Louise Cown and Os Guinness, eds., Invitation to the Classics [1998]
446 entries: 334 monographical, 112 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically with the exception of the distinct topical sections (no. 8-17; 35-Pirandello; 56-Jerome; 63-69; 81-Underhill; 94-101; 115-31; 138-88; 197-242; Darwin; Frost-Stevens; 248-96; Borges-333), each itself arranged chronologically
The tag, Trinity, is applied to this list because "Invitation" has already been used and the Trinity Forum seems to be the organization largely responsible for this book. An opening essay, 'The Purpose of the Invitation to the Classics', states, "Each year the Trinity Forum holds a series of forums offering those in European and American leadership circles the opportunity to engage with readings selected from classic texts of the world. Almost invariably the staff is asked to suggest a list of further texts to be read. Invitation to the Classics is the answer to countless such requests and to the wider interest in the revival of the classics that they represent." This introductory essay should be read in full; it offers an excellent defense of "great books"-like endeavors from a genuine conservative Christian perspective, not the politicized fundamentalism from which we hear so frequently in contemporary U S society. In short, while Os Guinness, the essay's author, criticizes Romanticist and Deconstruction interpretations of the arts largely for dogmatic reasons (unpersuasively), he nonetheless rightly rebukes the "cannibal" approach to the arts offered by "market totalitarianism."
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
Aeschylus
- Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
- Promētheus Desmōtēs
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B CGreek
- Hepta epi Thēbas
Seven Against Thebes
467 B CGreek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
- Polybius
Histories
Second Century B CGreek
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri
History of Rome
First Century B CLatin
Cornelius Tacitus
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
- De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae
Agricola
written ca. 98Latin
- Dialogus de Oratoribus
written ca. 102Latin
- Historiae
written ca. 100-10Latin
- Annales>
written First CenturyLatin
- Augustine of Hippo
De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
City of God
426Latin
- Bede
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
written ca. 731Latin
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B CGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō>
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
- Euripides
Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
Aristophanes
- Akharneîs
The Acharnians
425 B CGreek
- Hippeîs
The Knights
424 B CGreek
- Nephelai>
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
- Sphēkes
The Wasps
422 B CGreek
- Eirēnē
Peace
421 B CGreek
- Ornithes>
The Birds
414 B CGreek
- Lysistrate>
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
- Thesmophoriazousai
411 B CGreek
- Ploutos
Wealth
408 B C; revised 388 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
- Bátrachoi
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
- Ekklesiazousai
The Assemblywomen; A Parliament of Women
391 B CGreek
- Plato
Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia>
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
- Epictetus
Diatribai
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton>
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
Selected works
First CenturyLatin
- Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Plays
Second CenturyLatin
Plays
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
Letters
three extant letters, part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura>
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Plotinus
Enneads
Third CenturyGreek
Selected works
Second CenturyGreek
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi>
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
Selected works
First Century B CLatin
- Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
Insitutio Oratoria
ca. 95Latin
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon>
Metamorphoses
8Latin
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Satirae
originally published in two volumes, 35 B C and 30 B CLatin
- Carmina>
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B CLatin
- Epodon
Epodes
30 B CLatin
- Epistularum
originally published in two volumes, 20 and 14 B CLatin
- Ars Poetica
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Fourteenth CenturyLatin
- Africa
written ca. 1337-43Latin
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto>
ca. 1351-53Italian
- Matteo Maria Boiardo
Orlando Innamorato
1482Italian
- Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso
published in part, 1516; revised 1521; published in its entirety, 1532Italian
- Torquato Tasso
La Gerusalemme Liberata
1581Italian
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio
1531Italian
Selected works
early Seventeenth CenturyItalian
Selected works
Eighteenth CenturyItalian
Selected works
Eighteenth CenturyItalian
Selected works
late Sixteenth CenturyItalian
Selected works
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesItalian
- Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744Italian
- Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi
The Betrothed
1827Italian
Poems
early Nineteenth CenturyItalian
Poems
Nineteenth CenturyItalian
Poems
Nineteenth CenturyItalian
- Francesco de Sanctis
Storia Della Letteratura Italiana
History of Italian Literature
originally published in two volumes, 1870 and 1871Italian
Selected works
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesItalian
Selected works
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesItalian
Poems
Twentieth CenturyItalian
Poems
Twentieth CenturyItalian
Poems
Twentieth CenturyItalian
Selected works
Twentieth CenturyItalian
Selected works
Twentieth CenturyItalian
Plays
Twentieth CenturyItalian
- Justin Martyr
The First Apology
Second CenturyGreek
- Irenaeus
Against Heresies
written ca. 180Greek
- Tertullian
De Praescriptione Haereticorum
Prescriptions Against Heretics
late Second-early Third centuriesLatin
- Origen
Contra Celsum
written 248; this work critiques The True Word by the Second-Century philosopher Celsus; it includes extensive quotations from, or perhaps the entirety of, that work, which otherwise is not extantGreek
- Athanasius of Alexandria
De Incarnatione
On the Incarnation of the Word
written ca. 318Latin
Letters
Fourth CenturyLatin
Letters
late Fourth-early Fifth centuriesLatin
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
--
- Beowulf>
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuriesEnglish
- Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae
The Consolation of Philosophy
written ca. 524Latin
Anselm of Canterbury
- Proslogion
written 1077-78Latin
- Cur Deus Homo
Eleventh CenturyLatin
Bernard of Clairvaux
1987; translations by G R EvansLatin
- De Consideratione
Twelfth CenturyLatin
Bonaventure
- Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
The Soul's Journey Into God
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- Lignum Vitae
The Tree of Life
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- Legenda Maior
The Life of St. Francis
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae>
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
Dante
- La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- La Vita Nuova
1295Italian
--
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478English
--
- The Second Shepherds' Play
Fifteenth CenturyEnglish
--
- The Somonyng of Everyman
late Fifteenth CenturyEnglish
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia>
Utopia
1516Latin
Martin Luther
- De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same yearLatin
- Der Kleine Katechismus
The Small Catechism
1529German
- Ronald H Bainton
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
English
- Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
written ca. 1395English
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27Latin
- Francis de Sales
Introduction à la Vie Dévote
1609French
- Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God
Seventeenth Century; compiled by Joseph de BeaufortEnglish
Jeremy Taylor
- Holy Living and Holy Dying
originally published in two volumes: The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650; and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651English
1990English
- François Fénelon
La Perfection Chrétienne
French
- John Wesley
Sermons
141 sermons; Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
Charles Wesley
Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
1989English
John Woolman
- The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman
1971English
- The Journal of John Woolman
1774English
Evelyn Underhill
- Mysticism
1911English
- The Mystic Way
1913English
- The Evelyn Underhill Reader
English
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541Latin
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
--
- El Cantar de Mio Cid
written ca. 1195-1207early Iberian Romance language
Selected works
Sixteenth CenturySpanish
Lope de Vega
- Moorish and Pastoral Ballads
selection of poems part of Desire's Experience Transformed: A Representative Anthology of Lope de Vega's Lyric Poetry; English translations by Carl W CobbSpanish
- Rimas Sacras
1614Spanish
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín
El Sí de las Niñas
The Maidens' Consent
1806Spanish
'La Canción del Pirata'
'Pirate's Song'
Spanish
- Benito Pérez Galdós
Fortunato and Jacinto
1886-87Spanish
- Miguel de Unamuno
Niebla
Mist
1914Spanish
- Federico García Lorca
Romancero Gitano
Gypsy Ballads
originally entitled Primero Romancero Gitano, published 1928Spanish
- Camilo José Cela
La Familia de Pascual Duarte
The Family of Pascual Duarte
1942Spanish
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet
1602English
- King Lear
1606English
- A Midsummer Night's Dream>
ca. 1595-1600English
- The Tempest>
1611English
- The Winter's Tale
ca. 1611—English
John Donne
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'
written ca. 1611-12; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- 'Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- 'A Hymne to God the Father'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- 'A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- 'A Valediction of Weeping'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- George Herbert
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
1633English
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
