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href="/lit-hub/a-library-of-american-literature">A Library of American Literature</a>: An Anthology in 11 Volumes.</dt> <dd>The 6,000 pages of the 11 volumes contain over 2,500 selections by more than 1,100 authors.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt>Strachey, Lionel, et al., eds. 1906. <a href="/lit-hub/the-worlds-wit-and-humor">The World’s Wit and Humor</a>: An Anthology in 15 Volumes.</dt> <dd>Over 1,000 selections from some 500 sources weighted toward American and English.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/brander-matthews/">Matthews, Brander</a>, ed. 1907. <a href="/lit-hub/the-short-story-1907/">The Short-Story</a>.</dt> <dd>Twenty-three classic short stories trace the development of the genre from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt>Rhys, Ernest, ed. 1921. <a href="/lit-hub/the-haunters-and-the-haunted/">The Haunters and the Haunted</a>.</dt> <dd>Fifty-seven ghost stories from literary works, folklore and myth.</dd> </dl> <h3>Volumes</h3> <dl> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/aeschylus/ ">Aeschylus</a>.</dt> <dd>1909–14. The House of Atreus: <a href="/lit-hub/hc/agamemnon">Agamemnon</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-libation-bearers">The Libation-Bearers</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-furies">The Furies</a>. 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.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/prometheus-bound">Prometheus Bound</a>. The emergence of the individual against his angry God.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/aesop/ ">Æsop</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/fables">Fables</a>.</dt> <dd>These 82 allegories remain part of everyday speech and provide eternal tales of caution.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/louisa-m-alcott/">Alcott, Louisa M</a>. 1899. <a href="/lit-hub/little-women">Little Women; or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/hans-christian-andersen/">Andersen, Hans Christian</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/tales">Tales</a>.</dt> <dd>Written for children in the local Danish idiom, these 20 tales have become part of world folklore.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/sherwood-anderson/">Anderson, Sherwood</a>. 1919. <a href="/lit-hub/winesburg-ohio/">Winesburg, Ohio</a>.</dt> <dd>Short stories of the alternately complex, lonely, joyful and strange lives of the inhabitants of a small American town.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/aristophanes/">Aristophanes</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-frogs">The Frogs</a>.</dt> <dd>Dionysus descends into the underworld, where he judges a contest between Euripides and Æschylus.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/jane-austen/">Austen, Jane</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/pride-and-prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. III, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/honore-de-balzac/">Balzac, Honorè de</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/old-goriot">Old Goriot</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 1.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/bjornstjerne-bjornson/">Björnson, Björnstjerne</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-happy-boy">A Happy Boy</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/charles-brockden-brown/">Brown, Charles Brockden</a>. 1857. <a href="/lit-hub/edgar-huntley-or-memoirs-of-a-sleep-walker/">Edgar Huntley; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/john-buchan/">Buchan, John</a>. 1915. <a href="/lit-hub/the-thirty-nine-steps/">The Thirty-nine Steps</a>.</dt> <dd>The basis for the 1935 Hitchcock film, this engaging mystery novel is filled with intrigue and suspense.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/bunyan-john/">Bunyan, John</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-pilgrims-progress/">The Pilgrim’s Progress</a>.</dt> <dd>The most well-known allegory ever written is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/calderon-de-la-barca-pedro/">Calderón de la Barca, Pedro</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/life-is-a-dream">Life Is a Dream</a>.</dt> <dd>Metaphysical tale of the blurring between reality and dreams.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/cather-willa/">Cather, Willa</a>. 1922. <a href="/lit-hub/one-of-ours/">One of Ours</a>.</dt> <dd>Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of a midwestern American’s journey to the front of World War I.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/cervantes-miguel-de/">Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/don-quixote-part-1">Don Quixote, Part 1</a>.</dt> <dd>Published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/people/Chstert.html">Chesterton, G.K</a>. 1908. <a href="/lit-hub/the-man-who-was-thursday/">The Man Who Was Thursday</a>.</dt> <dd>Set in a fantastic London, this zany mystery story is filled with often-surreal twists that turn more traditional thrillers on their ear.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/christie-agatha/">Christie, Agatha</a>. 1920. <a href="/lit-hub/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles/">The Mysterious Affair at Styles</a>.</dt> <dd>Agatha Christie begins the illustrious career of detective-extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in her 1920 mystery classic.