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  1. 2.
    Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
    by C.W. Ceram

  2. 3.
    Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
    by A. Leo Oppenheim

  3. 4.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

  4. 5.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  5. 6.
    The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
    by M. C. Howatson

  6. 7.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

  7. 10.
    The Analects (Everyman's Library)
    by Confucius

  8. 11.
    A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
    by Yu-lan Fung

  9. 12.
    The World of Thought in Ancient China
    by Benjamin I. Schwartz

  10. 13.
    Confucius: The Secular As Sacred
    by Herbert Fingarette

  11. 14.

  12. 15.
    Greek Tragedy
    by H. D. F. Kitto

  13. 16.
    ?
    Sophoclean tragedy
    by C. M Bowra

  14. 17.
    Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
    by Lowell Edmunds

  15. 18.
    ?
    Euripides and His Age
    by Gilbert Murray

  16. 19.
    Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
    by Anne Norris Michelini

  17. 20.
    The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
    by Robert B. Strassler

  18. 21.
    The Ancient Greek Historians
    by J. B. Bury

  19. 22.
    ?
    Herodotus: Father of History.
    by J.L. Myres

  20. 23.
    The Landmark Thucydides

  21. 24.
    ?
    Historical Commentary on Thucydides. 5 Vols.
    by A.W. Gomme

  22. 25.
    A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books I - III
    by Simon Hornblower

  23. 26.
    A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24
    by Simon Hornblower

  24. 27.
    ?
    A Commentary on Thucydides
    by Simon Hornblower

  25. 28.
    The Art of Warfare (Classics of Ancient China)
    by Sun Tzu

  26. 30.
    Four Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
    by Aristophanes

  27. 31.
    Three Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
    by Aristophanes

  28. 33.
    ?
    Greek Philosophers
    by Rex Warner

  29. 34.
    The Trial of Socrates
    by I.F. Stone

  30. 35.

  31. 36.
    Aristotle and His Philosophy
    by Abraham Edel

  32. 37.
    Mencius (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  33. 38.

  34. 41.

  35. 43.
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    "Mahabharata" of Vyasa
    by P. Lal

  36. 45.
    Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
    by Sima Sima Qian

  37. 46.
    Records of the Grand Historian
    by Sima Qian

  38. 47.
    ?
    Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China.
    by Burton. WATSON

  39. 48.
    ?
    Chinese Traditional Historiography
    by Charles S. Gardner

  40. 49.
    ?
    Historians of China and Japan
    by W.G.; Pulleyblank, E.G. (eds) Beasley

  41. 51.
    History of Rome
    by Michael Grant

  42. 52.
    ?
    The Romans (Pelican Book)
    by R. H. Barrow

  43. 53.
    ?
    History of Latin Literature
    by Moses Hadas

  44. 55.
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    Virgil
    by t. R. Glover

  45. 57.
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    The Portable Marcus Aurelius

  46. 58.
    Marcus Aurelius: A Biography (Roman Imperial Biographies)
    by Anthony R Birley

  47. 59.
    Kalidasa
    by Arthur W. Ryder

  48. 60.
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    Kalidasa; Poet of Nature
    by Mary B. Harris

  49. 61.
    ?
    Kalidasa
    by K Krishnamoorthy

  50. 62.
    ?
    The Sanskrit Drama in Its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice
    by Arthur Berriedale Keith

  51. 63.
    Koran (Worlds Classics)
    by a J (Trans) Arberry

  52. 64.
    ?
    Rahnamaye Mohtaviyate: Guide to the Contents of the Koran
    by Farouk Sharif Sadegh

  53. 65.
    Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
    by Karen Armstrong

  54. 66.
    History of the Arab Peoples
    by Albert Hourani

  55. 67.
    The Arabs in History
    by Bernard Lewis

  56. 68.

  57. 70.
    Buddhism in China
    by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en

  58. 71.
    An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    by D. T. Suzuki

  59. 73.
    Epic and Sedition: A Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
    by Dick Davis

  60. 74.
    The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (Classics S.)
    by Sei Shonagon

  61. 76.
    The Tale of Genji
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  62. 77.
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  63. 78.
    The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the "Tale of Genji"
    by Haruo Shirane

  64. 80.
    The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (Penguin Classics)
    by Omar Khayyam

  65. 81.
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    In Search of Omar Khayyam (Persian studies monographs)
    by Ali Dashti

  66. 82.
    The Divine Comedy: Hell (Penguin Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

  67. 83.

