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Sandra Newman, The Western Lit Survival Kitt: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, From Homer to Faulkner

588 entries: 424 monographical, 164 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically within topical chapters

Sandra Newman's book traverses the entirety of Western literature quickly, largely for the sake of crafting persistent awkward maybe-jokes. Her selection of books suggests considerable breadth of knowledge, hidden behind a misguided attempt to appeal to... someone—we'd have to ask Newman and her editors and publicists whom they intended to reach. Even the most skeptical of, say, students struggling though a required English course or an adult wanting a modicum of familiarity with European and North American literary history would likely leave this book not wanting to read the writers discussed here. Newman mocks many of them, and works that are commonly considered canonical are discussed or at least listed next to minor and insignificant works, the primary criterion apparently being that they be written by one of the individuals that Newman and co. are apparently convinced have name recognition. The overall impression one gets is that in Newman's over-educated mileu, "western lit," once the source of extraordinary feats of knowledge and care, and the spark of much controversy, is now merely another source of cheap entertainment. That is, she does not care if her readers engage with the subject at hand.

One might think at first that, once past her comedic routine and persistent repetition of every cliche about certain periods of history or literary movements one would ever want to remember, Newman at least provides quick overviews of a great deal of fine literature and brief summaries of the major works by the authors discussed. But her efforts at concisely capturing the essence of various literary movements or broad trends of her own design (such as Nice Realism and Unwelcome Realism) are not insightful, and at times not explained at all. And unfortunately the cliches and the jokes completely ruin the text. Look to the first page of the book, no less: persons who learn Ancient Greek are "a disturbing asexual presence." Another example: "The detached elegance of his mind also makes us feel that Flaubert inhabits a purer sphere, until we remember that he lived with his mother, when he wasn't at a brothel getting icky diseases."

Other aspects suggest sloppiness in the book's construction, most of all in that Newman rates the works on three different scales of 0 to 10. Probably supposed to be 1 to 10. Those three areas are Importance, Accessibility, and Fun. Accessibility... one would think is easy to define; no surprise, James Joyce's Ulysses gets a 1. But every Rudyard Kipling work mentioned gets a 0, despite her noting that some of them are now classed as children's literature. She does not explain this apparent discrepancy. Is it a typo? The introduction to the Twentieth-Century chapter claims that only "authors who have been properly canonized" are discussed, though obviously date is another criterion, since the book stops at, roughly, the Second World War.

Newman's view of the canon is at least not excessively present-minded: included are farther-past authors once commonly taught but now obscure, and authors mostly important for understanding the history of literature. The advantages of her approach are, first, the sections actually providing relevant historical background, such as that on Grub Street or Restoration Drama, where genuine interest in the subject matter peeps out behind Newman's shroud of sarcasm (in her six paragraphs on Grub Street, she only attempts one joke); and, second, the reader getting a broader view of famous authors. Knowing that the authors so often spoken of as geniuses also wrote unremarkable early novels (Dostoevsky) or by-the-numbers political journalism (Defoe) helps place literature in its proper place: the authors' daily lives, careers, and slowly-developing artistry. This approach justifies the inclusion of works not considered by Newman to be important or reading-worthy... until, that is, her emphasis on personality traits comes back to annoy us.

As with other lists-as-books, works other than those formally listed are included. In this case, the formal list consists of those works listed in tables throughout the book with their three scores in columns to the right. Given that some of these works do not exactly receive a "thumbs up" from Newman and she rates some of the works not in those tables quite highly, we have no rule by which to exclude works mentioned in text; they're all included. The list's organization reflects the book's sequence of chapters as follows: Greece: Cradle of Greek Civilization; Rome: When the World Was Ruled by Italians; The Middle Ages and Points Between; The Renaissance: Back to the Future; and William "Look at Me, I Get My Own Chapter" Shakespeare; Here Come the Puritans: Parade, Meet Rain; France and England in the Seventeenth Century: The Shallows; The Age of Reason: When People Wised Up and Started Believing What We Believe; The Romantics: The Author as (the Author's) Hero; We Also Begin to Have Americans; Nice Realism: The Novel Novel; Unwelcome Realism: The French and the Russians Team Up to Depress Mankind; The Messy Twentieth: Finally Over.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

