Russ Kick, ed., The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals [2012-3]
202 entries: 122 monographical, 80 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically, except for nos. 1 and 36-38, included in the front matter of the first and second volumes, respectively, and nos. 71, 77, 81, and 122, randomly placed within the third volume
Publishers Weekly named The Graphic Canon the event of the year (2012, when the first and second volumes came out) in the realm of comic/ graphic/ sequential literature. If anything, this accolade is an understatement, as this project does not just offer its own list of great works of literaturespecifically referring to them as a canon, which many of our "great books" compilers decline to doit also offers excerpts from those books, those excerpts being interpretations of the works in a new medium. The quality of the visual work is at times remarkable; and the selection of works is diverse. More recently, the same editor has published The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature.
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet_27
1602English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
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- Sha Naqba Imuru_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.CSumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
'Coyote and the Pebbles'_1
illustrations by Micah Farritor; part of Trickster: Native American Tales, 2010, edited by Matt DembickiEnglish
*Graphic*
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Poems_6
late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Dirda* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Euripides
Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Aristophanes
Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Graphic*
- Plato
Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Graphic*
- Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjǐng_11
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B CChinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Dirda* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
- Vyasa
Mahabharata_13
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Graphic*
Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
- Analects_12
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Graphic*
refers to the Five Classics of Confucianism, which incorporate the teachings of Confucius; Sixth-early Fifth centuries B CChinese
*Graphic*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Graphic*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Graphic*
'Frontier Song'_1
part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763Chinese
*Graphic*
'A Village South of the Capital'_1
part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763Chinese
*Graphic*
'Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon'_1
part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763Chinese
*Graphic*
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- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English versionEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_12
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translationJapanese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Graphic*
- Pierre Abélard
Historia Calamitatum_5
written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'ArgenteuilLatin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman* *Graphic*
'O Nobilissima Viriditas'_1
part of Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum; Twelfth CenturyLatin
*Graphic*
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah [excerpted]_1
'The Fisherman and the Genie' and 'The Woman With Two Coyntes'; Ninth CenturyArabic
*Graphic*
Poems_2
Thirteenth CenturyPersian
*Oriental* *Graphic*
Dante
- La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert and Jean Hollander's English translationItalian
*Learning* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Smart* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Padmasambhava
Bardo Thodol_1
The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State
ca. Eighth CenturyTibetan
*Graphic*
'Ballade de Conclusion'_1
'The Last Ballad'
part of Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades, 1489French
*Graphic*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
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- Ollantay_1
ca. 1770; attributed to Antonio Valdes; the original Quechua and German translation both published 1857Quechua
*Graphic*
- Shī Nài'ān
Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn_5
The Water Margin
written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
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- Hagoromo_1
Celestial Feather Robe; The Feather Mantle
ca. early Sixteenth CenturyJapanese
*Graphic*
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- Popul Vuh_2
Harvard Book Store specifies the Dennis Tedlock translationK'iche'
*Harvard* *Graphic*
- Teresa of Ávila
La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús_3
1588Spanish
*Ward* *Graphic* *Educated*
'Hot Sun, Cool Fire'_1
excerpt from The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, 1599English
*Graphic*
- Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì_6
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth CenturyChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *Graphic*
- Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night's Dream_14
ca. 1595-1600English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- King Lear_21
1606English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Sonnets [excerpted]_1
nos. 18 and 20; complete work published 1609English
*Graphic*
'The Flea'_2
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Trinity* *Graphic*
'To His Coy Mistress'_3
written ca. early 1650'sEnglish
*Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic*
'Forgive Us Our Trespasses'_1
part of Miscellany, 1685English
*Graphic*
- John Milton
Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public_7
originally anonymously published 1729English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Smart* *Graphic* *Newman*
'Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress'_1
letter dated 25 June 1745English
*Graphic*
- James Boswell
London Journal_5
written 1762-63English
*Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Smart* *Graphic*
'A Letter to the Royal Academy'_1
'Fart Proudly'
included in Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School, 1990English
*Graphic*
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792English
*Durant* *Downs* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons Dangereuses_6
The Dangerous Liaisons
1782French
*France* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities_8
originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year RoundEnglish
*Classics* *Baldwin* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
*Classics* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Louisa M Alcott
Little Women_6
originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'_4
part of Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816English
*Read* *Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'_7
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817English
*Baldwin* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Graphic*
'Auguries of Innocence'_1
written ca. 1803; part of the Pickering Manuscript; originally published as part of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings, 1863English
*Graphic*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
'She Walks in Beauty'_2
part of Hebrew Melodies, 1815English
*Newman* *Graphic*
'Ozymandias'_3
originally published Jan. 1818 in the Examiner; included in Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, 1818English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'_1
originally published as part of Poems in Two Volumes, 1807; revised for inclusion in Poems by William Wordsworth, 1815English
*Graphic*
'O Solitude'_3
originally published May 1816 in the ExaminerEnglish
*Graphic*
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_12
originally anonymously published 1818English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Graphic*
- 'Das Tapfere Schneiderlein'_1
'The Valiant Little Tailor'
part of Kinder- und HausmärchenGerman
*Graphic*
'Hansel and Gretel'
part of Kinder- und HausmärchenGerman
*Graphic*
