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During World War II,
the university sent three books to each of the 1,300 students who
were serving in the Armed Forces. Below is the list of the books
compiled by faculty and administrators and sent to the young Princetonians
from which to choose.
Adams, Henry. The
Education of Henry Adams.
American Short Stories
of the 19th Century.
Augustine, Saint. Confessions.
Bierce, Ambrose. In
the Midst of Life.
Borrow, George. Lavengro.
Buchan, John. Thirty-Nine
Steps.
Bunyan, John The Pilgrim's
Progress.
Carroll, Lewis. Collected
Stories.
Cellini, Benvenuto. Autobiography.
Cervantes. Don Quixote.
Charnwood, Lord. Abraham
Lincoln.
Collins, Willkie. The
Moonstone.
Comprehensive Anthology
of American War.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord
Jim.
Cummings, E.E. The
Enormous Room.
Darwin, Charles. The
Origin of Species.
Dickens, Charles. Pickwick
Papers.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodo. Crime
and Punishment.
Dumas, Alexandre. The
Three Musketeers.
Eddington, Sir Arthur.
The Nature of the Physical World.
Edelman, Maurice. How
Russia Prepared.
Elizabethan Playwrights.
English Verse.
Forster, E.M. A Passage
to India.
Fourteen Great Detective
Stories.
France, Anatole. Penguin
Island.
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography.
Great Modern Short
Stories
Gregory, J.W. The
Making of the Earth.
Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell
to Arms.
Homer. The Odyssey.
Hudson, W.H. The Purple
Land.
Hugo, Victor. Toilers
of the Sea.
Huxley, Thomas. Man's
Place in Nature, and Other Essays.
James, William. The
Varieties of Religious Experience.
Keith, Sir Arthur. Man:
A History of the Human Body.
Lardner, Ring. Collected
Short Stories.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith.
Maugham, W. Somerset.
Of Human Bondage.
Melville, Herman. Moby
Dick.
Montaigne. Essays.
Nevins, Allan and Commager,
H.S. Pocket History of the U.S.
Nordhoff, C.B. and Hall,
J.N. Mutiny of the Bounty.
Parkman, Francis. The
Conspiracy of Pontiac.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensees
and The Provincial Letters.
Pearson, Karl. The
Grammar of Science.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. An
Outline of European Architecture.
Plato. The Philosophy
of Plato.
Pocket Book of Verse.
Shakespeare. Complete
Works.
Sophocles. The Seven
Plays.
Steinbeck, John. Tortilla
Flat.
Stendhal. The Red
and the Black.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Treasure Island and Kidnapped.
Strachey, Lytton. Eminent
Victorians.
Temple, William. Christianity
and the Social Order.
Thackeray, William Makepeace.
Henry Esmond.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden.
Thucydides. History
of the Peloponnesian War.
Tolstoy, Count Leo. Anna
Karenina and War and Peace.
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers
and Sons.
Whitehead, A.N. An
Introduction to Mathematics.
Wollman, John. The
Journal and Other Papers.
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