Publisher SeriesFranklin Library - 100 Greatest Books of All Time

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 41,593 copies, 509 reviews10 1975
The Aeneid by Virgil 22,033 copies, 194 reviews9 1975
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 25,810 copies, 474 reviews13 1975
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 21,240 copies, 164 reviews3 1974
Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot 2,949 copies, 22 reviews16 1976
Confessions by Saint Augustine 21,477 copies, 157 reviews21 1976
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 42,431 copies, 477 reviews12 1975
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 19,946 copies, 259 reviews23 1976
Euripides Nine Plays by Euripides 11 copies27 1977
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 21,671 copies, 237 reviews17 1976
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton 9,546 copies, 64 reviews32 1977
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 7,305 copies, 79 reviews29 1977
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 69,599 copies, 1,133 reviews7 1975
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,010 copies, 159 reviews2 1974
The Iliad by Homer 38,043 copies, 372 reviews15 1976
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 8,743 copies, 114 reviews35 1977
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 34,066 copies, 519 reviews1 1974
Nine Tales by Henry James 23 copies, 1 review39 1977
The Odyssey by Homer 50,765 copies, 444 reviews22 1976
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 5,751 copies, 102 reviews34 1977
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 13,789 copies, 116 reviews14 1975
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 18,123 copies, 158 reviews25 1976
The Republic by Plato 21,140 copies, 138 reviews5 1975
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,838 copies, 313 reviews33 1977
The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 1,184 copies, 3 reviews18 1976
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 16,762 copies, 221 reviews24 1976
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton 121 copies, 1 review29 1977
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 694 copies, 9 reviews4 1974
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 32,460 copies, 425 reviews6 1975
The Trial by Franz Kafka 19,331 copies, 233 reviews31 1977
Ulysses by James Joyce 23,323 copies, 334 reviews28 1977
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,277 copies, 191 reviews30 1977
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 13,623 copies, 181 reviews19 1976
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 49,692 copies, 671 reviews8 1975

Collections and Selections

4 Plays: King Lear; Macbeth; Othello; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 740 copies, 11 reviews11 1975
A Doll's House / Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / Rosmersholm / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen 468 copies, 4 reviews36 1977
Five Stories by Thomas Mann 29 copies26 1977
Rhetoric; Poetics by Aristotle 951 copies, 6 reviews37 1977

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