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. It was established in 1930, a few years after the

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Club. Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue,

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, New York in a office building that was constructed in 1906. It

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a variety of volumes in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. A victim of the Great Depression, the Book League of America was purchased by Doubleday in 1936.

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Book League of America printed and published contemporary and classic books. The clothbound hardcover was commonly a dark navy-blue, though sometimes red or black. There was an embossed logo on the front. Depending upon a variety of exposure conditions and perhaps publishing years, the spine cloth faded differently, with some of the spines remaining dark navy, while others turned purple or navy-green. The spine featured book title and author in gold or silver gilt lettering, along with decorative scrolling, sometimes in an

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motif. Most of the pages were smooth-cut on the top and bottom edges, and

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d on the outer edge. Some books contained the note: "This book is standard length, complete and unabridged. Manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity with all government regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials." This explains the yellowed or tanning paper condition, more noticeable in some books than others. Some books were illustrated. Many of the books did not include a publish date.

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s were not included.

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Approximately 5,000

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received monthly fliers that offered a selection from a variety of contemporary and world classic literature choices.

"The famous Board of Editors selects for you 2 books each month: the best new book -AND- one of the greatest classics. The Book League of America supplies these 2 books each month at 1/3 of the usual cost!

Some books, published by other companies but carrying the Book League of America imprint, were included in the club sales offerings. These publishers included: * A. S. Barnes & Company, New York * Bartholomew House, Inc., New York * Blakiston Company, Philadelphia * Caxton House Inc., New York * Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., New York * E. M. Hale and Company, Wisconsin * Everybody's Vacation Publishing Company, New York *

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Inc., New York * Puritan Publishing Company, Chicago & Philadelphia * William H. Wise & Co., New York There was no membership fee to join the plan. The subscription cost $16.68 and entitled the subscriber to twelve books each year.

Partial list

A—G

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled ''A Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. Some early editions are titled ''A Yankee at the Court of King Arth ...

'', by Mark Twain, 1917 * ''Abe Lincoln of Pigeon Creek'', by William E. Wilson, 1950 * ''Across the Frontiers'', by Sir Philip Gibbs, 1938 * ''

A History of New York __NOTOC__ ''A History of New York'', subtitled ''From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty'', is an 1809 literary parody on the history of New York City by Washington Irving. Originally published under the pseudonym Diedrich ...

& The Sketch Book'', by

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legen ...

* ''

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creature ...

'', by

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

, 1941 * ''All Night Long, a Novel of Guerilla Warfare in Russia'', by

Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as '' Tobacco Road'' (1 ...

, 1942 * ''All that glitters'', by Frances Parkinson Keyes, 1941 * ''Always A River'', by Drayton Mayrant, 1957 * ''America Visited'', by Dickens, Thackeray and Others; arranged by Edith I. Coombs, 1937 * ''Areopagitica and Other Prose Writings'', by John Milton; editor William Haller, 1929 * ''A Tale of Two Cities & Christmas Carol & The Chimes'', by

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

* '' At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque'', by

Anatole France (; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...

, 1931 * ''A Time Will Come'', by Rachel McBrayer Varble, 1940 * ''A Woman is Witness, a Paris Diary'', by

Ernst Lothar Ernst Lothar (; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer. He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller is a very common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans ...

, 1941 * ''Away All Boats'', by Kenneth Dodson, 1954 * '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'', by

Lew Wallace Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is ...

* ''Bernard Shaw'', by

Frank Harris Frank Harris (14 February 1855 – 26 August 1931) was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United State ...

, 1931 * ''Beyond Horizons'', by

Lincoln Ellsworth Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History. Biography Lincoln Ellsworth was born on May 12, 1880, to James Ellsworth and Eva F ...

, 1938 * ''Bless This House'', by

Norah Lofts Norah Lofts, ''née'' Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fi ...

, 1955 * '' Camille'', by Alexandre Dumas, 1937 * ''

Captains Courageous ''Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks'' is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese f ...

'', by

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

* ''Captain Of The Medici'', by John J. Pugh, 1955 * ''Captain Lightfoot'', by W.R. Burnett, 1955 * ''Caravan for China'', by Frank Stuart, 1941 * ''Catch the Gold Ring'', by John Stephen Strange, 1955 * ''Chance, a Tale in Two Parks'', by Joseph Conrad, 1921 * ''Charlotte and Dr. James'', by Guy McCrone, 1956 * ''Christmas Holiday'', by

W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

* ''Cimarron'', by

Edna Ferber Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning '' So Big'' (1924), ''Show Boat'' (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), '' Ci ...

