
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Séraphîta
Sons of the Soil
A Start in Life
The Two Brothers
Two Poets
Ursula
The Village Rector
A Woman of Thirty
Novellas (24) - click to collapse or expand
Adieu
Another Study of Woman
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
The Ball at Sceaux
Colonel Chabert
The Commission in Lunacy
The Duchesse of Langeais
Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants
The Firm of Nucingen
Gambara
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Gobseck
Honorine
The Illustrious Gaudissart
Juana
Massimilla Doni
Maître Cornélius
Melmoth Reconciled
Paz (La Fausse Maîtresse)
A Second Home
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Unconscious Comedians
Vendetta
The Vicar of Tours
Short stories (26) - click to collapse or expand
The Atheist's Mass
Christ in Flanders
The Deserted Woman
Domestic Peace
A Drama on the Seashore
The Elixir of Life
An Episode under the Terror
The Exiles
Facino Cane
Gaudissart II
La Grenadière
The Hidden Masterpiece
Madame Firmiani
A Man of Business
The Message
The Napoleon of the People
A Passion in the Desert
Pierre Grassou
A Prince of Bohemia
The Purse
The Recruit
The Red Inn
Sarrasine
Study of a Woman
El Verdugo
Z. Marcas
Droll Stories (3) - click to collapse or expand
Droll Stories — Volume 1
Droll Stories — Volume 2
Droll Stories — Volume 3
Studies and sketches (6) - click to collapse or expand
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part
A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
Letters (1) - click to collapse or expand
Letters to Madame Hanska

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre
The Professor
Shirley
Villette

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress

Mathew Carey

Essays on Political Economy

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

Novella

Heart of Darkness

Short story

Youth

Charles Dickens

Novels (14) - click to collapse or expand
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
The Pickwick Papers
A Tale of Two Cities

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novels (4) - click to collapse or expand
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed (The Devils)
Novellas (4) - click to collapse or expand
A Faint Heart
A Little Hero
Notes from Underground
White Nights
Short stories (3) - click to collapse or expand
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Polzunkov
Mr. Prohartchin

George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans)

The Mill on the Floss

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography and writings (4) - click to collapse or expand
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume I
Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II
Representative Selections

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls
The Inspector-General
The Mantle and Other Stories

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: a pure woman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Homer

The Iliad translated to English by Alexander Pope (1715-1720)
The Odyssey translated to English by Alexander Pope (1725-1726)
The Iliad translated to English by Samuel Butler (1898)
The Odyssey translated to English by Samuel Butler (1900)

Justinian I

The Institutes of Justinian

Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis
The Trial

D. H. Lawrence

Novels (10) - click to collapse or expand
The White Peacock
The Trespasser
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Women in Love
The Lost Girl
Aaron’s Rod
Kangaroo
The Plumed Serpent
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Novellas (6) - click to collapse or expand
The Fox
The Ladybird
The Captain’s Doll
St. Mawr
The Man Who Died
The Virgin and the Gipsy
Short stories (37) - click to collapse or expand
The Blind Man
The Blue Moccasins
The Christening
Daughters of the Vicar
England, My England
Fanny and Annie
A Fragment of Stained Glass
Goose Fair
Her Turn
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Love Among the Haystacks
A Modern Lover
Monkey Nuts
The Mortal Coil
Mother and Daughter
New Eve and Old Adam
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Old Adam
The Overtone
The Primrose Path
The Princess
The Prussian Officer
Rawdon's Roof
Samson and Delilah
Second Best
The Shades of Spring
The Shadow in the Rose Garden
A Sick Collier
Strike-Pay
Things
The Thorn in the Flesh
Tickets, Please
The White Stocking
Wintry Peacock
The Witch a la Mode
The Woman Who Rode Away
You Touched Me
Travel writing (1) - click to collapse or expand
Etruscan Places

Henry Lawson

While the Billy Boils (1896) (52) - click to collapse or expand
On the Track (1900) (19) - click to collapse or expand
Over the Sliprails (1900) (16) - click to collapse or expand
Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) (20) - click to collapse or expand
Children of the Bush (1902) (23) - click to collapse or expand
The Rising of the Court (1910) (8) - click to collapse or expand

