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MODERN LIBRARY COLLEGE EDITIONS(The Best of the World's Best Books)
AQUINAS, ST. THOMAS: Introduction
ARISTOTLE : Introduction
AUGUSTINE, SAINT: The Confessions AUSTEN, JANE: Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, JANE: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
BALZAC, HONORE DE : Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
BELLAMY, EDWARD: Looking Backward
BLAKE, WILLIAM: Selected Poetryand Prose
BOSWELL, JAMES: The Life of Samuel Johnson
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE: Jane Eyre
BRONTE, EMILY: Wuthering Heights
BROWNING, ROBERT: Selected Poetry
BUTLER, SAMUEL: The Way of All Flesh
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD: Selected Poetry
CAESAR, JULIUS: The Gallic War and Other Writings
CAMUS, ALBERT: The Plague
CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE : Don Quixote
CHEKHOV, ANTON: Best Plays
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS : Basic Works
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR: Selected Poetry and Prose
CONRAD, JOSEPH: Nostromo
CRANE, STEPHEN: The Red Badge of Courage
DANTE ALIGHIERI: The Divine Comedy
DEFOE, DANIEL: Molly Flanders
DICKENS, CHARLES: A Tale of Two Cities
DICKENS, CHARLES :David Copperfield
DONNE, JOHN: Poetry and Prose
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: Crime and Punishment
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: The Brothers Karamazov
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: Best Short Stories
EIGHT FAMOUS ELIZABETHAN PLAYS
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PLAYS
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO: Selected Writings
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Light in August
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Absalom, Absaloml
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Intruder in the Dust
FAULKNER,WILLIAM: The Sound and the Fury
THE FEDERALIST
FIELDING, HENRY: Tom Jones
FIELDING, HENRY: Jose-ph Andrews
FLAUBERT,GUSTAVE: Madame Bovary
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN: Autobiography and Selected Writings
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON: Faust
GOGOL, NICHOLAI: Dead Souls
HARDY, THOMAS: The Mayor of Casterbridge
HARDY, THOMAS: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
HARDY, THOMAS: Jude the Obscure
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL: The Scarlet Letter
HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH: Philosophy
HERODOTUS: The Persian Wars
HOMER: The Iliad
HOMER: The Odyssey
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN: The Rise of Silas Lapham
IBSEN, HENRIK: Six Plays
IBSEN, HENRIK: The Wild Duck and Other Plays
JAMES, HENRY: The Portrait of a Lady
JAMES, HENRY: The Bostonians
KEATS, JOHN: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO: The Prince and The Discourses
MALRAUX, ANDRE: Man's Fate
MANN, THOMAS: The Magic Mountain
MEDIEVAL ROMANCES
MELVILLE, HERMAN: Moby Dick
MEREDITH, GEORGE : The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
MILTON, JOHN: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
MOLIERE : Eight Plays
MONTAIGNE: Selected Essays
O'NEILL, EUGENE: Later Plays
PASCAL'S PENSEES
PLATO: Works
POE, EDGAR ALLAN: Selected Poetry and Prose
POPE, ALEXANDER: Selected Works
PROUST, MARCEL: Swann's Way
RESTORATION PLAYS
SEVEN FAMOUS GREEK PLAYS
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAMA
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE: Selected Poetry and Prose
Six MODERN AMERICAN PLAYS
STERNE, LAURENCE: Tristram Shandy
SWIFT, JONATHAN: Gulliver's Travels
SWIFT, JONATHAN: Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
TACITUS : Complete Works
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD: Selected Poetry
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: Vanity Fair
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: Henry Esmond
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID: Walden and Other Writings
THUCYDIDES : Complete Writings
TOLSTOY, LEO: Anna Karenina
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: Barchester Towers and The Warden
TURGENEV, IVAN S.: Fathers and Sons
VIRGIL: The Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics 64 VOLTAIRE : Candide and Other Writings
WHITMAN, WALT: Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM: Selected Poetry
ADAMS, HENRY: The Education of Henry Adams
AESCHYLUS: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. I
AESCHYLUS: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. II
ALEICHEM, SHOLOM: Selected Stories
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD: Winesburg, Ohio
AQUINAS, ST. THOMAS: Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas
ARISTOTLE: Introduction to Aristotle
ARISTOTLE: Politics
ARISTOTLE: Rhetoric and Poetics
AUDEN, W. H.: Selected Poetry
AUGUSTINE, ST.: Confessions
AUSTEN, JANE: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
BACON, FRANCIS: Selected Writings
BALZAC: Cousin Bette
BALZAC: Droll Stories
BALZAC: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
BEERBOHM, MAX: Zuleika Dobson
BELLAMY, EDWARD: Looking Backward
BENNETT, ARNOLD: The Old Wives' Tale
BERGSON, HENRI: Creative Evolution
BLAKE, WILLIAM: Selected Poetry and Prose
BOCCACCIO: The Decameron
BOSWELL, JAMES: The Life of Samuel Johnson
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE: Jane Eyre
BRONTE, EMILY: Wuthering Heights
BROWNING, ROBERT: Selected Poetry
BUCK, PEARL: The Good Earth [Italy
BURCKHARDT, JACOB: The Civilization of the Renaissance in
BURK, JOHN N.: The Life and Works of Beethoven
BURKE, EDMUND: Selected Writings
BUTLER, SAMUEL: Erevuhon and Erewhon Revisited
BUTLER, SAMUEL: The Way of All Flesh
BYRON, LORD: Selected Poetry
BYRON, LORD: Don Juan
CALDWELL, ERSKINE: Tobacco Road
CAMUS, ALBERT: The Fall & Exile and the Kingdom
CAMUS, ALBERT: The Plague
CAMUS, ALBERT: Notebooks 1935-1942
CAMUS, ALBERT: Resistance, Rebellion and Death
CAPOTE, TRUMAN: Selected Writings
CARROLL, LEWIS: Alice in Wonderland, etc.
