Savio Library Selected Ebooks

St. Dominic Savio Catholic High School 

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Selected Reading List for Catholic K-12 Schools-Cardinal Newman Society 

Thomas Aquinas College Syllabus 

Christendom College Reading List 

and about 4 other lists from colleges and universities.

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Biographies

General Biographies

Twelve Types-G. K. Chesterton 

Four American Leaders   Charles William Eliot 

Some eminent women of our times : short biographical sketches   Fawcett 

Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches   Justin McCarthy 

Heroines of Service-Mary Rosetta Parkman 

Great Englishwomen   M. B. Synge 

Word portraits of famous writers   Mabel E. Wotton 

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette-Hilaire Belloc 

William Blake

William Blake   Arthur Symons 

William Blake, the Man   Charles Gardner 

Elizabeth and Robert Browning

The Brownings, Their Life and Art   Lilian Whiting 

Robert Browning   Edward Dowden 

Life of Robert Browning   William Sharp 

Lord Byron

The Life of Lord Byron   John Galt 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1   Thomas Moore 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2   Thomas Moore 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3   Thomas Moore 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4   Thomas Moore 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5   Thomas Moore 

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6   Thomas Moore 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge   James Gillman 

John Keats

Life of John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-Fame 

Abraham Lincoln

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln-Francis F. Browne 

Abraham Lincoln: a History V. 1-John Hay and John G. Nicolay 

Abraham Lincoln, a History V. 2-John Hay and John G. Nicolay 

Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, V. 1-Herndon et al. 

Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, V. 2-Herndon et al. 

The Life of Abraham Lincoln-Ward Hill Lamon 

Abraham Lincoln, V. I-John T. Morse, Jr. 

Abraham Lincoln, V. II-John T. Morse, Jr. 

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln-Wayne Whipple 

Matthew Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer   William Elliot Griffis 

Thomas Wolsey

Thomas Wolsey : legate and reformer   Ethelred L. Taunton 

William Shakespeare

A Life of William Shakespeare-Sir Sidney Lee 

William Shakespeare-Victor Hugo 

William Shakespeare-John Masefield 

English grammar and writing

Historical Fiction

The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution-Mariano Azuela 

The Deerslayer-James Fenimore Cooper 

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757-James Fenimore Cooper 

The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea-James Fenimore Cooper 

The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna-James Fenimore Cooper 

The Prairie-James Fenimore Cooper 

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War-Stephen Crane 

The Man in the Iron Mask-Alexandre Dumas 

The three musketeers-Alexandre Dumas 

The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana-Edward Eggleston 

Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Nada the Lily-H. Rider Haggard 

Ninety-Three-Victor Hugo 

The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History-Victor Hugo 

Les Misérables-Victor Hugo 

Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight-Charles Kingsley 

The Betrothed-Alessandro Manzoni 

The Broken Road-A. E. W. Mason 

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile-Herman Melville 

The Hero-W. Somerset Maugham 

Tuen, Slave and Empress-Kathleen Gray Nelson 

The Scarlet Pimpernel-Baroness Emmuska Orczy 

The Cloister and the Hearth-Charles Reade 

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses-Robert Louis Stevenson 

Kidnapped-Robert Louis Stevenson 

The Home and the World-Rabindranath Tagore 

War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy 

The Red Year: A Story of the Indian Mutiny-Louis Tracy 

The Bridal Wreath-Sigrid Undset 

The Keepers of the King's Peace-Edgar Wallace 

Sanders of the River-Edgar Wallace 

The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan-Lewis Wingfield 

The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade-Charlotte M. Yonge 

Language Practice Materials

French

L'enfer, v. 1-Dante Alighieri 

L'enfer, v. 2-Dante Alighieri 

Les confessions-Saint Augustin, évêque d'Hippone                 

Persuasion-Jane Austen 

Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer Tome 1-Jane Austen 

Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer Tome 2-Jane Austen 

Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer Tome 3-Jane Austen 

Le Père Goriot   Honoré de Balzac       

Jane Eyre-Charlotte Brontë 

Un amant-Emily Brontë 

L'ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 

Le dernier des mohicans: Le roman de Bas-de-cuir-James Fenimore Cooper 

Recherches sur les substances radioactives-Marie Curie 

Aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé-Daniel Defoe 

Cantique de Noël-Charles Dickens            

David Copperfield, Tome I-Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Tome II-Charles Dickens                                                                                                                                                                                               Les grandes espérances-Charles Dickens     

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I-Alexandre Dumas 

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome II-Alexandre Dumas 

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome III-Alexandre Dumas 

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IV-Alexandre Dumas 

La dame aux camélias-Alexandre Dumas 

Histoire d'un casse-noisette-Alexandre Dumas 

Les trois mousquetaires-Alexandre Dumas 

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles-Lewis Carroll 

Souvenirs entomologiques-Livre 1-Jean-Henri Fabre 

Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques-Livre 2-Jean-Henri Fabre