  68. 84.
    The Divine Comedy Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics) (v. 3)
    by Dante Alighieri

  69. 85.
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    Dante Alighieri
    by Ricardo J. Quinones

  70. 88.
    ?
    A Brief History of Chinese Fiction
    by Lu Hsun

  71. 90.
    Riverside Chaucer (Oxford Paperbacks)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  72. 91.
    ?
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    by John Livingston Lowes

  73. 92.
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    Geoffrey Chaucer of England, written and decorated by Marchette Chute
    by Marchette Gaylord (1909-) Chute

  74. 94.
    The Prince (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Niccolï¿1/2 Machiavelli

  75. 95.
    ?
    The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli
    by Roberto Ridolfi

  76. 97.
    ?
    The Life of Francois Rabelais
    by Jean Plattard

  77. 99.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

  78. 100.
    Montaigne: A Biography
    by Donald Murdoch Frame

  79. 101.
    The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
    by Virginia Woolf

  80. 102.
    The Portable Cervantes (Portable Library)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  81. 103.
    ?

  82. 104.
    Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare

  83. 107.
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    SHAKESPEARE: A Biography
    by William). Quennell, Peter (Shakespeare

  84. 108.
    Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
    by Northrop Frye

  85. 109.
    Shakespeare
    by Anthony Burgess

  86. 110.
    Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Norton Library)
    by Jan Kott

  87. 112.
    ?
    John Donne: A Life
    by R.C. Baid

  88. 113.
    ?
    John Donne's Poetry.
    by Wilbur. DONNE. SANDERS

  89. 117.
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    John Donne, a Study in Discord
    by H. I. Faussett

  90. 118.
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    The Donne Tradition
    by George Williamson

  91. 119.
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    A Garland For John Donne 1631 - 1931
    by Theodore Spencer

  92. 123.
    Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
    by Galileo Galilei

  93. 124.
    Galileo: A Life
    by James Jr. Reston

  94. 126.
    Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hobbes

  95. 127.
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    HOBBES
    by RICHARD PETERS

  96. 128.
    ?
    Hobbes: Morals and Politics
    by D.D. Raphael

  97. 131.
    ?
    René Descartes: A biography (Library of great lives)
    by Jack Rochford Vrooman

  98. 132.
    Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry
    by Bernard Williams

  99. 133.
    A History of Western Philosophy
    by Bertrand Russell

  100. 134.
    The Portable Milton (Portable Library)
    by John Milton

  101. 135.
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    Milton - A Biography (2 vols)
    by William Riley Parker

  102. 136.
    ?
    John Milton, Englishman
    by James Holly Hanford

  103. 137.
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    Milton: E.M.W. Tillyard
    by E. M. W Tillyard

  104. 138.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

  105. 140.
    ?
    Moliere. A Playwright and His Audience.
    by W.D. MOLIERE. HOWARTH

  106. 141.
    ?
    Moliere : His Life and Works
    by John Palmer

  107. 142.
    Pensees (Penguin Classics)
    by Blaise Pascal

  108. 143.
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    Pascal His Life & Works
    by Jean Mesnard

  109. 144.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

  110. 145.
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    John Bunyan
    by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

  111. 146.
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    The Second Treatise of Government
    by John Locke

  112. 147.
    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    by John Locke

  113. 149.
    ?
    John Locke: A Biography (Oxford Paperback Reference)
    by Maurice William Cranston

  114. 151.
    Matsuo Basho
    by Makoto Ueda

  115. 152.
    A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
    by Matsuo Basho

  116. 153.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  117. 154.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  118. 155.
    Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  119. 156.
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    Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World
    by John Robert Moore

  120. 157.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  121. 158.
    The Portable Swift (Viking Portable Library)
    by Jonathan Swift

  122. 159.
    ?
    Jonathan Swift (University Paperbacks)
    by David Ward

  123. 160.
    Candide and Philosophical Letters (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

  124. 161.
    ?
    The Portable Voltaire

  125. 162.
    ?
    Voltaire (Twayne's World Authors Series)
    by Peyton E. Richter

  126. 164.
    The Life of David Hume
    by Ernest Campbell Mossner

  127. 165.
    Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  128. 166.
    Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  129. 167.
    Jonathan Wild (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  130. 168.
    The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  131. 169.
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    Twentieth Century Views: FIELDING. A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited By Ronald Paulson.
    by Ronald, Editor (Fielding, Henry) Paulson