* ''Cities of Refuge, a Novel'', by Philip Gibbs, 1937 * ''Comedies of Oscar Wilde'', by Oscar Wilde * ''Comedies of Molière'', selected by John Gassner; translation by Baker & Miller, 1946 * ''Confessors of the Name'', by

Gladys Schmitt Gladys Leonore Schmitt (May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – October 3, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, editor, and professor. Described by the ''Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph'' in 1942 as one of the city's "literary ...

, 1953 * ''Conquest of Mexico'', by

William H. Prescott William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairm ...

, 1934 * ''Conquest of Peru'', by

* ''Coromandel!'', by

John Masters Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO, OBE (26 October 1914 – 7 May 1983) was a British novelist and regular officer of the Indian Army. In World War II, he served with the Chindits behind enemy lines in Burma, and became the GSO1 (chief st ...

, 1956 * ''Crocus, a Novel'', by Neil Bell (pen name for Stephen Southwold), 1937 * ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', by Edmond Rostand * ''Dangerous Ground'', by Francis Sill Wickware, 1946 * ''Death of a Peer'', by

Ngaio Marsh Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of De ...

, 1940 * ''Demelza'', by

Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary ...

, 1953 * ''Devil's Bridge'', by Mary Deasy, 1953 * ''Don Quixote'', by

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best kno ...

; translation by Richard Emery Roberts * ''Dr. Krasinski's Secret'', by

M. P. Shiel Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947), known as M. P. Shiel, was a British writer. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a ''de facto'' pen name. He is remembered mainly for supernatura ...

, 1929 * ''Edgar Wallace, the Biography of a Phenomenon'', by Margaret Lane, 1939 * ''Ella Gunning'', by Mary Deasy, 1951 * ''Emma'', by F.W. Kenyon, 1956 * ''English Comedies'', edited by John Gassner * ''Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson'', by

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

* ''Excelsior!'', by Paul Hyde Bonner, 1956 * ''False Witness'', by

Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...

, 1903 * ''Family Fortunes'', by Gwen Davenport, 1949 * ''Famous French Novels, Seven Modern Condensations'', editor Cameron Hyde * ''Fathers and Sons'', by

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dat ...

* ''Farewell to Valley Forge'', by David Taylor, 1956 * ''Favorite Works of Sir Walter Scott'', by Sir

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...

, 1942 * ''Fetish'', by Christine Garnier, 1953 * ''Flamenco'', by Lady Eleanor Smith, 1931 * ''For My Great Folly, a Novel'', by Thomas B. Costain, 1942 * ''Gladiator'', by Philip Gordon Wylie, 1930 * ''Great Expectations'', by

* ''Great Novels of Anatole France'' by

, 1918 * ''Green Mansions'', by

William Henry Hudson William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine (), ...

* ''Gulliver's Travels'', by

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dubl ...

, 1937

H—S

* ''Hear This Woman'', by Ben and Ann Pinchot, 1951 * ''Hunchback of Notre Dame'', by

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

* ''Intruder From The Sea'', by Gordon McDonell, 1954 * ''Jane Eyre'', by

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...

, 1940 * ''Jefferson's Letters'', arranged by Willson Whitman * ''John Brown's Cousin'', by Jane Hutchens, 1940 * ''Jubel's Children'', by Lenard Kaufman, 1951 * ''Jubilee'', by John Brick, 1956 * ''Kotto, Being Japanese Curios'', by Lafcadio Hearn, 1929 * ''Lady Blanche Farm & Queen Anne's Lace'', by Frances Parkinson Keyes, 1954 * ''

Lavengro ''Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest'' (1851) is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th-century English literature. According to the author, i ...

the Romany Rye ''The Romany Rye'' is a novel by George Borrow, written in 1857 as a sequel to ''Lavengro'' (1851). The novel Largely thought to be at least partly autobiographical, ''The Romany Rye'' follows from ''Lavengro'' (1851). The title can be transl ...

'', by

George Borrow George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. His travels gave him a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure strongly in his work. Hi ...

* ''Les Misérables'', by

, 1943 * ''Living Biographies of Famous Novelists'', by Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas, 1943 * ''Lord Jim'', by Joseph Conrad * ''Lord Vanity'', by Samuel Shellabarger, 1955 * ''Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor'', by

Richard Blackmore Sir Richard Blackmore (22 January 1654 – 9 October 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian. Earlier years He was born ...