L'Iliade-Homer 

L'Odyssée-Homer                 

Notre-Dame de Paris-Victor Hugo 

Quatrevingt-Treize-Victor Hugo                      

L'imitation de Jésus-Christ-Thomas à Kempis               

Le livre de la Jungle-Rudyard Kipling          

Le Paradis Perdu-John Milton                                                             

Essais V. I-Michel de Montaigne 

Essais V. II-Michel de Montaigne 

Essais V. III-Michel de Montaigne 

Essais V. IV-Michel de Montaigne 

Histoire d'un ruisseau-Elisée Reclus 

Cyrano de Bergerac-Edmond Rostand 

Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien-William Shakespeare 

La Comédie des Méprises-William Shakespeare 

Hamlet-William Shakespeare 

Jules César-William Shakespeare 

Othello-William Shakespeare 

Le roi Lear-William Shakespeare 

Le songe d'une nuit d'été-William Shakespeare 

La vie et la mort du roi Richard III-William Shakespeare 

La méchante femme mise à la raison-William Shakespeare 

Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne V. 1-Shelley 

Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne V. 2-Shelley 

Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne V. 3-Shelley 


La Chartreuse De Parme-Stendhal 

Les voyages de Gulliver-Jonathan Swift 

De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome premier-Alexis de Tocqueville 

De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome deuxième-Alexis de Tocqueville 

De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome troisième-Alexis de Tocqueville 

De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome quatrième-Alexis de Tocqueville 

Au temps de l'innocence-Edith Wharton 

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours-Jules Verne 

Voyage au Centre de la Terre-Jules Verne 

Vingt mille Lieues Sous Les Mers-Jules Verne 

Germinal-Émile Zola  

Spanish

Readers:

An Elementary Spanish Reader-Earl Stanley Harrison 

A First Spanish Reader-Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler 

Spanish Short Stories 

Spanish Tales for Beginners 

Children's Periodicals: 

La Edad de Oro: publicación mensual de recreo e instrucción dedicada a los niños 

Works:

Romancero selecto del Cid 

La Divina Comedia-Dante Alighieri 

La condenada (cuentos)-Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 

El garrote más bien dado-Calderón 

EL CERCO DE NUMANCIA-Cervantes 

Don Quijote-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 

Angelina-Rafael Delgado 

El Cántico de Navidad-Charles Dickens 

El crimen y el castigo-Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Bailén-Benito Pérez Galdós 

La batalla de los Arapiles-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Cádiz-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Gerona-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Juan Martín el Empecinado-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Napoleón en Chamartín-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Trafalgar-Benito Pérez Galdós 

Zaragoza-Benito Pérez Galdós 

El Gaucho Martín Fierro-José Hernández 

La Ilíada-Homer 

La Odisea-Homer 

Fábulas literarias-Tomás de Iriarte 

El paraíso perdido-John Milton 

Coplas por la muerte de su padre-Jorge Manrique 

Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades 

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones 1-Ovid 

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones 2-Ovid 

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones 3-Ovid 

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones 4-Ovid 

El Arroyo-Elisée Reclus 

Hamlet-William Shakespeare 

El caso extraño del Doctor Jekyll-Robert Louis Stevenson 

Fuente Ovejuna-Lope de Vega 

Eneida v.1-Virgil 

Eneida v. 2-Virgil 

Literary Criticism

General Criticism

Celtic Literature-Matthew Arnold 

The Victorian Age in Literature-G. K. Chesterton 

Studies in Early Victorian Literature   Frederic Harrison 

Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets   Lafcadio Hearn 

Among Famous Books   John Kelman 

The Art of Letters   Robert Lynd 

Studies in Literature   John Morley 

Aspects of Literature   John Middleton Murry 

Figures of Several Centuries   Arthur Symons 

Companionable Books   Henry Van Dyke 

English literary criticism   Charles Edwyn Vaughan 

Blake

William Blake : A Critical Essay   Algernon Charles Swinburne 

Browning

The Browning Cyclopædia   Edward Berdoe  

The Poetry Of Robert Browning   Stopford Augustus Brooke 

Browning's England: A Study in English Influences in Browning   Clarke 

Browning and His Century   Helen Archibald Clarke 

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry   Corson 

Browning and the Dramatic Monologue   S. S. Curry 

A Day with Browning by Browning   Flint, Haslehust, and Neatby 

Robert Browning   C. H. Herford 

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher   Sir Henry Jones 

Browning and Dogma   Ethel M. Naish 

Robert Browning: How to Know Him    William Lyon Phelps 

Coleridge

Biographia Literaria   Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Coleridge   S. L. Bensusan 

