Franklin Library Imitation Leather


The following are books published by the Franklin Library in The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers series also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books. These leatherette books were bound with coated cloth to create the imitation leather that simulated a real leather look. The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers series was published only as leatherette (or imitation leather) volumes.


Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott - 1978
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - 1979
Don Quixote De La Mancha by Meguel De Cervantes - 1979
Plays by Anton Chekhov - 1979
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - 1979
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - 1979
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 1979
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1979
The Odyssey by Homer - 1979
Plays by Henrik Ibsen - 1979
Ulysses by James Joyce - 1979
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - 1979
Paradise Lost by John Milton - 1979
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - 1979
Gullivers Travels by Jonathon Swift 1979
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 1979
Candide by Voltare - 1979
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - 1979
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 1980
Pere Goriot by Honore De Balzac - 1980
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 1980
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - 1980
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 1980
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - 1980
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - 1980
One Hundred Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm - 1980
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - 1980
Stories by Rudyard Kipling - 1980
Anna Karennina by Leo Tolstoy - 1980
Rhetoric and On Poetics by Aristotle - 1981
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio - 1981
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 1981
My Antonia by Willa Cather - 1981
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1981
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - 1981
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot - 1981
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - 1981
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 1981
Selected Plays of William Shakespeare - 1981
The Red and the Black by Stendahl - 1981
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1981
Aesop's Fables - 1982
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - 1982
The Confessions of Saint Augustine - 1982
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper - 1982
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1982
Selected Essays by Michel De Montaigne - 1982
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - 1982
Mutiny on The Bounty by Nordhoff and Hall - 1982
Selected Lives from the Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - 1982
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - 1982
The Annals of Tacitus by 1982
Barchester Towers by Anthoney Trollope - 1982
The Aeneid by Virgil - 1982
Romantic Poets : William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe - 1982
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 1983
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - 1983
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 1983
The Reivers by William Faulkner - 1983
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - 1983
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - 1983
Selected Stories by Guy de Maupassant - 1983
Selected Dialogues of Plato - 1983
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 1983
Our Town / The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder - 1983
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1984
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 1984
Comedies by Moliere - 1985
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 1985
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet - 1986



Franklin Library Imitation Leather