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Euclid's Elements
Quennell, Marjorie, "Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times"
Sackville-West, Vita, "Heritage"
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, "A Key to Uncle Toms Cabin ... " (Posted to PG)
Ward, Ned, "The London Spy: the vanities and vices of the town exposed""
Weld, Theodore Dwight, "American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses"
Authors with no works at all
- Lord Bacon
- John Donne
- In progress: The Poems of John Donne
- George Herbert, 17th century welsh poet, orator, and Anglican priest
- Gilbert Frankau, novelist
- Cotton Mather
- Procopius
- PG has The Secret History and others
- Isaac Rosenberg, war poet
- Berta Ruck, romance novelist
- George Augustus Sala, novelist and travel writer
- Sake Dean Mahomet, Indian English literature
- John Skelton
- In progress: The Poetical Works of John Skelton
- Ned Ward, 18th century London satirist
Project Gutenberg To Do List
Steve Harris put together a list of works drawn from the catalogues of Everyman's Library, Franklin Press' "100 Greatest Books", the Modern Library, Oxford Classics, and Penguin, as well as Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, is one (knowledgeable and opinionated) and the 294 books from Publisher's Weekly's list of US Best Sellers from 1900-1923. Below I have updated his list and added hyperlinks where images of those are available.
Sources B- Bloom E- Everyman F- Franklin 100 M- Modern Library O- Oxford N - Nominated ( by others) P- Penguin S- PW Best Sellers
| Author | Title | Source(s) | Images and Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (last) | (first) | |||
| Anon. | Romance of Tristan | O, N | Bedier/Belloc prose version precleared for DP-Canada | |
| Anon. | Saga of King Hrolf Kraki | P, N, N | ||
| Anon. | Tale of Sinuhe | O, ?, N | ||
| Anon. | Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures | O, N | Retold version by Coster in progress in English translation; this probably refers to the older original story. | |
| Abaelardus | Petrus | The Letters of Abelard and Heloise | P, N | etext:35977 |
| Addams | Jane | A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil | S, N | etext:15221 |
| Aksakov | Sergey | A Russian Gentleman | B, O, N, N, N | etext:38781 a.k.a "A Family Chronicle" |
| Alcott | Louisa May | The Inheritance | P, N, N | |
| Alfieri | Vittorio | Saul | B, N | |
| Alkman | Various | B, N | Not clear which works | |
| Allen | James Lane | The Mettle of the Pasture | S, Y | etext:12482 |
| Appian | The Civil Wars | P, N | Roman History is in progress | |
| Appleton | Edward J. | With the Colors | S, Y | |
| Apollonius of Perga | Conics | N, N | Complete translations are in copyright PSU | |
| Archilochus | Various, the Poetry | B, N | ||
| Archimedes | Book of Lemmas | N, N | In progress? Partial: UMich | |
| Archimedes | The Method of Treating of Mechanical Problems | N, Y? | ||
| Aristotle | Meteorology | N, Y | MIT | |
| Aristotle | On Interpretation | N, N | ||
| Aristotle | On Longevity and Shortness of Life | N, Y | MIT | |
| Aristotle | On Memory and Reminiscence | N, Y | MIT | |
| Aristotle | On Prophesying by Dreams | N, Y | ||
| Aristotle | On Sleep and Sleeplessness | N, Y | ||
| Aristotle | On Sophistical Refutations | N, Y | ||
| Aristotle | On the Gait of Animals | N, Y | ||
| Aristotle | On the Motion of Animals | N, Y | ||
| Arrian | The Campaigns of Alexander | P, N | ||
| Atherton | Gertrude | Black Oxen | S, Y | etext:25542 |
| Aubrey | John | Brief Lives | B, N | Vol1 Vol2 |
| Bailey | Temple | The Dim Lantern | S, N | |
| Bailey | Temple | The Tin Soldier | S, Y | etext:18056 |
| Basho | Matsuo | The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches | P, N | |
| Bataille | Georges | Story of the Eye | P, N | |
