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  1. The Darling

    Anton Chekhov

  2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. Mowgli’s Brothers

    Rudyard Kipling

  4. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

  5. The Mantle

    Nikolai Gogol

  6. The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller

    Gustave Flaubert

  7. The Gentleman from San Francisco

    Ivan Bunin

  8. Billy Budd

    Herman Melville

  9. Erewhon

    Samuel Butler

  10. The Telltale Heart

    Edgar Allan Poe

  11. The Masque of the Red Death

    Edgar Allan Poe

  12. The Happy Prince

    Oscar Wilde

  13. The School for Scandal

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  14. The Crisis I

    Thomas Paine

  15. The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

    Leo Tolstoy

  16. The Three Hermits

    Leo Tolstoy

  17. What Men Live By

    Leo Tolstoy

  18. Nature

    Henry David Thoreau

  19. Self-Reliance

    Henry David Thoreau

  20. The Killers

    Ernest Hemingway

  21. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill

  22. The Enchiridion

    Epictetus

  23. The Golden Ass

    Apuleius

  24. Two Friends

    Guy de Maupassant

  25. Riders to the Sea

    J. M. Synge

  26. Essays

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  27. Sweetness and Light

    Matthew Arnold

  28. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  29. The Pickwick Papers

    Charles Dickens

  30. The Man of Destiny

    George Bernard Shaw

  31. Across the Plains

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  32. The Cherry Orchard

    Anton Chekhov

  33. My First Play

    Charles Lamb

  34. An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age

    John Ruskin

  35. A Modest Proposal

    Jonathan Swift

  36. Ninety-Three

    Victor Hugo

  37. An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

  38. The Emperor Jones

    Eugene O’Neill

  39. Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

  40. Madame Curie

    Ève Curie

  41. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

  42. The Sea Around Us

    Rachel Carson

  43. The Two Drovers

    Walter Scott

  44. Youth

    Joseph Conrad

  45. Micromégas

    Voltaire

  46. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    Mark Twain

  47. I’m a Fool

    Sherwood Anderson

  48. Aucassin and Nicolette

  49. The Open Boat

    Stephen Crane

  50. The Lifted Veil

    George Eliot

  51. First Love

    Ivan Turgenev

  52. White Nights

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  53. The Apple-Tree

    John Galsworthy

  54. The Spinoza of Market Street

    Isaac Singer

  55. The Queen of Spades

    Alexander Pushkin

  56. The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

  57. Mario and the Magician

    Thomas Mann

  58. Sorrow-Acre

    Isak Dinesen

  59. How Should One Read a Book?

    Virginia Woolf

  60. What is a Classic?

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  61. Of Beauty

    Francis Bacon

  62. Of the Standard of Taste

    David Hume

  63. On Style

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  64. On Simple and Sentimental Poetry

    Friedrich Schiller

  65. A Defence of Poetry

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  66. Preface to Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

  67. My First Acquaintance with Poets

    William Hazlitt

  68. Preface to Shakespeare

    Samuel Johnson

  69. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

    Thomas de Quincey

  70. Tradition and the Individual Talent

    T. S. Eliot

  71. A Book of Characters

    Jean de La Bruyère

  72. The Hero as King

    Thomas Carlyle

  73. Chiefly About War Matters

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  74. Anabasis

    Xenopohn

  75. Memorabilia

    Memorabilia

  76. The Eruption of Vesuvius

    Pliny the Younger

  77. Agricola

    Tacitus

  78. The Way to Write History

    Lucian of Samosata

  79. Moralia

    Plutarch

  80. On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

    William James

  81. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus

    Thomas Browne

  82. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

    Edmund Burke

  83. The Concurrent Majority

    John Calhoun

  84. English Men and Ideas

    Voltaire

  85. De Monarchia

    Dante Alighieri

  86. A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  87. Perpetual Peace

    Immanuel Kant

  88. On War

    Carl von Clausewitz

  89. An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Thomas Malthus

  90. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

    John Erskine

  91. The Ethics of Belief

    William Clifford

  92. How We Think

    John Dewey

  93. Letter to Herodotus

    Epicurus

  94. The Renaissance

    Walter Pater

  95. On Friendship

    Cicero

  96. Lucretius

    George Santayana

  97. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    Henry Adams

  98. Letters from an American Farmer

    John Hector St. John

  99. A Passion in the Desert

    Honoré de Balzac

  100. The Pupil

    Henry James

  101. The Study of Poetry

    Matthew Arnold

  102. Montaigne

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  103. On Some Forms of Literature

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  104. On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  105. Goethe’s Faust

    George Santayana

  106. The Energies of Men

    William James

  107. Great Men and Their Environment

    William James

  108. Resolutions When I Come to Be Old

    Jonathan Swift

  109. An Essay on Modern Education

    Jonathan Swift

  110. A Meditation Upon a Broomstick

    Jonathan Swift

  111. The Doctor in Spite of Himself

    Molière

  112. The Misanthrope

    Molière

  113. Of Refinement in the Arts

    David Hume

  114. Of Money

    David Hume

  115. Of the Balance of Trade

    David Hume

  116. Of Taxes

    David Hume

  117. Of the Study of History

    David Hume

  118. Of Discourse

    Francis Bacon

  119. Of Studies

    Francis Bacon

  120. Of Youth and Age

    Francis Bacon

  121. Of Parents and Children

    Francis Bacon

  122. Of Marriage and Single Life

    Francis Bacon

  123. Of Great Place

    Francis Bacon

  124. Of Seditions and Troubles

    Francis Bacon

  125. Of Custom and Education

    Francis Bacon

  126. Of Followers and Friends

    Francis Bacon

  127. Of Usury

    Francis Bacon

  128. Of Riches

    Francis Bacon

  129. Of Truth

    Francis Bacon

  130. Of Death

    Francis Bacon

  131. Of Adversity

    Francis Bacon

  132. Of Love

    Francis Bacon

  133. Of Friendship

    Francis Bacon

  134. Of Anger

    Francis Bacon

  135. Rappaccini’s Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  136. The Philosophy of Right

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  137. The Philosophy of History

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  138. Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville

  139. The Descent of Man

    Charles Darwin

  140. The Capital

    Karl Marx

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