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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
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- The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Coming Wave Oliver Optic
- Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Martin Luther
- The Common Reader Virginia Woolf
- Common Sense Thomas Paine
- The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington
- The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
- Community Rule Attributed to the Qumran community
- The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton
- The Complete Art of Bullfighting Francisco Montes (Paquiro)
- The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon
- Complete Poems Arthur Rimbaud
- The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe
- Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith
- Complete Works of François Villon François Villon
- The Complete Works of Wang Yangming Wang Yangming
- The Concept of Our Great Power Anonymous
- The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 Friedrich Engels
- The Confession Maxim Gorky
- Confessions of a Thug Meadows Taylor
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey
- The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc
- The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Confessions of St. Augustine Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Confidence Henry James
- The Confidence-Man Herman Melville
- The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan Anonymous
- The Confusions of Young Törless Robert Musil
- The Congo, and Other Poems Vachel Lindsay
- Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli
- The Conjure Woman Charles W. Chesnutt
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
- The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
- Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill
- The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius
- The Conspirators Alexandre Dumas; Auguste Maquet
- Constantinople Théophile Gautier
- The Contemplations, Volume 2 Victor Hugo
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Karl Marx
- Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Bernard de Fontenelle
- The Convert Elizabeth Robins
- The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- The Copper House Julius Regis
- The Copper Princess Kirk Munroe
- Coptic Gospel of the Twelve Anonymous
- The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton Hannah Webster Foster
- The Coral Island R. M. Ballantyne
- The Corbin Necklace Henry Kitchell Webster
- The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill
- The Correspondence Between Two Maidens, Urbana and Feliza Modesto de Castro
- The Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea
- The Correspondence of Paul and Seneca Attributed to Paul the Apostle
- The Corsair William Brough
- The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy
- The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas; Auguste Maquet
- The Count of the Saxon Shore Alfred John Church; Ruth Putnam
- The Count's Millions Émile Gaboriau
- The Counterfeiters André Gide
- The Countess of Charny Alexandre Dumas
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Philip Sidney
- The Country Doctor Honoré de Balzac
- The Country House John Galsworthy
- The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett
- The Courtesan Jamaica Hans Bethge
- Cousin Bazilio Eça de Queirós
- Cousin Pons Honoré de Balzac
- Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads John Avery Lomax (compiler)
- The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie
- Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
- Cratylus Plato
- The Created Legend Fyodor Sologub
- Creative Evolution Henri Bergson
- Creole Love Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho
- The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke
- The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós
- The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Anatole France
- Crimes and Punishments James Anson Farrer
- Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada M. E. Billings
- The Crimson Circle Edgar Wallace
- The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Rex Beach
- Critias Plato
- A Critic in Pall Mall Oscar Wilde
- The Critical Period of American History John Fiske
- The Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant
- The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
- Crito Plato
- The Crock of Gold James Stephens
- The Crooked House Brandon Fleming
- Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine
- The Crowd Gustave Le Bon
- The Crucible Mark Lee Luther
- Cruel as the Grave Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
- The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Frank Thomas Bullen
- The Cruise of the Snark Jack London
- The Crux Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Crystal Stopper Maurice Leblanc
- Cuore (Heart) Edmondo De Amicis
- Curious, If True Elizabeth Gaskell
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