| Begbie | Harold | Painted Windows | S, Y | |
| Begbie | Harold | The Mirrors of Downing Street | S, Y | |
| Belli | Giuseppe Gioacchino | Roman Sonnets | B, N | |
| Bely | Andrei | Petersburg | P, N | |
| Berlioz | Hector | The Memoirs | E, Y (French) | |
| Boiardo | Matteo Maria | Orlando innamorato | B, O, N | In progress |
| Boileau-Despreaux | Nicolas | The Art of Poetry | B, N | |
| Boswell | James | Journals | B, N | Not Journals of London, German, Swiss Travels |
| Braddon | Mary Elizabeth | John Marchmont's Legacy | O | Vol I, Vol II, Vol III |
| Braddon | Mary Elizabeth | The Doctor's Wife | O | etext:35485 |
| Brakelond | Jocelin of | Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds | O, N | google etext:37780 |
| Bronte | Charlotte | Juvenilia 1829-35 | P, N | |
| Bronte | Charlotte | Mina Laury | P, N | |
| Brown | George | The house with the green shutters | P, Y | |
| Bruno | Giordano | The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast | B, N | |
| Buchner | Georg | Lenz | O, P, N | |
| Burney | Fanny | The Wanderer: or Female Difficulties | O, N | Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV, Vol V |
| Caine | Hall | The Woman Thou Gavest Me | S, Y | etext:14597 |
| Callimachus | Hymns and Epigrams | B, Y | ||
| Cameron | Margaret | The Seven Purposes | S, N | |
| Carducci | Giosue | Hymn to Satan | B, Y | Need to update David Price’s list |
| Casas | Bartolome de las | A short account of the destruction of the Indies | P, N | |
| Castillo | Bernal Diaz del | The conquest of New Spain | P, N | |
| Chernyshevsky | Nikolay | What Is to Be Done? | B, N | |
| Cholmondeley | Mary | Christine | S, N | |
| Cicero | Marcus Tullius | Murder trials | P, N | |
| Cicero | Marcus Tullius | On the good life | P, N | |
| Clare | John | The parish | P, N | |
| Colette | BellaVista | M, N | ||
| Colette | Chance acquaintances - Julie de Carneilhan | P, N | ||
| Colette | Ripening seed | P, N | ||
| Colette | The collected stories of Colette | P, N | ||
| Colette | The Vagabond | P, N | ||
| Collier | Price | Germany and the Germans | S, Y | |
| Collins | Wilkie | Mad Monkton and Other Stories | O, N | In progress |
| Columbus | The Four Voyages | P, N | ||
| Commynes | Philippe de | Memoirs | B, N | |
| Coue | Emile | Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion | S, Y | |
| Dalrymple | Leona | Diane of the Green Van | S, Y | |
| Darley | George | Poems | B, N | |
| Dawson | Coningsby | Carry On | S, Y | |
| Dawson | Coningsby | Out to Win | S, Y | |
| Dawson | Coningsby | The Kingdom Round the Corner | S, Y | |
| de Meun | G. de Lorris and Jean | The Romance of the Rose | O, N | Not in English. In progress in French |
| Defoe | Daniel | The True-Born Englishman and other writings | P, Y | |
| Descartes | Rene | The Geometry | N, N | Not in English. Released in French |
| Diderot | Denis | D'Alembert's dream | P, N | |
| Diderot | Denis | Memoirs of a Nun | E, N | Released in French |
| Diderot | Denis | This is Not a Story and Other Stories | O, N | Released in French |
| Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | A nasty story | P, N | |
| Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | An Accidental Family | O, N | |
| Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | Memoirs from the House of the Dead | O, N | In progress |
| Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | Netochka Nezvanova | P, N | |
| Dostoyevsky | Fyodor | Uncle's Dream and other stories | P, N | etext:38241 |
| Doughty | Arthur George | Poems | B | David Price to correct middle name. Book could not be identified |
| Eliot | George | Selected Critical Writings | O, N | |
| Empedocles | various | B, N | ||
| Eschenbach | Wolfram von | Parzival | B, P | |
| Fairbanks | Douglas | Laugh and Live | S, Y | |
