The
Western Canon
Appendices A-D of Harold Bloom's
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994).
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A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE
B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832
C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900
D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century
A. The Theocratic Age
"Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious,
philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of
great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in
this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato,
the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran....
"I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental
literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The
immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart
from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in
the translations available to us." (p. 531)
The Ancient Near East
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Holy Bible (King James Version)
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
Ancient India (Sanskrit)
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Ramayana
The Ancient Greeks
Homer. Iliad; Odyssey
Hesiod. Works and Days; Theogony
Archilochos
Sappho, Alkman
Pindar. Odes
Aeschylus. Oresteia; Seven Against
Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians
Aeschylus. Suppliant Women
Sophocles. Oedipus the King; Oedipus at
Colonus; Antigone; Electra
Sophocles. Ajax; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes
Euripides. Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba
Euripedes. Bacchae; Orestes; Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis
Aristophanes. The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
Arisotophanes. The Knights; The Wasps; The Assemblywomen
Herodotus. The Histories
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian Wars
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato. Dialogues
Aristotle. Poetics; Ethics
Hellenistic Greeks
Menander. The Girl from Samos
Longinus. On the Sublime
Callimachus. Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus. Idylls
Plutarch. Lives; Moralia
Aesop. Fables
Lucian. Satires
The Romans
Plautus. Pseudolus; The Braggart Soldier; The Rope; Amphitryon
Terence. The Girl from Andros; The Eunuch; The Mother-in-Law
Lucretius. The Way Things Are
Cicero. On the Gods
Horace. Odes; Epistles; Satires
Persius. Satires
Catullus. Attis and Other Poems
Virgil. Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics
Lucan. Pharsalia
Ovid. Metamorphoses; The Art of Love; Heroides
Juvenal. Satires
Martial. Epigrams
Seneca. Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens
Petronius. Satyricon
Apuleius. The Golden Ass
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante
Augustine, Saint. City of God; Confessions
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Nights
The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson. The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Eschenbach, Wolfram von. Parzival
Troyes, Chrétien de. Yvain:
The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The
Poem of the Cid,
Pisan, Christine de. The Book of the City of Ladies
Pedro, Diego de San. Prison of Love
B. The Aristocratic Age
"It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy through Goethe's Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge
body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,
French, and German. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes
do not mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other
instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that
I consider canonical but rather neglected. From this list onward,
many good writers who are not quite central are omitted...." (p. 534)
Italy
Dante. The
Divine Comedy; The New Life
Petrarch. Lyric
Poems; Selections
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The
Decameron
Boiardo, Matteo Maria. Orlando Innamorato
Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso
Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Sonnets and Madrigals
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince; The Mandrake, a Comedy
Vinci, Leonardo da. Notebooks
Castiglione, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier
Stampa, Gaspara. Sonnets and Madrigals
Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Painters
Cellini, Benvenuto. Autobiography
Tasso, Torquato. Jerusalem Delivered
Bruno, Giordano. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Campanella, Tommaso. Poems; The City of the Sun
Vico, Giambattista. Principles of a New Science
Goldoni, Carlo. The Servant of Two Masters
Alfieri, Vittorio. Saul
Portugal
Camoëns, Luis de. The Lusiads
Ferreira, Antònio. Poetry
Spain
Manrique, Jorge. Coplas
Rojas, Fernando de. La Celestina
Anonymous. Lazarillo de Tormes.
Quevedo, Francisco de. Visions; Satirical Letter of Censure
León, Fray Luis de. Poems
Cross, St. John of the. Poems
Góngora, Luis de. Sonnets; Soledades
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote; Exemplary Stories
Vega, Lope de. La Dorotea; Fuente Ovejuna; Lost in a Mirror; The Knight of Olmedo
Molina, Tirso de. The Trickster of Seville
Barca, Pedro Calderón de la. Life is a Dream; The Mayor of Zalamea; The Mighty Magician; The Doctor of His Own Honor
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la. Poems
England and Scotland
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The
Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur
Dunbar, William. Poems
Skelton, John. Poems
More, Sir Thomas. Utopia
Wyatt, Sir Thomas. Poems
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of. Poems
Sidney, Sir Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Astrophel
and Stella; An Apology for Poetry
Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord. Poems
Spenser, Edmund. The
Faerie Queene; The Minor Poems
Ralegh, Sir Walter. Poems
Marlowe, Christopher. Poems and Plays
Drayton, Michael. Poems
Daniel, Samuel. Poems;
A Defence of Ryme
Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveller
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy
Shakespeare, William. Plays and Poems
Campion, Thomas. Songs
Donne, John. Poems; Sermons
Jonson, Ben. Poems, Plays, and Masques
Bacon, Francis. Essays
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy
Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall; The Garden of Cyrus
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan
Herrick, Robert. Poems
Carew, Thomas. Poems
Lovelace, Richard. Poems
Marvell, Andrew. Poems
Herbert, George. The Temple
Traherne, Thomas. Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings
