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• Edwin A. Abbott Flatland
• Aesop Aesop's Fables , Aesop's Fables
• Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables , Little Women
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich Ponkapog Papers , The Sisters' Tragedy
• Horatio Alger, Jr. The Cash Boy , Cast Upon the Breakers , Driven From Home , The Errand Boy , Joe The Hotel Boy , Paul Prescott's Charge
• Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
• Victor Appleton Tom Swift / Land of Wonders
• Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso
• Edwin L. Arnold Gulliver of Mars
• Gertrude Atherton Rezanov
• Jane Austen Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility
• Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain
• Mariano Azuela The Underdogs
• B 
• Francis Bacon Essays of Francis Bacon
• R. M. Ballantyne The Coral Island
• Honore de Balzac The Duchesse de Langeais
• Nettie Garmer Barker Kansas Women in Literature
• Amelia E. Barr Remember the Alamo
• J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy
• L. Frank Baum A Kidnapped Santa Claus , Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , The Emerald City of Oz , The Enchanted Island of Yew , Life/Adventures of Santa Claus , The Magic of Oz , The Marvelous Land of Oz , The Master Key , Ozma of Oz , The Road to Oz , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England
• Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
• Stephen Vincent Benet Young Adventure
• Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge , Fantastic Fables
• William Blake Poems of William Blake
• Gustave le Bon The Psychology of Revolution
• General Booth In Darkest England and The Way Out
• George Borrow The Bible in Spain , Lavengro , Letters of George Borrow , The Romany Rye , Wild Wales , Zincali, Gypsies of Spain
• B. M. Bower Jean of the Lazy A
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen Tales From Two Hemispheres
• William Cowper Brann Brann The Iconoclast, , Brann The Iconoclast, , Brann The Iconoclast,
• Rupert Brooke Poems of Rupert Brooke (Britain)
• Wm Wells Brown Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine
• Thomas Browne Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al,
• Sara Cone Bryant How To Tell Children Stories , Stories To Tell To Children
• John Buchan Greenmantle , Mr. Standfast , Prester John , The Thirty-Nine Steps
• John Bunyan The Holy War , The Pilgrim's Progress
• Marthy Cannary Burk Life/Adventures/Calamity Jane
• Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess, The Dawn of A To-morrow, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Lost Prince, Sara Crewe , The Secret Garden , The Shuttle , The White People
• Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars , At the Earth's Core , At the Earth's Core , Beasts of Tarzan , Gods of Mars , Jungle Tales of Tarzan , The Land That Time Forgot , The Lost Continent , The Mad King , The Monster Men , The Monster Men , The Mucker , The Oakdale Affair , Out Of Time's Abyss , The Outlaw of Torn , Pellucidar , People Out Of Time , Return of Tarzan , Son of Tarzan , Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan, Jewels of Opar, Thuvia, Maid of Mars , Warlord of Mars
• C 
• James Branch Cabell The Certain Hour
• Julius Caesar Caesar's Commentaries in Latin
• Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland , The Hunting of the Snark , Phantasmagoria and Other Poems , Sylvie and Bruno , Through the Looking Glass
• Willa Cather Alexander's Bridge , My Antonia , O Pioneers! , Song of the Lark , The Troll Garden, et al
• Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Crisyde
• Charles W. Chesnutt The House Behind The Cedars
• G. K. Chesterton Heretics , The Innocence of Father Brown , Orthodoxy, The Wisdom of Father Brown
• Kate Chopin The Awakening & Other Short Stories
• Winston Churchill The Crossing
• Cicero Cicero's Orations
• Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens The $30,000 Bequest , A Tramp Abroad , Pudd'n'head Wilson
• US Pres Bill Clinton Clinton's Inaugural Address
• Henry J. Coke Tracks of a Rolling Stone
• Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Wilkie Collins The Haunted Hotel , The Moonstone , The Woman in White
• Carlo Collodi/Lorenzini Adventures of Pinocchio
• Joseph Conrad Amy Foster , An Outcast of the Islands , End of the Tether , Falk , Heart of Darkness , Heart of Darkness , The Secret Sharer , The Shadow Line , To-morrow , Youth
• Russell H. Conwell Acres of Diamonds
• Hiram Corson Introduction to Browning
• Stephen Crane Maggie, Girl of the Steets , Red Badge of Courage , The Red Badge of Courage
• L. Cranmer-Byng A Lute of Jade
• D 
• Richard Harding Davis Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding , Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis, The King's Jackal , The Princess Aline , The Reporter Who Made Himself King , The Scarlet Car , Soldiers of Fortune , Van Bibber's Life
• Rebecca Harding Davis Frances Waldeaux
• Richard de Bury The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
• Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year , Moll Flanders , Robinson Crusoe , Robinson Crusoe
• Rene Descartes Descartes' Reason Discourse
• Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol , A Tale of Two Cities , A Tale of Two Cities , The Chimes , Haunted Man/Ghost's Bargain , Master Humphrey's Clock , The Mystery of Edwin Drood , The Pickwick Papers , Pictures From Italy