  2. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  3. Odýsseia

  4. The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek


    Hesiod
  5. Theogonía

  6. ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek

  7. Erga kai Hēmerai
    Works and Days
    ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek


    • Sappho

    Poems
    late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

    • Pindar

  8. Poems
    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Aeschylus
  9. Promētheus Desmōtēs

  10. Prometheus Bound
    disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek


  11. Oresteia

  12. The House of Atreus
    458 B C—Greek


    Sophocles
  13. Oidipous Tyrannos

  14. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
    ca. 429 B C—Greek


  15. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

  16. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek


  17. Antigone

  18. ca. 441 B C—Greek

  19. Euripides

  20. Mēdeia
    Medea
    431 B C—Greek


    Aristophanes
  21. Lysistrate

  22. Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek


  23. Nephelai

  24. The Clouds
    423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remains—Greek


  25. Bátrachoi

  26. The Frogs
    405 B C—Greek


    Menander
  27. Dyskolos

  28. ca. 317-16 B C—Greek

  29. Samia

  30. ca. 315-09 B C—Greek

  31. Catullus

  32. Poems
    First Century B C—Latin

  33. Sextus Propertius
    Elegiae
    First Century B C—Latin

    • Tibullus

  34. Poems
    First Century B C—Latin

    Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
  35. Eclogues

  36. First Century B C—Latin

  37. Georgics

  38. First Century B C—Latin

  39. Aeneid

  40. First Century B C—Latin

    Ovid
  41. Ars Amatoria

  42. ca. late First Century B C-early First Century—Latin

  43. Metamorphoseon

  44. Metamorphoses
    8—Latin


    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
  45. Epodon

  46. Epodes
    30 B C—Latin


  47. Satirae

  48. originally published in two volumes, 35 B C and 30 B C—Latin

  49. Carmina
    Odes
    originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B C—Latin


    • Martial

    Selected works
    First Century—Latin

    • Juvenal

  50. Selected works
    late First-early Second centuries—Latin

  51. Lucan
    De Bello Civili
    Pharsalia
    written 61-65—Latin


    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  52. Selected works
    First Century—Latin

    Lucian
  53. Verae Historiae

  54. True History
    Second Century—Greek


  55. De Morte Peregrini

  56. The Passing of Peregrinus
    Second Century—Greek


  57. Longus

  58. Daphnis kai Chloē
    Daphnis and Chloe
    Second Century—Greek


  59. Heliodorus of Emesa

  60. Aethiopica
    ca. Third Century—Greek

  61. Petronius

  62. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

  63. Apuleius

  64. Metamorphoseon
    Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
    Second Century—Latin


  65. Augustine of Hippo

  66. Confessionum Libri Tredecim
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    written 397-98—Latin


    --
  67. Beowulf

  68. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

    --
  69. The Wanderer

  70. written ca. Fifth-Tenth centuries—English

    --
  71. Dream of the Rood

  72. ca. Seventh-Ninth centuries—English

    --
  73. La Chanson de Roland

  74. ca. Eleventh Century—French

  75. Geoffrey of Monmouth

  76. Historia Regum Britanniae
    written ca. 1136—Latin

    Chrétien de Troyes
  77. Perceval, le Conte du Graal

  78. written 1181-91—French

  79. Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette

  80. written ca. 1170—French

  81. Thomas Malory

  82. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  83. Pierre Abélard

  84. Historia Calamitatum
    written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil—Latin

  85. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

  86. Roman de la Rose
    written in two parts, the first by Lorris, the second by Muen, ca. 1230 and 1275, respectively

    Geoffrey Chaucer
  87. Troilus and Criseyde

  88. written ca. 1380s—English

  89. Canterbury Tales

  90. 1478—English

    --
  91. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  92. probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English

    Dante
  93. La Divina Commedia

  94. The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian


  95. La Vita Nuova

  96. 1295—Italian

  97. Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

  98. Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
    Il Canzoniere
    1374—Italian


  99. Giovanni Boccaccio

  100. Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
    ca. 1351-53—Italian

  101. Benvenuto Cellini
    Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
    Autobiography
    written 1558-62—Italian


    François Villon
    • Poems

  102. Fifteenth Century—French

  103. Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades

  104. 1489—French

  105. François Rabelais

  106. La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
    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—French

  107. Michel de Montaigne

  108. Les Essais
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French


    Miguel de Cervantes
  109. Novelas Ejemplares

  110. 1613—Spanish

  111. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

  112. Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish


    Christopher Marlowe
  113. Dido, Queen of Carthage

  114. ca. 1587-93—English

  115. Tamburlaine the Great

  116. 1590—English

  117. The Jew of Malta

  118. 1592—English

  119. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

  120. 1592—English

  121. Edward II

  122. 1593—English

  123. The Massacre at Paris
    1593—English

    • 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'

    published in part in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599; in its entirety in English Helicon, 1600—English

    • Walter Raleigh

    'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd'
    written 1596—English

