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
Christie Johnstone to Donovan
Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade (1814–1884) |
Christopher by Richard Pryce (1864–1942) |
The Chronicles of Clovernook by Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) |
The Chronicles of Froissart by Jean Froissart (c. 1337–1410?) |
Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828–1896) |
Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea by Charles Johnstone (1719?–1800?) |
Lord Randolph Churchill by Winston Churchill (1874–1965) |
Cicero and His Friends by Gaston Boissier (1823–1908) |
Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero by William Forsyth (1812–1899) |
El Cid (c. 1043–1099)—Author Unknown |
The Cid by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
Cinq-Mars by Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) |
Cities of Northern and Central Italy by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903) |
Citoyenne Jacqueline by Sarah Tytler (1827–1914) |
The City of God by Saint Augustine (354–430) |
History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) |
General History of Civilization in Europe by François Guizot (1787–1874) |
A History of the Civil War in America by Louis-Philippe-Albert d’Orléans, Count of Paris (1838–1894) |
Clara Vaughan by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) |
Clarissa Furiosa by William Edward Norris (1847–1925) |
Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) |
Clark’s Field by Robert Herrick (1868–1938) |
Classical Greek Poetry by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905) |
The Claverings by Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) |
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) |
Clélie by Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) |
Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) |
The Cliff-Dwellers by Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929) |
The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) |
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade (1814–1884) |
The Clouds by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Codex Argenteus—Various Authors |
Cœlebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More (1745–1833) |
Cœur d’Alene by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938) |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Narrative of the Events of his Life by James Dykes Campbell (1838–1895) |
Colin Clout by John Skelton (1460?–1529) |
The Collegians by Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) |
The Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467–1536) |
Colomba by Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) |
Colonel Enderby’s Wife by Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley) (1852–1931) |
The Colonel’s Daughter by Charles King (1844–1933) |
The Colonel’s Opera Cloak by Christine Chaplin Brush (1842–1892) |
History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Coming Race by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
The Commentaries of Pius II. by Pius II. (1405–1464) |
Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1763–1847) |
Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone (1723–1780) |
The Commerce of Nations by Charles Francis Bastable (1855–1945) |
The Commodore’s Daughters by Jonas Lie (1833–1908) |
The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton (1593–1683) |
On Compromise by John Morley (1838–1923) |
Concerning Isabel Carnaby by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860–1929) |
Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies by Edmund Burke (1729–1797) |
The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg (1849–1912) |
Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) |
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) |
The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine (354–430) |
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science by John William Draper (1811–1882) |
The Conflict of Ages by Edward Beecher (1803–1895) |
Coningsby by Lord Beaconsfield (1804–1881) |
Coniston by Winston Churchill (1871–1947) |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857–1948) |
The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) |
History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) |
The Conscript by Émile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890) |
The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius (d. 524) |
Archibald Constable and His Literary Correspondents by Thomas Constable (1812–1881) |
The Memoir of John Constable by Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) |
Constance Trescot by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
Consuelo by George Sand (1804–1876) |
History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon (1799–1815) by Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) |
Conventional Lies of Our Civilization by Max Simon Nordau (1849–1923) |
Cook’s Voyages—Various Authors |
James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1838–1915) |
The Question of Copyright by George Haven Putnam (1844–1930) |
Corinne; or, Italy by Madame de Staël (1766–1817) |
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Corleone by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
Life of Hernando Cortes by Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875) |
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy by John Fiske (1842–1901) |
Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget (1852–1935) |
Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-tales by Robert Nisbet Bain, ed. (1854–1909) |
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) |
The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) |
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) |
Count Robert of Paris by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
The Country House by John Galsworthy (1867–1933) |
Country Living and Country Thinking by Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) (1833–1896) |
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) |
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
The Coventry Plays—Author Unknown |
Coverdale’s Bible by Myles Coverdale, trans. (c. 1488–1569) |
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) |
History of Creation by Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) |
The Story of Creation by Edward Clodd (1840–1930) |
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson (1859–1941) |
The Cretan Insurrection of 1866–8 by William James Stillman (1828–1901) |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) |
The Crime of Henry Vane by Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943) |
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France (1844–1924) |
The Crime of the Boulevard by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) |
Cripps the Carrier by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) |
The Crisis by Winston Churchill (1871–1947) |
The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) |
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) |
Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations by Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) |
Cromwell’s Place in History by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) |
Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) |
The Cruise of the Midge by Michael Scott (1789–1835) |
The History and Literature of the Crusades by Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895) |
The Crust and the Cake by Edward Garrett (Isabella Fyvie Mayo) (1843–1914) |
Cudjo’s Cave by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) |
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Culture Demanded by Modern Life by Edward Livingston Youmans, ed. (1821–1887) |
Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) |
Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1766–1848) |
Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880) |
Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) |
A Cycle of Cathay by William Alexander Parsons Martin (1827–1916) |
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Daisy Miller by Henry James (1843–1916) |
Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928) |
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic (1856–1898) |
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
A Shadow of Dante by Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876) |
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) |
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (Second Century?) |
The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy (1867–1933) |
The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) |
The Darling and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) |
A Daughter of Heth by William Black (1841–1898) |
Daughter of Jorio by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) |
David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
David Blaize by Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) |
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
The History of David Grieve by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott (1847–1898) |
David Penstephen by Richard Pryce (1864–1942) |
The Dawn of Astronomy by Norman Lockyer (1836–1920) |
The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England by John Ashton (1834–1911) |
The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) |
Days Near Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903) |
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) |
Death and the Fool by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) |
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) |
Debit and Credit by Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) |
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) |
The Deemster by Hall Caine (1853–1931) |
Deephaven by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) |
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau (1849–1923) |
The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) |
The Deliverance by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873–1945) |
Delphine by Madame de Staël (1766–1817) |
The Deluge by David Graham Phillips (1867–1911) |
Democracy and Education by John Dewey (1859–1952) |
Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) |
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1854–1919) |
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) |
Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1815–1886) |
Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) |
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1809–1882) |
Destiny by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854) |
The Destiny of Man by John Fiske (1842–1901) |
Dialogues of the Dead by Lucian (c. 125–after 180) |
Dialogues of the Dead by George, Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773) |
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862) |
Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
Diana Tempest by Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) |
Diary of Two Parliaments by Sir Henry William Lucy (1845–1924) |
The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1812–1876) |
The Dictator by Justin McCarthy (1830–1912) |
Bayle’s Dictionary, Historical and Critical by Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) |
Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1838–1923) |
The Disciple by Paul Bourget (1852–1935) |
Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) |
Discoveries of America to the year 1525 by Arthur James Weise (1838–1910/1) |
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny (1866–1912) and George Earle Buckle (1854–1935) |
The Diversions of Purley by John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) |
A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) |
The Divine Fire by Mary Amelia St. Clair (May Sinclair) (1863–1946) |
Dmitri Rudin by Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) |
Doctor Antonio by Giovanni Ruffini (1807–1881) |
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
The Doctor by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
The Doctor by Ralph Connor (1860–1937) |
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) |
The Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) |
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
Donal Grant by George MacDonald (1824–1905) |
Doña Luz by Juan Valera (1824–1905) |
Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) |
Don John by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Don Orsino by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
Donovan by Ada Ellen Bayly (Edna Lyall) (1857–1903) |