Robert Kanigel, Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books [1998]
80 entries: 74 monographical, 6 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically
Kanigel's book, published in 1998 by Bancroft Press, is divided into thematic sections. These are as follows: 'On Everyone's List of Literary Classics' (nos. 1-12); 'Books on Many a List for Burning: Heretics, Subversives, Demagogues' (Dorothy Parker-no. 18); 'Books That Shaped the Western World' (nos. 19-27); 'Making Hard Work Easy: The Great Popularizers' (nos. 28-36); 'Not Robinson Crusoe, Not Brave New World: Lesser Known Classics' (nos. 37-43); 'Lighter Fare: Good Reads, Best Sellers (nos. 44-51); '"But I Know What I Like": On Aesthetics and Style' (nos. 52-56); 'One-of-a-Kinds' (nos. 57-65); 'The Realm of the Spirit' (nos. 66-74)
- Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel_2
1929English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying_8
1930English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Zane* *Newman*
- 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*
- Rudyard Kipling
Kim_6
originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell'sEnglish
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Newman*
- 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*
- Lawrence Durrell
Justine_4
1957English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress _9
originally published serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 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*
- E M Forster
A Passage to India_8
1924English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart*
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia_8
1918English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Smart*
- 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*
Here Lies: The Collected Stories_1
1939; stories originally published in the New Yorker and other periodicals, and previously collected in Laments for the Living, 1930, and After Such Pleasures..., 1933English
*Kanigel*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary_1
published in part serially in the News Letter, the Argonaut, the Wasp, and the Examiner; published in its entirety in two parts: 1906, entitled The Cynic's Word Book; and 1911, entitled The Devil's Dictionary, as part of volume 7 of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce; expanded 1967English
*Kanigel*
- Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf_3
originally published in two volumes, 1925 and 1926German
*Downs* *Kanigel* *Educated*
- Émile Zola
Nana_6
originally published serially 1879-80 in La VoltaireFrench
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Zane* *Newman*
- John Reed
Ten Days That Shook the World_2
1919English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Richard Wright
Native Son_8
1940English
*Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Educated*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
Dialogues_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *World*
- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor*
- Thomas Robert Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population_6
originally anonymously published 1798; revised and published under the author's name, 1803English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Good* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith*
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_23
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- 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*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers_11
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
*Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great*
- Cornelius Tacitus
Annales_11
written First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Frederick Lewis Allen
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s_1
1931English
*Kanigel*
- Paul de Kruif
Microbe Hunters_1
1926English
*Kanigel*
Selected works_3
First Century B CLatin
*Read* *Kanigel* *Trinity*
- Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization_2
1928English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Henry Beston
The Outermost House_1
1928English
*Kanigel*
- Francis F Beirne
The Amiable Baltimoreans_1
1951English
*Kanigel*
- Aaron Copland
What to Listen for in Music_1
1939; edited lecturesEnglish
*Kanigel*
- C W Ceram
Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte_1
Gods, Graves, and Scholars
1949German
*Kanigel*
- Hans Selye
The Stress of Life_1
1956English
*Kanigel*
- Edith Hamilton
The Greek Way_1
1930English
*Kanigel*
- Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665_6
originally anonymously published 1722English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception_2
1954English
*Kanigel* *Graphic*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Wahlverwandtschaften_3
Elective Affinities
1809German
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity*
- George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia_2
1938English
*Kanigel* *Deposit*
- Sigmund Freud
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur_7
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith_3
1925English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Mark Twain
Roughing It_2
1872English
*Kanigel* *Newman*
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet_6
originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas AnnualEnglish
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Kanigel* *Taylor* *Telegraph*
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha_2
1855English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Abraham Cahan
The Rise of David Levinsky_2
1917English
*Bloom* *Kanigel*
- Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head_1
1918English
*Kanigel*
- R Austin Freeman
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight_1
1930English
*Kanigel*
- John Hersey
A Bell for Adano_2
1944English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles_2
1950; stories originally published in varied periodicals: Planet Stories, Maclean's, the Arkham Sampler, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Imagination, Weird Tales, Other Worlds, Super Science Stories, Charm, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; expanded U K edition, entitled Silver Locusts, published 1951; expanded 1974; revised 1997English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Laura Z Hobson
Gentleman's Agreement_1
1947English
*Kanigel*
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
De Architectura_2
Ten Books on Architecture
written ca. 15 B CLatin
*Downs* *Kanigel*
- Giorgio Vasari
Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, e Architettori da Cimabue Insino a' Tempi Nostri_5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
1550; expanded 1568Italian
*Durant* *Ward* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Telegraph*
- John Ruskin
The Seven Lamps of Architecture_1
1849English
*Kanigel*
- Kenneth Clark
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form_1
1956; edited 1953 lecturesEnglish
*Kanigel*
- William Strunk, Jr.
The Elements of Style_1
1919; revised 1935, as The Elements and Practice of Composition; revised and expanded 1959 by E B WhiteEnglish
*Kanigel*
- Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own_4
1929English
*Kanigel* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman*
- H L Mencken
The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States_1
1919English
*Kanigel*
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Le Petit Prince_4
1943French
*Van Doren* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Deposit*
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918English
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Edwin S Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions_1
originally published under the pseudonym, A Square, 1884English
*Kanigel*
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God_7
1937English
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Zane* *Harvard*
- G H Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology_2
1940English
*Adler* *Kanigel*
- Isadora Duncan
My Life_1
1928English
*Kanigel*
- Thomas S Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_5
1962English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Great*
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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*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- Gustav Meyrink
Der Golem_1
originally published serially 1913-14 in Die Weissen BlätterGerman
*Kanigel*
- W Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge_2
1944English
*Kanigel* *Harvard*
- Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain_2
1948English
*Kanigel* *Educated*
- John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud_1
1949English
*Kanigel*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Foundation* *Kanigel*
- James Hilton
Lost Horizon_1
1933English
*Kanigel*
Bhagavad Gita_8
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great* *Zane*
- Elie Wiesel
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign_1
1954; abridged French translation, entitled La Nuit, published 1958; alternate abridged version, in English, entitled Night, published 1960Yiddish
*Kanigel*
- William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902_6
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great*