English Men of Letters: Coleridge   H. D. Traill 

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, V. 1   Coleridge 

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, V. 2   Coleridge 

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, V. 3   Coleridge 

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, V. 4   Coleridge 

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Dickens

Charles Dickens: A critical study-G. K. Chesterton 

George Eliot 

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy   Cooke 

The Ethics of George Eliot's Works   John Crombie Brown 

T. S. Eliot

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism   T. S. Eliot 

Joyce Kilmer

The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces   Joyce Kilmer 

Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers   Joyce Kilmer 

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592-Arthur Acheson 

Shakespeare & Typography-William Blades 

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth-Bradley 

Bacon and Shakespeare-Albert Frederick Calvert 

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher-Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

An Introduction to Shakespeare-W. H. Durham, H. N. MacCracken, and F. E. Pierce 

The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story-Frank Harris 

The Ornithology of Shakespeare-James Edmund Harting 

Shakespeare: A Lecture-Robert Green Ingersoll 

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown-Andrew Lang 

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays-Sir Sidney Lee 

Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist-Richard G. Moulton 

Shakespeare and music-Naylor 

William Shakespeare: A Critical Study-Georg Brandes 

A History of Elizabethan Literature-George Saintsbury 

The Age of Shakespeare-Algernon Charles Swinburne 

The Facts About Shakespeare-William Allan Neilson and Ashley Horace Thorndike 

The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote-Charles Dudley Warner 

Shakespeare's England-William Winter 

Latin Literature Literary Criticism

Poetry

General Poetry

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems   Coleridge and Wordsworth 

O May I Join the Choir Invisible! and Other Favorite Poems 

Selections from Five English Poets   Mary E. Litchfield 

Poems   Theodore Maynard 

Poems-Matthew Arnold 

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold-Matthew Arnold 

Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems-Matthew Arnold 

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts-Hilaire Belloc 

Cautionary Tales for Children-Hilaire Belloc 

A Moral Alphabet-Hilaire Belloc 

Sonnets and Verse   Hilaire Belloc 

Verses-Hilaire Belloc 

Verses and Sonnets   Hilaire Belloc 

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell   William Blake 

Poems-William Blake 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience-William Blake 

Sonnets from the Portuguese  Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'   Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Christmas Eve   Robert Browning 

Men and Women   Robert Browning 

Pomegranates from an English Garden   Robert Browning 

A Day with Lord Byron by May Byron 

A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge   May Byron 

Poems-G. K. Chesterton 

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2   Coleridge 

Poems of Coleridge   Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Vol. 1-Browning 

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Vol. 2-Browning 

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Vol. 4-Browning 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner   Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, V. I   Richard Crashaw 

The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, V. II   Richard Crashaw 

The Poems of John Donne, V. 1   John Donne 

The Poems of John Donne, V. 2   John Donne 

Poems by T. S. Eliot 

Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot 

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins   Gerard Manley Hopkins 

A Day with Keats   May Byron 

Endymion: A Poetic Romance   John Keats 

Lamia   John Keats 

Poems 1817   John Keats 

Main Street, and Other Poems   Joyce Kilmer 

Trees, and Other Poems   Joyce Kilmer 

The Hound of Heaven-Francis Thompson 

Poems-Francis Thompson 

Selected Poems-Francis Thompson 

Social Sciences

Education

The Education of Catholic Girls-Janet Erskine Stuart 

Elizabethan

Elizabethan England-William Harrison 

Folklore

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood-Howard Pyle 

Political Works

Culture and Anarchy-Matthew Arnold 

Works V. 1-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 2-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 3-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 4-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 5-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 6-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 7-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 8-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 9-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 10-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 11-Edmund Burke 

Works V. 12-Edmund Burke 

Eugenics and Other Evils-G. K. Chesterton 

The New Jerusalem-G. K. Chesterton 

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays-G. K. Chesterton 

Freedom's Battle-Mahatma Gandhi 

Indian Home Rule-Mahatma Gandhi 

Third class in Indian railways-Mahatma Gandhi 

The Federalist Papers-Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison 

The Magna Carta 

The Communist Manifesto-Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx 

Utopia-Saint Thomas More 

The Writings of Thomas Paine V. 1: The American Crisis-Paine 

The Rights of Man-Paine 

The Writings Of Thomas Paine, V. III-Thomas Paine 

The Writings of Thomas Paine V. 4: The Age of Reason-Paine 

This Troubled World-Eleanor Roosevelt 

The Social Contract & Discourses-Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith 

Democracy in America V. 1-Alexis de Tocqueville 

Democracy in America V. 2-Alexis de Tocqueville 

Public Welfare

Mob Rule in New Orleans-Ida B. Wells-Barnett 

The Red Record-Ida B. Wells-Barnett 

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases-Ida B. Wells-Barnett 

Social problems

What's Wrong with the World-G. K. Chesterton