Vaughan, Henry. Poetry
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Poems
Crashaw, Richard. Poems
Fletcher, Francis Beaumont and John. Plays
Chapman, George. Comedies, Tragedies, Poems
Ford, John. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Marston, John. The Malcontent
Webster, John. The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi
Rowley, Thomas Middleton and William. The Changeling
Tourneur, Cyril. The Revenger's Tragedy
Massinger, Philip. A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler
Milton, John. Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives
Taylor, Jeremy. Holy Dying
Butler, Samuel. Hudibras
Dryden, John. Poetry and Plays; Critical Essays
Otway, Thomas. Venice Preserv'd
Congreve, William. The Way of the World; Love for Love
Swift, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels; Shorter Prose Works; Poems
Etherege, Sir George. The Man of Mode
Pope, Alexander. Poems
Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera
Boswell, James. Life of Johnson; Journals
Johnson, Samuel. Works
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France
Morgann, Maurice. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
Collins, William. Poems
Farquhar, George. The
Beaux' Strategem; The Recruiting Officer
Wycherley, William. The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer
Smart, Christopher. Jubilate Agno; A Song to David
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer; The Traveller; The Deserted Village
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School of Scandal; The Rivals
Cowper, William. Poetical Works
Crabbe, George. Poetical Works
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; A Journal of the Plague Year
Richardson, Samuel. Clarissa; Pamela; Sir
Charles Grandison
Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Smollett, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; The Adventures of Roderick Random
Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Burney, Fanny. Evelina
Steele, Joseph Addison and Richard. The Spectator
France
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles; The Song of Roland
Villon, François. Poems
Montaigne, Michel de. Essays
Rabelais, François. Gargantua and Pantagruel
Navarre, Marguerite de. The Heptameron
Bellay, Joachim Du. The Regrets
Scève, Maurice. Délie
Ronsard, Pierre. Odes, Elegies, Sonnets
Commynes, Philippe de. Memoirs
d'Aubigné, Agrippa. Les Tragiques
Garnier, Robert. Mark Antony; The Jewesses
Corneille, Pierre. The Cid; Polyeucte; Nicomède; Horace; Cinna; Rodogune
Rochefoucauld, François de La. Maxims
Fontaine, Jean de La. Fables
Moliere. The
Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives
Moliere. The Learned Ladies; Don Juan; School for Husbands; Ridiculous Precieuses; The Would-Be Gentleman
Moliere. The Miser; The Imaginary Invalid
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées
Bosuet, Jacques-Bénigne. Funerary Orations
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas. The Art of Poetry; Lutrin
Racine, Jean. Phaedra; Andromache; Britannicus; Athaliah
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de. Seven Comedies
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions; Émile; La Nouvelle Héloïse
Voltaire. Zadig; Candide; Letters on England; The Lisbon Earthquake
Prevost, Abbe. Manon Lescaut
Fayette, Madame de La. The Princess of Cleves
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de. Products of the Perfected Civilization
Diderot, Denis. Rameau's Nephew
Laclos, Choderlos de. Dangerous Liaisons
Germany
Erasmus. In Praise of Folly
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust, Parts One and Two; Dichtung und Wahrheit; Egmont
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Poems; Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Italian Journey; Verse Plays; Hermann and Dorothea; Roman Elegies
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Venetian Epigrams; West-Eastern Divan
Schiller, Friedrich. The Robbers; Mary Stuart; Wallenstein; Don Carlos; On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature
Lessing, Gotthold. Laocoön; Nathan the Wise
Hölderlin, Freidrich. Hymns and Fragments; Selected Poems
Kleist, Heinrich von. Five
Plays; Stories
C. The Democratic Age
"I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and Spain ebbs, yielding eminence
to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism,
and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era
where the strength of both Russian and American literature begins."
(p. 540)
Italy
Foscolo, Ugo. On
Sepulchres; Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis; Odes
and The Graces
Manzoni, Alessandro. The
Betrothed; On the Historical Novel
Leopardi, Giacomo. Essays
and Dialogues; Poems; The
Moral Essays
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino. Roman
Sonnets
Carducci, Giosué. Hymn
to Satan; Barbarian Odes; Rhymes
and Rhythms
Verga, Giovanni. Little
Novels of Sicily; Mastro-Don Gesualdo;
The House by the Medlar Tree; The She-Wolf and Other Stories
Spain and Portugal
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho. Poems
Galdós, Benito Pérez. Fortunata
and Jacinta
(Clarín), Leopoldo Alas. La
Regenta
Queirós, José Maria de Eça de. The
Maias
France
Constant, Benjamin. Adolphe;
The Red Notebook
Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de. Attala;
René;
The
Ge nius of Christianity
Lamartine, Alphonse de. Meditations
Vigny, Alfred de. Chatterton;
Poems
Hugo, Victor. The
Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems; Les
Misérables
Hugo, Victor. Notre-Dame
of Paris; William Shakespeare; The Toilers
of the Sea; The End of Satan; God
Musset, Alfred de. Poems;
Lorenzaccio
Nerval, Gérard de. The
Chimeras; Sylvie; Aurelia
Gautier, Théophile. Mademoiselle
de Maupin; Enamels and Cameos
Balzac, Honoré de. The
Girl with the Golden Eyes; Louis Lambert;
The
Wild Ass's Skin
Balzac, Honoré de. Old
Goriot; Cousin Bette; A Harlot High and Low;
Eugénie Grandet; Ursule Mirouet
Stendhal. On
Love; The Red and the Black; The
Charterhouse of Parma
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame
Bovary; Sentimental Education; Salammbô;
A
Simple Soul
Sand, George. The
Haunted Pool
Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers
of Evil; Paris Spleen
Mallarmé, Stéphane. Selected
Poetry and Prose
Verlaine, Paul. Selected
Poems
Rimbaud, Arthur. Complete
Works
Corbière, Tristan. Les
Armours Jaunes
Laforgue, Jules. Selected
Writings
Maupassant, Guy de. Selected
Short Stories
Zola, Émile. Germinal;
L'Assommoir; Nana
Scandinavia
Ibsen, Henrik. Brand;
Peer Gynt; Emperor
and Galilean; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder;
The Lady from the Sea; When We Dead Awaken
Strindberg, August. To
