Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading: 500 Great Books to Be Enjoyed Over 50 Years [1982]
1121 entries: 967 monographical, 154 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically
A Lifetime's Reading, as the author notes, is "divided into fifty chapters, or 'years', to give the reader who requires it a discipline according to which he can pace himself." As with most of the other book-as-list projects documented here (Powys, Van Doren, Fadiman, Dirda, Newman) the work or works noted in the section headings within each chapter do not always capture which works in particular Ward recommends; or, rather, in the section text, he recommends further books as clearly as he does that or those in the section heading. Again, we want to avoid being too liberal in the inclusion of texts or misrepresent Ward's recommendations; but at Greater Books, for these books-as-lists the final result should clearly represent what is in the whole book, not just chapter or section headings.
The biographical blurb included in the bookleaves us unsurprised that Ward's list is one of the few truly-global selections of "great books". A librarian who worked for a variety of institutions in England, Indonesia, Libya, and elsewhere, he wrote not just about literature but also Tripoli: A Portrait of a City and other travel books as well as The Book of Common Fallacies: Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life.
Year 1:
Lewis Carroll
- The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
1920; includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865]; Phantasmagoria and Other Poems [1869]; Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There [1871]; The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits [1876]; A Tangled Tale [1880-5]; Sylvie and Bruno [1889; 1893]; Three Sunsets and Other Poems [1898]; other worksEnglish
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865English
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
1869English
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
1871English
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits
1876English
- A Tangled Tale
originally published serially Apr. 1880-Mar. 1885 in the Monthly PacketEnglish
- Sylvie and Bruno
originally published in two volumes: Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893English
- Three Sunsets and Other Poems
1898English
- Symbolic Logic
1896English
- The Game of Logic
1887English
- Pillow Problems Thought Out During Wakeful Hours
1893English
Plato
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- The Bible
Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin BlayneyHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
Václav Havel
- Zahradní Slavnost
The Garden Party
1963Czech
- Vyrozumění
The Memorandum
1965Czech
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- Sha Naqba Imuru
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B CSumerian; Akkadian
Cornelius Tacitus
- Annales
written First CenturyLatin
- Historiae
written ca. 100-10Latin
Selected Poems
1971; edited by Ewald OsersLachian
- Ernst Gombrich
The Story of Art
1950English
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- Poem Into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation
1970; edited by George Steinervaried languages
- Pierre Abélard
Historia Calamitatum
written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'ArgenteuilLatin
Year 2:
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121Latin
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh CenturyJapanese
William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet
ca. 1591-97English
- Hamlet
1602English
- All's Well That Ends Well
ca. 1606-08English
- Troilus and Cressida
ca. 1602-09English
- Othello
ca. 1604English
- Measure for Measure
1604English
- King Lear
1606English
- Macbeth
ca. 1607English
- Antony and Cleopatra
ca. 1606-08English
- Coriolanus
written ca. 1605-08English
- Timon of Athens
written ca. 1607English
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
ca. 1606-08English
Complete Letters
1958Dutch; French; English
Maxim Gorky
- Na Dne. The Lower Depths and Other Plays
1959; English translations by Alexander Bakshy and Paul S NathanRussian
- Na Dne
The Lower Depths
1902Russian
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1961; includes Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep [1816]; selections from Biographia Literaria, 1817; and other poemsEnglish
- Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep
1816English
- John Livingston Lowes
The Road to Xanadu
1966English
- A J A Symons
The Quest for Corvo
1944English
- Lín Yǔtáng
The Importance of Living
Shēnghuó de Yishù
1937English
- Aeschylus
Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
Year 3:
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876English
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
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1959; English translations by Edward Conze
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
Ramón Goómez de la Serna
- Greguerís. Selección, 1910-1960
1977Spanish
- Automoribundia
1948Spanish
William Trevor
- The Love Department
1966English
- The Children of Dynmouth
1976English
- Teresa of Ávila
La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús
1588Spanish
- Apuleius
Metamorphoseon
Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
Second CenturyLatin
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1955English
- Arrian
Anabasis Alexandri
Second CenturyGreek
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
1981; includes all of the Sherlock Holmes novels and storiesEnglish
- A Study in Scarlet
originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas AnnualEnglish
- The Sign of the Four
originally published Feb. 1890 in Lippincott's MonthlyEnglish
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902; originally published serially Aug. 1901-Apr. 1902 in the StrandEnglish
- The Valley of Fear
1915; originally published serially Sep. 1914-Feb. 1915 in the StrandEnglish
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892; stories originally published Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the StrandEnglish
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1894; originally published 1892-3 in the StrandEnglish
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1905; stories originally published 1903-4 in the StrandEnglish
- His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
1917; stories originally published Sep. 1908-Dec. 1913 in the Strand; except one published Sep. 1917 in Collier's WeeklyEnglish
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
1927; stories originally published Oct. 1921-Apr. 1927 in the StrandEnglish
Year 4:
- The Penguin Book of French Verse
1975; edited by Brian Woledge, Geoffrey Brereton, and Anthony HartleyFrench
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- Talmud
Shas
ca. Second-Fifth centuriesAramaic; Hebrew
- Gustave Flaubert
L'Éducation Sentimentale
1869French
Sylvia Plath
- The Colossus and Other Poems
1960English
- The Bell Jar
originally published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, 1963English
- Ariel
1965; revised 2004English
- Winter Trees
1971English
- Crossing the Water
1971English
- Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963
1975English
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
1977; expanded later editionEnglish
Pierre Beaumarchais
- Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution Inutile
1775French
- La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro
1784French
- La Mère Coupable
1794French
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8Latin
- Jean de la Fontaine
Fables
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694French
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
- Maurice Bowra
Primitive Song
1962English
- Franz Boas
Primitive Art
1927—English
Charles Dickens
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
- A Christmas Carol
1843—English
Year 5:
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
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
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
Albert Camus
1961; includes L'Étranger; La Peste; La Chute; L'Exil et le Royaume [1957]French
- L'Étranger
The Stranger
1942French
- La Peste
The Plague
1947French
- La Chute
The Fall
1956French
- L'Exil et le Royaume
Exile and the Kingdom
1957French
Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
1907English
- Under Western Eyes
1911English
François Villon
Fifteenth CenturyFrench
- Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades
1489French
- Simǎ Qiān
Shǐjì
The Records of the Grand Historian
written 109-91 B CChinese
Reiner Kunze
- Sensible Wege
1969German
- Zimmerlautstärke
1972German
- Der Löwe Leopold, Fast Märchen, Fast Geschichten
1970German
- Die Wunderbaren Jahre
The Lovely Years
1976German
Molière
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
The Misanthrope
1666French
- Le Sicilien ou L'Amour Peintre
1667French
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664French
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666French
- Le Malade Imaginaire
The Imaginary Invalid
1673French
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668French
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1670French
- Les Fourberies de Scapin
1671French
- L'Amour Médecin
1665French
- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre
1660French
- Boris Pasternak
Dóktor Živágo
Doctor Zhivago
Italian translation, 1957; original Russian, 1958Russian
Voltaire
- Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
- Zadig
1747French
- L'Ingénu, Histoire Veritable, Tiree des Manuscrits du Père Quefnel
1767French
1963; edited by Theodore BestermanFrench
- Pliny the Younger
Epistulae
First CenturyLatin
Year 6:
1960; edited by Stanley Burnshaw; anthology of poems by 45 writersFrench; Italian; Spanish; Portuguese; German
Max Frisch
