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The Western CanonAppendix A–D
Harold Bloom
This list is taken from Appendices A-D of Harold Bloom's THE WESTERNCANON: THE BOOKS AND SCHOOL OF THE AGES (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994).
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Bloom divides his Canon into the following four "Ages":
A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE1321 CE;
B. The Aristocratic Age: 13211832;
C. The Democratic Age: 18321900;
D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century;
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious,philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves ofgreat aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in thisfirst list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, theAthenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran . . .
“I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamentalliterary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. Theimmense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apartfrom Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in thetranslations available to us.” (p. 531)
A. THE THEOCRATIC AGE
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
The Epic of GilgameshEgyptian Book of the DeadHoly Bible (King James Version)The ApocryphaSayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
ANCIENT INDIA (SANSKRIT)
MahabharataBhagavadGitaRamayana
THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Homer (ca.800BC)Iliad; Odyssey.
Hesiod (ca.700BC)Works and Days; Theogony.
ArchilochosSappho (ca.600BC)AlkmanPindar.
Odes.Aeschylus (525 BC 456 BC)
Oresteia; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians;Suppliant Women.
Sophocles (c. 496c. 405 BC)Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra; Ajax;Women of Trachis; Philoctetes.
Euripides (480 or 484406 BC)Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba; Bacchae; Orestes;Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis.
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC 385 BC)The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Knights; TheWasps; The Assemblywomen.
Herodotus, 485–420BCEThe Histories.
Thucydides, ca.460 BCEThe Peloponnesian Wars.
The PreSocratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)Plato, c.427c.347 BCE
Dialogues.Aristotle, 384–322 BCE
Poetics; Ethics.
HELLENISTIC GREEKS
Menander, ca. 342–291 BCThe Girl from Samos.
Longinus.On the Sublime.
Callimachus.Hymns and Epigrams.
Theocritus.Idylls.
Plutarch, 46–120Lives; Moralia.
Aesop (620 560 BC)Fables.
Lucian.Satires.
THE ROMANS
Plautus.Pseudolus; The Braggart Soldier; The Rope; Amphitryon.
Terence, 195/185–159 BCThe Girl from Andros; The Eunuch; The MotherinLaw.
Lucretius, 98?–55 BCEThe Way Things Are.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106–43 BCEOn the Gods.
Horace, 658 BCEOdes; Epistles; Satires.
Persius.Satires.
Catullus (c.84 B.C. c.54 B.C.)Attis and Other Poems.
Virgil (7019 BC)Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics.
Lucan.Pharsalia.
Ovid (43 BC 17 AD)Metamorphoses; The Art of Love; Heroides.
Juvenal.Satires.
Martial.Epigrams.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca.4 BCE–65 CETragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens.
Petronius, c.2766Satyricon.
Apuleius, c. 123/125c. 180The Golden Ass.
THE MIDDLE AGES: LATIN, ARABIC, AND THE VERNACULARBEFORE DANTE
Augustine of Hippo, 354–430City of God; Confessions.
The Koran (AlQur'an)The Book of the Thousand Nights and One NightThe Poetic EddaSnorri Sturluson.
The Prose Edda.
The Nibelungen LiedWolfram von Eschenbach, 1170–1220
Parzival.Chrétien de Troyes, 12th cent
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion.Beowulf (ca.800)The Poem of the CidChristine de Pisan
The Book of the City of Ladies.
Pedro, Diego de San.Prison of Love.
“It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy throughGoethe's Faust, Part Two [13211832], an era that gives us a huge body ofreading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English, French, andGerman.
“In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mentionindividual works by a canonical master, and in other instances I attemptto call attention to authors and books that I consider canonical butrather neglected.
“From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite centralare omitted. . . . ” (p. 534)
B. THE ARISTOCRATIC AGE
ITALY
Dante (1265 1321)The Divine Comedy; The New Life.
Petrarch, 13041374Lyric Poems; Selections.
Giovanni Boccaccio, 13131375The Decameron.
Matteo Maria Boiardo, 1440 or 411494.Orlando Innamorato.
Lodovico Ariosto, 14741533Orlando Furioso.
Michelangelo BuonarrotiSonnets and Madrigals.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469–1527The Prince; The Mandrake, a Comedy.
Leonardo da VinciNotebooks.
Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the Courtier.
Gaspara StampaSonnets and Madrigals.
Giorgio VasariLives of the Painters.
Benvenuto Cellini, 1500–1571Autobiography.
Torquato TassoJerusalem Delivered.
Giordano BrunoThe Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
Tommaso Campanella, 15681639Poems; The City of the Sun.
Giambattista VicoPrinciples of a New Science.
Carlo GoldoniThe Servant of Two Masters.
Vittorio AlfieriSaul.
PORTUGAL
Camoëns, Luis de.The Lusiads.
Ferreira, Antònio.Poetry.
SPAIN
Jorge ManriqueCoplas.
Fernando de RojasLa Celestina.
Anonymous.Lazarillo de Tormes.
Francisco de QuevedoVisions; Satirical Letter of Censure.
León, Fray Luis de.Poems.
St. John of the CrossPoems.
Góngora, Luis de.Sonnets; Soledades.
Miguel de Cervantes, 15471616Don Quixote; Exemplary Stories.
Lope de VegaLa Dorotea; Fuente Ovejuna; Lost in a Mirror; The Knight ofOlmedo.
Tirso de MolinaThe Trickster of Seville.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1600–1681Life is a Dream; The Mayor of Zalamea; The Mighty Magician;The Doctor of His Own Honor.
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la.Poems.
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca.13431400)The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde.
Thomas Malory, 14301471Le Morte D'Arthur.
William DunbarPoems.