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes From The Underground
• Frederick Douglass Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave , My Bondage and My Freedom , Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Rene Doumic Biography of George Sand
• Arthur Conan Doyle Beyond the City, A Study In Scarlet, The Captain of the Polestar, The Lost World , The Parasite, The Poison Belt, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Round The Red Lamp, The Stark Munro Letters, Tales of Terror & Mystery , The Vital Message
• Joseph Rodman Drake Culprit Fay and Other Poems
• Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
• W. E. B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk
• E 
• Charles Eastman Indian Boyhood , Indian Heroes & Great Chieftains , Old Indian Days, The Soul of the Indian
• George Eliot/Mary Anne Evans Silas Marner, Adam Bede , Middlemarch
• F 
• Edna Ferber Buttered Side Down , Emma McChesney & Co. , Fanny Herself , One Basket
• Enrico Ferri Criminal Sociology
• Eugene Field The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac
• John Fox, Jr. A Knight of the Cumberland , Hell Fer Sartain & Other Stories
• Ben Franklin The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
• Harold Frederic The Damnation of Theron Ware , The Market-Place
• Adelaide L. Fries The Moravians in Georgia
• G 
• Emile Gaboriau Baron Trigault's Vengeance , The Count's Millions
• Richard le Gallienne Quest of the Golden Girl
• Eliza Burt Gamble God-Idea of the Ancients
• Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford
• Charlotte P. Gilman Herland
• Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
• AL Gordon The Poems of A.L. Gordon
• John Gower Confessio Amantis
• Kenneth Grahame Dream Days , The Golden Age , The Wind in the Willows
• Eliot Gregory The Ways of Men , Worldly Ways and Byways
• Zane Grey Desert Gold , The Redheaded Outfield
• Edgar A. Guest A Heap O' Livin'
• H 
• Thomas Hardy A Pair of Blue Eyes , Far From the Madding Crowd , Far From the Madding Crowd , Jude the Obscure , The Mayor of Casterbridge , Return of the Native , Tess of the d'Urbervilles , The Woodlanders
• Michael S. Hart A Brief History of the Internet
• Nathaniel Hawthorne From The Snow Image , From Twice Told Tales , House of the Seven Gables , The Scarlet Letter, From Mosses From An Old Manse
• Isaac Taylor Headland The Chinese Boy and Girl , Court Life in China
• William and Mary Healy Pathology of Lying, Etc.
• Patrick Henry Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
• Homer, Hesiod Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
• Anthony Hope Frivolous Cupid , The Prisoner of Zenda
• Harry Houdini The Miracle Mongers, An Expose'
• William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham
• Margret Howth A Story of To-day
• Elbert Hubbard John Jacob Astor
• Victor Hugo Les Miserables
• Humphrey Handbook of American Daguerrotype
• C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne The Lost Continent
• I 
• H. B. Irving A Book of Remarkable Criminals
• Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• J 
• Henry James The Altar of the Dead , The Ambassadors , The American , An International Episode , The Aspern Papers , Confidence , Daisy Miller , The Death of the Lion , The Europeans , The Figure in the Carpet , Roderick Hudson , Turn of the Screw
• Wm. James Varieties of Religious Experience
• A. H. Japp Robert Louis Stevenson, A Memorial
• Richard Jefferies Pageant of Summer
• Edward Jenkins Ginx's Baby, A Satire
• Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat
• Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs
• Samuel Johnson Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16
• Plato, tr. Jowett The Republic by Plato
• K 
• Ross Kay Go Ahead Boys and Racing Motorboat
• Brendan P. Kehoe Zen & the Art of Internet]
• John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
• tr by Edw. Fitzgerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
• Joyce Kilmer Main Street, Other Poems , Trees and Other Poems
• A. W. Kinglake Eothen
• Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill , Rewards and Fairies , Verses 1889-1896, The Jungle Book
• L 
• Madame de Lafayette The Princess of Cleves
• Charles and Mary Lamb Tales of Shakespeare
• Andrew Lang The Arabian Nights, The Violet Fairy Book , The Yellow Fairy Book
• D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
• Henry Lawson In the Days When the World Was Wide
• Gustave le Bon 1 The Crowd, Study of Popular Mind
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Purcell Papers , The Purcell Papers , The Purcell Papers
• Charles G. Leland The Breitmann Ballads
• Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera
• Sinclair Lewis Main Street
• Matthew Lewis The Monk
• Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address , Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address , Gettysburg Address
• Frank B. Linderman Indian Why Stories
• Vachel Lindsay Chinese Nightingale, et al , General Booth, Other Poems
• Hugh Lofting The Story of Doctor Dolittle
• Jack London Before Adam , The Call of the Wild , John Barleycorn
• Henry W. Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha
• Amy Lowell Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
• Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Pharsalia
• Martin Luther An Open Letter on Translating , The Smalcald Articles, A Treatise on Good Work, Martin Luther's 95 Theses, In English and Latin
• M 
• Victor MacClure She Stands Accused
