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- Absalom and Achitophel13
- The Absurd Man1
- Achieving the Impossible4
- Adam Bede2
- The Admirable Crichton1
- The Advancement of Learning1
- The Adventure of the German Student1
- Adventures in Contentment2
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer1
- The Affluent Society1
- Against Interpretation1
- Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life1
- Alexander's Feast5
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland3
- All for Love2
- All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes2
- All's Well That Ends Well1
- The Almost Perfect State2
- Alone With Everybody1
- The American Crisis1
- "American Literature — Dr. Channing," Edinburgh Review, (October 1829)1
- American Notebooks1
- Amores2
- The Ancient Sage1
- Andrea del Sarto1
- Animal Farm1
- Anna Karenina2
- Anne of Green Gables1
- Anonymous1
- The Answer1
- Antigone11
- Antony and Cleopatra2
- Apollo and the Fates1
- Apology1
- Apophthegms2
- AppleMasters1
- Arcadia1
- Arena2
- The Arrow and the Song2
- Arrowsmith1
- Ars Poetica1
- Ars Poetica1
- Art and Antiquity, III, 11
- The Art of War20
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom1
- as freedom is a breakfastfood1
- As I Lay Dying2
- As You Like It7
- The Ascent of Man1
- the Astronomer, in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas1
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand1
- Aureng-zebe1
- An Autobiography1
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table1
- The Awakening4
B
- Back to Methuselah2
- Bad pick-up lines1
- Balaustion's Adventure1
- The Ballad of East and West1
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol1
- Ballad of the Tempest1
- "The Battle of Lovell's Pond" (November 17, 1820)1
- Bear In There1
- Belief and Technique for Modern Prose3
- Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond1
- The Belly Dancer (poem)1
- Benchley's Law of Distinction1
- Beyond Good and Evil3
- Beyond the Mexique Bay1
- The Bible18
- Biographia Literaria1
- The Blind Assassin4
- Blue Shoe2
- Bluebird1
- The Bluest Eye2
- A Book of Burlesques1
- The Book of Common Prayer1
- The Book of Household Management1
- Books1
- Boots1
- Bracebridge Hall1
- A Brave and Startling Truth1
- Brighton Beach Memoirs4
- Britannia Rediviva1
- Broca's Brain1
- Brutus1
- The Builders1
- Bumper Stickers14
- Burke and the Edinburgh phrenologists. The Atlas (15 Feb 1829)1
- Buy my Flowers1
C
- Caged Bird1
- Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day1
- The Campaign3
- Can't Hurt Me13
- The Cat in the Hat1
- The Cat in the Hat1
- Catch-222
- The Catcher in the Rye3
- Cato16
- Cause and Effect1
- Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture1
- Character and Opinion in the United States1
- Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims1
- The Charge of the Light Brigade1
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory1
- Chat, June 17, 19981
- Chesuncook1
- Children1
- The Children's Hour2
- City Aphorisms1
- City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York2
- City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York2
- City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York1
- City Aphorisms, New York1
- City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York1
- The City of God1
- Civilization and Its Discontents2
- Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) autobiography1
- The Cock and the Fox1
- The Code of the Woosters1
- Cold Iron1
- Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself1
- Colombe's Birthday1
- The Colonel, in Polite Conversation, dialogue 21
- Come, send round the Wine1
- Comment1
- "Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)1
- "Common Places," No. 60, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)1
- The Common Reader2
- Common Sense1
- Comus1
- The Conduct of Life3
- Confessions1
- Conjugal Precepts1
- Contact6
- A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right1
- Cosmos3
- The Crack-Up1
- The Critic as Artist1
- Crossroads at Twilight1
- Cymon and Iphigenia5
D
- Dangling Man1
- Daniel Deronda4
- Dawn1
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium1
- Death of a Salesman1
- The Death of Expertise2