| Farnol | Jeffrey | The Definite Object | S, Y | |
| Ferreira | Antonio | Poetry in The Muse Reborn | B, N | |
| Fielding | Sarah | The Adventures of David Simple | O, N | In progress |
| Flaubert | Gustave | Flaubert in Egypt | P, N | |
| Fontane | Theodor | Two novellas | P, N | |
| Ford | Ford Madox | The fifth queen | P, N | Two parts done and other in progress |
| Forster | E. M. | The life to come and other stories | P, N | In copyright |
| Fourier | Joseph | Analytical Theory of Heat | N, N | |
| Fox | George | The journal | P, N | In progress |
| France | Marie De | The lais of Marie De France | P, Y | |
| Franklin | Benjamin | Means and manner of obtaining virtue | P, N | In progress |
| Galilei | Galileo | The Two New Sciences | N, N | In progress |
| Garey | O. O. Ellis and E. B. | The Plattsburg Manual | S, Y | |
| Gautier | Theophile | Enamels and Cameos | B, Y | etext:29521 |
| Gautier | Theophile | Mademoiselle de Maupin | B, N | In progress. French Edition |
| George | Stefan | Selected Poems | B, N | |
| Gilbert | William | On The Lodestone | AKA de Magnete? in progress| | |
| Giraldus | Cambrensis | The history and topography of Ireland | P, N | |
| Glasgow | Ellen | Life and Gabriella | S, Y | |
| Godwin | William | St Leon | O, Y | David Price to remove duplicate entry |
| Goethe | J.W. von | Maxims and reflections | P, Y | |
| Gogol | Nikolai | Diary of a madman and other stories | P, N | |
| Gongora | Luis de | Soledades | B, N | |
| Gongora | Luis de | Sonnets | B, N | |
| Green | Mary | Better Meals for Less Money | S, N | etext:34509 |
| Hardy | Thomas | The distracted preacher | P, Y | |
| Harland | Henry | My Friend Prospero | S, Y | |
| Harvey | William | On Animal Generation | N, N | |
| Harvey | William | The Circulation of the Blood | N, Y | |
| Hay | Ian | Getting Together | S, Y | |
| Hays | Mary | Memoirs of Emma Courtney | O, Y | |
| Hegel | Georg W.F. | Introductory lectures on aesthetics | P, N | |
| Hemacandra | The Lives of the Jain Elders | O, N | ||
| Heraclitus | various | B, N | In progress | |
| Herzen | Aleksandr | From the Other Shore | B, N | |
| Hoffmann | E. T. A. | The Devil's Elixir | B, N | David Price to remove duplicate |
| Holderlin | Friedrich | Selected poems and fragments | B, P, N | |
| Hough | Emerson | 54-40 or Fight | S, Y | |
| Hough | Emerson | The Mississippi Bubble | S, Y | |
| Hugo | Victor | God | B, N | |
| Inchbald | Elizabeth | A Simple Story | O, P, Y | etext:22002 |
| James | Henry | The Critical Muse | P, N | |
| Johnson | Owen | The Salamander | S, N | etext:36355 |
| Johnston | Mary | Lewis Rand | S, Y | etext:14697 |
| Joinville | Jean de Saint Louis and Geoffroi de Villehardouin | Life of Saint Louis | P, N | |
| Keller | Gottfried | Green Henry | B, N | In progress in German |
| Keller | Gottfried | Tales | B, N | |
| Kepler | Johannes | Epitome of Copernican Astronomy | N, N | |
| Kepler | Johannes | The Harmonies of the World | N, N | |
| Kester | Vaughan | The Just and the Unjust | S, Y | |
| King | Basil | The Inner Shrine | S, Y | |
| Kipling | Rudyard | Short stories 2: Friendly Brook and others | P, N | May be part of other released works |
| Kipling | Rudyard | War Stories and Poems | O, N | May be part of other released works |
| Kleist | Heinrich von | Five Plays | B, N | |
| Kleist | Heinrich von | The Marquise of O and other stories | P, N | |
| Kyne | Peter B. | Kindred of the Dust | S, Y | |
| Laforgue | Jules | Selected poems | B, P, N | |
| Lane | Elinor Macartney | Katrine | S, Y | |
| Lawrence | D. H. | A Modern Lover and Other Stories | O, N | |
| Lawrence | D. H. | Lawrence and Italy | P, N | |
| Lawrence | D. H. | Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays | P, N | |
| Lawrence | D. H. | The White Peacock | O, Y | |
| Le Fanu | J. Sheridan | In a Glass Darkly | O, Y | David Price to remove duplicate |