1671English
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées>
Thoughts
1669French
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come>
1678English
- 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
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
- Jonathan Edwards
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
1746English
Samuel Johnson
- Essays from the Rambler and the Idler
unspecified essays originally published in the Rambler, 1750-52; the Idler, 1758-60; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") also specify essays from the Adventurer, 1753-54English
- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620English
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences>
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil>
1651English
- Baruch Spinoza
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
originally anonymously published 1670Latin
John Locke
- Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government
originally anonymously published 1689English
- Epistola de Tolerantia
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same yearLatin
'Of the Original Contract'
part of Three Essays, Moral and Political, 1748; that book included in revised edition of Essays, Moral and Political published the same yearEnglish
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique>
The Social Contract
1762French
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
Adam Smith
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759English
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations>
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
- Jeremy Bentham
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789English
Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft>
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
- 'Idee zu Einer Allgemeinen Geschichte in Weltbürgerlicher Absicht'
'Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Purpose'
1784German
- Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796German
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820German
- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty>
1859English
- Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei>
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Les Confessions>
1782French
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation
1762French
- Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
1750French
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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, 1832German
- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802English
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- Nibelungenlied
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
- Wolfram Von Eschenbach
Parzival
ca. early Thirteenth CenturyGerman
Hartmann von Aue
- Erec
written ca. 1190German
- Der Arme Heinrich
written ca. 1190German
- Gottfried von Strassberg
Tristan
early Thirteenth CenturyGerman
- Walther von der Vogelweide
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nathan der Weise
1779German
- Christoph Martin Wieland
Geschichte des Agathon
Story of Agathon
1766-67German
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Der Messias
The Messiah
originally published serially 1748-73 in Bremer BeiträgeGerman
'Abendlied'
'Der Mond Ist Aufgegangen'; 'Evening Song'; 'The Moon Is Risen'
German
Friedrich Schiller
- Die Räuber
1781German
- Kabale und Liebe
1784German
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787German
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96German
- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Oder Die Entsagenden
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants
1821; revised 1829German
- Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Elective Affinities
1809German
Friedrich Schiller
- Wallenstein
three parts: Die Piccolomini, Wallensteins Lager, and Wallensteins Tod, 1798-99German
- Wilhelm Tell
1804German
'Ode to Joy'
written 1785; revised 1808German
Johann Gottfried Herder
- Volkslieder Nebst Untermischten Anderen Stücken
Folk Songs
1778-79German
- Vom Geiste der Ebräischen Poesie
On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. An Instruction for Lovers of the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit
1782-83German
Heinrich von Kleist
- Amphitryon
1807German
- Der Zerbrochne Krug
published and performed in part, 1808; published in its entirety, 1811German
- Penthesilea
1808German
- Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe
Kathie of Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire
1810German
- Michael Kohlhaas
1810German
Novalis
- Hymnen an Die Nacht
originally published 1800 in AthenaeumGerman
- 'Die Christenheit oder Europa. Ein Fragment'
'Christendom or Europe'
edited lecture, originally entitled 'Europa', presented Nov. 1799; published in part, 1802, in Athenaeum; in its entirety, 1826, in SchriftenGerman
Selected works
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
Selected works
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
- Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
Stories
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
Friedrich Hölderlin
'Bread and Wine'German
German
'Celebration of Peace'German
Jean Paul
- Titan
originally published in four volumes, 1800-03German
- Flegeljahre
The Awkward Age