    • Thomas Wyatt

  124. Selected works
    Sixteenth Century—English

    Philip Sidney
  125. Astrophel and Stella

  126. 1591—English

  127. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

  128. written ca. 1580; revised versions published 1590 and 1593; English

  129. Defence of Poesie

  130. 1595—English

  131. Edmund Spenser

  132. The Faerie Queene
    originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English

    Ben Jonson
  133. Volpone

  134. 1606—English

  135. The Alchemist

  136. 1610—English

  137. Bartholomew Fayre

  138. 1614—English

    William Shakespeare
  139. Hamlet

  140. 1602—English

  141. King Lear

  142. 1606—English

  143. Macbeth

  144. ca. 1607—English

  145. Othello

  146. ca. 1604—English

  147. Julius Caesar

  148. 1599—English

  149. Antony and Cleopatra

  150. ca. 1606-08—English

  151. Romeo and Juliet

  152. ca. 1591-97—English

  153. Cymbeline

  154. written ca. 1609—English

  155. Coriolanus

  156. written ca. 1605-08—English

  157. Richard II

  158. 1597—English

  159. The First Part of Henry IV

  160. 1597—English

  161. The Second Part of Henry IV

  162. 1600—English

  163. Henry V

  164. 1599—English

  165. Richard III

  166. ca. 1592-7—English

  167. A Midsummer Night's Dream

  168. ca. 1595-1600—English

  169. Much Ado About Nothing

  170. ca. 1598-99—English

  171. The Taming of the Shrew

  172. ca. 1592-94—English

  173. The Merchant of Venice

  174. ca. 1596-98—English

  175. The Tempest

  176. 1611—English

  177. The Comedy of Errors

  178. 1594—English

  179. The Merry Wives of Windsor

  180. ca. 1597-1602—English

  181. Love's Labour Lost

  182. 1598—English

  183. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

  184. 1602—English

  185. As You Like It

  186. 1603—English

  187. Measure for Measure

  188. 1604—English

  189. Troilus and Cressida

  190. ca. 1602-09—English

  191. All's Well That Ends Well

  192. ca. 1606-08—English

  193. Titus Andronicus

  194. 1594—English

  195. Timon of Athens

  196. written ca. 1607—English

  197. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

  198. ca. 1606-08—English

  199. The First Part of Henry VI

  200. ca. 1592—English

  201. The Second Part of Henry VI

  202. ca. 1592—English

  203. The Third Part of Henry VI

  204. ca. 1592—English

  205. Henry VIII

  206. ca. 1613—English

  207. The Two Noble Kinsmen

  208. written ca. 1613-14—English

  209. The Winter's Tale

  210. ca. 1611—English

  211. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  212. ca. 1590-94—English

  213. Sonnets
    1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English

    • Poems

  214. late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

  215. The Rape of Lucrece

  216. 1594—English

  217. Venus and Adonis
    1593—English

    • The Passionate Pilgrim

    1599 anthology attributed to Shakespeare, though only five of the 20 poems are considered authentic—English

    Robert Herrick
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'Her Legs'

    part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648—English

    • 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

    part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648—English

    • Richard Lovelace

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    John Suckling
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'A Soldier'

    —English

    • Thomas Carew

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    John Donne
    • Poems

    early Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'The Extasie'

    part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

    George Herbert
    • Poems

  218. early Seventeenth Century—English

  219. The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
    1633—English

    • Henry Vaughan

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'The Morning-Watch'

    part of Silex Scintillans: or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, 1650—English

    • Abraham Cowley

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    • Richard Crashaw

  220. Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

  221. Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With Other Delights of the Muses
    1646; expanded 1648

    Andrew Marvell
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'To His Coy Mistress'

  222. written ca. early 1650's—English

    John Bunyan
  223. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to his Poor Servant John Bunyan

  224. 1666—English

  225. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come

  226. 1678—English

    John Milton
  227. Paradise Lost

  228. 1667; revised 1674—English

  229. Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
    1671—English

    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'Sonnet 19'

  230. 'On His Blindness'
    written ca. 1655—English


  231. Samuel Butler

  232. Hudibras
    originally published in three volumes: 1663, 1664, and 1678—English

  233. Robert Burton

  234. The Anatomy of Melancholy
    1621; revised through fifth edition—English

  235. Izaak Walton

  236. The Compleat Angler
    1653; revised through sixth edition, 1676—English

  237. Samuel Pepys
    Diary
    written 1660-69; published in part, 1825; expanded and revised 1875-79; further revised versions, 1893-99 and 1926; final work, in nine volumes, 1970-83

    John Dryden
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • Plays

  238. Seventeenth Century—English

  239. All for Love; or, The World Well Lost

  240. 1677—English

  241. William Wycherley

  242. The Country Wife
    1675—English

  243. William Congreve

  244. The Way of the World
    1700—English


  245. Nahum Tate

  246. The History of King Lear
    1681—English

  247. Thomas Otway

  248. Venice Preserv'd
    1682—English

    Aphra Behn
  249. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers

  250. 1677—English

  251. Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History
    1688—English

    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'A Satyr on Charles II'

    written 1673-74—English

    • Madeleine de Scudéry

  252. Selected works
    Seventeenth Century—French

  253. Honoré d'Urfé

  254. L'Astrée
    originally published in six volumes, 1607-27—French

  255. Madame de la Fayette

  256. La Princess de Clèves
    originally anonymously published 1678—French

    Molière
  257. Les Précieuses Ridicules

  258. 1659—French

  259. L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge

  260. The Miser
    1668—French


  261. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

  262. 1664—French

  263. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

  264. The Misanthrope
    1666—French


  265. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

  266. 1670—French

    Pierre Corneille
  267. Le Cid

  268. 1637—French

  269. Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste

  270. 1639—French

  271. Polyeucte

  272. 1643—French

    Jean Racine
  273. Andromaque

  274. 1667—French

  275. Phèdre

  276. 1677—French

  277. Athalie

  278. 1691—French

  279. Jean de la Fontaine
    Fables
    originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694—French

    • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (Madame de Sévigné)

  280. Correspondence
    Seventeenth Century—French

    Alexander Pope
  281. Essay on Criticism

  282. 1711—English

  283. Essay on Man

  284. 1734—English

  285. Four Ethic Epistles

  286. Moral Essays
    originally published in four volumes: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington, 1731; Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, 1733; An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham, 1734; Of The Characters of Women: An Epistle To A Lady, 1735; revised and retitled Ethic Epistles, the Second Book, to Several Persons, with the addition of three more epistles, as part of The Works of Alexander Pope, 1735; those additional epistles removed and work revised and retitled Four Ethic Epistles for unpublished collected works, 1744; retitled Moral Essays for inclusion in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. in Nine Volumes Complete, 1751—English


