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<dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Matthews.html">Matthews, Brander</a>, ed. 1907. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/195/index.html">The Short-Story</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Twenty-three classic short stories trace the development of the genre from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt>Rhys, Ernest, ed. 1921. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/166/index.html">The Haunters and the Haunted</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Fifty-seven ghost stories from literary works, folklore and myth.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Volumes</font></b></dt> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Aeschylu.html">Aeschylus</a>. <br> <dd>190914. The House of Atreus: <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/1/">Agamemnon</a>, <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/2/">The Libation-Bearers</a> & <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/3/">The Furies</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Oresteian trilogy represents the height of Greek drama. The sins of the parent rest on the head of the child, who seeks vengeance and expiation.</font></dd> <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/4/">Prometheus Bound</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The emergence of the individual against his angry God.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Aesop.html">Æsop</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/17/1/">Fables</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">These 82 allegories remain part of everyday speech and provide eternal tales of caution.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/AndrsenHC.html">Andersen, Hans Christian</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/17/3/">Tales</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Written for children in the local Danish idiom, these 20 tales have become part of world folklore.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/AndrsonSh.html">Anderson, Sherwood</a>. 1919. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/156/index.html">Winesburg, Ohio</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Short stories of the alternately complex, lonely, joyful and strange lives of the inhabitants of a small American town.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Aristph.html">Aristophanes</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/9/">The Frogs</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dionysus descends into the underworld, where he judges a contest between Euripides and Æschylus.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Austen-J.html">Austen, Jane</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/303/2/">Pride and Prejudice</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. III, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Balzac-H.html">Balzac, Honoré de</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/313/1/">Old Goriot</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 1.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Bjornson.html">Björnson, Björnstjerne</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/320/2/">A Happy Boy</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Buchan-J.html">Buchan, John</a>. 1915. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/149/">The Thirty-nine Steps</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The basis for the 1935 Hitchcock film, this engaging mystery novel is filled with intrigue and suspense.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Bunyan-J.html">Bunyan, John</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/15/1/">The Pilgrims Progress</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The most well-known allegory ever written is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Calderon-de.html">Calderón de la Barca, Pedro</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/1/">Life Is a Dream</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Metaphysical tale of the blurring between reality and dreams.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Cather-W.html">Cather, Willa</a>. 1922. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1006/">One of Ours</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pulitzer Prizewinning novel of a midwestern Americans journey to the front of World War I.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Cervante.html">Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/14/">Don Quixote, Part 1</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Chstert.html">Chesterton, G.K</a>. 1908. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/158/">The Man Who Was Thursday</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Set in a fantastic London, this zany mystery story is filled with often-surreal twists that turn more traditional thrillers on their ear.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/ChristieA.html">Christie, Agatha</a>. 1920. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/112/index.html">The Mysterious Affair at Styles</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Agatha Christie begins the illustrious career of detective-extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in her 1920 mystery classic.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Colum-Pa.html">Colum, Padraic</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Classic retellings of ancient myth for younger readers by a preeminent poet and illustrator.</font> <br>1918. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/75/">The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy</a>. <br>1922. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/72/">The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles</a>.</dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/CorneillP.html">Corneille, Pierre</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/2/">Polyeucte</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Corneilles great religious tragedy.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Daudet-A.html">Daudet, Alphonse</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/313/4/">Five Short Stories</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 4.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Dickens.html">Dickens, Charles</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/307/">David Copperfield</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. VII & VIII.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Dostoyev.html">Dostoevsky, Fyodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/318/">Crime and Punishment</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XVIII.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Ge.html">Eliot, George</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/309/">The Mill on the Floss</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. IX.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Euripide.html">Euripides</a>. <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/8/">The Bacchæ</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dionysus punishes Thebes, and its ruler Pentheus, for denying his godhood.</font></dd> <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/7/">Hippolytus</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Aphrodite causes Phaedra to fall in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, with tragic consequences.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/FieldingH.html">Fielding, Henry</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/301/">The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. I & II.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/FitzgS.html">Fitzgerald, F. Scott</a>. 1920. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/115/index.html">This Side of Paradise</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Describing life at Princeton among the glittering, bored and disillusionedthe postWorld War I lost generation.