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/colum-padraic/">Colum, Padraic</a>.</dt> <dd>Classic retellings of ancient myth for younger readers by a preeminent poet and illustrator. 1918. <a href="/lit-hub/the-adventures-of-odysseus-and-the-tale-of-troy/">The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy</a>. 1922. <a href="/lit-hub/the-golden-fleece-and-the-heroes-who-lived-before-achilles/">The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles</a>.</dd> <dd></dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/cooper-james-fenimore/">Cooper, James Fenimore</a>. 1911. <a href="/lit-hub/the-spy/">The Spy; a Tale of the Neutral Ground</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/corneille-pierre/">Corneille, Pierre</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/polyeucte/">Polyeucte</a>.</dt> <dd>Corneille’s great religious tragedy.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/daudet-alphonse/">Daudet, Alphonse</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/five-short-stories/">Five Short Stories</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 4.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/dickens-charles/">Dickens, Charles</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/david-copperfield/">David Copperfield</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. VII & VIII.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/dostoevsky-fyodor-1821-1881/">Dostoevsky, Fyodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/crime-and-punishment/">Crime and Punishment</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XVIII.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/dryden-john/">Dryden, John</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/all-for-love/">All for Love</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/eliot-george/">Eliot, George</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/the-mill-on-the-floss/">The Mill on the Floss</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. IX.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/euripides/">Euripides</a>.</dt> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-bacchae/">The Bacchæ</a>. Dionysus punishes Thebes, and its ruler Pentheus, for denying his godhood.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hippolytus/">Hippolytus</a>. Aphrodite causes Phaedra to fall in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, with tragic consequences.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/fielding-henry/">Fielding, Henry</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling/">The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. I & II.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/fitzgerald-f-scot/">Fitzgerald, F. Scott</a>. 1920. <a href="/lit-hub/this-side-of-paradise/">This Side of Paradise</a>.</dt> <dd>Describing life at Princeton among the glittering, bored and disillusioned—the post–World War I “lost generation.”</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/fontane-theodor/">Fontane, Theodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/trials-and-tribulations/">Trials and Tribulations</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 4.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/foster-hannah-webster/">Foster, Hannah Webster</a>. 1855. <a href="/lit-hub/the-coquette-or-the-history-of-eliza-wharton/">The Coquette, or The History of Eliza Wharton</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/gay-john/">Gay, John</a>. 1920. <a href="/lit-hub/the-beggars-opera/">The Beggar’s Opera</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/goethe-j-w-von/">Goethe, J. W. von</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/faust-part-i/">Faust. Part I</a>.</dt> <dd>Goethe’s retelling of the classic Faust legend and the crowning achievement of his literary output.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/egmont/">Egmont</a>.</dd> <dd>Count Egmont leads an ultimately tragic rebellion against Spanish rule in The Netherlands.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hermann-and-dorothea/">Hermann and Dorothea</a>.</dd> <dd>This “novelette in verse” tells the story of a young girl who finds love after fleeing the chaos of the French Revolution.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-sorrows-of-werther/">The Sorrows of Werther</a>.</dd> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 1.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/wilhelm-meisters-apprenticeship/">Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship</a>.</dd> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIV.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/goldsmith-oliver/">Goldsmith, Oliver</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/she-stoops-to-conquer-or-the-mistakes-of-a-night-a-comedy">She Stoops to Conquer</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/grimm-jacob-and-wilhelm/">Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/household-tales/">Household Tales</a>.</dt> <dd>These 42 selections preserved the folklore of the German people and formed an inspiration to generations of storytellers.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/hale-edward-everett/">Hale, Edward Everett</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-man-without-a-country/">The Man without a Country</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 6.