- 'The Death of the Hired Man'1
- The Death of the Moth and Other Essays1
- The Decay of Lying1
- Declarations of Independence1
- A Defence of Poetry1
- The Devil's Thoughts1
- Devotions XVII1
- The Diary of a Young Girl1
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency9
- Discours sur l'Homme1
- Discourse on the Method1
- The Disowned2
- 'The Divine Afflatus,' in the New York Evening Mail, November 15, 19171
- The Divine Comedy11
- A Dog Has Died4
- 'Don Juan' Canto the Sixth1
- Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion1
- 'Douglas Adams on Microsoft'1
- Dramatis Personae1
- Driftwood1
- Dune1
E
- Ecclesiastical Sonnets1
- The Echo of Greece1
- Eclogues1
- The Education of Henry Adams2
- Eggs, Beans and Crumpets1
- El Dorado1
- Emma27
- The Enemy in the Blanket1
- An Enemy of the People1
- The English Constitution2
- The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies1
- The Ephemeral Creation2
- Epistles1
- Essay "Lewis Carroll"1
- Essay on "Love" in letter, September 1852, to Harrison Blake1
- An Essay on Criticism1
- An Essay on Man (1733) Epistle 31
- Essay, 19521
- Essays, 'Character,' 18441
- Essays, First Series, "Self-Reliance"1
- Essays: First Series (1841) Essay XII, 'Art'1
- Essays: First Series (1841), "Friendship"1
- Essays: Second Series, New England Reformers1
- Eugene Aram2
- The Everlasting Man1
F
- Faith's Checkbook1
- The Fall4
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List2
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things on my To-do List2
- A Farewell to Arms1
- A Farewell to Tobacco1
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas3
- Feel This Book1
- Felix Holt1
- The Fellowship of the Ring4
- A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated1
- Finnegans Wake (1939; second edition 1950)1
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team1
- Flight to Arras1
- Following the Equator2
- For the One Who Would Take Man's Life in His Hands1
- Forever Overhead1
- Foucault's Pendulum1
- The Fountainhead5
- Four Things1
- Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria1
- Franny and Zooey3
- The Friends of Voltaire5
G
- GamesMania Interview3
- Garden of Eden1
- The Gardener's Daughter1
- Gather Together in My Name1
- The General Review of the Sex Situation1
- George Dandin1
- Getting Even1
- "The Giant," Tremendous Trifles1
- The Giving Tree1
- The Glass Menagerie1
- Go where Glory waits thee1
- The Golden Legend2
- Good Enough Mothers, ch. 31
- The Good Morrow1
- The Grand Alliance1
- The Grapes of Wrath2
- Great Contemporaries1
- The Great Crash, 19291
- Great Expectations4
- The Great Gatsby5
- Green Eggs and Ham2
- A Grief Observed5
- The Guardian (29 January 1992)1
H
- Hamlet14
- The Handmaid's Tale3
- Happy Birthday to You!1
- Harmonices Mundi2
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows4
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince7
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix3
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone1
- The Hartford Courant1
- Hartley's First Law1
- Heart of Darkness1
- Heartbeat1
- Heartbreak House1
- Hearts in Atlantis1
- Heller's Law1
- Henry IV Part I, 5:11
- Henry IV, Part II1
- Henry V2
- Henry VI, Part II1
- Henry VI, Part III1
- Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader4
- Here on Earth (unconfirmed)1
- Heroides1
- The Hind and the Panther3
- Hind Swaraj1
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy32
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game1
- The Hobbit: or There and Back Again1
- The Hollow Men1
- The Holy State and the Profane State1
- Horace1
- Horton Hatches the Egg1
- Horton Hears a Who!4
- The Hostage1
- House of Commons, 18 June 19401
- How Right You Are, Jeeves1
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!1
- Howard Zinn on War1
- Human Life (1819)6
- The Hundred Secret Senses1
- Hundreds and Thousands1
- Hyperion1
I
- i am so glad and very1
- I Am to My Own Heart Merely a Serf1
- "I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," 1977 essay,1
- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!1
- I Can't Accept Not Trying1
- I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You1
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings3