John SkeltonPoems.
Thomas More, 14781535Utopia.
Thomas Wyatt.Poems.
Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyPoems.
Philip Sidney, 15541586.The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Astrophel and Stella; AnApology for Poetry.
Fulke Greville, Lord BrookePoems.
Edmund Spenser, 15521599The Faerie Queene; The Minor Poems.
Walter Ralegh,Poems.
Christopher Marlowe, 15641593Poems and Plays.
Michael DraytonPoems.
Samuel DanielPoems; A Defence of Ryme.
Thomas Nashe, 15671601The Unfortunate Traveller.
Thomas KydThe Spanish Tragedy.
William Shakespeare, 15641616Plays and Poems.
Thomas CampionSongs.
John Donne, 15721631Poems; Sermons.
Ben Jonson, 15731637Poems, Plays, and Masques.
Francis Bacon, 1561–1626Essays.
Robert Burton, 1577–1640The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Thomas Browne, 1605–1682Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia, or UrneBuriall; The Garden ofCyrus.
Thomas Hobbes, 1588–1679Leviathan.
Herrick, Robert, 15911674Poems.
Thomas CarewPoems.
Richard LovelacePoems.
Andrew Marvell, 16211678Poems.
George HerbertThe Temple.
Thomas TraherneCenturies, Poems, and Thanksgivings.
Henry VaughanPoetry.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.Poems.
Richard CrashawPoems.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.Plays.
George ChapmanComedies, Tragedies, Poems.
John Ford, 1586ca.1640'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
John MarstonThe Malcontent.
John Webster, c.1580c.1634The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi.
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.The Changeling.
Cyril TourneurThe Revenger's Tragedy.
Philip MassingerA New Way to Pay Old Debts.
John BunyanThe Pilgrim's Progress.
Izaak Walton, 15931683The Compleat Angler.
John Milton, 16081674Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Lycidas, Comus, and the MinorPoems; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica.
John Aubrey, 1626–1697Brief Lives.
Jeremy TaylorHoly Dying.
Samuel Butler, 16121680Hudibras.
John Dryden, 16311700Poetry and Plays; Critical Essays.
Thomas OtwayVenice Preserv'd.
William CongreveThe Way of the World; Love for Love.
Jonathan Swift, 16671745
A Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels; Shorter Prose Works; Poems.George Etherege
The Man of Mode.
Alexander Pope, 16881744Poems.
John Gay, 16851732The Beggar's Opera.
James Boswell, 17401795Life of Johnson; Journals.
Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784Works.
Edward Gibbon, 1737–1794The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Edmund Burke, 1729–1797A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflectionson the Revolution in France.
Maurice MorgannAn Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.
William CollinsPoems.
George FarquharThe Beaux' Strategem; The Recruiting Officer.
William WycherleyThe Country Wife; The Plain Dealer.
Christopher SmartJubilate Agno; A Song to David.
Oliver Goldsmith, 17281774The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer; The Traveller; TheDeserted Village.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751–1816The School of Scandal; The Rivals.
William Cowper, 17311800Poetical Works.
George CrabbePoetical Works.
Defoe, Daniel (1661?1731)Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; A Journal of the Plague Year.
Samuel Richardson, 16891761.Clarissa; Pamela; Sir Charles Grandison.
Henry Fielding, 17071754Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Tobias Smollett, 17211771The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; The Adventures of RoderickRandom.
Laurence Sterne, 17131768The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; ASentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
Fanny Burney, 17521840Evelina.
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
The Spectator.
FRANCE
Jean Froissart, 13371405Chronicles; The Song of Roland.
François Villon,Poems.
Michel de Montaigne, 15331592Essays.
Francois Rabelais, 1494?1553?Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Marguerite de Navarre, 1492–1549The Heptameron.
Joachim Du Bellay,The Regrets.
Maurice Scève,Délie.
Pierre RonsardOdes, Elegies, Sonnets.
Philippe de CommynesMemoirs.
Agrippa d'Aubigné,Les Tragiques.
Robert GarnierMark Antony; The Jewesses.
Pierre CorneilleThe Cid; Polyeucte; Nicomède; Horace; Cinna; Rodogune.
François de La Rochefoucauld,Maxims.
Jean de La Fontaine, 16211695Fables.
Molière, 16221673The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The LearnedLadies; Don Juan; School for Husbands; Ridiculous Precieuses;The WouldBe Gentleman; The Miser; The Imaginary Invalid.
Blaise Pascal, 1623–1662Pensées.
Bosuet, JacquesBénigne.Funerary Orations.
BoileauDespréaux, Nicolas.The Art of Poetry; Lutrin.
Jean RacinePhaedra; Andromache; Britannicus; Athaliah.
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux,Seven Comedies.
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 1712–1778The Confessions; Émile; La Nouvelle Héloïse.
Voltaire, 16941778
Zadig; Candide; Letters on England; The Lisbon Earthquake.Abbe Prevost
Manon Lescaut.
Madame de La Fayette,The Princess of Cleves.
Chamfort, SébastienRoch Nicolas de.Products of the Perfected Civilization.
Denis DiderotRameau's Nephew.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 17411803Dangerous Liaisons.
GERMANY
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466–1536In Praise of Folly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832Faust, Parts One and Two; Dichtung und Wahrheit; Egmont;Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Poems;Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Wilhelm Meister's Years ofWandering; Italian Journey; Verse Plays; Hermann andDorothea; Roman Elegies; Venetian Epigrams; WestEasternDivan.
Friedrich Schiller, 17591805The Robbers; Mary Stuart; Wallenstein; Don Carlos; On the Naïveand Sentimental in Literature.
Gotthold LessingLaocoön; Nathan the Wise.