1804-05German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
early Twentieth CenturyGerman
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selectionsGerman
- Clemens Brentano
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
The Boy's Miracle Horn
1805-18German
Eduard Mörike
- Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein
The Little Gnome of Stuttgart
1853German
- Mozart auf der Reise Nach Prag
1856German
Georg Büchner
- Dantons Tod
1835German
- Woyzeck
1837German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selectionsGerman
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Die Judenbuche
The Jew's Beech Tree
1842German
Gerhart Hauptmann
- Die Weber
1892German
- Hamlet im Wittenberg
Hamlet in Wittenberg
1935German
Rainer Marie Rilke
early Twentiet CenturyGerman
- Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge
1910German
Herman Hesse
- Siddhartha
1922German
- Der Steppenwolf
1927German
- Das Glasperlenspiel
1943German
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
- Reinhold Schneider
Las Casas vor Karl V
Imperial Mission
1938German
Ernst Jünger
- In Stahlgewittern
1920; revised through 1978 editionGerman
- Auf den Marmorklippen
On the Marble Cliffs
1942German
Thomas Mann
- Buddenbrooks
1901German
- Der Tod in Venedig
Death in Venice
1911German
- Der Zauberberg>
The Magic Mountain
1924German
- Joseph und Seine Brüder
Joseph and His Brothers
1943German
Hermann Broch
- Die Schlafwandler: Eine Romantrilogie
originally published in three volumes: Pasenow; Oder, Die Romantik, 1931; Esch; Oder, Die Anarchie, 1931; and Huguenau; Oder, Die Sachlichkeit, 1932German
- Der Tod des Vergil
1945; English version published simultaneouslyGerman
- Robert Musil
Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften
The Man Without Qualities
originally published in three volumes: 1930, 1933, and 1943German
Walter Benjamin
- One-Way Street and Other Writings
1979German
- Illuminationen: Ausgewählte Schriften
1955German
Heinrich Böll
- Haus Ohne Hüter
House Without Guardians
1954German
- Billard um Halbzehn
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
1959German
- Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel
The Tin Drum
1959German
John Keats
originally anonymously published Jan. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
originally published Jul. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820English
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique>
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
- L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
1866French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essays: First Series
1841English
- Essays: Second Series
1844English
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
1845English
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1850English
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1955English
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
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- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
- François Villon
Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades
1489French
- François Rabelais
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, 1564French
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- Pierre Corneille
Le Cid
1637French
Jean Racine
- Phèdre>
1677French
- Esther
1689French
- Athalie
1691French
Molière
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur>
1664French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux>
The Misanthrope
1666French
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668French
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1670French
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666French
- Le Malade Imaginaire
The Imaginary Invalid
1673French
- Jean de la Fontaine
Fables
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694French
- Blaise Pascal
Lettres Provinciales
1656-57French
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Lettres Persanes
1721French
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
published in 28 volumes, 1751-72French
Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle>
The Red and the Black
1830French
- Le Chartreuse de Parme>
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
La Comédie Humaine
collective name for 91 finished and 46 unfinished works; Nineteenth CenturyFrench
Gustave Flaubert
- La Tentation de Sainte Antoine
published in part, 1856; in its entirety, 1874French
- Trois Contes
1877French
- Émile Zola
Nana
originally published serially 1879-80 in La VoltaireFrench
Victor Hugo
- Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831French
- Les Misérables>
1862French
- La Légende des Siècles
originally published in three volumes: 1859, 1877, and 1883French
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Flowers of Evil
1857French
Poems
late Nineteenth CenturyFrench
Arthur Rimbaud
'The Drunken Boat'
written 1871English
- Une Saison en Enfer
A Season in Hell
1873French
- Les Illuminations
published in part serially May-Jun. 1886 in La Vogue; in its entirety later the same yearFrench
- Stéphane Mallarmé
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
originally published May 1897 in Cosmopolis; published separately 1914French
Paul Claudel
- Tête d'Or
Head of Gold
1890French
- L'Echange
The Exchange
1894French
- Le Partage de Midi
