Classic Literary Works

Children's Literature

• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Rain, Rain Go Away
• Sing and Song of Six Pence
• To Market, To Market
• Little Tiny Thumbelina
• The Goose and the Golden Egg
• The Lion and the Mouse
• The Little Match Girl
• The Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
• the Crow and the Pitcher
• Rapunzel
• Aladdin
• The Princess and the Pea
• The Ugly Duckling
• Old King Cole
• Snow White
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
• The Tales of Peter Rabbit
• The Tortoise and the Hare
• The Snow Queen

Middle Grade Classics

• Peter Pan
• Gulliver's Travels
• Alice in Wonderland
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Red Shoes
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• A Christmas Carol
• The Velveteen Rabbit
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• The Jungle Book
• Just So Stories
• Animal Farm
• The Call of the Wild
• Selected works of Edgar Allen Poe
• Little Women

Classic Novels and Plays for Older Readers

• Jane Eyre
• Frankenstein
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Tom Sawyer
• Oliver Twist
• Les Misérables
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Ulysses
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Moby Dick or The Whale
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Little Mermaid
• Pride and Prejudice
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Great Expectations
• The Jungle
• Wuthering Heights
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Beowulf
• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and the Pardiso)
• Canterbury Tales
• Paradise Lost
• Le Morte D'Arthur
• Oedipus Rex

Historical Documents

• Magna Carta (1215)
• Two Treatises of Government, John Locke (1290)
• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)
• The Constitution of the United States (1787)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)
• Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1791)
• Treaty of Versailles, WWI (1919)
• Germany's Surrender, WWII (1945)
• The Potsdam Agreement, WWII (1945)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN General Assembly (1948)
• Bill of Rights (1791)
• 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Social Security Act (1935)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
• Marshall Plan (1948)
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• Surrender of Japan (1945)
• President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Truman Doctrine (1947)

Great Speeches

• John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Address, Jan 1961
• ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ Winston Churchill, May 1940
• ‘We Shall Fight on the Beaches’, Winston Churchill, June 1940
• ‘This was their Finest Hour’, Winston Churchill, June 1940
• I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr., August 1963
• Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, December 1941
• President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
• First Inaugural Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death, Patrick Henry
• Duties of American Citizenship, Theodore Roosevelt
• Surrender, Chief Joseph
• Motivation Speech of Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great
• Apology, Socrates
• Quit India, Mahatma Gandhi
• Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass
• Citizenship in a Republic, Teddy Roosevelt, at the Sorbonne 1910
• Farewell Address, Dwight Eisenhower
• In the Name of God, go..., Thomas Cromwell