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Aesop's FablesAesop
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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- The Testament of Isaac Attributed to the biblical patriarch Isaac
G
- The Gospel of Barnabas Anonymous
T
- The Testament of Jacob Attributed to the biblical patriarch Jacob
M
- The Man with the Broken Ear Edmond About
S
- Sefer Yetzirah Attributed to the patriarch Abraham
A
Most read in A
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare
- Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel
H
- The House on the Cliff Franklin W. Dixon
M
- Major Barbara Bernard Shaw
H
- Han Feizi Han Fei
E
- The Essence of Christianity Ludwig Feuerbach
S
- The Secret City Hugh Walpole
- Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various Authors
W
- The Wyvern Mystery Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
C
- The Confidence-Man Herman Melville
K
- King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard
J
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
M
- The Magic Casket R. Austin Freeman
B
- Ballads of Robin Hood and Other Outlaws Frank Sidgwick
A
Most read in A
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare
- The Amores Ovid
T
- A Tour of France by Aeroplane H. de Graffigny
S
- Samantha Among the Brethren Marietta Holley
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- 20 Hrs., 40 Min. Amelia Earhart
B
- Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens
A
Most read in A
- Anne of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery
L
- Lourdes Émile Zola
G
- The Garden Party, and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield
V
- Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
A
- Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc
J
- Joseph and Aseneth Anonymous Jewish scribe
A
- The Acts of Thomas Anonymous
P
- Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling
E
- English Eccentrics and Eccentricities John Timbs
T
- Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations John Francis Arundell
C
- Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Marcus Tullius Cicero
K
- King Arthur's Knights Henry Gilbert
L
- The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin
I
- In the Days of the Comet H. G. Wells
H
- The History of Mr. Polly H. G. Wells
D
- The Dark Star Robert W. Chambers
- Death in Venice Thomas Mann
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- Work and Win Oliver Optic
S
- Snow-Blind Albert M. Treynor
A
- Anne's House of Dreams L. M. Montgomery
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I
- In Apple-Blossom Time Clara Louise Burnham
T
- Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Ignácz Kúnos (compiler); R. Nisbet Bain (translator)
- Tales of Fantasy and Fact Brander Matthews
C
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft
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- The Varmint Owen Johnson
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- Golden Stories Various Authors
P
- Politics Aristotle
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- Lost Ships and Lonely Seas Ralph Delahaye Paine
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- 4 Baruch Attributed to Baruch ben Neriah
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- Sefer ha-Razim Anonymous
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- The Marquis de Sade and His Time Iwan Bloch
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- Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C
- Cuore (Heart) Edmondo De Amicis
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- The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle
B
- The Boy Crusaders John G. Edgar
- The Blind Spot Austin Hall; Homer Eon Flint
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- The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle Edward Stratemeyer
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- Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter Theodore Roosevelt
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- Phallic Worship Hargrave Jennings
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- Night Pieces E. T. A. Hoffmann
H
- Hegel's Philosophy of Mind Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A
- American Notes Charles Dickens
G
- Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Arnold
C
- The Crock of Gold James Stephens
M
- The Mystery of the Missing Eyebrows Stephen Rudd
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- The Ghosts, and Other Lectures Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Fibble, D.D. Irvin S. Cobb
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- Doctor Pascal Émile Zola
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- The Opinions of Monsieur Jérôme Coignard Anatole France
B
- Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
G
- The Goose Man Jakob Wassermann
L
- Lives of the Prophets Anonymous
P
- Polly and Eleanor Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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- Susanna, Bel and the Dragon Attributed to the prophet Daniel
K
- Korean Fairy Tales William Elliot Griffis
B
- Birds, Beasts and Flowers D. H. Lawrence
S
- A Short History of the World H. G. Wells
L
- The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights James Knowles; Thomas Malory
K
- The Katipunan Francis St. Clair
T
- Tales of Folk and Fairies Katharine Pyle
S
- The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
T
- Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald
M
- Major Vigoureux Arthur Quiller-Couch
T
- Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero
P
- Prayers of the Early Church J. Manning Potts (editor)
C
- The Convert Elizabeth Robins
- The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon J. M. Gordon
J
- The Jewish State Theodor Herzl
A
- All Along the River Mary Elizabeth Braddon
B
- Before Adam Jack London
P
- The Porcelain Mask John Jay Chichester
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- Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read
L
- Lady Susan Jane Austen
I
- Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs (compiler)
E
- English Fairy Tales Flora Annie Webster Steel
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- A Thin Ghost and Others M. R. James
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