CASANOVA, JACQUES: Memoirs of Casanova
CELLINI, BENVENUTO: Autobiography of Cellini
CERVANTES: Don Quixote
CHAUCER: The Canterbury Tales
CHEKHOV, ANTON: Best Plays
CHEKHOV, ANTON: Short Stories
CICERO: Basic Works
COLERIDGE: Selected Poetry and Prose
COLETTE: Six Novels
COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE & NEVINS, ALLAN: A Short History of the United States
CONFUCIUS: The Wisdom of Confucius
CONRAD, JOSEPH: Lord Jim
CONRAD, JOSEPH: Nostromo
CONRAD, JOSEPH: Victory
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE: The Pathfinder
CORNEILLE & RACINE: Six Plays by Corneille and Racine
CRANE, STEPHEN: The Red Badge of Courage
CUMMINGS, E. E.: The Enormous Room
DANA, RICHARD HENRY: TWO Years Before the Mast
DANTE: The Divine Comedy
DEFOE, DANIEL: Moll Flanders
DEFOE, DANIEL: Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
DESCARTES, RENE: Philosophical Writings DEWEY, JOHN: Human Nature and Conduct DEWEY, JOHN: John Dewey on Education
DICKENS, CHARLES: David Copperfield
DICKENS, CHARLES: Pickwick Papers
DICKENS, CHARLES: Our Mutual Friend
DICKENS, CHARLES: A Tale of Two Cities
DICKINSON, EMILY: Selected Poems
DINESEN, ISAK: Out of Africa
DINESEN, ISAK: Seven Gothic Tales
DONNE, JOHN: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
Dos PASSOS, JOHN: Three Soldiers
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: Best Short Stories
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: The Brothers Karamazov
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: Crime and Punishment
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: The Possessed
DOUGLAS, NORMAN: South Wind
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN: The Adventure and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
DREISER, THEODORE: Sister Carrie
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE: Camille
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE: The Three Musketeers
Du MAURIER, DAPHNE: Rebecca
ELLISON, RALPH: Invisible Man
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO: The Journals
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO: Essays and Other Writings
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS: The Praise of Folly
EURIPIDES: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. V
EURIPIDES: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. VI
EURIPIDES: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. VII
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Absalom, Absalom!
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: GO Down, Moses
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Intruder in the Dust
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Light in August
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Sanctuary [Dying
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay
FAULKNER, WILLIAM: Selected Short Stories
FIELDING, HENRY : Joseph Andrews
FIELDING, HENRY: Tom Jones
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE: Madame Bovary
FORESTER, C. S.: The African Queen
FRANCE, ANATOLE: Penguin Island
FRANK, ANNE: Diary of a Young Girl
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN: Autobiography, etc.