- Andorra
1961German
- Stiller
I'm Not Stiller
1954German
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- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Der Besuch der Alten Dame
The Visit
1956German
- Die Physiker
The Physicists
1962German
Émile Zola
- Thérèse Raquin
originally published serially 1867 in L'ArtisteFrench
- L'Assommoir
1877French
- Germinal
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil BlasFrench
Edgar Allan Poe
- Complete Stories and Poems
1966English
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket
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 PymEnglish
originally published 1839 in the The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present and Oct. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's MagazineEnglish
- '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, 1840English
- '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, 1843English
- 'The Cask of Amontillado'
originally published Nov. 1846 in Godey's Lady BookEnglish
Honoré de Balzac
collective name for 91 finished and 46 unfinished works; Nineteenth CenturyFrench
- Eugénie Grandet
1833French
- Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
- La Cousine Bette
originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1846 in Le ConstitutionnelFrench
- Le Cousin Pons
1848French
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
- Groza
The Storm
1859Russian
- Les
The Forest
1871Russian
- Svoi Lyudi Sochtemsya
It's a Family Affair
1850Russian
G K Chesterton
1929; includes The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Incredulity of Father Brown; The Secret of Father BrownEnglish
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill
1904English
- The Man Who Was Thursday
1908English
Year 7:
- The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
1962; edited by Frederick BrittainLatin
Nagai Kafu
- Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings
1965; biography and English translations by Edward SeidenstickerJapanese
- Sumidagawa
Sumida River
1911—Japanese
Titus Maccius Plautus
- Amphitryo
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Persa
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Menaechmi
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Cistellaria
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Miles Gloriosus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Mostellaria
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Epidicus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Mercator
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Curculio
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Pseudolus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Casina
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Captivi
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Bacchides
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Asinaria
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Aulularia
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Rudens
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Truculentus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Trinummus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Stichus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Poenulus
Third-early Second centuries B CLatin
- Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita
El Libro de Buen Amor
written 1330-43Spanish
Marcus Tullius Cicero
1965; English translations by Michael Grant; includes Cato Major de SenectuteLatin
- Cato Major de Senectute
written 44 B CLatin
- Charles Singer
A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century
1941English
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
--
1969; English translations by F J Lamport; includes Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Emilia Galotti; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Egmont; Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart; Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea; Franz Grillparzer's MedeaGerman
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Emilia Galotti
1772German
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Egmont
1788German
- Friedrich Schiller
Maria Stuart
1800German
- Heinrich von Kleist
Penthesilea
1808German
- Franz Grillparzer
Medea
1821German
- 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
Year 8:
Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology
1966; English translations by Cecil SpriggeItalian
Carlo Goldoni
- La Locandiera
1753Italian
- I Rusteghi
1760Italian
- Il Ventaglio
1764Italian
--
- Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975
1976; edited by Issa J BoullataArabic
- Dino Buzzati
Il Deserto dei Tartari
1940Italian
- Giorgio Vasari
Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, e Architettori da Cimabue Insino a' Tempi Nostri
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; The Lives of the Artists
1550; expanded 1568Italian
- Bernard Berenson
The Italian Painters of the Renaissance
1930; published in part as The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (co-written with Mary Berenson), 1894; The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 1896; The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1897; North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1907—English
- Catullus
Poems
First Century B CLatin
Luigi Pirandello
- Il Fu Mattia Pascal
1904Italian
- Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921Italian
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
Dante
- La Vita Nuova
1295Italian
- De Vulgari Eloquentia
written ca. 1302-05Latin
- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
The Red and the Black
1830French
Year 9:
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth CenturyChinese
- Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
Autobiography
written 1558-62Italian
William Shakespeare
- Sonnets
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599English
- The Rape of Lucrece
1594English
- Venus and Adonis
1593English
Italo Calvino
- Il Visconte Dimezzato
The Cloven Viscount
1952Italian
- Il Barone Rampante
The Baron in the Trees
1957Italian
- Il Cavaliere Inesistente
The Nonexistent Knight
1959Italian
- Stendhal
Le Chartreuse de Parme
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
Giacomo Leopardi
- Canti
1835Italian
- Operette Morali
1827—Italian
- Pensieri di Varia Filosofia e Bella Letteratura
Zibaldone
1898—Italian
--
1974; edited by Daniel WeissbortRussian
Year 10:
- Medieval Literature in Translation
1950; edited by Charles W JonesLatin et al.
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
William Shakespeare
- The First Part of Henry VI
ca. 1592English
- The Second Part of Henry VI
ca. 1592English
- The Third Part of Henry VI
ca. 1592English
- Richard III
ca. 1592-7English
- The First Part of Henry IV
1597English
- Richard II
1597English
- King John
ca. 1598English
- Henry V
1599English
- The Second Part of Henry IV
1600English
- Henry VIII
ca. 1613English
- Pablo Neruda
Canto General
1950; English translation of 'Alturas de Machu Picchu', the second canto, published 1948 in the Tiger's Eye and 1950 in Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other PoemsSpanish
- Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
1901German
- Tirso de Molina
El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra
ca. 1630Spanish
--
- "Songs of the Provençal Tradition"
Twelfth CenturyFrench
- Camilo José Cela
Viaje a la Alcarria
1948Spanish
- Pú Sōngling
Liáozhāi Zhìyì
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
written ca. late Seventeenth Century; published 1766Chinese
- Antonio Machado
Juan de Mairena
Sentencias, Donaires, Apuntes y Recuerdos de un Profesor Apórifo
1936Spanish
Year 11:
Lope de Vega
- Arcadia
1598Spanish
- Pastores de Belen: Prosas y Versos Divinos
1614Spanish
- Novelas a Marcia Leonarda
originally published in four volumes: Las Fortunas de Diana, 1621; La Desdicha por la Honra, 1624; La Más Prudente Venganza, 1624; Guzmán el Bravo, 1624Spanish
- La Dorotea
1632Spanish
- Peribáñez and the Comendador of Ocaña
ca. 1604-14Spanish
- Fuenteovejuna
1619Spanish
- El Perro del Hortelano
1613Spanish
- El Caballero de Olmedo
written ca. 1620Spanish
- El Castigo sin Venganza
Lost in a Mirror
written 1631Spanish
- Wáng Chōng
Lùnhéng
Balanced Inquiries; Critical Essays
80Chinese
San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross)
- La Noche Oscura del Alma
Dark Night of the Soul
written 1578-79 and 1584-85Spanish
- Cántico Espiritual
written 1577-84Spanish
Spanish
William Shakespeare
- The Comedy of Errors
1594English
- The Taming of the Shrew
ca. 1592-94English
- Love's Labour Lost
1598English
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
ca. 1595-1600English
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ca. 1590-94English
- The Merchant of Venice
ca. 1596-98English
- Much Ado About Nothing
ca. 1598-99English
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
ca. 1597-1602English
- As You Like It
1603English
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
1602English
- All's Well That Ends Well
ca. 1606-08English
- The Tempest
1611English
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967Spanish
- José Eustacio Rivera
La Vorágine
The Vortex
1924Spanish
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
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- The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
1956Spanish
--
- Panchatantra
Pancatranta
attributed to Vishnu Sharma; ca. Third Century B CSanskrit
Jorge Luis Borges
- Ficciones
originally published 1941, entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan; expanded 1944 and 1956Spanish
- El Aleph
1949; expanded 1952Spanish
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
La Invención de Morel
1940—Spanish
- Ricardo Güiraldes
Don Segundo Sombra
1926—Spanish
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
First CenturyLatin
Year 12:
Gil Vicente
- Quem Tem Farelos?