Damascus; Miss Julie; The
Father; The Dance of Death; The Ghost Sonata;
A Dream Play
Great Britain
Burns, Robert. Poems
Blake, William. Complete
Poetry and Prose
Wordsworth, William. Poems;
The Prelude
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley;
The Heart of Midlothian; Redgauntlet;
Old
Mortality
Austen, Jane. Pride
and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield
Park; Persuasion
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poems
and Prose
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The
Grasmere Journal
Hazlitt, William. Essays
and Criticism
Byron, Lord. Don
Juan; P
oems
Landor, William Savage. Poems;
Imaginary Conversations
Quincey, Thomas De. Confessions
of an English Opium Eater; Selected
Prose
Lamb, Charles. Essays
Edgeworth, Maria. Castle
Rackrent
Galt, John. The
Entail
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford;
Mary Barton; North
and South
Hogg, James. The
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Maturin, Charles. Melmoth
the Wanderer
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poems;
A Defence of Poetry
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein
Clare, John. Poems
Keats, John. Poems
and Letters
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's
Jest-Book; Poems
Darley, George. Nepenthe;
Poems
Hood, Thomas. Poems
Wade, Thomas. Poems
Browning, Robert. Poems;
The Ring and the Book
Dickens, Charles. The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; David
Copperfield; The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles. A
Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Hard Times;
Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son; Great Expectations;
Martin Chuzzlewit; Christmas Stories; Little Dorrit;
Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Poems
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Poems
and Translations
Matthew Arnold. Poems;
Essays
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Poems
Rossetti, Christina. Poems
Peacock, Thomas Love. Nightmare
Abbey; Gryll Grange
Hopkins, Gerald Manley. Poems
and Prose
Carlyle, Thomas. Selected
Prose; Sartor Resartus
Ruskin, John. Modern
Painters; The Stones of Venice; Unto
This Last; The Queen
of the Air
Pater, Walter. Studies
in the History of the Renaissance; Appreciations;
Imaginary
Portraits; M arius the Epicurean
FitzGerald, Edward. The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Mill, John Stuart. On
Liberty; Autobiography
Newman, John Henry. Apologia
pro Vita Sua; A Grammar of Assent;
The
Idea of a University
Trollope, Anthony. The
Barsetshire Novels; The Palliser Novels;
Orley
Farm; The
Way We Live Now
Carroll, Lewis. Complete
Works
Lear, Edward. Complete
Nonsense
Gissing, George. New
Grub Street
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Poems
and Letters
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane
Eyre; Villette
Brontë, Emily. Poems;
Wuthering Heights
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity
Fair; The
History of Henry Esmond
Meredith, George. Poems;
The Egoist
Thompson, Francis. Poems
Johnson, Lionel. Poems
Bridges, Robert. Poems
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Collected
Poems; The
Man Who Was Thursday
Butler, Samuel. Erewhon;
The Way of All Flesh
Gilbert, W. S.. Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan; Bab Ballads
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone; The Woman in White; No Name
Patmore, Coventry. Odes
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis). The City of the Dreadful Night
Wilde, Oscar. Plays; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Artist as Critic; Letters
Davidson, John. Ballads and Songs
Dowson, Ernest. Complete Poems
Eliot, George. Adam Bede; Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Essays; Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; The New Arabian Nights
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston
Morris, William. Early Romances; Poems; The Earthly Paradise; The Well at the World's End; News from Nowhere
Stoker, Bram. Dracula
Macdonald, George. Lilith; At the Back of the North Wind
Germany
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg). Hymns to the Night; Aphorisms
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Fairy Tales
Mörike, Eduard. Selected Poems; Mozart on His Way to Prague
Storm, Theodor. Immensee; Poems
Keller, Gottfried. Green Henry; Tales
Hoffmann, E. T. A.. The Devil's Elixir; Tales
Gotthelf, Jeremias. The
Black Spider
Stifter, Adalbert. Indian
Summer; Tales
Schlegel, Friedrich. Criticism
and Aphorisms
Büchner, Georg. Danton's
Death; Woyzeck
Heine, Heinrich. Complete
Poems
Wagner, Richard. The
Ring of the Nibelung
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The
Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and
Evil; On
the Genealogy of Mo rals; The
Will to Power
Fontane, Theodor. Effi
Briest
George, Stefan. Selected
Poems
Russia
Pushkin, Aleksandr. Complete
Prose Tales; Complete Poetry; Eugene
Onegin; Narrative Poems; Boris Godunov
Gogol, Nikolay. The
Complete Tales; Dead Souls; The
Government Inspector
Lermontov, Mikhail. Narrative
Poems; A Hero of Our Time
Aksakov, Segey. A
Family Chronicle
Herzen, Aleksandr. My
Past and Thoughts; From the Other Shore
Goncharov, Ivan. The
Frigate Pallada; Oblomov
Turgenev, Ivan. A
Sportsman's Notebook; A Month in the Country;
Fathers and Sons; On the Eve; First Love
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes
from the Underground; Crime
and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed (The Devils); The Brothers Karamazov; Short Novels
Tolstoy, Leo. The
Cossacks; War and Peace; Anna
Karenina; A Confession; The
Power of Darkness; Short Novels
Leskov, Nikolay. Tales
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr. The
Storm
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay. What
is to Be Done?
Blok, Aleksandr. The
Twelve and Other Poems
Chekhov, Anton. The
Tales; The Major Plays
The United States
Irving, Washington. The
Sketch Book
Bryant, William Cullen. Collected
Poems
Cooper, James Fenimore. The
Deerslayers
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Collected
Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature;
Essays; Representative
Men; The Conduct of Life; Journals; Poems
Dickinson, Emily. Complete
Poems
Whitman, Walt. Leaves
of Grass, first edition; Leaves
of Grass, third edition; The
Complete Poems ; Specimen Days
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The
Scarlet Letter; Tales and Sketches;
The
Marble Faun; Notebooks
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick;
The Piazza Tales; Billy
Budd; Collected Poems;
Clarel
Poe, Edgar Allen. Poetry
and Tales; Essays and Reviews; The Narrative
of Arthur Gordon Pym; Eureka
