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English teachers have the inconsiderate habit of assigning mammoth-sized
works of literature to read and then actually expecting you to do it. This
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The Ultra-Condensed Classic Books
Latest additions: 1/24/08
- Beowulf by Anonymous.
- The Confessions of St.
Augustine, by St. Augustine.
- The Collected Work of Jane Austen.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino.
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
- Don Quixote by Cervantes.
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey
Chaucer.
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.
- Ivanov by Anton Chekhov.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
- The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad.
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen
Crane.
- The Collected Work of E. E. Cummings.
- Inferno, by Dante.
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll
Flanders Who Was Born In Newgate, And During a Life of Continu'd
Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood,
Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To
Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a
Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd
Honest, and Died a Penitent by Daniel Defoe.
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
- David Copperfield by
Charles Dickens.
- Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens.
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
- A Tale of Two Cities by
Charles Dickens.
- Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- As I Lay Dying by William
Faulkner.
- Light In August by William
Faulkner.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman.
- Lord of the Flies by William
Golding.
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas
Hardy.
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
- The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy.
- The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Young Goodman Brown by
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
- A Farewell To Arms by
Ernest Hemingway.
- The Old Man and the Sea by
Ernest Hemingway.
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by
Ernest Hemingway.
- The Sun Also Rises by
Ernest Hemingway.
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen.
- The Beast In the Jungle by Henry James.
- Daisy Miller by Henry James.
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
- Washington Square by Henry James.
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey.
- Darkness At Noon by Arthur
Koestler.
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence.
- To Build a Fire by Jack London.
- Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville.
- Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
- Paradise Lost by John Milton.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell.
- The Collected Work of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
- The Catcher In the Rye by J. D.
Salinger.
- Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger.
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
- Julius Caesar by
William Shakespeare.
- King Lear by
William Shakespeare.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by
William Shakespeare.
- Othello by William Shakespeare.
- Richard III by
William Shakespeare.
- Romeo and Juliet by
William Shakespeare.
- The Taming of the Shrew by
William Shakespeare.
- The Tempest by
William Shakespeare.
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
- The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles.
- The Grapes of Wrath by John
Steinbeck.
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
- The Lady or the Tiger by Frank
R. Stockton.
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
- The Collected Work of Virginia Woolf.
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