Literature
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, abridged and simplified only!
- Charles Perrault, Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales
- Jonathan Swift, “A Voyage to Lilliput” and “A Voyage to Brobdingnag,” from Gulliver’s Travels
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- William Wordsworth, “We Are Seven,” “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” “Lucy Gray,” “Composed upon
- Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” and “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
- Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
- Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth,” in Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings
- Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” “A Birthday,” “Sister Maude,” “No, Thank You, John”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
- Peter Christen Asbjornsen, East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon: Fifty-nine Norwegian Folk Tales
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Writers and Thinkers
- Daniel Defoe
- Jonathan Swift
- John Bunyan
- Alexander Pope
- John Milton
- William Blake
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- William Wordsworth
- Robert Browning
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Charles Dickens
- Jane Austen
- Edward Lear
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Shelley
- Christina Rossetti
- Lewis Carroll
- Mark Twain
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Frederick Douglass
- Jules Verne
- Herman Melville