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 Nabob to Progress and Poverty
| The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) |
| Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769–1834) |
| The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928) |
| The Life of Napoleon I. by John Holland Rose (1855–1942) |
| The History of Napoleon the First by Pierre Lanfrey (1828–1877) |
| Nathalie by Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877) |
| Nathan Burke by Mary Stanbery Watts (1868–1958) |
| Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
| Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) |
| Natural History by Pliny the Elder (23–79 A.D.) |
| The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1720–1793) |
| Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) |
| Neighbor Jackwood by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) |
| The Neighbors by Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) |
| The Life of Nelson by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) |
| The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| The Nemesis of Faith by James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) |
| Nero by Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900) |
| The Net by Rex Beach (1877–1949) |
| The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| A Compendious History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey (1796–1881) |
| The New England Primer—Authors Unknown |
| New Essays: Observations, Divine and Moral by John Robinson (1575?–1625) |
| The New Fiction by Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900) |
| The New Freedom by Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) |
| New Grub Street by George Gissing (1857–1903) |
| The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells (1866–1946) |
| Newport by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| The New Priest of Conception Bay by Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891) |
| The New Republic by William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923) |
| A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (1583–1640) |
| New Worlds for Old by H. G. Wells (1866–1946) |
| The Nibelungenlied by Unknown Author |
| Nick of the Woods by Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854) |
| Ninety-three by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
| Nineveh and Its Remains and Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) |
| Nippur; or, Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates by John Punnett Peters (1852–1921) |
| Noémi by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) |
| Introduction to the Study of North American Archæology by Cyrus Thomas (1825–1910) |
| The North Pole by Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920) |
| The North West Passage by Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) |
| Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) |
| Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909) |
| Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
| Nouveaux Lundis by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) |
| The Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
| Numa Roumestan by Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) |
| Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck by Rodolphe Töpffer (1799–1846) |
| Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) |
| Observations on Popular Antiquities by John Brand (1744–1806) |
| Oceana; or, England and her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) |
| The Octopus by Frank Norris (1870–1902) |
| The Odd Number by Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) |
| The Odyssey by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
| Œdipus at Colonus by Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| Œdipus the King by Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| Off the Skelligs by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
| Ogier the Dane—Author Unknown |
| The Old House by Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) |
| The Old Mam’selle’s Secret by E. Marlitt (Eugenie John) (1825–1887) |
| Old Sir Douglas by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) |
| Old Story of My Farming Days by Fritz Reuter (1810–1874) |
| Old St. Paul’s by William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) |
| Old Town Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) |
| Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant, and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife by Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) |
| Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
| Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) |
| One Summer by Blanche Willis Howard (1847–1898) |
| One Woman’s Life by Robert Herrick (1868–1938) |
| Only a Girl by Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916) |
| On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) |
| On the Heights by Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882) |
| Opus Majus, of Roger Bacon by Roger Bacon (1214?–1294) |
| The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman (1823–1893) |
| Oriental Religions by Samuel Johnson (1822–1882) |
| The Origin of Civilisation and Primitive Condition of Man by Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) |
| Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809–1882) |
| Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) |
| Orloff and His Wife by Maksim Gorky (1868–1936) |
| The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers by Robert Henry Newell (1836–1901) |
| Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
| Othello by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Ought We to Visit Her? by Annie Edwards (1830–1896) |
| Our Daily Bread by Clara Viebig (1860–1952) |
| Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| Our New Alaska by Charles Hallock (1834–1917) |
| Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) |
| Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) |
| The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, ed. (1859–1937) |
| The Oxford Reformers of 1498 by Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912) |
| Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1847–1929) |
| History of Painting by Alfred Woltmann (1841–1880) and Karl Woermann (1844–1933) |
