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
On Liberty to The Myths of the New World
| On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) |
| The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923) |
| The Life of John Milton by David Masson (1822–1907) |
| A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) |
| The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) |
| Life on the Lagoons by Horatio Forbes Brown (1854–1926) |
| Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
| The Lightning Conductor by Charles Norris (1859–1920) and Alice Muriel (1869–1933) Williamson |
| The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
| Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life by John Wilson (Christopher North) (1785–1854) |
| The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
| Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Benson, Lord Charnwood (1864–1945) |
| Abraham Lincoln, A History by John George Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Hay (1838–1905) |
| The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) |
| Abraham Lincoln; The True Story of a Great Life by William Henry Herndon (1818–1891) |
| Lin McLean by Owen Wister (1860–1938) |
| Linnet by Grant Allen (1848–1899) |
| The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) |
| Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Literary Landmarks of London by Laurence Hutton (1843–1904) |
| Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) |
| The Literary Movement in France during the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1852–1918) |
| Literature by Herman Grimm (1828–1901) |
| Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe by Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842) |
| Little Barefoot by Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) |
| Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| Little Fadette by George Sand (1804–1876) |
| The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) |
| The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr. (1863–1919) |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) |
| Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) |
| Lives of the Painters by Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) |
| Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) |
| Liza, or a Noble Nest by Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) |
| Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoölogist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880) |
| Lokis by Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) |
| Lombard Street, A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) |
| London by Walter Besant |
| The Lonely Way by Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) |
| The Long Roll by Mary Johnston (1870–1936) |
| Looking Backward, and Equality by Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) |
| Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) |
| Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
| Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) |
| The Lost Manuscript by Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) |
| Lost Sir Massingberd by James Payn (1830–1898) |
| Lothair by Lord Beaconsfield (1804–1881) |
| Love and Quiet Life by Walter Raymond (1852–1931) |
| Lovel, the Widower by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade (1814–1884) |
| Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Loves of the Triangles by George Canning (1770–1827) |
| Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942) |
| The Loyal Ronins by Shunshō Tamenaga (1822/3–1886) |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928) |
| Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli by Pasquale Villari (1827–1917) |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) |
| Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti (1850–1923) |
| Mademoiselle Ixe by Lanoe Falconer (Mary Elizabeth Hawker) (1848–1908) |
| Mademoiselle Mori by Margaret Roberts (1833–1919) |
| Madonna’s Child by Alfred Austin (1835–1913) |
| The Madras House by Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946) |
| The Mæviad and The Baviad by William Gifford (1756–1826) |
| Magda by Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928) |
| The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| Magnalia Christi Americana by Cotton Mather (1663–1728) |
| The Mahābhārata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasu—Author Unknown |
| The Maid of Sker by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) |
| The Maid’s Tragedy by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Brandes (1842–1927) |
| The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| Madame de Maintenon by James Cotter Morison (1832–1888) |
| Majesty by Louis Couperus (1863–1923) |
| The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) |
| The Making of an American by Jacob August Riis (1849–1914) |
| Le Malade Imaginaire by Molière (1622–1673) |
| The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) |
| Mammon by Catherine Gore (1799–1861) |
| Man and Nature by George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) |
| Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| Man and Woman by Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) |
| The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor (1860–1937) |
| A Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831) |
| The Man of the Hour by Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850–1934) |
| Manon Lescaut by Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles (1697–1763) |
| The Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath (1871–1932) |
| The Manxman by Hall Caine (1853–1931) |
| The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) |
| Marcella by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
| Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Marius, the Epicurean by Walter Pater (1839–1894) |
| Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| Marriage Customs in Many Lands by Henry Neville Hutchinson (1856–1927) |
| The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799) |
| The Marriage of Loti by Pierre Loti (1850–1923) |
| The Marriage of William Ashe by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
