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Masterpieces of World Literature

This list of classic books that has inspired readers for centuries is taken from the book Masterpieces of World Literature by Frank N. Magill.
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
1
William Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Tom Sawyer, Detective
3
Mark Twain
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
4
Virgil
Aeropagitica (John Milton)
Aeropagitica
5
John Milton
The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
The Age of Reason
6
Thomas Paine
The Alchemist (Ben Jonson)
The Alchemist
7
Ben Jonson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
8
Lewis Carroll
All's Well That Ends Well (William Shakespeare)
All's Well That Ends Well
9
William Shakespeare
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
10
Henry James
An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen)
An Enemy of the People
11
Henrik Ibsen
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
12
David Hume
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
13
John Locke
An Essay on Man (Alexander Pope)
An Essay on Man
14
Alexander Pope
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
15
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
16
Leo Tolstoy
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
17
Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
Antony and Cleopatra
18
William Shakespeare
Arabian Night's Entertainments (Robert L MacK)
Arabian Night's Entertainments
19
Robert L MacK
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Ars Poetica
20
Horace
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
21
William Faulkner
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
22
William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
23
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
24
Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
Babbitt
25
Sinclair Lewis
The Bacchae (Euripides)
The Bacchae
26
Euripides
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
27
Anthony Trollope
Benito Cereno (Herman Melville)
Benito Cereno
28
Herman Melville
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
29
Tr. Seamus Heaney
Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Beyond Good and Evil
30
Friedrich Nietzsche
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Billy Budd, Foretopman
31
Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Biographia Literaria
32
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Birds
The Birds
33
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
34
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
35
Thomas Mann
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
36
Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
37
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
The Cantos
38
Ezra Pound
The Captain's Daughter (Alexander Pushkin)
The Captain's Daughter
39
Alexander Pushkin
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
40
Franz Kafka
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