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Works Referenced in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Description: A list of works referenced in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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1

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,027 members

492 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Time Machine

20,302 members

387 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

17,750 members

267 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,835 members

141 reviews

4

6 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

54,186 members

855 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Mary Shelley

51,333 members

814 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,369 members

749 reviews

4

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

9

41,573 members

686 reviews

4

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,872 members

369 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

21,583 members

284 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Around the World in Eighty Days

20,417 members

305 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,732 members

368 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

15,245 members

194 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Final Problem [short story]

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

105 members

9 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,607 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,534 members

370 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The War of the Worlds

21,633 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian

19

by William Shakespeare

15,780 members

191 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Invisible Man

12,772 members

290 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

10,080 members

211 reviews

4

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,436 members

243 reviews

4

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Five Children and It

5,382 members

83 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Anthony Trollope

4,891 members

139 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

834 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Adventure of the Empty House (short story)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

132 members

5 reviews

4

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter [short story]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

88 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, Malkavian

28

by George Orwell

70,293 members

1,010 reviews

4

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Herman Melville

41,934 members

621 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aethercowboy, Malkavian, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charles Dickens

28,546 members

273 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

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by J. M. Barrie

22,796 members

365 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

32

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

6,257 members

141 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

33

The Thirty-Nine Steps

6,008 members

203 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

34

by Eleanor H. Porter

5,861 members

79 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

35

Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

by John Cleland

3,665 members

66 reviews

3.2

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian

36

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

3,564 members

46 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

37

The Water-Babies

by Charles Kingsley

3,392 members

55 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

38

The Enchanted Castle

2,800 members

48 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,593 members

65 reviews

4

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Susan Coolidge

2,432 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

41

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,808 members

21 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian

42

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

1,452 members

47 reviews

4

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, cej1027

43

Les Misérables

30,612 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

44

by Jack Kerouac

30,504 members

425 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

45

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,456 members

204 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Rudyard Kipling

10,240 members

219 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

47

by Carlo Collodi

10,072 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, cej1027

48

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

8,426 members

240 reviews

4

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

49

The Island of Doctor Moreau

8,408 members

187 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

50

by P. L. Travers

7,713 members

187 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

51

7,198 members

287 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

52

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

6,289 members

95 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

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by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,567 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

54

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

4,824 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

55

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

4,747 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

56

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,709 members

135 reviews

4

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

57

by James Fenimore Cooper

3,234 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

58

Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2]

by Miguel de Cervantes

3,104 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Elric of Melniboné

by Michael Moorcock

2,906 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, Malkavian

60

by Rafael Sabatini

1,899 members

62 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

61

by W. Somerset Maugham

1,043 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

62

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

984 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

63

The Call of Cthulhu [short story]

by H. P. Lovecraft

901 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian,ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu

785 members

30 reviews

3.2

2 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54

65

The Lair of the White Worm

705 members

32 reviews

½ 2.6

2 Members: aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Selfish Giant

176 members

½ 4.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

67

Sindbad the Sailor and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Puffin Classics)

162 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aethercowboy, Malkavian

68

The Rats in the Walls

by H. P. Lovecraft

109 members

4 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian,ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Haunter of the Dark [short story]

by H. P. Lovecraft

85 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963, Malkavian,ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Adventure of the Creeping Man (short story)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

57 members

1 review

½ 3.3

2 Members: aethercowboy, ahef1963

71

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

154,335 members

2,221 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aethercowboy, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ,ManWithAnAgenda

72

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4,743 members

181 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

73

4,388 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: aethercowboy

74

3,850 members

75 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

75

3,048 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

76

Under Milk Wood

by Dylan Thomas

3,030 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

77

The First Men in the Moon

2,860 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

78

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

2,517 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: aethercowboy

79

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

2,082 members

51 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

80

Five Weeks in a Balloon

1,863 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

81

The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

1,800 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

82

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

by Maurice Leblanc

1,736 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aethercowboy

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by Michael Moorcock

1,200 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

84

by Jack Kerouac

949 members

15 reviews

3.2

Member: aethercowboy

85

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

by E. W. Hornung

830 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aethercowboy

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by Aleister Crowley

732 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aethercowboy

87

by Marcel Allain

710 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

88

The Sandman [short story]

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

694 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aethercowboy

89

Journey to the West (complete)

665 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

90

The Blazing World and Other Writings

by Margaret Cavendish

614 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: aethercowboy

91

The Coming Race

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

571 members

15 reviews

2.9

Member: aethercowboy

92

The Crock of Gold

by James Stephens

564 members

14 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

93

The Underground City

557 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

94

Robur the Conqueror

539 members

18 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aethercowboy

95

The Final Programme

by Michael Moorcock

449 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aethercowboy

96

Bulldog Drummond

339 members

8 reviews

2.8

Member: aethercowboy

97

Varney the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood {complete}

by James Malcolm Rymer

289 members

5 reviews

3

Member: aethercowboy

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The House by the Churchyard

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

270 members

5 reviews

2.9

Member: aethercowboy

99

Under the Garden

by Graham Greene

257 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

100

The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of the Living Men

by William Morris

225 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

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