Classical Book List

In the book Caesar’s English, by Michael Clay Thompson, (Royal Fireworks Press: Unionville, New York, 2000.) uses classical books when he gives examples.

Here is the list of some books he uses: 

Book Title

Authors Name

Peter Pan

James M. Barrie

The last of the Mohicans

James Fennimore Cooper

Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

Why We Can’t Wait

Martin Luther King

Hamlet

Shakespeare

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Call of the Wild

Jack London

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The American

Henry James

The Secret Garden

Frances H. Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances H. Burnett

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson                                          

The Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

The wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

The Red Badge Of Courage

Stephan Crane

Uncle Toms Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Vanity Fair 

Thackeray

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

 Dracula

Bram Stoker

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Harper Lee