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/harte-francis-bret/">Harte, Francis Bret</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/three-stories/">Three Stories</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 4.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/hawthorne-nathaniel/">Hawthorne, Nathaniel</a>.</dt> <dd>1850. <a href="/lit-hub/the-scarlet-letter/">The Scarlet Letter</a>.</dd> <dd>Hawthorne’s classic tragedy of love and morals in Puritan New England.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-scarlet-letter-rappaccinis-daughter/">The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter</a>.</dd> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 1.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/hesiod-homeric-hymns-epic-cycle-homerica/">Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica</a>. 1922.</dt> <dd>The pre-Homeric myths of the Ancient Greeks.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/homer/">Homer</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-odyssey/">The Odyssey</a>.</dt> <dd>The myriad adventures of the first epic hero from a distant war to the land of his faithful family.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1898. <a href="/lit-hub/the-iliad-of-homer/">The Iliad of Homer</a>.</dd> <dd>Samuel Butler’s prose translation.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/hugo-victor-marie/">Hugo, Victor Marie</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/notre-dame-de-paris/">Notre Dame de Paris</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XII.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/irving-washington/">Irving, Washington</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/rip-van-winkle-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow/">Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/james-henry/">James, Henry</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-portrait-of-a-lady/">The Portrait of a Lady</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XI.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/jewett-sarah-orne/">Jewett, Sarah Orne</a>. 1910. <a href="/lit-hub/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs/">The Country of the Pointed Firs</a>.</dt> <dd>Capturing the beauties of everyday small-town life, the modern reader is transported to a time past—where life was much simpler but in many ways just as complex.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/keller-gottfried/">Keller, Gottfried</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-banner-of-the-upright-seven/">The Banner of the Upright Seven</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/kielland-alexander-l/">Kielland, Alexander L.</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/skipper-worse/">Skipper Worse</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 3.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/lamb-charles-and-mary/">Lamb, Charles and Mary</a>. 1878. <a href="/lit-hub/tales-from-shakespeare/">Tales from Shakespeare</a>.</dt> <dd>The Lambs interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own to bring twenty of his most famous plays to the young reader.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/lessing-gotthold-ephraim/">Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/minna-von-barnhelm/">Minna von Barnhelm</a>.</dt> <dd>Lessing’s great national drama.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/lewis-sinclair/">Lewis, Sinclair</a>. 1922. <a href="/lit-hub/babbitt/">Babbitt</a>.</dt> <dd>The novel behind the name, <i>Babbitt</i> is the classic commentary on middle-class American society.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/malory-sir-thomas/">Malory, Sir Thomas</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-holy-grail/">The Holy Grail</a>.</dt> <dd>A selection from Mallory’s famed <i>Morte d’Arthur.</i></dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/manzoni-alessandro/">Manzoni, Alessandro</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/i-promessi-sposi/">I Promessi Sposi</a>.</dt> <dd>The faith of two lovers overcomes all obstacles to their union.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/marlowe-christopher/">Marlowe, Christopher</a>. 1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/dr-faustus/">The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus</a>.</dt> <dd>Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/edward-the-second/">Edward the Second</a>.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/maupassant-guy-de/">Maupassant, Guy de</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/walter-schnaffs-adventure-two-friends/">Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure and Two Friends</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 5.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/melville-herman/">Melville, Herman</a>. 1853. <a href="/lit-hub/bartleby-the-scrivener/">Bartleby, the Scrivener</a>.</dt> <dd>In this classic short story, Melville presents us with a perplexing legal scrivener, Bartleby, and his disturbing effect on those around him.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1922. <a href="/lit-hub/moby-dick-or-the-whale/">Moby-Dick; or, The Whale</a>.</dd> <dd>The Great American Novel.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/moliere/">Molière</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/tartuffe/">Tartuffe</a>.</dt> <dd>Molière’s satire of the religious hypocrite.