  132. 170.
    Henry Fielding : His Life, Works, and Times. Two Volume Set, 2 Volumes.
    by Frederick Homes Dudden

  133. 171.
    The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1)
    by Hsueh_Chin Tsao, David Hawkes, O Kao, John Minford, Hsueh_Ch'in Ts'ao Cao Xueqin

  134. 172.
    The Story of the Stone, Vol. 2: The Crab-Flower Club
    by Cao Xueqin

  135. 173.
    The Story of the Stone, Vol. 3: The Warning Voice
    by Cao Xueqin

  136. 176.
    The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  137. 177.
    The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  138. 178.
    Rousseau: Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Peter France

  139. 179.
    ?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    by Jean Guehenno

  140. 181.
    Sentimental Journey (Everyman Paperback Classics)
    by Laurence Sterne

  141. 182.
    Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Boswell

  142. 184.
    ?
    Johnson and Boswell: Story of Their Lives
    by Hesketh Pearson

  143. 185.
    ?
    Basic Documents in American History
    by Richard Brandon Morris

  144. 192.
    The Federalist Papers
    by Alexander Hamilton

  145. 193.
    Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classics) (Pt. 1)
    by J. W. von Goethe

  146. 194.
    Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics) (Pt. 2)
    by J. W. von Goethe

  147. 196.
    Goethe: The History of a Man
    by Emil Ludwig

  148. 197.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by William Blake

  149. 198.
    ?
    The Portable Blake
    by William / Kazin, Alfred Blake

  150. 199.
    ?
    Life of William Blake
    by Mona Wilson

  151. 200.
    ?
    William Blake and the age of revolution
    by Jacob Bronowski

  152. 201.
    ?
    Blake
    by Peter Ackroyd

  153. 202.
    Poetical Works (Oxford Standard Authors)
    by William Wordsworth

  154. 203.
    Biographia Literaria (Everyman Paperback Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  155. 204.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  156. 206.
    ?
    Coleridge
    by Walter Jackson Bate

  157. 207.
    The Road To Xanadu - A Study In The Ways Of the Imagination
    by JOHN LIVINGSTON LOWES

  158. 208.
    ?
    Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets.
    by Thomas De Quincey

  159. 209.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  160. 211.
    Emma (Riverside Editions)
    by Jane Austen

  161. 212.
    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters

  162. 213.
    Jane Austen: A Life
    by David Nokes

  163. 214.
    The Red and the Black (Signet Classics)
    by Stendhal

  164. 215.
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    The Charterhouse of Parma
    by Stendahl

  165. 216.

  166. 217.
    Stendhal or the Pursuit of Happiness
    by Matthew Josephson

  167. 219.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  168. 220.
    Eugenie Grandet (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  169. 221.
    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore De Balzac

  170. 222.
    ?
    Henry James, The Future of the Novel
    by Leon Edel

  171. 223.
    Balzac
    by Stefan Zweig

  172. 225.
    ?
    Rusk: The Life of R W Emerson (Cloth)
    by R.L. Rusk

  173. 226.
    Flowering of New England 1815 1865
    by Van Wyck Brooks

  174. 227.
    American Renaissance: Art And Expression In The Age Of Emerson And Whitman
    by Francis Otto Matthiessen

  175. 228.
    Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
    by George Santayana

  176. 229.
    Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait
    by Carlos Baker

  177. 230.
    Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)
    by Robert D. Richardson Jr.

  178. 232.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne : Tales and Sketches (Library of America)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  179. 233.
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Biography
    by Arlin Turner

  180. 235.
    ?

  181. 236.
    Tocqueville in America
    by George Wilson Pierson

  182. 239.
    The Life of John Stuart Mill by Michael St. John Packe
    by Michael St. John Packe

  183. 240.
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    English Utilitarians
    by John Petrov Plamenatz

  184. 241.
    The Original and Complete On the Origin of Species by Darwin
    by J. P. de Boulogny

  185. 242.
    The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Darwin

  186. 243.
    Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1831-1836)
    by Charles Darwin

  187. 245.
    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
    by Charles Darwin

  188. 246.
    Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
    by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  189. 248.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  190. 249.
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    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nicolai; McAndrew, Andrew R. (translator) Gogol

