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• The Bible

• Aesop's Fables
• Arabian Nights
  • Aladdin
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Arthurian Legend
• The Ballad of Mulan
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Bremen Town Musicians
• Cinderella (Fairy Tale)
• Hansel and Gretel
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Momotarō
• Reynard the Fox
• Robin Hood
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Sinbad the Sailor
• Sleeping Beauty
• Snow White
• Tom Thumb

• Gasoline Alley
• Krazy Kat
• Little Nemo

• Mickey Mouse
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Russian

• Sergei Prokofiev

• Peter and the Wolf

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

• Swan Lake

• Attack of the Giant Leeches
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die
• A Bucket of Blood
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• D.O.A.
• The Driller Killer
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
• The Little Shop of Horrors
• Love Affair
• Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Meet John Doe
• Metropolis
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space
• Reefer Madness
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
• A Star Is Born (1937)

English (American) poetry

1830-1861

• Edgar Allan Poe:

• Annabel Lee
• The Raven (1845)

1861-1899

• Emily Dickinson

• "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
• "We Grow Accustomed To The Dark"

English (Non-American) & Old English poetry

English (Non-American)

• Banjo Paterson:

• The Man from Snowy River

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

• Enoch Arden

Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

• Beowulf

German poetry

• Anonymous:

• Nibelungenlied

Poetry in other languages

Russian

• Alexander Pushkin

• Ruslan and Ludmila

English drama (American)

1900-1945

• Maxwell Anderson:

• What Price Glory

• David Belasco:

• The Girl of the Golden West

• Victor Herbert:

• Babes in Toyland

• Eugene O'Neill:

• Anna Christie
• The Emperor Jones
• Strange Interlude

• Mary Roberts Rinehart:

• The Bat

• John Willard:

• The Cat and the Canary

English drama (Non-American)

1558-1625

• William Shakespeare:

• Antony and Cleopatra
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Winter's Tale

1837-1899

• Oscar Wilde:

• An Ideal Husband
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• Salome

1900-1945

• JM Barrie:

• Peter Pan

• George Bernard Shaw:

• Saint Joan

• Sutton Vane:

• Outward Bound

German drama

• Georg Büchner:

• Woyzeck

North Germanic

Norwegian

• Henrik Ibsen:

• Peer Gynt

French drama

• Maurice Maeterlinck:

• The Blue Bird

• Marcel Pagnol:

• Marseille Trilogy

• Edmond Rostand:

• Cyrano de Bergerac

Italian drama

• Luigi Pirandello:

• Six Characters in Search of an Author

• Giuseppe Verdi:

• Aida

Drama in other languages

East Indo-European and Celtic drama

Russian

• Anton Chekhov:

• The Cherry Orchard
• Three Sisters
• Uncle Vanya

• Maxim Gorky:

• The Lower Depths

Ukrainian

• Lesya Ukrainka:

• The Forest Song

Czech

• Karel Čapek:

• Pictures from the Insects' Life
• R.U.R.

English fiction (American)^note English fiction originating in North America, South America and Hawaii (primarily the United States and Canada)

1776-1829

• Charles Brockden Brown:

• Wieland

• James Fenimore Cooper:

• The Leatherstocking Tales

• Washington Irving:

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Rip Van Winkle (1819)

• Susanna Rowson:

• Charlotte Temple

1830-1861

• Nathaniel Hawthorne:

• Feathertop
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• The Scarlet Letter

• Herman Melville:

• Billy Budd
• Moby-Dick

• Edgar Allan Poe:

• Berenice
• C. Auguste Dupin
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• William Wilson

• Harriet Beccher Stowe:

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

1861-1899

• Louisa May Alcott:

• Little Women

• L. Frank Baum:

• Oz (Land of)

• Ambrose Bierce:

• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

• Frances Hodgson Burnett:

• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• A Little Princess
• The Secret Garden

• Robert W. Chambers:

• The King in Yellow

• Kate Chopin:

• The Awakening

• Stephen Crane:

• The Red Badge of Courage

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The Yellow Wallpaper

• Helen Hunt Jackson:

• Ramona

• Henry James:

