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- About a Boy
- A Christmas Carol Summary
- A Clockwork Orange
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
- Aeneid
- Aesop's Fables
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Hero of Our Time
- Alchemist, The
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- And Then There Were None
- Anna Karenina
- Antigone Summary
- A Rose for Emily Summary
- Art of War, The
- A Separate Peace
- As I Lay Dying
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Tale of the Two Cities
- Atlas Shrugged
- Atonement
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Awakening, The
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- Call of the Wild, The
- Candide
- Canterbury Tales, The
- Canzoniere
- Catcher in the Rye, The
- Chairs, The
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Cherry Orchard, The
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Christ Legends and Other Stories
- Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Chrysalids, The
- Cid, The
- Cinderella Summary
- Cipollino
- Color Purple, The
- Confessions
- Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy
- Crime and Punishment
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Cyrano de Bergerac
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- Gardener, The
- Gargantua
- Germinal
- Giver, The
- Glass Menagerie, The
- Golden Goose, The
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears Summary
- Gone With the Wind
- Good Earth, The
- Gospel of John, The
- Government Inspector, The
- Grapes of Wrath, The
- Great Expectations
- Great Gatsby, The
- Grendel
- Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The
- Gulliver's Travels
- Gypsies, The
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- Hamlet
- Handmaid's Tale, The
- Hansel and Gretel Summary
- Happy Prince Summary, The
- Hard Times
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Hedda Gabler
- Heidi
- Hills Like White Elephants Summary
- Hiroshima
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
- Hobbit, The
- Hound of Baskervilles
- House of the Seven Gables, The
- Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The
- Hunger Games, The
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- Lassie Come Home
- Last Days of Socrates, The
- Last of the Mohicans, The
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
- Les Miserables
- Letters from my Mill
- Life Is a Dream
- Life of Pi
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Little Match Girl Summary, The
- Little Mermaid, The
- Little Nicholas
- Little Prince, The
- Little Red Riding Hood Summary
- Little Thumb
- Little Water Sprite, The
- Little Women
- Lolita
- Lord of the Flies, The
- Lottery and Other Stories, The
- Lottie and Lisa
- Love in the Time of Cholera Summary
- Lovely Bones, The
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- Madame Bovary
- Man in the Iron Mask, The
- Martian Chronicles, The
- Masque of the Red Death Summary, The
- Master and Margarita, The
- Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part One
- Maus: A Survivors Tale Part Two
- Maya the Bee
- Medea
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The
- Metamorphoses - Apollo and Daphne
- Metamorphoses - Narcissus and Echo
- Metamorphoses - Orpheus and Eurydice
- Metamorphoses - Pyramus and Thisbe
- Metamorphoses - Venus and Adonis
- Metamorphosis, The
- Misanthrope, The
- Mistress of the Inn, The
- Moby Dick
- Momo
- Mother Courage and Her Children
- Mrs Dalloway
- Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
- My Family Right or Wrong
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- Pale King, The
- Pantagruel
- Paradise Lost
- Paul is Alone in the World
- Paul Street Boys, The
- Pearl, The
- Persuasion
- Peter Pan
- Phaedra (Phèdre)
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The
- Pinocchio
- Pippi Longstocking
- Plague, The
- Poem of the Cid, The
- Poisonwood Bible, The
- Pot of Gold, The
- Pride and Prejudice
- Prince, The
- Prince and the Pauper, The
- Princess and the Pea Summary, The
- Prometheus Bound
- Puss in Boots
- Pygmalion
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- Scarlet Letter, The
- Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The
- Secret Life of Bees, The
- Sense and Sensibility
- Siddhartha
- Silas Marner
- Sinbad the Sailor - One Thousand and One Nights
- Six Characters In Search of an Author
- Slaughterhouse Five
- Sleeping Beauty, The
- Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, The
- Snow Queen, The
- Snow White Summary
- Song of Roland, The
- Song of Songs
- Song of the Nibelungs, The
- Sorrows of Young Werther, The
- Sound and the Fury, The
- Speed Surf
- Steadfast Tin Soldier Summary, The
- Steppenwolf
- Story of Doctor Dolittle, The
- Story of the Three Bears Summary, The
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stranger, The
- Sun Also Rises, The
- Swaggering Soldier, The
- Swineherd, The
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- Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, The
- Taming of the Shrew
- Tell-Tale Heart Summary, The
- Tempest, The
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Therese Raquin
- Three Musketeers, The
- Thumbelina Summary
- Time Machine, The
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Town Musicians of Bremen
- Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The
- Treasure Island
- Trial, The
- Twelve Dancing Princesses, The
- Two Friends