Freidrich Hölderlin,Hymns and Fragments; Selected Poems.
Heinrich von KleistFive Plays; Stories.
“I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the postGoethean nineteenthcentury, when the literature of Italy and Spain ebbs, yielding eminence toEngland with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism, and toa lesser degree to France and Germany.
“This is also the era where the strength of both Russian andAmerican literature begins.” (p. 540)
C. THE DEMOCRATIC AGE
ITALY
Ugo FoscoloOn Sepulchres; Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis; Odes and The Graces.
Alessandro ManzoniThe Betrothed; On the Historical Novel.
Giacomo LeopardiEssays and Dialogues; Poems; The Moral Essays.
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino.Roman Sonnets.
Giosué Carducci,Hymn to Satan; Barbarian Odes; Rhymes and Rhythms.
Giovanni Verga, 18401922Little Novels of Sicily; MastroDon Gesualdo; The House by theMedlar Tree; The SheWolf and Other Stories.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho.Poems.
Galdós, Benito Pérez.Fortunata and Jacinta.
(Clarín), Leopoldo Alas.La Regenta.
Queirós, José Maria de Eça de.The Maias.
FRANCE
Benjamin ConstantAdolphe; The Red Notebook.
FrançoisAugusteRené de Chateaubriand,Attala; René; The Genius of Christianity.
Alphonse de LamartineMeditations.
Alfred de VignyChatterton; Poems.
Victor Hugo, 18021885The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems; Les Misérables;NotreDame of Paris; William Shakespeare; The Toilers of the Sea;The End of Satan; God.
Alfred de MussetPoems; Lorenzaccio.
Nerval, Gérard de.The Chimeras; Sylvie; Aurelia.
Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872Mademoiselle de Maupin; Enamels and Cameos.
Balzac, Honoré de, 17991850The Girl with the Golden Eyes; Louis Lambert; The Wild Ass'sSkin; Old Goriot; Cousin Bette; A Harlot High and Low; EugénieGrandet; Ursule Mirouet.
Stendhal, 17831842On Love; The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma.
Gustave Flaubert, 18211880Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education; Salammbô; A SimpleSoul.
George Sand, 18041876The Haunted Pool.
Charles Baudelaire, 18211867Flowers of Evil; Paris Spleen.
Mallarmé, Stéphane.Selected Poetry and Prose.
Paul VerlaineSelected Poems.
Arthur RimbaudComplete Works.
Corbière, Tristan.Les Armours Jaunes.
Jules LaforgueSelected Writings.
Guy de Maupassant, 18501893Selected Short Stories.
Emile Zola, 18401902Germinal; L'Assommoir; Nana.
SCANDINAVIA
Henrik Ibsen, 18281906Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean; Hedda Gabler; TheMaster Builder; The Lady from the Sea; When We Dead Awaken.
August StrindbergTo Damascus; Miss Julie; The Father; The Dance of Death; TheGhost Sonata; A Dream Play.
GREAT BRITAIN
Robert BurnsPoems.
William Blake, 17571827Complete Poetry and Prose.
William Wordsworth, 1770–1850Poems; The Prelude.
Walter Scott, 17711832Waverley; The Heart of Midlothian; Redgauntlet; Old Mortality.
Jane Austen, 17751817Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Persuasion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772–1834Poems and Prose.
Dorothy WordsworthThe Grasmere Journal.
Hazlitt, William, 17781830Essays and Criticism.
George Byron, 17881824Don Juan; P oems.
Walter Savage LandorPoems; Imaginary Conversations.
Thomas de Quincey, 1785–1859Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Selected Prose.
Charles LambEssays.
Maria Edgeworth, 17671849Castle Rackrent.
John GaltThe Entail.
Elizabeth Gaskell, 18101865Cranford; Mary Barton; North and South.
James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
Charles Robert Maturin, 1782–1824Melmoth the Wanderer.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 17921822Poems; A Defence of Poetry.
Mary Shelley, 17971851Frankenstein.
John ClarePoems.
John Keats, 17951821Poems and Letters.
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.Death's JestBook; Poems.
George DarleyNepenthe; Poems.
Thomas HoodPoems.
Thomas WadePoems.
Robert Browning, 1812–1889Poems; The Ring and the Book.
Charles Dickens, 18121870The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; David Copperfield;The Adventures of Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House;Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son; GreatExpectations; Martin Chuzzlewit; Christmas Stories; Little Dorrit;Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Alfred Tennyson, 18091892Poems.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 18281882Poems and Translations.
Matthew Arnold, 18221888Poems; Essays.
Clough, Arthur Hugh.Poems.
Christina Georgina Rossetti, 18301894.Poems.
Thomas Love Peacock, 1785–1866Nightmare Abbey; Gryll Grange.
Hopkins, Gerald Manley.Poems and Prose.
Thomas Carlyle, 1795–1881Selected Prose; Sartor Resartus.
John Ruskin, 18191900Modern Painters; The Stones of Venice; Unto This Last; The Queenof the Air.
Walter PaterStudies in the History of the Renaissance; Appreciations;Imaginary Portraits; Marius the Epicurean.
FitzGerald, Edward.The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873On Liberty; Autobiography.
Newman, John Henry.Apologia pro Vita Sua; A Grammar of Assent; The Idea of aUniversity.
Anthony Trollope, 18151882The Barsetshire Novels; The Palliser Novels; Orley Farm; The WayWe Live Now.
Lewis Carroll, 18321898Complete Works.
Edward LearComplete Nonsense.
George Gissing, 18571903New Grub Street.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles.Poems and Letters.
Charlotte Bronte, 18161855Jane Eyre; Villette.
Emily Bronte, 18181848
Poems; Wuthering Heights.Anne Bronte, 18201849William Makepeace Thackeray, 18111863
Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond.