- i like my body when it is with your1
- I'd be a Butterfly1
- I'll tell you how the Sun rose1
- An Ideal Husband1
- if you like my poems let them1
- The Iliad6
- The Illiterate Digest1
- Imitation of Horace4
- The Importance of Being Earnest2
- The Importance of Being Seven3
- Impressions of Theophrastus Such1
- In a Sunburned Country1
- In Memoriam A.H.H.2
- "In Praise of Dissent", New York Times, 16 December 19561
- In the Beauty of the Lilies2
- The Individual and His Religion1
- The Inimitable Jeeves1
- The Inn Album1
- "Inspiration," Letters and Social Aims1
- Interview with the Vampire3
- Introductio ad prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life1
- Invitation1
- Iphigenia in Tauris1
- Irish Blessing1
- The Irony of Liberalism1
- The Island of the Day Before2
- Isle of Beauty1
J
K
L
- L'Amite est l'amour sans ailes1
- L'Avare1
- L'École des Femmes1
- L'Ingénu, ch.101
- "La Bégueule" (Contes, 1772)1
- La joie (Joy) 19295
- The Lacon1
- The Ladder of St. Augustine1
- Lady Lazarus1
- The Lady of Lyons2
- Lady Windemere's Fan2
- The Lady's Resolve1
- A Lament2
- 'Lamia'1
- Last Chance To See14
- The Last of the Barons1
- The Last Ride Together1
- The Last Tycoon1
- Laws2
- Le Barbier de Séville1
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme1
- Le Chapon et la Poularde1
- Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers1
- Le Misanthrope1
- Lectures on the English Comic Writers2
- Lectures on the English Poets3
- Les Femmes savantes1
- Letter from Birmingham Jail11
- Letter to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald1
- Letter to My Daughter3
- Letters and Social Aims1
- Letters to a Young Poet1
- Letters to Lucilius1
- 'Liberty of the Press' in Philosophical Dictionary1
- The Life of Cicero1
- Life of Johnson by James Boswell1
- The Life of Reason, Vol 21
- The Life of Reason, Vol. 13
- Life of Themistocles2
- Life, the Universe and Everything27
- Light in August3
- A Light in the Attic1
- Little Dorrit1
- the little engine that almost could1
- Little Man and Little Soul1
- The Little Prince9
- Live in my Heart and Pay No Rent2
- Lives of Girls and Women2
- The Living Novel: A Symposium1
- Lombard Street1
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul8
- Long, long ago1
- Look Homeward, Angel1
- The Lorax1
- Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best1
- Lords and Ladies2
- Lotus Leaves (poem)1
- Love Against Hate1
- The Lover1
M
- Macbeth8
- The Mamba Mentality3
- Man Against Himself1
- Man and Superman3
- The Man Who Knew Too Much1
- A Man Without A Country4
- Mansfield Park11
- Marriage à la Mode1
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'1
- Maxim 1281
- Maxim 192
- Maxim 221
- Maxim 251
- Maxim 261
- Maxim 2691
- Maxim 391
- Maxim 491
- Maxim 711
- Maxim 761
- Maximes1
- Maxims1
- Measure for Measure2
- The Measure of a Man1
- Medea3
- Meditations22
- Memoirs1
- Men and Women, "Bishop Blougram's Apology"1
- Men and Women, "Fra Lippo Lippi"2
- A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 618, Knopf1
- The Merchant of Venice22
- Meursault in The Stranger1
- Michael1
- Microcosmorgraphia Academia1
- A Midsummer Night's Dream6
- The Miller's Daughter1
- The Minpins1
- Mom & Me & Mom1
- The Moment and Other Essays1
- Moments of Being (1939-1940)1
- Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went1
- Monsieur Ouine, 19432
- Moonlight and Maggots1
- Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 2011
- More Please1
- Mostly Harmless19
- Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession, introduction1
- Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession1
- Moths1
- The Mourning Bride1
- Mr. Sammler's planet1
- Mrs Dalloway1
- Much Ado About Nothing15
- My Life as Me2
- My Lost Youth1
- My Sister's Keeper6
- My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters1
- The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays1
- The Mythical Man-Month4
N
- Neuromancer1
- The Neurotic's Notebook1
- Never Finished7
- Neverwhere4
- The New Timon1
- Night and Morning1
- Nightmare Abbey1
- Nine Stories3
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (aka 1984)2
- No Exit2
- No Man Is An Island1
- Northanger Abbey4
- Nostromo1
