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Good Reads: Full Text of Classics in Western Literature
-- by David Swink, FCTA, 06/13/2021 (Updated 11/17/2024)
These works teach us life's lessons and provide valuable perspective from
human history in Western civilization. Your wisdom will be greatly enhanced
after having consumed (with sometimes considerable effort) these
classic reads -- listed in order by type (fiction or non-) and title name.
Fic:1984(Dys)>
1984,
by George Orwell (1949) -- 328pp
Fic:Aeso(Kid)>
Aesop's Fables,
-- 146 Short Kid Stories
Fic:Alic(Kid)>
Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865) -- 70pp
Fic:AllQ(War)>
All Quiet on the Western Front,
by Erich Maria Remarque (1930) -- 280pp
Fic:Anna(Rus)>
Anna Karenina,
by Leo Tolstoy (1878) -- 864pp (CliffsNotes)
Fic:Anim(Sch)>
Animal Farm,
by George Orwell (1944) -- 112pp
Fic:AnGr(Kid)>
Anne Of Green Gables,
by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) -- 158pp
Fic:Atla(Dys)>
Atlas Shrugged,
by Ayn Rand (1957) -- 1169pp (
CliffsNotes)
Fic:BluL(Kid)>
The Blue Lagoon: A Romance,
by H. de Vere Stacpoole (1908) -- 220pp
Fic:Brav(Dys)>
Brave New World,
by Aldous Huxley (1932) -- 288pp
Fic:CaWi(Kid)>
The Call of the Wild,
by Jack London (1903) -- 232pp
Fic:ChWe(Kid)>
Charlotte's Web,
by E. B. White (1952) -- 184pp
Fic:DrZh(Rus)>
Doctor Zhivago,
by Boris Pasternak (1957) -- 496pp
Fic:Emer(Usa)>
Literary Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1849) -- (American Transcendentalism Web)
Fic:Fahr(Dys)>
Fahrenheit 451,
by Ray Bradbury (1953) -- 256pp
Fic:Fare(War)>
A Farewell to Arms,
by Earnest Hemingway (1940) -- 304pp
Fic:FlIn(War)>
Flight of the Intruder,
by Stephen Coontz (1987) -- 329pp
Fic:ForW(War)>
For Whom The Bell Tolls,
by Earnest Hemingway (1940) -- 471pp
Fic:Fran(Eng)>
Frankenstein,
by Mary Shelley (1818) -- 280pp
Fic:GrWr(Sch)>
The Grapes Of Wrath,
by John Steinbeck (1939) -- 464pp
Fic:GrEx(Sch)>
Great Expectations,
by Charles Dickens (1867) -- 544pp
Fic:Grim(Kid)>
Grimms' Fairy Tales,
-- 62 Short Kid Stories
Fic:Hobb(Kid)>
The Hobbit,
by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) -- 330pp
Fic:Huck(Kid)>
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, by Mark Twain (1884) -- 293pp
Fic:Ilia(Sch)>
The Iliad,
by Homer (800BC), translated by Samuel Butler -- 560pp
Fic:Jane(Eng)>
Jane Eyre,
by Charlotte Bronte (1847) -- 450pp
Fic:Kill(Sch)>
To Kill A Mockingbird,
by Harper Lee (1960) -- 281pp
Fic:LeGr(Usa)>
Leaves of Grass,
by Walt Whitman (1855-1892) -- 160pp
Fic:LiHo(Kid)>
Little House in the Big
Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932) -- 176pp
Fic:LiPr(Kid)>
A Little Princess,
by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905) -- 122pp
Fic:LiWo(Usa)>
Little Women,
by Louisa May Alcott (1868) -- 759pp
Fic:Lord(Sch)>
Lord Of The Flies,
by William Golding (1954) -- 224pp
Fic:Moby(Sch)>
Moby Dick,
by Herman Melville (1851) -- 378pp
Fic:Odys(Sch)>
The Odyssey,
by Homer (800BC), translated by Samuel Butler -- 541pp
Fic:OfHu(Sch)>
Of Human Bondage,
by W. Somerset Maughn (1915) -- 648pp
Fic:OfMi(Sch)>
Of Mice and Men,
by John Steinbeck (1937) -- 107pp
Fic:OlMa(Sch)>
The Old Man And The Sea,
by Earnest Hemingway (1952) -- 112pp
Fic:OnBe(Aus)>
On The Beach,
by Nevil Shute (1957) -- 320pp
Fic:PoeE(Usa)>
Popular Works of Edgar Allen Poe
(1809-1849)
Fic:Prid(Eng)>
Pride and Prejudice,
by Jane Austen (1813) -- 305pp
Fic:RedB(Sch)>
The Red Badge of Courage,
by Stephen Crane (1894) -- 112pp
Fic:RedF(Kid)>
Where the Red Fern Grows,
by Wilson Rawls (1961) -- 245pp
Fic:RobC(Kid)>
Robinson Crusoe,
by Daniel Defoe (1719) -- 290pp
Fic:RobH(Kid)>
