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Catullus
Any Latin edition and the prose translation published by Macmillan bound up with Tibullus. Catullus, the contemporary of Julius Cæsar, is…
Candide
Any French edition or English translation. Voltaire was a true man of action, a knight of the Holy Ghost. He plunged fiercely into the…
Cervantes
Don Quixote. In any translation except those vulgarized by eighteenth century taste. Cervantes' great, ironical, romantic story is written…
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb remains, of all English prose-writers, the one whose manner is the most beautiful. So rich, so delicate, so imaginative, so…
Charles Dickens
The compiler has placed in this list only one of Dickens' books for a somewhat different reason from that which has influenced him in other…
Charles L. Dodgson
Alice in Wonderland. The edition with the original illustrations. It would be ridiculous to compile a list of a hundred best books and…