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March 31st, 2009. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.More of the world’s greatest books. I managed to come up with another ten this week. Are you doing any better than I am?
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Wikipedia Strange Interlude (1928) PGA
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Wikipedia Summa Theologica (1265) PG
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wikipedia Summer (1917) Freeread
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Wikipedia Tamburlaine the Great (1587) PG
Lao-tzu (Laozi) (c600bc-) Wikipedia Tao Te Ching (-300) PG
Mollère (1622-1673) Wikipedia Tartuffe (1669) PG
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Wikipedia Tarzan of the Apes (1914) Freeread
John Reed (1887-1920) Wikipedia Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) Freeread
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Wikipedia Tender is the Night (1934) PGA
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Wikipedia Tess of the D’Ubervilles (1891) Freeread
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) Wikipedia The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) Wikipedia The Absentee (1812) PG
William Godwin (1756-1836) Wikipedia The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) PG
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Wikipedia The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) PG
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Wikipedia The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Freeread
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Wikipedia The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) PG
Virgil (70bc-19bc) Wikipedia The Aeneid (-19) PG
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wikipedia The Age of Innocence (1920) Freeread
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) Wikipedia The Albigenses (1824)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Wikipedia The Alchemist (1610) PG
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Ambassadors (1903) Freeread
Unknown (-) Wikipedia The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (1400) PG
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Wikipedia The Artamonov Business (1925)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Wikipedia The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933) PGA
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) Wikipedia The Awakening (1899) Freeread
Euripides (480bc-406bc) Wikipedia The Bacchae (-405) PG
John Gay (1685-1732) Wikipedia The Beggar’s Opera (1728) PG
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) Wikipedia The Betrothed (1827)
Various Authors (-) Wikipedia The Bible (-2000) PG
Aristophanes (c446bc-c385bc) Wikipedia The Birds (-414) PG
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Wikipedia The Blithedale Romance (1852) PG
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Wikipedia The Blue Hotel (1898) PGA
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Bostonians (1886) PG
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Wikipedia The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1898) PGA
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Wikipedia The Brothers Karamazov (1879) PGA
Jack London (1876-1916) Wikipedia The Call of the Wild (1903) Freeread
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) Wikipedia The Canterbury Tales (1380) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Cask of Amontillado (1846) PG
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Wikipedia The Castle (1926)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) Wikipedia The Castle of Otranto (1765) PG
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Wikipedia The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
Stendahl (1783-1842) Wikipedia The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) PGA
James Stephens (1880-1950) Wikipedia The Charwoman’s Daughter (1912) PGA
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Wikipedia The Cherry Orchard (1904) Freeread
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) Wikipedia The Cid (El Cid) (1636) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia The Comedy of Errors (1592) PG
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-c524) Wikipedia The Consolation of Philosophy (523) PG
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) Wikipedia The Count of Monte-Cristo (1845) PG
André Gide (1869-1951) Wikipedia The Counterfeiters (1925)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) Wikipedia The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) Freeread
William Wycherley (c1640-1716) Wikipedia The Country Wife (1673)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Wikipedia The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Wikipedia The Decameron (1353) PG
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Wikipedia The Deerslayer (1841) PG
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Wikipedia The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) PG
Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) Wikipedia The Devil in the Flesh (1923)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Wikipedia The Devils (1872) PG
Plato (c427bc-c347bc) Wikipedia The Dialogues of Plato (-387)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Wikipedia The Diary of a Madman (1835)
Anne Frank (1929-1945) Wikipedia The Diary of Anne Frank (1952)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Wikipedia The Divine Comedy (1320) PG
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Wikipedia The Dunciad (1728) PG
Henry Adams (1838-1918) Wikipedia The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Freeread
Nicolai Leskov (1831-1895) Wikipedia The Enchanted Wanderer (1873)
Unknown (-) Wikipedia The Epic of Gilgamesh (-2000) PG
John Keats (1795-1821) Wikipedia The Eve of St Agnes (1820) PGA
Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599) Wikipedia The Faerie Queene (1590) PG
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Wikipedia The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) PG
Charlotte Lennox (1727-1804) Wikipedia The Female Quixote (or, The Adventures of Arabella)(1752)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Wikipedia The Flowers of Evil (1847)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) Wikipedia The Forsyte Saga (1906) Freeread
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia The Fox (1922) PGA
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) Wikipedia The Garden Party (1922) Freeread
O Henry (1862-1910) Wikipedia The Gift of the Magi (1906) Freeread
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wikipedia The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) Freeread
Lucius Apuleius (c123-170) Wikipedia The Golden Ass (1469) PG
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Golden Bowl (1904) Freeread
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) Wikipedia The Good Soldier (1915) Freeread
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Wikipedia The Great Gatsby (1925) PGA
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Wikipedia The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) PG
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Wikipedia The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Freeread
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) Wikipedia The House by the Medlar Tree (1881)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wikipedia The House of Mirth (1905) Freeread
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Wikipedia The House of Seven Gables (1851) PG
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) Wikipedia The House on the Borderland (1908) Freeread
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Wikipedia The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) PG
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Wikipedia The Iceman Cometh (1946) PGA
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Wikipedia The Idiot (1868) PG
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Wikipedia The Idylls of the King (1859) PG
Homer (c700bc-) Wikipedia The Iliad (-500) PG
André Gide (1869-1951) Wikipedia The Immoralist (1902)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Wikipedia The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Freeread
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) Wikipedia The Inferno (1908) Freeread
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) Wikipedia The Interesting Narrative (1794) PG
H G Wells (1866-1946) Wikipedia The Invisible Man (1897) Freeread
Jack London (1876-1916) Wikipedia The Iron Heel (1908) Freeread
H G Wells (1866-1946) Wikipedia The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) Freeread
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Wikipedia The Jungle Books (2 titles) (1894) Freeread
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Wikipedia The Kiss (1887) PGA
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Wikipedia The Kreutzer Sonata (1890) PG