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Alphabetical List by Author

Adams, Andy
    Cattle Brands; a collection of western camp-fire stories

Aeschylus (c 525 BC - 456 BC)
    Agamemnon (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
    Choephori (tr. by E. D. A. Morshead)
    The Orestia of Æschylus (tr. by E. D. A. Morshed)

Aesop (620-560 BC)
    Aesop for Children, the (illus. Milo Winter)
    Aesop's Fables (Ill. by Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and E. Griset)
    Aesop's Fables (illus. Rackham)

Anderson, Hannah Coryell
    General Washington at Coryell's Ferry, June 21, 1928

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-524)
    The Consolation of Philosophy

Anonymous
    Beowulf (Hall translation)
    Beowulf (Klæber ed.)
    Beowulf; the oldest English epic (Gummere translation)
    Story of Flamenca
    The Lay of the Cid

Apollinaire, Guillaume
    Alcools; Poemes, 1898-1913

Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 3rd cent. BC)
    Argonautica

Appleton, Victor, II
    Tom Swift and the visitor from Planet X

Apuleius, Lucius (c. 123-180)
    Metamorphoses [Latin text]
    The Golden Ass of Apuleius

Aristophanes (446-386 BC)
    Five Comedies of Aristophanes

Ascham, Roger (1515-1568)
    Scholemaster, the

Ashford, Daisy (1881-1972)
    Young Visiters, the, or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

Asser, Bishop of Sherborne (d. 908/909)
    Annales Rerum Gestarum Alfredi Magni

Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Baronne d'Aulnoy
    Les Contes des Fees

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
    Emma
    Mansfield Park
    Northanger Abbey
    Pride and Prejudice
    Sense and Sensibility

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
    New Atlantis, the

Baldwin, Joseph G (1815-1864)
    Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi

Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850)
    Père Goriot (tr. by Ellen Marriage)

Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922)
    House-boat on the Styx, A
    Olympian Nights

Barrie, James Matthew (1860-1937)
    Peter and Wendy
    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Bartram, William (1739-1793)
    Bartram's Travels (1791)

Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
    Les Fleurs du Mal

Baum, Lyman Frank (1856-1919)
    Emerald City of Oz, the
    Lost princess of Oz, the
    Ozma of Oz
    Patchwork girl of Oz, the
    Rinkitink in Oz
    Road to Oz, the
    Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the

Bede
    Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

Benedict of Nursia, Saint (480-547)
    Regula Sancti Benedicti [Latin]
    The Rule of Saint Benedict

Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
    A Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge

Bible
    Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New

Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933)
    Behind that Curtain
    Black Camel, the
    Charlie Chan Carries On
    Chinese Parrot, the
    House Without a Key
    Keeper of the Keys

Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes (1837-1902)
    Four Months in a Sneak-box

Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900)
    Lorna Doone

Blake, William (1757-1827)
    Songs of Innocence and Experience

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)

Bradford, William (1590-1657)
    Bradford's History "Of Plymouth Plantation"

Brand, Max (Frederick Faust, 1892-1944)
    Seventh Man, the

Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)
    Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)
    Wuthering Heights

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
    Sonnets from the Portuguese

Burk, Martha Jane (1852-1903)
    Life and adventures of Calamity Jane

Burke, Thomas (1886-1945)
    Limehouse Nights

Burleigh, Bennett ( -1914)
    Khartoum Campaign, 1898

Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924)
    Secret Garden, the

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950)
    Chessmen of Mars
    Jungle Tales of Tarzan
    Swords of Mars
    Tarzan and the Forbidden City
    Tarzan of the Apes
    Tarzan the Untamed
    Thuvia of Mars
    Warlord of Mars, the

Butler, Samuel (1774-1839)
    Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824)
    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Cæsar (100-44 BC)
    Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars
    Commentariorum de C. Iulius Cæsar

C. Plinius Secundus
    Historie of the World, translated by Philemon Holland

Cable, George Washington (1873-1947)
    Grandissimes, the
    Old Creole Days

Caius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC)
    Carmina (tr. by Sir Richard Burton)
    Catulli Carmina [Latin]

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
    Alice in Wonderland (ill. Tenniel)
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ill. Robinson)
    Hunting of the Snark

Cather, Willa (1844-1925)
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    My Ántonia
    O Pioneers!

