For the purposes of our class, you may consider each of the works listed below to be a classic, or you may petition the instructor in advance (before writing about it) to recognize another work. Note: Some authors’ are listed by their pseudonym (“pen name”) if the majority of their works were published under that name.
Although all of the works below have received critical acclaim for excellence and stood the test of time (i.e., are classics), they were
not
all written for the same audience. Some are classics in children’s literature, some are classics written for young adults (teens), and some have such depth that only adults are likely to understand them. In writing about children’s or young adult literature you should show an awareness of the audience for which the work was written and not “stretch” the meaning in a dubious direction, i.e., Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch stole Christmas” is a children’s story, not a metaphor for American politics.
The notations “Collected Short Stories of” or “Collected Poetry of” do not refer to an actual volume of that name, but rather to the idea that
many
published short stories and/ or poems by this author can be recognized as classics. Remember that a short story or a poem, although smaller than a novel, is viewed as a complete work of literature and should be analyzed as such.
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
Alighieri, Dante
Inferno
Armstrong, William
Sounder
Austen, Jane
Emma
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
Bierce, Ambrose
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bolt, Robert
A Man for All Seasons
Borland, Hal
When the Legends Die
Bradbury, Ray
Collected Short Stories of (“There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Dandelion Wine”
cannot be used because they are used in class)
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Browning, Robert
Collected Poetry of
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden
Camus, Albert
The Stranger
Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game
Carroll, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
Chandler, Raymond
The Big Sleep
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales
Christie, Agatha
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Kubla Khan
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pathfinder
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Dickinson, Emily
Collected Poetry of
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Eliot, T.S.
Collected Poetry of
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Babylon Revisited
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
This Side of Paradise
Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain
Frost, Robert
Collected Poetry of
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows
Hardy, Thomas
Far from the Madding Crowd
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Hemmingway, Ernest
Collected Short Stories of
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
Henry, O
Collected Short Stories of
Hesse, Hermann
Steppenwolf
Hinton, S.E.
The Outsiders
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
James, Henry
Daisy Miller
The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James
Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Kafka, Franz
The Trial
Keats, John
Collected Poetry of
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kipling, Rudyard
Collected Short Stories of
Captains Courageous
Kim
The Jungle Book
Knowles, John
A Separate Peace
L’Engle, Madeline
A Wrinkle in Time
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, C.S.
The Chronicles of Narnia
London, Jack
Collected Short Stories of
The Call of the Wild
The Sea-Wolf
White Fang
Malamud, Bernard
The Natural
Melville, Herman
Billy Budd
Moby-Dick
Michener, James
Tales of the South Pacific
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
Milne, A.A.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Milton, John
Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Green Gables
O’Brien, Tim
“The Things They Carried” (individual short story)
O’Dell, Scott
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Orwell, George
1984
Animal Farm
Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
Poe, Edgar Allen
Collected Short Stories of
Potok, Chaim
The Chosen
My Name is Asher Lev
Potter, Beatrix
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
Rawls, Wilson
Where the Red Fern Grows
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond
Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Service, Robert W.
Collected Poetry of
Shaara, Michael
The Killer Angels
Shakespeare, William
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Hamlet
Henry V
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Shaw, George Bernard
Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Moon is Down
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram
Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal
Gulliver’s Travels
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Collected Poetry of
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilych
War and Peace
Twain, Mark
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Pudd’nhead Wilson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Unknown
Beowulf
Vonnegut, Kurt
Cat’s Cradle
“Harrison Bergeron” (individual short story)
Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
Wharton, Edith
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
White, T.H.
The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt
Collected Poetry of
Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
Wordsworth, William
Collected Poetry of
Woulk, Herman
The Caine Mutiny
Yeats, William Butler
Collected Poetry of
Classic Graphic Novels (Comic Books)
Characters
Batman
Captain America
Superman
Wonder Woman
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