| Lee | Gerald Stanley | Crowds | S, Y | |
| Lennox | Charlotte | The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella | O, N | etext:50054 |
| Leon | Fray Luis de | Poems | B, N | |
| Leskov | Nikolay | Tales | B, N | |
| Locke | William J. | Jaffery | S, Y | |
| Locke | William J. | Septimus | S, Y | |
| Lodge | Sir Oliver | Raymond | S, Y | In progress |
| Longinus | On the Sublime | B, Y | ||
| Longus | Daphnis and Chloe | P, Y | ||
| Lucian | Amphitryon | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| Lucian | Plautus | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| Lucian | Pseudolus | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| Lucian | Satires | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| Lucian | The Braggart Soldier | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| Lucian | The Rope | B, Y | Probably in complete works | |
| MacGrath | Harold | The Goose Girl | S, N | etext:14288 |
| MacGrath | Harold | The Lure of the Mask | S, N | etext:22158 |
| Major | Charles | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | S, Y | |
| Mandeville | Bernard de | Fable of the Bees | P, N | |
| Manrique | Jorge | Coplas | B, N | |
| Marston | John | The Malcontent and Other Plays | B, O, N | |
| Martial | Epigrams | B, N | In progress. David Price to delete duplicate entry | |
| Martin | Catherine | An Australian Girl | O, Y | |
| Maxwell | W. B. | The Devil's Garden | S, Y | |
| McKenna | Stephen | Sonia | S, N | |
| Melville | Herman | Clarel | B, N | |
| Melville | Herman | Collected Poems | B | google and google |
| Menander | The Girl from Samos | B, N | ||
| Molina | Tirso de | The Trickster of Seville | B, N | |
| Montesquieu | Charles | Persian letters | P, Y | In French |
| Morgann | Maurice | The Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff | B, N | |
| Morley | John, Viscount | Recollections | S, N | Vol 1 done, Vol 2 in progress |
| Musset | Alfred de | Lorenzaccio | B, N | |
| Neville | Henry | The Isle of Pines | O, Y | |
| Nicholson | Meredith | A Hoosier Chronicle | S, Y | |
| Nicomachus of Gerasa | Introduction to Arithmetic | N, N | ||
| Nizami | Ganjavi | Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance | O, N | |
| Novalis | Aphorisms | B, N | ||
| O'Brien | Pat | Outwitting the Hun | S, N | etext:42490 |
| O'Flaherty | W | Hindu myths | P, N | |
| Oliphant | Margaret | Miss Marjoribanks | P, N | etext:41286 |
| O'Shaughnessy | Edith | Diplomatic Days | S, N | etext:44586 |
| Owenson | Sydney | The Wild Irish Girl | O, N | |
| Palmer | Frederick | My Second Year of the War | S, Y | etext:18497 |
| Parker | Cornelia Stratton | An American Idyll | S, Y | etext:14943 |
| Pascal | Blaise | Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | Correspondence with Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | On Geometrical Demonstration | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | The Provincial Letters | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the Air | N, N | |
| Pascal | Blaise | Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle | N, N | |
| Peat | Harold R. | Private Peat | S, Y | |
| Perez | Galdos Benito | Fortunata and Jacinta | P, N | |
| Peters | Lulu Hunt | Diet and Health | S, N | |
| Pisan | Christine de | The Book of the City of Ladies | B, P, N | |
| Plato | Seventh Letter | N, N | ||
| Plautus | Titus Maccius | A three-dollar day | P, N | |
| Plautus | Titus Maccius | Pseudolus | P, N | |
| Plautus | Titus Maccius | The rope; Amphitryo; The ghost | P, N | |
| Po | Li | Li Po and Tu Fu | P, N | |
| Poole | Ernest | His Family | S, Y | etext:14396 |
| Poole | Ernest | The Harbor | S, Y | etext:29932 |
| Porter | Eleanor H. | The Road to Understanding | S, N | etext:35093 |
| Proust | Marcel | Against Sainte-Beuve and other essays | P | |