| The Martian by George du Maurier (1834–1896) |
| Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) |
| Mary Queen of Scots by James Florant Meline (1811–1873) |
| The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) |
| The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875–1911) |
| The Master Beggars by Leslie Cope Cornford (1867–1927) |
| The Master Christian by Marie Corelli (1855–1924) |
| Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) |
| The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
| The Master by Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) |
| The Mating of Lydia by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
| Matrimony by William Edward Norris (1847–1925) |
| Maureen’s Fairing, and Other Stories by Jane Barlow (1857–1917) |
| Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés (1853–1938) |
| Maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) |
| McFingal by John Trumbull (1750–1831) |
| Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Mechanism of the Heavens by Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) |
| Medea by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121–180) |
| Mehalah by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) |
| The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) |
| Melting Snows by Prince Emil Rudolf Osman Schönaich-Carolath (1852–1908) |
| The Member for Paris by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1824–1881) |
| Memoirs of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1645?–1719) |
| The Memorabilia by Xenophon (c. 430–c. 350 B.C.) |
| Menæchmi by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
| Men and Letters by Horace Elisha Scudder (1838–1902) |
| Men of the Old Stone Age by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) |
| The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| A History of Methodism in the United States by James Monroe Buckley (1836–1920) |
| Methods of Social Reform by William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) |
| Metzerott, Shoemaker by Katherine Pearson Woods (1853–1923) |
| Micah Clarke by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) |
| Michael and His Lost Angel by Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929) |
| Middle Greyness by Alec John Dawson (1872–1952) |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) |
| The Millionaire by Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) |
| Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) |
| The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
| The Minister’s Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| The Mirror for Magistrates—Various Authors |
| Miss Brown by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) (1856–1935) |
| Miss Julia by August Strindberg (1849–1912) |
| Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty by John William De Forest (1826–1906) |
| Mithridate by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
| Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1819–1891) |
| A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1819–1900) |
| The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828–1893) |
| Modeste Mignon by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan by Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914) |
| Molière, His Life and His Works by Brander Matthews (1852–1929) |
| Molinos the Quietist by John Bigelow (1817–1911) |
| The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis (“Monk Lewis”) (1775–1818) |
| Monna Vanna by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) |
| Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) |
| Le Marquis de Montcalm by Thomas Chapais (1858–1946) |
| The Moon Hoax by Richard Adams Locke (1800–1871) |
| The Moonstone by William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) |
| The Morals by Seneca (c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.) |
| Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) |
| The Morgesons by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith (1805–1844) |
| Morocco, Its People and Place by Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) |
| A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (d. c. 1470) |
| Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) |
| Mother by Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880–1966) |
| Mother by Maksim Gorky (1868–1936) |
| Mother Goose’s Melodies by John Newbery, ed. (1713–1767) |
| Moths by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) (1839–1908) |
| Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King (1842–1901) |
| The Mountains of California by John Muir (1838–1914) |
| The Mourning Bride by William Congreve (1670–1729) |
| Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells (1866–1946) |
| Mr. Crewe’s Career by Winston Churchill (1871–1947) |
| Mr. Dooley, in Peace and in War by Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) |
| Mr. Isaacs by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
| Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) |
| Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) |
| Mrs. Martin’s Man by St. John Greer Ervine (1883–1971) |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942) |
| Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Sir George Grove (1820–1900) |
| The History of Music by Waldo Selden Pratt (1857–1939) |
| The Mutable Many by Robert Barr (1850–1912) |
| The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands by Lady Diana Jolliffe Belcher (1805?–1890) |
| My Arctic Journal by Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863–1955) |
| The Mycenæan Age by Chrēstos Tsountas (1857–1934) and James Irving Manatt (1845–1915) |
| My Childhood by Maksim Gorky (1868–1936) |
| My Novel by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| My Official Wife by Richard Henry Savage (1846–1903) |
| My Schools and Schoolmasters by Hugh Miller (1802–1856) |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann (Ward) Radcliffe (1764–1823) |
| My Studio Neighbors by William Hamilton Gibson (1850–1896) |
| My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Myths of Greece and Rome by Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859–1929) |
| The Myths of the New World by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899) |