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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. Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville

  35. An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age

    John Ruskin

  36. A Passion in the Desert

    Honoré de Balzac

  37. A Modest Proposal

    Jonathan Swift

  38. Resolutions When I Come to Be Old

    Jonathan Swift

  39. An Essay on Modern Education

    Jonathan Swift

  40. A Meditation Upon a Broomstick

    Jonathan Swift

  41. Ninety-Three

    Victor Hugo

  42. An Enemy of the People

    Henrik Ibsen

  43. The Emperor Jones

    Eugene O’Neill

  44. Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

  45. Madame Curie

    Ève Curie

  46. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

  47. The Sea Around Us

    Rachel Carson

  48. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus

    Thomas Browne

  49. The Two Drovers

    Walter Scott

  50. Youth

    Joseph Conrad

  51. Micromégas

    Voltaire

  52. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    Mark Twain

  53. I’m a Fool

    Sherwood Anderson

  54. Aucassin and Nicolette

  55. The Open Boat

    Stephen Crane

  56. Rappaccini’s Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  57. The Lifted Veil

    George Eliot

  58. First Love

    Ivan Turgenev

  59. White Nights

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  60. The Apple-Tree

    John Galsworthy

  61. The Spinoza of Market Street

    Isaac Singer

  62. The Queen of Spades

    Alexander Pushkin

  63. The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

  64. The Pupil

    Henry James

  65. Mario and the Magician

    Thomas Mann

  66. Sorrow-Acre

    Isak Dinesen

  67. How Should One Read a Book?

    Virginia Woolf

  68. What is a Classic?

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  69. Montaigne

    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  70. Of Beauty

    Francis Bacon

  71. Of Discourse

    Francis Bacon

  72. Of Studies

    Francis Bacon

  73. Of Youth and Age

    Francis Bacon

  74. Of Parents and Children

    Francis Bacon

  75. Of Marriage and Single Life

    Francis Bacon

  76. Of Great Place

    Francis Bacon

  77. Of Seditions and Troubles

    Francis Bacon

  78. Of Custom and Education

    Francis Bacon

  79. Of Followers and Friends

    Francis Bacon

  80. Of Usury

    Francis Bacon

  81. Of Riches

    Francis Bacon

  82. Of Truth

    Francis Bacon

  83. Of Death

    Francis Bacon

  84. Of Adversity

    Francis Bacon

  85. Of Love

    Francis Bacon

  86. Of Friendship

    Francis Bacon

  87. Of Anger

    Francis Bacon

  88. Of the Standard of Taste

    David Hume

  89. Of Refinement in the Arts

    David Hume

  90. Of Money

    David Hume

  91. Of the Balance of Trade

    David Hume

  92. Of Taxes

    David Hume

  93. Of the Study of History

    David Hume

  94. On Style

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  95. On Some Forms of Literature

    Arthur Schopenhauer

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

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  97. On Simple and Sentimental Poetry

    Friedrich Schiller

  98. A Defence of Poetry

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  99. Preface to Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

  100. My First Acquaintance with Poets

    William Hazlitt

  101. Preface to Shakespeare

    Samuel Johnson

  102. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

    Thomas de Quincey

  103. Tradition and the Individual Talent

    T. S. Eliot

  104. A Book of Characters

    Jean de La Bruyère

  105. The Hero as King

    Thomas Carlyle

  106. Chiefly About War Matters

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  107. Anabasis

    Xenophon

  108. Memorabilia

    Memorabilia

  109. The Eruption of Vesuvius

    Pliny the Younger

  110. Agricola

    Tacitus

  111. The Way to Write History

    Lucian of Samosata

  112. Moralia

    Plutarch

  113. On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

    William James

  114. The Energies of Men

    William James

  115. Great Men and Their Environment

    William James

  116. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

    Edmund Burke

  117. The Concurrent Majority

    John Calhoun

  118. English Men and Ideas

    Voltaire

  119. De Monarchia

    Dante Alighieri

  120. A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  121. Perpetual Peace

    Immanuel Kant

  122. On War

    Carl von Clausewitz

  123. An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Thomas Malthus

  124. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

    John Erskine

  125. The Ethics of Belief

    William Clifford

  126. How We Think

    John Dewey

  127. Letter to Herodotus

    Epicurus

  128. The Renaissance

    Walter Pater

  129. On Friendship

    Cicero

  130. Lucretius

    George Santayana

  131. Goethe’s Faust

    George Santayana

  132. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    Henry Adams

  133. Letters from an American Farmer

    John Hector St. John

  134. The Doctor in Spite of Himself

    Molière

  135. The Misanthrope

    Molière

  136. The Study of Poetry

    Matthew Arnold

  137. The Philosophy of Right

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  138. The Philosophy of History

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  139. The Descent of Man

    Charles Darwin

  140. The Capital

    Karl Marx

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