C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
The Reader’s Digest of Books
The Abbé Constantin to The Aztec Treasure-House
| The Abbé Constantin by Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908) |
| The Abbé Daniel by André Theuriet (1833–1907) |
| The Abbé Tigrane by Ferdinand Fabre (1827–1898) |
| The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| Abdallah; or, The Four-leaved Shamrock by Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye (1811–1883) |
| The Abode of Snow by Andrew Wilson (1831–1881) |
| Studies on the Times of Abraham by Henry George Tomkins (1826–1907) |
| Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| An Accomplished Gentleman by Julian Russell Sturgis (1848–1904) |
| Across America and Asia by Raphael Pumpelly (1837–1923) |
| Across the Continent by Samuel Bowles (1826–1878) |
| The Acts of the Apostles by Jean-Gabriel Peltier, et al. (1760–1825) |
| Adam—Author Unknown |
| Adam Bede by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
| Adam Blair by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) |
| The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Adolescence by Granville Stanley Hall (1844–1924) |
| Adolphe by Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) |
| Adrienne Lecouvreur by Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) and Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903) |
| The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
| Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) |
| The Adventures of Finette by Charles Perrault (1628–1703) |
| The Adventures of François by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
| The Æneid by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
| The Æneid by Heinrich von Veldeke (c. 1140–50–c. 1190) |
| Translations and Adaptations of the Æneid by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
| Æsthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) |
| Æthiopica by Heliodorus of Emesa (Third Century) |
| Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) |
| After the Pardon by Matilde Serao (1856–1927) |
| Agamemnon by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
| Agatha Page by Isaac Henderson (1850–1909) |
| The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867) |
| The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867) |
| The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
| Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1820–1849) |
| Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| Agnes Surriage by Edwin Lassetter Bynner (1842–1893) |
| Agriculture by Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.) |
| Agriculture by Ibn al-’Awwam (fl. 12th Century) |
| Agriculture by Pierre-Fulcrand de Rosset (1708–1788) |
| Agriculture by Columella (4–70) |
| A History of Agriculture and Prices by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1823–1890) |
| Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935) |
| Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (The Duchess) (1855–1897) |
| Ajax by Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| Akbarnama by Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602) |
| The Albert N’yanza by Sir Samuel White Baker (1821–1893) |
| Albion’s England by William Warner (1558?–1609) |
| Alcestis by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
| Alexandra by Lycophron of Chalcis (fl. Third Century B.C.) |
| The Alexiad by Anna Comnena (1083–1153) |
| The Alhambra by Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
| Alice-for-short by William De Morgan (1839–1917) |
| Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) |
| Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) |
| The Alkahest; or, The House of Claës by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) |
| All Fools by George Chapman (1559?–1634) |
| All for Love by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| All Sorts and Conditions of Men by Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901) |
| All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Almagest by Ptolemy (c. 90–c. 168) |
| Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) |
| Alone by Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (Marion Harland) (1830–1922) |
| Alton Locke by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
| Alzire by Voltaire (1694–1778) |
| Amadis of Gaul—Author Unknown |
| The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) |
| Amazon by Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881) |
| The Ambassadors by Henry James (1843–1916) |
| The Amber Gods by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| An Ambitious Woman by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| Amelia by Henry Fielding (1707–1754) |
| Amenities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1766–1848) |
| America and the Americans by Achille Murat (1801–1847) |
| Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor, ed. (1831–1897) |
| The American Commonwealth by James Bryce (1838–1922) |
| The American Conflict by Horace Greeley (1811–1872) |
| American Contributions to Civilization by Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) |
| The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
| American Hero Myths by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899) |
| American Municipal Progress by Charles Zueblin (1866–1924) |
| The History of American Painting by Samuel Isham (1855–1914) |
| American Political Economy by Francis Bowen (1811–1890) |
| American Prose Masters by William Crary Brownell (1851–1928) |
| The Literary History of American Revolution by Moses Coit Tyler (1835–1900) |
| The Treasury of American Sacred Song by William Garrett Horder (1841–1922) |
| Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier (1855–1950) |
| The American by Henry James (1843–1916) |
| Periods in the Modern History of America by John Fiske (1842–1901) |
| Amiel’s Journal by Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) |
| Amos Judd by John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918) |
| L’Amour by Jules Michelet (1798–1874) |
| The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430–c. 350 B.C.) |
| The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler (1692–1752) |
| The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth (1697–1764) |
| The Analytica by Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) |
