Traditional Classics
Have a teacher telling you it's time to read a "classic"? Check
out this list for a variety of literature published before 1950.
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Emma
Austen, Jane,
1775-1817.
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Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily,
1818-1848.
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The stranger
Camus, Albert,
1913-1960.
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Don Quixote. English
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
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The awakening
Chopin, Kate,
1851-1904.
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Heart of darkness
Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924.
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The last of the Mohicans
Cooper,
James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
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Great expectations
Dickens,
Charles, 1812-1870.
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Invisible man
Ellison, Ralph.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas,
1840-1928.
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The power and the glory
Greene, Graham,
1904-1991.
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Brave new world
Huxley, Aldous,
1894-1963.
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
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To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
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The heart is a lonely hunter
McCullers,
Carson, 1917-1967.
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Death of a salesman; certain
private conversations in two acts and a requiem.
Miller, Arthur,
1915-2005.
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Gone with the wind
Mitchell,
Margaret, 1900-1949.
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Animal farm
Orwell, George,
1903-1950.
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The fountainhead
Rand, Ayn.
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All quiet on the western front
Remarque,
Erich Maria, 1898-1970.
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King Lear
Shakespeare,
William, 1564-1616.
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare,
William, 1564-1616.
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Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
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The jungle
Sinclair,
Upton, 1878-1968.
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Betty,
1896-1972.
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The grapes of wrath
Steinbeck,
John, 1902-1968.
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Dracula
Stoker, Bram,
1847-1912.
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Uncle Tom's cabin
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy,
Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
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Ethan Frome
Wharton,
Edith, 1862-1937.
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The once and future king.
White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964.
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