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Classics and Fiction

ʘ For the Youngest Readers, or to Read Aloud	ʘ For Younger Readers
ʘ For Older Readers	ʘ Pre-Teen and Teens
ʘ Classics from Other Cultures	ʘ Mystery
ʘ Mythology	ʘ Poetry

For the Youngest Readers, or to Read Aloud...

Annie Mouse Meets Her Guardian Angel by Anne Slanina (sometimes available from Amazon): For all children who have ever felt that their mothers hated them when they were yelling. Annie Mouse is a shy, quiet mouse with many brothers and sisters. Mommy Mouse yells and screams at them as she works hard to keep house. Annie believes her mother hates her until she has a visit from her Guardian Angel, who helps her understand that her mother is having a hard time coping with all of her duties as a mother of a large family. Annie begins to ask her Guardian Angel for help when her mother yells. She also begins to help her mother with the chores instead of running and hiding when her mother yells...
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein: "Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy." Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave... (Warning: This story is either loved or hated by gifted families - whether you see it as a story of giving or a story of sacrifice.)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, Mole's whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society-hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures...

Rudyard Kipling's...: Just So Stories; Rikki-Tikki-Tavi; For one hundred years, these classic tales -- drawn from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa and filled with mischievously clever animals and people -- have entertained young and old alike

Best Ever, by the folks who brought you Horrible Histories. Visit Horribles! for the whole Horrible collection!

Terry Deary's Best Ever Greek Legends (or from the Amazon.co.uk Terry Deary's Best Ever Greek Legends): From killer king Oedipus to monstrous Medusa's horrible hair, the classic Greek legends are back ...with a modern twist. Discover how Heroic Heracles sits his SATs and the wife of top god Zeus spills the beans about her legendary husband. Discover foul fact about furies, harpies and other killer creatures plus the evils of the Underworld revealed. 100% horrible!
Terry Deary's Best Ever Shakespeare Tales (or from the Amazon.co.uk Terry Deary's Best Ever Shakespeare Tales): Tells you more than just what happens in everyone's favourite Shakespeare plays - it tells you the stories behind them. Find out about: A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Hamlet. From how the plays were originally staged to what Shakespeare himself might have thought of his work being taught in schools - there's so much to find out!

For Younger Readers... Also visit Hot Topics Reading List: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry: The ups and downs of a precocious ten-year-old girl... and the sequels:

For Older Readers...

1984 by George Orwell: The year is 1984; the scene is London. In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: Verne's classic novel about Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus - classic science fiction still today!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: An amusing, nostalgic look at boyhood on the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, and is based on Mark Twain's memories of his youth in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri. Also, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Animal Farm by George Orwell: George Orwell's anthropomorphic fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for...
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson: Jess Aarons is eager to start fifth grade. He's been practicing his sprints all summer, determined to become the fastest runner at school. All seems to be on track, until the new girl in class leaves all the boys in the dust, including Jess... Now available as a movie Bridge to Terabithia
Catch-22 by Joseph L. Heller: Classic satire on the murderous insanity of war...
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger: The coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures...
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess: Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity...
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas: One of the greatest thrillers of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the tale of young Edmond Dantes, who, falsely accused of treason and arrested on his wedding day, escapes from prison to seek revenge on his enemies
Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller: Described by Miller as "the tragedy of a man who gave his life, or sold it" in pursuit of the American Dream. After many years on the road as a traveling salesman, Willy Loman realizes he has been a failure as a father and husband...
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: Classic, frightening vision of the future, where firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. This vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad...
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams: The domineering matriarch of the Wingfield family tries to find a "gentleman caller" for her fragile daughter. This is a "memory play"; the narrator/character, Tom, continually shifts from narration to his "in scene" character...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: What this cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its remarkable characters and compelling stories...
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells: A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror...
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells: This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows...
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian war to vivid life. Featuring the classic character Natty Bumppo, it is a moving, memorable depiction of courage, passion, and forbearance, and a precursor to the Western genre
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: The March family, with its four spirited daughters, succeeds in any circumstances. Alcott's themes of love, kindness and faith endure through the centuries
Listen! by Stephanie Tolan: Award-winning story about a girl who loses her mom, and finds herself, with the help of a wild dog... Christopher Award, for media that “salutes the highest values of the human spiritˮ (all readers)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury: From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future...
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: The tragic story, given poignancy by its objective narrative, is about the complex bond between two migrant laborers
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: Oliver's stark request, "Please, sir, I want some more," will thrill kids today as it always has, and the story of the street boy on the run, who lives with outlaws and then finds a safe home...
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman: Tired of school-assigned novels where the dog always dies, Wallace tells the teacher how he feels... and ends up kicked off the football team and into detention, along with an English teacher doing a dramatic production of the novel Wallace hates. By the end of the production, the tables are turned and the dog pulls through... Great for our sensitive readers!
The Pearl by John Steinbeck: The tragic tale of how a priceless pearl brings greed, treachery and loss to a poor Mexican pearl diver, his wife and their infant son...
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry: An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions...
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: Classic tale of a young man's coming-of-age during the American Civil War...
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: Crusoe has become an emblem of human survival in a lonely and hostile world...
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: In the early days of Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne braves the stigma of adultery by wearing the embroidered scarlet "A" on her clothing...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." This classic story of feuding families set against a backdrop of London and Paris during the French Revolution reveals the author's belief that from the ashes of the past can come the birth of a more enlightened age...
Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas: Timeless tale of swashbuckling adventure and heroic deeds...
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: First novel by H.G. Wells, published in book form in 1895. The novel is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction and the progenitor of the "time travel" subgenre. Wells advanced his social and political ideas in this narrative of a nameless Time Traveller who is hurtled into the year 802,701 by his elaborate ivory, crystal, and brass contraption. The world he finds is peopled by two races: the decadent Eloi, fluttery and useless, are dependent for food, clothing, and shelter on the simian subterranean Morlocks, who prey on them...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up...
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
By Gary Blackwood: The Shakespeare Stealer tale of a 14-year-old Yorkshire orphan sent by a rival theater manager to steal the as-yet-unpublished Hamlet in 1601 London "excels in the lively depictions of Elizabethan stagecraft and street life"; Shakespeare's Scribe; Shakespeare's Spy
By L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables (complete set) tale of a 14-year-old Yorkshire orphan sent by a rival theater manager to steal the as-yet-unpublished Hamlet in 1601 London "excels in the lively depictions of Elizabethan stagecraft and street life" Or read The Annotated Anne of Green Gables
World of Adventure series, by Gary Paulsen (chapter books to pre-teen, mostly out of stock but available used)

