Classic Literature
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Selected Sources of Information at the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library.
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CLASSIC LITERATURE
The following is a list of books considered CLASSICS. What makes a book a CLASSIC? Authorities say that it is enriched by timeless symbols, its theme is a profound, mature and significant appraisal of human life; and, of course, the familiar cliché that the CLASSIC “has stood the test of time.” If you need help using the list, ask at the Reference Desk and a Reference librarian will be glad to help you.
ANCIENT TO 1600
Call Number Author Title
J 290 Hamilton, E Mythology (1998)
A Fic Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress (1939)
A 220.5 ----- The Bible
A 320.8 Machiavelli, N The Prince (1999)
A 821.1 Chaucer, G Canterbury Tales (1992)
A 851.1 Dante Divine Comedy (1946)
A 880.9 Hamilton, E The Greek Way (1963)
A 882 Sophocles Oedipus, The King (1956)
A 882.01 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (1989)
A 882.082 ----- Ten Greek Plays: In Contemporary
Translations (1957)
A 883 Homer The Iliad (1959)
A 883.01 Homer The Odyssey (1909)
A 888 Plato The Republic (1979)
1600 to 1900
J Fic Cooper, J Last of the Mohicans (1962)
J Fic Defoe, D Robinson Crusoe (1986)
J Fic Dickens, C David Copperfield (1962)
J Fic Kipling, R Captains Courageous (1969)
J Fic Orczy, E Scarlet Pimpernell (1985)
J Fic Scott, Walter Ivanhoe (1959)
J Fic Stevenson, R Treasure Island (1943)
J Fic Wyss Swiss Family Robinson (1949)
J Series Twain, M Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1948)
J Series Twain, M Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2003)
YA Fic Bronte, E Wuthering Heights (1942)
YA Fic Crane, S Red Badge of Courage (1925)
A, YA Fic Austen, J Pride and Prejudice (1906)
A Fic Austen, J Sense and Sensibility (1957)
A Fic Bellamy, E Looking Backward (1966)
A Fic Bronte, C Jane Eyre (1946)
A Fic Butler, S Way of All Flesh (1913)
A, J Fic Carroll, L Alice in Wonderland (1955)
A Fic Cervantes, S Don Quixote (1950)
A, YA Fic Dickens, C Tale of Two Cities (1957)
A Fic Dostoevskii Brothers Karamazov (1953)
A Myst Doyle, A Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1930)
A Fic Dumas, A Three Musketeers (1950)
A Fic Galsworthy Forsythe Saga (1922)
A Fic Gogol, N Dead Souls (1957)
A Fic Hardy, T Return of the Native (1959)
A Fic Hawthorne, N Scarlet Letter (1955)
A Fic Henry, O Complete Works of O. Henry (1911)
A Fic Hugo, V Les Miserables (1887)
A Fic James, H Turn of the Screw (1936)
A Fic Melville, H Moby Dick (1933)
A Fic Norris, F The Octopus (1956)
A Fic Shelley, M Frankenstein (1957)
A Fic Stoker, B Dracula (1965)
A Fic Stowe, H Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1918)
A Fic Swift, J Gulliver’s Travels (1948)
A Fic Thackeray, W Vanity Fair (1913)
A Fic Tolstoi War and Peace (1949)
A Fic Turgenev Fathers and Sons (1942)
A Fic Verne, J 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1962)
A Fic Wilde, O Picture of Dorian Grey (1957)
A 818 Poe, E Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen
Poe (1968)
818.303 Thoreau, H Walden (1910)
843 Voltaire Candide (1951)
20TH Century
J Fic Rawlings, M Yearling (1939)
J Fic Saint Expupery Little Prince (1971)
J Fic Wells, H War of the Worlds (1964)
YA Fic London, J Call of the Wild (1960)
A Fic Agee, J Death in the Family (1957)
A Fic Baldwin, J Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
A Fic Bellow, S Adventures of Augie March (1953)
A Fic Borland, H When the Legends Die (1963)
A Fic Buck, P Good Earth (1949)
A Fic Camus, A The Plague (1948)
A Fic Cather, W My Antonia (1954)
A Fic Collins, W Moonstone (1944)
A Fic Conrad, J Lord Jim (1948)
A Fic Dickey, J Deliverance (1970)
A Fic Dreiser, T American Tragedy (1925)
A Fic DuMaurier, D Rebecca (1971)
A Fic Eliot, G Silas Marner (1925)
A Fic Ellison, R Invisible Man (1947)
A Fic Faulkner, W Sound and the Fury (1946)
A Fic Fitzgerald, F The Great Gatsby (1953)
A Fic Forster, E Passage to India (1924)
A Fic Frank, P Alas, Babylon (1959)
A Fic Fuller, I Loon Feather (1940)
A Fic Golding, W Lord of the Flies (1954)
A Fic Grass, Gunter Tin Drum (1964)
A Fic Guareschi, G Little World of Don Camillo (1950)
A Fic Heller, J Catch 22 (1955)
A Fic Hemingway, E Farewell to Arms (1957)
A Fic Hemingway, E For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
A SF Herbert, F Dune (1965)
A Fic Hersey, J Bell for Adano (1944)
A Fic Hesse, H Steppenwolf (1957)
A Fic Hudson, H Green Mansions (1949)
A Fic Huxley, A Brave New World (1950)
A Fic Kafka, F The Trial (1995)
A Fic Kazantzakis, N Zorba the Greek (1952)
A Fic Kessey, K One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
A Fic Keyes, D Flowers for Algernon (1967)
A Fic Knowles, J Separate Peace (1968)
A Fic Kosinski, J Painted Bird (1965)
A Fic Lawrence, D Sons and Lovers (1913)
A Fic Lee, H To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
A Fic Lewis, S Arrowsmith (1945)
A Fic Lewis, S Elmer Gantry (1927)
A Fic Llewellyn, R How Green Was My Valley (1940)
A Fic Malamud, B The Fixer (1966)
A Fic Mann, T Magic Mountain (1962)
A Fic Markandaya, K Nectar in the Sieve (1955)
A Fic McCullers, C Member of the Wedding (1946)
A Fic Mitchell, M Gone with the Wind (1936)
A Fic Monserat, N Cruel Sea (1951)
A Fic Nordhoff, C Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)
A Fic O’Hara, H Appointment in Samarra (1968)
A Fic Paton, A Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
A Fic Remarque, E All Quiet on the Western Front (1958)
A Fic Richter, C Sea of Grass (1937)
A Fic Roberts, K Northwest Passage (1937)
A Fic Rolvaag, O Giants in the Earth (1929)
A Fic Salinger, J Catcher in the Rye (1951)
A Fic Saroyan, W Human Comedy (1943)
A Fic Shellabarger, S Prince of Foxes (1947)
A Fic Shute, N On the Beach (1966)
A Fic Sinclair, U Jungle (1906)
A Fic Singer, I Collected Stories (1982)
A Fic Solzhenitzen, A One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(1963)
A Fic Steinbeck, J East of Eden (1952)
A Fic Steinbeck, J Grapes of Wrath (1939)
A Fic Stone, I Love is Eternal (1954)
A Fic Vonnegut, K Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
A Fic Wharton, E Ethan Frome (1939)
A Fic White T The Once and Future King (1958)
A Fic Wolfe, T Look Homeward Angel (1929)
A Fic Wouk, H Caine Mutiny (1952)
A Fic Wright, R Native Son (1940)
For further lists, please check the following sources:
R 028.5 Carlsen, G Books and the Teenage Reader (1980)
R 028.535 Douglas, E Reading Lists for College-Bound Students
(1990)
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