1515Portuguese
- Auto da Índia
1509Portuguese
- O Velho da Horta
1512Portuguese
- Auto dos Físicos
1512Portuguese
Tanizaki Junichiro
- Tade Ku Mushi
Some Prefer Nettles
originally published serially 1928-29Japanese
- Sasameyuki
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948Japanese
- Luís Vaz de Camões
Os Lusíadas
1572Portuguese
- Konstantin Paustovsky
Povest' o Žizni
Story of a Life
originally published in six volumes, 1946-1963Russian
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
- O Crime do Padre Amaro
1875; revised 1876 and 1880Portuguese
- O Primo Basílio
1878Portuguese
- Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica
1888Portuguese
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
- A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems
1977; English translations by David RubinHindustani
- 'Chatrapati Sivaji ka Patra'
1922Hindustani
- Kulli Bhat
1939—Hindustani
- Billesur Bakriha
1941—Hindustani
Sumitranandan Pant
- Svarnkiran
A Golden Ray
1946—Hindustani
- Svarndhuli
Golden Dust
1948—Hindustani
- Lokayatan
The House of the People
1964—Hindustani
- Alves Redol
A Barca dos Sete Lemes
1958Portuguese
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Ars Poetica
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
- Longinus
Perì Hýpsous
On the Sublime
ca. First CenturyGreek
Selected works
unspecified selectionPortuguese
- 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
Year 13:
- The Penguin Book of German Verse
1959German
- 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
Harold Pinter
- The Caretaker
1960English
- The Room
1957English
- The Dumb Waiter
1959; originally performed in GermanEnglish
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens Eines Seltsamen Vaganten, Genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim
1669German
- Wáng Wéi
Wang Yu-ch'eng Chi Chien-chu
Seventh CenturyChinese
Bertolt Brecht
- Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan
The Good Woman of Szechuan
1943German
- Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1948German
- Die Dreigroschenoper
The Threepenny Opera
1928—German
- Happy End
1929—German
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1930—German
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
Victor Hugo
- Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831French
- Hernani
1830French
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- East German Poetry: An Anthology
1972; edited by Michael HamburgerGerman
Albert Schweitzer
- Zwischen Wasser und Urwald
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
1920German
- Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
1924German
- Aus Meinem Leben und Denken
Out of My Life and Thought
1931German
- Das Urwaldspital zu Lambaréné
More From the Primeval Forest
1931German
Year 14:
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877Russian
Poems: A Bilingual Edition
1980; English translations by Michael HamburgerGerman
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- The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History With a Selection of Texts
1957; edited by G S Kirk and J E Raven
Friedrich Schiller
- Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien
1787German
- Briefe Über Don Carlos
1788German
- Shī Nài'ān
Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn
The Water Margin
written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Elektra
1909German
- Jedermann
1911German
- Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
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- Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas
1972; edited by Jerome Rothenberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833German
- Italienische Reise
Italian Journey
1816-17—German
- Paul Klee
Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre
originally published in two volumes: Das Bildnerische Denken, 1956; Unendliche Naturgeschichte, 1964—German
- Wassily Kandinsky
Über das Geistige in der Kunst: Insbesondere in der Malerei
1912—German
Year 15:
Franz Kafka
- Die Verwandlung
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen BlätterGerman
- Beschreibung Eines Kampfes
Description of a Struggle and Other Stories
1931German
- Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande
Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
1953German
- Herman Hesse
Das Glasperlenspiel
1943German
- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Fernando de Rojas
Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
La Celestina
1499Spanish
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Twentieth CenturyGerman
- Der Untergang der Titanic
The Sinking of the Titanic
1978German
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
Gerhart Hauptmann
1961; English translations by Theodore H LustigGerman
- Die Weber
1892German
- Hanneles Himmelfahrt
1893German
- Der Biberpelz
1893German
- Führmann Henschell
1898German
- Rose Bernd
1903German
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesGerman
- Westöstlicher Diwan
The West-Eastern Divan
1819; revised 1827German
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions
1782French
- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
The Social Contract
1762French
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation
1762French
Year 16:
- The Penguin Book of Greek Verse
1962; edited by Constantine A TrypanisGreek
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- Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations
1957; English translations by P Lal; includes The Dream of Vasavadatta; The Recognition of Sakuntala; The Little Clay Cart; Ratnavali; The Story of Rama's Later Life; The Signet of the MinisterSanskrit
- Bhasa
Svapnavasavadattam
The Dream of Vasavadatta
ca. Second Century B C-Second CenturySanskrit
- Kalidasa
Abhijnanasakuntalam
The Recognition of Sakuntala
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
- Sudraka
Mrcchakatika
The Little Clay Cart
ca. Second Century B C-Fifth CenturySanskrit
- Harsha
Ratnavali
ca. early Seventh CenturySanskrit
- Bhavabhuti
Uttararamacharita
The Story of Rama's Later Life
Eighth CenturySanskrit
- Vishakhadatta
Mudrarakshasa
The Signet of the Minister
ca. Fourth-Eighth centuriesSanskrit
- Pausanias
Description of Greece
Second CenturyGreek
- Homer
Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
1913English
- Aristotle
Politik
Politics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Plato
Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Shījīng
Shih-Ching; The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes
one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; Eleventh-Seventh centuries B CChinese
Poems
early Twentieth CenturyRussian
Year 17:
Xenophon
- Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Anabasis
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Hellenica
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Kúrou Paideía
Cryopaedia
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Memorabilia
Apomnemoneumata
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Symposium
early Fourth Century B CGreek
Robert Burns
1971; edited by James KinsleyEnglish
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1786English
- The Merry Muses of Caledonia
1799English
Euripides
- Alkēstis
Alcestis
438 B CGreek
- Mēdeia
Medea
431 B CGreek
- Hērakleidai
Heracleidae; Herakles' Children
c. 430 B CGreek
- Hippolytos
428 B CGreek
- Andromache
ca. 428-25 B CGreek
- Hēkabē
Hecuba
written ca. 424 B CGreek
- Hiketides
The Suppliants
423 B CGreek
- Hēraklēs Mainomenos
Herakles
ca. 416 B CGreek
- Trōiades
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
- Iphigeneia en Taurois
Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
- Iōn
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
- Helenē
412 B CGreek
- Phoinissai
Phoenician Women
written c. 408Greek
- Orestēs
408 B CGreek
- Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
- Iphigeneia en Aulidi
Iphigeneia in Aulis
405 B CGreek
- Kyklōps
Cyclops
late Fifth Century B CGreek
- Rhēsos
Rhesus
late Fifth Century B CGreek
Notebooks
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesItalian
Letters
three extant letters, part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
Heinrich von Kleist
early Nineteenth CenturyGerman
- Prinz Friedrich von Homburg Oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin
1821German
- Homer
Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
- Yotsugi Soga
The Soga Successors
1683Japanese
- Sonezaki no Shinju
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
1703Japanese
- Shinju Mannenso
The Love Suicides in the Women's Temple
1710Japanese
- Meido no Hikyaku
The Courier for Hell
1711Japanese
- Kokusen'ya Kassen
The Battles of Coxinga
1715Japanese
- Nebiki no Kadomatsu
The Uprooted Pine
1718Japanese
- Onnagoroshi Abura no Jigoku
The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil
1721Japanese
- Shinju Ten no Amijima
The Love Suicides at Amijima
1721Japanese
- Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi
1721Japanese
- Tamba Yosaku Machiyo no Komurobushi
1721Japanese
- Yari no Gonza
1721Japanese
- Hakata Kojoro Namimakura
1721Japanese
Sophocles
- Antigone
ca. 441 B CGreek
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B CGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
- Aias
Ajax
ca. 450-430 B CGreek
- Philoktētēs
Philocetes
409 B CGreek
- Trachiniai
The Trachiniae; The Women of Trachis
ca. 450-420 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
ca. 410-400 B CGreek
Year 18:
- Somadeva
Katha-sarit-sagara
Eleventh CenturySanskrit
Poems
Twentieth CenturyTurkish
- Saadi Shirazi
Gullistan
written 1258Persian
- Fuzuli
Dastan-i Leyli vu Mecnun
The Epic of Layla and Majnun
Sixteenth CenturyTurkish
- Evliya Celebi
Seyahatname
Book of Travels
Seventeenth CenturyPersian
Rumi
- Masnavi-l Ma'navi
Mathnavi
written ca. 1258-73Persian
- Fihi Ma Fihi
Thirteenth CenturyPersian
Oliver Goldsmith
- The Vicar of Wakefield
1766English
- She Stoops to Conquer
1773English
- The Deserted Village
1770English
George Crabbe
- The Village
1783English
- The Borough
1810English
- Sadegh Hedayat
Boof e-Kor
The Blind Owl
1937Persian
Divan
early Twentieth CenturyTurkish
Divan
Fourteenth CenturyPersian
Year 19:
- Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
1964; edited by James KritzeckArabic; Turkish; Persian
Jean-Paul Sartre
- La Nausée
Nausea
1938French
- L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
Being and Nothingness
1943—French
- Les Mouches
The Flies
1943—French
- Les Séquestrés d'Altona
1959—French
- Les Mots
1964—French
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- Quran
Koran
Seventh CenturyArabic
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
- Andria
166 B CLatin
- Hecrya
165 B CLatin
- Heauton Timorumenos
163 B CLatin
- Phormio
161 B CLatin
- Eunuchus
161 B CLatin
- Adelphi
160 B CLatin
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- Muallaqat
The Seven Odes
compiled Eighth CenturyArabic
