(scarce 1st paperback ed., U.S. 1949)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man–James Joyce
To the Lighthouse–Virginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice–Jane Austen
Return of the Native–Thomas Hardy
your choice of Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, or Lord Jim–Joseph Conrad
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland–Lewis Carroll
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde–Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein–Mary Shelley
Brave New World–Aldous Huxley
The Razor’s Edge–Somerset Maugham
Brighton Rock–Graham Greene
Nineteen-Eighty-Four–George Orwell
Middlemarch–George Eliot
Lord of the Flies–William Golding
A Passage to India–E.M. Forster
Great Expectations–Charles Dickens