FREUD, SIGMUND: The Interpretation of Dreams
GEORGE, HENRY: Progress and Poverty
GIDE, ANDRE: Tfee Counterfeiters 177 GOETHE: Faust
GOGOL, NICHOLAI: Dead Souls GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: The Vicar of Wakefield and Other
GRAVES, ROBERT: I, Claudius
GUNTHER, JOHN: Death Be Not Proud
HACKETT, FRANCIS: The Personal History of Henry the Eighth
HAGGARD. H. RIDER: She and King Solomon's Mines
HAMILTON, EDITH: The Greek Way
HARDY, THOMAS: Jude the Obscure
HARDY, THOMAS : The Mayor of Casterbridge
HARDY, THOMAS: The Return of the Native
HARDY, THOMAS: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
HART & KAUFMAN: Six Plays
HART, MOSS: Act One
HARTE, BRET: Best Stories
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL: The Scarlet LetterHEGEL: The Philosophy of Hegel
HELLMAN, LILLIAN: Six Plays
HENRY, O.: Best Short Stories
HERODOTUS: The Persian Wars
HERSEY, JOHN: Hiroshima
HESSE, HERMAN: Steppenwolf
HOMER: The Iliad
HOMER: The Odyssey
HORACE: Complete Works
HOWARD, JOHN TASKER: World's Great Operas
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN: The Rise of Silas Lapham
HUDSON, W. H.: Green Mansions
HUGO, VICTOR: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
HUME, DAVID: Philosophy
HUXLEY, ALDOUS: Antic Hay
HUXLEY, ALDOUS: Brave New World
HUXLEY, ALDOUS: Point Counter Point
IBSEN, HENRIK: Six Plays
IBSEN, HENRIK: The Wild Duck and Other Plays
IRVING, WASHINGTON: Selected Writings
JAMES, HENRY: The Bostonians
JAMES, HENRY: The Portrait of a Lady
JAMES, HENRY: The Turn of the Screw
JAMES, HENRY: Washington Square
JAMES, HENRY: The Wings of the Dove
JAMES, WILLIAM: The Philosophy of William ]ames
JAMES, WILLIAM: The Varieties of Religious Experience
JEFFERSON, THOMAS: The Life and Selected Writings
JOHNSON, SAMUEL: Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection
JOYCE, JAMES: Dubliners
JUNG, C. G.: Basic Writings
KAFKA, FRANZ : The Trial
KAFKA, FRANZ : Selected Stories
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason
KANT: The Philosophy of Kant
KAUFMAN & HART: Six Plays
KEATS: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
KIERKEGAARD, S0REN: A Kierkegaard Anthology
KIPLING, RUDYARD: Kim
KOESTLER, ARTHUR: Darkness at Noon
LAOTSE: The Wisdom of Laotse
LAWRENCE, D. H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover
LAWRENCE, D. H.: The Rainbow
LAWRENCE, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
LAWRENCE, D. H.: Women in Love
LEWIS, SINCLAIR: Dodsworth
LEWIS, SINCLAIR: Cass Timherlane
LIVY: A History of Rome
LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.: Poems
LOUYS, PIERRE: Aphrodite
LUDWIG, EMIL: Napoleon MACHIAVELLI: The Prince and The Discourses MAILER, NORMAN: The Naked and the Dead MALAMUD,BERNARD: TWO Novels MALRAUX, ANDRE: Man's Fate MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT: On Population MARQUAND, JOHN P.: The Late George Apley MARX, KARL: Capital and Other Writings MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET: Best Short Stories MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET:Cakes and Ale MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET: The Moon and Sixpence MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET: Of Human Bondage MAUPASSANT,GUY DE: Best Short Stories MAUROIS, ANDRE: Disraeli MELVILLE, HERMAN: Moby Dick MEREDITH, GEORGE: Tide Egoist
MEREDITH, GEORGE: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
MEREJKOWSKI, DMITRI: The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
MICHENER, JAMES A.: Selected Writings
MILL, JOHN STUART: Selections
MILTON, JOHN: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
MOLIERE: Eight Plays
MONTAIGNE: Selected Essays
NASH, OGDEN: VersesFrom 1929 On Story of the United States
NEVINS, ALLAN & COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE: A Short His-
NEWMAN, CARDINAL JOHN H.: Apologia Pro Vita Sua
NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH: Thus Spake Zarathustra
NOSTRADAMUS: Oracles
ODETS, CLIFFORD: Six Plays
O'HARA, JOHN: Appointment in Samarra
O'HARA, JOHN: Selected Short Stories
O'HARA, JOHN: Butterfield 8
O'NEILL, EUGENE: Ah, Wilderness! and Two Other Plays
O'NEILL, EUGENE: The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape [the Sea
O'NEILL, EUGENE: The Long Voyage Home: Seven Plays of
PALGRAVE, FRANCIS (Editor): The Golden Treasury
PARKER, DOROTHY: Collected Short Stories
PARKER, DOROTHY: Collected Poetry