• George MacDonald At the Back of the North Wind , Phantastes, A Faerie Romance
• Arthur Machen The Great God Pan
• Charles MacKay Memoirs of Popular Delusions
• Don Marquis Danny's Own Story , Dreams & Dust
• Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto,
• Somerset Maugham Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage
• Guy De Maupassant Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant V. 1
• John McCrae In Flanders Fields
• Marie L. McLaughlin Myths and Legends of the Sioux
• Philip Melanchthon The Augsburg Confession, in Latin and in German
• Herman Melville Moby Dick *
• Predicted by Mersenne The 32nd Mersenne Prime, Predicted by Mersenne
• Mirriam Michelson In The Bishop's Carriage
• Edna St. Millay Renascence and Other Poems
• John Milton Aeropagitica , Four Poems , Paradise Lost , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained
• Anonymous/Trans. by Moncrief The Song of Roland
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea , Anne of Green Gables , Anne of the Island , Anne's House of Dreams , The Golden Road
• Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop
• William Morris A Dream of John Ball, etc. , Child Christopher , The Well At The World's End
• John Muir Steep Trails
• Miss Mulock The Little Lame Prince
• H. H. Munro (Saki) The Unbearable Bassington
• N 
• Tadashi NAKASHIMA Down With The Cities
• James Nasmyth James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography
• Frank Norris Blix , McTeague , Moran of the Lady Letty , The Octopus
• O 
• O Henry The Gift of the Magi
• Frances J. Olcott Good Stories for Holidays
• Oliver Optic Poor and Proud
• Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel
• P 
• Thomas Nelson Page The Burial of the Guns
• Thomas Paine Common Sense
• Ralph Parlette The University of Hard Knocks
• Banjo' Paterson The Man From Snowy River
• Banjo Paterson Rio Grande's Last Race, Etc. , Three Elephant Power Etc.
• David Graham Phillips The Conflict , The Cost , The Dust , The Fortune Hunter , The Price She Paid , Susan Lenox, Rise/Fall
• Rutherford Platt 1st Book of Adam and Eve
• Plato The Second Story of Meno (A Socratic Dialogue), tr. Jowett The Republic by Plato
• Gene Stratton Porter A Girl of the Limberlost , Freckles , The Harvester
• Eleanor H. Porter Just David
• Gene Stratton Porter Laddie
• Eleanor H. Porter Miss Billie Married , Miss Billie's Decision
• Beatrix Potter A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories , The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
• the Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut
• P. J. Proudhon The Philosophy of Misery , What is Property?
• R 
• Walter Raleigh Robert Louis Stevenson
• Mary Roberts Rinehart Bab: A Sub-Deb , The Circular Staircase , Where There's A Will
• Edwin Arlington Robinson Children of the Night
• Sax Rohmer The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1st Inaugural
• Susanna Rowson Charlotte Temple
• S 
• Saki (H.H. Munro) Beasts and Super-Beasts
• Win Schartau Terminal Compromise/NetNovel
• Frederick Schiller The History of the Thirty Years' War
• Sir Walter Scott Bride of Lammermoor , Ivanhoe
• Alan Seeger Poems
• Robert W. Service Ballads of a Cheechako , Rhymes of a Red Cross Man , Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
• Robert Service The Spell of the Yukon
• Anna Sewell Black Beauty
• Anna Howard Shaw The Story of a Pioneer
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein , Frankenstein , Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
• Upton Sinclair The Jungle
• Samuel Smiles Industrial Biography
• Henry H. Snelling History and Practice of the Art of Photography
• Sophocles Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy
• John Philip Sousa The Fifth String
• H. de Vere Stacpoole The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
• Amy Steedman Knights of the Art
• Andrew Steinmetz The Gaming Table , The Gaming Table
• Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses , A Footnote to History , Across The Plains , An Inland Voyage , The Art of Writing , Ballads , Catriona (Kidnapped2) , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #1 , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #2, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes , Essays of Travel , Fables , Familiar Studies of Men & Books , Father Damien , In the South Seas , Island Nights' Entertainments , Kidnapped , Lay Morals , Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol 1 , Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol 2 [RLS #31G , Memories and Portraits , Merry Men , New Poems , Prince Otto, Records of a Family of Engineers, Songs of Travel , St Ives , Tales and Fantasies , Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes , Treasure Island , Underwoods , Vailima Letters, The Silverado Squatters, Virginibus Puerisque, Weir of Hermiston, Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn
• RL & Fanny VDG Stevenson The Dynamiter
• Frank R. Stockton The Lady, or the Tiger?, The Great War Syndicate, The Magic Egg and Other Stories
• Bram Stoker Dracula
• Rex Stout Under the Andes
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gene Stratton-Porter At the Foot of the Rainbow , The Song of the Cardinal
• Snorri Sturlson Heimskringla
• Sun Tzu The Art of War , The Art of War
• Jonathan Swift Battle of the Books et al
• T 
• Booth Tarkington The Conquest of Canaan , The Flirt , Penrod
• Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered
• Bayard Taylor Beauty and The Beast, Etc.