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Fontane.html">Fontane, Theodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/315/4/">Trials and Tribulations</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 4.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Goethe-J.html">Goethe, J. W. von</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/19/1/">Faust. Part I</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Goethes retelling of the classic Faust legend and the crowning achievement of his literary output.</font></dd> <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/19/3/">Egmont</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Count Egmont leads an ultimately tragic rebellion against Spanish rule in The Netherlands.</font></dd> <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/19/4/">Hermann and Dorothea</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This novelette in verse tells the story of a young girl who finds love after fleeing the chaos of the French Revolution.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/315/1/">The Sorrows of Werther</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 1.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/314/">Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIV.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Grimm-Ja.html">Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/17/2/">Household Tales</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">These 42 selections preserved the folklore of the German people and formed an inspiration to generations of storytellers.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Hale-Edw.html">Hale, Edward Everett</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/6/">The Man without a Country</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 6.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Harte-Br.html">Harte, Francis Bret</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/4/">Three Stories</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 4.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/HawthornN.html">Hawthorne, Nathaniel</a>. <br> <dd>1850. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/83/index.html">The Scarlet Letter</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hawthornes classic tragedy of love and morals in Puritan New England.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/1/">The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccinis Daughter</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 1.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Homer.html">Homer</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/22/">The Odyssey</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The myriad adventures of the first epic hero from a distant war to the land of his faithful family.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Hugo-Vic.html">Hugo, Victor Marie</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/312/">Notre Dame de Paris</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XII.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Irving-W.html">Irving, Washington</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/2/">Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/JamesHson.html">James, Henry</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/311/">The Portrait of a Lady</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XI.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Jewett-S.html">Jewett, Sarah Orne</a>. 1910. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/125/index.html">The Country of the Pointed Firs</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Capturing the beauties of everyday small-town life, the modern reader is transported to a time pastwhere life was much simpler but in many ways just as complex.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Keller-G.html">Keller, Gottfried</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/315/2/">The Banner of the Upright Seven</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Kielland.html">Kielland, Alexander L.</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/320/3/">Skipper Worse</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 3.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Lamb-Cha.html">Lamb, Charles and Mary</a>. 1878. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1012/index.html">Tales from Shakespeare</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Lambs interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own to bring twenty of his most famous plays to the young reader.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/LessingG.html">Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/5/">Minna von Barnhelm</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Lessings great national drama.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/LewisSin.html">Lewis, Sinclair</a>. 1922. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/162/index.html">Babbitt</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The novel behind the name, <i>Babbitt</i> is the classic commentary on middle-class American society.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Malory-S.html">Malory, Sir Thomas</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/35/2/">The Holy Grail</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A selection from Mallorys famed <i>Morte dArthur.</i></font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Manzoni.html">Manzoni, Alessandro</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/21/">I Promessi Sposi</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The faith of two lovers overcomes all obstacles to their union.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Marlowe.html">Marlowe, Christopher</a>. 190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/19/2/">The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Maupassa.html">Maupassant, Guy de</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/313/5/">Walter Schnaffs Adventure and Two Friends</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 5.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/MelvleH.html">Melville, Herman</a>. 1853. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/129/index.html">Bartleby, the Scrivener</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In this classic short story, Melville presents us with a perplexing legal scrivener, Bartleby, and his disturbing effect on those around him.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Moliere.html">Molière</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/4/">Tartuffe</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Molières satire of the religious hypocrite.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Musset-A.html">Musset, Alfred de</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/313/3/">The Story of a White Blackbird</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 3.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/ONeill-E.html">ONeill, Eugene</a>. <br> <dd>1920. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/132/">Beyond the Horizon</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Explores the results of two mens love for the same woman and the compromises each will make to have her.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1922. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/230/">Three Plays</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Comprises The Hairy Ape, The First Man and Pulitzer Prizewinning Anna Christie.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Poe-Edga.html">Poe, Edgar Allan</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/3/">Three Stories</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 3.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/QuillerC.html">Quiller-Couch, Arthur</a>. 1910. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/76/">The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales</a>. <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Quiller-Couchs retelling of four classic fairy tales from the <i>Cabinet des Fées.