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Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
Written by: Peggy Parish
Cover and illustrated by: Fritz Siebel
Published by: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Number of pages: 38
“Oh, Amelia Bedelia, your first day of work, and I can't be here.”
Amelia: By Henry Fielding, Esq; in Four Volumes. ...... - Henry Fielding
Written by: Henry Fielding
Published: December, 1751
Number of pages: 687
Published by: Ulan Publishing
“Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.”
Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Written by: L. Frank Baum
Illustrated by: W.W. Denslow
Published: May 17, 1900
Publsher: George M. Hill Company
Number of pages: 184
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Written by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by: Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Editorial Sudamericana, Harper & Row (US), Jonathan Cape (UK)
Published: 1967, Published in English: 1970
Number of pages: 448
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Written by: Chinua Achebe
Published by: William Heinemann Ltd.
Published: 1958
Number of pages: 224
“If you don't like my story, write your own”
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1599 - 1601
Number of pages: 128
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Published: 1605, 1615, 1612, 1620
Publisher: Francisco de Robles
Number of pages: 992
“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
Le Misanthrope - Moliere
Written by: Moliere
First performed: June 1, 1666
Number of pages: 104
“The world will not alter for all your meddling.”
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1606
Number of pages: 384
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.“
Othello - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1603
Number of pages: 114
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
Leviathan (Penguin Classics) - C.B. Mac Pherson,Thomas Hobbes
Written by: Thomas Hobbes
Published: 1851
Number of pages: 468
“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”
Written by: Issac Newton
Publication date: 1687 (1st ed.)
Published in English: 1728
Number of pages: 466
“This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
The Winter's Tale (Signet Classics) - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1623
Number of pages: 177
“How say you? My prisoner? Or my guest? by your dread ‘Verily’, One of them you shall be.”
Beowulf - Anonymous
Written by: Anonymous
Written: Date disputed (c. 700–1000 AD)
Manuscript: Cotton Vitellius A. xv (c. 975–1010 AD)
First printed edition: Thorkelin (1815)
“And if death does take me, send the hammered mail of my armor to Higlac, return the inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he from Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must!”
Don Juan - Lord George Gordon Byron
Written by: Lord George Gordon Byron
Published: 1819–1824
Number of pages: 404
“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”
Don Juan - Moliere
Written by: Moliere
First performed: February 15, 1665
Number of pages: 322
“What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.”
The Tempest (Signet Classics) - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1610 - 1611
Number of pages: 160
“What's past is prologue.”
King Henry VIII (New Penguin Shakespeare) - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1623
Number of pages: 157
“I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort.”
Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese
Written by: Richard Wagamese
Published by: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: February 12, 2014
Number of pages: 240
“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.”
Old Yeller (Perennial Classics) - Steven Polson,Fred Gipson
Written by: Fred Gipson
Illustrated by: Carl Burger
Published: 1951
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Number of pages: 192
“But that isn’t the only way life is. A part of the time, it’s mighty good. And a man can’t afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad…. You understand?”
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Written by: Winston Rawls
Published by: Doubleday
Published: 1961
Number of pages: 245
“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.”
The Fox and the Hound - Daniel P. Mannix
Written by: Daniel P. Mannix
Illustrator: John Schoenherr
Published by: E.P. Dutton
Published: September 11, 1967
Number of pages: 255
“I'm sorry, Tod. Honey, Copper's gonna come back a trained huntin' dog. A real killer.”
The Alchemist (Cambridge Literature) - Ben Jonson
Written by: Ben Jonson
First performed: 1610
“And you, too, will give the cause, forsooth? You will insult and a primacy in the divisions?”
The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrated by: Pauline Baynes
Cover by: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Published: May 2, 1955
Number of pages: 183
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First Performed: 1599
Number of pages: 263
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Secret Path - Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire
Written by: Gord Downie
Illustrated by: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of pages: 96
Published: October 18, 2016
“Weeds standing shoulder high.”
Hard Core Logo - Michael Turner_II
Written by: Michael Turner
Published by: Arsenal Pulp
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 208
“There's two ways to look at it: Billy wants the models and limousines, while I'm happy with hookers and taxicabs.”
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Written by: Maurice Sendak
Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Harper’s Row
Published: November 13, 1963
Number of pages: 40
“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Published: September 4, 1956
Number of pages: 184
“Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
120 Days of Sodom (Arena Books) - Marquis de Sade
Written by: Marquis de Sade
Edited by: Dr. Eugene Duhren
Published: 1903
Publisher: Club des Bibliophiles
Number of pages: 340
“I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear.”
The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Published by: The Bodley Head
Published: May 2, 1955
Number of pages: 183
“Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.”
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Published: September 6, 1954
Number of pages: 199
“And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.”
The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Published: September 7, 1953
Number of pages: 217
“Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.”
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Published: September 15, 1952
Number of pages: 223
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”
Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) - C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Published: October 15, 1951
Number of pages: 195
“But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.”
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)... - Pauline Baynes,C. S. Lewis
Written by: C.S. Lewis
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Cover artist: Pauline Baynes
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Published: October 16, 1950
Number of pages: 224
“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
Night - Elie Wiesel
Written by: Ellie Wiesel
Translators: Stella Rodway (Hill & Wang): 1960, Marion Wiesel (Hill & Wang/Oprah Book Club): 2006
Translations: La Nuit (French). Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit: 1958
Published in English: Night (New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee) (1960)
Number of pages: 248, 178, 116
“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III - Stephen King
Written by: Stephen King
Cover by: Ned Dameron
Published: August 1991
Publisher: Grant
Number of pages: 512
“Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you’re flying into . . . the Roland Zone!”
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
Written by: Mary Norton
Illustrated by: Diana L. Stanley, Beth Krush, and Joe Krush
Publisher: J. M. Dent; Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1952, 1953
Number of pages: 159, 180
“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
The Cricket in Times Square - Garth Williams (Illustrator),George Selden
Written by: George Selden
Illustrated by: Garth Williams
Publisher: Ariel Books
Published: 1960
Number of pages: 144
“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious,
and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”
The Tale of Peter Rabbit [Unabridged] - Beatrix Potter
Written by: Beatrix Potter
Illustrated by: Beatrix Potter
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.
Published: October, 1902
Number of pages: 32
“Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.”
Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary
Written by: Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by: Louis Darling
Published William Morrow
Published: 1955
Number of pages: 155
“Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.”
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (Boxcar Children Mysteries)... - Gertrude Chandler Warner
Written by: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Illustrated by: L. Kate Deal
Publisher: Rand McNally
Published: 1924
Number of pages: 160
“One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.”
Written by: Edith Nesbit
Cover by: H.R. Miller
Published: 1904
Publisher: Newnes
Number of Pages: 289
"'I wish they taught magic at school,' Jane sighed. 'I believe if we could do a little magic it might make something happen."
Mr. Popper's Penguins - Florence Atwater,Richard Atwater
Written by: Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
Cover by: Robert Lawson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: 1938
Number of pages: 139
“This parcel of penguins really performs!”
The Mouse and His Child (Puffin Books) - Russell Hoban
Written by: Russell Hoban
Cover and illustrated by: Lillian Hoban
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1967
Number of pages: 256
“The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course.”
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Written by: Maya Angelou
Published: January 1, 1969
Publisher: Bantam Books
Number of Pages: 246
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
First Blood - David Morrell
Written by: David Morrell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication date: January 1, 1972
Number of pages: 320
“For a colonel, the way you're talking, you don't seem to like the military very much." "Of course I don't. Who in his right mind would?”
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