George Meredith, 18281909Poems; The Egoist.
Francis ThompsonPoems.
Lionel JohnsonPoems.
Robert BridgesPoems.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 18741936Collected Poems; The Man Who Was Thursday.
Samuel Butler, 18351902Erewhon; The Way of All Flesh.
Gilbert, W.S.Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan; Bab Ballads.
Wilkie Collins, 18241889The Moonstone; The Woman in White; No Name.
Coventry PatmoreOdes.
Thomson, James, 1834–1882The City of the Dreadful Night.
Oscar Wilde, 18541900Plays; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Artist as Critic; Letters.
John DavidsonBallads and Songs.
Ernest DowsonComplete Poems.
George Eliot, 18191880Adam Bede; Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch;Daniel Deronda.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 18501894Essays; Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; TheNew Arabian Nights; The Master of Ballantrae; Weir ofHermiston.
William Morris, 18341896Early Romances; Poems; The Earthly Paradise; The Well at theWorld's End; News from Nowhere.
Bram Stoker, 18471912Dracula.
George MacDonald, 18241905Lilith; At the Back of the North Wind.
GERMANY
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg).Hymns to the Night; Aphorisms.
Jakob Grimm, 1785–1863 and Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786–1859Fairy Tales.
Mörike, Eduard.Selected Poems; Mozart on His Way to Prague.
Theodor StormImmensee; Poems.
Gottfried KellerGreen Henry; Tales.
Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 17761822The Devil's Elixir; Tales.
Jeremias GotthelfThe Black Spider.
Adalbert StifterIndian Summer; Tales.
Friedrich SchlegelCriticism and Aphorisms.
Büchner, Georg.Danton's Death; Woyzeck.
Heinrich HeineComplete Poems.
Richard WagnerThe Ring of the Nibelung.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844–1900The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy ofMorals; The Will to Power.
Theodor FontaneEffi Briest.
Stefan GeorgeSelected Poems.
RUSSIA
Aleksandr Pushkin, 17991837Complete Prose Tales; Complete Poetry; Eugene Onegin;Narrative Poems; Boris Godunov.
Nikolai Gogol, 18091852The Complete Tales; Dead Souls; The Government Inspector.
Mikhail Lermontov, 18141841Narrative Poems; A Hero of Our Time.
Segey AksakovA Family Chronicle.
Aleksandr HerzenMy Past and Thoughts; From the Other Shore.
Ivan GoncharovThe Frigate Pallada; Oblomov.
Ivan Turgenev, 18181883A Sportsman's Notebook; A Month in the Country; Fathers andSons; On the Eve; First Love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 18211881
Notes from the Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot;The Possessed (The Devils); The Brothers Karamazov; ShortNovels.
Leo Tolstoy, 18281910The Cossacks; War and Peace; Anna Karenina; A Confession; ThePower of Darkness; Short Novels.
Nikolay LeskovTales.
Aleksandr OstrovskyThe Storm.
Nikolay ChernyshevskyWhat is to Be Done?.
Aleksandr BlokThe Twelve and Other Poems.
Anton Chekhov, 18601904The Tales; The Major Plays.
THE UNITED STATES
Washington Irving, 17831859The Sketch Book.
Bryant, William Cullen.Collected Poems.
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789–1851.The Deerslayers.
Whittier, John Greenleaf.Collected Poems.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882Nature; Essays; Representative Men; The Conduct of Life;Journals; Poems.
Emily Dickinson, 1830–1886Complete Poems.
Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass, first edition; Leaves of Grass, third edition; TheComplete Poems; Specimen Days.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 18041864The Scarlet Letter; Tales and Sketches; The Marble Faun;Notebooks.
Herman Melville, 18191891MobyDick; The Piazza Tales; Billy Budd; Collected Poems; Clarel.
Edgar Allan Poe, 18091849Poetry and Tales; Essays and Reviews; The Narrative of ArthurGordon Pym; Eureka.
Jones VeryEssays and Poems.
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard.The Cricket and Other Poems.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862Walden; Poems; Essays.
Dana, Richard Henry.
Two Years Before the Mast.Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807–1882Selected Poems.
Sidney LanierPoems.
Francis ParkmanFrance and England in North America; The California and OregonTrail.
Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams; Mont SaintMichel and Chartres.
Ambrose Bierce, 18421913Collected Writings.
Louisa May Alcott, 1832–1888Little Women.
Chesnutt, Charles W.The Short Fiction.
Kate Chopin, 18501904The Awakening.
William Dean Howells, 18371920The Rise of Silas Lapham; A Modern Instance.
Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage; Stories and Poems.
Henry James, 18431916The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The PrincessCasamassima; The Awkward Age; Short Novels and Tales; TheAmbassadors; The Wings of the Dove; The Golden Bowl.
Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron Ware.
Mark Twain, 18351910Complete Short Stories; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; TheDevil's Racetrack; Number FortyFour: The Mysterious Stranger;Pudd'nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
William James, 1842–1910The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism.
Frank NorrisThe Octopus.
Jewett, Sarah Orne.The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories.
Trumbull StickneyPoems.
“I am not as confident about this list as the first three. Cultural prophecyis always a mug's game. Not all of the works here can prove to becanonical . . . literary overpopulation is a hazard to many among them.But I have neither excluded nor included on the basis of cultural politicsof any kind.” (p. 548)
D. THE CHAOTIC AGE: A CANONICAL PROPHECY
ITALY
Luigi PirandelloNaked Masks: Five Plays.
D'Annunzio, Gabriele.Maia: In Praise of Life.
Dino CampanaOrphic Songs.
Umberto SabaStories and Recollections; Poems.
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di.The Leopard.
