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Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen
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 MachiavelliSummaries from A to Z
Titles are filed under their first word after "The", "A" or "An".
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- Captain Poison Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
- Captain Shannon Coulson Kernahan
- "Captains Courageous" Rudyard Kipling
- The Car of Destiny C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson
- The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland
- Carmen Prosper Mérimée
- Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
- Carnacki, the Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson
- The Carnal Prayer Mat Li Yu
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft
- The Case of the Lamp That Went Out Auguste Groner
- The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Cases of Magistrate Hai Rui Anonymous
- Caspar Hauser Jakob Wassermann
- The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole
- Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth
- The Cat of Bubastes G. A. Henty
- The Categories Aristotle
- The Cathedral Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Catherine William Makepeace Thackeray
- Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 Charles Mackay (editor)
- Cavanagh, Forest Ranger Hamlin Garland
- The Cave Girl Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Cave of Treasures Attributed to Ephrem the Syrian
- Cecilia Valdés, or The Angel's Hill Cirilo Villaverde
- The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee Anonymous
- Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas
- Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs (editor)
- The Chaldean Account of Genesis George Smith
- Changeling, and Other Stories Donn Byrne
- Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain
- The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère Jean de La Bruyère
- Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy Ruth Putnam
- Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter
- Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson
- Charmides Plato
- Charms Paul Valéry
- The Chase of the Golden Meteor Jules Verne
- Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous
- The Chauffeur and the Chaperon C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson
- The Chautauqua Girls at Home Pansy
- The Cheerful Smugglers Ellis Parker Butler
- Cheers — Buddha! Sulo-Weikko Pekkola
- Chéri Colette
- The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris
- The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Child of Storm H. Rider Haggard
- A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Child's History of the World V. M. Hillyer
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Lord Byron
- Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott
- The Children of Wilton Chase L. T. Meade
- The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson; Ada M. Skinner (editor)
- The Chimes Charles Dickens
- The Chinese Fairy Book Richard Wilhelm (editor)
- The Chouans Honoré de Balzac
- The Christ Myth Arthur Drews
- Christian Science Mark Twain
- Christie's Old Organ Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Christina Alberta's Father H. G. Wells
- A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
- Christmas Light Ethel Calvert Phillips
- Chronicle and Romance Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; William Harrison
- The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Jocelin de Brakelond
- The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon J. M. Gordon
- Chronicles of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery
- The Chronicles of Clovis Saki
- The Chronicles of Jerahmeel Attributed to Jerahmeel ben Solomon
- Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms Feng Menglong
- The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended Isaac Newton
- Chuang Tzu Zhuangzi
- Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The City and the Mountains Eça de Queirós
- The City Without Jews Hugo Bettauer
- Clairvoyance and Occult Powers William Walker Atkinson
- Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
- The Clementine Homilies Attributed to Clement of Rome
- Clementine Recognitions Attributed to Clement of Rome
- Cleopatra H. Rider Haggard
- Clerambault Romain Rolland
- The Clouds Aristophanes
- The Clue Carolyn Wells
- The Coast of Bohemia William Dean Howells
- Codex Junius 11 Anonymous
- A Cold Eye on Society Wang Junqing
- The Collected Light of Spiritual Experience John Sung
- The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke
- The Collected Works of Li Bai Li Bai
- A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories Beatrix Potter
- A Collection of Short-Stories Lemuel Arthur Pittenger (editor)
- A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Cather
- Colonel Chabert Honoré de Balzac
- Colonel Jack Daniel Defoe
- The Colour Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft
- The Comedies of Terence Terence
- Comic History of the United States Bill Nye
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