Richard Francis Burton
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah
1855English
- Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains
1863English
- A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé
1864English
- The Gold-Mines of Midian
1878English
- The Land of Midian (Revisited)
1879English
Procopius
- De Bellis
Wars of Justinian
written ca. 545Greek
- Peri Ktismaton
De Aedificiis
written ca. 557Greek
- Anekdota
Historia Arcana
written ca. 550-60Greek
- Ibn Hazm
Tawq al-Hamamah
The Ring of the Dove
written ca. 1022Arabic
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
The Roman Sonnets of G G Belli
1960; English translations by Howard NorseItalian
- Ibn Battuta
Ar-Rihla
The Journey
Fourteenth CenturyArabic
Year 20:
Arthur Rimbaud
late Nineteenth CenturyFrench
- 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
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuriesArabic
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari
Ninth CenturyArabic
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Sahih Muslim
Ninth CenturyArabic
Daniel Defoe
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe
originally anonymously published 1719English
- Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World
originally anonymously published 1720English
- Johann David Wyss
Der Schweizerische Robinson
1812—German
Ibn Khaldun
- Kitab al-Ibar
Fourteenth CenturyArabic
- Muqaddimah
Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-IbarArabic
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-5German
- Al-Hariri of Basra
Maqamat al-Hariri
Eleventh CenturyArabic
- Izumo Takeda, Shoraku Miyoshi, and Senryu Namiki
Kanadehon Chushingura
The Treasure of Loyal Retainers
1748Japanese
- Lucan
De Bello Civili
Pharsalia
written 61-65Latin
Year 21:
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Aus dem Leben Eines Taugenichts
1826German
Al-Jahiz
- Kitab al-Hayawan
The Book of Animals
Ninth CenturyArabic
- Kitab al-Bukhala
The Book of Misers
Ninth CenturyArabic
- Kitab al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin
The Book of Eloquence and Demonstration
Ninth CenturyArabic
Poems
early Ninth CenturyChinese
Al-Ghazali
- Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal
Deliverance From Error
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuriesArabic
- Ihya Ulum al-Din
The Revival of Religious Sciences
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuriesArabic
- Tahafut al-Falasifa
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuriesArabic
- Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Tahafut al-Tahafut
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Twelfth Century—Arabic
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- The Story of Sinuhe
ca. Twentieth Century B CEgyptian
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
My
We
English translation, 1924; Russian original, 1952Russian
Henry Adams
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
1913English
- The Education of Henry Adams
1918English
Poems
early Twentieth CenturyHebrew
- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
Poems
1967; edited by A J Arberry; written Tenth CenturyArabic
- Harry Elmer Barnes
A History of Historical Writing
1938English
Year 22:
- The Penguin Book of Russian Verse
1962; edited by Dimitri ObolenskyRussian
- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
William Blake
- The Complete Writings of William Blake With Variant Readings
1957; revised 1966; edited by Geoffrey Keynes; includes Poetical Sketches; All Religions Are One; There Is No Natural Religion; Tiriel; Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; The French Revolution; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; The Gates of Paradise; America a Prophecy; Europe a Prophecy; The Book of Urizen; The Song of Los; The Book of Los; The Book of Ahania; Vala, or The Four Zoas; Milton; Jerusalem; The Everlasting Gospel; On Homers Poetry; On Virgil; The Ghost of Abel; 'An Island in the Moon'; and other worksEnglish
- Poetical Sketches
1783English
- All Religions Are One
written ca. 1788English
- There Is No Natural Religion
written ca. 1788English
- Tiriel
written ca. 1789; originally published as part of The Poetical Works of William Blake, 1874English
- Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
- The Book of Thel
written 1789-90English
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
written 1790English
- The French Revolution
1791English
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion
1793English
- For Children: The Gates of Paradise
1793; revised 1820 and retitled, For the Sexes: The Gates of ParadiseEnglish
- America a Prophecy
1793English
- Europe a Prophecy
1794English
- The Book of Urizen
originally entitled The First Book of Urizen, published 1794English
- The Song of Los
1795English
- The Book of Los
1795English
- The Book of Ahania
1795English
- Vala, or The Four Zoas
written ca. 1797-1807English
- Milton, a Poem in 2 Books
written ca. 1804-11English
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
1820; written ca. 1804-20English
- The Everlasting Gospel
written ca. 1818English
- On Homers Poetry; On Virgil
ca. 1822English
- The Ghost of Abel
1822English
Anton Chekhov
- P'esa Bez Nazvaniâ
That Worthless Fellow Platonov
1881Russian
- Ivanov
1887Russian
- Lešij
The Wood Demon
1889Russian
- Čajka
The Seagull
1896Russian
- Dâdâ Vanâ
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
- Tri Sestry
Three Sisters
1901Russian
- Višhnëvyj Sad
The Cherry Orchard
1904Russian
- Patanjali
Yoga Sutras
ca. Second Century B CSanskrit
- Marco Polo; Rustichello da Pisa
Livre des Merveilles du Monde
ca. 1300French
- Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov
1859Russian
- Chomei Kamo
Hojoki
An Account of My Hut
written 1212Japanese
Year 23:
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
Charles Lamb
- Essays of Elia
1823; originally published serially 1820-25 in the London MagazineEnglish
- Last Essays of Elia
1833; originally published serially 1820-25 in the London MagazineEnglish
Isaak Babel
1960; English translations by Walter MorrisonRussian
- Konarmiâ
Red Cavalry
published in part serially 1923-24 in LEFRussian
- Odesskie Rasskazy
The Odessa Tales
originally published serially 1923-24 in Krasnaâ Nov' and LEFRussian
- Norbert Lynton
The Story of Modern Art
1980English
Ivan Turgenev
- Otcy i Deti
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Pervaâ Lûbov'
First Love
1860—Russian
- Vešnie Vody
Torrents of Spring
1872—Russian
- Stihotvoreniâ v Proze
originally published in Vestnik Evropy, 1882—Russian
Divan
Nineteenth CenturyHindustani; Persian
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj MîrRussian
Kukai
- Kukai and His Major Works
1972; English translations by Yoshito S HakedaJapanese
- Jujushinron
Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Development of the Mind
830Japanese
- Alexander Pushkin
Evgénij Onegin
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837Russian
Year 24:
- Sources of Chinese Tradition
1964; edited by William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, and Burton WatsonChinese
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- Queste del Saint Graal
early Thirteenth CenturyFrench
--
- Anthology of Chinese Literature
two volumes: 1965 and 1967; edited by Cyril BirchChinese
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
Poems
Eighth CenturyChinese
- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
Federico García Lorca
- Bodas de Sangre
Blood Wedding
1933Spanish
- Yerma
1934Spanish
- La Casa de Bernarda Alba
The House of Bernarda Alba
written 1936; published 1945Spanish
- Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
Alexander Kuprin
The Garnet Brothers
includes Poedinok [1905]; 'Moloch'; and other worksRussian
- Poedinok
The Duel
1905Russian
1896Russian
Selected Works
1965Chinese
Year 25:
- Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
Mèng Zǐ
Mencius; Meng Tzu
Fourth Century B CChinese
Federico García Lorca
early Twentieth CenturySpanish
- Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1935Spanish
--
1962; English translations by James Legge; includes the Tao te ChingChinese
- Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjǐng
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B CChinese
- Li Ying-Chang
Tàishàng Gǎnyìng Piān
T'ai-shang Kan-ying P'ien; Lao Tse's Treatise on the Response of the Tao; Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution
Twelfth Century—Chinese
- Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)
Zhuāngzī
Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
ca. Third Century B C—Chinese
John Keats
1958; edited by H W GarrodEnglish
- Endymion
1818—English
- 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 SocietyEnglish
- Lánlíng Xiàoxiào Shēng
Jīn Píng Méi
The Golden Lotus; The Plum in the Golden Vase
1610; author's identity unknown, given name is a pseudonymChinese
Poems
Eighth CenturyChinese
- Wú Jìngzǐ
Rúlínwùishi
The Scholars
written ca. 1750Chinese
Arthur Schopenhauer
- Parerga and Paraliopomena
1851German
- Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
The World as Will and Idea
originally published in two volumes, 1819 and 1844—German
Lǔ Xùn (Lu Hsün)
four volumesChinese
- Yě Cǎo
Wild Grass
originally published serially 1924-27 in Threads of Talk—Chinese
Year 26:
- Sources of Indian Tradition
1964; edited by William Theodore de Bary, Stephen N Hay, Royal Weiler, and Andrew Yarrow
--
- El Cantar de Mio Cid
written ca. 1195-1207Spanish
Bhagavad Gita
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
Augustine of Hippo
- Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
- De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
City of God
426Latin
--
1968; English translations by John BroughSanskrit
- Premchand
Godan
The Gift of a Cow
1936Hindustani
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
- De Secreto Conflictu Curarum Mearum
Secretum
written ca. 1347-53Latin
- Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
Il Canzoniere
1374Italian
- I Trionfi
ca. 1351-74Italian
- Africa
written ca. 1337-43Latin
--
- Saddharma Pundarika Sutra
Lotus Sutra
ca. First Century B C-Second CenturySanskrit
- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
1929English
- Mohandas K Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments With the Truth
originally published serially 1925-9 in NavijanGujarati
Year 27:
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
- Khushal Khan Khatak (Khushal Baba)
Divan
Seventeenth CenturyPashto
- E M Forster
A Passage to India
1924English
--
- Dhammapada
part of the Khuddaka Nikaya, fifth of five nikayas in the Sutta Pitaka; written ca. Third Century B CPali
--
- Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays
1969; English translations by Michael Benedikt and George E WellwarthSpanish
- Abe Kobo
Suna no Onna
The Woman in the Dunes
1962Japanese
Poems
Twentieth CenturyHindustani
- Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel
The Tin Drum
1959German
- Vatsayana
Kama Sutra
ca. Fourth-Third centuries B CSanskrit
Robert Lowell
- Life Studies
1959English
- Near the Ocean
1967English
- Notebook 1967-68
1969; revised and expanded as Notebook, 1970English
- History
1973English
- For Lizzie and Harriet
1973English
- The Dolphin
1973English
- Day by Day
1977English
Year 28:
- Valmiki
Ramayana
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
--
Seventh-Fourth centuries B CSanskrit
Jeremy Bentham
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789English
- Fragment on Government
1776English
--
- Contemporary Indonesian Poetry
1975; English translations by Harry AvelingMalay
Pio Baroja
- Las Inquietudes de Shanti Andía
1911Spanish
- El Laberinto de las Sirenas
1923Spanish
- La Estrella del Capitán Chimista
1930Spanish
- Los Pilotos de Altura
1931Spanish
- Desde la Última Vuelta del Camino
1944Spanish
Complete Poetry and Prose
1970; English translations by Burton Raffel; includes Deru Campur Debu [1949]; Kerikil-Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus [1949]; Tiga Menguak Takdir [1950]Malay
- Deru Campur Debu
1949Malay
- Kerikil-Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus
1949Malay
- Tiga Menguak Takdir
1950Malay
--
1952; English translations by Helen WaddellLatin
- Helen Waddell
The Wandering Scholars
1927English
- Kautilya (Chanakya) (Vishnu Gupta)
Arthashastra
Fourth-Third centuries B CSanskrit
- Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (Takasue's Daughter) (Lady Sarashina)
Sarashina Nikki
Japanese
- Mother of Michitsuna
Kagero Nikki
The Gossamer Years
written ca. 974—Japanese
- Baldassare Castiglione
Il Cortegiano
1528Italian
Year 29:
- Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
1973; edited by George S FraserPunjabi
--
- Guru Granth Sahib
Adi Granth
written ca. Fifteenth-Sixteenth centuriesPunjabi
Guy de Maupassant
1970French
- Une Vie
1883—French
- Pierre et Jean
originally published serially 1888—French
--
- A Celtic Miscellany: Translations From the Celtic
1971; English translations by Kenneth Hurlstone JacksonCeltic
James Boswell
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
1950—English
- Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, Including the Correspondence With Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)
1952—English
- Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764
1953—English
- Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766
1955—English
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1785—English
Samuel Johnson
- A Dictionary of the English Language
1755—English
- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759—English
- Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
The Lives of the Poets
published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets, 1781; complete work published separately 1781 in six volumes, retitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works—English
- Hóng Shēng
Chángshēng Diàn
Ch'ang-sheng Tian; The Palace of Eternal Life
late Seventeenth Century—Chinese
François de la Rochefoucauld
- Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
originally anonymously published 1665French
- Mémoires
French
Rainer Maria Rilke
- Duineser Elegien
The Duino Elegies
1923German
- Die Sonette an Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
1923German
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Gospoda Golovlëvy
The Golovlyov Family
published in part serially 1875-6 and 1880 in Otečestvennye ZapiskiRussian
Poems
Fifteenth CenturyHindustani
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- De Providentia
Latin
- De Clementia
written 55-56Latin
- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Epigrams
86-103—Latin
- Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
Insitutio Oratoria
ca. 95—Latin
Year 30:
- An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature Up to 1815
1970; edited by C H B ReynoldsSinhalese
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Il Gattopardo
The Leopard
1958Italian
- I Racconti
1961Italian
- Ananta Badu Chandidas
Srikrishna Kirtan
Love Songs of Chandidas
Fourteenth CenturyBengali
- Lucian
Verae Historiae
True History
Second CenturyGreek
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- Milinda Panha
Questions of Milinda
written ca. Second Century B C-Second CenturyPali
Sándor Petőfi
1973; English translations by Anton N NyergesHungarian
- János Vitéz
written 1845Hungarian
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Pother Pachali
Pather Pancali; 1929Bengali
Francis Bacon
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human
1605English
- Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620English
- Bilhana
Caurapancasika
Eleventh CenturySanskrit
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- Okagami
The Great Mirror
Japanese
Year 31:
Desiderius Erasmus
- Stultitiae Laus
In Praise of Folly
1511; revisedLatin
- Colloquia Familiaria
1518-33Latin
Friedrich Hölderlin
1961; English translations by Michael HamburgerGerman
- Friedrich Hölderlin
Hyperion Oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
originally published in two volumes, 1797 and 1799—German
- Jakob Rosenberg
Rembrandt: Life and Work
1964English
Blaise Pascal
- Lettres Provinciales
1656-57French
- Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
--
- A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
1975; English translations by N N Bich, B Raffel, and W S MerwinVietnamese
- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
Ethics
1677Latin
Emil Cioran
- Précis de Décomposition
1949French
- La Tentation d'Exister
1956French
- La Chute dans le Temps
1964French
- Le Mauvais Démiurge
1969French
Francisco de Quevedo
- Sueños y Discursos de Verdades Descubridoras de Abusos, Vicios y Engaños en Todos los Oficios del Mundo
Dreams
1627Spanish
- Historia de la Vida del Buscón, Llamado Don Pablos, Ejemplo de Vagamundos y Espejo de Tacaños
El Buscón
1626Spanish
--
- Poetry of the Netherlands in Its European Context, 1170-1930
1960; English translations by Theodoor WeeversDutch
- Yoshida Kenko
Tsurezuregusa
Essays in Idleness
written 1330-32Japanese
Year 32:
Robert Musil
- Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften
The Man Without Qualities
originally published in three volumes: 1930, 1933, and 1943German
T S Eliot
- Collected Poems, 1909-1962
1936; expanded 1963; includes Prufrock and Other Observations [1917]; Poems: 1920 [1920]; 'The Waste Land'; 'The Hollow Men'; Ash Wednesday [1930]; Journey of the Magi [1927]; A Song for Simeon [1928]; Animula [1929]; Marina [1930]; Triumphal March [1931]; Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama [1932]; Four Quartets; The Cultivation of Christmas Trees [1954]; selections from The Rock; two poems, 'Coriolan' and 'Difficulties of a Statesman', included with Triumphal March and Sweeney Agonistes in a section entitled Unfinished Poems; plus sections entitled Minor Poems, and Occasional Verses; 1936 edition, entitled Collected Poems, 1909-1935, only included 'Burnt Norton' from Four Quartets and did not include The Cultivation of Christmas Trees or the Occasional Verses sectionEnglish
- Prufrock and Other Observations
1917English
- Poems: 1920
1920English
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
originally published in Poems: 1909-1925, 1925English
- Journey of the Magi
1927; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; eighth of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- A Song for Simeon
1927; with an illustration by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 16th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Animula
1929; illustrations by Gertrude Hermes; 23rd of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Marina
1930; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 29th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Ash Wednesday
1930English
- Triumphal March
1931; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 35th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems; later made part of 'Coriolan' in the Unfinished Poems section of Eliot's Collected PoemsEnglish
- Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama
1932English
- 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
- The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
1954; illustrations by David Jones; part of a second series of Ariel PoemsEnglish
Denis Diderot
- La Religieuse
The Nun
1796French
- Le Rêve de d'Alembert
originally published serially 1782 in Correspondance LittéraireFrench
- Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde
German traslation, 1805; French original, 1823French
- Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
published in part, 1785; in its entirety, 1796French
- David Farrant Bland
A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
1958; revised 1969—English
--
- Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
1975; English translations by G B H WightmanArabic
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- Avesta
ca. Fourth Century B C; foundational work of Zoroastrian literatureAvestan
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
Le Rime de Michelangelo
1623Italian
- Ernst Robert Curtius
Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittlelalter
1948German
Erich Auerbach
- Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der Abendländischen Literatur
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
1946; expanded 1959—German
- Literatursprache und Publikum in der Lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalte
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
1958—German
- Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Satires
late First-early Second centuriesLatin
- Mòzǐ (Mo Tzu)
Mòzǐ
Mo Tzu
ca. Fifth Century B CChinese
Year 33:
- Kalevala
compiled by Elias Lönnrot; 1835; revised 1849Finnish
John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarianism
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
- Autobiography
1873English
Henrik Ibsen
- Brand
1866Norwegian
- Peer Gynt
1867Norwegian
- Vildanden
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
- Bygmester Solness
The Master Builder
1892Norwegian
Gunnar Ekelöf
- Diwan Över fursten av Emgión
1965Swedish
- Sagan om Fatumeh
1966Swedish
- Vägvisare Till Underjorden
1967Swedish
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
Hjalmar Söderberg
- Doktor Glas
1905Swedish
- Historietter
1898Swedish
- Gertrud
1906Swedish
- Sextus Propertius
Elegiae
First Century B CLatin
Knut Hamsun
- Sult
Hunger
published in part, 1888, in Ny Jord; in its entirety, 1890Norwegian
- Mysterier
Mysteries
1892Norwegian
- Pan
1894Norwegian
- Victoria. En Kjaerlighedshistorie
1898Norwegian
- John Donne
Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death
1633English
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- Njáls Saga
ca. Thirteenth CenturyNorse
Year 34:
Henrik Ibsen
- Samfundets Støtter
Pillars of Society