Giuseppe UngarettiSelected Poems; The Buried Harbour: Selected Poems.
Eugenio MontaleThe Storm and Other Things: Poems; The Occasions: Poems;Cuttlefish Bones: Poems; Otherwise: Last and First Poems; TheSecond Life of Art: Selected Essays.
Salvatore QuasimodoSelected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry.
Tommaso LandolfiGogol's Wife and Other Stories.
Leonardo SciasciaDay of the Owl; Equal Danger; The WineDark Sea: ThirteenStories.
Pasolini, Pier Paolo.Poems.
Cesare PaveseHard Labor: Poems; Dialogues with Leucò.
Primo LeviIf Not Now, When?; Collected Poems; The Periodic Table.
Italo SvevoThe Confession of Zeno; As a Man Grows Older.
Giorgio BassaniThe Heron.
Natalia GinzburgFamily.
Elio VittoriniWomen of Messina.
Alberto Moravia
1934.Andrea Zanzotto
Selected Poetry.
Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities; The Baron in the Trees; If on a Winter's Night aTraveler; t zero.
Antonio PortaKisses from Another Dream: Poems.
SPAIN
Miguel de UnamunoThree Exemplary Novels; Our Lord Don Quixote.
Antonio MachadoSelected Poems.
Jiménez, Juan Ramón.Invisible Reality: Poems.
Pedro SalinasMy Voice Because of You: Poems.
Guillén, Jorge.Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet.
Vicente AleixandreA Longing for the Light: Selected Poems.
Lorca, Federico Garcia.Selected Poems; Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, TheHouse of Bernardo Alba.
Rafael AlbertiThe Owl's Insomnia: Poems.
Luis CernudaSelected Poems.
Hernández, Miguel.Selected Poems.
Blas de OteroSelected Poems.
Cela, Camilo José.The Hive.
Juan GoytisoloSpace in Motion.
CATALONIA
Ribá, Carles.Selected Poems.
Foix, J.V.Selected Poems.
Joan PeruchoNatural History.
Merce Rodoreda
The Time of the Doves.Pere Gimferrer
Selected Poems.
Espríu, Salvador.La Pell de Brau: Poems.
PORTUGAL
Fernando PessoaThe Keeper of Sheep; Poems; Selected Poems; Always.
Astonished: Selected PoemsThe Book of Disquiet.
Jorge de SenaSelected Poems.
Saramago, José.Baltasar and Blimunda.
José Cardoso Pires.Ballad of Dogs' Beach.
Breyner, Sophia de Mello.Selected Poems.
Andrade, Eugénio de.Selected Poems.
FRANCE
Anatole France, 18441924Penguin Island; Thaïs.
AlainFournier.Le Grand Meaulnes.
Marcel Proust, 18711922Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time).
Andre Gide.The Immoralist; Corydon; Lafcadio's Adventure (The Caves of theVatican); The Journals.
Colette.Collected Stories; Retreat from Love.
Georges BatailleBlue of Noon.
Céline, LouisFerdinand.Journey to the End of Night.
Daumal, René.Mount Analogue.
Jean GenetOur Lady of the Flowers; The Thief's Journal; The Balcony.
Jean GiraudouxFour Plays.
Alfred JarrySelected Works.
Jean CocteauThe Infernal Machine and Other Works.
Guillaume ApollinaireSelected Writings.
Breton, André.Poems; Manifestoes of Surrealism.
Valéry, Paul.The Art of Poetry; Selected Writings.
Char, René.Poems.
Éluard, Paul.Selected Poems.
Louis AragonSelected Poems.
Jean GionoThe Horseman on the Roof.
Michel LeirisManhood.
Raymond RadiguetCount d'Orgel's Ball.
Sartre, JeanPaul.No Exit; Nausea; Saint Genet; The Words; The Family Idiot;Gustave Flaubert.
Simone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex.
Albert Camus, 19131960The Stranger; The Plague; The Fall; The Rebel.
Henri MichauxSelected Writings.
Jabès, Edmond.The Book of Questions; Selected Poems.
Perse, SaintJohn.Anabasis; Birds; Exile and Other Poems.
Pierre ReverdySelected Poems.
Tristan TzaraSeven Dada Manifestoes.
Max JacobSelected Poems.
Jouve, PierreJean.Selected Poems.
Francis PongeThings: Selected Writings, tr. by Cid Corman.
Prévert, Jacques.Paroles.
Philippe JacottetSelected Poems, tr. by Derek Mahon.
Péguy, Charles.The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.
Péret, Benjamin.
Selected Poems.Malraux, André.
The Conquerors; The Royal Way; Man's Fate; Man's Hope; TheVoices of Silence.
Mauriac, François.Therese; The Desert of Love; The Woman of the Pharisees, tr. byGerard Hopkins.
Jean AnouilhBecket; Antigone; Eurydice; The Rehearsal.
Ionesco, Eugène.The Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The Lesson; Amédée; Victims ofDuty; Rhinoceros.
Maurice BlanchotThomas the Obscure, tr. by Robert Lamberton.
Pierre KlossowskiThe Laws of Hospitality; The Baphomet.
Raymond RousselLocus Solus.
Antonin ArtaudSelected Writings, tr. by Helen Weaver.
LéviStrauss, Claude.Tristes Tropiques.
RobbeGrillet, Alain.The Voyeur; Jealousy; In the Labyrinth; The Erasers; Project for aRevolution in New York; For a New Novel, tr. by Richard Howard.
Nathalie SarrauteThe Use of Speech, tr. by Barbara Wright; The Planetarium, tr. byMaria Jolas.
Claude SimonThe Grass; The Wind; The Flanders Road, tr. by Richard Howard.
