Frank N. Magill, Masterpieces of World Literature [1989]
281 entries: 251 monographical, 30 otherwise
Unrankedarranged alphabetically by work
Masterpieces of World Literature was both a revival and culmination of Magill's earlier Masterplots series, which seemed to have set the template for student-oriented plot summaries and brief analyses of literary works published in pamphlet form, a market later dominated by Cliff's Notes. Masterplots continues on in the form of a large multi-volume reference set, the third edition published in 1996, the fourth in 2010, as well as several smaller thematic volumes, such as Women's Literature, Christian Literature, British and Commonwealth Fiction, and Nonfiction Series, that presumbly overlap with the general set. In the Nineties came the dual multi-volume books, Magill's Survey of World Literature and Magill's Survey of American Literature. These two series do not meet the Greater Books criteria for inclusion. Not only do they present a larger, and thus less discerning, selection of books than found in Masterpieces, but they are organized by author, not literary work, with each author having two to four works analyzed; that is, more like a directory of authors; a reference work rather than a refined selection/ canon/ reading plan. In this sense, they are similar to several lists noted on the Excluded Lists page, such as Hutchinson's The World's Best Books, Homer to Hemingway and What to Read by English and Pope.
Five of the entries by "unknown" in this list ('Hercules and the Twelve Labors', 'Jason and the Golden Fleece', 'Orpheus and Eurydice', 'Reynard the Fox', and 'Robin Hood's Adventures) are not specific literary works. Rather, Magill and his collaborators describe the story, or fable, more broadly, not emphasizing a specific work. Versions of the stories, or works in which the stories play a role, are mentioned, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses and Euripides' Alcestis for Hercules and the Twelve Labors. For Jason and the Golden Fleece, it is noted that Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica gave the myth its first "formal expanded treatment." "The first known compilation of prose and poetry of the Robin Hood legend came in 1490 with the publication of the Lytel Geste of Robin Hood, by Wynkyn de Worde, a noted British printer." And, "the longest and most familiar version of [Orpheus and Eurydice] is found in Ovid's Metamorphoses (c. A. D. 8), and Ovid may well have been inspired by Vergil's less florid account, carefully placed at the dramatic end of his Georgics (c. 37-29 B C)." Furthermore, "this myth became the subject of the first secular drama in vernacular, Orfeo (1480; Orpheus), composed in the era of the Medicis by Angelo Poliziano (Politian). In 1600, the first Italian opera, Euridice, was composed. Christoph Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice (1762) is considered the first "modern" opera for its balance of music and tragic drama." None of these works are included in the list here.
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!_7
1936English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_7
1876English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
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- Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology_1
originally published in three volumes: 1794, 1795, and 1807English
*Magill*
- Ben Jonson
The Alchemist_8
1610English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
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- William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well_8
ca. 1606-08English
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- Henry James
The Ambassadors_12
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
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Fables_5
Nineteenth CenturyDanish
*France* *Magill* *Norway* *Dirda* *Graphic*
- 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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- Sophocles
Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
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- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606-08English
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
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- John Milton
Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Ars Poetica_5
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
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- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying_8
1930English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Zane* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
As You Like It_12
1603English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_7
French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868English
*Eliot* *Hundred* *Downs* *Zulli* *Magill* *Smart* *Educated*
William Butler Yeats
- Reveries Over Childhood and Youth_2
1915; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- The Trembling of the Veil_2
1922; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- The Bounty of Sweden: A Meditation, and a Lecture Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy, and Certain Notes_2
1925; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- Estrangement: Being Some Fifty Thoughts From a Diary Kept by William Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine_2
1926; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- The Death of Synge and Other Passages From an Old Diary_2
1928; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- Dramatis Personae_2
1935; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
*Magill* *Fadiman*
- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt_5
1922English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Euripides
Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers_4
1857English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph*
'Benito Cereno'_1
originally published serially 1855 in Putnam's Monthly; revised for inclusion in The Piazza Tales, 1856English
*Magill*
--
- 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*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft_8
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
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- Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Foretopman_9
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924English
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions_7
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Aristophanes
Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks_5
1901German
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- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
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- Ezra Pound
Cantos_7
published in part in Poetry, Jun.-Aug. 1917; the Criterion, Jul. 1923; the Transatlantic Review, Jan. 1924; and in the following volumes: The Fourth Canto, 1919; A Draft of XVI Cantos, 1925; A Draft of Cantos 17-27, 1928; A Draft of XXX Cantos, 1930; Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, 1934; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937; Cantos LII-LXXI, 1940; The Pisan Cantos, 1948; Seventy Cantos, 1950; Section: Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, 1955; Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, 1959; Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, 1968; in its entirety, revised and expanded, 1987English
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- Alexander Pushkin
Kapitanskaâ Dočka_5
The Captain's Daughter
originally published 1836 in SovremennikRussian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Franz Kafka
Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926German
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- Pierre Corneille
Le Cid_7
1637French
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
Collected Poems 1934-1952_1
1952; includes 18 Poems [1934]; Twenty-five Poems [1936]; The Map of Love [1939]; Deaths and Entrances [1946] (excluding 'Paper and Stick', adding 'Once Below a Time'); In Country Sleep and Other Poems [1952]English
*Magill*
- 18 Poems_2
1934English
*Magill* *Bloom*
- Twenty-five Poems_2
1936English
*Magill* *Bloom*
- The Map of Love_2
1939English
*Magill* *Bloom*
- Deaths and Entrances_2
1946; published in part, 1943, as New PoemsEnglishEnglish
*Magill* *Bloom*
- In Country Sleep and Other Poems_2
1952English
*Magill* *Bloom*
- William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors_8
1594English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions_14
1782French
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- Alexandre Dumas
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo_3
originally published serially Aug. 1844-Jan. 1846 in Journal des DébatsFrench
*Magill* *Guardian* *Newman*
- 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
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- Immanuel Kant
Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_12
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
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- Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac_3
1897French
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Longus
Daphnis kai Chloē_2
Daphnis and Chloe
Second CenturyGreek
*Magill* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
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- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop_4
1927English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda*
- Thomas Mann
Der Tod in Venedig_8
Death in Venice
1911German
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto_12
ca. 1351-53Italian
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- 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*
Dialogues_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *World*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
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- Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_10
1592English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
Henrik Ibsen
- Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
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- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
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- 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