'Little Snow White'
part of Kinder- und HausmärchenEnglish
*Graphic*
- 'Sechse Kommen Durch die Ganze Welt'_1
'How Six Made Good in the World'
part of Kinder- und HausmärchenGerman
*Graphic*
'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'_2
originally published May 1820 in the IndictaorEnglish
*Newman* *Graphic*
- William Blake
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion_6
ca. 1820English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Graphic* *Newman*
- Nat Turner and Thomas B Gray
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas B Gray_1
1831English
*Graphic*
'The Mortal Immortal'_1
originally published Dec. 1833 in the Keepsake for 1834English
*Graphic*
Fables_5
Nineteenth CenturyDanish
*France* *Magill* *Norway* *Dirda* *Graphic*
'Rondeau'_1
'Jenny Kiss'd Me'
originally published Nov. 1838 in the Monthly ChronicleEnglish
*Graphic*
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress _9
originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's MiscellanyEnglish
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
'The Jumblies'_1
part of Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1870English
*Graphic*
- Heinrich Hoffmann
Der Struwwelpeter_1
1845German
*Graphic*
Edgar Allan Poe
originally published Jan. 1843 in the Pioneer; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Aug. 1845English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
originally published Aug. 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper and Sep. 1844 in Godey's Magazine and Lady's BookEnglish
*Graphic*
- 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'_1
originally published Nov. 1845 in Graham'sEnglish
*Graphic*
- 'The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar'_1
originally published Dec. 1845 in the Broadway Journal and in American Review: A Whig JournalEnglish
*Graphic*
originally published Jan. 1845 in the Evening Mirror; published under the pseudonym, Quarles, Feb. 1845 in the American Review; included in The Raven and Other Poems, 1845English
*Newman* *Graphic*
- 'The Pit and the Pendulum'_3
originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- 'The Masque of the Red Death'_2
originally entitled 'The Mask of the Red Death', published May 1842 in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Jul. 1845English
*Recommended* *Graphic*
originally published Oct. 1849 in the New York Tribune and Nov. 1849 in Sartain's Union MagazineEnglish
*Graphic*
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
*Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights_17
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
*Powys* *Hundred* *France* *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Great* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow
The Hasheesh Easter_1
1857English
*Graphic*
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
'The Message From Mount Misery'_1
selections from edited Aug. 1857 speech, originally published as part of Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, Aug. 4th, and the Other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May, 1857, 1857English
*Graphic*
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables_18
1862French
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
Emily Dickinson
- 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'_2
part of Poems, 1890English
*Van Doren* *Graphic*
- 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed'_1
part of Poems, 1890English
*Graphic*
- Gustave Flaubert; George Sand
Lettres de Gustave Flaubert à George Sand _1
1884; written 1863-80French
*Graphic*
Lewis Carroll
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871English
*Powys* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
part of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871English
*Graphic*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus im Pelz_1
Venus in Furs
1870German
*Graphic*
'Le Bateau Ivre'_3
'The Drunken Boat'
written 1871English
*Trinity* *Newman* *Graphic*
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
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- Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits_3
1876English
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- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
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- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-85German
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- Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_7
1886English
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'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'_2
originally published Jul. 1890 in the San Francisco Examiner; included in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891English
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- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Grey_5
originally published Jul. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; revised and expanded 1891; alternate earlier version published 2011English
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- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
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- Kate Chopin
The Awakening_5
1899English
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- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
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- L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_2
1900English
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'The New Accelerator'_1
originally published Dec. 1901 in the StrandEnglish
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'Reginald'_1
part of Reginald, 1904English
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- E M Forster
A Room With a View_1
1908English
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- Maxim Gorky
Mat'_1
Mother
1907Russian
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'If'_2
part of Rewards and Fairies, 1910English
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- Jack London
John Barleycorn_1
1913English
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'Araby'_1
part of Dubliners, 1914English
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- Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung_14
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translationGerman
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- Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out_1
1915English
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'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'_4
originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917English
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'The Mowers'_1
originally published in Some Imagist Poets, 1915English
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'Sea Iris'_1
part of Sea Garden, 1916English
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'A Matter of Colour'_1
originally published Apr. 1916 in TabulaEnglish
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- Kahlil Gibran
The Madman_1
1918English
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- J D Salinger
Catcher in the Rye_8
1951English
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'Hands'_1
originally published Mar. 1916 in Masses; part of Winesburg, Ohio, 1919English
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- William Butler Yeats
The Dreaming of the Bones_3
originally published Jan. 1919 in the Little Review; included in Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921English
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- Colette
Cheri_1
1920French
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- Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence_6
1920English
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'Dulce et Decorum Est'_1
part of Poems, 1920English
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'The Second Coming'_3
originally published Nov. 1920 in both the Dial and the Nation; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921English
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
English
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- 'The Singing-Woman From the Wood's Edge'_1
English
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Franz Kafka
'The Top'
part of Beschreibung Eines Kampfes, 1936German
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'Give It Up!'