Very, Jones. Essays
and Poems
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. The
Cricket and Other Poems
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden;
Poems; Essays
Dana, Richard Henry. Two
Years Before the Mast
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Selected
Poems
Lanier, Sidney. Poems
Parkman, Francis. France
and England in North America; The
California and Oregon Trail
Adams, Henry. The
Education of Henry Adams; Mont Saint-Michel
and Chartres
Bierce, Ambrose. Collected
Writings
Alcott, Louisa May. Little
Women
Chesnutt, Charles W.. The
Short Fiction
Chopin, Kate. The
Awakening
Howells, William Dean. The
Rise of Silas Lapham; A Modern
Instance
Crane, Stephen. The
Red Badge of Courage; Stories and Poems
James, Henry. The
Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima;
The Awkward Age; Short Novels and Tales; The Ambassadors;
The Wings of the Dove; The Golden Bowl
Frederic, Harold. The
Damnation of Theron Ware
Twain, Mark. Complete
Short Stories; The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn; The
Devil's Racetrack; N umber Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger;
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Twain, Mark. A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
James, William. The
Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism
Norris, Frank. The
Octopus
Jewett, Sarah Orne. The
Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Stickney, Trumbull. Poems
D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy
"I am not as confident about this list as the first three. Cultural prophecy is always a mug's game. Not all of the works here can prove
to be canonical; literary overpopulation is a hazard to many among
them. But I have neither excluded nor included on the basis of cultural
politics of any kind." (p. 548)
Italy
Pirandello, Luigi. Naked
Masks: Five Plays
D'Annunzio, Gabriele. Maia:
In Praise of Life
Campana, Dino. Orphic
Songs
Saba, Umberto. Stories
and Recollections; Poems
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di. The
Leopard
Ungaretti, Giuseppe. Selected
Poems; The Buried Harbour:
Selected Poems
Montale, Eugenio. The
Storm and Other Things: Poems; The
Occasions: Poems; Cuttlefish
Bone s: Poems; Otherwise: Last and First Poems; The
Second Life of Art: Selected Essays
Quasimodo, Salvatore. Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry
Landolfi, Tommaso. Gogol's
Wife and Other Stories
Sciascia, Leonardo. Day
of the Owl; Equal Danger; The Wine-Dark Sea:
Thirteen Stories
Pasolini, Pier Paolo. Poems
Pavese, Cesare. Hard
Labor: Poems; Dialogues with Leucò
Levi, Primo. If
Not Now, When?; Collected Poems; The
Periodic Table
Svevo, Italo. The
Confession of Zeno; As a Man Grows Older
Bassani, Giorgio. The
Heron
Ginzburg, Natalia. Family
Vittorini, Elio. Women
of Messina
Moravia, Alberto. 1934
Zanzotto, Andrea. Selected
Poetry
Calvino, Italo. Invisible
Cities; The Baron in the Trees; If
on a Winter's Night a Traveler; t
zero
Porta, Antonio. Kisses
from Another Dream: Poems
Spain
Unamuno, Miguel de. Three
Exemplary Novels; Our Lord Don Quixote
Machado, Antonio. Selected
Poems
Jiménez, Juan Ramón. Invisible
Reality: Poems
Salinas, Pedro. My
Voice Because of You: Poems
Guillén, Jorge. Guillén
on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet
Aleixandre, Vicente. A
Longing for the Light: Selected Poems
Lorca, Federico Garcia. Selected
Poems; Three
Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba
Alberti, Rafael. The
Owl's Insomnia: Poems
Cernuda, Luis. Selected
Poems
Hernández, Miguel. Selected
Poems
Otero, Blas de. Selected
Poems
Cela, Camilo José. The
Hive
Goytisolo, Juan. Space
in Motion
Catalonia
Ribá, Carles. Selected
Poems
Foix, J. V.. Selected
Poems
Perucho, Joan. Natural
History
Rodoreda, Merce. The
Time of the Doves
Gimferrer, Pere. Selected
Poems
Espríu, Salvador. La
Pell de Brau: Poems
Portugal
Pessoa, Fernando. The
Keeper of Sheep; Poems; Selected
Poems; Always Astonished: Selected Poems; The Book
of Disquiet
Sena, Jorge de. Selected
Poems
Saramago, José. Baltasar
and Blimunda
José Cardoso Pires. Ballad of Dogs' Beach
Breyner, Sophia de Mello. Selected
Poems
Andrade, Eugénio de. Selected
Poems
France
France, Anatole. Penguin
Island; Thaïs
Alain-Fournier. Le
Grand Meaulnes
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)
Andre Gide. The Immoralist; Corydon; Lafcadio's Adventure (The Caves of the Vatican); The Journals
Colette. Collected
Stories; Retreat from Love
Bataille, Georges. Blue
of Noon
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey
to the End of Night
Daumal, René. Mount
Analogue
Genet, Jean. Our
Lady of the Flowers; The Thief's Journal; The Balcony
Giraudoux, Jean. Four
Plays
Jarry, Alfred. Selected
Works
Cocteau, Jean. The
Infernal Machine and Other Works
Apollinaire, Guillaume. Selected
Writings
Breton, André. Poems;
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Valéry, Paul. The
Art of Poetry; Selected Writings
Char, René. Poems
Éluard, Paul. Selected
Poems
Aragon, Louis. Selected
Poems
Giono, Jean. The
Horseman on the Roof
Leiris, Michel. Manhood
Radiguet, Raymond. Count
d'Orgel's Ball
Sartre, Jean-Paul. No
Exit; Nausea; Saint
Genet; The Words; The Family Idiot; Gustave
Flaubert
Beauvoir, Simone de. The
Second Sex
Camus, Albert. The
Stranger; The Plague; The
Fall; The Rebel
Michaux, Henri. Selected
Writings
Jabès, Edmond. The
Book of Questions; Selected Poems
Perse, Saint-John. Anabasis;
Birds; Exile
and Other Poems
Reverdy, Pierre. Selected
Poems
Tzara, Tristan. Seven
Dada Manifestoes
Jacob, Max. Selected
Poems
Jouve, Pierre-Jean. Selected
Poems.
Ponge, Francis. Things:
Selected Writings, tr. by Cid Corman.
Prévert, Jacques. Paroles.
Jacottet, Philippe. Selected
Poems, tr. by Derek Mahon.
Péguy, Charles. The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.
Péret, Benjamin. Selected
Poems.
Malraux, André. The
Conquerors; The Royal Way; Man's
Fate; Man's Hope; The Voices of Silence.
Mauriac, François. Therese;
The Desert of Love; The Woman of the Pharisees,
tr. by Gerard Hopkins.
Anouilh, Jean. Becket;
Antigone; Eurydice;
The Rehearsal.
Ionesco, Eugène. The
Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The
Lesson; Amédée; Victims of Duty; Rhinoceros.
Blanchot, Maurice. Thomas
the Obscure, tr. by Robert Lamberton.
Klossowski, Pierre. The
Laws of Hospitality; The Baphomet.
Roussel, Raymond. Locus
Solus.
Artaud, Antonin. Selected
Writings, tr. by Helen Weaver.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes
Tropiques.
Robbe-Grillet, Alain. The
Voyeur; Jealousy; In the
Labyrinth; The Erasers;
Project for a Revolution in New York; For a New Novel,
tr. by Richard Howard.
Sarraute, Nathalie. The
Use of Speech, tr. by Barbara Wright; The Planetarium,
tr. by Maria Jolas.
