Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form [First Series]

Table of contents :
Title
Preface
Introduction
Contents
Abbe Constantin, The - Ludovic Halevy
Abe Lincoln in Illinois - Robert E. Sherwood
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Admirable Crichton, The - James M. Barrie
Aeneid, The - Publius Vergilius Maro
Age of Innocence, The - Edith Wharton
Alcestis - Euripides
Aleck Maury, Sportsman - Caroline Gordon
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Amelia - Henry Fielding
American, The - Henry James
American Tragedy, An - Theodore Dreiser
And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
Anna Karenina - Count Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Adverse - Hervey Allen
Antigone - Sophocles
Apostle, The - Sholem Asch
Apple of the Eye, The - Glenway Wescott
Arne - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Aucassin and Nicolette - Unknown
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Bambi - Felix Salteif
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Barren Ground - Ellen Glasgow
Beggar's Opera, The - John Gay
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
Bell for Adano, A - John Hersey
Ben Hur; A Tale of the Christ - Lewis (Lew) Wallace
Beowulf - Unknown
Big Sky, The - A. B. Guthrie, Jr
Black Arrow, The - Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Bread and Wine - Ignazio Silone
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The - Thornton Wilder
Brothers Kararnazov, The - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
Cabala, The - Thornton Wilder
Cadmus - Folk tradition
Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja
Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham
Caleb Williams William Godwin
Call of the Wild, The Jack London
Camille - Alexandre Dumas (son)
Candide - Voltaire
Captain Horatio Hornblower - C. S. Forester
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Captain's Daughter, The Alexander Pushkin
Carmen - Prosper Merimee
Case of Sergeant Grischa, The - Arnold Zweig
Cass Timberlane - Sinclair Lewis
Castle, The - Franz Kafka
Castle of Otranto, The - Horace Walpole
Castle Rackrent Maria Edgewvrth
Casuals of the Sea William McFce
Cawdor - Robinson Jeffers
Cenci, The - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles O'Malley - Charles Lever
Charterhouse of Parrna, The Stendhal
Children of God Vardis Fisher
Christmas Carol, A Charles Dickens
Cid, The Pierre Corneille
Clarissa Harlowe Samuel Richardson
Claudius the God - Robert Graves
Clayhanger Trilogy, The - Arnold Bennett
Cloister and the Hearth, The Charles Eeade
Clouds, The - Aristophanes
Connecticut Yankee at King Ardiur's Court, A - Mark Twain
Consuelo George Sand
Count of Monte-Cristo, The - Alexandre Dumas (father)
Counterfeiters, The Andrd Gicte
Country of the Pointed Firs, The Sarah Orne Jewett
Courtship of Miles Standish, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cousin Bette - Honore de Balzac
Cream of the Jest, The - James Branch Cabell
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
Crisis, The Winston Churchill
Crock of Gold, The James Stephens
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley
Cruise of the Cachalot, The Frank T. Bullen
Cupid and Psyche Folk tradition 1
Daisy Miller Henry James 1
Daphnis and Chloe - Attributed to Longus
Dark Laughter Sherwood Anderson
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott
Dead Souls Nikolai V. Gogol
Dear Brutus James M. Barrie
Death Comes for the Archhishop Willa Gather
Death of the Gods, The Dmitri Merejkowski
Deerslayer, The - James Fenimore Cooper
Diana of the Crossways - George Meredith
Disciple, The - Paul Bourget
Divine Comedy, The - Dante Alighieri
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Doll's House, A Henrik Ibsen
Don Juan George Gordon r Lord Byron
Don. Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Downfall, The Emile Zola
Dragon Seed - Pearl S. Buck
Drums James Boyd
Drums Along the Mohawk - Walter D. Edmonds
Duchess of Malfi, The John Webster
Dynasts, The Thomas Hardy
Edmund Campion Evelyn Waugh
Education of Henry Adams, The Henry Adams
Egoist, The George Meredith
Electra Euripides
Emigrants, The Johan Bojer
Emma Jane Austen
Enoch Arden Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Enormous Room, The - E. E. Cummings
Ercwhon Samuel Butler
Esther Waters George Moore
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eve of St. Agnes, The John Keats
Faerie Queene, The Edmund Spenser
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Farewell to Arms, A Ernest Hemingway
