1. The Green Fairy Book
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: Andrew Lang

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. more..

2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)
Publisher: Random House Audio
Written By: Maya Angelou

2 CDs / 3 hours
Read by the Author, Maya Angelou

Also available on cassette

Superbly told--with the poet's gift for language and observation, and charged with the unforgettable emotion of remembered anguish and love--this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are unaware of.
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3. Paradise Regained
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Written By: John Milton

Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, which deals with the subject of the Temptation of Christ. One of the major concepts emphasized throughout Paradise Regained is the play on reversals. As implied by its title, Milton sets out to reverse the "loss" of Paradise. Thus, antonyms are often found next to each other throughout the poem, reinforcing the idea that more..

4. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover
Written By: Homer

'I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish'

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his more..

5. The Aeneid
Publisher: Vintage
Written By: Virgil

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. more..

6. Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Written By: Walt Whitman

"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.
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7. Bell Jar
Publisher: Caedmon
Written By: Sylvia Plath

"Esther Greenwood's account of her years in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing - [this] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature."
-The New York Times

"McDormand gives a sensitive, intimate performance. Herdry, ironic tone, covering up for an undercurrent of fear, perfectly capturesthe character of more..

8. The Ghost Pirates
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: William Hope Hodgson

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9. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Written By: Tom Stoppard

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10. The Enchanted April
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Written By: Elizabeth von Arnim

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