PARKMAN, FRANCIS: The Oregon Trail
PASCAL, BLAISE: Pensees and The Provincial Letters
PATER, WALTER: The Renaissance
PEPYS, SAMUEL: Passages from the Diary
PERELMAN, S. J.: The Best of S. J. Perelman
PLATO: The Republic
PLATO: The Works of Plato
POE, EDGAR ALLAN: Selected Poetry and Prose 196 POLO, MARCO: The Travels of Marco Polo POPE, ALEXANDER:Selected Works
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE: Flowering Judas
POUTER, KATHERINE ANNE: Pale Horse, Pale Rider
PROUST, MARCEL: The Captive
PROUST, MARCEL: Cities of the Plain
PROUST, MARCEL: The Guermantes Way
PROUST, MARCEL: The Past Recaptured
PROUST, MARCEL: Swann's Way
PROUST, MARCEL: The Sweet Cheat Gone
PROUST, MARCEL: Within a Budding Grove
RACINE & CORNEILLE: Six Plays by Corneille and Racine
READE, CHARLES: The Cloister and the Hearth
REED, JOHN: Ten Days That Shook the World
RENAN, ERNEST: The Life of Jesus
RENAULT, MARY: The Last of the Wine
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL: Clarissa
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: Six Plays
ROSTAND, EDMOND: Cyrano de Bergerac ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES: The Confessions
RUNYON, DAMON: Famous Stories
RUSSELL, BERTRAND: Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell
SAKI: Short Stories
SALINGER, J. D.: Nine Stories
SALINGER, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
SANTAYANA, GEORGE: The Sense of Beauty
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL: The Age of Reason
SCHOPENHAUER: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
SCHULBERG, BUDD: What Makes Sammy Run?
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: Tragediescomplete, 2 vols.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: Comediescomplete, 2 vols.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: Histories -1 , ,
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: Histories, Poems I complete> 2 vols. 19 SHAW, BERNARD: Four Plays and the Lion
SHAW, BERNARD: Saint Joan, Major Barbara, and Androcles
SHAW, IRWIN: The Young Lions
SHAW, IRWIN: Selected Short Stories
SHELLEY: Selected Poetry and Prose
SMOLLETT, TOBIAS: Humphrey Clinker
SOPHOCLES I: Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. Ill
SOPHOCLES II: Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol. IV 60 SPINOZA: The Philosophy of Spinoza
STEIN, GERTRUDE: Selected Writings
STEINBECK, JOHN: In Dubious Battle
STEINBECK, JOHN: Of Mice and Men
STEINBECK, JOHN: Tortilla Flat
STENDHAL: Tfoe Red and the Black
STERNE, LAURENCE: Tristram Shandy
STEWART, GEORGE R.: Storm
STOKER, BRAM: Dracula
STONE, IRVING: Lust for Life
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER: Uncle Tom's Cabin
STRACHEY, LYTTON: Eminent Victorians
STYRON, WILLIAM: Lie Down in Darkness
SUETONIUS: Lives of the Twelve Caesars
SWIFT, JONATHAN: Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
SYMONDS, JOHN A.: The Life of Michelangelo
TACITUS: Complete Works
TENNYSON: Selected Poetry
THACKERAY, WILLIAM: Henry Esmond
THACKERAY, WILLIAM: Vanity Fair
THOMPSON, FRANCIS: Complete Poems
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID: Walden and Other Writings
THUCYDIDES: Complete Writings
THURBER, JAMES: The Thurber Carnival
TOLSTOY, LEO: Anna Karenina
TOLSTOY, LEO : Selected Essays
TOLSTOY, LEO: Short Novels
TOLSTOY, LEO: Short Stories
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: Barchester Towers and The Warden
TURGENEV, IVAN: Fathers and Sons
TWAIN, MARK: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
UPDIKE, JOHN: Tfee Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run
VASARI, GIORGIO: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
VEBLEN, THORSTEIN: The Theory of the Leisure Class
VINCI, LEONARDO DA: The Notebooks
VIRGIL: The Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics
VOLTAIRE: Candide and Other Writings
WALPOLE, HUGH: Fortitude
WARREN, ROBERT PENN: All The King's Men
WEBB, MARY: Precious Bane
WEIDMAN, JEROME: I Can Get It for You Wholesale
WELLS, H. G.: TOWO Bungay
WELTY, EUDORA: Selected Stories
WHARTON, EDITH: Tfie Age of Innocence
WHITMAN, WALT: Leaves of Grass
WILDE, OSCAR: Dorian Gray and De Profundis
WILDE, OSCAR: Tfee Plays of Oscar Wilde
WILDE, OSCAR: Poems and Fairy Tales
WODEHOUSE, P. J.: Selected Stories WORDSWORTH: Selected Poetry
YEATS, W. B. (Editor): Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
YOUNG, G. F.: The Medici
ZIMMERN, ALFRED: The Greek CommonwealthZOLA, SMILE: Nana I