CLASSICS OF LITERATURE

A 'classic' is a piece of poem, drama or novel which defies time and finds expression in the hearts of readers from all over the world in every era. Here I provide a list of such classics which interest me a lot. You can download most of them from my online collection for FREE!  CLICK HERE!

BRITISH NOVELS

• Laurence Sterne - Tristam Shandy
• John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
• Jamuel Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
• S. Richardson -Pamela
• Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
• Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicer Of Wakefield
• Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion
• Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe, Waverley, The Bride of Lammermoor
• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
• Charles Dickens - The Picwic Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, A Tale Of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Stories 
• W. M. Thackeray -Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
• Emliy Bronte -Wuthering Heights
• George Eliot - Adem Bede, The Mill On The Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda 
• George Meredith - The Egoist
• Samuel Butler - The Way Of All Flesh
• Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd, The Mayor Of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Jude The Obscure
• R. L. Stevenson - Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Stories
• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Books, Kim, Stories
• H. G. Wells - The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men on Moon, The War of the Worlds, Stories
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Novels and Stories
• G. K. Chesterton - 'Father Brown' Stories, The Man Who was Thursday, The Napoleon of the Notting Hill
• Joseph Conrad - The Niggar Of The Narcissus, Lord Jim, Heart Of Darkness, Nostromo, Stories
• Henry James - The Portrait Of A Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of A Dove, The Turn of the Screw, Stories
• Saki (Hector Hugo Monroe) - Stories
• W. W. Jacobs - Stories
• Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
• Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives' Tale
• Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stories
• Wilkie Collins - The Lady in White, The Moonstone 
• E. M. Forster - A Passage To India, Howards End, Stories 
• Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando
• James Joyce - The Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, Stories
• D. H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers, The Rainbow, Women In Love, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Stories
• Katherine Mansfield - Stories
• Lewis Carol - Alice In Wonderland
• Bram Stoker - Dracula
• Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
• W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon And Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, Razor’s Edge, Cakes and Ale, Stories
• Aldus Huxley- Brave New World
• Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, Stories 
• William Golding – The Lord of the Flies
• George Orwell - The Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four
• Kinsley Amis - Lucky Jim
• J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings 

AMERICAN NOVELS

• Herman Melville - Moby Dick, Billy Budd
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, Stories
• Edgar Allan Poe – Stories
• Louisa Mary Alcott - Little Woman
• O. Henry - Stories
• Ambrose Bierce - Stories
• Washington Irving - Stories
• Kate Chopin - Stories
• John Cheever - Stories
• Jack London - The Call Of The Wild, The White Fang, Stories
• Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Stories
• Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man And The Sea, Stories
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Stories 
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Stories 
• Stephen Crane - Stories
• Robert Steinbeck- The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men
• Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith, Babbit, Dodsworth, It Cannot Happen Here
• Dorothy Parker - Stories
• Flannery O'Connor - Stories
• J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye, Stories

RUSSIAN NOVELS

• Nicolai Googol - Stories
• Anton Chekov - Stories
• Maxim Gorky - Mother, Stories
• Ivan Turgenev - Stories
• Leo Tolstoy - Anna Keranina, War And Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Stories
• Feodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov, Crime And Punishment, Notes form the Underground,  Stories
• Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows The Don
• Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago

FRENCH NOVELS

• Alessandro Manzoni- The Betrothed
• Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
• Honore de Balzac - The  Human Comedy, Stories
• Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip
• Victor Hugo - The Hunchback At Notre Dame, The Miserable
• Jules Verne - Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Around The World In Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, The Mysterious Island
• Guy de Maupassant – The Ball of Fat, Stories
• Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
• Emile Zola - L’Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, Stories
• Albert Camus - The Plague, The Outsider, The Fall

OTHER NOVELS

• Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote
• Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Trial, Stories
• Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain, Death In Venice
• Herman Hesse - Siddhartha, The Steppenwoolf

ENGLISH DRAMAS

• William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Much Ado about Nothing, King Henry IV
• Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour, The Alchemist, Volpone or The Fox
• Christopher Marlowe - Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine 
• John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
• William Congreve - The Way of the World
• Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
• Richard Brinsle Sheridan - The Rivals, The School for Scandal
• George Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan, Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Back to Methuselah, The Apple Cart
• J. M. Synge - The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea
• Sean O’Casey - The Silver Tessie, Juno and the Paycock
• John Galsworthy - Justice, The Strife, The Silver Box, Escape
• John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

AMERICAN DRAMAS

• Eugene O’Neill - Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, Desire under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Strange Interlude
• Arthur Miller - Death of A Salesman, The Crucible
• Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie

OTHER DRAMAS

• Henrick Ibsen - A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabbler
• Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
• Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children 
• Rabindranath Tagore - The Post-Office, Mukta-Dhara, Chitra 
• Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Venya, The Three Sisters, The Seagull