English Literature Classics

BEOWULF

AN ANGLO-SAXON EPIC POEM

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE 

From 'Beowulf'

Deor's Lament

From 'The Wanderer'

The Seafarer

The Fortunes of Men

From 'Judith'

The Fight at Maldon

Cædmon's Inspiration

From the 'Chronicle'

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

The Canterbury Tales



Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Le Morte D’Arthur

King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table

by Thomas Malory

IN TWO VOLS.—VOL. I

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare 

by William Shakespeare

John Donne	1573-1631	4771
The Undertaking
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Song
Love's Growth
Song

SPENSER'S
THE FAERIE QUEENE

BOOK I

THE KING JAMES BIBLE

PARADISE LOST

A

POEM

Written in

TEN BOOKS

by John Milton

Diary of Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

The Way of the World 


by William Congreve


The Complete Works of William Shakespeare 


by William Shakespeare

THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

From This World To That Which Is To Come

by

John Bunyan

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded 

by Samuel Richardson

The History of Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

DANIEL DEFOE — 1661-1731

BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON

From 'Robinson Crusoe': Crusoe's Shipwreck; Crusoe Makes a New Home; 
A Footprint

From 'History of the Plague in London': 
Superstitious Fears of the People
How Quacks and Impositors Preyed on the Fears of the People
The People Are Quarantined in Their Houses
Moral Effects of the Plague
Terrible Scenes in the Streets
The Plague Due to Natural Causes
Spread of the Plague through Necessities of the Poor

From 'Colonel Jack': 
Colonel Jack and Captain Jack Escape Arrest
Colonel Jack Finds Captain Jack Hard to Manage
Colonel Jack's First Wife Is Not Disposed to be Economical

The Devil Does Not Concern Himself with Petty Matters ('The Modern
History of the Devil')
Defoe Addresses His Public ('An Appeal to Honor and Justice')
Engaging a Maid-Servant ('Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business')
The Devil ('The True-Born Englishman')
There Is a God ('The Storm')

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 

by Laurence Sterne

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER"

by Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith	1728-1774	6501
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious ('The Vicar of Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from 'The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types ('The Traveller')

Lyrical Ballads 1798



William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge









1800-1925

Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen

EMMA

By Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility






by Jane Austen







Persuasion


by


Jane Austen

MANSFIELD PARK

(1814)

By Jane Austen

NORTHANGER ABBEY

By Jane Austen (1803)

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

THE TENANT of WILDFELL HALL

BY ANNE BRONTË


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE

BY
ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE


[Pg ix]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834
3843
BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
Kubla Khan

The Albatross ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner')

Time, Real and Imaginary

Dejection: An Ode

The Three Treasures

To a Gentleman

Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

The Pains of Sleep

Song, by Glycine

Youth and Age

Phantom or Fact






By Lord Byron


Lord Byron
1788-1824
2935

Maid of Athens
Translation of a Romaic Song
Greece ('The Giaour')
The Hellespont and Troy ('The Bride of Abydos')
Greece and her Heroes ('The Siege of Corinth')
The Isles of Greece ('Don Juan')
Greece and the Greeks before the Revolution ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
To Rome (same)
The Coliseum (same)
Chorus of Spirits ('The Deformed Transformed')
Venice ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
Ode to Venice
The East ('The Bride of Abydos')
Oriental Royalty ('Don Juan')
A Grecian Sunset ('The Curse of Minerva')
An Italian Sunset ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
Twilight ('Don Juan')
An Alpine Storm ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
The Ocean (same)
The Shipwreck ('Don Juan')
Love on the Island ('Don Juan')
The Two Butterflies ('The Giaour')
To His Sister ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
Ode to Napoleon
The Battle of Waterloo ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
Mazeppa's Ride ('Mazeppa')
The Irish Avatàr
The Dream
She Walks in Beauty ('Hebrew Melodies')
Destruction of Sennacherib ('Hebrew Melodies')
From 'The Prisoner of Chillon'
Prometheus
A Summing-Up ('Childe Harold's Pilgrimage')
On This Day I Complete my Thirty-sixth Year

HEART OF DARKNESS

By Joseph Conrad

LORD JIM

By Joseph Conrad

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

OLIVER TWIST



BY



CHARLES DICKENS






DAVID COPPERFIELD




By Charles Dickens






THE PICKWICK PAPERS






By Charles Dickens





Bleak House



by Charles Dickens








THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY


by Charles Dickens




LITTLE DORRIT


By Charles Dickens










Middlemarch


by George Eliot




Silas Marner

by George Eliot



The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot




George Eliot
1819-1880
5359
BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN

The Final Rescue ('The Mill on the Floss')

Village Worthies ('Silas Marner')

The Hall Farm ('Adam Bede')

Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out" (same)

The Prisoners ('Romola')

"Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible"




A ROOM WITH A VIEW

By E. M. Forster




A PASSAGE TO INDIA


BY


E. M. FORSTER


HOWARDS END




By E. M. Forster





Tess of the d’Urbervilles

 by


Thomas Hardy




The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy








Far from the Madding Crowd, 


by Thomas Hardy







The Moon and Sixpence



by




W. Somerset Maugham


















Arms and the Man










by George Bernard Shaw

















MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION



by George Bernard Shaw



























The Way We Live Now












by Anthony Trollope





The Importance of Being Earnest






by Oscar Wilde





A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE





A PLAY





BY
OSCAR WILDE












LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN

BY

OSCAR WILDE