  287. The Rape of the Lock

  288. originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

    Daniel Defoe
  289. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner

  290. originally anonymously published 1719—English

  291. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

  292. 1722—English

  293. The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II

  294. Roxana
    1724—English


  295. 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

  296. originally anonymously published 1722—English

    Samuel Richardson
  297. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded

  298. 1740; later revised—English

  299. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

  300. 1748—English

  301. The History of Sir Charles Grandison

  302. 1753—English

    Henry Fielding
  303. An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

  304. 1741—English

  305. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams

  306. 1742—English

  307. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

  308. 1749—English

  309. The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great

  310. originally published as the third volume of Miscellanies, 1743—English

  311. Amelia

  312. 1751—English

    Samuel Johnson
  313. A Dictionary of the English Language
    1755—English

    • Essays from the Rambler and the Idler

    unspecified essays originally published in the Rambler, 1750-52; the Idler, 1758-60; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") and the Utne Reader also specify essays from the Adventurer, 1753-54—English

    • Poems

  314. Eighteenth Century—English

  315. London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal

  316. originally anonymously published 1738—English

  317. The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

  318. 1749—English

  319. Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

  320. The Lives of the Poets
    published in part as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers, 1744; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, entitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English


  321. James Boswell

  322. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

    Jonathan Swift
  323. A Tale of a Tub

  324. 1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710—English

  325. 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

  326. originally anonymously published 1729—English

  327. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships

  328. Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English


    Laurence Sterne
  329. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  330. originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English

  331. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

  332. 1768—English

  333. Thomas Gray
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
    1751—English

    Francis Burney
    • "Diaries"

  334. written 1768-1840; generally published in part accompanied by correspondence—English

  335. Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World

  336. originally anonymously published 1778—English

  337. Oliver Goldsmith

  338. The Vicar of Wakefield
    1766—English

    Voltaire
  339. Lettres Philosophiques

  340. Letters Concerning the English Nation
    English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778—English


  341. Candide, ou L'Optimisme

  342. 1759—French

    Denis Diderot
  343. Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde

  344. German traslation, 1805; original, 1823—French

  345. Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître
    Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
    published in part 1785; in its entirety, 1796—French


    • Denis Diderot et al.

  346. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
    published in 28 volumes, 1751-72—French

  347. Choderlos de Laclos

  348. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
    The Dangerous Liaisons
    1782—French


    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  349. Les Confessions

  350. 1782—French

  351. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

  352. The Social Contract
    1762—French


  353. Émile, ou de l'Éducation

  354. 1762—French

  355. Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

  356. originally entitled Lettres de Deux Amans Habitans d'une Petite Ville au Pied des Alpes, published 1761—French

    Marquis de Sade
  357. Justine ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu

  358. 1791; revised and retitled La Nouvelle Justine ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu, 1797—French

  359. Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'École du Libertinage
    written 1785; published 1905—French

    Robert Burns
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth Century—English

    • 'Why Should Na Poor Folk Mowe'

    'When Princes and Prelates'
    part of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, 1799—English


    • 'My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose'

  360. originally published in Pietro Urbani's Scots Songs, 1794—English

    William Blake
  361. Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

  362. published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794—English

  363. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

  364. ca. 1793—English

  365. The Book of Thel

  366. ca. 1789-90—English

  367. Tiriel

  368. written ca. 1789; originally published as part of The Poetical Works of William Blake, 1874—English

  369. Visions of the Daughters of Albion

  370. 1793—English

  371. America a Prophecy

  372. 1793—English

  373. Europe a Prophecy

  374. 1794—English

  375. The Book of Urizen

  376. originally entitled The First Book of Urizen, published 1794—English

  377. The Book of Ahania

  378. 1795—English

  379. The Book of Los

  380. 1795—English

  381. The Song of Los

  382. 1795—English

  383. Vala, or The Four Zoas

  384. written ca. 1797-1807—English

  385. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

  386. 1820—English

  387. Milton, a Poem in 2 Books

  388. ca. 1811—English

  389. Poetical Sketches
    1783—English

    William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems

    1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English

    William Wordsworth
    • Poems

  390. late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

  391. The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
    1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English

    • "Lucy poems"

    five poems, four of which ('Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal') were originally published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the other ('I Travelled Among Unknown Men') originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood'

  392. originally entitled 'Ode', published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807; retitled and revised for inclusion in Poems, 1815; revised for inclusion in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820—English

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  393. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
    1817—English

    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'

    originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English

    • 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'

    originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English

    • Robert Southey

  394. Poems
    Nineteenth Century—English

    Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
  395. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

  396. 1812-18—English

  397. Don Juan
    originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English

    • "Short poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'She Walks in Beauty'

    originally published in Hebrew Melodies, 1815—English

    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Poems

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Ode to the West Wind'

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    • 'To a Skylark'

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    • 'Ozymandias'

  398. originally published Jan. 1818 in the Examiner; included in Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, 1818—English

  399. Adonais: An Elegy Upon the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperon, etc.
    1821—English

    • 'Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni'

  400. part of Percy and Mary Shelley's History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, 1817—English

  401. Epipsychidion

  402. originally anonymously published 1821—English

  403. Prometheus Unbound

  404. 1820—English

  405. Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

    John Keats
    • 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

    originally anonymously published Jan. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Ode to a Nightingale'

    originally published Jul. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Ode on Indolence'

    originally published in The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, 1848—English

    • 'Ode on Melancholy'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Ode to Psyche'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'To Autumn'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

    originally published May 1820 in the Indictaor—English

    • 'Bright Star'

    originally published 1738 in the Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal—English

    • "Story poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Eve of St. Agnes'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Lamia'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Isabella'

  406. part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

  407. Endymion
    1818—English

    • 'Hyperion'

    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'

    originally published 1857 in the Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society—English

    • Correspondence

  408. early Nineteenth Century—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  409. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers

  410. The Sorrows of Young Werther
    1774; revised 1787—German


  411. Faust
    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, 1832—German

    Alexander Pushkin
    • Stories

  412. Nineteenth Century—Russian

  413. Kapitanskaâ Dočka
    The Captain's Daughter
    originally published 1836 in Sovremennik—Russian


    • 'The Queen of Spades'

  414. originally published Mar. 1834 in Biblioteka dlya Chteniya—Russian

  415. Evgénij Onegin

  416. Eugene Onegin
    published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian


  417. Mikhail Lermontov

  418. Geroj Našego Vremeni
    A Hero of Our Time
    1840; revised 1841—Russian


  419. Ivan Turgenev

  420. Otcy i Deti
    Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
    originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  421. Ivan Goncharov
    Oblomov
    1859—Russian

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    • "Early poems"

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Lotos-Eaters'

  422. part of Poems, 1833—English

  423. In Memoriam A H H
    1849—English

    • 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

  424. originally published Dec. 1854 in the Examiner; included in Maud and Other Poems, 1855—English

  425. Maud and Other Poems

  426. 1855—English

  427. Idylls of the King
    published in parts, 1859-85—English

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Sonnet 43'

    'How Do I Love Thee?'
    part of Sonnets From the Portuguese, 1850—English


    Robert Browning
    • 'My Last Duchess'

    part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. III, Dramatic Lyrics, 1842—English

    • 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'

  428. part of Men and Women, 1855—English

  429. The Ring and the Book
    originally published in four volumes, 1868-69—English

    • 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'

  430. part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. III, Dramatic Lyrics, 1842—English

    Alexandre Dumas
  431. Les Trois Mousquetaires

  432. The Three Musketeers
    originally published serially Mar.-Jul. 1844 in Le Siècle—French


  433. Vingt ans Après

  434. originally published serially Jan.-Aug. 1845—French

  435. Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans Plus Tard

  436. originally published serially 1847-50—French

  437. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

  438. originally published serially Aug. 1844-Jan. 1846 in Journal des Débats—French

  439. Alexandre Dumas, fils

  440. La Dame aux Camélias
    1848—French

    Victor Hugo
  441. Notre-Dame de Paris

  442. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    1831—French


  443. Les Misérables

  444. 1862—French

  445. Edmond Rostand

  446. Cyrano de Bergerac
    1897—French

  447. Prosper Mérimée

  448. Carmen
    published in part, Oct. 1845, in Revue des Deux Mondes; in its entirety, 1846—French

    Walter Scott
  449. The Bride of Lamermoor

  450. originally anonymously published 1819—English

  451. Rob Roy

  452. originally anonymously published 1817—English

  453. Ivanhoe

  454. originally anonymously published 1819—English

    Washington Irving
  455. A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

  456. originally published under the pseudonym, Diedrich Knickerbocker, 1809—English

  457. The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards
    1832; revised and retitled Tales of the Alhambra, 1851—English

    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Rip Van Winkle'

    part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848

    • 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

    part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Essays

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Self-Reliance'

    part of Essays: First Series, 1841—English

    • 'The Over-Soul'

  458. part of Essays: First Series, 1841—English

  459. The American Scholar
    originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837—English

    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Humble-Bee

  460. part of Poems, 1847—English

  461. Henry David Thoreau
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

    Edgar Allan Poe
    • Stories

    Newman specifies "Gothic stories" and "Auguste Dupin stories"; Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

    originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845—English

    • 'The Premature Burial'

    originally published Jul. 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper—English

    • 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

    originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840—English

    • 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

    originally published Jan. 1843 in the Pioneer; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Aug. 1845—English

    • 'The Black Cat'

    originally published Aug. 1843 in the United States Saturday Post; included in Tales, 1845—English

    • 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'

    originally published Apr. 1841 in Graham's Magazine; revised for inclusion in The Prose Romances of Edgar A Poe, 1843—English

    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Raven'

    originally published Jan. 1845 in the Evening Mirror and Feb. 1845, under the pseudonym, Quarles, in the American Review; included in The Raven and Other Poems, 1845—English

    • 'Annabel Lee'

  462. originally published Oct. 1849 in the New York Daily Tribune, Nov. 1849 in the Southern Literary Messenger, and Jan. 1850 in Sartain's Union Magazine—English

  463. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket

  464. published in part, 1836-37, in the Southern Literary Messenger, under the author's given name; in its entirety, 1838, under the pseudonym, Arthur Gordon Pym—English

  465. Walt Whitman
    Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

    Emily Dickinson
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'It Was Not Death, for I Stood Up'

    part of Poems: Second Series, 1891—English

    • 'She Died — This Was the Way She Died'

    part of Poems: Second Series, 1891—English

    • Correspondence

    Nineteenth Century—English

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Young Goodman Brown'

  466. originally anonymously published 1835 in the New-England Magazine; included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846—English