| Pushkin | Alexander | The Queen of Spades and Other Stories | B, E, O, N | |
| Queiros | Jose Maria de Eca de | The Maias | B, Y | In progress in Portuguese |
| Quevedo | Francisco de | Visions | B, N | In progress |
| Rice | Alice Hegan | Sandy | S, Y | etext:14079 |
| Richardson | Samuel | Sir Charles Grandison | B, N | In progress |
| Rives | Hallie Erminie | The Kingdom of Slender Swords | S, N | etext:42427 |
| Rives | Hallie Erminie | The Valiants of Virginia | S, Y | |
| Rojas | Femando de | Lazarillo de Tormes | B, N | |
| Ronsard | Pierre de | Odes, Elegies, Sonnets | B, N | |
| Rousseau | Jean-Jacques | La Nouvelle Heloise | B, N | available on TIA |
| Rowley | William, John Webster and Thomas Middleton | Three Jacobean tragedies | P, N | |
| Rufus | Quintus Curtius | The history of Alexander | P, N | |
| Runkle | Bertha | The Helmet of Navarre | S, Y | |
| Ruskin | John | The Queen of the Air | B, Y | etext:12641 |
| Sade | Marquis de | The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales | O, N | |
| Salisbury | Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. | Outwitting Our Nerves | S, Y | |
| San Pedro | Diego de | Prison of Love | B, N | |
| Sand | George | The Master Pipers | O, Y | In French |
| Santideva | The Bodhicaryavatara | O, N | ||
| Sceve | Maurice | Delie | B, N | |
| Schiller | Friedrich | On the Naive and Sentimental in Literature | B, N | |
| Seneca | Lucius Annaeus | Dialogues and letters | P, N | |
| Seneca | Lucius Annaeus | Four tragedies and Octavia | P, N | |
| Seneca | Lucius Annaeus | Letters from a stoic | P, N | |
| Seneca | Lucius Annaeus | Seneca in English | P, N | |
| Seneca | Lucius Annaeus | Tragedies; particularly Medea; and Hercules furens | B, N | |
| Sevigne | Madame de | Selected letters | P, N | |
| Shen | Fu | Six records of a floating life | P, N | |
| Sinclair | May | The Tree of Heaven | S, Y | |
| Sologub | Fyodor | The little demon | P, N | |
| Spargo | John | Bolshevism | S, Y | |
| Spearman | Frank H. | Nan of Music Mountain | S, Y | |
| Stendhal | The life of Henri Brulard | P, N | ||
| Strindberg | August | Inferno / From an occult diary | P, Y | In Swedish |
| Taylor | Philip Meadows | Confessions of a Thug | O, N | |
| Thomson | J. Arthur | The Outline of Science | S, N | Vol. 1 is done |
| Thoreau | Henry David | Poems | B, N | |
| Thurston | Katherine Cecil | Max | S, Y | |
| Tolstoy | Leo | The Sebastopol Sketches | P, N | |
| Tolstoy | Leo | What is art? | P, Y | David Price possible duplicate |
| Trollope | Anthony | Short Stories | O, N | |
| Trollope | Anthony | The Claverings | O, Y | |
| Trollope | Anthony | The Macdermots of Ballycloran | O, Y | |
| Tuckerman | Frederick Goddard | The Cricket and Other Poems | B, N | |
| Van Gogh | Vincent | The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh | P, N | In progress |
| Vega | Lope de | La Dorotea | B, N | |
| Vigny | Alfred de | Servitude and Grandeur of Arms | P, Y | In French |
| Voltaire | The Lisbon Earthquake | B, N | ||
| Von Arnim | Elizabeth | Christopher and Columbus | S, N | etext:14646 |
| Von Strassburg Gottfried | Thomas | Tristan | P, N | |
| Voragine | Jacobus De | The Golden legend: Selections | P, N | |
| Wade | Thomas | Poems | B, N | |
| Webster | Henry Kitchell | The Real Adventure | S, Y | |
| Wharton | Edith | Souls Belated | P, N | |
| Wharton | Edith | Three European Novels | P, N | Buccaneers |
| Wilde | Oscar | Nothing Except My Genius | P, N | |
| Wilmot | John | The Complete Works | P, N | |
| Wordsworth | Dorothy | The Grasmere Journal | B, N | |
| Work | Milton C. | Auction Bridge To-Day | S, Y | |
| Wu | Ch'eng-en | Monkey | P, N | |
| Zola | Emile | The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories | O, N | |
| Zola | Emile | The Ladies' Paradise | O, N | |