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/montesquieu/">Montesquieu</a>. 1901. <a href="/lit-hub/persian-letters/">Persian Letters</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/musset-alfred-de/">Musset, Alfred de</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-story-of-a-white-blackbird/">The Story of a White Blackbird</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 3.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/oneill-eugene/">O’Neill, Eugene</a>.</dt> <dd>1920. <a href="/lit-hub/beyond-the-horizon/">Beyond the Horizon</a>. Explores the results of two men’s love for the same woman and the compromises each will make to have her.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1922. <a href="/lit-hub/three-plays/">Three Plays</a>. Comprises “The Hairy Ape,” “The First Man” and Pulitzer Prize–winning “Anna Christie.”</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/poe-edgar-allan/">Poe, Edgar Allan</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/eleonora-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-the-purloined-letter/">Three Stories</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 3.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/quiller-couch-sir-arthur/">Quiller-Couch, Arthur</a>. 1910. <a href="/lit-hub/the-sleeping-beauty-and-other-fairy-tales/">The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales</a>.</dt> <dd>Quiller-Couch’s retelling of four classic fairy tales from the <i>Cabinet des Fèes.</i></dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/racine-jean/">Racine, Jean</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/phaedra">Phædra</a>.</dt> <dd>Racine’s retelling of Euripides’s <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hippolytus/"><i>Hippolytus</i></a>.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/rowson-susanna-haswell/">Rowson, Susanna Haswell</a>. 1905. <a href="/lit-hub/charlotte-temple-a-tale-of-truth/">Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/sand-george/">Sand, George</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-devils-pool/">The Devil’s Pool</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIII, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/schiller-friedrich-von/">Schiller, Friedrich von</a>. 1909–17. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/wilhelm-tell/">Wilhelm Tell</a>.</dt> <dd>A powerful tale of resistance to Austrian domination.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/scott-sir-walter/">Scott, Sir Walter</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/guy-mannering-or-the-astrologer/">Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. IV.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/shaw-bernard/">Shaw, Bernard</a>.</dt> <dd>1903. <a href="/lit-hub/man-and-superman/">Man and Superman</a>. This play—in which an idealistic, cerebral man succumbs to marriage—contains the almost equally famous dream sequence “Don Juan in Hell.”</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1916. <a href="/lit-hub/pygmalion/">Pygmalion</a>. Based on the classical myth, this drama plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/shakespeare-william/">Shakespeare, William</a>. 1914. <a href="/lit-hub/the-oxford-shakespeare/">The Oxford Shakespeare</a>.</dt> <dd>The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/sophocles/">Sophocles</a>.</dt> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/antigone/">Antigone</a>. 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.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1909–14. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/oedipus-the-king/">Oedipus the King</a>. Unknowlingly, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/people/Stein-Ge.html">Stein, Gertrude</a>. 1909. <a href="/lit-hub/three-lives/">Three Lives</a>.</dt> <dd>This first of Stein’s works established her position as a master of the English language and expositor of the twentieth-century woman.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/laurence-sterne/">Sterne, Laurence</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-sentimental-journey-through-france-and-italy">A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. III, Part 1.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/stevenson-robert-louis/">Stevenson, Robert Louis</a>.</dt> <dd>1886. <a href="/lit-hub/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/">The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</a>. The nightmare-inspired “bogey tale.”</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1889. <a href="/lit-hub/the-master-of-ballantrae-a-winters-tale/">The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale</a>. A Romance set in Stevenson’s native Scotland.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/hc/stories-from-the-thousand-and-one-nights/">Stories from the Thousand and One Nights</a>. 1909–14.</dt> <dd>42 selections that have become among the best-known of folk tales for younger readers.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/storm-theodor/">Storm, Theodor</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-rider-on-the-white-horse/">The Rider on the White Horse</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XV, Part 3.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/stowe-harriet-beecher/">Stowe, Harriet Beecher</a>. 1852. <a href="/lit-hub/uncle-toms-cabin-or-life-among-the-lowly/">Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/synge-j-m/">Synge, J.M</a>. 