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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. A Plea for Captain John Brown

    Henry David Thoreau

  19. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

    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. Nature

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  27. Self-Reliance

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  28. Sweetness and Light

    Matthew Arnold

  29. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  30. The Pickwick Papers

    Charles Dickens

  31. The Man of Destiny

    George Bernard Shaw

  32. Across the Plains

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  33. The Cherry Orchard

    Anton Chekhov

  34. My First Play

    Charles Lamb

  35. Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville

  36. An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age

    John Ruskin

  37. A Passion in the Desert

    Honoré de Balzac

  38. A Modest Proposal

    Jonathan Swift

  39. Resolutions When I Come to Be Old

    Jonathan Swift

  40. An Essay on Modern Education

    Jonathan Swift

  41. A Meditation Upon a Broomstick

    Jonathan Swift

  42. Ninety-Three

    Victor Hugo

  43. An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

  44. The Emperor Jones

    Eugene O’Neill

  45. Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

  46. Madame Curie

    Ève Curie

  47. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

  48. The Sea Around Us

    Rachel Carson

  49. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus

    Thomas Browne

  50. The Two Drovers

    Walter Scott

  51. Youth

    Joseph Conrad

  52. Micromégas

    Voltaire

  53. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    Mark Twain

  54. I’m a Fool

    Sherwood Anderson

  55. Aucassin and Nicolette

  56. The Open Boat

    Stephen Crane

  57. Rappaccini’s Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  58. The Lifted Veil

    George Eliot

  59. First Love

    Ivan Turgenev

  60. White Nights

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  61. The Apple-Tree

    John Galsworthy

  62. The Spinoza of Market Street

    Isaac Singer

  63. The Queen of Spades

    Alexander Pushkin

  64. The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

  65. The Pupil

    Henry James

  66. Mario and the Magician

    Thomas Mann

  67. Sorrow-Acre

    Isak Dinesen

  68. How Should One Read a Book?

    Virginia Woolf

  69. What is a Classic?

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  70. Montaigne

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  71. Of Beauty

    Francis Bacon

  72. Of Discourse

    Francis Bacon

  73. Of Studies

    Francis Bacon

  74. Of Youth and Age

    Francis Bacon

  75. Of Parents and Children

    Francis Bacon

  76. Of Marriage and Single Life

    Francis Bacon

  77. Of Great Place

    Francis Bacon

  78. Of Seditions and Troubles

    Francis Bacon

  79. Of Custom and Education

    Francis Bacon

  80. Of Followers and Friends

    Francis Bacon

  81. Of Usury

    Francis Bacon

  82. Of Riches

    Francis Bacon

  83. Of Truth

    Francis Bacon

  84. Of Death

    Francis Bacon

  85. Of Adversity

    Francis Bacon

  86. Of Love

    Francis Bacon

  87. Of Friendship

    Francis Bacon

  88. Of Anger

    Francis Bacon

  89. Of the Standard of Taste

    David Hume

  90. Of Refinement in the Arts

    David Hume

  91. Of Money

    David Hume

  92. Of the Balance of Trade

    David Hume

  93. Of Taxes

    David Hume

  94. Of the Study of History

    David Hume

  95. On Style

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  96. On Some Forms of Literature

    Arthur Schopenhauer

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

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  98. On Simple and Sentimental Poetry

    Friedrich Schiller

  99. A Defence of Poetry

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  100. Preface to Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

  101. My First Acquaintance with Poets

    William Hazlitt

  102. Preface to Shakespeare

    Samuel Johnson

  103. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

    Thomas de Quincey

  104. Tradition and the Individual Talent

    T. S. Eliot

  105. A Book of Characters

    Jean de La Bruyère

  106. The Hero as King

    Thomas Carlyle

  107. Chiefly About War Matters

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  108. Anabasis

    Xenophon

  109. Memorabilia

    Memorabilia

  110. The Eruption of Vesuvius

    Pliny the Younger

  111. Agricola

    Tacitus

  112. The Way to Write History

    Lucian of Samosata

  113. Moralia

    Plutarch

  114. On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

    William James

  115. The Energies of Men

    William James

  116. Great Men and Their Environment

    William James

  117. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

    Edmund Burke

  118. The Concurrent Majority

    John Calhoun

  119. English Men and Ideas

    Voltaire

  120. De Monarchia

    Dante Alighieri

  121. A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  122. Perpetual Peace

    Immanuel Kant

  123. On War

    Carl von Clausewitz

  124. An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Thomas Malthus

  125. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

    John Erskine

  126. The Ethics of Belief

    William Clifford

  127. How We Think

    John Dewey

  128. Letter to Herodotus

    Epicurus

  129. The Renaissance

    Walter Pater

  130. On Friendship

    Cicero

  131. Lucretius

    George Santayana

  132. Goethe’s Faust

    George Santayana

  133. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    Henry Adams

  134. Letters from an American Farmer

    John Hector St. John

  135. The Doctor in Spite of Himself

    Molière

  136. The Misanthrope

    Molière

  137. The Study of Poetry

    Matthew Arnold

  138. The Philosophy of Right

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  139. The Philosophy of History

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  140. The Descent of Man

    Charles Darwin

  141. The Capital

    Karl Marx

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