The Merry Adventures of Robin
Hood, by Howard Pyle (1883) -- 320pp
Fic:ScLe(Sch)>
The Scarlet Letter,
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) -- 272pp
Fic:SeGa(Kid)>
The Secret Garden,
by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1911) -- 192pp
Fic:Sila(Sch)>
Silas Marner,
by George Eliot (1861) -- 128pp
Fic:StLi(Kid)>
Stuart Little,
by E. B. White (1945) -- 52pp
Fic:SwFa(Kid)>
The Swiss Family Robinson,
by Johann David Wyss (1812) -- 232pp
Fic:Tale(Sch)>
A Tale Of Two Cities,
by Charles Dickens (1859) -- 304pp
Fic:TiMa(Eng)>
The Time Machine,
by H. G. Wells (1895) -- 84pp
Fic:TomS(Kid)>
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
, by Mark Twain (1876) -- 225pp
Fic:Tres(Kid)>
Treasure Island,
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) -- 286pp
Fic:Tria(Rus)>
The Trial,
by Franz Kafka (1925) -- 160pp
Fic:Twen(Eng)>
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
, by Jules Verne (1870) -- 212pp
Fic:Uncl(Usa)>
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) -- 576pp
(Project
Gutenberg)
Fic:WaWo(Eng)>
The War of the Worlds,
by H. G. Wells (1898) -- 138pp
Fic:Wuth(Eng)>
Wuthering Heights,
by Emily Bronte (1847) -- 463pp
Non:AmHi(Edu)>
American History for Elementary Schools,
by Albert F. Blaisdell (1902) -- 440pp (Project
Gutenberg)
Non:Bea2(Edu)>
The Beacon Second Reader,
by James H. Fasset (1914) -- 202pp
Non:Bibl(Rel)>
The Bible,
King James Version -- 776pp
Non:CapS(Pol)>
Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy, by Joseph A. Schumpeter (1942) -- 406pp
Non:ClAm(Pol)>
The Closing of the American Mind
, by Allan Bloom (1987) -- 382pp
(Summary)
Non:CoMa(Pol)>
The Communist Manifesto,
by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels (1848) -- 35pp
Non:Diar(Soc)>
The Diary of Anne Frank,
English translation (1947) -- 238pp
Non:EcOn(Ecn)>
Economics in One Lesson,
by Henry Hazlitt (1946) -- 150pp
Non:FedP(Civ)>
The Federalist Papers,
by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison (1787-1788) -- 559pp
Non:FrCh(Ecn)>
Free to Choose,
by Milton and Rose Friedman (1980) -- 310pp
Non:FuSh(Soc)>
Future Shock,
by Alvin Toffler (1970) -- 480pp
Non:Gula(Pol)>
The Gulag Archipelago,
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973) -- 620pp
Non:HiAm(Civ)>
A History of the American People
[1580-1997], by Paul Johnson (1997) -- 976pp
Non:McGu(Edu)>
McGuffey Readers:
Primer,
R1,
R2,
R3,
R4,
R5,
R6,
Speller
Non:Medi(Soc)>
The Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius (AD 161-180) -- 88pp
Non:RoaS(Pol)>
The Road To Serfdom,
by Friedrich A. Hayek (1944) -- 178pp
Non:USCo(Civ)>
The U.S. Constitution,
et al -- 58pp
Non:WarB(Edu)>
The War Against Boys,
by Christina Hoff Sommers (2013) -- 205pp
Non:WhyJ(Edu)>
Why Johnny Can't Read,
by Rudolf Flesch (1955) -- 222pp
Most of the bold-text links to the works above are to local site-independent
plain-text copies of those works posted elsewhere. Those original postings
are hot-linked in the title of FCTA's copy, so you can choose which version
you like better. (FCTA's local copies are also quite readable as 'View
Source' monospaced text.) Each local HTML book contains a hot-linked
table of contents, so you can see your reading progress 'bookmarked' by the
previously-read purple chapter links.
Note that few of us actually enjoy reading an entire book from a computer;
buy the paperback! This site merely serves as a convenient list of the
available Western classics, as encouragement to explore these great works,
and for post-read reference material.
(If you like, feel free to dispense multiple copies of the
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