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
    Man Who Knew Too Much
    Man who was Thursday, the

Chopin, Kate (1850-1904)
    Awakening, the
    Bayou Folk

Chrètien de Troyes
    Four Arthurian Romances, tr. by W. W. Comfort
    Les Romans de Chrètien de Troyes (12th century)

Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
    Mysterious Affair at Styles, the
    Secret Adversary, the

Clark, William (1770-1838)
    Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Claudius Aelianus
    His Various History, translated by Thomas Stanley

Cobleigh, Rolfe
    Handy farm devices, and how to make them

Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
    The Moonstone
    Woman in white, the

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio
    Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke

Confucius (551-479 BC)
    Confucian Analects (tr. by Legge)
    Sayings of Confucius, the (tr. by Lyall)

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
    Heart of Darkness
    Lord Jim

Cook, James, Captain (1728-1779)
    Captain Cook's journal, during his first voyage around the world

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
    Deerslayer, the
    Deerslayer, the
    Last of the Mohicans, the
    Ned Myers, or, A Life Before the Mast

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
    Red Badge of Courage, the

Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1745-1813)
    Letters from an American Farmer

Cummings, Ray (1887-1957)
    Brigands of the moon
    Wandl the invader

Cynewulf
    Elene
    Legend of Saint Andrew

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    On The Origin of Species
    Voyage of the Beagle

Davidson, John (1857-1909)
    A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender

Davis, Richard Harding (1864-1916)
    Cinderella, and Other Stories
    Congo and the Coasts of Africa, the
    Gallegher, and Other Stories
    Soldiers of Fortune

Dawson, Carley
    Mr. Wicker's Window

Defoe, Daniel (1659-1731)
    Fortunes and misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
    Life and most surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the
    Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
    A Christmas Carol (illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
    Great Expectations
    Hard Times
    Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Donne, John
    Devotions on Emergent Occasions, together with Death's Duell

Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
    A Study in Scarlet
    Land of Mist
    Last of the Legions
    Sign of the Four

Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady (1821-1869)
    Letters from Egypt

Dumas, Alexandre (Pére)
    Count of Monte Cristo, the

Dunbar, Alice (1875-1935)
    Goodness of St. Rocque, the

Eliot, Ethel Cook (1890-1972)
    Little House in the Fairy Wood, the

Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Adam Bede

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)
    Prufrock and Other Observations
    Wasteland, the

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
    Essays (First and Second series)
    Nature

Ethelwerd, Fabius
    The Chronicle of Fabius Ethelwerd [975]

Filson, John (1747-1788)
    Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone

Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883), translator
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
    Beautiful and Damned, the
    Great Gatsby, the
    Tales of the Jazz Age
    This Side of Paradise

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880)
    Salammbô (English tr. by Alban Krailsheimer)

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)(1879-1970)
    Howards End
    Room with a View, a

France, Anatole
    Thais (English)
    Thais (French)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
    Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69-130 AD)
    De Vita Cæsarum [latin]
    Lives of the Twelve Caesars (tr. by Alexander Thomson)

Gallagher, Sarah A.
    Early History of Lambertville, New Jersey

Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932)
    Wind in the Willows, the

Green, Anna Katharine (1846-1935)
    House in the Mist, the
    Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, the

Grey, Zane (1872-1939)
    Betty Zane
    Border Legion, the
    Last Trail, the
    Nevada
    Rainbow Trail
    Riders of the purple sage
    Robbers' Roost
    Spirit of the Border
    Under the Tonto Rim
    Wildfire

