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• Aesop (620? BC-563? BC) - "Aesop's Fables"
• Alcott, Louisa May - "Little Women", "Eight Cousins", "Little Men"
• Austen, Jane - "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility"
• Baker, Karle Wilson (1878-1960) - The Garden of the Plynck.  "Children's book Theodore Sturgeon referred to as being like "Alice in Wonderland".  Also available at Eric Weeks' Theodore Sturgeon Web Site.
• Baum, L. Frank - "Wizard of Oz"
• Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew) (1860-1937) - Peter Pan, "The Admirable Crichton", "Alice Sit-By-The-Fire."  (Currently for US distribution only!)
• Bierce, Ambrose - "The Devil's Dictionary", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
• Bulfinch, Thomas (1796-1867) - Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice - "Jungle Tales of Tarzan", "The Land that Time Forgot", "At the Earth's Core", "Thuvia Maid of Mars", "Pellucidar"
• Cabell, James Branch (1879-1958) - "Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice", "The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, A Comedy of Limitations", etc.
• Carroll, Lewis - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass."
• Chesterton, G.K. - Father Brown mysteries
• De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859) - "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", "De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars", "The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc", etc.

  "If once a man indulges himself in Murder, very soon he comes to think little of Robbing, and from Robbing he comes next to Drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to Incivility and Procrastination." T. De Quincy (1785-1859) "Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts"

• Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731) - "Robinson Crusoe" et sequelae.

  "Daniel Defoe combined this travel literature form with that of the spiritual biography (John Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progess_ narrating Christian's allegorical journey or pilgrimage through the wilderness of a fallen world is the most familiar today of these) to produce his masterpiece, probably the first fiction novel in English, _Robinson Crusoe_ which has been read as both travel literature and spiritual allegory." - David M. Silver