* ''Love in the Sun'', by Leo Walmsley, 1940 * ''Madame Bovary'', by

Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...

, 1937 * ''Mary Lavelle'', by Kate O'Brien, 1936 * ''Meet Mr. Fortune'', by H. C. Bailey, 1942 * ''Mexican Maze'', by

Carleton Beals Carleton Beals (November 13, 1893 – April 4, 1979) was an American journalist, writer, historian, and political activist with special interests in Latin America. A major journalistic coup for him was his interview with Nicaraguan rebel, August ...

, 1931 with Illustrations by

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

* ''Michael Strogoff'', by Jules Verne, 1940 * ''Mikado and Other Operas'', by

W. S. Gilbert Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most fam ...

, 1929 * ''Moby Dick'', by

Herman Melville Herman Melville ( born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); ''Typee'' (1846), a rom ...

, 1940 * ''Moonstone'', by

Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for '' The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for '' The Moonstone'' (1868), which has b ...

* ''Nana'', by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

, 1937 * ''O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1941'', edited by Herschell Brickell, 1941 * ''Plays of the Greek Dramatists'', selections from

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or c ...

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his for ...

* ''Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe'', by

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...

* ''Pride and Prejudice'', by Jane Austen, 1937 * ''Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero'', by Henryk Sienkiewicz; translation from the Polish by

Jeremiah Curtin Jeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 – 14 December 1906) was an American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator. Curtin had an abiding interest in languages and was conversant with several. From 1883 to 1891 he was employed by the Bureau of Am ...

, 1925 * '' Rebecca'', by

Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geo ...

, 1938 * '' Road to Endor'', by Esther Barstow Hammond, 1940 * ''Rob Roy and Selected Poems'', by Sir

* ''Romola'', by

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

* '' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam'' * ''Samuel Pepys'', by Arthur Ponsonby, 1929 * ''Sapho'', by

Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...

, 1932 * ''Sara Dane'', by Catherine Gaskin, 1955 * ''Science of Life'', by

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
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Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells, 1936 * ''Selected Stories of Bret Harte'', by

Bret Harte Bret Harte (; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a caree ...

* ''Selected Writings of Thomas Paine'', by

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

* ''Selections from the Arabian Nights'', translation by Sir Richard Burton * ''Sense and Sensibility & Northanger Abbey'', by Jane Austen * ''Short Stories of de Maupassant'', by

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

, 1941 *''Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'', by

* ''Show Boat'', by

, 1926 * ''Signed with Their Honor'', by James Aldridge, 1942 * ''Six Famous French Novels'', edited by Cameron Hyde, 1943 * ''So Big'', by

* ''Solomon And The Queen of Sheba'', by Czenzi Ormonde, 1955 * ''Stephania'', by Ilona Karmel, 1953

T—Z

* ''Tales from the Decameron'', by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1930 * ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'', by

, 1940 * ''Tender Victory'', by

Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...

, 1957 * ''That Lofty Sky'', by Henry Beetle Hough, 1941 * ''That None Should Die'', by Frank G. Slaughter, 1941 * ''The Adventurers, by Ernest Haycox'', 1955 * ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' * ''The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini'', 1937 * ''The Best Known Works of Daniel Defoe'', by Daniel Defoe, 1942 * ''The Best Known Works of Elizabeth & Robert Browning'', by Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1942 * ''The Best Known Works of Émile Zola'', by

, 1941 * ''The Best Known Works of Gustave Flaubert'', by

, 1941 * ''The Best Known Works of Ibsen'', by Henrik Ibsen, 1941 * ''The Best Known Works of Ivan Turgenev'', by

* ''The Best Known Works of James Fenimore Cooper'', by James Fenimore Cooper, 1942 * ''The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne'', by

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

* ''The Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde'', by Oscar Wilde, 1940 * ''The Best Known Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson'', by

, 1941 * ''The Best Known Works of Robert Louis Stevenson'', by

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

, 1941 * ''The Best Known Works of Thomas Carlyle'', by

Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dum ...

, 1942 * ''The Best Known Works of Voltaire'', by François-Marie Arouet de

Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—es ...

* ''The Best Known Works of Washington Irving'', by

, 1942 * ''The Best Known Works of William Shakespeare'', by

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

* ''The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian'', by Marco Polo, 1929 * ''The Chuckling Fingers'', by

Mabel Seeley Mabel Seeley (née Hodnefield; March 25, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was an American mystery writer. Early life Seeley was born March 25, 1903, in Herman, Minnesota. Her family moved to St. Paul in 1920 where she attended Mechanic Arts High School. ...

