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
Prometheus Bound to The Strenuous Life
| Prometheus Bound by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
| Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1881–1949) |
| The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly (1869–1930) |
| The Proof of the Pudding by Meredith Nicholson (1866–1947) |
| Proverbial Philosophy by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) |
| Prue and I by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Prusias by Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900) |
| The Principles of Psychology by William James (1842–1910) |
| Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) |
| Public Finance by Charles Francis Bastable (1855–1945) |
| Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
| Purchas his Pilgrimes by Samuel Purchas (1577?–1626) |
| The Puritan in Holland, England, and America by Douglas Campbell (1839–1893) |
| The Purple Island by Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) |
| Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade (1814–1884) |
| Quabbin by Francis Henry Underwood (1825–1894) |
| Queechy by Susan Warner (1819–1885) |
| Queed by Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880–1930) |
| Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| The Quick or the Dead? by Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (1863–1945) |
| Quincy Adams Sawyer by Charles Felton Pidgin (1844–1923) |
| Quintus Claudius by Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900) |
| Quits by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (1807–1893) |
| Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) |
| Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown (1810–1882) |
| The Raiders by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914) |
| Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall (1505–1556) |
| Rambles and Studies in Greece by John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919) |
| Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
| Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley (1830–1876) |
| Real Folks by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906) |
| The Real World by Robert Herrick (1868–1938) |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856–1923) |
| Records of a Girlhood by Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893) |
| Records of Later Life by Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893) |
| Red as a Rose Is She by Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920) |
| The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1871–1900) |
| The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman (1855–1928) |
| Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) |
| The Red Lily by Anatole France (1844–1924) |
| The Red Robe by Eugène Brieux (1858–1932) |
| Red Rock by Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922) |
| The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
| The Reds of the Midi by Félix Gras (1845–1901) |
| The Reef by Edith Wharton (1862–1937) |
| Works of Reference—Various Authors |
| The Reflections of a Married Man by Robert Grant (1852–1940) |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1729–1797) |
| History of the Reformation of the Church of England and History of His Own Time by Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) |
| Rejected Addresses by James (1775–1839) and Horace (1779–1849) Smith |
| Religion of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred Wiedemann (1856–1936) |
| Remarkable Providences by Increase Mather (1639–1723) |
| The Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
| René by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) |
| Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) |
| The Republic by Plato (429–347 B.C.) |
| The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells (1866–1946) |
| Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) |
| The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) |
| The Revenge of Joseph Noirel by Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899) |
| A Reverend Idol by Lucretia Gray Noble (1836–1927) |
| Reveries of a Bachelor by Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) (1822–1908) |
| Reynard the Fox—Author Unknown |
| Richard Cable by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) |
| Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill (1871–1947) |
| Richard II. by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Richard III. by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| The Riddle of the Universe by Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) |
| Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge (1871–1909) |
| Rienzi by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| The Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) |
| The Right Princess by Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1927) |
| Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) |
| The Right Stuff by Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) (1876–1952) |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
| The Rise of Roscoe Paine by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870–1944) |
| The Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) |
| The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory (1852–1932) |
| The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) |
| The Robber Count by Julius Wolff (1834–1910) |
| Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) (1826–1915) |
| Robert Elsmere by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
| Robert Falconer by George MacDonald (1824–1905) |
| Robin Gray by Charles Gibbon (1843–1890) |
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731) |
| Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771) |
| Madame Roland by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) |
| Roman Affairs by Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854) |
| The Romance of a Mummy by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
| The Romance of a Poor Young Man by Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) |
| The Romance of Dollard by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847–1902) |
| The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (fl. 1230) and Jean de Meun (c. 1240–c. 1305) |
| Romances of the East by Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882) |
| A History of Roman Literature by Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911) |
| The Roman Poets by William Young Sellar (1825–1890) |
| A Roman Singer by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) |
| Rome by Francis Wey (1812–1882) |
| A General History of Rome by Charles Merivale (1808–1893) |
| History of Rome by Victor Duruy (1811–1894) |
| Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Romola by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
| Rory O’More by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) |
| The Rosary by Florence Louisa Barclay (1862–1921) |
| The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| The Rose-Garden by Frances Mary Peard (1835–1923) |
| The Rose of the World by Agnes (1865–1922) and Egerton (1858–1920) Castle |
| Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) |
| Roughing It by Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
| Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola (1840–1902) |
| The Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) |
| Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton (1834–1902) |
| Ruins by Constantin-François Volney (1757–1820) |
| Rural Rides by William Cobbett (1763–1835) |
| Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841–1919) |
| Rutledge by Miriam Coles Harris (1834–1925) |
| Sacred and Legendary Art by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) |
| The Sacred Books of the East by Friedrich Max Müller, ed. (1823–1900) |
| The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon by Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755) |
| Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) |
| Salvation Nell by Edward Sheldon (1886–1946) |
| Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899) |
| Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1748–1789) |
| L’Histoire de Ma Vie by George Sand (1804–1876) |
| Sandra Belloni by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
| Sandy by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942) |
| Saragossa by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) |
| Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| Satiromastix by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) |
| Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas (1854–1919) |
| The Scholar and the State by Henry Codman Potter (1834–1908) |
| The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) |
| The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) |
| The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1776–1850) |
| Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) |
| Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) |
| The Scouring of the White Horse by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) |
| The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) |
| The Seats of the Mighty by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) |
| The Sea Wolf by Jack London (1876–1916) |
| The Second Blooming by Walter Lionel George (1882–1926) |
| The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934) |
| The Secret Woman by Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) |
| Self-Help by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) |
| Seraph by Leopold Sacher-Masoch (1835–1895) |
| The Servant in the House by Charles Rann Kennedy (1871–1950) |
| The Seven Champions of Christendom by Richard Johnson (1573–c. 1659) |
| Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin (1819–1900) |
| Seventeen by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) |
| The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) |
| Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived in by Nathan Henry Chamberlain (1828–1901) |
| Sforza by William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919) |
| A Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) |
| Shallow Soil by Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) |
| She by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) |
| Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) |
| Shenandoah by Bronson Howard (1842–1908) |
| Sheridan by Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) |
| Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) |
| She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) |
| Ships that Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) |
| Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) |
| The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
| A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1837–1883) |
| Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) |
| The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) |
| The Sicilian Vespers by Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) |
| Il Signor Io by Salvatore Farina (1846–1918) |
| Signs and Seasons by John Burroughs (1837–1921) |
| Silas Marner by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
| The Silence of Dean Maitland by Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett) (1846–1923) |
| The Simple Life by Charles Wagner (1852–1918) |
| A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) |
| A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) |
| Sinister Street by M. Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) |
| The Sin of Joost Avelingh by Maarten Maartens (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz) (1858–1915) |
| Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) |
| Sir George Tressady by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) |
| Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) |
| Six Days of Creation by Tayler Lewis (1802–1877) |
| Smoke Bellew by Jack London (1876–1916) |
| Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) |
| Social Equality by William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923) |
| Socialism by Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878–1941) |
| Fabian Essays in Socialism by George Bernard Shaw, ed., et al. (1856–1950) |
| Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander by John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919) |
| Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War by Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922) |
| Social Life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle |
| The Social Problem by Charles Abram Ellwood (1873–1946) |
| Social Silhouettes by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) |
| Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville (1780–1872) |
| The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928) |
| The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1873–1947) |
| Sonia by Henry Gréville (Alice Durand) (1842–1902) |
| The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell (1855–1916) |
| South-Sea Idylls by Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) |
| The Spanish Conquest in America by Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875) |
| The History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1791–1871) |
| Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton (1764–1838) |
| The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu (1689–1755) |
| The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) |
| The Spoilers by Rex Beach (1877–1949) |
| The Spoilers by Rex Beach (1877–1949) |
| The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) |
| Standish of Standish by Jane Goodwin Austin (1831–1894) |
| Life and Times of Stein by Sir John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) |
| Steven Lawrence, Yeoman by Annie Edwards (1830–1896) |
| The Stickit Minister by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914) |
| Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1819–1900) |
| The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| The Story of a Country Town by Edgar Watson Howe (1853–1937) |
| The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) |
| The Story of Carthage by Alfred John Church (1829–1912) |
| The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) |
| The Story of Margaret Kent by Ellen Warner Olney Kirk (1842–1928) |
| The Story of the C. W. S. by Percy Redfern (1875–1958) |
| The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) |
| Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915) |
| A Strange Story by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) |