Haggard, H. Rider (1856-1925)
    Alan Quatermain
    King Solomon's Mines
    She

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
    Far From the Madding Crowd

Harris, Joel Chandler (1845-1908)
    Nights With Uncle Remus

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
    House of Seven Gables, the
    Scarlet Letter [1850]
    Scarlet Letter [Osgood, 1878]
    Twice-told Tales

Henty, George Alfred (1832-1902)
    At Aboukir and Acre; A story of Napoleon's Invasion...
    The Dash for Khartoum; A tale of the Nile expedition
    With Kitchener in the Soudan

Homer (c. 8th century BC)
    Iliad, the, translated by T. A. Buckley
    The Odyssey

Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)
    A Shropshire Lad

Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
    Tom Brown;'s school days

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
    Brave New World

James, Henry (1843-1916)
    American, the
    Two magics, the

John of Worcester
    Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (The Worcester Chronicle)

Johnson, Clifton
    Highways & Byways of the Mississippi Valley

Jordanes (6th century AD)
    Gothic History of Jordanes (551 AD)

Joyce, James (1882-1941)
    Dubliners
    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Ulysses

Keats, John (1795-1821)
    Poems published in 1820
    Poems, 1817

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
    Puck of Pook's Hill
    Rewards and Fairies

Lang, Andrew (1844-1912), ed.
    The Blue Fairy Book
    The Violet Fairy Book

Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930)
    Lady Chatterley's Lover

Leacock, Stephen (1869-1944)
    Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich
    Behind the Beyond
    Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Lewis, Merriwether (1774-1809)
    Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)
    Babbitt
    Cass Timberlane
    Elmer Gantry
    Main Street

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (1870-1944)
    Cape Cod Ballads
    Cy Whittaker's Place
    Depot Master, the
    Extricating Obadiah
    Fair Harbor
    Keziah Coffin
    Mary-'Gusta
    Mr. Pratt
    Rugged Water
    Shavings
    Wards of Captain Warren, the
    Woman-Haters, the

London, Jack (1876-1916)
    A Son of the Sun
    Adventure
    Call of the Wild
    Sea-Wolf, the
    South Sea Tales
    White Fang

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
    Evangeline: A tale of Acadie
    Song of Hiawatha, the

Louys, Pierre
    Aphrodite [Ancient Manners]

Lucius Apuleius, "Africanus"
    The Golden Ass of Apuleius (Adlington's translation)

M. Tulli Ciceronis (106-43 BC)
    Cato Maior De Senectute & Laelius De Amicitia [Latin]
    First Oration of Cicero against Catiline
    Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, tr. by E. S. Schuckburgh
    Tusculan Disputations; also Treatises on the Gods and the Commonwealth

Machen, Arthur (1863-1947)
    Great God Pan
    The Bowmen, and Other Legends of the War

Mandeville, Sir John
    Mandeville's Travels
    Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
    Commentariorum quos ipsi sibi scribit [Latin text]
    Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (tr. by George Long)
    Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Maxwell, Donald (1877-1936)
    A Dweller in Mesopotamia

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
    Moby Dick, or, The Whale
    Typee, or, A Real Romance of the South Sea

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)
    On Liberty

Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Paradise Lost

Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874-1942)
    Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of the Island

Mundy, Talbot (1879-1940)
    King, of the Khyber Rifles
    Om: the Secret of Ahbor Valley

Nennius (9th century AD)
    Historia Brittonum

Oppenheim, Edward Phillips (1866-1946)
    A Maker of History
    Great Impersonation
    Lighted way, the
    The Lost Ambassador

Orczy, Baroness Emma (1865-1947)
    Scarlet Pimpernel, the

Orwell, George (1903-1950)
    1984
    Animal Farm

Page, Thomas Nelson (1853-1922)
    Gordon Keith

Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861-1937)
    Hollow tree nights and days

