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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

Prometheus Bound to The Strenuous Life

Prometheus Bound by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.)
Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1881–1949)
The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly (1869–1930)
The Proof of the Pudding by Meredith Nicholson (1866–1947)
Proverbial Philosophy by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889)
Prue and I by George William Curtis (1824–1892)
Prusias by Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900)
The Principles of Psychology by William James (1842–1910)
Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Public Finance by Charles Francis Bastable (1855–1945)
Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
Purchas his Pilgrimes by Samuel Purchas (1577?–1626)
The Puritan in Holland, England, and America by Douglas Campbell (1839–1893)
The Purple Island by Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650)
Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade (1814–1884)
Quabbin by Francis Henry Underwood (1825–1894)
Queechy by Susan Warner (1819–1885)
Queed by Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880–1930)
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
The Quick or the Dead? by Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (1863–1945)
Quincy Adams Sawyer by Charles Felton Pidgin (1844–1923)
Quintus Claudius by Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900)
Quits by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (1807–1893)
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)
Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown (1810–1882)
The Raiders by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914)
Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall (1505–1556)
Rambles and Studies in Greece by John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919)
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)
Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley (1830–1876)
Real Folks by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906)
The Real World by Robert Herrick (1868–1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856–1923)
Records of a Girlhood by Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893)
Records of Later Life by Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809–1893)
Red as a Rose Is She by Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman (1855–1928)
Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)
The Red Lily by Anatole France (1844–1924)
The Red Robe by Eugène Brieux (1858–1932)
Red Rock by Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922)
The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
The Reds of the Midi by Félix Gras (1845–1901)
The Reef by Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Works of Reference—Various Authors
The Reflections of a Married Man by Robert Grant (1852–1940)
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
History of the Reformation of the Church of England and History of His Own Time by Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)
Rejected Addresses by James (1775–1839) and Horace (1779–1849) Smith
Religion of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred Wiedemann (1856–1936)
Remarkable Providences by Increase Mather (1639–1723)
The Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893)
René by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
The Republic by Plato (429–347 B.C.)
The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
The Revenge of Joseph Noirel by Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899)
A Reverend Idol by Lucretia Gray Noble (1836–1927)
Reveries of a Bachelor by Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) (1822–1908)
Reynard the Fox—Author Unknown
Richard Cable by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)
Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill (1871–1947)
Richard II. by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Richard III. by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Riddle of the Universe by Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)
Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge (1871–1909)
Rienzi by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
The Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932)
The Right Princess by Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1927)
Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
The Right Stuff by Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) (1876–1952)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1812–1889)
The Rise of Roscoe Paine by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870–1944)
The Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory (1852–1932)
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
The Robber Count by Julius Wolff (1834–1910)
Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) (1826–1915)
Robert Elsmere by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920)
Robert Falconer by George MacDonald (1824–1905)
Robin Gray by Charles Gibbon (1843–1890)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731)
Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771)
Madame Roland by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944)
Roman Affairs by Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854)
The Romance of a Mummy by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
The Romance of a Poor Young Man by Octave Feuillet (1821–1890)
The Romance of Dollard by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847–1902)
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (fl. 1230) and Jean de Meun (c. 1240–c. 1305)
Romances of the East by Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882)
A History of Roman Literature by Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911)
The Roman Poets by William Young Sellar (1825–1890)
A Roman Singer by Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909)
Rome by Francis Wey (1812–1882)
A General History of Rome by Charles Merivale (1808–1893)
History of Rome by Victor Duruy (1811–1894)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Romola by George Eliot (1819–1880)
Rory O’More by Samuel Lover (1797–1868)
The Rosary by Florence Louisa Barclay (1862–1921)
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
The Rose-Garden by Frances Mary Peard (1835–1923)
The Rose of the World by Agnes (1865–1922) and Egerton (1858–1920) Castle
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
Roughing It by Mark Twain (1835–1910)
Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola (1840–1902)
The Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton (1834–1902)
Ruins by Constantin-François Volney (1757–1820)
Rural Rides by William Cobbett (1763–1835)
Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841–1919)
Rutledge by Miriam Coles Harris (1834–1925)
Sacred and Legendary Art by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860)
The Sacred Books of the East by Friedrich Max Müller, ed. (1823–1900)
The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon by Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755)
Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
Salvation Nell by Edward Sheldon (1886–1946)
Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899)
Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1748–1789)
L’Histoire de Ma Vie by George Sand (1804–1876)
Sandra Belloni by George Meredith (1828–1909)
Sandy by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942)
Saragossa by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920)
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
Satiromastix by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas (1854–1919)
The Scholar and the State by Henry Codman Potter (1834–1908)
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900)
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1776–1850)
Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854)
Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912)
The Scouring of the White Horse by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914)
The Seats of the Mighty by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932)
The Sea Wolf by Jack London (1876–1916)
The Second Blooming by Walter Lionel George (1882–1926)
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934)
The Secret Woman by Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960)
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)
Seraph by Leopold Sacher-Masoch (1835–1895)
The Servant in the House by Charles Rann Kennedy (1871–1950)
The Seven Champions of Christendom by Richard Johnson (1573–c. 1659)
Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin (1819–1900)
Seventeen by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)
The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)
Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived in by Nathan Henry Chamberlain (1828–1901)
Sforza by William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919)
A Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926)
Shallow Soil by Knut Hamsun (1859–1952)
She by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925)
Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1864–1937)
Shenandoah by Bronson Howard (1842–1908)
Sheridan by Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
Ships that Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936)
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632)
A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1837–1883)
Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude (1818–1894)
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)
The Sicilian Vespers by Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843)
Il Signor Io by Salvatore Farina (1846–1918)
Signs and Seasons by John Burroughs (1837–1921)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (1819–1880)
The Silence of Dean Maitland by Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett) (1846–1923)
The Simple Life by Charles Wagner (1852–1918)
A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)
A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
Sinister Street by M. Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972)
The Sin of Joost Avelingh by Maarten Maartens (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz) (1858–1915)
Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
Sir George Tressady by Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920)
Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Six Days of Creation by Tayler Lewis (1802–1877)
Smoke Bellew by Jack London (1876–1916)
Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Social Equality by William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923)
Socialism by Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878–1941)
Fabian Essays in Socialism by George Bernard Shaw, ed., et al. (1856–1950)
Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander by John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919)
Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War by Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922)
Social Life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle
The Social Problem by Charles Abram Ellwood (1873–1946)
Social Silhouettes by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904)
Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916)
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville (1780–1872)
The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928)
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Sonia by Henry Gréville (Alice Durand) (1842–1902)
The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell (1855–1916)
South-Sea Idylls by Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909)
The Spanish Conquest in America by Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875)
The History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1791–1871)
Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898)
Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton (1764–1838)
The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu (1689–1755)
The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944)
The Spoilers by Rex Beach (1877–1949)
The Spoilers by Rex Beach (1877–1949)
The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944)
Standish of Standish by Jane Goodwin Austin (1831–1894)
Life and Times of Stein by Sir John Robert Seeley (1834–1895)
Steven Lawrence, Yeoman by Annie Edwards (1830–1896)
The Stickit Minister by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914)
Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1819–1900)
The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)
The Story of a Country Town by Edgar Watson Howe (1853–1937)
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920)
The Story of Carthage by Alfred John Church (1829–1912)
The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)
The Story of Margaret Kent by Ellen Warner Olney Kirk (1842–1928)
The Story of the C. W. S. by Percy Redfern (1875–1958)
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913)
Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915)
A Strange Story by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)