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- Bram Stoker
Dracula_6
1897English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Guardian*
"Dramatic Monologues and Lyrics"_1
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill*
- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng_7
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Duineser Elegien_5
The Duino Elegies
1923German
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- John Steinbeck
East of Eden_3
1952English
*Recommended* *Magill* *Zane*
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918English
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- Euripides
Ēlektra _7
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Jane Austen
Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815English
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- Henrik Ibsen
En Folkefiende_5
An Enemy of the People
1882Norwegian
*Classics* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World*
--
- 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*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
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- John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689English
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- Alexander Pope
Essay on Man_5
1734English
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Essays_9
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Newman*
Essays_2
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome_5
1911English
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- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Deposit*
- Alexander Pushkin
Evgénij Onegin_7
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Newman*
- Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet_7
1833French
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'The Eve of St. Agnes'_3
originally published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
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- The Somonyng of Everyman_4
late Fifteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Educated*
- William Faulkner
A Fable_1
1954English
*Magill*
- Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
'The Fall of the House of Usher'_5
originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms_6
1929English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Smart* *Newman*
- August Strindberg
Fadren_3
written 1887Swedish
*Ward* *Magill* *Blooom*
- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal_8
The Flowers of Evil
1857French
*France* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
1940English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- T S Eliot
Four Quartets_10
originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942English
*List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_12
originally anonymously published 1818English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
- Émile Zola
Germinal_10
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil BlasFrench
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Henry James
The Golden Bowl_6
1904English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*
- Pearl Buck
The Good Earth_3
1931English
*Magill* *Fadiman* *Campbell*
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath_11
1939English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
*Classics* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *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*
- 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*
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
*Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler_10
1890Norwegian
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
William Shakespeare
- The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Henry V_9
1599English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *O'Hear* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
--
- "Hercules and His Twelve Labors"_1
unspecified selection
*Magill*
- 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*
- 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*
- 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*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables_7
1851English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Zulli* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris_8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Knut Hamsun
Sult_5
Hunger
published in part, 1888, in Ny Jord; in its entirety, 1890Norwegian
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway*
- 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*
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest_8
1895English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Smart* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A H H_3
1849English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Great* *Graphic*
- Walter Scott
Ivanhoe_5
originally anonymously published 1819English
*Baldwin* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Magill* *Newman*
- 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*
--
- "Jason and the Golden Fleece"_1
unspecified selection
*Magill*
- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure_8
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar_9
1599English
*Durant* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
*Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *World*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped_3
originally published serially May-Jul. 1886 in Young FolksEnglish
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- 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*
- William Shakespeare
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*
- James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757_3
1826English
*Ward* *Magill* *Recommended*
--
- La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus Fortunas y Adversidades_2
1554Spanish
*Magill* *Bloom*
- 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*
'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'_4
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
*Eliot* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño_8
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi_4
1883English
*Classics* *Magill* *Trinity* *Newman*
'Ligeia'_2
originally published in the American Museum, 18 Sep. 1838; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840; Phantasy Pieces, 1842; and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, 1845, the New York World, Feb. 1845; and the Broadway Journal, Sep. 1845English
*Magill* *Recommended*
"Lyric Poetry"_1
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill*
"Lyric Poetry"_1
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill*
- Aristophanes
Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- 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*
- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart*
- 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*
- Sinclair Lewis
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott_2
1920English
*Magill* *Recommended*
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure_10
1604English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- 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*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice_11
ca. 1596-98English
*Durant* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon_14
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Charles Martin's English translationLatin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Dirda* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
*Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit* *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*
- Molière
Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables_18
1862French
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- August Strindberg
Fröken Julie_5
Miss Julie
written 1888Swedish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *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*
- 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*
- Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra_4
1931English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia_8
1918English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Smart*
- Jean-Paul Sartre
La Nausée_7
Nausea
1938French
*Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- Francis Bacon
Nova Atlantis_5
1624English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler*
--
- Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*
- Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby _5
originally published serially Mar. 1838-Sep. 1839 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Joseph Conrad
Nostromo_5
originally published serially 1904 in T P's WeeklyEnglish
*Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*
'Hymn to Aphrodite'_3
lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Magill* *Recommended* *Great*
- Homer
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*
Sophocles
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea_8
1952English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale_4
1908English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom*
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty_16
1859English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *World*
- 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*
- 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*
Speeches_4
First Century B CLatin
*Baldwin* *Downs* *Read* *Magill*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
- Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso_5
published in part, 1516; revised 1521; published in its entirety, 1532Italian
*Baldwin* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity*
--
unspecified selection
*Magill*
- William Shakespeare
Othello_14
ca. 1604English
*Durant* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
'Šinel''_3
'The Overcoat'
1842Russian
*Magill* *Recommended* *Foundation*
- 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*
- Wolfram Von Eschenbach
Parzival_4
ca. early Thirteenth CenturyGerman
*Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda*
- E M Forster
A Passage to India_8
1924English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart*
- Anatole France
L'Île des Pingouins_4
1908French
*Durant* *Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *O'Hear* *Reynolds*
