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Merrill's English Texts

Description: I found my grandfather's old copy of The Oregon Trail indicating that it was one of "Merrill's English Texts" especially chosen for the students of high schools in New York in the early 1900s. So I got curious and decided to search for other "masterpieces of English Literature" that were chosen to be part of this series :)

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,186 members

491 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

2

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,077 members

493 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

3

by William Shakespeare

29,945 members

261 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,440 members

202 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

5

by William Shakespeare

15,801 members

191 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

6

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,243 members

126 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

7

by George Eliot

12,988 members

172 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

8

by William Shakespeare

12,566 members

132 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

9

by William Shakespeare

8,727 members

77 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

10

by William Shakespeare

6,633 members

59 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

11

Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare

2,846 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

12

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [poem]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,771 members

43 reviews

4.1

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

13

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

by Washington Irving

1,751 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

14

The Poems of Robert Browning

by Robert Browning

910 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

15

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

843 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

16

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

745 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

17

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

376 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

18

The Pilgrim's Progress and the Holy War

72 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

19

Merrills English Texts, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,Christabel and Other Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

19 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

20

Lycidas, Comus, L'allegro, Il penseroso, and other poems

10 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

21

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; (Merrill's English Texts)

by William Shakespeare

7 members

5

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

22

Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" (Oxford Shakespeare Concordances)

by T. H. Howard-Hill

4 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

23

Shakespeare's Macbeth (Merrill's English Texts)

by William Shakespeare

2 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

24

Merrills English Texts - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,Christabel and Other Poems

by Charles E. Merrill

1 member

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

25

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,288 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

26

by Walter Scott

15,135 members

138 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: LucindaLibri

27

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,686 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

28

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

8,591 members

102 reviews

4.1

Member: LucindaLibri

29

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

8,339 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

30

The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

3,519 members

63 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LucindaLibri

31

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

2,926 members

18 reviews

4

Member: LucindaLibri

32

The Oregon Trail

by Francis Parkman

2,399 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

33

Essays: First Series and Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

2,206 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: LucindaLibri

34

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1,543 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

35

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott

1,349 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: LucindaLibri

36

The Man Without a Country

by Edward Everett Hale

836 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: LucindaLibri

37

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

by Joseph Addison

436 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

38

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

370 members

4.1

Member: LucindaLibri

39

Lays of Ancient Rome

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

365 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

40

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes / An Inland Voyage

by Robert Louis Stevenson

213 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LucindaLibri

41

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

by Edmund Burke

202 members

1 review

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

42

by Thomas Carlyle

104 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

43

Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

98 members

2.8

Member: LucindaLibri

44

Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's Bunker Hill Orations

by George Washington

51 members

½ 4.5

Member: LucindaLibri

45

Sohrab and Rustum

by Matthew Arnold

43 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

46

Idylls of the king: The coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Holy Grail

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

31 members

5

Member: LucindaLibri

47

The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems

by James Russell Lowell

26 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

48

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

19 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: LucindaLibri

49

Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village: The Traveller' / Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

by Oliver Goldsmith

15 members

Member: LucindaLibri

50

Selections from the writings and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

by Abraham Lincoln

13 members

3

Member: LucindaLibri

51

The Man Without a Country / My Double, and How He Undid Me

by Edward Everett Hale

11 members

Member: LucindaLibri

52

The Deserted Village, the Traveller, and Other Poems.

by Oliver Goldsmith

6 members

Member: LucindaLibri

53

Short Stories of Various Types (Merrill's English Texts)

4 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

54

Representative American poetry, (Merrill's English texts)

by Edwin B Richards

3 members

Member: LucindaLibri

55

Merrill's English Texts Selected Short Stories

by Claude M. Fuess

3 members

Member: LucindaLibri

56

selections from american poetry

by Charles Robert Gaston

2 members

Member: LucindaLibri

57

Modern Essays of Various Types (Merrill's English Texts )

by Charles A. Cockayne

2 members

Member: LucindaLibri

58

Selections From American Poetry (Merrill's English Texts)

1 member

Member: LucindaLibri

59

Merrill's English Texts - Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First and Second Bunker Hill Orations

by Daniel Webster and George Washington

1 member

Member: LucindaLibri

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September 2013
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