The Break at Noon
1906French
- L'Annonce Faite à Marie
The Annunciation to Mary
1910French
- Le Soulier de Satin
The Satin Slipper
1943French
André Gide
- La Symphonie Pastorale
The Pastoral Symphony
1919French
- Les Faux-Monnayeurs
originally published 1925 in Nouvelle Revue FrançaiseFrench
- Marcel Proust
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, 1913-27French
Paul Valéry
'The Cemetery by the Sea'
originally published 1922 in Charmes; ou Poès;mesFrench
- La Soirée de Monsieur Teste
1896French
- Poesies
1931French
- Mon Faust
1946French
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Les Mouches
The Flies
1943French
- Huis Clos
No Exit
1944French
- La Nausée
Nausea
1938French
Albert Camus
- L'Étranger>
The Stranger
1942French
- La Peste
The Plague
1947French
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations>
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- John Henry Newman
Apologia pro Vita Sua
1864; revised 1865English
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843Danish
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Poetical Works of Hopkins
1989; edited by Norman MackenzieEnglish
Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina>
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877Russian
- Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady>
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- The American
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907English
- The Europeans
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1878 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- The Ambassadors>
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
- The Turn of the Screw
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
- Leon Edel
The Life of Henry James
originally published in five volumes: Henry James: The Untried Years: 1843-1870, 1953; Henry James: The Conquest of London: 1870-1881, 1962; Henry James: The Middle Years: 1882-1895, 1962; Henry James: The Treacherous Years: 1895-1901, 1969; Henry James: The Master: 1901-1916, 1972 English
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876English
- Life on the Mississippi
1883English
Selected works
unspecified selectionEnglish
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Götzen-Dämmerung, Oder, Wie Man mit dem Hammer Philosophirt
Twilight of the Idols
1889German
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness>
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
- James Joyce
Dubliners
1914English
- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess>
The Trial
1925German
William Butler Yeats
- The Collected Poems of W B Yeats
1933; expanded 1950; revised 1956; includes The Wind Among the Reeds [1899]; The Shadowy Waters [originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included here]; Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921]; The Tower [1928]; The Winding Stair [1929]; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems [1932]; New Poems [1938]; selections from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, 1889; The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 1904; The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; Responsibilities, 1914; The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917, expanded 1919; A Full Moon in March, 1935; and Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939English
- The Wind Among the Reeds
1899English
- The Shadowy Waters
1900; originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included in the author's collected poemsEnglish
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer
1920English
- The Tower
1928; originally published as Seven Poems and a Fragment, 1922; The Cat and the Moon, 1924; and October Blast, 1927English
- The Winding Stair
1929English
- Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems
1932English
- New Poems
1938English
- T S Eliot
Four Quartets
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
Robert Frost
- The Poetry of Robert Frost
1969; includes A Boy's Will [1913; revised 1930]; North of Boston [1914]; Mountain Interval [1916; expanded 1930]; New Hampshire [1923]; West-Running Brook [1928; expanded 1930]; A Further Range [1936]; A Witness Tree [1942]; A Masque of Reason [1945]; Steeple Bush [1947]; A Masque of Mercy [1947]; In the Clearing [1962]; plus two of the three poems in the section entitled An Afterword, from the Collected Poems [1949; see above], the other poem having been made part of In the ClearingEnglish
- A Boy's Will
1913; revised 1930English
- North of Boston
1914; revised 1930English
- Mountain Interval
1916; revised 1930English
- New Hampshire
1923English
- West-Running Brook
1928; expanded 1930English
- A Further Range
1936English
- A Witness Tree
1942English
- A Masque of Reason
1945English
- Steeple Bush
1947English
- A Masque of Mercy
1947English
- In a Clearing
1962English
Selected works
unspecified selectionEnglish
- Ezra Pound
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, 1987English
- William Carlos Williams
Paterson
originally published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958English
Poems
unspecified selectionEnglish
Poems
unspecified selection; Twentieth CenturyEnglish
Poems
unspecified selection; Twentieth CenturyEnglish
'Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination'
English