Marguerite DurasThe Lover, tr. by Barbara Bray; Four Novels, tr. by Sonia PittRivers and others.
Robert PingetFable; The Libera Me Domine; That Voice, tr. by Barbara Wright.
Michel TournierThe Ogre; Friday.
Marguerite YourcenarCoup de Grace; Memoirs of Hadrian.
Jean FollainTransparance of the World: Poems, tr. by W. S. Merwin.
Yves BonnefoyWords in Stone, tr. by Susanna Lang.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 18651939The Collected Poems; Collected Plays; A Vision; Mythologies.
George Bernard Shaw, 18561950Major Critical Essays; Heartbreak House; Pygmalion; Saint Joan;
Major Barbara; Back to Methuselah.John Millington Synge, 18711909
Collected Plays.
Sean O'Casey.Juno and the Paycock; The Plough and the Stars; The Shadow of aGunman.
George Douglas Brown, 18691902The House with the Green Shutters.
Thomas Hardy, 18401928The WellBeloved; The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native;The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; Collected Poems.
Rudyard Kipling, 18651936Kim; Collected Stories; Puck of Pook's Hill; Complete Verse.
Housman, A. E., 18591936Collected Poems.
Max Beerbohm, 18721956Zuleika Dobson, Seven Men and Two Others.
Joseph Conrad, 18571924Lord Jim; The Secret Agent; Nostromo; Under Western Eyes;Victory.
Ronald Firbank, 18861926Five Novels.
Ford Madox Ford, 18731939Parade's End; The Good Soldier.
W. Somerset Maugham, 18741965Collected Short Stories; The Moon and Sixpence.
John Cowper Powys, 18721963Wolf Solent; A Glastonbury Romance.
Saki, 18701916The Short Stories.
Wells, H. G., 18661946The Science Fiction Novels.
David Lindsay, 18761945A Voyage to Arcturus.
Arnold Bennett, 1867–1931.The Old Wives' Tale.
Walter De la Mare, 18731956Collected Poems; Memoirs of a Midget.
Wilfred OwenCollected Poems.
Isaac RosenbergCollected Poems.
Edward ThomasCollected Poems.
Robert GravesCollected Poems; King Jesus.
David JonesIn Parenthesis; The Anathemata.
John Galsworthy, 18671933
The Forsyth Saga.E.M. Forster
Howard's End; A Passage to India.
Frank O'Connor, 19031966Collected Stories.
Lawrence, D. H., 18851930Complete Poems; Studies in Classic American Literature; CompleteShort Stories; Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love.
Virginia Woolf, 18821941Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando: A Biography; TheWaves; Between the Acts.
James Joyce, 18821941Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses;Finnegans Wake.
Samuel BeckettMurphy; Watt; Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable; Waitingfor Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; How It Is.
Elizabeth Bowen, 18991973Collected Stories.
J.G. Farrell, 19351979The Siege of Krishnapur.
Henry GreenNothing; Loving; Party Going.
Evelyn WaughA Handful of Dust; Scoop; Vile Bodies; Put Out More Flags.
Anthony BurgessNothing Like the Sun.
Edwards, G.B.The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.
Iris MurdochThe Good Apprentice; Bruno's Dream.
Graham GreeneBrighton Rock; The Heart of the Matter; The Power and the Glory.
Christopher IsherwoodThe Berlin Stories.
Norman DouglasSouth Wind.
Aldous HuxleyCollected Essays; Antic Hay; Point Counter Point; Brave NewWorld.
Lawrence DurrellThe Alexandria Quartet.
William GoldingPincher Martin.
Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook.
Mervyn PeakeThe Gormenghast Trilogy.
Jeanette WintersonThe Passion.
Auden, W.H.Collected Poems; The Dyer's Hand.
Roy FullerCollected Poems.
Gavin EwartSelected Poems.
Basil BuntingCollected Poems.
William EmpsonCollected Poems; Milton's God; Some Versions of Pastoral.
Knight, George Wilson.The Wheel of Fire; The Burning Oracle.
Thomas, R.S.Poems.
Frank KermodeThe Sense of an Ending.
Stevie SmithCollected Poems.
Prince, F.T.Collected Poems.
Philip LarkinCollected Poems.
Donald DavieSelected Poems.
Geoffrey HillSelected Poems.
Jonathan SpenceThe Death of Woman Wang; The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
Elizabeth JenningsSelected Poems.
Keith DouglasThe Complete Poems.
MacDiarmid, Hugh.Complete Poems.
MacNeice, Louis.Collected Poems.
Dylan Thomas, 19141953The Poems.
Nigel DennisCards of Identity.
Seamus HeaneySelected Poems: 19691987; Field Work; Station Island.
Thomas KinsellaPeppercanister Poems.
Paul MuldoonSelected Poems.
John MontagueSelected Poems.
John ArdenPlays.
Joe OrtonThe Complete Plays.
Flann O'Brian,The Dalkey Archive; The Third Policeman.
Tom StoppardTravesties.
Harold PinterThe Caretaker; The Homecoming.
Edward BondThe Fool; Saved.
George Orwell, 19031950Collected Essays; 1984.
O'Brian, Edna.A Fanatic Heart.
GERMANY.
Hugo von HofmannsthalPoems and Verse Plays, tr. by Michael Hamburger and others;Selected Prose, tr. by James Huttinger and Tania and JamesStern; Selected Plays and Libretti, tr. by Michael Hamburger andothers.
Rilke, Rainer Maria.Selected Poetry; The Sonnets to Orpheus; The Notebooks of MalteLaurids Brigge all tr. by Stephen Mitchell; New Poems: First Partand Other Part, tr. by Edward Snow.
Hermann BrochThe Sleepwalkers; The Death of Virgil; Hugo von Hofmannsthaland His Time.