Sinclair Lewis

Elmer Gantry

Katherine Mansfield

In a German Pension (1911) (13) - click to collapse or expand
Bliss, and Other Stories (1920) (14) - click to collapse or expand
The Garden Party, and Other Stories (1922) (15) - click to collapse or expand
The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories (1923) (21) - click to collapse or expand
Poems (1923) (69) - click to collapse or expand

Poems: 1909–1910

Poems: 1911–1913

Poems at the Villa Pauline: 1916

Poems: 1917–1919

Child Verses: 1907

Florence Marryat

The Blood of the Vampire

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick, or The Whale

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Plato

The Republic

Plutarch

Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Edgar Allan Poe

Short stories (68) - click to collapse or expand
Poems (1) - click to collapse or expand
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

William Shakespeare

Plays - click to collapse or expand

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet

Histories

Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
King John
Richard II
Richard III

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing

Romance

The Tempest

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Bram Stoker

Dracula

Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Leo Tolstoy

Novels (3) - click to collapse or expand
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Resurrection
Novellas (3) - click to collapse or expand
Hadji Murád
The Cossacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Short stories (1) - click to collapse or expand
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

St. George Tucker

A Dissertation on Slavery

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Oscar Wilde

Novel, stories and poems (5) - click to collapse or expand
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Canterville Ghost
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Music

Music (15) - click to collapse or expand
Piano MasteryHarriette Brower
Essentials of Music Theory: ElementaryCarl E. Gardner
Lessons in Music FormPercy Goetschius
Studies in Modern Music, Second SeriesW. H. Hadow
The Child-Voice in SingingFrancis E. Howard
English Folk-Song and DanceFrank Kidson and Mary Neal
How to Listen to MusicHenry Edward Krehbiel
A Treatise on Simple CounterpointFriedrich J. Lehmann
For Every Music LoverAubertine Woodward Moore
Advice to Young MusiciansRobert Schumann
The Perfect WagneriteGeorge Bernard Shaw
The Appreciation of Music, Volume 1Thomas Whitney Surette and Daniel Gregory Mason
The Psychology of SingingDavid C. Taylor
On ConductingRichard Wagner
Piano and SongFriedrich Wieck

Science

Science (18) - click to collapse or expand
The Story of the HeavensRobert Stawell Ball
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth CenturyAgnes M. Clerke
The Voyage of the BeagleCharles Darwin
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
The Variation of Animals and Plants under DomesticationCharles Darwin
The Descent of ManCharles Darwin
Relativity: The Special and General TheoryAlbert Einstein
The Harvard Classics, Volume 38: Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)Charles W. Eliot (editor)
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1Michael Faraday
The Chemical History of a CandleMichael Faraday
Discourse on Bodies in WaterGalileo Galilei
MicrographiaRobert Hooke
Treatise on LightChristiaan Huygens
The Beauties of NatureJohn Lubbock
Principles of GeologyCharles Lyell
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2Alfred Russel Wallace
The Natural History of SelborneGilbert White

United States founding documents

The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Federalist Papers
The Bill of Rights

Crusades leadership

Crusades leadership (12) - click to collapse or expand
The Life of SaladinBaha ad-Din ibn Shaddad
In Praise of the New KnighthoodBernard of Clairvaux
The Letters of Saint Bernard of ClairvauxBernard of Clairvaux
The Rule of the TemplarsCouncil of Troyes and the Order of the Temple
Select Historical Documents of the Middle AgesErnest F. Henderson
The Life of Saint LouisJean de Joinville
The AlexiadAnna Komnene
Letters of the CrusadersStephen of Blois and others
Urban II: The Speech at Clermont and the First CrusadeUrban II and others
The Conquest of ConstantinopleGeoffroi de Villehardouin
Itinerary of Richard I and Others to the Holy LandGeoffrey de Vinsauf and Richard de Templo
Godeffroy of Boloyne, or The Siege and Conquest of JerusalemWilliam of Tyre

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