  191. 250.
    The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
    by Nikolai Gogol

  192. 251.
    An Outline of Russian Literature
    by Marc Slonim

  193. 252.
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    Nikolai Gogol
    by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

  194. 253.
    ?
    Gogol, a Life.
    by David. Magarshack

  195. 254.
    Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales (Library of America)
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  196. 256.
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    The Raven and the Whale
    by Perry Miller

  197. 257.
    ?
    Edgar Allen Poe : a Study in Genius
    by Joseph Wood Krutch

  198. 258.
    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Oxford World's Classics)
    by W. M. Thackeray

  199. 259.
    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (The World's Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  200. 260.
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    An Uneasy Victorian. Thackeray the Man.
    by Ann. THACKERAY. MONSARRAT

  201. 261.
    Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  202. 262.
    David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  203. 263.
    Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  204. 264.
    Hard Times (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  205. 265.
    Little Dorrit (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  206. 266.
    Nicholas Nickleby (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  207. 267.
    The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  208. 268.
    Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  209. 269.
    Our Mutual Friend (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  210. 270.
    The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  211. 271.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  212. 273.
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    The World of Charles Dickens
    by Angus Wilson

  213. 274.
    Charles Dickens (Chesterton's Biographies)
    by G. K. Chesterton

  214. 275.
    The Warden (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  215. 276.
    ?
    The Last Chronicle of Barset (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  216. 277.
    The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  217. 278.
    The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  218. 279.
    An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  219. 280.
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    Trollope: A Biography
    by N. John Hall

  220. 282.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  221. 283.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics)
    by Anne Bronte

  222. 284.
    The Life of Charlotte Bronte (World's Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

  223. 285.
    ?
    Emily Bronte: Her Life and Work
    by Muriel Spark; And Derek Stanford

  224. 286.
    The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  225. 287.
    Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
    by Robert D. Richardson Jr.

  226. 288.
    Fathers and Sons (Modern Library Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  227. 289.
    The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  228. 290.
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    Karl Marx the Story of His Life By Franz Mehring
    by Franz Mehring

  229. 292.
    Darwin - Marx - Wagner - Critique Of A Heritage
    by Jacques Barzun

  230. 293.
    Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  231. 294.
    Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  232. 295.
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    HERMAN MELVILLE, A BIOGRAPHY
    by Leon Howard

  233. 296.
    The Mill on the Floss (New Riverside Editions)
    by George Eliot

  234. 297.
    Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot

  235. 298.
    Adam Bede (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot

  236. 299.
    Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot

  237. 300.
    ?
    George Eliot; a biography [by] Gordon S. Haight
    by Gordon Sherman Haight

  238. 301.
    ?
    Victorian Novelists -Essays in Revaluation
    by David Cecil

  239. 302.
    Partial Portraits
    by Henry James

  240. 303.
    Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)
    by Walt Whitman

  241. 304.
    Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
    by David S. Reynolds

  242. 305.
    ?
    Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
    by Paul Zweig

  243. 306.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

  244. 307.
    Flaubert and Madame Bovary
    by Francis Steegmuller

  245. 308.
    Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  246. 309.
    ?
    FLAUBERT, A BIOGRAPHY
    by Philip Spencer

  247. 310.
    Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  248. 311.
    The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  249. 312.
    The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  250. 313.
    Dostoevsky: A Study
    by Janko Lavrin

  251. 314.

  252. 315.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  253. 316.
    ?
    Tolstoy
    by Henri [Tolstoy Leo] Troyat

  254. 317.
    Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henrik Ibsen

  255. 320.
    The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    by G. Bernard Shaw

  256. 321.
    ?
    The flower and the castle: An introduction to modern drama
    by Maurice Jacques Valency

  257. 322.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  258. 325.

  259. 329.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Perennial Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  260. 330.
    The Education Of Henry Adams (Riverside Editions)
    by Henry Adams

  261. 331.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  262. 332.
    Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  263. 333.
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  264. 334.
    The Principles of Psychology, Vol.1
    by William James

  265. 335.
    Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
    by William James

  266. 336.

  267. 337.

  268. 339.
    The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

  269. 340.

  270. 341.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

  271. 342.
    ?
    The Art of the Novel,
    by Henry James

  272. 343.
    The James Family A Group Biography
    by F. O. Matthiessen

  273. 344.

  274. 345.
    The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  275. 346.
    Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
    by Walter A. Kaufmann

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