1911. <a href="/lit-hub/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/">The Playboy of the Western World</a>.</dt> <dd>The controversial play that ignited the “Playboy Riots.”</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/tarkington-booth/">Tarkington, Booth</a>. 1918. <a href="/lit-hub/the-magnificent-ambersons/">The Magnificent Ambersons</a>.</dt> <dd>The rise and fall of three generations of a successful and socially connected family in the face of a changing America.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/thackeray-william-m/">Thackeray, William Makepeace</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/vanity-fair-a-novel-without-a-hero/">Vanity Fair, A Novel without a Hero</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. V & VI.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/tolstoy-leo/">Tolstoy, Leo</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/anna-karenin/">Anna Karenin</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vols. XVI & XVII.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/ivan-the-fool/">Ivan the Fool</a>.</dd> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XVII, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/turgenev-ivan/">Turgenev, Ivan</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-house-of-gentlefolk/">A House of Gentlefolk</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIX, Part 1.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/fathers-and-children/">Fathers and Children</a>.</dd> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XIX, Part 2.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/twain-mark/">Twain, Mark</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/jim-smily-and-his-jumping-frog/">Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. X, Part 5.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/valera-juan/">Valera, Juan</a>. 1917. <a href="/lit-hub/hc/pepita-jimenez/">Pepita Jimenez</a>.</dt> <dd>From the <a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>, Vol. XX, Part 1.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/voltaire/">Voltaire</a>. 1884. <a href="/lit-hub/candide-or-the-optimist/">Candide, or The Optimist</a>.</dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/wells-h-g/">Wells, H.G</a>.</dt> <dd>1897. <a href="/lit-hub/the-invisible-man/">The Invisible Man</a>. Wells’s thrilling masterpiece of the mad scientist.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1896. <a href="/lit-hub/the-island-of-doctor-moreau-a-possibility/">The Island of Doctor Moreau</a>. The scientist playing god seems more relevant than ever in the age of cloning.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1898. <a href="/lit-hub/the-time-machine-an-invention/">The Time Machine</a>. The classic time-traveling yarn: what seems too good to be true invariably is.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dd>1898. <a href="/lit-hub/the-war-of-the-worlds/">The War of the Worlds</a>. The original invasion from Mars, made all-too-real by Orson Welles in his 1938 radio adaptation.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/wharton-edith/">Wharton, Edith</a>. 1920. <a href="/lit-hub/the-age-of-innocence/">The Age of Innocence</a>.</dt> <dd>Set in the sumptuous Golden Age of New York society, dated social norms prove a still powerful force against personal desire.</dd> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="/lit-hub/people/woolf-virginia/">Woolf, Virginia</a>. 1921. <a href="/lit-hub/monday-or-tuesday/">Monday or Tuesday</a>.</dt> <dd>Eight early short stories are highly representative of Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style.</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </main>   <footer id="bby-site-footer" class="bby-footer main-footer" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPFooter" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="bby-footer-top-container d-flex"> <div class="bby-container d-flex align-items-start flex-row"> <div class="footer-top-left-container d-flex align-items-start flex-row"> <div class="footer-nav-wrapper"> <div class="widget widget_block"><div class="widget-content"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="105" height="30" src="https://legacy-cms-media.bartleby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/11/14172410/bartleby-white.png" alt="" class="wp-image-175150" /></figure> </div></div> </div></div><div class="widget widget_block"><div class="widget-content"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"></div></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="footer-nav-wrapper"> <div class="widget widget_block"><div class="widget-content"><ul> <li><a href="/lit-hub/the-oxford-shakespeare/">Shakespeare</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/the-holy-bible/">Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/the-elements-of-style/">Strunk</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/nonfiction/">Nonfiction</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/quotations/">Quotations</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/reference/">Reference</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/lit-hub/fiction/">Fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/anatomy-of-the-human-body/"> Anatomy</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/hc/">Harvard Classics</a></li> <li><a href="/lit-hub/library/">Lit. 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