• Dickens, Charles - "A Christmas Carol", "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations", etc.
• Dickenson, Asa Don (1876-1960) - "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories"
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - Sherlock Holmes
• Dumas, Alexandre (père) (1802-1870) - "The Three Musketeers", "The Man in the Iron Mask", "The Count of Monte Cristo."
• Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), (1879-1970) - "Howards End", "The Longest Journey", "A Room with a View", "Where Angels Fear to Tread",
• Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), (1856-1925) - "Allan Quatermain", "King Solomon's Mines", "She", "Ayesha, the Return of She",
• Hawes, Charles Boardman - "The Mutineers."  Charles Hawes won the Newbery Medal for 1924 for "Dark Frigate", which is unavailable on Project Gutenberg at this time.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables", "Rappacini's Daughter", etc.
• Henry, O. (1862-1910) - "The Gift of the Magi"
• Homer "The Iliad", "The Odyssey"
• Herodotus, (480? BC-420? BC) - An Account of Egypt, The history of Herodotus Vol 1, The history of Herodotus Vol 2
• Hope, Anthony, (1863-1933) - "The Prisoner of Zenda" and the sequel "Rupert of Hentzau."
• Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), (1859-1927) - Three Men in a Boat, "Three Men on the Bummel", etc.
• Kipling, Rudyard - "The Jungle Book", "Just-So Stories", "Kim", etc.
• Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) - Arsene Lupin Mysteries
• Lee, Robert Edward, General, (1807-1870) - Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
• Lofting, Hugh - The Story of Dr. Dolittle, The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle - Newbery Medal Award Winner 1923.  "The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery.  It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
• London, Jack - "The Call of the Wild"
• Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527) - "The Prince", etc.
• Mackay, Charles (1814-1889) - "Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" aka "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vols 1-3"
• Mahan, A.T. (Alfred Thayer) (1840-1914) - "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783", "The Life of Nelson, Vols 1 & 2", etc.
• Malory, Thomas (1400-1470) - Le Mort d'Arthur:  Volume 1, Le Mort d'Arthur:  Volume 2
• Masters, Edgar Lee, (1868-1950) - Spoon River Anthology
• Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud) (1874-1942) - "Anne of Avonlea", "Anne of Green Gables", "Chronicles of Avonlea", "Further Chronicles of Avonlea", etc. etc.
• Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) - "The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore", "Life of Lord Byron, Vols I-VI"
• Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, (1865-1947) - "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "The Elusive Pimpernel", "El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel", "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel."
• Plunkitt, George Washington, (1842-1924) - Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics - delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon
• Poe, Edgar Allen, (1809-1849) - "The Raven", "Fall of the House of Usher", etc. etc.
• Pyle, Howard, (1777-1864) - "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", html with illustrations!  "Book of Pirates", "Men of Iron", etc.
• Rockwell, Carey, [pseud.] - The "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" series, including "Stand by for Mars!", "The Revolt on Venus", "Sabotage in Space", "The Space Pioneers", etc.
• Rostand, Edmond - "Cyrano de Bergerac"
• Sabatini, Rafael (1875-1950) - "The Sea-Hawk", "Captain Blood, "Scaramouche", etc.
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916)
• Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832) "Ivanhoe", "The Lady of the Lake", "Rob Roy", etc.
• Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922) - "South:  the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition."
• Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) - "Black Beauty", "Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition"
• Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) - "True Irish Ghost Stories"
• Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922) - "South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition"
• Sidney, Margaret (1844-1924) - "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew", "Five Little Peppers and Their Friends", "Five Little Peppers Abroad", etc. etc.
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "MacBeth", etc.
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) - "Frankenstein."
• Slocum, Joshua (1844-1910?) - "Sailing Alone Around the World"
• Smith, Adam (1723-1790) - "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (aka "The Wealth of Nations")
• Smith, Nora Archibald (1859-1934) - "Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know"
• Sturluson, Snorri (11779-1241) - "The Elder Eddas", "The Younger Eddas"
• Stevenson, Robert Louis (1854-1894) - "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde", "Kidnapped", "Treasure Island", etc.
• Stockton, Frank Richard (1834-1902) - The Lady or the Tiger?
• Stoker, Bram (1847-1912) - "Dracula", "Dracula's Guest", "Lair of the White Worm", etc.
• Swift, Jonathon (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, etc.

  "Jonathan Swift...writing what could be said to be an earliest form of science fiction, in _Gulliver's Travels_, another "travelogue," to very strange lands among very strange 'peoples,' but heavily satirized man, nations, and institutions in it." - David M. Silver

• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892) - "Idylls of the King", "The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Revenge:  A Ballad of the Fleet", etc.
• Twain, Mark - "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Prince and the Pauper", etc.
• Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944 - "The Story of Mankind", Newbery Medal Award Winner 1922.  "The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery.  It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
• Verne, Jules (1828-1905) - "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "From the Earth to the Moon", "In Search of the Castaways", etc.
• Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905) - Ben-Hur
• Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852 - Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century
• Wells, H.G. - "War of the Worlds", "The First Men in the Moon", "The Invisible Man", "The Time Machine", etc.
• Wilde, Oscar - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Ernest", etc.
• Wodehouse, P.G. - Jeeves and Wooster, Psmith, etc.
• Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 - The Swiss Family Robinson

Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, St. Thomas Aquinas

Bacon, Emily Bronte,

Cato, Cervantes, Chaucer

Dante - "The Inferno", Descartes,

Epictetus, Euripides,

The Federalist Papers,

Galileo, Zane Grey(?)

Hobbes, Hugo, Hume,

Samuel Johnson (Boswell?)

Kant

Locke, Lucretius,

Machiavelli, Melville, Milton,

Sir Isaac Newton,

Plato, Plutarch,

Rousseau,

Sallust (86 BC - 34? BC) - "Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War", Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967, Socrates, Sophocles - "Oedipus Trilogy", Spinoza,

Tacitus,

Virgil,

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