- Not a Drum was Heard (unpublished radio play, 1959)1
- Notebook2
- Notebooks1
- Notebooks 1935-1942 (1962), March 1940 entry1
- Nothing Gold Can Stay1
- Now1
- Now We Are Six1
- NY Times 13 Jul 19581
O
- O Captain! My Captain!2
- Odes1
- Oedipus at Colonus1
- Oedipus Rex5
- Oenone1
- of all the souls that stand create1
- Of Mice and Men1
- Of Parents and Children1
- "Of Revenge," Essays (1597-1625).1
- Of Time and the River1
- Oh breathe not his Name1
- Oh may I join the Choir invisible1
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!4
- 'The Old Astronomer to His Pupil'1
- The Old Bachelor1
- The Old Clock on the Stairs1
- Old Familiar Faces1
- The Old Reliable1
- Olive's Ocean1
- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College3
- On a Tear1
- "On Beauty" The Round Table (1815-1817)1
- On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)1
- On Beyond Zebra!2
- On Conciliation with America1
- On Liberty1
- "On Manner" The Round Table (1815-1817)1
- On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"1
- On the Conduct of Life3
- On the Death of a Very Young Gentleman1
- on the poetry of Robert Frost1
- On the Pulse of Morning1
- On the Road3
- "On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (1830-01-30)1
- on Washington, D.C., 18491
- on Washington, D.C., Travels in the United States in 1846–18471
- on Washinton, D.C., 18621
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish1
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish2
- One Hand Clapping1
- Oration, August 31, 18371
- Oscar Wilde1
- Othello2
- Our Town1
- Outre-Mer1
- Outside Magazine, 13 April 20091
- Overhead My Spirit Flies1
- "The Owl Who Was God," Fables for Our Time1
P
- Pæstum1
- The Palace of Art1
- Paracelsus5
- Parallel Lives1
- Parnassus on Wheels1
- A Passage to India1
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back1
- Peace of Soul1
- Pensées1
- Personal Impressions of America (Leadville)2
- Persuasion7
- Peter & Wendy1
- Peter Pan1
- The Phantom Tollbooth8
- Phenomenal Woman1
- Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young2
- Phrynette Married1
- Physics and Politics1
- Pick-Up Lines8
- The Picture of Dorian Gray4
- Pictures from an Institution2
- The Pilot1
- Pipistrello1
- The Plague1
- A Plea for Captain John Brown1
- The Pleasures of Memory1
- Pnin1
- The Point of a Pin in The Scandal of Father Brown1
- Political Essays3
- Poor Richard's Almanack3
- The Portable Dorothy Parker2
- The Portrait of Mr. W. H.1
- Practical Magic2
- Prejudices, First Series1
- The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar (Washington, DC, June 5, 1972)1
- Pride and Prejudice10
- The Prince2
- Proper Studies (1927) 'Note on Dogma'1
- The Prophet1
- The Prophet, 'Children'1
- The Proud Highway1
- Proverbes1
- Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit1
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar3
Q
R
- Rabbi Ben Ezra1
- The Rainy Day1
- Rambler #60 (October 13, 1750)1
- "Real Women" Ladies1
- The Reaper and the Flowers1
- Reflections on the Revolution in France1
- Reginald in Russia1
- The Reivers1
- Religion Without God1
- Remembrance of Things Past9
- Remembrance Rock1
- Ren1
- Requiem for a Nun3
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe4
- Résumé1
- Rhesus1
- Rhyming Poem1
- Richard III4
- Richard III, 5:31
- Richelieu6
- The Road Not Taken1
- The Road to Mars1
- Robert Graves1
- Rodogune1
- Romeo and Juliet7
- A Room of One's Own (1929)3
- The Root is Man1
- The Rose that all are praising1
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead13
S
- The Salmon of Doubt7
- Salt from My Attic1
- Salt-Cellars1
- Samson Agonistes1
- San Marcos, Calif., 14-Sept-19951
- Sanctuary1
- Satires1
- Satires. ii. 2. (111.)1
- Say not the struggle naught availeth1
- saying (unknown origin)1
- The Scarlet Letter1
- the schoolyard of forever1
- SCO Forum 971
- The Screwtape Letters1
- The Second Jungle Book1
- The Second Neurotic's Notebook1
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood1
- The Secular Masque1
- Selected Letters of James Thurber2
- Self-Reliance1
- Sense and Sensibility4
- Sentences from America, no. 121
- Sententiae29
- Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme1
- She wore a Wreath1
- Shopgirl1
