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, 1885-1981
109 DUR
Holy Bible 1611 edition King James Version a word for word reprint of the first edition of the Authorized Version presented in roman letters for easy reading and comparison with subsequent editions
by: Bible. English. Authorised. 1611
220.52 BIB 2010
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 HOL
Jewish study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh translation
by: Bible. O.T. English. Jewish Publication Society.
221 J595t 2004
Confessions of St Augustine translated by F J Sheed
by: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
242 1943
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
Machiavellis the prince bold faced principles on tactics power and politics
by: Machiavelli, Niccolßo, 1469-1527
320.1 MAC
Rights of man Common sense and other political writings
by: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
320 PAI 1995
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 2002
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by: Dillard, Annie
508.9755 DIL
complete poems of Emily Dickinson
by: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
811 DIC 1960
poetry of Robert Frost the collected poems complete and unabridged
by: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
811 FRO
complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
811.3 LON
complete poems of Carl Sandburg
by: Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
811 1970
Leaves of grass
by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
811 WHI 2005
This is the 1855 edition. The Library of America edition of includes both this and the 1891-92 "deathbed" edition.
raisin in the sun
by: Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
812 HAN 1995
Inherit the wind
by: Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004
812
crucible a play in four acts
by: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
812 MIL 1995
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 WIL 1957
glass menagerie
by: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
812 WIL
Nature and selected essays
by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
814.3 EME
Walden
by: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
818 THO 2004
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.
Paradise lost
by: Milton, John, 1608-1674
821.4 MIL
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 with connections
by: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
822 SHA
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
by: Virgil
873 VIR
Sophocles the complete plays
by: Sophocles
882 SOP 2001
Iliad
by: Homer.
883 HOM 1990
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, 1914-1993
940.5442 HER 1985
rise and fall of the Third Reich
by: Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
943.086 SHI 1990
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, Frederick DOU 2000
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
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 X