APRIL MORNING, Howard Fast, 0-553-27322-1
MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert, 0-553-21341-5
HOWARDS END, E. M. Forster, 0-553-21208-7
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E. M. Forster, 0-553-21323-7
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, Anne Frank, 0-553-57712-3
ANNE FRANK'S TALES FROM THE SECRET ANNEX, Anne Frank, 0-553-58638-6
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER WRITINGS, Benjamin Franklin, 0-553-21075-0
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER AND OTHER WRITINGS, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 0-553-21375-X
FAUST: FIRST PART, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 0-553-21348-2
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame, 0-553-21368-7
THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, The Brothers Grimm, 0-553-38216-0
ROOTS, Alex Haley, 0-440-17464-3
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, Thomas Hardy, 0-553-21331-8
JUDE THE OBSCURE, Thomas Hardy, 0-553-21191-9
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Thomas Hardy, 0-553-21024-6
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, Thomas Hardy, 0-553-21269-9
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, Thomas Hardy, 0-553-21168-4
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 0-553-21270-2
THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 0-553-21009-2
THE FAIRY TALES OF HERMANN HESSE, Hermann Hesse, 0-553-37776-0
SIDDHARTHA, Hermann Hesse, 0-553-20884-5
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, Homer, 0-553-21399-7
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, Victor Hugo, 0-553-21370-9
FOUR GREAT PLAYS: A DOLL'S HOUSE, GHOSTS, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and THE WILD DUCK, Henrik Ibsen, 0-553-21280-X
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henry James, 0-553-21127-7
THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND OTHER SHORT FICTION, Henry James, 0-553-21059-9
A COUNTRY DOCTOR, Sarah Orne Jewett, 0-553-21498-5
DUBLINERS, James Joyce, 0-553-21380-6
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, James Joyce, 0-553-21404-7
THE METAMORPHOSIS, Franz Kafka, 0-553-21369-5
THE STORY OF MY LIFE, Helen Keller, 0-553-21387-3
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21190-0
THE JUNGLE BOOK, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21199-4
KIM, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21332-6
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21262-1
SONS AND LOVERS, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21192-7
WOMEN IN LOVE, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21454-3
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Gaston Leroux, 0-553-21376-8
BABBITT, Sinclair Lewis, 0-553-21486-1
MAIN STREET, Sinclair Lewis, 0-553-21451-9
THE CALL OF THE WILD and WHITE FANG, Jack London, 0-553-21233-8
THE SEA WOLF, Jack London, 0-553-21225-7
TO BUILD A FIRE AND OTHER STORIES, Jack London, 0-553-21335-0
THE PRINCE, Niccolò Machiavelli, 0-553-21278-8
DEATH IN VENICE AND OTHER STORIES, Thomas Mann, 0-553-21333-4
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 0-553-21406-3
OF HUMAN BONDAGE, W. Somerset Maugham, 0-553-21392-X
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE AND OTHER STORIES, Carson McCullers, 0-553-27254-3
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, 0-553-26963-1
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, Carson McCullers, 0-553-25051-5
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR AND OTHER STORIES, Herman Melville, 0-553-21274-5
MOBY-DICK, Herman Melville, 0-553-21311-3
ON LIBERTY and UTILITARIANISM, John Stuart Mill, 0-553-21414-4
THE ANNOTATED MILTON, John Milton, 0-553-58110-4
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 0-553-21402-0
COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine, 0-553-21465-9
THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO, Plato, 0-553-21371-7
THE TELL-TALE HEART AND OTHER WRITINGS, Edgar Allan Poe, 0-553-21228-1
CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Edmond Rostand, 0-553-21360-1
IVANHOE, Sir Walter Scott, 0-553-21326-1
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (29 vols.), William Shakespeare
PYGMALION and MAJOR BARBARA, George Bernard Shaw, 0-553-21408-X
FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley, 0-553-21247-8
THE JUNGLE, Upton Sinclair, 0-553-21245-1
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, Adam Smith, 0-553-58597-5
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 0-553-24777-8
THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES, Sophocles, 0-553-21354-7
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21277-X
KIDNAPPED, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21260-5
TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21249-4
DRACULA, Bram Stoker, 0-553-21271-0
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 0-553-21218-4
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS, Jonathan Swift, 0-553-21232-X
VANITY FAIR, William Makepeace Thackeray, 0-553-21462-4
WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS, Henry David Thoreau, 0-553-21246-X
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, Alexis de Tocqueville, 0-553-21464-0
ANNA KARENINA, Leo Tolstoy, 0-553-21346-6
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH, Leo Tolstoy, 0-553-21035-1
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain, 0-553-21079-3
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Mark Twain, 0-553-21128-5
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain, 0-553-21195-1
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, Mark Twain, 0-553-21143-9
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Mark Twain, 0-553-21349-0
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, Mark Twain, 0-553-21256-7
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON, Mark Twain, 0-553-21158-7
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, Jules Verne, 0-553-21252-4
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, Jules Verne, 0-553-21356-3
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, Jules Verne, 0-553-21420-9
THE AENEID OF VIRGIL, Virgil, 0-553-21041-6
CANDIDE, Voltaire, 0-553-21166-8
THE INVISIBLE MAN, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21353-9
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21432-2
THE TIME MACHINE, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21351-2
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21338-5
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21450-0
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21393-8
ETHAN FROME AND OTHER SHORT FICTION, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21255-9
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21320-2
SUMMER, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21422-5
LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman, 0-553-21116-1
THE ACCIDENT, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-58170-8
DAWN, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-22536-7
NIGHT, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-27253-5
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AND OTHER WRITINGS, Oscar Wilde, 0-553-21254-0
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, Johann David Wyss, 0-553-21403-9
EARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS, 0-553-21379-2
FIFTY GREAT SHORT STORIES, 0-553-27745-6
FIFTY GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 0-553-27294-2
SHORT SHORTS, 0-553-27440-6
GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 0-440-33060-2
SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES, 0-440-37864-8
THE VOICE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US, 0-553-26263-7
THE BLACK POETS, 0-553-27563-1
THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN POETRY (Trade), 0-553-37518-0, (Hardcover), 0-553-10250-8
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
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PUBLISHING HISTORY
Of Human Bondage was originally published in 1915
Bantam Classic edition published July 1991
Bantam Classic reissue edition / March 2006
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