High School Remembered, selected by Patty Nash

The 100 books on this CD were selected by Patty Nash.

She explains, "One of my earliest memories is of sitting quietly on the floor in front of the bookshelf, either on a rainy day, or while listening to our father play the piano. I loved to turn the pages, thrilling at the swish of those that were of thinner texture, and loving their smell and feel. Perhaps because of this, almost every popular song has its book associated with it. Daddy called my twin brother and I "the bookends", and we loved to hear those books read. I thought our mother's voice the most beautiful in all the world when she read to us before our afternoon nap, and in school, I looked the most forward to the stories the teachers would read to us. Books are treasured friends, and they take you on journeys which are free. There are some books which must be read every so often, and there is nothing so poignant as the sadness one feels at the end of a book---wishing it could go on forever. Many of these books will be recognized as required reading for school, and some I read before high school, but I have enjoyed them all! We are truly rich if we possess books. I hope you enjoy these, and keep reading."

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These are the 100 books Patty selected:

Table of Contents

FICTION

Louisa Mae Alcott

• Little Women
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
• Eight Cousins
• Rose in Bloom (sequel to Eight Cousins)
• Under the Lilacs

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Hans Christian Andersen

• Fairy Tales

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Jane Austen

• Emma
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice

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Charlotte Bronte

• Jane Eyre

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Emily Bronte

• Wuthering Heights

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden
• The Little Princess

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Willa Cather

• My Antonia

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Joseph Conrad

• Lord Jim

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Daniel Defoe

• Moll Flanders

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Charles Dickens

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Great Expectations
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• A Christmas Carol

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Dostoyevsky

• Crime and Punishment
• The Grand Inquisitor (excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov)
• Notes from the Underground
• The Idiot

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Theodore Dreiser

• Sister Carrie

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Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers Saga, in English

• The Three Musketeers (covering 1625-1628)
• Twenty Years After (covering 1648-49)
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne (covering 1660)
• Ten Years Later (covering 1660-1661)
• Louise de la Valliere (covering 1661)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

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George Eliot

• Middlemarch
• Silas Marner
• The Mill on the Floss

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Gustave Flaubert

• Madame Bovary (in English)

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Oliver Goldsmith

• The Vicar of Wakefield
• She Stoops to Conquer

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Thomas Hardy

• Jude the Obscure
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Return of the Native

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Scarlet Letter

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O. Henry

• The Four Million

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Victor Hugo

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) (in English)
• Les Miserables (in English)

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Washington Irving

• The Sketch Book

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D.H. Lawrence

• Sons and Lovers

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Hugh Lofting

• Voyages of Dr. Doolittle

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Guy de Maupassant

• Complete short stories

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Herman Melville

• Moby Dick

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of Avonlea
• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of the Island
• Anne's House of  Dreams
• Chronicles of Avonlea
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea
• The Golden Road
• Kilmeny of the Orchard
• Rainbow Valley
• Rilla of Ingleside
• The Story Girl

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Edgar Allan Poe

Volume 1 of the Raven Edition of his works

• Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
• Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
• Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
• The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
• The Gold Bug
• Four Beasts in One
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Mystery of Marie Roget
• The Balloon Hoax
• MS. Found in a Bottle
• The Oval Portrait

Volume 2

• The Purloined Letter
• The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
• A Descent into the Maelström
• Von Kempelen and his Discovery
• Mesmeric Revelation
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
• The Black Cat
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Silence -- a Fable
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Imp of the Perverse
• The Island of the Fay
• The Assignation
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Premature Burial
• The Domain of Arnheim
• Landor's Cottage
• William Wilson
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Berenice
• Eleonora

Volume 3

• Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
• Ligeia
• Morella
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
• The Spectacles
• King Pest
• Three Sundays in a Week

Volume 4

• The Devil in the Belfry
• Lionizing
• X-ing a Paragrab
• Metzengerstein
• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
• The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
• How to Write a Blackwood article
• A Predicament
• Mystification
• Diddling
• The Angel of the Odd
• Mellonia Tauta
• The Duc de l'Omlette
• The Oblong Box
• Loss of Breath
• The Man That Was Used Up
• The Business Man
• The Landscape Garden
• Maelzel's Chess-Player
• The Power of Words
• The Colloquy of Monas and Una
• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
• Shadow.--A Parable

Volume 5

• Philosophy of Furniture
• A Tale of Jerusalem
• The Sphinx
• Hop Frog
• The Man of the Crowd
• Never Bet the Devill Your Head
• Thou Art the Man
• Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
• Bon-Bon
• Some words with a Mummy
• The Poetic Principle
• Old English Poetry

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William Shakespeare

• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• As You Like It
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Merchant of Venice
• Julius Caesar
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Taming of the Shrew
• King Lear

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Johanna Spyri

• Heidi

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Robert Louis Stevenson

• Kidnapped
• Treasure Island

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Booth Tarkington

• Penrod and Sam

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Idylls of the King

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Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, translated to English by Constance Garnett

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• War and Peace, in English
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5
• Book 6
• Book 7
• Book 8
• Book 9
• Book 10
• Book 11
• Book 12
• Book 13
• Book 14
• Book 15

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Mark Twain

• Huckleberry Finn

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Jules Verne

• Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours (in French)
• Around the World in 80 Days (in English)

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Edith Wharton

• Glimpses of the Moon
• Summer

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Kate Douglas Wiggin

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Emile Zola

• Nana (in English)
• Nana (in French)

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POETRY

Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth

• Lyrical Ballads

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Emily Dickinson

• Series One
• Series Two
• Series Three

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John Keats

• Poems of 1817

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Evangeline

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Renascence and Other Poems

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Percy Shelley

• Complete Poetical Works
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

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Sara Teasdale

• Rivers to the Sea
• Helen of Troy
• Love Songs
• Flame and Shadow

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Walt Whitman

• Leaves of Grass

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PLAYS

Moliere

• The Miser (in English)
• L'Avare (in French)

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J.M. Synge

• Riders to the Sea

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NON-FICTION

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series

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Bejamin Franklin

• Autobiography

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Plato

• Republic
• Symposium

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Henry David Thoreau

• Walden
• Essay on Civil Disobedience

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RELIGION

The King James Bible

• The Books of Moses
• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• The Histories
• Joshua
• Judges
• Ruth
• 1 Samuel
• 2 Samuel
• 1 Kings
• 2 Kings
• 1 Chronicles
• 2 Chronicles
• Job/Psalms/Proverbs
• Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Esther
• Job
• Psalms
• Proverbs
• Ecclesiastes
• Song of Solomon
• Prophets
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Lamentations
• Ezekiel
• Daniel
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habakkuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi
• The New Testament
• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• John
• Acts
• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Phillippians
• Collossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation

Talking" software included on this book CD:

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of the software is intended for Windows PCS, not Macs.) You can se that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one piece of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.