1877Norwegian
- Et Dukkehjem
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
- Rosmersholm
1886Norwegian
- John Gabriel Borkman
1896Norwegian
- Hedda Gabler
1890—Norwegian
Jean Cocteau
- Les Enfants Terribles
1929French
- Les Parent Terribles
1938French
- Eino Leino
Helkavirsiä
originally published in two volumes, 1903 and 1916Finnish
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
August Strindberg
- Hemsöborna
1887Swedish
- Fröken Julie
Miss Julie
written 1888Swedish
- Den Starkare
The Stronger
1889Swedish
- Fadren
The Father
written 1887Swedish
- Ett Drömspel
A Dream Play
1907Swedish
- Spöksonaten
The Ghost Sonata
1908Swedish
- Påsk
Easter
1909Swedish
- Hán Fēizi (Han Fei-tzu)
Hán Fēizi
Third Century B CChinese
- Xúnzǐ (Hsün-tzu)
Xúnzǐ
Hsün-tzu
Third Century B C—Chinese
Tarjei Vesaas
- Is-slottet
The Ice Palace
1963Norwegian
- Båten om Krelden
The Boat in the Evening
1968Norwegian
Sǿren Kierkegaard
- Enten - Eller
Either/ Or
originally published under the pseudonym, Victor Eremita, 1843Danish
- Stadier på Livets Vej
Stages on Life's Way
1845Danish
Chinua Achebe
- Things Fall Apart
1958English
- Arrow of God
1964—English
- Sunday Okenwa Olisah
No Condition Is Permanent
originally published 1960's under the pseudonym, The Master of Life—English
- Miller O Albert
Rosemary and the Taxi-Driver
1960—English
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi)
Petals of Blood
1977—English
Camara Laye
- L'Enfant Noir
1953—French
- Le Regard du Roi
1954—French
- Snorri Sturluson
Heimskringla
written ca. 1230Norse
Year 35:
- Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century
1968; edited by Donald KeeneJapanese
George Bernard Shaw
- Man and Superman
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915English
- Saint Joan
1923English
- Ihara Saikaku
Koshoku Ichidai Onna
The Life of an Amorous Woman
1686Japanese
--
three volumes, 1960-2Chinese et al.
Saint-John Perse
- Éloges
1924French
- Anabase
1924French
- Exil
1942French
- Vents
1946French
- Amers
1957French
- Chronique
1960French
- Oiseaux
1963French
- Basho Matsuo
Oku no Hosomichi
The Narrow Road to the Deep North; late Seventeenth CenturyJapanese
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Canterbury Tales
1478English
- Troilus and Criseyde
written ca. 1380sEnglish
- Ueda Akinari
Ugetsu Monotagari
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
1796Japanese
--
The Ten Thousand Leaves
poetry anthology; probably completed by Otomo Yakamochi; ca. Seventh and Eighth centuriesJapanese
- Epictetus
Diatribai
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
Year 36:
- The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
1964; English translations by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony ThwaiteJapanese
- Thomas de Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1821 in the London MagazineEnglish
--
- Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
1970; edited by Donald Keene and Royall TylerJapanese
Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Di Familye Moshkat
The Family Moskat
1950Yiddish
- In My Family's Court
1963Yiddish
1974Yiddish
--
- Hekigan Roku
The Blue Cliff Record
originally compiled 1125; expanded by Yuanwu Keqin; partially commentraies on The Transmission of the LampChinese
- Pär Lagerkvist
Aftonland
Evening Land
1953Swedish
- Kawabata Yasunari
Yukiguni
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948Japanese
--
- Mabinogion
compiled ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries; includes The Four Branches of the MabinogiWelsh
- Sei Shonagon
Makura no Soshi
The Pillow Book
written 1002Japanese
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
Year 37:
- The New Oxford Book of American Verse
1976; edited by Richard EllmannEnglish
Abbé Prévost
- Mémoires et Aventures d'un Homme de Qualité qui s'Est Retiré du Monde
originally published in seven volumes: first-fourth, 1728; fifth-seventh, 1731French
- L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
seventh volume of Homme de Qualité [see above]; published separately 1731French
John Ruskin
- Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
originally published in three volumes, 1885-89English
- Modern Painters
originally published in five volumes: first, 1843; second, 1846; third-fourth, 1856; fifth, 1860English
- The Stones of Venice
originally published in three volumes: first, 1851; second-third, 1853English
- Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy
originally published serially 1860-61 in Cornhill MagazineEnglish
- Munera Pulveris: Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy
1872; originally published serially 1862-63 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Carmina
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B CLatin
- Epodon
Epodes
30 B C—Latin
Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Grey
originally published Jul. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; revised and expanded 1891; alternate earlier version published 2011English
- De Profundis
published in part, 1905; additional portions published 1913; in its entirety, 1949; revised 1962 and included in The Letters of Oscar WildeEnglish
- Lady Windmere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman
1892English
- A Woman of No Importance
1893English
- An Ideal Husband
1895English
- The Importance of Being Earnest
1895English
- James Joyce
Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
Nikolai Leskov
Nineteenth CenturyRussian
- Zayachii Remiz
The Rabbit Warren; The March Hare
1895Russian
- Ledi Makbet Mcenskogo Uezda
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
1865Russian
- Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010Persian
Benito Pérez Galdós
- Nazarín
1895Spanish
- Halma
1895Spanish
- Misericordia
1897Spanish
Wallace Stevens
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
1954; includes Harmonium [1923; revised 1931]; Ideas of Order [1936]; The Man With the Blue Guitar [1937]; Parts of a World [1942]; Transport to Summer [1947]; The Auroras of Autumn [1950]; plus a section entitled The RockEnglish
- Harmonium
1923; revised 1931English
- Ideas of Order
1936English
- The Man With the Blue Guitar
1937English
- Parts of a World
1942English
- Transport to Summer
1947English
- The Auroras of Autumn
1950English
1957English
- The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
1951; six essays, three of which originally published as Three Academic Pieces, 1947English
Year 38:
- Benito Pérez Galdós
Fortunato and Jacinto
1886-87Spanish
- Jayadeva
Gita Govinda
Song of Govinda
ca. 1200Sanskrit f
- 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
- Petronius
Satyricon
late First CenturyLatin
Eugene O'Neill
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956English
- Mourning Becomes Electra
1931English
- The Iceman Cometh
1946English
--
unspecified
Josef Škvorecký
- Zbabĕlci
The Cowards
1958Czech
- Bassaxofon
The Bass Saxophone
1967Czech
Demosthenes
- Olynthiacs
349 B CGreek
- First Philippic
ca. 351-50 B CGreek
- Second Philippic
ca. 344-43 B CGreek
- Third Philippic
341 B CGreek
- Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva
Selected Poems
English translations by Elaine FeinsteinRussian
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
Year 39:
- The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse
1971; edited by E Caracciolo-Trejo
- Lù Yóu
Jiànnán Shīgǎo
Collected Poems
1220Chinese
1945; English translations by Ewald Osers and J K MontgomeryRomanian
Jaroslav Seifert
- Morový Sloup
1968-70Czech
- Deštník z Picadilly
1979Czech
- Vladimir Holan
Noc s Hamletem
A Night With Hamlet
1964Czech
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
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
- A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
1925; revised 1937English
- Jaroslav Hasek
Osudy Dobrého Vojáka Švejka za Svetové Války
The Good Soldier Švejk
1923Czech
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- Portuguese Voyages (1498-1663)
1953; edited by Charles David LeyPortuguese
- Fernão Mendes Pinto
Peregrinação
Portuguese
- João de Barros
Décadas da Ásia
Decades of Asia
originally published in four volumes: 1552, 1553, 1563, and 1615—Portuguese
- Fernão Lopes de Castanheda
História
originally published in eight volumes, 1551-61Portuguese
- Damiâo de Góis
Crónica do Felicíssimo Rei D. Manuel
1566-67Portuguese
- Antonio Galvão
Tratado que Compôs o Nobre e Notauel Capitão Antonio Galuão, dos Diuersos e Desuayrados Caminhos, por Onde nos Tempos Passados a Pimenta e Especearia Veyo da India ás Nossas Partes, e Assi de Todos os Descobrimentos Antigos e Modernos, que são Feitos até a era de mil e Quinhentos e Cincoenta
The Discoveries of the World From Their First Original Unto the Year of Our Lord 1555
1653; retitled Tratado dos Descobrimentos, Antigos e Modernos, Feitos até a era de 1550, 1731Portuguese
- Gaspar da Cruz
Tractado em Que se Cõtam Muito por Estẽso as Cousas da China
Tratado das Cousas da China
1569—Portuguese
- C R Boxer
The Portuguese Sea-Borne Empire, 1415-1825
1969English
--
- Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology of Byelorussian Poetry From 1828 to the Present
1971; English translations by Vera RichRussian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Idiot
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
--
- New Writing in Yugoslavia
1970; edited by Bernard JohnsonSerbo-Croat; Slovene; Macedonian
Year 40:
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
- Drapier's Letters
originally published in seven parts, 1724-25—English
--
1970; English translations by Czeslaw MiloszPolish
Soseki Natsume
- Kokoro
originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi ShinbunJapanese
- Michi Kusa
Grass on the Wayside
1915—Japanese
--
1975; edited by Wole Soyinka
- James Cook
The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery
written 1769, 1772-79English
- Adam Mickiewicz
Pan Tadeusz, Czyli Ostatni Zajazd na Litwie. Historia Szlachecka z Roku 1811 i 1812 we Dwunastu Ksiegach Wierszem
Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale From the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse
1834Polish
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Rivals
1775English
- School for Scandal
1777English
--
- Sasna Tsrer
Daredevils of Sassoun
written ca. Tenth CenturyArmenian
Slawomir Mrozek
- Tango
1964Polish
- Wesele w Atomicach
The Ugupu Bird
1959Polish
--
- Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology
1972; edited by Sever Trifu and Dumitru Ciocoi-PopRomanian
- Nichita Stănescu
11 Elegii
1966—Romanian
Year 41:
- Anna Komnene
Alexiad
written ca. 1148Greek
Selected Poems
1934; English translations by S de Solis-Cohen; written late Eleventh CenturyHebrew
- Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744Italian
Samuel Beckett
- Molloy
1951French
- Malone Muert
1951French
- L'Innommable
The Unnameable
1953French
- En Attendant Godot
Waiting for Godot
1953French
Vladimir Lenin
1964Russian
- Čto Delat'?