- A Shropshire Lad XL1
- A Shropshire Lad XXII1
- "The Sick Chamber," The New Monthly Magazine (August 1830)1
- sign outside California meditation center1
- The Singers2
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon1
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), 'Rip Van Winkle'2
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), 'Rural Funerals'1
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), 'Stratford-on-Avon'1
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem2
- Small Gods32
- Snow Crash1
- So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish17
- Society and Solitude2
- Something Happened1
- Something Wicked This Way Comes9
- somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond...1
- Song of Myself1
- Song of Solomon3
- Sonnets3
- Sordello1
- A Soul's Tragedy1
- The Sound and the Fury3
- The Stand1
- Standing Again at Sinai1
- Statecraft6
- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves1
- Still I Rise2
- The Stone Diaries1
- The Story of My Life3
- The Strange Necessity, ch. 101
- A Streetcar Named Desire1
- Strength to Love14
- Stride Toward Freedom3
- The Substance of Man1
- A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice1
- Summum Bonum1
- The Sun Dial1
- "Swann1
- Sweet Thursday1
T
- Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners (1821-1822)3
- A Tale of Two Cities4
- A Tale of Two Cities (first line)1
- Tales of a Traveler1
- Tales of a Traveler, To the Reader1
- Taming the Bicycle1
- Tao Te Ching3
- Teach me to forget1
- Temenid1
- The Tempest13
- Tender is the Night1
- Terre des Hommes (1939) (Wind, Sand and Stars)2
- Terrorism and War1
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles6
- There Is No Forgetting: Sonata, Residencia en la Tierra (1925-1935)1
- Thief of Time1
- Things are seldom what they seem (song) from H.M.S. Pinafore1
- Thoughts and Meditations1
- Thoughts of a Biologist1
- "Thoughts on Taste," Edinburgh Magazine, (October 1818)1
- "Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine, July 18191
- Three Guineas1
- Through the Looking Glass1
- Through the Looking-Glass1
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra2
- Time and Tide1
- Time Enough for Love27
- The Timeless World of Play1
- Tipperary1
- Titus Andronicus1
- To -----1
- To Daffodils1
- To Kill a Mockingbird3
- To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve2
- To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace1
- To the Lighthouse1
- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham1
- To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew2
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time1
- Tonight I Can Write2
- Torquato Tasso1
- The Town1
- Trainspotting4
- Travels With Charley: In Search of America3
- Triumph and Tragedy1
- Troades1
- Troilus and Cressida1
- Troilus and Cressida6
- Tuesdays with Morrie1
- A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628 - 16881
- Twelfth Night2
- Twilight4
- Twilight of the Idols1
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona1
- The Two Hands of God1
- Two Little Wooden Shoes1
- The Two Towers3
U
V
W
- Waiting for Godot12
- Walden6
- Walden6
- A Walk to Remember1
- Walking Drum1
- Walking on Water3
- War Shrines1
- Wars I Have Seen1
- The Waves1
- The Way of All Flesh1
- The Way of Zen1
- The Web and the Rock1
- The Web and the Rock1
- Welcome me Home1
- Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat1
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why1
- when asked for his policy on the eliminating the Iraqi Army, Jan 19911
- When I consider how my light is spent1
- When Stars are in the quiet Skies1
- When You Are Old1
- Where the Blue Begins1
- Where the Sidewalk Ends1
- Why I Wake Early1
- Why We Can't Wait1
- The Wild Palms1
- Winnie the Pooh14
- The Wisdom of the Sands1
- A Wish1
- Witch-Wife2
- Witches Abroad1
- Without Feathers2
- Wizard and Glass The Dark Tower Series, Number IV1
- A Woman of No Importance1
- Women and Their Fathers, ch. 31
- Women of Trachis2
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz2
- The Word in Season1
- Work1
- "Works and Days," Society and Solitude1
- The Worm and the Ring2
- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now2
- Wyrd Sisters1