</i></font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Racine-J.html">Racine, Jean</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/3/">Phædra</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Racines retelling of Euripidess <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/7/"><i>Hippolytus</i></a>.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Sand-Geo.html">Sand, George</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/313/2/">The Devils Pool</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/SchillrF.html">Schiller, Friedrich von</a>. 190917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/26/6/">Wilhelm Tell</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A powerful tale of resistance to Austrian domination.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Scott-SirW.html">Scott, Sir Walter</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/304/">Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. IV.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Shaw-Geo.html">Shaw, Bernard</a>. <br> <dd>1903. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/157/index.html">Man and Superman</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This playin which an idealistic, cerebral man succumbs to marriagecontains the almost equally famous dream sequence Don Juan in Hell.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1916. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/138/index.html">Pygmalion</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Based on the classical myth, this drama plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html">Shakespeare, William</a>. 1914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/70/">The Oxford Shakespeare</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Sophocle.html">Sophocles</a>. <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/6/">Antigone</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Creon forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule; but, Antigone, soon to marry his son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother.</font></dd> <br> <dd>190914. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/8/5/">Oedipus the King</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Unknowlingly, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Stein-Ge.html">Stein, Gertrude</a>. 1909. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/74/">Three Lives</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This first of Steins works established her position as a master of the English language and expositor of the twentieth-century woman.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Sterne-L.html">Sterne, Laurence</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/303/1/">A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. III, Part 1.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/StvnsnR.html">Stevenson, Robert Louis</a>. <br> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">1886. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1015/">The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</a>. <br>The nightmare-inspired bogey tale.</font></dd> <br> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">1889. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1017/">The Master of Ballantrae: A Winters Tale</a>. <br>A Romance set in Stevensons native Scotland.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/16/">Stories from the Thousand and One Nights</a>. 190914.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">42 selections that have become among the best-known of folk tales for younger readers.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Storm-Th.html">Storm, Theodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/315/3/">The Rider on the White Horse</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 3.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Synge-Jo.html">Synge, J.M</a>. 1911. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1010/index.html">The Playboy of the Western World</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The controversial play that ignited the Playboy Riots.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Tarkingt.html">Tarkington, Booth</a>. 1918. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/160/index.html">The Magnificent Ambersons</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The rise and fall of three generations of a successful and socially connected family in the face of a changing America.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Thackera.html">Thackeray, William Makepeace</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/305/">Vanity Fair, A Novel without a Hero</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. V & VI.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Tolstoy-L.html">Tolstoy, Leo</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/316/">Anna Karenin</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. XVI & XVII.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/317/2/">Ivan the Fool</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XVII, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Turgenev.html">Turgenev, Ivan</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/319/1/">A House of Gentlefolk</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIX, Part 1.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/319/2/">Fathers and Children</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIX, Part 2.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Twain-Ma.html">Twain, Mark</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/310/5/">Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 5.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/ValerayA.html">Valera, Juan</a>. 1917. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/320/1/">Pepita Jimenez</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 1.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Wells-HG.html">Wells, H.G</a>. <br> <dd>1897. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1003/index.html">The Invisible Man</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wellss thrilling masterpiece of the mad scientist.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1896. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1001/index.html">The Island of Doctor Moreau</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The scientist playing god seems more relevant than ever in the age of cloning.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1898. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1000/index.html">The Time Machine</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The classic time-traveling yarn: what seems too good to be true invariably is.</font></dd> <br> <dd>1898. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1002/index.html">The War of the Worlds</a>. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The original invasion from Mars, made all-too-real by Orson Welles in his 1938 radio adaptation.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/WhartonE.html">Wharton, Edith</a>. 1920. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/1005/index.html">The Age of Innocence</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Set in the sumptuous Golden Age of New York society, dated social norms prove a still powerful force against personal desire.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/people/Woolf-Vi.html">Woolf, Virginia</a>. 1921. <a href="/web/20061105052146/http://www2.bartleby.com/85/index.html">Monday or Tuesday</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Eight early short stories are highly representative of Woolfs stream-of-consciousness style.</font></dd> </dl> <br> <br> <br> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table>  <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">  <tr><td> </td></tr> 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