Georg TraklSelected Poems.
Gottfried BennSelected Poems.
Franz Kafka, 1883–1924Amerika; The Complete Stories; The Blue Octavo Notebook; TheTrial; Diaries; The Castle; Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms.
Bertolt BrechtPoems 19131956; The Threepenny Opera, tr. by Desmond Veseyand Eric Bentley; The Good Woman of Setzuan, tr. by EricBentley; Galileo, tr. by Charles Laughton; The Caucasian ChalkCircle.
Arthur SchnitzlerPlays; Stories.
Frank WedekindLulu Plays; Spring Awakening, tr. by Edward Bond.
Karl KrausThe Last Days of Mankind.
Eich, Günter.Moles.
Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain; Stories of Three Decades; Joseph and His
Brothers; Doctor Faustus; Confessions of Felix Krull, ConfidenceMan.
Döblin, Alfred.Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Hermann HesseThe Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi); Narcissus and Goldmund.
Robert MusilYoung Törless; The Man Without Qualities.
Joseph RothThe Radetzky March.
Paul CelanPoems, tr. by Michael Hamburger.
Thomas BernhardWoodcutters.
Böll, Heinrich.Billiards at HalfPast Nine.
Ingeborg BachmannIn the Storm of Roses, tr. by Mark Anderson.
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems.
Walter BenjaminIlluminations.
Robert WalserSelected Stories, tr. by Christopher Middleton et al.
Christa WolfCassandra.
Peter HandkeSlow Homecoming.
Max FrischI'm Not Stiller; Man in the Holocene.
Grass, Günter.The Tin Drum; The Flounder.
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich.The Visit.
Johannes BobrowskiShadow Lands, tr. by Ruth and Matthew Mead.
RUSSIA.
Anna AkhmatovaPoems, tr. by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward.
Leonid AndreyevSelected Tales.
Andrey BelyPetersburg.
Osip MandelshtamSelected Poems, tr. by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin.
Velimir KhlebnikovThe King of Time.
Vladimir MayakovskyThe Bedbug and Selected Poetry, tr. by Max Hayward and GeorgeReavey.
Mikhail BulgatovThe Master and Margherita.
Mickhail KuzminAlexandrian Songs.
Maksim Gorky, 18681936Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev; Autobiography.
Ivan BuninSelected Stories.
Isaac BabelCollected Stories.
Boris PasternakDoctor Zhivago; Selected Poems, tr. by Jon Stallworthy and PeterFrance.
Yury OleshaEnvy.
Marina TsvetayevaSelected Poems, tr. by Elaine Feinstein.
Mikhail ZoshchenkoNervous People and Other Satires.
Andrei PlatonovThe Foundation Pit.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Cancer Ward; TheGulag Archipelago; August 1914.
Joseph BrodskyA Part of Speech: Poems.
SCANDINAVIA.
Isak DinesonWinter's Tales; Seven Gothic Tales.
Nexo, Martin Anderson.Pelle the Conqueror.
Knut Hamsun, 18591952Hunger; Pan.
Sigrid UndsetKristin Lavransdatter.
Ekelöf, Gunnar.Guide to the Underworld, tr. by Rika Lesser.
Tranströmer, Tomas.Selected Poems.
Lagerkvist, Pär.Barrabas.
Lars GustafssonSelected Poems.
SERBIAN/CROATIAN.
Ivo AndricThe Bridge on the Drina.
Vasko PopaSelected Poems.
Danilo KisA Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
CZECH.
Karel Čapek, 18901938War with the Newts; R.U.R.
Vaclav HavelLargo Desolato.
Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Jaroslav SeifertSelected Poetry.
Miroslav HolubThe Fly.
POLISH.
Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles; Sanatorium Under the Sign of theHourglass.
Czeslaw MiloszSelected Poems.
Witold GombrowiczThree Novels.
Stanislaw LemThe Investigation; Solaris.
Zbigniew HerbertSelected Poems.
Adam ZagajewskiTremor.
HUNGARIAN.
Jósef, Attila.Perched on Nothing's Branch.
Ferenc JuhaszSelected Poems.
Németh, Laszlo.Guilt.
MODERN GREEK.
Cavafy, C.P.Collected Poems.
George SeferisCollected Poems.
Nikos KazantzakisThe Greek Passion; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Yannis RitsosExile and Return.
Odysseas ElytisWhat I Love: Selected Poems.
Angelos SikelianosSelected Poems.
YIDDISH.
Sholem AleichemTevye the Dairyman; The Railroad Stories, tr. by Hillel Halkin;The Nightingale, tr. by Aliza Shevrin.
Seforim, Mendele Mokher.The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third.
Peretz, I.L.Selected Stories.
Jacob GlatsteinSelected Poems.
Halpern, MosheLeib.Selected Poems.
H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern).Selected Poems.
Singer, Israel Joshua.The Brothers Ashkenazi; Yoshi Kalb.
Chaim GradeThe Yeshiva.
Ansyky, S.The Dybbuk.
Mani LeibSelected Poems.
Sholem AschEast River.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.Collected Stories; In My Father's Court; The Manor, the Estate, theFamily Moskrat; Satan in Goray.
HEBREW.
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman.Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems.
Agnon, S.Y.In the Heart of the Seas.
Aharon AppelfedThe Immortal Bartfuss; Badenheim 1939.
Yaakov ShabtaiPast Continuous.
Yehuda AmichaiSelected Poetry, tr. by Stephen Mitchell and Chana Bloch; Travels,tr. by Ruth Nevo.
Yehoshua, A.B.A Late Divorce.
Amos OzA Perfect Peace.
Carmi, T.At the Stone of Losses, tr. by Grace Schulman.
