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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Reader’s Digest of Books

Strife to Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County

Strife by John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Stringtown on the Pike by John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936)
Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin (1860–1893)
Studies of the Gods in Greece by Louis Dyer (1851–1908)
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)
Superstition and Force by Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909)
The Surgeon’s Stories by Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898)
Susan Fielding by Annie Edwards (1830–1896)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1743–1818)
The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons (1865–1945)
Synnövé Solbakken by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910)
Table Talk, or, Original Essays by William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles (1775–1834) and Mary (1764–1847) Lamb
Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving (1783–1859)
Talks to Teachers on Psychology by William James (1842–1910)
Babylonian Talmud by Michael Levi Rodkinson, ed. (1845–1904)
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935)
Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)
Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
Tartuffe by Molière (1622–1673)
The Task by William Cowper (1731–1800)
The Tatler by Joseph Addison (1672–1719) and Sir Richard Steele, et al. (1672–1729)
Technique of the Drama by Gustav Freytag (1816–1895)
Adventures of Telemachus by François Fénelon (1651–1715)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Temple House by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902)
The Tenants of Malory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Memoir by Hallam Tennyson (1852–1928)
Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832–1916)
Ten Thousand a Year by Samuel Warren (1807–1877)
Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan (1845–1924)
Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter (1776–1850)
Thaïs by Anatole France (1844–1924)
Theological and Literary Essays by Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897)
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
These Lynnekers by John Davys Beresford (1873–1947)
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke (1632–1704)
Thoughts Concerning the Interpretation of Nature by Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
Three Americans and Three Englishmen by Charles Frederick Johnson (1836–1931)
Three Daughters of M. Dupont by Eugène Brieux (1858–1932)
Three English Statesmen by Goldwin Smith (1823–1910)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
Through Night to Light by Friedrich Spielhagen (1829–1911)
Through the Dark Continent by Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor by George Ticknor (1791–1871)
The Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915)
Till Eulenspiegel—Author Unknown
Timbuctoo the Mysterious by Félix Dubois (1862–1945)
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Together by Robert Herrick (1868–1938)
To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston (1870–1936)
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
Tom Burke of “Ours” by Charles Lever (1806–1872)
Tom Cringle’s Log by Michael Scott (1789–1835)
Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937)
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
The Tory Lover by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
Tottel’s Miscellany—Various Authors
Tractate on Education by John Milton (1608–1674)
Tracts for the Times—Various Authors
History of Trades Unionism by Sidney (1859–1947) and Beatrice (1858–1943) Webb
Trafalgar, a tale by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920)
A Tragic Idyll by Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
The Travels and Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736–1794)
Travels in France by Arthur Young (1741–1820)
Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (1254–1324)
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Anonymous
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
The Treasure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck by Baron Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794)
A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton (1580–1627)
Trilby by George du Maurier (1834–1896)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Triumphant Democracy by Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
Tropical Africa by Henry Drummond (1851–1897)
Troubadours and Trouvères by Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911)
Troy and Its Remains by Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890)
The True Relation by Captain John Smith (1580–1631)
Truth Dexter by Sidney McCall
The Truth by Clyde Fitch (1865–1909)
The Turkish Spy by Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642–1693)
Turmoil by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1843–1916)
The Turnstile by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865–1948)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams (1860–1935)
Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield by James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893)
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
The Two Chiefs of Dunboy by James Anthony Froude (1818–1894)
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Two Men by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902)
Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882)
Typee and Omoo by Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Uarda by Georg Ebers (1837–1898)
The Unclassed by George Gissing (1857–1903)
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
Underground Russia by Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Stepniak) (1851–1895)
Under the Tricolour by Pierre Mille (1864–1941)
Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov (1850–1921)
Undine by Friedrich, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué (1777–1843)
The Undiscovered Country by William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
History of the United Netherlands by John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1848–1927)
Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant (1852–1940)
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
The Usurper by Judith Gautier (1845–1917)
Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)
Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist by Henry Cockton (1807–1853)
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Van Bibber and Others by Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
Vathek, The History of the Caliph by William Beckford (1760–1844)
Vera Vorontsoff by Sonya Kovalevsky (1850–1891)
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Edward Bradley (Cuthbert Bede) (1827–1889)
Via Crucis by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909)
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
The Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
The Village Labourer by John Lawrence (1872–1949) and Barbara (1873–1961) Hammond
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873–1945)
The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
The Virginian by Owen Wister (1860–1938)
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)
The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland (1332?–1400?)
Visits to the Monasteries of the Levant by Robert Curzon (1810–1873)
Volpone; or, The Fox by Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
Life of Voltaire by James Parton (1822–1891)
Voyage Around My Chamber by Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852)
The Wages of Sin by Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley) (1852–1931)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Wallenstein by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)
Wanda by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) (1839–1908)
The Wandering Jew by Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
The Wandering Jew by Eugène Sue (1804–1857)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
The Way of the World by William Congreve (1670–1729)
Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847–1903)
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723–1790)
The Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)
Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924)
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley’s Journal by John Wesley (1703–1791)
The Wetherel Affair by John William De Forest (1826–1906)
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910)
The Wheel of Life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873–1945)
When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major (Edwin Caskoden) (1856–1913)
When Valmond Came to Pontiac by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932)
Whip and Spur by George E. Waring, Jr. (1833–1898)
Whirligigs by O. Henry (1862–1910)
White Aprons by Maud Wilder Goodwin (1856–1935)
The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona by John Webster (c. 1580–1634)
The White Rocks by Édouard Rod (1857–1910)
The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner (1819–1885)
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
The Wild Irish Girl by Lady Sydney Morgan (1783–1859)
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)
A Window in Thrums by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937)
The Wings of a Dove by Henry James (1843–1916)
The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy (1863–1928)
The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944)
The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Witching Hour by Augustus Thomas (1857–1934)
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Pan Michael by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)
Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)
With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641)
The Woman Movement by Ellen Key (1849–1926)
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
The Woman Thou Gavest Me by Hall Caine (1853–1931)
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)
The Wonderful Magician by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681)
The Wonderful Year by William John Locke (1863–1930)
The Woodman by Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1838–1923)
Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
A Journal of the Life, Gospel, Labours, and Christian Experiences of John Woolman by John Woolman (1720–1772)
The Workers by Walter Augustus Wyckoff (1865–1908)
The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
The Wreck of the Grosvenor by William Clark Russell (1844–1911)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
The Yemassee by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)
Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields (1817–1881)
Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever by Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825–1906)
Yone Santo by Edward Howard House (1836–1901)
The Zincali by George Borrow (1803–1881)
Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County by Joseph Kirkland (1830–1894)