Pre-Teen and Teens

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (pre-teen and up): A murder mystery of sorts -- told by an autistic boy. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers...
Alex Rider Adventure, by Anthony Horowitz (pre-teen to teen): Stormbreaker; Point Blank; Skeleton Key; Eagle Strike; Scorpia coming March 17, 2005; Working as a secret agent for Britain’s most exclusive agency, M16, Alex Rider has seen it all. He’s been shot at by international terrorists, stood face-to-face with pure evil, and saved the world—twice. But fifteen-year-old Alex is about to face something more dangerous than he can imagine...
Brian, by Gary Paulsen (pre-teen and up): Hatchet; The River; Brian's Winter; Brian's Return; Brian's Hunt; Guts - the real stories. stories of the adventures that inspired Paulsen to write Brian Robeson's story; Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization...
The Boy, by Gary Paulson (chapter books, pre-teen and up): The Cookcamp Short, lyrical novel concerns a five-year-old boy who is sent to the north woods of Minnesota to live with his grandmother, a cook for a rough-and-tumble road-building crew...; The Quilt Spend another summer with "the boy" and his grandmother, Alida. World War II is being fought in Europe, and the boy’s mother, working in a munitions factory in Chicago, sends her six-year-old son to stay with his grandmother in Minnesota; Alida's Song The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven...
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (chapter books to adult): Newbery Honor title! When Jake Semple is kicked out of yet another school, the Applewhites, an eccentric family of artists, offer to let him live with them and attend their unstructured Creative Academy...

Classics from Other Cultures

Also read Windows and Mirrors: Reading Diverse Children's Literature by Sarah Park Dahlen, for lots more suggestions on diverse cultural literature.

China

The Analects of Confucius by Confucius, translated by Simon Leys: In this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilization he saw in decline. Leys's Notes draw Confucius into conversation with the great thinkers of the Western tradition...
The Art of War by Sun-Tzu: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed version of his influential classic imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary in war, at the office, or in everyday life...
The I Ching or Book of Changes translated by Richard Wilhelm: More than just a translation, Richard Wilhelm's I Ching is a profound introduction to the Chinese world-view. The I Ching (Yi Jing) is recognized by both Confucians and Taoists as a foundational work, and Wilhelm shows why. He separates his work into three books. The first book is about the hexagrams...
Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en, translated by W.J.F. Jenner: Journey to the West is a classic Chinese mythological novel. It was written during the Ming Dynasty based on traditional folktales. Consisting of 100 chapters, this fantasy relates the adventures of a Tang Dynasty (618-907) priest Sanzang and his three disciples, Monkey, Pig and Friar Sand, as they travel west in search of Buddhist Sutra...

India

Ramayana retold by William Buck Mahabharata retold by William Buck: Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago...

Japan

A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi: To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory...
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (an explanation for Westerners): To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power...
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker: Not only the world's first real novel, but one of its greatest...
Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement by Gustie L. Herrigel, translated by R. F. C. Hull: Not only the world's first real novel, but one of its greatest...

Mexico

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: Paz, a cosmopolitan poet, is also intensely Mexican. In his lines--whether long and flowing or spare and chiseled--sorrow and solitude are measured against the strength of his people and refracted through the prism of his gentle romanticism ("The world is born when two people kiss"). From India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and France, the poet-diplomat pens updates on the fragile state of the world. Yet if death is an ever-present reality in his poetry, so is hope...

Middle East

By Naguib Mahfouz...

Children of the Alley

Midag Alley

Originally published in Arabic in 1959, Mahfouz's multigenerational saga presents an allegorical look at spirituality...