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
    Age of reason
    Common Sense
    Rights of man, the
    The American Crisis (13 Pamphlets, 1776-1783)

Plato (428-348 BC)
    Plato's Apology, Crito & Phaedo of Socrates
    Republic of Plato, the

Plutarch (46-120 AD)
    Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
    Rape of the Lock, the

Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943)
    Ginger & Pickles
    Pie and the Patty Pan, the
    Tailor of Gloucester, the
    Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, the
    Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, the
    Tale of Tom Kitten, the

Procopius of Caesarea
    Secret History, the

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BC)
    Æneid (Tr. Dryden, 1697)
    Aeneidos [Latin]
    The Georgics of Virgil

Pyle, Howard (1853-1911)
    Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, the

Pyle, Katharine (1863-1938)
    Tales of folk and fairies

Raine, William MacLeod (1871-1954)
    A Daughter of the Dons
    A Pirate of Panama
    A Texas Ranger
    Bucky O'Connor
    Highgrader, the
    Mavericks

Ramsay, David (1749-1850)
    Life of George Washington

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953)
    South Moon Under

Rohmer, Sax (1883-1969)
    Bat-wing
    Devil doctor, the
    Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, the
    Yellow Claw, the

Sabatini, Raphael (1875-1950)
    Captain Blood

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.)
    Seneca's Morals

Shelley, Mary (1797-1851)
    Frankenstein (illus. by Lynd Ward)
    Frankenstein, or, The New Prometheus

Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915)
    Tides of Barnegat

Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)
    Faerie Queene, the [1596]

St. Pierre, Bernardin de
    Paul and Virginia

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
    A Child's Garden of Verses (ill. by Wilcox)
    Black Arrow, the, A Tale of Two Roses
    Child's Garden of Verses, a
    In The South Seas
    Kidnapped
    Master of Ballantrae
    Treasure Island

Stowe, Harriet Beecher ((1811-1806)
    Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
    Gulliver's Travels

Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946)
    Magnificent Ambersons, the
    Penrod
    Seventeen

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
    Walden; or Life in the woods

Titus Livius ( 59 BC – AD 17)
    The Early History of Rome (tr. by Freese et al)

Trollope, Fanny (1780-1863)
    Domestic manners of the Americans

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
    1601, or Social Conversation as it was in the Time of the Tudors
    Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the
    Eve's Diary
    Extracts from Adam's Diary
    Roughing It

Van Dine, S. S. (1888-1939)
    Benson Murder Case, the
    Bishop murder case, the
    Canary Murder Case
    Greene murder case
    Kennel Murder Case, the
    Scarab murder case, the

Vasco Lobeira
    Amadis de Gaula

Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)
    Poems of Paul Verlaine

Villon, François
    Oeuvres Complètes

Vimar, Auguste
    Curly-haired Hen, the

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1994-1788)
    Candide
    Candide, ou L'Optimisme

Wallace, Edgar (1875-1932)
    Bosambo of the river
    People of the river, the
    Sanders of the river

Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)
    War of the Worlds

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
    Leaves of Grass [1891]

Wiggin, Kate Douglas (1856-1923)
    Arabian Nights
    Diary of a Goose Girl, the
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
    The Village Watch-tower

Wilson, Epiphanius, editor
    Japanese Literature
    Sacred Books of the East

Winslow, Edward (1595-1655)
    Good Newes from New-England
    Mourt's Relation; or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth

Wister, Owen (1860-1938)
    Virginian, the

Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville (1881-1975)
    Adventures of Sally, the
    Girl on the boat, the
    Jill the Reckless
    My man Jeeves
    Right ho, Jeeves

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
    A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Woolman, John (1720-1772)
    Journal of John Woolman [1794]

Xenophon (430-354 BC)
    Anabasis, the, or, The March Up Country

Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
    Celtic Twilight
    In the Seven Woods