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
1902Russian
- Shota Rustaveli
Vepkhistkaosani
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
late Twelfth CenturyGeorgian
- Miguel de Unamuno
Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida
1912Spanish
Robert Graves
1975; U S edition entitled New Collected Poems; includes the entirety, or nearly all, of New Poems 1962 [1962]; Man Does, Woman Is [1964]; Love Respelt [1965]; Seventeen Poems Missing From 'Love Respelt' [1966]; Colophon to 'Love Respelt' [1967]; Poems 1965-1968 [1968]; Beyond Giving [1969]; Poems 1968-1970 [1970]; The Green-Sailed Vessel [1971]; Poems 1970-1972 [1972]; Timeless Meeting [1973]; At the Gate [1974]; selections from More Poems 1961, 1961; Food for Centraurs, 1960; Steps, 1958; 5 Pens in Hand, 1958; The Crowning Privilege, 1955; Poems 1953, 1953; Poems and Satires 1951, 1951; Poems 1938-1945, 1945; Work in Hand, 1942; earlier Collected Poems; and earlier books that had already been significantly revised for the author�s first Collected Poems, 1938; plus 20 new poemsEnglish
- New Poems 1962
1962English
- Man Does, Woman Is
1964English
- Love Respelt
1965English
- Seventeen Poems Missing From 'Love Respelt'
1966English
- Colophon to 'Love Respelt'
1967English
- Poems 1965-1968
1968English
- Beyond Giving
1969English
- Poems 1968-1970
1970English
- The Green-Sailed Vessel
1971English
- Poems 1970-1972
1972English
- Timeless Meeting
1973English
- At the Gate
1974English
- The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
published in part serially, 1944-5, in Wales; in its entirety, 1948; revised and expanded 1952 and 1961—English
- Good-Bye to All That
1929; revised 1957English
- Wilfred Owen
Poems
1920; four poems previously published; 'Memoir' by Edmund Blunden added for 1931 edition; revised 1933; retitled The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, 1963, with a new introduction and notes by C Day Lewis plus four drafts of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and an unfinished poem, 'Wild With All Regrets'English
- Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest
originally published serially 1894-95German
--
1977; edited by Miklós VajdaHungarian
Year 42:
Giovanni Verga
- I Malavoglia
1881Italian
- Novelle Rusticane
Little Novels of Sicily
1883Italian
- Mastro-Don Gesualdo
1889Italian
- Jacobus de Varagine
Legenda Aurea
The Golden Legend
written ca. 1264Latin
- Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meun
Roman de la Rose
written in two parts, the first by Lorris, the second by Muen, ca. 1230 and 1275, respectively
Laurence Sterne
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
- The Sermons of Mr. Yorick
originally published in seven volumes: first-second, 1760; third-fourth, 1766; fifth-seventh, 1769English
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768English
--
1967; edited by A AlvarezHungarian
Folktales of Hungary
Hungarian
Wáng Yángmíng (Bo'an)
- Instructions for Practical Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings
1963; English translations by Wing-tsit ChanChinese
- Chuáxí Lù
Instructions for Practical Living
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesChinese
- Inquiry on the Great Learning
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesChinese
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- Rashoman and Other Stories
1949; English translations by Takashi KojimaJapanese
- Kappa
1927Japanese
- Mori Ogai
Gan
The Wild Geese
originally published serially 1911-13—Japanese
Judah Halevi
1928; English translations by N SalamnArabic
- Kitab al Khazari
The Kuzari
written ca. 1140—Arabic
James Joyce
- Finnegans Wake
1939English
- Dubliners
1914English
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
- Dylan Thomas
A Portrait of the Arist as a Young Dog
1940—English
- Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso
published in part, 1516; revised 1521; published in its entirety, 1532Italian
- Matteo Maria Boiardo
Orlando Innamorato
1482—Italian
Year 43:
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
- Pindar
Epinikia
Victory Odes
Fifth Century B CGreek
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi
The Betrothed
1827Italian
- Bhartrihari
Satakatraya
The Three Satakas
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
Sean O'Casey
- The Shadow of a Gunman
1923English
- Juno and the Paycock
1924English
- The Plough and the Stars
1926English
John Millington Synge
- Riders to the Sea
1904—English
- The Playboy of the Western World
1907—English
Vladimir Nabokov
- Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle
1969English
- Pale Fire
1962English
- Bend Sinister
1947English
The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien
1970; English translations by J R HightowerChinese
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
A God and His Gifts
1963English
- Gottfried Von Strassberg
Tristan
early Thirteenth CenturyGerman
Year 44:
- Michael D Coe
The Maya
1966English
- Herbert Spinden
A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject Matter and Historical Development
1913English
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
- The Spirit of Romance
1910; edited lectures—English
- A B C of Reading
1934—English
- Guide to Kulchur
1938—English
Mariano Azuela
- Los de Abajo
The Underdogs
1915Spanish
- Los Caciques
The Bosses
1917Spanish
- Las Moscas
The Flies
1918Spanish
Octavio Paz
- El Laberinto de la Soledad
1950Spanish
1971; includes Piedra de Sol; Blanco; Ladera Este (1962-1968); selections from Salamandra (1958-1961)Spanish
- Piedra de Sol
1957Spanish
- Blanco
1967Spanish
- Ladera Este (1962-1968)
1969Spanish
- Zhū Xī (Chu Hsi)
Jìnsīlù
Chin-ssu Lu; Reflections on Things at Hand
Twelfth CenturyChinese
Pierre Corneille
- Le Cid
1637French
- Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste
1639French
- Polyeucte
1643French
- Horace
1640French
Alejo Carpentier
- Los Pasos Perdidos
1953Spanish
- El Recurso del Método
1974Spanish
Cesar Vallejo
- Los Heraldos Negros
1919Spanish
- Trilce
1922Spanish
- Poemas Humanas
1939Spanish
- España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz
1939Spanish
- Nizam al-Mulk
Siyasatnama
Book of Government
Eleventh CenturyPersian
Juan José Arreola
- Confabulario
1952Spanish
- La Feria
1963Spanish
- Marcel Schwob
Les Vies Imaginaires
1896—French
Juan Rulfo
- El Llano en Llamas
1953—Spanish
- Pedro Páramo
1955—Spanish
Year 45:
- Henry Walter Bates
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel
1863English
João Guimarães Rosa
- Sagarana
1946Portuguese
- Grande Sertão: Veredas
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
1956Portuguese
- Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792English
- Alexis de Tocqueville
L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
1866—French
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790—English
- Claudio and Orlando Villas-Bôas
Xingu; os Índios, Seus Mitos
1970Portuguese
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
Gilberto Freyre
- Casa-Grande e Senzala
The Masters and the Slaves
1933Portuguese
- Sobrados e Mucambos
The Mansions and the Shanties
1936Portuguese
- Ordem e Progresso
Order and Progress
1957Portuguese
- Tokutomi Kenjiro
Omoide no Ki
Footprints in the Snow
1901Japanese
- Theophrastus
Characters
Fourth-early Third centuries B CGreek
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
- Lettres Persanes
1721—French
- Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur Décadence
1734—French
- Ovid
Ars Amatoria
ca. late First Century B C-early First CenturyLatin
Year 46:
Alexander Pushkin
- The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories
1933; English translations by Natalie DuddingtonRussian
- Kapitanskaâ Dočka
The Captain's Daughter
originally published 1836 in SovremennikRussian
Torquato Tasso
- La Gerusalemme Liberata
1581Italian
- Rinaldo
1562Italian
- Bernardo Tasso
L'Amadigi
1560Italian
Herbert Read
- The Green Child
1935English
- Contrary Experiences: Autobiographies
published in part, 1933, as The Innocent Eye; and 1940, as Annals of Innocence and Experience; in its entirety, 1963English
Love Songs
1963; English translations by Deben BhattacharyaSanskrit
- Pierre de Marivaux
Le Paysan Parvenu
written 1735French
- Luis Vélez de Guevara
El Diablo Cojuelo