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyaim by Omar Khayyaim, translated by Edmund J. Sullivan: In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present...

South America

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership...
Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems: In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment to the communist faith...

United Kingdom

Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse: Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages. Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works...

Mystery Maniacs!

Solving Mysterious Crimes...

Fingerprints and Talking Bones: How Real-Life Crimes Are Solved by Charlotte Foltz Jones

For the Young Mystery Lover...

Buck Wilder's Adventures, by Timothy R. Smith: Who Stole the Animal Poop?; The Work Bees Go On Strike; The Ants Dig to China; The Owls Don't Give a Hoot; Buck Wilder, everyone's favorite outdoorsman, and his animal friends go on grand adventures through the animal kingdom. Each story leads to an important natural world message, plus a secret message in each book, and flip-book animation on the edge of the pages...; Also read Buck Wilder's Animal Wisdom; Buck Wilder and his animal friends show us the how nature and life are interconnected - great lessons, and great fun! A picture book, but perfect for older kids, too
PaleoJoe's Dinosaur Detective Club by Joseph P. Kchodl and Wendy Caszatt-Allen

For the Growing Mystery Lover...

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King: Sherlock Holmes takes on a teen female apprentice in this delightful and well-wrought addition to the master detective's casework...
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick: Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father create a spellbinding mystery... even more amazing are the author's illustrations! Visit the author's site
Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers by Penny Noyce: When Aunt Adelaide sends thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne on a treasure hunt in the rain, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world--an enchanting land where words and numbers run wild. They are surprised again when the first people they meet beg them to find Lexicon's missing children, who have wandered off, bewitched by lights in the sky. Trekking between villages in search of clues, the cousins encounter a plague of punctuation, a curious creature, a fog of forgetting, the Mistress of Metaphor, a panel of poets, and the illogical mathematicians of Irrationality... Visit Lost in Lexicon for more fun!


The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart: After Reynie Muldoon responds to an advertisement recruiting "gifted children looking for special opportunities," he finds himself in a world of mystery and adventure... Read the first pages at The Curiosity Chronicle
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart: A new adventure, full of brain teasers and adventures...
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart: A daring new adventure threatens to force the kids apart from their friends, families, and even each other...
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart: Now Nicholas Benedict is being sent to a new orphanage, where he will encounter vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances--and a mystery that could change his life forever. On his quest to solve the mystery, Nicholas finds enemies around every corner, but also friends in unexpected places -- and discovers along the way that the greatest puzzle of all is himself...
The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums by Trenton Lee Stewart: Companion book to the Mysterious Benedict Society series, a mind-bending collection that will put YOU to the test! With full-color artwork throughout, features ingenious new puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers compiled by Mr. Benedict himself, with the help of Reynie, Kate, Sticky, Constance, and other Society associates...
The Mysterious Benedict Society Complete Collection by Trenton Lee Stewart: New to The Mysterious Benedict Society? Get all five!
Rinny and The Trail of Clues by Robyn Leslie (teacher's manual available at Sugar Ducky Books): also (out of print) Miss President and the Trail of Clues

You're the Detective!: Twenty-Four Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries by Lawrence Treat: The clues are in the picture; it's up to you, the young detective, to size up the situation and solve the mystery...

Diamond Brothers Mysteries, by Anthony Horowitz (chapter books to pre-teen): The Falcon's Malteser; Public Enemy Number Two; The French Confection (from Amazon.co.uk); I Know What You Did Last Wednesday (from Amazon.co.uk); South by South East (from Amazon.co.uk); Nick Simple's life is anything but simple. His parents have moved to Australia, leaving him in the care of his incompetent older brother who is trying to make a living as a private detective and changes the family name. Set in England and filled with a variety of colorful characters, the plot reads like a 1940s P.I. movie...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes:: The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes; The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

For the Master Mystery-ian...

Agatha Christie (murder mysteries):: The A.B.C. Murders; And Then There Were None; Hercule Poirot's Christmas; Murder on the Orient Express; and lots more...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (murder mysteries):: The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Study in Scarlet

Mythology

Myth-O-Mania, by Kate McMullan!

Have a Hot Time, Hades!

Phone Home, Persephone!

Say Cheese, Medusa!

Nice Shot, Cupid!

Stop That Bull, Theseus!

Keep a Lid on It, Pandora!

Get to Work, Hercules!

Go for the Gold Atlanta!

Poetry!

For Early Poets...

by Shel Silverstein: Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition : Poems and Drawings
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
A Light in the Attic
Falling Up
A Giraffe and a Half
FEG: Ridiculous Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children by Robin Hirsch: An unusual book that is sure to inspire wordplay in language-loving readers. The first poem, "F*E*G," is a variant of the ABC rhyme every child learns: "Abie's seedy effigy-." Puns, palindromes, acrostics, and literary references of all sorts abound...
Poetry for Young People (click left for MindWare, or below for Amazon links): Illustrated editions of the classic poems of many great poets...

For Advanced Poets...

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke: "This slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age..."
Favorite Poems, Old And New selected by Helen Ferris: collection of about 1000 peoms by authors like A.A.Milne, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, John Drinkwater, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, The Bible, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and on and on

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