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Category:  Classics (Sorted by Author's last name)


Prometheus Bound (460 BC) - Aeschylus (525-456 BC)    (Grade:A+)

The Inferno (1314) - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)    (Grade:A+)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th Century) - Anonymous (-)    (Grade:A+)

Beowulf (8th Century?) - Anonymous (-)    (Grade:A+)

Poem of the Cid (1140) - Anonymous (-)    (Grade:A)

Emma (1816) - Jane Austen (1775-1817)    (Grade:A+)

Wieland; or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)    (Grade:A)

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments or the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (1885) - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)    (Grade:A)

Don Quijote (Part 1--1605, Part 2--1615) (1615) - Miquel de Cervantes (1547-1616)    (Grade:A+)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-12/07/43 BC)    (Grade:A)

The Rage of Hercules (2001) - Andre Comte-Sponville (-)    (Grade:B-)

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)    (Grade:A)

Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)    (Grade:A+)

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)    (Grade:A)

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)    (Grade:A+)

Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)    (Grade:B)

A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)    (Grade:A+)

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821-02/09/1881)    (Grade:C)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)    (Grade:A+)

The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)    (Grade:A+)

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) - George Eliot (1819-1880)    (Grade:A)

Orestes (408 BC) - Euripides (485-406 BC)    (Grade:A-)

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)    (Grade:B+)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Philip Freeman (1961-)    (Grade:A)

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993)    (Grade:C)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)    (Grade:B)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)    (Grade:A+)

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920)    (Grade:B+)

Tales of the Alhambra (1832) - Washington Irving (1783-1859)    (Grade:A)

The Jungle Books (1894) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)    (Grade:A)

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896-07/23/1957)    (Grade:B+)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (1926-)    (Grade:A+)

The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1876-1916)    (Grade:A-)

The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)    (Grade:A+)

Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)    (Grade:A-)

Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)    (Grade:A)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)    (Grade:A-)

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1949)    (Grade:A+)

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1949)    (Grade:A+)

Beowulf (8th Century?) - Burton Raffel (1930-)    (Grade:A+)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)    (Grade:A+)

Pygmalion (1912) - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)    (Grade:A)

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Shelley (1797-1851)    (Grade:A+)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918-8/03/2008)    (Grade:A+)

Oedipus Rex (430 BC) - Sophocles (496-406 BC)    (Grade:A-)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)    (Grade:A-)

Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)    (Grade:A+)

Treasure Island (1881) - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)    (Grade:A+)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (1835-1910)    (Grade:A-)

The Aeneid (19 B.C.) - Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.)    (Grade:A)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)    (Grade:A+)

Revolutionary Road (1961) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992)    (Grade:A-)