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot>
Waiting for Godot
1953French
Selected works
unspecified selection; Nineteenth CenturyFrench
Henrik Ibsen
- Et Dukkehjem>
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
- Gengangere
Ghosts
1881Norwegian
- George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
1913English
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895English
- Anton Chekhov
Višhnëvyj Sad
The Cherry Orchard
1904Russian
- John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
1907English
Selected works
unspecified selectionSwedish
Selected works
unspecified selectionsGerman
- Thornton Wilder
Our Town
1938English
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956English
- Eugène Ionesco
Rhinocéros
1959French
- Peter Shaffer
Equus
1973English
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
Our Country's Good
1988English
- David Henry Hwang
M Butterfly
1988English
- C S Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
1942English
- William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses
1942; published in part in varied periodicals: 'The Old People', Sep. 1940 in Harper's; 'The Bear', May 1941 in the Saturday Evening Post, and later revised for inclusion in Big Woods, 1955; 'Delta Autumn', May-Jun. 1942 in Story; and 'Go Down, Moses', Jan. 1941 in Collier'sEnglish
- Simone Weil
Attente de Dieu
Waiting for God
1950French
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Widerstand und Ergebung. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft
Letters and Papers From Prison
1951German
Flannery O'Connor
- 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'
originally published 1953 in Modern Writing I; included in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955English
part of Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965English
part of Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965English
- Wise Blood
published in part, Apr. 1948, as 'The Train', Sewanee Review; Feb. 1949, as 'The Heart of the Park', in the Partisan Review; Dec. 1949, as 'The Peeler', in the Partisan Review; and Apr. 1952, as 'Enoch and the Gorilla', in New World Writing; in its entirety, 1952English
- The Violent Bear It Away
1960; first chapter is revised version of 'You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead', New World Writing, Oct. 1955English
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj MîrRussian
Labyrinths
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El AlephSpanish
Italo Calvino
- Il Barone Rampante
The Baron in the Trees
1957Italian
- Le Cosmicomiche
Cosmicomics
1965Italian
- Le Città Invisibili
Invisible Cities
1972Italian
Gabriel García Márquez
- Cien Anõs de Soledad>
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967Spanish
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985Spanish
- Leaf Storm and Other Stories
1972Spanish
- La Hojarasca
Leaf Storm
1955Spanish
- No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
1968Spanish
- El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba
No One Writes to the Colonel
1961Spanish
- Isabel Allende
La Casa de los Espíritus
The House of Spirits
1982Spanish
Collected Poems
1985; includes A Ballad of Remembrance [1962]; Words in the Mourning Time [1970]; The Night-Blooming Cereus [1972]; Angle of Ascent [1975]; American Journal [1982]English
- A Ballad of Remembrance
1962English
- Words in the Mourning Time
1970English
- The Night-Blooming Cereus
1972English
- Angle of Ascent
1975English
- American Journal
1982English
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937English
- Toni Morrison
Beloved
1987English
Wole Soyinka
- A Dance of the Forest
1960English
- Death and the King's Horsemen
1975English
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi)
Petals of Blood
1977English; Gikuyu
Salman Rushdie
- Midnight's Children
1981English
- The Satanic Verses
1988English
Octavio Paz
- The Collected Poems 1957-1987
1987; includes Piedra de Sol [1957]; Blanco [1967]; Topoemas [1968]; Ladera Este (1962-1968) [1969]; Pasado en Claro [1975]; nearly all of Salamandra (1958-1961) [1962] and Vuelta [1976]; all but one poem from Árbol Adentro [1987]; and Paz and Charles Tomlinson's Hijos del Aire (Airborn) [1979]; for the selections through Vuelta, the versions from Poems (1935-1975) are usedSpanish
- Piedra de Sol
1957Spanish
- Salamandra (1958-1961)
1962Spanish
- Blanco
1967Spanish
- Topoemas
1968Spanish
- Ladera Este (1962-1968)
1969Spanish
- Pasado en Claro
1975Spanish
- Vuelta
1976Spanish
- Árbol Adentro
1987Spanish
Octavio Paz; Charles Tomlinson
- Hijos del Aire
Airborn
1979Spanish; English
Adrienne Rich
- Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
1993English
Collected Poems 1948-184
1986; selections from In a Green Light: Poems 1948-1960, 1962; Selected Poems, 1964; Castaway and Other Poems, 1965; The Gulf and Other Poems, 1969; Another Life, 1973; Sea Graves, 1976; The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979; The Fortunate Traveller, 1981; Midsummer, 1984English
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
1990; selections from Death of a Naturalist, 1966; Door Into the Dark, 1969; Wintering Out, 1972; Stations, 1975; North, 1975; Field Work, 1979; Sweeney Astray, 1983; Station Island, 1984; The Haw Lantern, 1987English
- Joseph Brodsky
Chast' Rechi: Stikhotvoreniia 1972-76
A Part of Speech
1977Russian