Simon, Claude. The
Grass; The Wind; The
Flanders Road, tr. by Richard Howard.
Duras, Marguerite. The
Lover, tr. by Barbara Bray; Four Novels, tr. by Sonia
Pitt-Rivers and others.
Pinget, Robert. Fable;
The Libera Me Domine; That
Voice, tr. by Barbara Wright.
Tournier, Michel. The
Ogre; Friday.
Yourcenar, Marguerite. Coup
de Grace; Memoirs of Hadrian.
Follain, Jean. Transparance
of the World: Poems, tr. by W. S. Merwin.
Bonnefoy, Yves. Words
in Stone, tr. by Susanna Lang.
Great Britain and Ireland.
Yeats, William Butler. The
Collected Poems; Collected Plays;
A Vision; Mythologies.
Shaw, George Bernard. Major
Critical Essays; Heartbreak House;
Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Major Barbara;
Back to Methuselah.
Synge, John Millington. Collected
Plays.
O'Casey, Sean. Juno
and the Paycock; The Plough and the Stars;
The
Shadow of a Gunman.
Brown, George Douglas. The
House with the Green Shutters.
Hardy, Thomas. The
Well-Beloved; The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native;
The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far From the Madding Crowd;
Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; Collected
Poems.
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim;
Collected Stories; Puck
of Pook's Hill; Complete Verse.
Housman, A.E.. Collected
Poems.
Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, Seven Men and Two Others.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord
Jim; The Secret Agent; Nostromo;
Under Western Eyes; Victory.
Firbank, Ronald. Five
Novels.
Ford, Ford Madox. Parade's
End; The Good Soldier.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Collected
Short Stories; The Moon and Sixpence.
Powys, John Cowper. Wolf
Solent; A Glastonbury Romance.
Saki (H.H. Munro). The
Short Stories.
Wells, H. G.. The
Science Fiction Novels.
Lindsay, David. A
Voyage to Arcturus.
Bennett, Arnold. The
Old Wives' Tale.
Mare, Walter De la. Collected
Poems; Memoirs of a Midget.
Owen, Wilfred. Collected
Poems.
Rosenberg, Isaac. Collected Poems.
Thomas, Edward. Collected
Poems.
Graves, Robert. Collected
Poems; King Jesus.
Jones, David. In
Parenthesis; The Anathemata.
Galsworthy, John. The Forsyth Saga.
Forster, E. M.. Howard's End; A Passage to India.
O'Connor, Frank. Collected Stories.
Lawrence, D. H.. Complete Poems; Studies in Classic American Literature; Complete Short Stories; Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love.
Woolf, Virgina. Mrs. Dalloway; Woolf To the Lighthouse&tag=provisliteraclas">To the Lighthouse; Orlando: A Biography; The Waves; Between the Acts.
Joyce, James. Dubliners;
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
Ulysses; Finnegans Wake.
Beckett, Samuel. Murphy;
Watt; Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable; Waiting for Godot;
Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; How It Is.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Collected
Stories.
Farrell, J. G.. The
Siege of Krishnapur.
Green, Henry. Nothing;
Loving; Party
Going.
Waugh, Evelyn. A
Handful of Dust; Scoop; Vile
Bodies; Put Out More Flags.
Burgess, Anthony. Nothing
Like the Sun.
Edwards, G. B.. The
Book of Ebenezer Le Page.
Murdoch, Iris. The
Good Apprentice; Bruno's Dream.
Greene, Graham. Brighton
Rock; The Heart of the Matter; The Power
and the Glory.
Isherwood, Christopher. The
Berlin Stories.
Douglas, Norman. South
Wind.
Huxley, Aldous. Collected
Essays; Antic Hay; Point Counter Point; Brave
New World.
Durrell, Lawrence. The
Alexandria Quartet.
Golding, William. Pincher
Martin.
Lessing, Doris. The
Golden Notebook.
Peake, Mervyn. The
Gormenghast Trilogy.
Winterson, Jeanette. The
Passion.
Auden, W. H.. Collected Poems; The Dyer's Hand.
Fuller, Roy. Collected Poems.
Ewart, Gavin. Selected Poems.
Bunting, Basil. Collected Poems.
Empson, William. Collected Poems; Milton's God; Some Versions of Pastoral.
Knight, George Wilson. The Wheel of Fire; The Burning Oracle.
Thomas, R. S.. Poems.
Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending.
Smith, Stevie. Collected Poems.
Prince, F. T.. Collected Poems.
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems.
Davie, Donald. Selected Poems.
Hill, Geoffrey. Selected Poems.
Spence, Jonathan. The Death of Woman Wang; The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Selected Poems.
Douglas, Keith. The Complete Poems.
MacDiarmid, Hugh. Complete Poems.
MacNeice, Louis. Collected Poems.
Thomas, Dylan. The Poems.
Dennis, Nigel. Cards of Identity.
Heaney, Seamus. Selected Poems: 1969-1987; Field Work; Station Island.
Kinsella, Thomas. Peppercanister Poems.
Muldoon, Paul. Selected Poems.
Montague, John. Selected Poems.
Arden, John. Plays.
Orton, Joe. The Complete Plays.
O'Brian, Flann. The Dalkey Archive; The Third Policeman.
Stoppard, Tom. Travesties.
Pinter, Harold. The Caretaker; The Homecoming.
Bond, Edward. The Fool; Saved.
Orwell, George. Collected Essays; 1984.
O'Brian, Edna. A Fanatic Heart.
Germany.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von. Poems and Verse Plays, tr. by Michael Hamburger and others; Selected Prose, tr. by James Huttinger and Tania and James Stern; Selected Plays and Libretti, tr. by Michael Hamburger and others.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poetry; The Sonnets to Orpheus; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge all tr. by Stephen Mitchell; New Poems: First Part and Other Part, tr. by Edward Snow.
Broch, Hermann. The Sleepwalers; The Death of Virgil; Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time.
Trakl, Georg. Selected Poems.
Benn, Gottfried. Selected Poems.
Kafka, Franz. Amerika; The Complete Stories; The Blue Octavo
Notebook; The Trial; Diaries; The Castle; Parables, Fragments,
Aphorisms.