• Daisy Miller
• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Turn of the Screw
• Washington Square

• Frank Norris:

• McTeague

• Mark Twain:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

• Lew Wallace:

• Ben-Hur

1900-1945

• Sherwood Anderson:

• Winesburg Ohio

• Edgar Rice Burroughs:

• John Carter of Mars
• Tarzan

• Willa Cather:

• My Ántonia

• Theodore Dreiser:

• Sister Carrie

• Edna Ferber:

• Show Boat

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

• The Great Gatsby

• Zane Grey:

• The Border Legion
• The Lone Star Ranger
• Riders of the Purple Sage

• Johnny Gruelle:

• Raggedy Ann

• Dashiell Hammett:

• The Maltese Falcon

• Ernest Hemingway:

• A Farewell to Arms
• The Nick Adams Stories
• The Sun Also Rises

• Robert E. Howard:

• Solomon Kane

• Will James:

• Smoky the Cowhorse

• Sinclair Lewis:

• Arrowsmith

• Jack London:

• The Call of the Wild
• The Iron Heel
• The Sea Wolf
• White Fang

• H. P. Lovecraft:

• The Colour Out of Space
• Cool Air
• The Dunwich Horror
• Herbert West–Reanimator
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Pickman's Model
• The Statement of Randolph Carter

• Johnston Mc Culley:

• Zorro

• George Barr Mc Cutcheon:

• Brewster's Millions

• L. M. Montgomery:

• Anne of Green Gables

• Eleanor H Porter:

• Pollyanna

• Edward Stratemeyer:

• Tom Swift

• Gene Stratton-Porter:

• Freckles

• S. S. Van Dine:

• Philo Vance

• Jean Webster:

• Daddy-Long-Legs

• Donald Westlake

• Parker

• Edith Wharton:

• The Age of Innocence
• Ethan Frome
• The House of Mirth

• Kate Douglas Wiggin:

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

• Laura Ingalls Wilder:

• Little House on the Prairie

English (Non-American) and Old English fiction ^note English fiction originating in countries and continents other than North America, South America and Hawaii (i.e.: The United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India and other Asian countries, South Africa and other African countries)

1400-1558

• Sir Thomas Malory:

• Le Morte d'Arthur

1558-1625 (Elizabethan period)

• Philip Sidney:

• Old Arcadia

1625-1702

• John Bunyan:

• The Pilgrim's Progress

• Margaret Cavendish:

• The Blazing World

1702-1745 (Queen Anne period)

• Daniel Defoe:

• Moll Flanders
• Robinson Crusoe

• Henry Fielding:

• The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

• Jonathan Swift:

• Gulliver's Travels

1745-1799

• John Cleland:

• Fanny Hill

• Rudolf Erich Raspe

• Baron Munchausen

• Samuel Richardson:

• Clarissa (1747)

• Laurence Sterne:

• The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

1800-1837

• Jane Austen:

• Emma
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility

• James Hogg

• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

• Matthew Gregory Lewis:

• The Monk

• John William Polidori:

• The Vampyre

• Walter Scott:

• Waverley Novels
  • Ivanhoe

• Mary Shelley:

• Frankenstein

1837-1899 (Victorian period)

• Edwin Abbott Abbott:

• Flatland

• RD Blackmore:

• Lorna Doone

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon

• Lady Audley's Secret

• Anne Brontë:

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• Charlotte Brontë:

• Jane Eyre

• Emily Brontë:

• Wuthering Heights

• Lewis Carroll:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Marie Corelli:

• The Sorrows of Satan

• Charles Dickens:

• Barnaby Rudge
• Bleak House
• A Christmas Carol
• David Copperfield
• Dombey and Son
• Great Expectations
• Hard Times
• Little Dorrit
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Nicholas Nickleby
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Oliver Twist
• Our Mutual Friend
• The Pickwick Papers
• A Tale of Two Cities

• Arthur Conan Doyle:

• Sherlock Holmes

• George Eliot:

• Adam Bede
• Middlemarch
• The Mill on the Floss
• Silas Marner

• Elizabeth Gaskell:

• Wives and Daughters

• Kenneth Grahame

• The Reluctant Dragon
• The Wind in the Willows

• H. Rider Haggard:

• King Solomon's Mines
• She

• Thomas Hardy:

• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Jude the Obscure
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Return of the Native
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles

• Anthony Hope

• The Prisoner of Zenda

• EW Hornung:

• Raffles

• Jerome K Jerome:

• Three Men in a Boat

• Charles Kingsley:

• The Water-Babies

• Rudyard Kipling:

• Captains Courageous
• The Jungle Book

• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

• Carmilla

• Arthur Machen

• The Great God Pan

• Richard Marsh:

• The Beetle

• George du Maurier:

• Trilby

• Ouida

• A Dog of Flanders
• Under Two Flags

• Anna Sewell:

• Black Beauty

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

• The Black Arrow
• The Bottle Imp
• Kidnapped ^note Also includes adaptations of its sequel, Catriona
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Treasure Island

• Bram Stoker:

• Dracula
• The Jewel of Seven Stars

• William Makepeace Thackeray:

• Vanity Fair

• Ethel Turner:

• Seven Little Australians

• Oscar Wilde:

• The Canterville Ghost
• The Happy Prince
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Selfish Giant

• Ellen Wood:

• East Lynne

• Anonymous^note probably James Malcolm Rymer and/or Thomas Peckett Prest:

• Sweeney Todd

1900-1945

• Edwin Lester Arnold:

• Gullivar of Mars

• Daisy Ashford:

• The Young Visiters

• JM Barrie

• Peter Pan

• John Buchan:

• The Thirty-Nine Steps

• G. K. Chesterton:

• Father Brown

• Joseph Conrad:

• Heart of Darkness
• The Secret Agent

• E. M. Forster:

• A Room with a View

• John Galsworthy:

• The Forsyte Saga

• William Hope Hodgson:

• The House on the Borderland

• D. H. Lawrence:

• Lady Chatterley's Lover

• David Lindsay:

• A Voyage to Arcturus

• Hugh Lofting:

• Doctor Dolittle

• W. Somerset Maugham:

• Of Human Bondage

• H.C. McNeile

• Bulldog Drummond

• A. A. Milne:

• Winnie the Pooh

• E. Nesbit:

• Five Children and It
• The Railway Children

• Baroness Orczy:

• The Scarlet Pimpernel

• Beatrix Potter:

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit

• Rafael Sabatini:

• Captain Blood: His Odyssey
• Scaramouche

• Henry De Vere Stacpoole:

• The Blue Lagoon

• H. G. Wells:

• The First Men in the Moon
• The Food of the Gods
• The History of Mr. Polly
• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Time Machine
• The War of the Worlds

• Margery Williams:

• The Velveteen Rabbit

• Virginia Woolf:

• Mrs. Dalloway
• Orlando: A Biography

• Percival Christopher Wren:

• Beau Geste

German fiction^note This also includes fictional works in Yiddish, Low Germanic languages (i.e.: Frisian, Dutch and Afrikaans, Low German/Plattdeutsch), North Germanic languages (i.e.: Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian), and East Germanic languages

German

1625-1749

• Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen:

• Simplicissimus

1750-1832

• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

• Undine (1811)

• E. T. A. Hoffmann:

• Mademoiselle de Scuderi
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
• The Sandman (1816)

• Heinrich von Kleist:

• Michael Kohlhaas

• Johann David Wyss:

• The Swiss Family Robinson

1832-1856

• Jeremias Gotthelf:

• The Black Spider

1856-1899

• Wilhelm Busch:

• Max and Moritz

• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch:

• Venus in Furs

• Johanna Spyri:

• Heidi

1900-1945

• Waldemar Bonsels:

• Maya the Bee

• Hanns Heinz Ewers:

• Alraune

• Franz Kafka:

• The Castle
• The Metamorphosis
• The Trial

• Erich Kastner:

• Lottie and Lisa

• Heinrich Mann:

• Professor Unrat

• Thomas Mann:

• Buddenbrooks
• Death in Venice

• Erich Maria Remarque:

• All Quiet on the Western Front

• Felix Salten:

• Bambi, a Life in the Woods

North Germanic

Swedish

• Selma Lagerlöf:

• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Danish

• Hans Christian Andersen:

• The Little Mermaid
• The Princess and the Pea
• The Snow Queen
• Thumbelina

French fiction^note French fiction originating in France, Asian and African countries, Belgium, and Canada^note This also includes fictional works in Occitan, Catalan, Franco-Provençal

French

Early period to 1399

• Marie de France:

• Bisclavret

1715-1789

• Pierre Choderlos De Laclos:

• Dangerous Liaisons

• Voltaire:

• Candide

1815-1848 (Constitutional monarchy)

• Honoré de Balzac:

• Cousin Bette

• Stendhal:

• The Charterhouse of Parma
• The Red and the Black

• Alexandre Dumas:

• D'Artagnan Romances ^note The Three Musketeers and sequel novels
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Last Valois

• Victor Hugo:

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Les Misérables
• The Man Who Laughs

• Théophile Gautier:

• Captain Fracasse
• The Dead Leman

1848-1899

• Paul Féval:

• Le Bossu

• Gustave Flaubert:

• Madame Bovary
• Salammbô

• Hector Malot:

• Sans Famille

• Guy de Maupassant:

• The Necklace

• Sophie de Ségur:

• Fleurville Trilogy

• Jules Verne:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• In Search of the Castaways
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Michael Strogoff
• The Mysterious Island
• Off on a Comet
• Robur the Conqueror

• Émile Zola:

• Les Rougon-Macquart

1900-1945

• Allain And Souvestre:

• Fantômas

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

• The Little Prince

• Maurice Leblanc:

• Arsène Lupin

• Gaston Leroux:

• The Mystery of the Yellow Room
• The Phantom of the Opera

• Louis Pergaud:

• War of the Buttons

• Maurice Renard:

• The Hands of Orlac

Italian and Romanian fiction^note This also includes fictional works in Rhaetian (Friulian, Ladin, Romansch), Sardinian, Corsican languages

Italian

1814-1859

• Alessandro Manzoni:

• The Betrothed

1859-1899

• Edmondo De Amicis:

• Cuore (1886)

• Carlo Collodi:

• Pinocchio

1900-1945

• Luigi Pirandello:

• The Late Mattia Pascal

Spanish, Portuguese and Galician fiction^note Spanish fiction originating in Spain and American countries, and Portuguese fiction originating in Portugal and Brazil

Spanish

• Miguel de Cervantes:

• Don Quixote

• (anonymous)

• Lazarillo de Tormes

Portugese

• Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis:

• Dom Casmurro

Latin and Italic fiction

Latin

• Apuleius:

• The Golden Ass

• Gaius Petronius Arbiter:

• The Satyricon

Classical and Modern Greek fiction

• Homer:

• The Trojan Cycle (The Iliad, The Odyssey, and other related epics)

Fiction in other languages

East Indo-European and Celtic fiction

Russian literature and related East Slavic fiction ^note This also includes fictional works in Ukrainian and Belarusian

Russian

1800-1917

• Fyodor Dostoevsky:

• The Brothers Karamazov
• Crime and Punishment
• Demons
• The Idiot

• Nikolai Gogol:

• Dead Souls
• Viy

• Alexander Pushkin:

• The Captain's Daughter
• Eugene Onegin
• The Queen of Spades

• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin:

• The History of a Town

• Leo Tolstoy:

• Anna Karenina
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• War and Peace

1917-1945

• Yevgeny Zamyatin:

• We

Slavic (Slavonic) fiction

Czech

• Jaroslav Hašek:

• The Good Soldier Švejk

• Božena Němcová:

• The Grandmother
• Wild Bára

Fiction of East and Southeast Asia

Chinese

• Luo Guanzhong:

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms

• Wu Chengen:

• Journey to the West

• Xu Zhonglin:

• Fengshen Yanyi

Japanese

• Natsume Sōseki:

• I Am a Cat
• Kokoro (1914)

• Anne Frank

• The Diary of a Young Girl

• Herobrine Mythos
• Jeff the Killer
• The Slender Man Mythos