part of Beschreibung Eines Kampfes, 1936German
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- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 English
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'The Negro Dreams of Rivers'_2
originally published 1921 in Crisis; included in The Weary Blues, 1926English
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'Rain'_1
part of Trembling of a Leaf, 1921English
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- James Joyce
Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
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'Living on $1,000 a Year in Paris'_1
originally entitled 'A Canadian with $1,000 a Year Can Live Very Comfortably and Enjoyably in Paris', published Feb. 1922 in the Toronto StarEnglish
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'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'_1
included in Harmonium, 1923English
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'The Hill'_1
originally published Mar. 1922 in the MississippianEnglish
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- Herman Hesse
Siddhartha_3
1922German
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'The Waste Land'_11
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
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- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
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- Herman Hesse
Der Steppenwolf_4
1927German
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- D H Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover_4
abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960English
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- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929English
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- Rainer Maria Rilke
Briefe an Einen Jungen Dichter_1
Letters to a Young Poet
1929German
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- Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon_4
1930English
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- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World_9
1932English
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- Zora Neale Hurston
Poker!_1
1931English
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- John G Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks_2
1932English
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'Strange Fruit'_1
originally entitled 'Bitter Fruit', published Jan. 1937 in the New York Teacher; retitled and adapted for music by the authorEnglish
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- Jean-Paul Sartre
La Nausée_7
Nausea
1938French
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- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath_11
1939English
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Ficciones [excerpted]_1
'La Biblioteca de Babel'; 'El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan'; 'Las Ruinas Circulares'Spanish
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- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
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- George Orwell
Animal Farm_8
1945English
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'The Heart of the Park'_1
originally published Feb. 1949 in Partisan Review; became part of Wise Blood, 1952; included in The Complete Stories, 1971English
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- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
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- Nelson Algren
The Man With the Golden Arm_1
1949English
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'The Voice of the Hamster'_1
originally published serially Nov. 1952-Feb. 1953 in the Oyster Bay High School Purple and GoldEnglish
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- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
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'La Bailarina'_1
'The Dancer'
part of Lagar, 1954; English translation included in Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, 2008Spanish
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- William Golding
Lord of the Flies_6
1954English
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- Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception_2
1954English
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- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita_11
1955English
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- Jack Kerouac
On the Road_5
1957; alternate version, 2007English
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- William S Burroughs
Naked Lunch_1
1959English
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- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_5
1962English
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- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar_5
originally published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, 1963English
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- Hubert Selby
Last Exit to Brooklyn_1
published in part, 1956, as 'The Queen Is Dead', in the Black Mountain Review; and 1961, as 'Tralala', in the Provincetown Review; in its entirety, 1964English
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- Anaïs Nin
The Diaries of Anaïs Nin_1
originally published in seven volumes, 1966-80English
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- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta_6
The Master and Margarita
published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translationRussian
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- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
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- Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar_1
1968English
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- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow_4
1973English
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- J B Ballard
Crash_1
1973English
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'I Bought a Little City'_1
originally published 1974 in the New Yorker; included in Sixty Stories, 1981English
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'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'_1
originally published 1981 in Antaeus; included in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 1981; alternate version entitled 'Beginners' published Dec. 2007 in the New Yorker and included in Beginners, 2009, and Raymond Carver: Collected Stories, 2009English
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- Kathy Acker
Blood and Guts in High School_1
1984English
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- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West_4
1985English
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- Umberto Eco
Il Pendolo di Foucault_1
1988Italian
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- Barry Gifford
Wild at Heart_1
1990English
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- Ben Okri
The Famished Road_1
1991English
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- Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams_1
1992English
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- Murakami Haruki
Nejimaki-Dori Kuronikuru_3
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
originally published in three volumes, 1994-5Japanese
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- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest_2
1996English
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- Thomas Mann
Der Tod in Venedig_8
Death in Venice
1911German
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