Brecht, Bertolt. Poems 1913-1956; The Threepenny Opera, tr.
by Desmond Vesey and Eric Bentley; The Good Woman of
Setzuan, tr. by Eric Bentley; Galileo, tr. by Charles
Laughton; The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Schnitzler, Arthur. Plays; Stories.
Wedekind, Frank. Lulu Plays; Spring Awakening, tr. by
Edward Bond
Kraus, Karl. The Last Days of Mankind.
Eich, Günter. Moles.
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain; Stories of Three Decades;
Joseph and His Brothers; Doctor Faustus; Confessions of Felix
Krull,,Confidence Man.
Döblin, Alfred. Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Hesse, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi); Narcissus
and Goldmund.
Musil, Robert. Young Törless; The Man Without
Qualities.
Roth, Joseph. The Radetzky March.
Celan, Paul. Poems, tr. by Michael Hamburger
Bernhard, Thomas. Woodcutters.
Böll, Heinrich. Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
Bachmann, Ingeborg. In the Storm of Roses, tr. by Mark
Anderson
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations.
Walser, Robert. Selected Stories, tr. by Christopher
Middleton et al.
Wolf, Christa. Cassandra.
Handke, Peter. Slow Homecoming.
Frisch, Max. I'm Not Stiller; Man in the Holocene.
Grass, Günter. The Tin Drum; The Flounder.
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich. The Visit.
Bobrowski, Johannes. Shadow Lands, tr. by Ruth and Matthew Mead.
Russia.
Akhmatova, Anna. Poems, tr. by Stanley Kunitz and Max
Hayward.
Andreyev, Leonid. Selected Tales.
Bely, Andrey. Petersburg.
Mandelshtam, Osip. Selected Poems, tr. by Clarence Brown
and W. S. Merwin.
Khlebnikov, Velimir. The King of Time.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry, tr.
by Max Hayward and George Reavey.
Bulgatov, Mikhail. The Master and Margherita.
Kuzmin, Mickhail. Alexandrian Songs.
Gorky, Maxim. Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev;
Autobiography.
Bunin, Ivan. Selected Stories.
Babel, Isaac. Collected Stories.
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago; Selected Poems, tr. by
Jon Stallworthy and Peter France.
Olesha, Yury. Envy.
Tsvetayeva, Marina. Selected Poems, tr. by Elaine
Feinstein
Zoshchenko, Mikhail. Nervous People and Other Satires.
Platonov, Andrei. The Foundation Pit.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago; August 1914.
Brodsky, Joseph. A Part of Speech: Poems.
Scandinavia.
Dineson, Isak. Winter's Tales; Seven Gothic Tales.
Nexo, Martin Anderson. Pelle the Conqueror.
Hamsun, Knut. Hunger; Pan.
Undset, Sigrid. Kritin Lavransdatter.
Ekelöf, Gunnar. Guide to the Underworld, tr. by Rika Lesser
Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems.
Lagerkvist, Pär. Barrabas.
Gustafsson, Lars. Selected Poems.
Serbian/Croatian.
Andric, Ivo. The Bridge on the Drina.
Popa, Vasko. Selected Poems.
Kis, Danilo. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
Czech.
Capek, Karel. War with the Newts; R. U. R..
Havel, Vaclav. Largo Desolato.
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Seifert, Jaroslav. Selected Poetry.
Holub, Miroslav. The Fly.
Polish.
Schulz, Bruno. The Street of Crocodiles; Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
Milosz, Czeslaw. Selected Poems.
Gombrowicz, Witold. Three Novels.
Lem, Stanislaw. The Investigation; Solaris.
Herbert, Zbigniew. Selected Poems.
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor.
Hungarian.
Jósef, Attila. Perched on Nothing's Branch.
Juhasz, Ferenc. Selected Poems.
Németh, Laszlo. Guilt.
Modern Greek.
Cavafy, C. P.. Collected Poems.
Seferis, George. Collected Poems.
Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Greek Passion; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Ritsos, Yannis. Exile and Return.
Elytis, Odysseas. What I Love: Selected Poems.
Sikelianos, Angelos. Selected Poems.
Yiddish.
Aleichem, Sholem. Tevye the Dairyman; The Railroad Stories, tr. by Hillel Halkin; The Nightingale, tr. by Aliza Shevrin.
Seforim, Mendele Mokher. The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third.
Peretz, I. L.. Selected Stories.
Glatstein, Jacob. Selected Poems.
Halpern, Moshe-Leib. Selected Poems.
H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern). Selected Poems.
Singer, Israel Joshua. The Brothers Ashkenazi; Yoshi Kalb.
Grade, Chaim. The Yeshiva.
Ansyky, S. The Dybbuk.
Leib, Mani. Selected Poems.
Asch, Sholem. East River.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Collected Stories; In My Father's Court; The Manor, the Estate, the Family Moskrat; Satan in Goray.
Hebrew.
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman. Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems.
Agnon, S. Y.. In the Heart of the Seas.
Appelfed, Aharon. The Immortal Bartfuss; Badenheim 1939.
Shabtai, Yaakov. Past Continuous.
Amichai, Yehuda. Selected Poetry, tr. by Stephen Mitchell and Chana Bloch; Travels, tr. by Ruth Nevo.
Yehoshua, A. B.. A Late Divorce.
Oz, Amos. A Perfect Peace.
Carmi, T. At the Stone of Losses, tr. by Grace Schulman.
Zach, Nathan. Selected Poems.
Ravikovitch, Dalia. A Dress of Fire.
Pagis, Dan. Selected Poems.
Shahar, David. The Palace of Shattered Vessels.
Grossman, David. See Under: Love.
Kaniuk, Yoram. His Daughter.
Arabic.
Mahfuz, Najib. Midaq Alley; Fountain and Tomb; Miramar.
Adunis. Selected Poems.
Darwish, Mahmud. The Music of Human Flesh.
Husayn, Taha. An Egyptian Childhood.
Latin America.
Dário, Rubén. Selected Poetry.
Borges, Jorge Luis. The Aleph and Other Stories; Dreamtigers (The Maker); Ficciones; Labyrinths; A Personal Anthology.
Carpentier, Alejo. Explosion in a Cathedral; The Lost Steps; Reasons of State; The Kingdom of this World.
