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Classic Short Stories

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

The Gift of the Magi

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Empiricism

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2

Epic Poetry

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

Paradise Lost

The Aeneid

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Existentialism

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fables & Folktales

Aesop's Fables

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series

Hans Christian Andersen

The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Foundational Texts & Documents

On the Origin of Species

The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

The Wealth of Nations

Marxism & Socialism

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Novels & Narrative Fiction

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Dracula

Ethan Frome

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Pride and Prejudice

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

The call of the wild

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Philosophy & Political Thought

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

The Art of War

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

Platonism

Crito

Euthyphro

Phaedo

Symposium

The Republic

Rationalism

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

Ethics

Shakespeare & Drama

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Othello

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Importance of Being Earnest

Stoicism

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

The Enchiridion

Utilitarianism

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Everything else

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Anabasis

Anna Karenina

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

Apology

Around the World in Eighty Days

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

Candide

Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

De Officiis

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Dubliners

Emma

Essays — First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

Michel de Montaigne

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Five Children and It

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

Heart of Darkness

Heidi

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Just so stories

Rudyard Kipling

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Leaves of Grass

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

Medea of Euripides

Middlemarch

My Ántonia

Novum Organum

Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

Old Mother West Wind

Thornton W. Burgess

On the Nature of Things

Pascal's Pensées

Persuasion

Peter Pan

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Raggedy Ann stories

Sense and Sensibility

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Silas Marner

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae): Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

Tacitus on Germany

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

The Adventures of Peter Cottontail

Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Reddy Fox

Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The Bacchae of Euripides

The Beacon Second Reader

James H. Fassett

The Blue Fairy Book

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Clouds

The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Consolation of Philosophy

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

The Critique of Pure Reason

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete

Dante Alighieri

The Frogs

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes

The History of Herodotus — Volume 1

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Peloponnesian War

The house at Pooh Corner

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

The Interpretation of Dreams

The Jungle

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The King James Version of the Bible

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Memorabilia

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come: Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan

The Poetics of Aristotle

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

The Railway Children

The Real Mother Goose

The Red Fairy Book

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

The three musketeers

Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

The Time Machine

The Turn of the Screw

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams Bianco

The war of the worlds

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Utopia

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

War and Peace

Winnie-the-Pooh

Wuthering Heights