• Rev. W. Tcikwell Biog Study of A. W. Kinglake
• Sara Teasdale Flame and Shadow , Helen of Troy , Love Songs , Rivers to the Sea
• Tenniel Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland/GIF
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King
• William Thackeray Vanity Fair
• Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience , Walden
• Tingfang America As Seen By Oriental Diplomat
• Count Leo Tolstoy The Forged Coupon
• Anthony Trollope The Warden
• Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Life on the Mississippi
• Mark Twain/Clemens A Connecticut Yankee , Tom Sawyer Abroad
• Mark Twain What Is Man?
• Royall Tyler The Contrast
• Lao Tzu Tao/Dao Te/h King/Ching
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• Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , Around the World in 80 Day , From the Earth to the Moon
• Virgil/Vergil The Aeneid , The Aeneid
• Virgil/Virgil#4] The Bucolics/Ecloges
• Virgil/Virgil #3] The Bucolics/Ecloges
• Virgil/Vergil The Georgics , The Georgics
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• Jean Webster Daddy-Long-Legs , Dear Enemy
• Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
• H. G. Wells [Herbert George #5 Ann Veronica
• H.G. Wells The Door in the Wall, et. al.
• H. G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
• H.G. Wells The Time Machine , The War of the Worlds
• Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence , Bunner Sisters , The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part One , The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part Two , House of Mirth , The Reef , Summer , The Touchstone
• Henry B. Wheatley Literary Blunders
• Phillis Wheatley Religious and Moral Poems
• Stewart Edward White The Mountains
• Andrew Dickson White Warfare of Science/Theology
• Kate Douglas Wiggin Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
• Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol , The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Harriet E. Wilson Our Nig
• Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
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• Zitkala-Sa Old Indian Legends
• Twilight Stories
• The US CIA 1990 CIA World Factbook
• US Census Bureau The 1990 US Census
• US CIA, 1991 Edition 1991 CIA World Factbook
• The 1994 CIA World Factbook , The 1995 CIA World Factbook
• Traditional Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
•  OTHER 
• Unknown, Anonymous, or Uncredited: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, The Augsburg Confession, 465th Anniversary Edition , The Berne Universal Copyright Convention , The Bible, Both Testaments, King James Version , The Bible, The New Testament, King James Version , The Blue Fairy Book, A LARGE Collection , The Book of Mormon , Codex Junius 11, Biblical Anglo-Saxon Translations , The Constitution of Japan
• US Census Bureau Data From the 1990 Census
• Apocrypha Deutercanonical Books of the Bible
• The Federalist Papers , French Cave Paintings , Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga , Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest , The Hackers' Dictionary of Computer Jargon
• MATH: A List of Factorial Math Constants , The Fibonacci Number Series , The First 100,000 Prime Numbers , The Golden Mean or Ratio , Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants Etc , The Number "e" , The Number "e" , Pi , The Square Root of 10 , The Square Root of 3 , The Square Root of 5 , The Square Root of 6 , The Square Root of 7 , The Square Root of 8 , The Square Root of Two , The Square Root of Two
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day Anthology #1 , The Mayflower Compact , New Etext of Bible , The Planet Mars & Its Inhabitants, "Eros Urides" , Previous Constitution of Japan , Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989 , Project Trinity, Official U.S. Government Report , Propertius , The Red Fairy Book, a LARGE older kids collection , Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts
• The Story of Burnt Njal (Njal's Saga--Icelandic) , Trinity Atomic Bomb by the National Atomic Museum , Trinity Atomic Bomb by White Sands Missle Range , The United States' Bill of Rights , United States Census Figures Back To 1630 , United States Congressional Address Book, 1995 , The United States' Constitution , The United States Copyright Act of 1976 , United States Declaration of Independence
• Vida de Lazarillo
• US CIA, 1993 Edition The World Factbook
• US CIA, 1992 Edition The World Factbook