1641Spanish
- Rodrigo Fernández de Ribera
Los Anteojos de Mejor Vista
1620-25—Spanish
- Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon)
Dalalatul al-Hairin
Moreh Nevukhim; The Guide for the Perplexed
written Twelfth Century; Hebrew version published 1204Arabic
- Hermann Broch
Der Tod des Vergil
1945; English version published simultaneouslyGerman
- Milarepa
Mila Grubum
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Eleventh-Twelfth centuriesTibetan
- Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica
Greek
Lawrence Durrell
- Reflections on a Marine Venus
1953—English
- Bitter Lemons
1957—English
- Justine
1957—English
- Balthazar
1958—English
- Mountolive
1958—English
- Clea
1960—English
- The Greek Islands
1978—English
Year 47:
- Anthology of Korean Poetry: From the Earliest Era to the Present
1964; English translations by Peter H LeeKorean
Italo Svevo
- La Coscienza di Zeno
Zeno's Conscience
1923Italian
- Una Vita
1892Italian
- Senilità
As a Man Grows Older
1898Italian
- Qū Yuán and Sòng Yù
Cǔ Chí
Songs of the South; Verses of Chu
ca. Third Century B C-Third CenturyChinese
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
Utopia
1516Latin
Farid ud-Din Attar (Attar of Nishapur)
- Ilahi-Nama
The Book of God
Twelfth CenturyPersian
- Mantiq-ut-Tayr
The Conference of the Birds
1177Persian
Christopher Marlowe
- Tamburlaine the Great
1590English
- The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
1592English
- The Jew of Malta
1592English
- Edward II
1593English
- François-René de Chateaubriand
Memoires d'Outre Tombe
originally published in two volumes, 1849 and 1850French
- Carlos Fuentes
Terra Nostra
1975Spanish
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature
originally anonymously published 1836English
- The American Scholar
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837English
David Jones
- In Parenthesis
1937English
- The Anathemata
1952English
Year 48:
- Walter Scott
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
originally anonymously published 1814English
- Wilhelm Hauff
Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der Wuerttembergischen Geschichte
1826—German
- James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
1826—English
- Francesco Guicciardini
L'Historia d'Italia
1561Italian
Poems
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Henry James
- American Novels and Stories
1947; edited by F O Matthiessen; includes The Ivory Tower; The Europeans; Washington Square; The BostoniansEnglish
- The Ivory Tower
1917English
- The Europeans
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1878 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- Washington Square
originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
- The Bostonians
originally published serially 1885-86 in the Century MagazineEnglish
- The Portrait of a Lady
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- Lǐ Hè (Li Ho)
Sānjiā Píngzhù Lǐ Chángjí Gēshī
San-chia Li Ch'ang-chi Ko-shih
edited by Wáng Qí; early Ninth CenturyChinese
- Amos Tutuola
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
1952English
Vladimir Mayakovsky
1964; English translations by Herbert MarshallRussian
- Klop
The Bedbug
1929Russian
- Banya
The Bathhouse
1930Russian
- Ilango Adigal
Silappathikaram
Second CenturyTamil
- Sithalai Sattanar (Seethalai Saathanar)
Manimekalai
one of five Great Epics of Tamil literature; ca. Second Century—Tamil
Bertrand Russell
- A History of Western Philosophy
1945English
- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
1948—English
- The Analysis of Mind
1921—English
- An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth
1940—English
- Shimazaki Toson
Hakai
The Broken Commandement
1906Japanese
Year 49:
Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
- Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Contra Gentes
written ca. 1270Latin
George Borrow
- Lavengro; The ScholarThe GypsyThe Priest
1851English
- The Romany Eye
1857English
- The Bible in Spain or The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
1843English
- Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery
1863English
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- Kuruntokai
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the PatiṉeṅmēlkaṅakkuTamil
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- Akananuru
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the PatiṉeṅmēlkaṅakkuTamil
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- Purananuru
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the PatiṉeṅmēlkaṅakkuTamil
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
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- Sirat Antar ibn Shaddad
The Romance of Antar
Eleventh-Fourteenth centuriesArabic
Ben Jonson
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
- Volpone
1606English
- The Alchemist
1610English
- Bartholomew Fayre
1614English
- Salvador Dalí
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
English translation, 1942French
- 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
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Selected works
Ward recommends either Selections, 1979, edited by J Lowenberg; or The Philosophy of Hegel: Hegel's Basic Writings, 1965, edited by C J FriedrichGerman
Mishima Yukio
- Kinkaku-ji
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956Japanese
- Haru no Yuki
Spring Snow
1969; first of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Honba
Runaway Horses
1969; second of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Akatsuki no Tera
The Temple of Dawn
1970; third of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Tennin Gosui
The Decay of the Angel
1971; fourth of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
Year 50:
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
originally published 1921 in Annalen der NaturphilosophieGerman
Giovanni Boccaccio
- Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
ca. 1351-53Italian
- Teseida Delle Nozze d'Emilia
ca. 1340-41—Italian
- Jami
Baharistan
Abode of Spring
Fifteenth CenturyPersian
- Plotinus
Enneads
Third CenturyGreek
- Ibn Tufail
Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan
Philosophus Autodidactus; The Improvement of Human Reason
Twelfth CenturyArabic
José Ortega y Gasset
- España Invertebrada
originally published serially 1921 in El SolSpanish
- La Rebelión de las Masas
The Revolt of the Masses
originally published serially 1929 in El SolSpanish
- Meditaciondes del Quijote
1914Spanish
Rabindranath Tagore
- Collected Poems and Plays
1936; includes Gitanjali; The Crescent Moon; Chitrangada; Fruit-Gathering; The Gardener; The Fugitive; Sacrifice, and Other Plays; and othersBengali
- Gitanjali
1910; English version, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), consists of selections from Gitanjali; Naivedya, 1901; Kheya, 1906; Giti-Malya, 1914; and othersBengali
English translations of selections mostly from Sisu, 1903Bengali
English translations of selections from Kshanika, 1900; Kalpana, 1900; Sonar Tari, 1894; and othersBengali
- Chitrangada
1892; English translation entitled Chitranot the same as the author's poetry book entitled Chitra, 1896Bengali
- Dakghar
The Post Office
1912Bengali
1916; English translations of selections from Gitimalya, Gitali, Balaka, and othersBengali
- Stray Birds
Bengali
- Phalguni
The Cycle of Spring
1916Bengali
1921; English translations of selections from Manasi, 1890; Sonar Tari, 1894; Giti-Malya, 1914; Kahini, 1900; and others; also includes Viday-Abhisap [1894]Bengali
- Visarjan
Sacrifice
1890Bengali
- Ghare-Baire
The Home and the World
1916Bengali
Selected works
Eighteenth CenturyChinese
John Milton
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
1644English
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
- A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michelmas Night, Before the Right Honorable, John Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Councill
'Comus'
originally anonymously published 1637; included in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
'On His Blindness'
written ca. 1652English
part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671English
- Immanuel Kant
Kritik der Reinen Vernunft
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German