  467. The Scarlet Letter

  468. 1850—English

  469. The Blithedale Romance

  470. 1852—English

  471. The House of Seven Gables

  472. 1851—English

  473. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni

  474. 1860—English

    Herman Melville
  475. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

  476. 1846—English

  477. Oomo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South

  478. 1847—English

  479. Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

  480. 1849—English

  481. White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War

  482. 1850—English

  483. Redburn: His First Voyage

  484. 1849—English

  485. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

  486. 1851—English

  487. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

  488. 1852—English

  489. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

  490. 1857—English

  491. Billy Budd, Foretopman

  492. Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
    1924—English


  493. The Piazza Tales
    1856; originally published serially Nov. 1853-Aug. 1855 in Putnam's Monthly—English

    • Poems

  494. Nineteenth Century—English

    Mark Twain
  495. Life on the Mississippi

  496. 1883—English

  497. Roughing It

  498. 1872—English

  499. The Innocents Abroad

  500. 1869—English

  501. The Prince and the Pauper

  502. 1881—English

  503. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  504. 1889—English

  505. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  506. 1876—English

  507. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  508. 1884—English

  509. Letters From the Earth

  510. written in part ca. 1910; published 1962—English

    Stephen Crane
  511. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

  512. 1893; revised 1896—English

  513. The Red Badge of Courage
    published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English

    • Stories

    late Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Open Boat'

    originally published Jun. 1897 in Scribner's; included in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, 1898—English

    • 'The Blue Hotel'

  514. originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1898 in Collier's Weekly; included in The Monster and Other Stories, 1899—English

    Jane Austen
  515. Pride and Prejudice

  516. originally anonymously published 1813—English

  517. Emma

  518. originally anonymously published 1815—English

  519. Persuasion

  520. originally anonymously published 1817—English

  521. Sense and Sensibility

  522. originally published under the pseudonym, A Lady, 1811—English

  523. Mansfield Park

  524. originally anonymously published 1814—English

  525. Northanger Abbey

  526. originally anonymously published 1817—English

    Charlotte Brontë
  527. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

  528. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  529. Shirley

  530. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1849—English

  531. Villette

  532. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1853—English

    Emily Brontë
  533. Wuthering Heights
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English

    • Poems

  534. Nineteenth Century—English

    Anne Brontë
  535. Agnes Grey

  536. originally published under the pseudonym, Acton Bell, 1847—English

  537. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  538. originally published under the pseudonym, Acton Bell, 1848—English

  539. Robert Louis Stevenson

  540. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    1886—English

  541. Horace Walpole

  542. The Castle of Otranto
    originally published under the pseudonym, Onuphrio Muralto, 1764—English

    Charles Dickens
  543. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

  544. The Pickwick Papers
    originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, Boz—English


  545. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

  546. originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany—English

  547. Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation

  548. originally published serially Oct. 1846-Apr. 1848—English

  549. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)

  550. originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English

  551. Bleak House

  552. originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853—English

  553. Hard Times - For These Times

  554. originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household Words—English

  555. Little Dorrit

  556. originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857—English

  557. A Tale of Two Cities

  558. originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English

  559. Great Expectations

  560. originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  561. The Old Curiosity Shop

  562. originally published serially Apr. 1840-Nov. 1841 in Master Humphrey's Clock under the pseudonym, Boz—English

  563. A Christmas Carol

  564. 1843—English

    William Makepeace Thackeray
  565. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

  566. originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

  567. The Luck of Barry Lyndon

  568. originally published serially 1844—English

    George Eliot
  569. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

  570. originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

  571. Daniel Deronda

  572. 1876—English

  573. The Mill on the Floss

  574. 1860—English

  575. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

  576. 1861—English

  577. Adam Bede

  578. 1859—English

    Thomas Hardy
  579. Far From the Madding Crowd

  580. originally anonymously published serially Jan.-Dec. 1874 in Cornhill Magazine; revised 1895 and 1901—English

  581. The Return of the Native

  582. originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and Amusement—English

  583. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character

  584. 1886—English

  585. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

  586. published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English

  587. Jude the Obscure

  588. originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  589. A Pair of Blue Eyes
    originally published serially Sep. 1872-Jul. 1873—English

    Rudyard Kipling
    • Poems

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'If—'

    part of Rewards and Fairies, 1910—English

    • 'Gunga Din'

    part of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 1892—English

    • 'The White Man's Burden'

  590. originally published 1899 in McClure's—English

  591. The Jungle Book

  592. 1894—English

  593. The Second Jungle Book

  594. 1895—English

  595. Kim

  596. originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell's—English

    Oscar Wilde
  597. The Importance of Being Earnest

  598. 1895—English

  599. An Ideal Husband

  600. 1895—English

  601. Lady Windmere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman

  602. 1892—English

  603. A Woman of No Importance

  604. 1893—English

  605. Salomé

  606. 1893; English version, 1894—French

  607. The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  608. originally published under the pseudonym, c.3.3., 1898—English

  609. De Profundis

  610. published in part, 1905; additional portions published 1913; in its entirety, 1949; revised and included in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, 1962—English

    Edith Wharton
  611. The House of Mirth

  612. 1905—English

  613. The Custom of the Country

  614. 1913—English

  615. The Age of Innocence

  616. 1920—English

  617. Ethan Frome

  618. 1911—English

    D H Lawrence
  619. Sons and Lovers

  620. 1913—English

  621. The Rainbow

  622. 1915—English

  623. Women in Love

  624. 1920—English

  625. Lady Chatterley's Lover

  626. abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960—English

  627. Aaron's Rod

  628. 1922—English

  629. The Plumed Serpent

  630. 1926—English

  631. The Escaped Cock

  632. 1929—English

  633. Kangaroo
    1923—English

    • 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'

    originally published Jul. 1926 in Harper's Bazaar; included in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, 1928—English

    • 'The Odour of Chrysanthemums'

  634. originally published Jul. 1911 in the English Review; included in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914—English

