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Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
The IliadHomer
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
FrankensteinMary Shelley
Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
The OdysseyHomer
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor DostoyevskySummaries from A to Z
Titles are filed under their first word after "The", "A" or "An".
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- Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller
D
- The Didascalia Apostolorum Attributed to the Twelve Apostles
S
- Secret Band of Brothers J. H. Green
I
- Indian Myth and Legend Donald A. Mackenzie
P
- Penny of Top Hill Trail Belle Kanaris Maniates
A
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anonymous; J. Ingram (translator); J. A. Giles (translator)
G
- The Great War of 189— Philip Howard Colomb; Archibald Forbes; Charles Lowe; Frederic Natusch Maude; John Frederick Maurice; David Christie Murray; Frank Scudamore
- The Ghost Breaker Charles Goddard; Paul Dickey
S
- The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) Muhammad Iqbal
M
Most read in M
- Manalive G. K. Chesterton
L
- Love Hans Kaltneker
A
- Adam and Eve in Paradise Eça de Queirós
D
- Dhammapada Anonymous
G
- Goethe's Theory of Colours Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
F
- The Folk-Tales of the Magyars W. Henry Jones; Lajos Kropf (editor); János Erdélyi (compiler); János Kriza (compiler); Gyula Pap (compiler)
T
- The Teaching of Epictetus Epictetus
F
- The Fortune of the Rougons Émile Zola
N
- The New Life (La Vita Nuova) Dante Alighieri
T
- The Testament of Adam Anonymous (Old Testament Pseudepigrapha)
- Tomorrow's Eve Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
D
- Diatessaron Attributed to Tatian
E
- The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams
W
- The Witness of the Stars E. W. Bullinger
T
- A Tract on Monetary Reform John Maynard Keynes
A
- The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias Smollett
L
- The Lady and the Pirate Emerson Hough
- Love and Pedagogy Miguel de Unamuno
R
- Rufus and Rose Horatio Alger Jr.
M
Most read in M
- Max Carrados Ernest Bramah
B
- The Ballad of the White Horse G. K. Chesterton
I
- Israel Potter Herman Melville
M
Most read in M
- Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg
S
- The Shellback's Progress in the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman
L
- Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde
D
- Discourse on the Method René Descartes
S
A
- The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus Hippolytus of Rome
O
- The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
A
- Adrift in the Wilds Edward Sylvester Ellis
L
- The Life of King Edward VII J. Castell Hopkins
C
V
- A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay
A
- Apostolic Fathers Various early Christian authors
G
- The Great War in England in 1897 William Le Queux
C
- The City Without Jews Hugo Bettauer
M
- The Market-Place Harold Frederic
H
- Hypsiphrone Anonymous (Early Gnostic Mystic)
M
- The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
F
- The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells
T
- Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford
H
- The Heather-Moon C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson
G
- German Legends Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
C
- The "Canary" Murder Case S. S. Van Dine
S
- Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames
F
- Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs James M. Mackinlay
B
- The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories Grant Allen
J
- The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker
F
- Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces Jean Paul
L
- The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Joaquin Miller; others
D
- The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch
B
- The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
E
- Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes
C
- Candide Voltaire
- Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
P
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Emily Dickinson
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz L. Frank Baum
L
- The Lost Books of the Bible Various early Christian authors
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- The Secret of the Old Mill Franklin W. Dixon
T
- The Turquoise Story Book Ada M. Skinner; Eleanor L. Skinner
D
- The Devil's Pool George Sand
T
- To the Last Man Zane Grey
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- 1 Enoch Attributed to Enoch
S
- Set in Silver C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson
M
- Max and Moritz Wilhelm Busch
L
- La Cintia Giambattista della Porta
D
- Dangerous Liaisons Choderlos de Laclos
- Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Anonymous
H
- Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen
P
- Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson
L
- The Light of Asia Edwin Arnold
O
- On the Stairs Henry Blake Fuller
S
- Society as I Have Found It Ward McAllister
R
- Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle
C
- Cousin Bazilio Eça de Queirós
- The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson; Ada M. Skinner (editor)
T
- Tom Swift and His War Tank Victor Appleton
L
- The Little Minister J. M. Barrie
N
- Notes on the Book of Numbers Charles Henry Mackintosh
I
- Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling
F
- The Forgotten Books of Eden Various early Christian and Jewish authors
I
- Ivar the Viking Paul Du Chaillu
L
- Lamia John Keats
R
- Raffles E. W. Hornung
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- Sintram and His Companions Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
O
- One Wonderful Night Louis Tracy
B
- Beauty and the Beast Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
- The Book of Jubilees Anonymous
V
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men Mary Wollstonecraft
S
- The Spirit-Rapper Orestes Augustus Brownson
- The School and Society John Dewey
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