BOOKS, MOVIES & MUSIC

Classics for the College-Bound and Beyond: NonFiction

 The titles on our classics list are live links which take you to our catalog; but in many cases the library owns other editions and other translations of these works. You can search in our catalog to find alternative editions.

Masterpieces of world philosophy
by:
108 MAS
story of philosophy the lives and opinions of the great philosophers of the Western world
by: Durant, Will, 1885-
109 DUR
Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared revised set forth in 1611 and commonly known as the King James version
by: Bible. English. Authorized.
220.52b1984
new Jerusalem Bible standard edition
by: Bible. English. New Jerusalem Bible.
220.52 1999
Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments New revised standard version
by:
220.52042
Jewish study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh translation
by: Bible. O.T. English. Jewish Publication Society.
221 J595t 2004
confessions of Saint Augustine
by: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
242 AUG 1999
Screwtape letters with Screwtape proposes a toast
by: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
248.4 LEW
Bulfinchs mythology
by: Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
291 BUL 1991
Mythology
by: Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963
291 HAM
Koran
by: Koran. English & Arabic
297.12 KOR 1990
prince
by: Machiavelli, Niccolßo, 1469-1527
320.1 MAC
Common sense
by: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
320.973 PAI
social contract and the first and second discourses
by: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
320.01 ROU
On liberty
by: Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
323.44 MIL 2002
worldly philosophers the lives times and ideas of the great economic thinkers
by: Heilbroner, Robert L.
330.1 HEI 1999
Federalist papers
by: Federalist.
342.73 1992
Silent spring
by: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
363.7384 CAR 2002
In cold blood a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
by: Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
364.1523 CAP
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by: Dillard, Annie
508.9755 DIL
complete poems of Emily Dickinson
by: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
811 1960
poetry of Robert Frost the collected poems complete and unabridged
by: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
811 FRO
poetical works of Longfellow Cambridge edition with a new introd by George Monteiro
by: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
811
complete poems of Carl Sandburg
by: Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
811 1970
Leaves of grass selected poems and prose
by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
811 1997
The texts of most of the poems are taken from the so-called "death-bed edition" dated 1891-2.
Walt Whitmans Leaves of grass the first 1855 edition
by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
811.3 WHI 2005
raisin in the sun
by: Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
812 H2492r 1995
Inherit the wind
by: Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004
812
crucible a play in four acts
by: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
812 MIL
Death of a salesman certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
by: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
812 1976
Long days journey into night
by: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
812 ONE 1989
Our town a play in three acts
by: Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
812 1957
glass menagerie
by: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
812 WIL
Essays poems
by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
814
Walden
by: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
818 Thoreau 1997
Canterbury tales
by: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
821 C4962c 2003
This version has been translated into modern English.
Canterbury tales
by: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
821 1994
This version is in Middle English, and will be good for your soul.
Paradise lost and Paradise regained Edited by Christopher Ricks
by: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
821
complete poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
by: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
821
Poetical works Wordsworth with introductions and notes edited by Thomas Hutchinson
by: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
821 1936
Robert Browning the major works
by: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
821.8 BRO
Pygmalion a romance in five acts
by: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
822 SHA 2003
importance of being earnest and other plays
by: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
822 WIL 2000
Riverside Shakespeare
by: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
822.33 J SHA 1997
The library owns other collections of Shakespeare's plays and individual copies of all the plays.
sonnets
by: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
822.33 W5o SHA
Beowulf a new verse translation
by:
829.3 BEO
dolls house A new version by Christopher Hampton
by: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
839.82
Cyrano de Bergerac a heroic comedy in five acts
by: Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918.
842 ROS
Candide or Optimism a fresh translation backgrounds criticism
by: Voltaire, 1694-1778
843 Voltaire 1991
divine comedy the inferno the purgatorio the paradiso
by: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
851 DAN
Aeneid translated by Robert Fitzgerald with an introduction by Wendell V Clausen
by: Virgil.
873
Oedipus cycle an English version
by: Sophocles.
882 SOP
Iliad
by: Homer.
883 H766iL 2004
Odyssey
by: Homer.
883 HOM
cherry orchard a drama in four acts translated from the Russian of Anton Chekhov by Stark Young
by: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
891.72 1947
Hiroshima
by: Hersey, John, 1914-
940.5442 1985
rise and fall of the Third Reich a history of Nazi Germany
by: Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
943.086
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee an Indian history of the American West
by: Brown, Dee Alexander
970.5 BRO 2000
stillness at Appomattox
by: Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978.
973.738 CAT 1990
I know why the caged bird sings
by: Angelou, Maya.
B Angelou, Maya A584i
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American slave
by: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
B Douglass, Fred. DOU 1982
diary of a young girl the definitive edition
by: Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.
B Frank, Anne FRA 1995
autobiography of Benjamin Franklin selections from his other writings
by: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
B Franklin, Benj. FRA
Death be not proud a memoir
by: Gunther, John, 1901-1970.
B Gunther, John, 1929-1947 GUN 1998
Mein Kampf
by: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
B Hitler, Adolf HIT 2002
autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr
by: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
B King, M.L.
Abraham Lincoln the prairie years and the war years
by: Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
B Lincoln, Abr.
seven storey mountain
by: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
B Merton, Tho. MER 1998
Up from slavery
by: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
B Washington, B.T. 1986
Black boy American hunger a record of childhood and youth
by: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
B Wright, Rich. 1998
autobiography of Malcolm X
by: X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
B X, Malcolm