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Merrill's English Texts

Description: I found my grandfather's old copy of The Oregon Trail indicating that it was one of "Merrill's English Texts" especially chosen for the students of high schools in New York in the early 1900s. So I got curious and decided to search for other "masterpieces of English Literature" that were chosen to be part of this series :)

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

38,145 members

464 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

2

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

35,684 members

444 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

3

by William Shakespeare

27,091 members

235 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

20,536 members

183 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

5

by William Shakespeare

14,325 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

6

by William Shakespeare

12,979 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

7

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,863 members

116 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

8

by George Eliot

11,755 members

156 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

9

by William Shakespeare

11,262 members

115 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

10

by William Shakespeare

7,867 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

11

by William Shakespeare

6,278 members

57 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

12

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,491 members

34 reviews

4.1

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

13

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

by Washington Irving

1,612 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

14

The Poems of Robert Browning

by Robert Browning

842 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

15

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

764 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

16

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

697 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

17

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

333 members

7 reviews

4.1

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

18

The Pilgrim's Progress and the Holy War

64 members

1 review

4

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

19

Merrills English Texts, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,Christabel and Other Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

18 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

20

Lycidas, Comus, L'allegro, Il penseroso, and other poems

10 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

21

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; (Merrill's English Texts)

by William Shakespeare

7 members

5

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

22

Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" (Oxford Shakespeare Concordances)

by T. H. Howard-Hill

4 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

23

Shakespeare's Macbeth (Merrill's English Texts)

by William Shakespeare

2 members

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

24

Merrills English Texts - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,Christabel and Other Poems

by Charles E. Merrill

1 member

2 Members: LucindaLibri, ahef1963

25

by Henry David Thoreau

14,656 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

26

by Sir Walter Scott

13,526 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: LucindaLibri

27

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,960 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

28

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

7,712 members

92 reviews

4.1

Member: LucindaLibri

29

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,594 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

30

The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

2,903 members

48 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LucindaLibri

31

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

2,646 members

17 reviews

4

Member: LucindaLibri

32

The Oregon Trail

by Francis Parkman

2,154 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: LucindaLibri

33

Essays: First Series and Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,993 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: LucindaLibri

34

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1,421 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: LucindaLibri

35

The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

by Sir Walter Scott

1,199 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: LucindaLibri

36

The Man Without a Country

by Edward Everett Hale

776 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: LucindaLibri

37

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

by Joseph Addison

391 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

38

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

334 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

39

Lays of Ancient Rome

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

323 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: LucindaLibri

40

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

by Edmund Burke

187 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: LucindaLibri

41

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes / An Inland Voyage

by Robert Louis Stevenson

179 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

42

by Thomas Carlyle

89 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

43

Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

87 members

2.8

Member: LucindaLibri

44

Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's Bunker Hill Orations

by George Washington

52 members

½ 4.5

Member: LucindaLibri

45

Sohrab and Rustum

by Matthew Arnold

42 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

46

Idylls of the king: The coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Holy Grail

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

30 members

5

Member: LucindaLibri

47

The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems

by James Russell Lowell

23 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: LucindaLibri

48

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

18 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: LucindaLibri

49

Selections from the writings and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

by Abraham Lincoln

14 members

3

Member: LucindaLibri

50

the man without a country and my double

by Edward Everett Hale

10 members

Member: LucindaLibri

51

The Deserted Village, the Traveller, and Other Poems.

by Oliver Goldsmith

6 members

Member: LucindaLibri

52

Short Stories of Various Types (Merrill's English Texts)

4 members

4

Member: LucindaLibri

53

Representative American poetry, (Merrill's English texts)

by Edwin B Richards

3 members

Member: LucindaLibri

54

Merrill's English Texts Selected Short Stories

by Claude M. Fuess

3 members

Member: LucindaLibri

55

Goldsmith's The deserted village, The traveller; Gray's Elegy in a country churchyard

by Oliver Goldsmith

3 members

Member: LucindaLibri

56

selections from american poetry

by Charles Robert Gaston

2 members

Member: LucindaLibri

57

Modern Essays of Various Types (Merrill's English Texts )

by Charles A. Cockayne

2 members

Member: LucindaLibri

58

Selections From American Poetry (Merrill's English Texts)

1 member

Member: LucindaLibri

59

Merrill's English Texts - Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First and Second Bunker Hill Orations

by Daniel Webster and George Washington

1 member

Member: LucindaLibri

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Started: LucindaLibri
September 2013
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