Contains excerpts from the Story of Jacob and Esau, from the Bible; the Satires, by Horace; the History of the Barber's Sixth Brother, from Arabian Nights; the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio; the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer; the Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare; Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes; Inviting a Friend to Supper, by Ben Johnson; Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe; She Stoops to Conquer, by Olvier Goldsmith; Emma, by Jane Austen; Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol; a Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens; the Vicomte de Bragelonne, by Alexandre Dumas; Pendennis, by William Makepeace Thackeray; Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert; Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy; L'Assommoir, by Emile Zola; Forbidden Fruit, by Guy de Maupassant; a Woman's Kingdom, by Anton Chekhov; the Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde; Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust; Tit for Tat, by Sholom Aleichem; a Stoic, by John Galsworthy; the Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann; To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf; Hasty Pudding, by Joel Barlow; the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Moby Dick, by Herman Melville; the Last of the Voodoos, by Lafcadio Hearn; Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser; the Ambassadors, by Henry James; Of Time and the River, by Thomas Wolfe; and Breakfast, by John Steinbeck.
