TABLE OF CONTENTS Publisher's Note ............................................................................................................................................................ v Absalom Absalom!—William Faulkner ....................................................................................................................... 1 Absalom and Achitophel—John Dryden ...................................................................................................................... 1 Adam Bede—George Eliot ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Adonais—Percy Bysshe Shelley ................................................................................................................................... 2 The Adventures of Augie March—Saul Bellow ............................................................................................................ 3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain .................................................................................................... 3 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—Mark Twain ............................................................................................................ 4 Aeneid—Vergil .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 The Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton ....................................................................................................................... 5 The Alchemist—Ben Jonson ......................................................................................................................................... 6 The Alexandria Quartet—Lawrence Durrell ................................................................................................................ 6 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—Lewis Carroll ...................................................................................................... 7 All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes—Maya Angelou ......................................................................................... 7 All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque ............................................................................................ 8 All the King's Men—Robert Penn Warren ................................................................................................................... 8 All's Well That Ends Well—William Shakespeare ........................................................................................................ 9 The Ambassadors—Henry James ................................................................................................................................. 9 An American Tragedy—Theodore Dreiser .................................................................................................................. 10 Andromache—Euripides ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Andromache—Jean Racine ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Anecdote of the Jar—Wallace Stevens ......................................................................................................................... 12 Angela's Ashes— Frank McCourt ............................................................................................................................... 12 Angle of Repose—Wallace Stegner ............................................................................................................................. 13 Animal Farm—George Orwell .................................................................................................................................... 13 Anna Christie—Eugene O'Neill ................................................................................................................................... 14 Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Anne of Green Gables— L. 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Montgomery ............................................................................................................... 15 Antigone—Sophocles .................................................................................................................................................. 16 Antony and Cleopatra—William Shakespeare ............................................................................................................. 16 Appointment in Samarra—John O'Hara ..................................................................................................................... 17 The Arabian Night's Entertainments—Unknown ......................................................................................................... 17 Areopagitica—John Milton ......................................................................................................................................... 18 Around the World in Eighty Days—Jules Verne ......................................................................................................... 18 Arrowsmith—Sinclair Lewis ....................................................................................................................................... 19 As I Lay Dying—William Faulkner ............................................................................................................................ 20 As You Like It—William Shakespeare ........................................................................................................................ 20 Ash Wednesday—T. 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Eliot ........................................................................................................................................ 21 The Assistant—Bernard Malamud .............................................................................................................................. 21 Atlas Shrugged—Ayn Rand ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Atonement—Ian McEwan ........................................................................................................................................... 23 The Awakening—Kate Chopin .................................................................................................................................... 24 Babbitt—Sinclair Lewis ............................................................................................................................................... 25 The Bacchae—Euripides ............................................................................................................................................. 25 The Ballad of the Sad Café—Carson McCullers ........................................................................................................ 26 viii / Table of Contents Barabbas—Pr Lagerkvist ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Barchester Towers—Anthony Trollope ........................................................................................................................ 27 Barren Ground—Ellen Glasgow .................................................................................................................................. 28 Bartholomew Fair—Ben Jonson .................................................................................................................................. 28 Bartleby the Scrivener—Herman Melville .................................................................................................................. 29 The Bean Trees—Barbara Kingslover ........................................................................................................................ 29 The Beggar's Opera—John Gay .................................................................................................................................. 30 The Bell Jar—Sylvia Plath ........................................................................................................................................... 31 Beowulf—Unknown .................................................................................................................................................... 31 The Berlin Stories—Christopher Isherwood ............................................................................................................... 32 The Bible—Various ..................................................................................................................................................... 32 Billy Budd Foretopman—Herman Melville ................................................................................................................ 33 Biographia Literaria—Samuel Taylor Coleridge ......................................................................................................... 33 The Birds—Aristophanes ............................................................................................................................................. 34 Black Boy—Richard Wright .......................................................................................................................................