Father Goriot Honvre de Balzac
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
File No. 113 - Emile Gaboriau
Financier, The Theodore Dreiser
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Forsyte Saga, The John Galsworthy
Fortitude Hugh Walpole
Fortress, The Hugh Walpole
Forty Days of Musa Dagli, The - Franz Werfel
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein Mary Godwin Shelley
Frogs, The Aristophanes
Gargantua and Pantagruel Frangois Rabelais
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen
Giants in the Earth - O. E. Rolvaag
Gil Blas of Santillane - Alain Rene Le Sage
Glass Key, The - Dashiell Hammett
Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, The - Lucius Apuleius
Good Companions, The - J. B. Priestley
Good Earth, The - Pearl S. Buck
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
Grandissimes, The - George W. Cable
Grandmothers, The - Glenway Wescott
Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Bay Tree, The Louis Eromfield
Green Mansions W. H. Hudson
Grettir the Strong Unknown
Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
Hakluyt's Voyages Richard Hakluyt
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare
Handful of Dust, A Evelyn Waugh
Handley Cross Robert Smith Sur tees
Heart of Midlothian, The Sir Walter Scott
Heaven's My Destination Thornton Wilder
Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen
Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry the Fifth William Shakespeare
Hercules and His Twelve Labors Folk tradition
Hereward the Wake Charles Kingsley
H. M. S. Pinafore W. S. Gilbert
Honey in the Horn H. L. Davis
Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Edward Eggleston
Horseshoe Robinson John P. Kennedy
House of Atreus, The Aeschylus
House of Mirth, The - Edith Wharton
House of the Seven Gables, The Nathaniel Hawthorne
How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker Silas Weir Mitchell
Human Comedy, The William Saroyan
Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Victor Hugo
Hunger Knut Hamsun
Hypatia Charles Kingsley
I, Claudius Robert Graves
I Speak for Thacldeus Stevens Elsie Singmaster
Iceland Fisherman, An - Pierre Loti
Ides of March, The Thornton Wilder
Idiot, The Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
Idylls of the King, The Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If Winter Comes A. S. M. Hutchmson
Iliad, The Homer
Independent People - Halldor Laxness
Invisible Man, The - H. G. Wells
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jason and the Golden Fleece - Folk tradition
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer
Jcan-Ghristophe Romain Holland
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso
Jew of Malta, The Christopher Marlowe
John Brown's Body Stephen Vincent Benet
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
Joseph Vance William De Morgan
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Judith Paris Hugh Walpole
Jungle, The Upton Sinclair
Jungle Books, The Ructyard Kipling
Jurgen James Branch Cdbell
Justice - John Galsworthy
Kate Fennigate Booth Tarkington
Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
King's Row Henry Bellamann
Kuights, The Aristophanes
Kreutzer Sonata, The Count Leo Tolstoy
Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset
Lady Into Fox David Garnett
Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde
Last Days of Pompeii, The Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Last of the Barons, The Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Last of the Mohicans, The James Fenimore Cooper
Last Puritan, The George Santayana
Late George Apley, The John P. Marquand
Lavengro George Henry Borrow
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain
Life With Father Clarence Day, Jr
Light in August William Faulkner
Liliom Ferenc Molnar
Little Minister, The James M. Barrie
Little Women - Louisa May ALcott
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Looking Backward Edward Bellamy
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore
Lost Horizon James Hilton
Lost Lady, A Willa Gather
Lost Weekend, The Charles Jackson
Loyalties John Galsworthy
Macbeth William Shakespeare
McTeague Frank Norm
Madame Bovary Gustarve Flaubert
Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier
Maggie; A Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane
Magic Mountain, The Thomas Mann
Magnificent Obsession, The Lloyd C. Douglas
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Maltese Falcon, The Dashiell Hammett w
Man Without a Country, The Edward Everett Hale
Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos
Manon Lescaut - Abbe Prevost
Man's Fate Andre Malrawc
Mansfield Parlc Jane Austen
Marble Faun, The Nathaniel Hawthorne
Marching On James Eoyd
Master of Ballantrae, The Robert Louis Stevenson
Mayor of Casterbridge, The Thomas Hardy
Medea Euripides
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Siegfried Bassoon
Memoirs of a Midget Walter dc la Marc
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Siegfried Bassoon
Merchant of Venice, The William Shakespeare
Messer Marco Polo Down Byrne
Micah Clarke Arthur Conan Doyle
Middlematch George Eliot
Mikado, The W. S. Gilbert
Mill on the Floss, The George Eliot
Misanthrope, The Moli&re
Mis&rables, Les Victor Hugo
Mr. Britling Sees It Through H. G. Wells
Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat
Mister Roberts Thomas lleggcn
Mrs, Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Modern Comedy, A- John Galsworthy
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Monsieur Beaucaire Booth Tarkington
Mont-Oriol - Guy de Maupassant
Moon and Sixpence, The - W. Somerset Maugham
Moonstone, The Wilkie Collins
Morte d'Arthur, Le Sir Thotnas Malory
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Antonia Willa Gather
Mysteries of Paris, The Eugene Sue
Mysteries of Udolpho, The - Mrs. Ann Radcliffe
Nana - Emile Zola
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The - Edgar Allan Poe
Native Son Richard Wright
Nazarene, The - Sholem Asch
New Grub Street, The - George Gissing
Newcomes, The - William Makepeace Thackeray
Nibelungenlied, The Unknown
Night in the Luxembourg, A Remy de Gourmont
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
No Name Wilkie Collins
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton
O Pioneers! Witta Cather
Odyssey, The - Homer
Oedipus Tyrannus - Sophocles
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe
Old and the Young, The - Luigi Pirandello
Old Maid, The Edith Wharton
Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott
Old Wives' Tale, The Arnold Bennett
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Omoo Herman Melville
Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The George Meredith
Oregon Trail, The Francis Parkman
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Orpheus and Eurydice - Folk tradition
Othello William Shakespeare
Our Town Thornton Wilder
Ox-Bow Incident, The Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Pamela Samuel Richardson
Paradise Lost John Milton
Passage to India, A - E. M. Forster
Pathfinder, The James Fenimore Cooper
Paul Bunyan James Stevens
Peasants, The Ladislas Reymont
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
Peg Woffington Charles Reade
Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray
Penguin Island Anatole France
Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Peter Ibbetson George du Manner
Peter Whiffle Carl Van Vechten
Phaedra Jean Baptiste Racine
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
Picture of Dorian Gray, The Oscar Wilde
Pilgrim's Progress, The - John Bunyan
Pilot, The James Fenimore Cooper
Pioneers, The James Fenimore Cooper
Pit, The - Frank Norris
Playboy of the Western World, The - John Millington Synge
Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley
Poor White Sherwood Anderson
Porgy - DuBose Heyward
Portrait of a Lady, The Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A James Joyce
Possessed, The Fyodor Mikhatlovieh Dostoevski
Power Lion Feuchtwanger
Prairie, The James Fenimore Cooper
Precious Bane Mary Webb
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Prisoner of Zenda, The Anthony Hope
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelley
Proserpine and Ceres Folk tradition
Purple Land, The W. H. Hudson
Quality Street James M. Barrie
Quentin Durward Sir Walter Scott
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Rainbow, The - D. H. Lawrence
Rape of the Lock, The - Alexander Pope
Rasselas Samuel Johnson
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Red and the Black, The Stendhal
Red Badge of Courage, The Stephen Crane
Red Rover, The James Fenimore Cooper
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
Return of, the Native, The Thomas Hardy
Revolt of the Angels, The - Anatole France
Riceyman Steps Arnold Bennett
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ring and the Book, The Robert Browning
Rise of Silas Lapham, The William Dean Howells
Rivals, The Richard Erinsley Sheridan
River of Earth James Still
Roan Stallion Robinson Jeffers
Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Roderick Random Tobias Smollett
Rogue Herries Hugh Watyole
Romantic Comedians, The Ellen Glasgow
Romany Rye, The - George Henry Borrow
Rome Haul Walter D. Edmonds
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rornola George Eliot
Roughing It Mark Twain
Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
Sappho - Alphonse Daudet
Scarlet Letter, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne
School for Scandal, The - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sea of Grass, The - Conrad Richter
Sea Wolf, The - Jack London
Sentimental Education, A - Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Journey, A - Laurence Sterne
Seventeen Booth Tarkington
Shadows on the Rock Willa Gather
She H. Rider Haggard
She Stoops to Conquer OKver Goldsmith
Sheltered Life, The Ellen Glasgow
Silas Marncr George Eliot
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
Smoke Ivan Turgenev
Snow-Bound John Greenleaf Whittier
So Red the Rose Stork Ycnmg
Song of Bernadette, The - Franz Werfel
Song of Hiawatha, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song of Roland, The Unknown
Song of Songs, The Hermann Sudermann
Sons and Lovers D, H. Lawrence
Sorrows of Young Werther, The Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sound and the Fury, The William Faulkner
Spoilers, The Rex Beach
Spy, The James Fenimore Cooper
State Fair PM Stong
Story of a Bad Boy, The Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Story of a Country Town, The Edgar Watson Howe
Story of an African Farm, The Olive Schreiner
Story of Gosta Berling, The Selma Lagerlof
Strife John Galsworthy
Study in Scarlet, A Arthur Conan Doyle
Sun Also Rises, The Ernest Hemingway
Swiss Family Robinson, The Johann Rudolf Wyss
Tale of Two Cities, A Charles Dickens
Tamar Robinson Jeffers
Tamburlaine the Great - Christopher Marlowe
Taps for Private Tussie - Jesse Stuart
Taras Bulba - Nikolai V. Gogol
Tartarin of Tarascon - Alphonse Daudet
Tartuffe - Moliere
Tempest, The - William Shakespeare
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Anne Bronte
Tess of the d'Urbervillcs Thomas Hardy
Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter
Thin Man, The Dashiell llammett
Thirty-Nine Steps, The John Euchan
This Above All Eric Knight
Three Black Pennys, The - Joseph Hergesheimer
Three-Cornered Hat, The - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
Three Musketeers, The - Alexandre Dumas (father)
Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos
Time Machine, The II. G. Wells
Time of Man, The Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Titan, The Theodore Dreiser
To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Tono-Bungay H. G. Wells
Tower of London, The William Harrison Ainsworth
Travels of Marco Polo 7 The Marco Polo
Travels with a Donkey Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Betty Smith
Trial, The Franz Kafka
Trilby George du Manner
Tristram Edwin Arlington Robinson
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana, Jr
Typee Herman Melville
Ugly Duchess, The Lion Feuchtwanger
Ulysses James Joyce
Unbearable Bassington, The Saki
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Eeecher Stowe
Under Fire Henri Barbusse
Under Two Flags Ouida
U. S. A. John Dos Passos
Vanessa Hugh Walpole
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Venus and Adonis William Shakespeare
Vicar of Wakefield, The Oliver Goldsmith
Vicomte de Bragelonnc, The - Alexandre Dumas (father)
Victory Joseph Conrad
Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev
Virginian, The Owen Wister
Virginians, The William Makepeace Thackeray
Volpone Ben Jonson
Voyage of the Beagle, The Charles Darwin
Wanderer, The Alain-Fournier
Wandering Jew, The - Eugene Sue
War and Peace Count Leo Tolstoy
War of the Worlds, The H. G. Wells
Warden, The - Anthony Trollope
Waverky Sir Walter Scott
Way of All Flesh, The Samuel Butler
Way of the World, The William Congreve
Web and the Rock, The - Thomas Wolfe
Westward Ho! - Charles Kingslay
What Every Woman Knows - James M. Rome
White Company, The Arthur Comin Doyle
Wickford Point John P. Marquand
Wild Duck, The Henrik Ibsen
William Tell - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Winterset - Maxwell Anderson
Woman in White, The - Wilkie Collins
Woman's Life, A - Guy da Maupassant
World of the Thibaults, The - Roger Martin du Gard
World's Illusion, The - Jacob WasserHicinn
Wreck of the Grosvenor, The - W. Clark Russell
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Yearling, The - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe