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Classics (English)
Generally, a classic book is a book that has been culturally accepted as being noteworthy or exemplary. The term is very closely tied to what is considered the "canon" by professors in Western universities. These works have usually been in publication for a considerable amount of time and received extensive critical analysis. This collection is a starter collection and is not meant to be comprehensive.
This collection contains: 117 books
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A Confederacy of Dunces (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . ....
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (English)
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (English)
Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this...
A Farewell to Arms (English)
Presented by Patrick and Se á n Hemingway, this augmented edition of Ernest Hemingway's classic...
Animal Farm (English)
George Orwell's timeless fable—a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the...
A Raisin in the Sun (English)
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics...
A Separate Peace (English)
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in...
As I Lay Dying (English)
"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the...
A Streetcar Named Desire
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and...
A Thousand Acres (English)
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa...
Atlas Shrugged (English)
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (English)
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American...
Baldwin - Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain; Giovanni's Room; Another Country; Going to Meet the Man (English)
Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that...
Beloved (English)
New York Times Bestseller Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding...
Bless Me, Ultima (English)
This coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time follows a young boy as he...
Brave New World (English)
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the...
Cat's Cradle (English)
"A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!"— The New York Times Cat's Cradle is Kurt...
Collected Stories of Carson Mccullers (English)
Carson McCullers—novelist, dramatist, poet—was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short...
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (English)
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and...
Dawn Powell, 1944-1962: My Home Is Far Away - The Locusts Have No King - The Wicked Pavilion - The Golden Spur (English)
American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan and full-bodied portraiture...
Death of a Salesman (English)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream, presented here with...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (English)
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by...
Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! - The Unvanquished; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; The Hamlet (English)
The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers...
Flowers for Algernon (English)
Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man...
For Whom the Bell Tolls (English)
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American...
Franny and Zooey (English)
"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" ( New York Times ), J. D....
Gone with the Wind (English)
Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind —winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one...
Great Short Works of Stephen Crane (English)
The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A...
Hammett - Complete Novels: Red Harvest; the Dain Curse; the Maltese Falcon; the Glass Key; the Thin Man (English)
In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American...
In Cold Blood (English)
The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever...
Invisible Man (English)
A milestone in American literature—a book that has continued to engage readers since its...
Leaves of Grass (English)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional...
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (English)
"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo...
Little Women (English)
This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by...
Little Women (English)
The classic semi-autobiographical account of childhood years with sisters growing up in...
Lolita (English)
Awe and exhiliration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita , Nabokov's most...
Lord of the Flies (English)
The classic novel by William Golding With a new Introduction by Stephen King "To me Lord of the...
McCullers - Complete Novels (English)
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized...
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (English)
In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a...
My Antonia (English)
My Ántonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the National Endowment for the Arts...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (English)
This second edition of Douglass's Narrative reprints this classic document together with speeches...
Native Son (English)
Now an HBO Film! "If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black...
Night (English)
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (English)
Written 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984...
Of Mice and Men (English)
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression, in a deluxe centennial...
On the Road (English)
The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation September...
Plains Song: For Female Voices (English)
Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place , also available in a...
Rabbit Is Rich (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle...
Rabbit Redux (English)
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman,...
Rabbit, Run (English)
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of...
Rebecca (English)
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated...
Sister Carrie (English)
A landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's...
Slaughterhouse-Five (English)
A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully...
Steinbeck - Novels, 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down; Cannery Row; the Pearl; East of Eden (English)
This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck 's writings...
Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; the Sound and the Fury; Light in August (English)
The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a...
Tarzan of the Apes (English)
Experience the legend of Tarzan in this thrilling adventure from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Set amid...
Tarzan of the Apes (English)
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several...
Tender Is the Night (English)
A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and...
Terms of Endearment (English)
In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry...
The Adventures of Augie March (English)
" The Adventures of Augie March is the great American Novel. Search no further." -Martin Amis A...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (English)
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Thrift (English)
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . It's...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (English)
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by...
The Age of Innocence (English)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw...
The Awakening and Selected Stories (English)
Introduction by Kaye Gibbons Edited and with notes by Nina Baym Commentary by Elizabeth...
The Bell Jar (English)
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously...
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (English)
The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the...
The Bonfire of the Vanities (English)
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define...
The Call of the Wild (English)
A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer,...
The Catcher in the Rye (English)
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" ( The New Yorker ) that established J. D. Salinger as a...
The Catcher in the Rye (English)
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" ( The New Yorker ) that established J. D. Salinger as a...
The Cider House Rules (English)
" The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in...
The Collected Stories of Jack London (English)
One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (English)
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb...
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (English)
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly...
The Confessions of Nat Turner (English)
The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016) In the late summer...
The Crucible (English)
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic...
The Education of Little Tree (English)
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee...
The Fountainhead (English)
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking...
The Fountainhead (English)
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking...
The Glass Menagerie
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat...
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes...
The Great Gatsby
A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (English)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only...
The House of the Seven Gables (English)
Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship The story of the Pyncheon family,...
The House on Mango Street (English)
The bestselling coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages,...
The Joy Luck Club (English)
" The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I...
The Jungle (English)
An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton...
The Last of the Mohicans (English)
The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured...
The Last of the Mohicans (English)
A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of 2 pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (English)
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original...
The Lord of the Rings (English)
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One...
The Lord of the Rings (English)
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the...
The Martian Chronicles (English)
Soar above the fossil seas and crystal pillars of a deadworld in the pages of Ray Bradbury's The...
The Old Man and the Sea (English)
Told in language of great simplicity and power, this story of courage and personal triumph remains...
The Pearl (English)
"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The...
The Red Badge of Courage (English)
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before...
The Red Pony (English)
Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a...
The Right Stuff (English)
From "America's nerviest journalist" ( Newsweek )—a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure...
The Secret Garden (English)
Open the door and step into the garden with Mary . . . After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox...
The Souls of Black Folk (English)
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du...
The Sound and the Fury (English)
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable...
The Sun Also Rises (English)
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's...
The Winter of Our Discontent (English)
The final novel of one of America's most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and...
The Yearling (English)
An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and...
The Yearling (English)
An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize-winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child...
This Side of Paradise (English)
THE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY...
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life among the Lowly (English)
The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and...
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life among the Lowly (English)
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of...
Underworld (English)
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel—"a great...
Washington Square (English)
Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is...
Where the Red Fern Grows (English)
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he's finally able to save up...
Where the Red Fern Grows (English)
For fans of Old Yeller and Shiloh, Where the Red Fern Grows is a beloved classic that captures...
Wuthering Heights (English)
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