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Selected Works: Commentaries

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Including works from all the greatest lists with commentaries
In bold: Works on The Greatest Literature of All Time list

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All Quiet on
the Western
Front

• Adventure of the Speckled Band, The

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The

• All Quiet on the Western Front

• All for Love

• And Then There Were None

• Animal Farm

• Antigone

• Appointment in Samarra

• Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich

• Armies of the Night, The

• Atonement

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Atonement
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Beowulf

• Babylon Revisited

• Baltasar and Blimunda

• Beautiful Losers

• Beggar Maid, The

• Beowulf

• Big Front Yard, The

• Big Sleep, The

• Bleak House

• Blindness

• Book of Jonah, The

• Bonfire of the Vanities, The

• Bourgeois Gentleman, The

• Brave New World

• Brideshead Revisited

• Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

• Buddenbrooks

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Brave New
World
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The Catcher
in the Rye

• Cabbagetown

• Castle of Otranto, The

• Catch-22

• Catcher in the Rye, The

• Caves of Steel, The

• Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The

• Christmas Carol, A

• Chronicles of Narnia, The

• Cider House Rules, The

• Clara Callan

• Coming Race, The

• Confederacy of Dunces, A

• Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A

• Country Wife, The

• Crystal World, The

• Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The

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Confederacy
of Dunces
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Death in
Venice

• Dark Design, The

• Darkness at Noon

• David Copperfield

• Day of the Locust, The

• Dead, The

• Death Comes for the Archbishop

• Death in Venice

• Defender of the Faith

• Demolished Man, The

• Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The

• Diviners, The

• Doctor's Son, The

• Doctor's Son and Other Stories, The

• Don Quixote

• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Dracula

• Dreadful Lemon Sky, The

• Dubliners

• Dune

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Dracula
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Ellen Foster

• Earthsea Cycle, The

• East of Eden

• Edward II

• Ellen Foster

• Eloquent Peasant, The

• Emma

• Empire of the Sun

• Enchanted Island, The

• Ender's Game

• Epic of Gilgamesh, The

• Erewhon

• Eye in the Door, The

• Eyeless in Gaza

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Ender's
Game
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Far From the
Madding
Crowd

• Fabulous Riverboat, The

• Fahrenheit 451

• Far From the Madding Crowd

• Farewell to Arms, A

• Felicia's Journey

• Finnegans Wake

• Flatland

• Fondly Fahrenheit

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Forsyte Saga, The

• Foundation

• Foundation Trilogy, The

• Frankenstein

• French Lieutenant's Woman, The

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For Whom
the Bell
Tolls
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The Girl
With the
Dragon
Tattoo

• Galton Case, The

• Garden Party and Other Stories, The

• Gaudy Night

• Good Earth, The

• Ghost Road, The

• Gilgamesh

• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The

• Girl Who Played With Fire, The

• Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The

• Gorky Park

• Grapes of Wrath, The

• Great Expectations

• Great Gatsby, The

• Grimm's Fairy Tales

• The Gutting of Couffignal

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The Great
Gatsby
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The
Handmaid's
Tale

• Hamlet

• Handmaid's Tale, The

• Hands of Mr. Ottermole, The

• Hard Times

• Harlot's Ghost

• Heart of Darkness

• Heart of the Matter, The

• Hebrew Bible, The

• Henry IV, Part 1

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

• Hollow Men, The

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The

• Hugh Garner's Best Stories

• The Human Stain

• Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The

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The
Hitchhiker's
Guide to the
Galaxy
I
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I, Robot

• I Am Legend

• I, Claudius

• I, Robot

• Iliad

• Immensee

• In Our Time

• Innocence of Father Brown, The

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The
Innocence of
Father Brown
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Jane Eyre

• Jane Eyre

• Jews' Beech Tree, The

• Jonah and the Whale

• Jude the Obscure

• Julius Caesar

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Kidnapped

• Kidnapped

• Killers, The

• Kim

• King Lear

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Kim
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The Last
Days of
Pompeii

• Last Days of Pompeii, The

• Left Hand of Darkness, The

• Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The

• Let Us Compare Mythologies

• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The

• Little Dorrit

• Little Foxes, The

• Little Prince, The

• Little Women

• Lolita

• Long Goodbye, The

• Lord Jim

• Love in the Time of Cholera

• Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The

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Lord Jim
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A Man in Full

• Macbeth

• Madame Bovary

• Make Room! Make Room!

• Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias, The

• Maltese Falcon, The

• Man in Full, A

• Man in the High Castle, The

• Man of Property, The

• Man Who Was Thursday, The

• Man Who Would Be King, The

• Mansfield Park

• May Day

• Mayor of Casterbridge, The

• Merchant of Venice, The

• Metamorphoses

• Middlemarch

• Mildred Pierce

• Mill on the Floss, The

• Millennium Trilogy, The

• Misanthrope, The

• Misérables, Les

• Monkey's Paw, The

• Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The

• Moonstone, The

• Morley Callaghan's Stories

• Mrs Dalloway

• Murder in the Cathedral

• Murder on the Orient Express

• Murders in the Rue Morgue, The

• My Ántonia

• My Financial Career

• My Friend Maigret

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Mildred
Pierce
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The Naked
and the
Dead

• Naked and the Dead, The

• Neutron Star

• Nicholas Nickleby

• Nightfall

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

• Northanger Abbey

• Notre-Dame de Paris

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Nineteen
Eighty-Four
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Oliver Twist

• Odyssey, The

• Oedipus Rex

• Of Mice and Men

• Old Man and the Sea, The

• Old Tales Retold

• Old Testament, The

• Oliver Twist

• On the Beach

• On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

• On the Road

• Open Boat, The

• Oroonoko

• Othello

• Other Woman, The

• Our Town

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On the Road
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The Picture
of Dorian
Gray

• Paul's Case

• Perfect Day for Bananafish, A

• Picture of Dorian Gray, The

• Plato's Republic

• Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

• Point Counter Point

• Portnoy's Complaint

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A

• Postman Always Rings Twice, The

• Power Politics

• Pride and Prejudice

• Prince and the Pauper, The

• Purloined Letter, The

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Pride and
Prejudice
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The Quiet
American

• Quiet American, The

• Quincunx, The

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The Quincunx
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Re-
generation

• Rape of the Lock, The

• Red Badge of Courage, The

• Red-Headed League, The

• Regeneration

• Regeneration Trilogy, The

• Republic

• Ringworld

• Rip Van Winkle

• Riverworld

• Robinson Crusoe

• Rogue Queen

• Romeo and Juliet

• Rose for Emily, A

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Robinson
Crusoe
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The Snows
of
Kilimanjaro

• Scandal in Bohemia, A

• Scarlet Letter, The

• Secret Agent, The

• Sense and Sensibility

• She Stoops to Conquer

• Shipwrecked Sailor, The

• Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The

• Snows of Kilimanjaro, The

• Sonnets (Shakespeare's)

• Sorrows of Young Werther, The

• Speaker for the Dead

• Stars My Destination The

• Stone Angel, The

• Story of Sinuhe, The

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Strange Fugitive

• Stranger in a Strange Land

• Such Is My Beloved

• Sun Also Rises, The

• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Stranger in
a Strange
Land
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Tales of the
Grotesque
and
Arabesque

• Tale of Genji, The

• Tale of Sinuhe, The

• Tale of Two Cities, A

• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

• Tales of the Jazz Age

• Tartuffe

• Tempest, The

• Ten Little Indians

• Tender is the Night

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles

• Theogony

• Thin Man, The

• Thirty-Nine Steps, The

• Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The

• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• To the Lighthouse

• To Your Scattered Bodies Go

• Tom Sawyer

• Town Like Alice, A

• Treasure Island

• Tristram Shandy

• True Story of Ah Q, The

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Treasure
Island
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Ulysses

• Ulysses

• Under Fire

• Under Western Eyes

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Under
Western Eyes
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The Vicar of
Wakefield

• Vicar of Wakefield, The

• Villette

• Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

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The Woman
in White

• Waste Land, The

• Way of All Flesh, The

• Willows, The

• Wizard of Earthsea, A

• Woman in White, The

• Works and Days

• World According to Garp, The

• Would-Be Gentleman, The

• Wuthering Heights

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The World
According to
Garp
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The Yellow
Sweater

• Yellow Sweater, The

• Youth

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Zen and the
Art of
Motorcycle
Maintenance

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 
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