| Anastasius by Thomas Hope (1770?–1831) |
| Anathema by Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) |
| Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) |
| The Anatomie of Abuses by Philip Stubbs (fl. 1581–1593) |
| The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1577–1640) |
| Ancient Law by Sir Henry Sumner Maine (1822–1888) |
| History of Ancient Pottery by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1867–1944) |
| The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828–1893) |
| Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1847–1929) |
| The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain by Sir John Evans (1823–1908) |
| The Andes and the Amazon by James Orton (1830–1877) |
| Andromache by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
| Andromache by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
| The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
| Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1831–1917) |
| Anna Karénina by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) |
| Annals of a Fortress by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) |
| Annals of a Publishing House by Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) |
| Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood by George MacDonald (1824–1905) |
| Annals of a Sportsman by Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) |
| The Annals of Rural Bengal and Orissa by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1840–1900) |
| Annals of the Parish by John Galt (1779–1839) |
| Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) |
| Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| Annie Kilburn by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| Ante-Nicene Christian Library by Alexander Roberts (1826–1901) and James Donaldson (1831–1915) |
| Anthia and Habrocomus, or The Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus (Second Century?) |
| Anthropology by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) |
| Antigone by Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| Antonina by William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) |
| History of Antonio and Mellida and Antonio’s Revenge by John Marston (1575?–1634) |
| Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Ants, Bees, and Wasps by Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) |
| Apocryphal Gospels by Benjamin Harris Cowper (1822–1904) |
| The Apodosis by Isocrates (436–338 B.C.) |
| Apollo by Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) |
| Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
| Apology for his Life by Colley Cibber (1671–1757) |
| The Apostolic Fathers by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889) |
| April Hopes by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| A Personal Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Arabia, Central and Eastern (1862–63) by William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) |
| Arabian Nights by Unknown Author |
| Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| A History of Architecture in all Countries by James Fergusson (1808–1886) |
| An Arctic Boat Journey in the autumn of 1854 by Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881) |
| Arctic Explorations, the Second Grinnell Expedition by Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857) |
| Three Years of Arctic Service by Adolphus Washington Greely (1844–1935) |
| Ardath by Marie Corelli (1855–1924) |
| Aristotle’s Works by Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) |
| Arius the Libyan by Nathan Chapman Kouns (1833–1890) |
| Armadale by William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) |
| Armorel of Lyonesse by Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901) |
| Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| Arne by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
| Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) |
| Around a Spring by Gustave Droz (1832–1895) |
| Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1828–1905) |
| Art and Humanity in Homer by William Cranston Lawton (1853–1941) |
| A History of Art in Ancient Egypt by Georges Perrot (1832–1914) and Charles Chipiez (1835–1901) |
| An Artist’s Letters from Japan by John LaFarge (1835–1910) |
| Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828–1893) |
| The Art of Japan by Louis Gonse (1846–1921) |
| The Art of Poetry by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
| The Art of Poetry by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) |
| Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) |
| As It was Written by Henry Harland (1861–1905) |
| Aslauga’s Knight by Friedrich, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué (1777–1843) |
| Asmodeus, The Lame Devil by Alain René Lesage (1688–1747) |
| Aspects of Fiction by Brander Matthews (1852–1929) |
| L’Assommoir by Émile Zola (1840–1902) |
| Astoria by Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
| Astrea by Honoré d’Urfé (1567–1625) |
| As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Atala by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) |
| Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| Athalie by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
| Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) |
| At Odds by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (1807–1893) |
| At the Red Glove by Katharine Sarah Macquoid (1824–1917) |
| An Attic Philosopher by Émile Souvestre (1806–1854) |
| Aucassin and Nicolette by Unknown Author |
| Audrey by Mary Johnston (1870–1936) |
| Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Aulularia by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
| Aurelian by William Ware (1797–1852) |
| Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) |
| The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay by Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay) (1752–1840) |
| Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885) |
| The Autobiography of a Slander by Ada Ellen Bayly (Edna Lyall) (1857–1903) |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| L’Avare by Molière (1622–1673) |
| An Average Man by Robert Grant (1852–1940) |
| The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland (1857–1945) |
| Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) |
| The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849–1913) |