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera. Three Trapped Tigers; View of Dawn in the Tropics.
Sarduy, Severo. Maitreya.
Arenas, Reinaldo. The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando.
Neruda, Pablo. Canto General, tr. by Jack Schmitt; Residence on Earth, tr. by Donald Walsh; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, tr. by W. S. Merwin; Fully Empowered, tr. by Alastair Reid; Selected Poems, tr. by Ben Belitt.
Paz, Octavio. The Collected Poems; The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Vallejo, César. Selected Poems, tr. by H. R. Hays; Spain, Take This Cup from Me.
Asturias, Miguel Angel. Men of Maize.
Lima, José Lezama. Paradiso.
Donoso, José. The Obscene Bird of Night.
Cortázar, Julio. Hopskotch; All Fires the Fire, tr. by Suzanne Jill Levine; Blow-up and Other Stories, tr. by Paul Blackburn.
Márquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude, tr. by Gregory Rabassa; Love in the Time of Cholera, tr. by Edith Grossman.
Llosa, Mario Vargas. The War of the End of the World.
Fuentes, Carlos. A Change of Skin; Terra Nostra.
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de. Travelling in the Family, tr. by Elizabeth Bishop, et al.
The West Indies.
James, C. L. R.. The Black Jacobins; The Future in the Present.
Naipaul, V. S.. A Bend in the River; A House for Mister Biswas.
Walcott, Derek. Collected Poems.
Harris, Wilson. The Guyana Quartet.
Thelwell, Michael. The Harder They Come.
Césaire, Aimé. Collected Poetry.
Africa.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Soyinka, Wole. A Dance of the Forest.
Tutuola, Amos.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town.
Okigbo, Christopher. Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder.
(Bekederemo), John Pepper Clark. Casualties: Poems.
Armah, Ayi K.. The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
Ngugi, Wa Tiong'o. A Grain of Wheat.
Okara, Gabriel. The Fisherman's Invocation.
Gordimer, Nadine. Collected Stories.
Coetzee, J. M.. Foe.
Fugard, Athol. A Lesson from Aloes.
Senghor, Léopold S.. Selected Poems.
India (in English) .
Narayan, R. K.. The Guide.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust.
Canada.
Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano.
Davies, Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy; The Rebel Angels.
Munro, Alice. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Frye, Northrop. Fables of Identity.
Hébert, Anne. Selected Poems.
Macpherson, Jac. Poems Twice Told.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing.
Hine, Daryl. Selected Poems.
Australia and New Zealand.
Franklin, Miles (Stella). My Brilliant Career.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Short Stories.
Hope, A. D.. Collected Poems.
White, Patrick. Riders in the Chariot; A Fringe of Leaves; Voss.
Stead, Christina. The Man Who Loved Children.
Wright, Judith. Selected Poems.
Murray, Les A.. The Rabbier's Bounty; Collected Poems.
Kennealy, Thomas. The
Playmaker; Schindler's List.
Malouf, David. An
Imaginary Life.
Hart, Kevin. Peniel
and Other Poems.
Carey, Peter. Oscar
and Lucinda; Illywhacker.
The United States.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Selected
Poems.
Frost, Robert. The
Poetry.
Wharton, Edith. Collected
Short Stories; The Age of Innocence;
Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth; The Custom of
the Country.
Cather, Willa. My
Antonia; The Professor's House; A Lost Lady.
Stein, Gertrude. Three
Lives; The Geographical History of America; The Making
of Americans; Tender Buttons.
Stevens, Wallace. Collected
Poems; The Necessary Angel; Opus Posthumous;
The Palm at the End of the Mind.
Lindsay, Vachel. Collected
Poems.
Masters, Edgar Lee. Spoon
River Anthology.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister
Carrie; An American Tragedy.
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesberg,
Ohio; Death in the Woods and Other Stories.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt;
It Can't Happen Here.
Wylie, Elinor. Last
Poems.
Williams, William Carlos. Spring
and All; Paterson; Collected
Poems.
Pound, Ezra. Personae:
Collected Poems; The Cantos; Literary Essays.
Jeffers, Robinson. Selected
Poems.
Moore, Marianne. Complete
Poems.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Selected
Poems.
Ransom, John Crowe. Selected
Poems.
Eliot, T. S.. The
Complete Poems and Plays; Selected Essays.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected
Stories.
Toomer, Jean. Cane.
Passos, John Dos. U.S.A..
Aiken, Conrad. Collected
Poems.
O'Neill, Eugene. Lazarus
Laughed; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey
into Night.
cummings, e. e.. Complete
Poems.
Wheelwright, John B.. Collected
Poems.
Fitzgerald, Robert. Spring
Shade: Poems.
Bogan, Louise. The
Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems.
Adams, Léonie. Poems:
A Selection.
Crane, Hart. Complete
Poems; Selected Letters and Prose.
Tate, Allen. Collected
Poems.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Babylon
Revisited and Other Stories; The Great Gatsby; Tender
is the Night.
Faulkner, William. As
I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light
in August; Absalom, Absalom!; The Sound and the Fury;
The Wild Palms; The Collected Stories; The Hamlet.
Hemingway, Ernest. Complete
Short Stories; A Farewell to Arms;
The Sun Also Rises; The Garden of Eden.
Steinbeck, John. The
Grapes of Wrath.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their
Eyes Were Watching God.
West, Nathanael. Miss
Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust.
Wright, Richard. Native
Son; Black Boy.
Welty, Eudora. Collected
Stories; Delta Wedding; The Robber Bridegroom;
The Ponder Heart.
Hughes, Langston. Selected
Poems; The Big Sea; I Wonder as I Wander.
Wilson, Edmund. The
Shores of Light; Patriotic Gore.
Burke, Kenneth. Counter-statement;
A Rhetoric of Motives.
Mitchell, Joseph. Up
in the Old Hotel.
Cahan, Abraham. The
Rise of David Levinsky.
Boyle, Kay. Three
Short Stories.
Glasgow, Ellen. Barren
Ground.
Marquand, John P.. H.
M. Pulham, Esquire.
O'Hara, John. Collected
Stories; Appointment in Samarra.
Roth, Henry. Call
It Sleep.