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
*Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*
- Jean Racine
Phèdre_11
1677French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
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- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
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- James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale_1
1823English
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- Albert Camus
La Peste_8
The Plague
1947French
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- El Cantar de Mio Cid_4
written ca. 1195-1207early Iberian Romance language
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- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
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Poems_1
Seventeenth CenturyJapanese
*Magill*
Poems_2
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
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Poems_6
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
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Poems_8
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
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Poems_4
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
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Poems_5
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
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- 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
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- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Besy_9
Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
1872Russian
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- William James
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking_8
1907English
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- William Wordsworth
The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem_9
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
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- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
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- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
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- Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
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- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus Unbound_3
1820English
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- Valmiki
Ramayana_10
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
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- Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock_7
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
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- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
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- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage_9
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895English
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- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu_17
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
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- Plato
Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
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- Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native_8
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and AmusementEnglish
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William Shakespeare
- Richard II_9
1597English
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- Richard III_11
ca. 1592-7English
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'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
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'Rip Van Winkle'_4
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
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- "Robin Hood's Adventures"_1
unspecified selection
*Magill*
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
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- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet_13
ca. 1591-97English
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
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- George Santayana
Scepticism and Animal Faith_2
1923English
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- Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer_6
1773English
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- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Sygdommen til Dǿden_2
The Sickness Unto Death
originally published under the pseudonym, Anti-Climacus, 1849Danish
*Magill* *Recommended*
- George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe _6
1861English
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- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_7
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
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- La Chanson de Roland_9
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From the Portuguese_2
1850English
*Magill* *Recommended*
- D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers_9
1913English
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- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929English
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- Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology_3
1915English
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- Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_7
1886English
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- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
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- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_12
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translationJapanese
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- William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew_9
ca. 1592-94English
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- Molière
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
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- William Shakespeare
The Tempest_20
1611English
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- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented_14
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the GraphicEnglish
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- Anton Chekhov
Tri Sestry_8
Three Sisters
1901Russian
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- Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871English
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-5German
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thyestes_2
First CenturyLatin
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- H G Wells
The Time Machine_5
1895English
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- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 English
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- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
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- Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island_5
originally entitled Treasure Island or, The Mutiny of the Hispaniola, published serially 1891-2 in Young Folks under the pseudonym, Captain George NorthEnglish
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- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
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- Gottfried Von Strassberg
Tristan_4
early Thirteenth CenturyGerman
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- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
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- Euripides
Trōiades _8
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
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- Henry James
The Turn of the Screw_9
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
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- William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will_10
1602English
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- Jules Verne
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin_5
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1870French
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Carl Jung
- Die Beziehungen Zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewußten_1
The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
1928; English translation included in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, 1953German
*Magill*
- Über die Psychologie des Unbewußten_1
On the Psychology of the Unconscious
1943; English translation included in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, 1953German
*Magill*
- William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona_7
ca. 1590-94English
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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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- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
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- Ben Jonson
Volpone_6
1606English
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- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
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- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
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- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
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'The Waste Land'_11
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
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- Virginia Woolf
The Waves_5
1931English
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- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
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- William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale_10
ca. 1611English
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- Hesiod
Erga kai Hēmerai_5
Works and Days
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B CGreek
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- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights_17
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
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