, 1941 * ''The Clairvoyant'', by

, 1932 * '' The Cloister and the Hearth'', by Charles Reade * ''The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman'', edited by Emory Holloway * ''The Complete Works of Horace'', edited by Casper J. Kraemer, Jr., 1938 * ''The Corioli Affair'', by Mary Deasy, 1955 * '' The Count of Monte Cristo'', by Alexandre Dumas, père * ''The Countryman's Year'', by David Grayson, 1936 * ''The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard'', by

, 1937 * ''The Crime Wave at Blandings'', by

P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeve ...

, 1937 * ''The Dance of Life'', by

Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality i ...

, 1929 * ''The Death of Lord Haw Haw'', by Brett Rutledge (pen name of Elliot Paul), 1940 * ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', by Edward Gibbon * ''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'', edited by Isabel Ely Lord * ''The Droll Stories of Honoré de Balzac'', by

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...

* ''The Education of Henry Adams'', by Henry Adams, 1928 * ''The Egoist, a Comedy in Narrative'', by

George Meredith George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. '' The Ord ...

, 1941 * ''The Essays of Elia'', by

Charles Lamb Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his '' Essays of Elia'' and for the children's book '' Tales from Shakespeare'', co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764� ...

, 1929 * ''The Favorite Works of Charles Dickens'', by

, 1942 * ''The Feast'', by

Margaret Kennedy Margaret Moore Kennedy (23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was '' The Constant Nymph''. She was a productive writer and several of her works were filmed. T ...

, 1950 * ''The Fool Killer'', by Helen Eustis, 1954 * ''The Foolish Immortals'', by

Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...

, 1954 * ''The 4 Georges'', by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1937 * ''The Freeholder'', by Joe David Brown, 1949 * ''The Gentle Kingdom of Giacomo'', by

Evelyn Wells Evelyn Wells (7 April 1899 – 6 September 1984) was a 20th-century American biographer and author most known for her biographies of the ancient Egyptian royals of the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut. Biography Evelyn Minerva Wells was b ...

, 1953 * ''The Gypsy In The Parlour'', by

Margery Sharp Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991) was an English writer of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her best-known work is ''The Rescuers'' series about a h ...

, 1954 * ''The Hangman's Whip'', by Mignon G. Eberhart, 1940 * ''The Happy Harvest'', by

Jeffery Farnol Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952) was a British writer from 1907 until his death in 1952, known for writing more than 40 romance novels, often set in the Georgian Era or English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He, with Geor ...

, 1940 * ''The History of Henry Esmond'', by

William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel ''Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and t ...

* ''The History of Tom Jones'', by

Henry Fielding Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist, irony writer, and dramatist known for earthy humour and satire. His comic novel ''Tom Jones'' is still widely appreciated. He and Samuel Richardson are seen as founders ...

* ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', by

* ''The King's Vixen'', by Pamela Hill, 1955 * ''The Lady Who Came to Stay'', by Robin Edgerton Spencer, 1931 * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'', by Sir

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secre ...

* ''The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin'', by

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...

* ''The Little Ark'', by Jan DeHartog, 1954 * ''

The Long Memory ''The Long Memory'' is a black-and-white 1953 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer and based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Howard Clewes. Filmed at locations such as London Waterloo railway station, the North Kent Marshes on ...

'', by

Howard Clewes Howard Clewes (27 October 1912 – 29 January 1988) was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.Renata Clewes obituary; London Independent 10 ...

, 1952 * ''The Love Books of

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

'', 1937 * ''The Lyric South, an Anthology of Recent Poetry from the South'', by Addison Hibbard, 1929 * ''

The Master of Ballantrae ''The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale'' is an 1889 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He w ...

'', by

, 1931 * ''

The Mill on the Floss ''The Mill on the Floss'' is a novel by George Eliot, first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. Plot summary Spanning a period of 10 to ...

'', by

, 1932 * ''

The Mixture as Before ''The Mixture as Before'' is a collection of 10 short stories by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published by William Heinemann in 1940.W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

, 1940 * ''

The Moon and Sixpence ''The Moon and Sixpence'' is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Stric ...

'', by W. Somerset Maugham * ''

The Moonstone ''The Moonstone'' (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Di ...

'', by

* ''

The Origin of Species ''On the Origin of Species'' (or, more completely, ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life''),The book's full original title was ''On the Origin of Species by Me ...

'', by

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

* ''The Passionate Journey'', by

, 1950 * ''The Peaceable Kingdom'', by Ardyth Kennelly, 1950 * ''

The Picture of Dorian Gray ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical '' Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''The Picture of Dorian G ...

'', by Oscar Wilde * ''

The Pilgrim's Progress ''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come'' is a 1678 Christianity, Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a prog ...

& The Holy War'', by

John Bunyan John Bunyan (; baptised 30 November 162831 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' which also became an influential literary model. In addition ...

* ''The Plays of Anton Chekhov'', by Anton Chekhov * ''The Portrait of a Lady'', by

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

* ''The Proud Man'', by

Elizabeth Linington Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (March 11, 1921 – April 5, 1988) was an American novelist and mystery writer. She was one of the first women to write in the style of a police procedural. Biography She was born on March 11, 1921 in Aurora, Kane ...

, 1956 * ''The Queen's Cross'', by Lawrence Schoonover, 1956 * ''The Red Lily'', by Anatole France, 1937 * ''The Rest of Your Life'', by Leo Cherne * ''The Rifleman'', by John Brick, 1953 * ''

The Return of the Native ''The Return of the Native'' is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine ''Belgravia'', a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. Be ...

'', by Thomas Hardy, 1937 * ''The Salem Frigate'', by

John Jennings John Jennings may refer to: Politicians * John Jenyns (1660–1717), MP * John Jennings (Burton MP) (1903–1990), British Conservative Party politician * John Jennings (American politician) (1880–1956), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939 ...

, 1946 * ''The Selected Works of William Makepeace Thakeray'', by

, 1942 * ''The Seven that were Hanged'', by

Leonid Andreyev Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian liter ...

, 1931 * ''The Shadow Catcher'', by Donald Sloan *''The Sheltered Life'', by

Ellen Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel ''In This Our Life''. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical ac ...

* ''The Short Novels of John Steinbeck'', by John Steinbeck, 1954 * ''The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant'', by

* ''The Ship and the Shore'', by

Vicki Baum Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as '' Grand Hotel''), one of h ...

, 1941 * ''The Sundowners'', by

Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...

, 1952 * ''The Temptation of St. Anthony'', by

, 1936 * ''The Trouble in Thor'', by Jo Valentine, 1954 * ''The Two Wives, a Tale in Four Parts'', by

Frank Arthur Swinnerton Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton S ...

, 1940 * ''The Unvanquished'', by

Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...

, 1942 * ''The Velvet Doublet'', by James Street, 1953 * ''

The Vicar of Wakefield ''The Vicar of Wakefield'', subtitled ''A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself'', is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and wid ...

'', by Oliver Goldsmith, 1939 * ''

The Virginians ''The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century'' (1857– 59) is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his '' Henry Esmond'' and is also loosely linked to ''Pendennis''. Plot summary The novel tells the story of ...

'', by

* '' The Warden & Barchester Towers'', by Anthony Trollope * ''The Way of All Flesh'', by Samuel Butler, 1937 * ''The Weather Tree'', by Maristan Chapman, 1932 * ''The Woman Who Would Be Queen'', by Geoffrey Bocca, 1955 * ''The World's Great Speeches'', edited by Lewis Copeland, 1942 * ''The Young Elizabeth'', by Jennette and Francis Letton, 1953 * ''They Stooped to Folly'', by

, 1929 * ''They Tell No Tales'', by Manning Coles, 1942 * ''Three Great Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson'', by

* ''

Three Musketeers 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * '' Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ...

'', by Alexandre Dumas, père, 1940 * ''Tidefall'', by Thomas H. Raddall, 1954 * ''Time And Time Again'', by James Hilton, 1955 * ''Tom Sawyer and Other Sketches by Clemens'', by Mark Twain * ''Torch For A Dark Journey'', by

Lionel Shapiro Lionel Shapiro (February 12, 1908 – May 27, 1958) was a Canadian journalist and novelist. A war correspondent for ''The Montreal Gazette'', he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily, Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces. ...

, 1950 * ''Travellers' Tales'', arranged by Jay Du Bois * ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', by Jules Verne, 1940 * ''Two Came By Sea'', by

William S. Stone General William Sebastian Stone (January 6, 1910 – December 2, 1968) was an American United States Air Force Major General and the third Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy. His final assignment was as the air deputy to ...

, 1953 * ''Valley Of The Vines'', by Joy Packer, 1956 * ''Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero'', by

* ''War And Peace'', by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

* ''Wuthering Heights'', by Emily Brontë, 1940 * ''Yonder'', by Margaret Bell Houston, 1956

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