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A Separate List of Classic Fiction
By Author:
A
Anderson, Sherwood.  Winesburg, Ohio.
Austen, Jane.   Emma.
Austen, Jane.  Mansfield Park.
Austen, Jane.  Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane.  Sense and Sensibility
B
Bellamy, Edward.  Looking Backward.
Bierce, Ambrose.  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Bierce, Ambrose.  Devil's Dictionary.
Bronte, Charlotte.  Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily.  Wuthering Heights
Bulfinch, Thomas.  Bulfinch's Mythology.
 
Bunyan, John . Pilgrim's Progress
C
Carroll, Lewis .  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis .  Through the Looking-Glass.
Cather, Willa.  My Antonia.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.  Canterbury Tales.
 
Chopin, Kate.  Awarkening.
 
Conrad, Joseph.   Heart of Darkness.
Conrad, Joseph.  Lord Jim.
 
Cooper, James Fenimore.  Last of the Mohicans.
Crane, Stephen.  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Crane, Stephen.  Red Badge of Courage.
D
Dante Alighieri.  Divine Comedy.
 
Defoe, Daniel.  Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles.  David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles.  Tale of Two Cities.
Dickens, Charles.  Oliver Twist.
Dickens, Charles.  Christmas Carol.
Dickens, Charles.  Bleak House.
Dickens, Charles.  Hard Times.
Dickens, Charles.   Little Dorrit.
Dickens, Charles.  Nicholas Nickleby.
Dickens, Charles.  Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Dickens, Charles.  Old Curiousity Shop.
Dickens, Charles.  Pickwick Papers.
Dos Passos, John.  Three Soldiers.
 
Dostoevsky, Fyodor.  Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.  Crime and Punishment.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor.  Idiot.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.  Notes from the Underground.
Doyle, Arthur Conan.  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Hound of the Baskervilles.
Dreiser, Theodore.  Sister Carrie.
E
Eliot, GeorgeMill on the Floss.
Eliot, George.   Middlemarch.
Eliot, George.  Silas Marner.
F
Flaubert, Gustave.  Madame Bovary.
Forster, E.M.  Room with a View.
 
 
G
Goldsmith, Oliver.  Vicar of Wakefield.
 
H
Hardy, Thomas.  Far From the Madding Crowd.
Hardy, Thomas.  Jude the Obscure.
Hardy, Thomas.  Mayor of Casterbridge.
Hardy, Thomas.  Return of the Native.
Hardy.  Thomas.  Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  House of the Seven Gables.
Hawthorne, NathanielThe Scarlet Letter.
Hesse, Herman.  Siddhartha.
Homer.   Odyssey.
Howells, William Dean.  Rise of Silas Lapham.
Hugo, Victor.  Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Hugo, Victor.  Les Miserables.
 
 
I
Irving, Washington.  Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Irving, Washington.  Rip Van Winkle.
 
 
J
 
James, Henry.  Bostonians.
James, Henry.  Daisy Miller.
James, HenryPortrait of a Lady.
James, Henry.  Turn of the Screw.
Joyce, James.  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Joyce, James. Dubliners.
K
Kafka, Franz.  Metamorphosis.
 
Kipling, Rudyard.  Jungle Book.
Kipling, Rudyard.  Kim.
 
 
L
Lawrence, D.H.  Sons and Lovers.
 
Lewis, SinclairBabbitt.
Lewis, Sinclair.  Main Street.
 
London, Jack.  Call of the Wild.
London, Jack.  White Fang.
M
 
Maugham, W. Somerset.  Of Human Bondage.
 
Melville, Herman.  Billy Budd.
Melville, Herman. Bartleby.
Melville, Herman.  Moby-Dick.
Melville, Herman.  Typee.
 
Milton, John.  Paradise Lost.
N
 
O
 
P
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tell-tale Heart.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Purloined Letter.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Fall of the House of Usher.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Pit and the Pendulum.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Murders in the Rue Morgue.
 
 
 
Proust, Marcel.  Swann's Way.
 
 
Q
 
R
Rand, Ayn.  Anthem.
S
Scott, Walter.   Ivanhoe. A Romance.
Scott, Walter.  Lady of the Lake.
Shakespeare, WilliamOxford Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, William.  Measure for Measure.
Shakespeare, William.  Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William.  All's Well That Ends Well.
Shakespeare, William.  Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William.  Love's Labour's Lost.
Shakespeare, William.  Much Ado About Nothing.
Shakespeare, William.  Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare, William.  As You Like It.
Shakespeare, William.  Othello.
Shakespeare, William.  Comedy of Errors.
Shakespeare, William.  Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare, William.  Taming of the Shrew.
Shakespeare, William.  Antony and Cleopatra.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William.  Tempest.
 
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.  Frankenstein.
 
Sinclair, Upton.  Jungle.
 
Sophocles.   Antigone.
 
SophoclesOedipus the King.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.   Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.  Treasure Island.
Stoker, Bram.  Dracula.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.  Uncle Tom's Cabin.
 
Swift, Jonathan.  Gulliver's Travels.
 
 
T
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.  Charge of the Light Brigade.
Tolstoy, Leo.   Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy, Leo.  Death of Ivan Ilych.
Tolstoy, Leo.  War and Peace.
 
 
Twain, Mark .  Tom Sawyer, Detective.
Twain, Mark.  Prince and the Pauper.
Twain, Mark.   Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Twain, Mark.  Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Twain, Mark.  Innocents Abroad.
Twain, Mark.  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark.  Mysterious Stranger.
Twain, Mark.  Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
Twain, Mark.
V
Verne, Jules.  Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne. Jules.  Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
Voltaire.  Candide.
 
W
Wells, H.GFirst Men in the Moon.
 
Wells, H.GIsland of Doctor Moreau.
 
Wells, H.GTime Machine.
 
Wells, H.GWar of the Worlds.
 
Wharton, Edith. . Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith.  Ethan Frome.
Whitman, Walt.  Leaves of Grass.
Wilde, Oscar.   Picture of Dorian Gray.
Woolf, Virginia.  Jacob's Room.
Woolf, Virginia.  Voyage Out.
 
 
Z
Zola, Emile.  Miller's Daughter.
 
Links to Drama - This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works.
 
 
African-American History
Douglass, Frederick.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Douglass, Frederick.  Heroic Slave
Douglass. Frederick.  Future of the Colored Race.
Douglass. Frederick.  My Bondage and my Freedom.
 
Du Bois, W. E. B.  Souls of Black Folk.
Du Bois, W. E. B.  Negro Schoolmaster in the New South.