Wilder, Thornton. Three
Plays.
Warren, Robert Penn. All
the King's Men; World Enough and Time;
Selected Poems.
Schwartz, Delmore. Summer
Knowledge: Selected Poems.
Kees, Weldon. Collected
Poems.
Bishop, Elizabeth. The
Complete Poems.
Berryman, John. Collected
Poems.
Bowles, Paul. The
Sheltering Sky.
Jarrell, Randall. Complete
Poems.
Olson, Charles. The
Maximus Poems; Collected Poems.
Hayden, Robert. Collected
Poems.
Lowell, Robert. Collected
Poems.
Roethke, Theodore. Collected
Poems; Straw for the Fire.
Agee, James. Permit
Me Voyage; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker
Evans).
Garrigue, Jean. Selected
Poems.
Swenson, May. New
& Selected Things Taking Place; In Other Words.
Duncan, Robert. Bending
the Bow.
Wilbur, Richard . New
and Collected Poems.
Eberhart, Richard. Collected
Poems.
Tolson, M. B.. Harlem
Gallery.
Koch, Kenneth. Seasons
on Earth.
O'Hara, Frank. Selected
Poems.
Schuyler, James. Collected
Poems.
Baldwin, James. The
Price of the Ticket.
Bellow, Saul. Seize
the Day; The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog.
Cheever, John. The
Stories; Bullet Park.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible
Man.
Capote, Truman. In
Cold Blood.
McCullers, Carson. The
Ballad of the Sad Café; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
O'Connor, Flanner. Complete
Stories; The Violent Bear It Away;
Wise Blood.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita;
Pale Fire.
Vidal, Gore. Myra
Brechinridge; Lincoln.
Styron, William. The
Long March.
Salinger, J. D.. The
Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories.
Morris, Wright. Ceremony in Lone Tree.
Malamud, Bernard. The Stories; The Fixer.
Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself; The Executioner's
Song; Ancient Evenings.
Hawkes, John. The Cannibal; Second Skin.
Gaddis, William. The Recognitions.
Williams, Tennessee. A Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named
Desire; Summer and Smoke.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Mayer, Edwin Justus. Children of Darkness.
Brodkey, Harold. Stories in an Almost Classical Mode.
Guin, Ursula K. Le. The Left Hand of Darkness.
Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calling From.
Coover, Robert. Spanking the Maid.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise; Libra; Running Dog; Mao II.
Crowley, John. Little, Big; Aegypt; Love and Sleep.
Davenport, Guy. Tatlin!.
Dickey, James. The Early Motion; The Central Motion.
Doctorow, E. L.. The Book of Daniel; World's
Fair.
Elkin, Stanley. The
Living End.
Gass, William. In
the Heart of the Heart of the Country; Omensetter's Luck.
Hoban, Russell. Riddley
Walker.
Johnson, Denis. Angels;
Fiskadoro; Jesus'
Son.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood
Meridian; Suttree; Child of God.
Kennedy, William. Ironweed;
The Albany Cycle.
Morrison, Toni. Song
of Soloman.
Naylor, Gloria. The
Women of Brewster Place.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Them.
Percy, Walker. The
Moviegoer.
Paley, Grace. The
Little Disturbances of Man.
Pynchon, Thomas. V.;
The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow.
Ozick, Cynthia. Envy,
or Yiddish in America; The Messiah of Stockholm.
Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo
Jumbo.
Roth, Philip. Portnoy's
Complaint; My Life as a Man; Zuckerman Bound: A
Trilogy and Epilogue; The Counterlife; Patrimony;
Operation Shylock.
Salter, James. Solo
Faces; Light Years.
Stone, Robert. Dog
Soldiers; A Flag for Sunrise.
Barth, John. The
Floating Opera; The End of the Road; The Sot- Weed Factor.
Abish, Walter. Alphabetical
Africa; How German Is It; Eclipse Fever;
I am the Dust Under Your Feet.
Barthelme, Donald. Forty
Stories; The Dead Father.
Disch, Thomas M.. On
Wings of Song.
Theroux, Paul. The
Mosquito Coast.
Updike, John. The
Witches of Eastwick.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's
Cradle.
White, Edmund. Forgetting
Elena; Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
McCourt, James. Time
Remaining.
Wilcox, James. Modern
Baptists.
Ammons, A. R.. Collected Poems; Selected Longer Poems; Collected Poems; Sphere:
The Form of a Motion.
Ashbery, John. The Double Dream of Spring; Houseboat Days;
Selected Poems; Flow Chart; Hotel Lautréamont; And the Stars Were
Shining.
Mamet, David. American Buffalo; Speed-the-Plow.
Rabe, David. Streamers.
Shepard, Sam. Seven Plays.
Wilson, August. Fences; Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Hecht, Anthony. Collected Earlier Poems.
Bowers, Edgar. Living Together: New and Selected Poems.
Justice, Donald. Selected Poems.
Merrill, James. From the First Nine.
Merwin, W. S.. The Changing Light at Sandover.
Wright, James. Above the River: The Complete Poems.
Kinnell, Galway. Selected Poems.
Levine, Philip. Selected Poems.
Feldman, Irving. New and Selected Poems.
Hall, Donald. The One Day; Old and New Poems.
Feinman, Alvin. Poems.
Howard, Richard. Untitled Subjects; Findings.
Hollander, John. Reflections on Espionage; Selected Poetry;
Tesserae.
Snyder, Gary. No Nature: New and Selected Poems.
Simic, Charles. Selected Poems.
Strand, Mark. Selected Poems; The Continuous Life; Dark Harbor.
Wright, Charles. The World of the Ten Thousand Things.
Wright, Jay. Dimensions of History; The Double Invention of Komo; Selected Poems; Elaine's Book; Boleros.
Clampitt, Amy. Westward.
Grossman, Allen. The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected.
Moss, Howard. New Selected Poems.
Applewhite, James. River Writing: An Eno Journal.
McClatchy, J. D.. The Rest of the Way.
Cord, Alfred. A Call in the Midst of the Crowd.
Crase, Douglas. The Revisionist.
Dove, Rita. Selected Poems.
Moss, Thylias. Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems.
Hirsch, Edward. Earthly Measures.
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America.
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