| The Palace of Pleasure by William Painter (1540?–1594) |
| In the Palace of the King by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
| Palmerin de Oliva—Author Unknown |
| Palmerin of England—Author Unknown |
| Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) |
| Panama by Arthur Bullard (1879–1929) |
| The Pandects of Justinian—Various Authors |
| Paolo and Francesca by Stephen Phillips (1868–1915) |
| Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| Paradise Regained by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| The Paradyse of Daynty Devises—Various Authors |
| Paris in America by Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye (1811–1883) |
| Parliamentary Novels by Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) |
| Parliamentary Reform by Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) |
| Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| Paston Letters—Various Authors |
| Il Pastor Fido by Battista Guarini (1538–1612) |
| Patrins by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| The Patriot by Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) |
| Patronage by Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) |
| Patty by Katharine Sarah Macquoid (1824–1917) |
| Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814) |
| Paul Clifford by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| Paul Ferrol by Caroline Clive (1801–1873) |
| Pearl—Author Unknown |
| The Pearl of Orr’s Island by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| La Peau de Chagrin by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| Pedagogics of the Kindergarten by Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) |
| Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) |
| Peg Woffington by Charles Reade (1814–1884) |
| Pelham by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) |
| Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| Penguin Island by Anatole France (1844–1924) |
| Penrod by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) |
| Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) |
| Pensées Philosophiques by Denis Diderot (1713–1784) |
| A History of the People of the United States by John Bach McMaster (1852–1932) |
| Pepacton by John Burroughs (1837–1921) |
| Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera (1824–1905) |
| Diary by Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) |
| Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Perkin Warbeck by John Ford (1586–c. 1640) |
| Persian Letters by Montesquieu (1689–1755) |
| Peter Ibbetson by George du Maurier (1834–1896) |
| Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) |
| Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris by Richard Bentley (1662–1742) |
| Phases of Thought and Criticism by Brother Azarias (Patrick Francis Mullany) (1847–1893) |
| Essays on the Art of Pheidias by Charles Waldstein (1856–1927) |
| Philaster by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| Philip and his Wife by Margaret Deland (1857–1945) |
| Philip van Artevelde by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
| The Philistines by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| Philobiblon by Richard de Bury (1287–1345) |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phœnician by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1857–1935) |
| Phroso by Anthony Hope (1863–1933) |
| Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater (1741–1801) |
| Physiologus—Author Unknown |
| The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
| The Pilgrimage of Anacharsis the Younger by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716–1795) |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1628–1688) |
| The Pilot and His Wife by Jonas Lie (1833–1908) |
| The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
| Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman (1823–1893) |
| The Pit by Frank Norris (1870–1902) |
| The Plain Dealer by William Wycherley (1640–1716) |
| Plasher’s Mead by M. Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) |
| Dialogues by Plato (429–347 B.C.) |
| The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge (1871–1909) |
| Lives by Plutarch (c. 45–120 A.D.) |
| Edgar Allan Poe by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| The Poet at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1842–1917) |
| The Nature and Elements of Poetry by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
| The Poets of America by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
| Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) |
| The Politician by Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) |
| Polyolbion by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| Popular Tales from the Norse by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812–1885) |
| The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) |
| The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1843–1916) |
| Potiphar Papers by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Poverty, A Study in Town Life by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1871–1954) |
| Pragmatism by William James (1842–1910) |
| Les Précieuses Ridicules by Molière (1622–1673) |
| Prehistoric Europe by James Geikie (1839–1915) |
| The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775–1817) |
| Primitive Man by Louis Figuier (1819–1894) |
| The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
| The Prince of India by Lewis Wallace (1827–1905) |
| The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) |
| The Princess Casamassima by Henry James (1843–1916) |
| The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) |
| Principia by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) |
| An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) |
| The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (1863–1933) |
| The Prisoner by Alice Brown (1857–1948) |
| Private Gaspard by René Benjamin (1885–1948) |
| Problematic Characters by Friedrich Spielhagen (1829–1911) |
| Problems of Modern Democracy by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831–1902) |
| The Prodigal Son by Hall Caine (1853–1931) |
| Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) |
| The Professor’s Love Story by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Progress and Poverty by Henry George (1839–1897) |