Sony E-Book Reader Titles

The following is a list of the titles selcted for the Sony e-book reader and available on the Library's reader:

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  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson                 Idylls of the King
  • Alighieri, Dante                          The Divine Comedy (full version)
  • Austen, Jane                             Emma
  • Austen, Jane                             Mansfield Park
  • Austen, Jane                             Northanger Abbey
  • Austen, Jane                             Sense and Sensibility
  • Blake, William                           Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the Book of Thel
  • Bronte, Charlotte                       Jane Eyre
  • Bronte, Emily                            Wuthering Heights
  • Byron, George Gordon               Don Juan
  • Byron, George Gordon               Prometheus and Selected Short Poems
  • Carroll, Lewis                            The Hunting of the Snark
  • Chopin, Kate                             The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor           The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Conrad, Joseph                          Heart of Darkness
  • Conrad, Joseph                          Lord Jim
  • Crane, Stephen                          The Red Badge of Courage
  • Darwin, Charles                         On the Origin of Species
  • De Quincey, Thomas                  The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • de Tocqueville, Alex                   The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • Defoe, Daniel                             Robinson Crusoe
  • Dewey, John                              Democracy and Education
  • Dickens, Charles                       Bleak House
  • Dickens, Charles                       Great Expectations
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor                   The Brothers Karamazov
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor                   Crime and Punishment
  • Douglass, Frederick                   My Bondage and My Freedom
  • Eliot, T.S.                                  Poems
  • Eliot, T.S.                                  The Waste Land
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo               Essays
  • Flaubert, Gustave                       Madame Bovary
  • Forester, E.M.                           Howards End
  • Franklin, Benjamin                     The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Vasilievich, Nikolai                     Gogol    Dead Souls
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 Fanshawe
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 Mosses from an Old Manse
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 Tanglewood Tales
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 The Blithedale Romance
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 The House of the Seven gables
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 The Marble Faun
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 The Scarlet Letter
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 The Snow Image Other Stories
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel                 Twice Told Tales
  • Ibsen, Henrik                             A Doll’s House
  • Irving, Washington                      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Jacobs, Joseph                          English Fairy Tales
  • James, Henry                            Some Short Stories
  • James, Henry                            The Portrait of a Lady
  • James, Henry                            The Turn of the Screw
  • James, William                          The Vrieties of Religious Experience
  • Joyce, James                            Dubliners
  • Kipling, Rudyard                        The Man Who Would be King
  • Lawrence, D.H.                          Twilight in Italy
  • Lewis, Sinclair                           Main Street
  • Machiavelli, Niccolo                    The Prince
  • Maugham, W. Somerset             Of Human Bondage
  • Melville, Herman                        Moby Dick
  • Milton, John                               Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books
  • Paramananda, Swami                The Upanishads
  • Schiller, Friedrich                       The History of the Thirty Years’s War
  • Scott, Sir Walter                        Ivanhoe
  • Shakespeare, William`               A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Shakespeare, William                Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William                King Henry IV
  • Shakespeare, William                Macbeth
  • Shakespeare, William                Romeo and Juliet
  • Shakespeare, William                The Tempest
  • Shelley, Mary Wollerstonecraft    Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
  • Smith, Adam                             An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
  • St. Vincent Millay, Edna             A Few Figs from Thistles
  • St. Vincent Millay, Edna             Second April
  • St. Vincent Millay, Edna             The Lamp and the Bell
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis             Tales and Fantasies
  • Thoreau, Henry David                 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • Thoreau, Henry David                 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
  • Thoreau, Henry David                 Walden
  • Thoreau, Henry David                 Wild Apples
  • Tolstoy, Leo                              Twenty-Three Tales
  • Tolstoy, Leo                              War and Peace
  • Twain, Mark                               Life on the Mississippi
  • Twain, Mark                               The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Twain, Mark                               The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang     Faust
  • Washington, Booker T.               Up from Slavery
  • Wharton, Edith                          House of Mirth
  • Wharton, Edith                          The Age of Innocence
  • Wharton, Edith                          The Glimpses of the Moon
  • Whitman, Walt                          Leaves of Grass
  • Wilde, Oscar                             The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Woolf, Virginia                           The Voyage Out
  • Homer                                       The Iliad of Homer
  • Homer                                       The Odyssey of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope
  • Plato                                         The Republic
  • Plutarch                                    Plutarch’s Lives
  • Political Documents                   Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
  • Political Documents                   Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
  • Political Documents                   The State of the Union Address by US Presidents
  • Sophocles                                 The Oedipus Trilogy