    Stendhal
  635. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle

  636. The Red and the Black
    1830—French


  637. Le Chartreuse de Parme

  638. The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French


    Honoré de Balzac
  639. Eugénie Grandet

  640. 1833—French

  641. Le Père Goriot

  642. Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French


  643. Illusions Perdues

  644. Lost Illusions
    1837-43—French


  645. Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes

  646. The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans; A Harlot High and Low
    originally published in four volumes, 1838-47—French


  647. La Cousine Bette

  648. originally published in Le Constitutionnel Oct.-Dec. 1846—French

    Gustave Flaubert
  649. Salammbô

  650. 1862—French

  651. La Tentation de Sainte Antoine

  652. published in part, 1856; in its entirety, 1874—French

  653. Madame Bovary

  654. originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  655. L'Éducation Sentimentale

  656. 1869—French

  657. Bouvard et Pécuchet

  658. 1881—French

    Émile Zola
  659. Germinal

  660. originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil Blas—French

  661. Nana

  662. originally published serially 1879-80 in La Voltaire—French

  663. La Bête Humaine

  664. 1890—French

  665. L'Assommoir

  666. 1877—French

    Joseph Conrad
  667. Lord Jim

  668. originally published serially Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine—English

  669. Heart of Darkness

  670. originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  671. Nostromo

  672. originally published serially 1904 in T P's Weekly—English

  673. The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea
    1897—English

    • 'An Outpost of Progress'

    originally published serially Jun.-Jul. 1897 in Cosmopolis; included in Tales of Unrest, 1898—English

    Nikolai Gogol
    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—Russian

    • 'Hoc'

    'The Nose'
    originally published 1836 in Sovremennik—Russian


    • 'Zapiski Sumasšedšego'

  674. 'The Diary of a Madman'
    1835—Russian


  675. Revizor

  676. The Government Inspector
    1836; revised 1842—Russian


  677. Mërtvyâ Duši

  678. Dead Souls
    1842—Russian


    Leo Tolstoy
  679. Anna Karenina

  680. published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  681. Voyna i Mir"

  682. War and Peace
    originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian


    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  683. Bednye Lûdi

  684. Poor Folk
    1846—Russian


  685. Dvojnik

  686. The Double
    originally published 1846 in Otečestvennye Zapiski—Russian


  687. Zapiski iz Mërtvogo Doma

  688. The House of the Dead
    originally published 1861 in Vrémâ—Russian


  689. Zapaski iz Podpol'â

  690. Notes From Underground
    1864—Russian


  691. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

  692. Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  693. Idiot

  694. originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  695. Besy

  696. Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
    1872—Russian


  697. Brat'â Karamazovy

  698. The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


    Henrik Ibsen
  699. Et Dukkehjem

  700. A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian


  701. Gengangere

  702. Ghosts
    1881—Norwegian


  703. En Folkefiende

  704. An Enemy of the People
    1882—Norwegian


  705. Vildanden

  706. The Wild Duck
    1885—Norwegian


  707. Hedda Gabler

  708. 1890—Norwegian

    August Strindberg
  709. Fröken Julie

  710. Miss Julie
    written 1888—Swedish


  711. Spöksonaten

  712. The Ghost Sonata
    1908—Swedish


  713. Ett Drömspel

  714. 1907—Swedish

    Anton Chekhov
  715. Čajka

  716. The Seagull
    1896—Russian


  717. Dâdâ Vanâ

  718. Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian


  719. Tri Sestry

  720. Three Sisters
    1901—Russian


  721. Višhnëvyj Sad
    The Cherry Orchard
    1904—Russian


    • Stories

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Russian

    • 'Ionich'

    —Russian

    • 'Anna on the Neck'

    —Russian

    • 'Big Volodya and Little Volodya'

    —Russian

    • 'The Grasshopper'

    —Russian

    • 'Skripka Rotšil'da'

    'Rothschild's Violin'
    originally published Feb. 1894 in Russkie Vedomosti—Russian


    • 'In a Country House'

    —Russian

    • 'Ward No. 6'

  722. —Russian

    Charles Baudelaire
  723. Les Fleurs du Mal

  724. The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French


  725. Journaux Intimes
    1887—French

    Arthur Rimbaud
    • "Early poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Le Coeur Volé'

    'The Stolen Heart'
    written May-Jun. 1871 along with two alternate versions: Le Coeur Supplicié and Coeur de Pitre—French


    • 'Le Bateau Ivre'

  726. 'The Drunken Boat'
    written 1871—English


  727. Une Saison en Enfer

  728. A Season in Hell
    1873—French


  729. Les Illuminations
    published in part serially May-Jun. 1886 in La Vogue; in its entirety later the same year—French

    Comte de Lautreamont
    • Poems

  730. Nineteenth Century—French

  731. Les Chants de Maldoror
    The Songs of Maldoror
    1869—French


    • Gérard de Nerval

    Poems
    Nineteenth Century—French

    • Tristan Corbrière

    Poems
    Nineteenth Century—French

    • Paul Verlaine

    Poems
    late Nineteenth Century—French

    • Jules Lafourge

    Poems
    late Nineteenth Century—French

    Stéphane Mallarmé
    • 'L'Après-midi d'un Faune'

  732. 1876—French

  733. Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
    originally published May 1897 in Cosmopolis; published separately 1914—French

    Alexander Blok
    • Poems

    early Twentieth Century—Russian

    • 'Dvenadcat'

  734. 'Twelve'
    written 1918—Russian


  735. André Breton
    Le Manifeste du Surréalisme
    1924—French

    • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

    'Manifesto Iniziale del Futurismo'
    'Futurist Manifesto'
    originally published Feb. 1909 in Gazzetta dell'Emilia


    Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Poems

  736. early Twentieth Century—French

  737. Le Poete Assassine
    1916—French

    William Butler Yeats
    • Poems

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'The Second Coming'

    originally published Nov. 1920 in both the Dial and the Nation; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921—English

    • 'Anne Gregory'

    part of Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, 1932; entitled 'For Anne Gregory' for inclusion in the Spectator, Dec. 1932—English

    • 'Meditations in Time of Civil War'

    part of The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924; that book (except 'The Cat and the Moon') made part of The Tower, 1928—English

    • 'Among School Children'

  738. part of October Blast, 1927; the entirety of that book made part of The Tower, 1928—English

    Henry James
  739. The American

  740. originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907—English

  741. The Europeans

  742. originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1878 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  743. The Portrait of a Lady

  744. originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  745. The Bostonians

  746. originally published serially 1885-86 in the Century Magazine—English

  747. The Spoils of Poynton

  748. originally entitled The Old Things, published serially 1896 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  749. The Turn of the Screw

  750. originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898—English

  751. What Maisie Knew

  752. originally published serially 1897 in the Chap-Book and, revised, in the New Review—English

  753. The Wings of the Dove

  754. 1902—English

  755. The Ambassadors

  756. originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English

  757. The Golden Bowl

  758. 1904—English

    Gertrude Stein
  759. The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

  760. published in part in the Atlantic Monthly; in its entirety, 1933—English

  761. Three Lives

  762. 1906—English

  763. The Making of Americans: Being the History of a Family's Progress

  764. published in part, 1924, in the Transatlantic Review; in its entirety, 1925; abridged version, 1934

  765. Tender Buttons

  766. 1914—English

  767. Geography and Plays
    1922—English

    Franz Kafka
    • Stories

  768. early Twentieth Century—German

  769. Die Verwandlung

  770. The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German


  771. Der Prozess

  772. The Trial
    1925—German


  773. Das Schloss

  774. The Castle
    1926—German


  775. Der Verschollene
    Amerika
    published in part, 1913, as 'Der Heizer'; in its entirety, 1927—German


    T S Eliot
    • 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'

    originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English

    • 'The Waste Land'

    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

    • 'The Hollow Men'

  776. originally published in Poems: 1909-1925, 1925—English

  777. Ash Wednesday

  778. 1930—English

  779. Four Quartets

  780. 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, 1942—English

    William Carlos Williams
  781. Spring and All

  782. 1923—English

  783. Paterson
    originally published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958—English

    • 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

    originally entitled 'XXII', published as part of Spring and All, 1923—English

    • 'This Is Just to Say'

  784. originally published in Collected Poems, 1921-1931, 1934—English

    Ezra Pound
  785. A B C of Reading

  786. 1934—English

  787. Guide to Kulchur

  788. 1938—English

  789. Cantos
    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, 1987—English

    • Cathay

    1915; translations—English

    • "Short poems

  790. Twentieth Century—French

    James Joyce
  791. Dubliners

  792. 1914—English

  793. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  794. originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English

  795. Ulysses

  796. published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

  797. Finnegans Wake

  798. 1939—English

  799. Marcel Proust

  800. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
    In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
    originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French


    Virginia Woolf
  801. A Room of One's Own

  802. 1929—English

  803. To the Lighthouse

  804. 1927 —English

  805. Mrs. Dalloway

  806. published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English

  807. The Waves

  808. 1931—English

  809. Orlando: A Biography
    1928—English

    • E M Forster

    Selected works
    Twentieth Century—English

    Ernest Hemingway
    • Stories

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'Hills Like White Elephants'

    originally published Aug. 1927 in Transition; included in Men Without Women, 1927—English

    • 'Big, Two-Hearted River'

    originally published May 1925 in This Quarter; included in the expanded edition of In Our Time, 1925—English

    • 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'

    originally published Sep. 1936 in Cosmopolitan; included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938—English

    • 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'

    originally published 1933 in Scribner's; included in Winner Take Nothing, 1933—English

    • 'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot'

  810. included in the expanded second edition of In Our Time, 1925—English

  811. A Farewell to Arms

  812. 1929—English

  813. The Sun Also Rises

  814. 1926—English

  815. For Whom the Bell Tolls

  816. 1940—English

  817. The Old Man and the Sea

  818. 1952—English

  819. A Moveable Feast

  820. 1964—English

  821. Death in the Afternoon

  822. 1932—English

    F Scott Fitzgerald
  823. This Side of Paradise

  824. 1920—English

  825. The Beautiful and the Damned

  826. 1922—English

  827. The Great Gatsby

  828. 1925—English

  829. Tender Is the Night

  830. originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's Magazine—English

  831. The Last Tycoon

  832. 1941; expanded and retitled The Love of the Last Tycoon, 1993—English

  833. The Pat Hobby Stories
    1962; originally published serially Jan. 1940-May 1941 in Esquire—English

    • 'A Diamond as Big as the Ritz'

  834. originally published Jun. 1922 in the Smart Set; included in Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922—English

    William Faulkner
  835. As I Lay Dying

  836. 1930—English

  837. The Sound and the Fury

  838. 1929—English

  839. Absalom, Absalom!

  840. 1936—English

  841. Light in August

  842. 1932—English

  843. The Hamlet

  844. 1940—English

  845. The Town

  846. 1957—English

  847. The Mansion

  848. 1959—English