Nathan ZachSelected Poems.
Dalia RavikovitchA Dress of Fire.
Dan PagisSelected Poems.
David ShaharThe Palace of Shattered Vessels.
David GrossmanSee Under: Love.
Yoram KaniukHis Daughter.
ARABIC.
Najib MahfuzMidaq Alley; Fountain and Tomb; Miramar.
Adunis.Selected Poems.
Mahmud DarwishThe Music of Human Flesh.
Taha HusaynAn Egyptian Childhood.
LATIN AMERICA.
Dário, Rubén.Selected Poetry.
Borges, Jorge Luis.The Aleph and Other Stories; Dreamtigers (The Maker); Ficciones;Labyrinths; A Personal Anthology.
Alejo CarpentierExplosion in a Cathedral; The Lost Steps; Reasons of State; The
Kingdom of this World.Infante, Guillermo Cabrera.
Three Trapped Tigers; View of Dawn in the Tropics.
Severo SarduyMaitreya.
Reinaldo ArenasThe IllFated Peregrinations of Fray Servando.
Pablo NerudaCanto General, tr. by Jack Schmitt; Residence on Earth, tr. byDonald Walsh; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, tr. byW. S. Merwin; Fully Empowered, tr. by Alastair Reid; SelectedPoems, tr. by Ben Belitt.
Octavio PazThe Collected Poems; The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Vallejo, César.Selected Poems, tr. by H. R. Hays; Spain, Take This Cup from Me.
Asturias, Miguel Angel.Men of Maize.
Lima, José Lezama.Paradiso.
Donoso, José.The Obscene Bird of Night.
Cortázar, Julio.Hopskotch; All Fires the Fire, tr. by Suzanne Jill Levine; Blowupand Other Stories, tr. by Paul Blackburn.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez.One Hundred Years of Solitude, tr. by Gregory Rabassa; Love inthe Time of Cholera, tr. by Edith Grossman.
Llosa, Mario Vargas.The War of the End of the World.
Carlos FuentesA Change of Skin; Terra Nostra.
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de.Travelling in the Family, tr. by Elizabeth Bishop, et al.
THE WEST INDIES.
James, C.L.R.The Black Jacobins; The Future in the Present.
Naipaul, V.S.A Bend in the River; A House for Mister Biswas.
Derek WalcottCollected Poems.
Wilson HarrisThe Guyana Quartet.
Michael ThelwellThe Harder They Come.
Césaire, Aimé.Collected Poetry.
AFRICA.
Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart.
Wole SoyinkaA Dance of the Forest.
Amos TutuolaThe PalmWine Drinkard and His Dead PalmWine Tapster in theDead's Town.
Christopher OkigboLabyrinths, with Path of Thunder.
(Bekederemo), John Pepper Clark.Casualties: Poems.
Armah, Ayi K.The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
Ngugi, Wa Tiong'o.A Grain of Wheat.
Gabriel OkaraThe Fisherman's Invocation.
Nadine GordimerCollected Stories.
Coetzee, J.M.Foe.
Athol FugardA Lesson from Aloes.
Senghor, Léopold S.Selected Poems.
INDIA (IN ENGLISH).
Narayan, R.K.The Guide.
Salman RushdieMidnight's Children.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer.Heat and Dust.
CANADA.
Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano.
Robertson DaviesThe Deptford Trilogy; The Rebel Angels.
Alice MunroSomething I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Northrop FryeFables of Identity.
Hébert, Anne.
Selected Poems.Jac Macpherson
Poems Twice Told.
Margaret AtwoodSurfacing.
Daryl HineSelected Poems.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
Miles Franklin, 18791954My Brilliant Career.
Katherine Mansfield, 18881923The Short Stories.
Hope, A.D.Collected Poems.
Patrick WhiteRiders in the Chariot; A Fringe of Leaves; Voss.
Christina SteadThe Man Who Loved Children.
Judith WrightSelected Poems.
Les A. MurrayThe Rabbiter's Bounty; Collected Poems.
Thomas KennealyThe Playmaker; Schindler's List.
David MaloufAn Imaginary Life.
Kevin HartPeniel and Other Poems.
Peter CareyOscar and Lucinda; Illywhacker.
THE UNITED STATES.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington.Selected Poems.
Robert FrostThe Poetry.
Edith Wharton, 1862–1937Collected Short Stories; The Age of Innocence; Ethan Frome; TheHouse of Mirth; The Custom of the Country.
Willa Cather, 18731947My Antonia; The Professor's House; A Lost Lady.
Gertrude Stein, 1874–1946Three Lives; The Geographical History of America; The Making ofAmericans; Tender Buttons.
Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems; The Necessary Angel; Opus Posthumous; ThePalm at the End of the Mind.
Vachel LindsayCollected Poems.
Masters, Edgar Lee.Spoon River Anthology.
Theodore Dreiser, 18711945Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy.
Sherwood AndersonWinesberg, Ohio; Death in the Woods and Other Stories.
Sinclair Lewis, 18851951Babbitt; It Can't Happen Here.
Elinor WylieLast Poems.
Williams, William Carlos.Spring and All; Paterson; Collected Poems.
Ezra PoundPersonae: Collected Poems; The Cantos; Literary Essays.
Robinson JeffersSelected Poems.
Marianne MooreComplete Poems.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).Selected Poems.
Ransom, John Crowe.Selected Poems.
Eliot, T.S.The Complete Poems and Plays; Selected Essays.
Porter, Katherine Anne.Collected Stories.
Jean ToomerCane.
Passos, John Dos.U.S.A.
Conrad AikenCollected Poems.
Eugene O'Neill, 18881953Lazarus Laughed; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey intoNight.
cummings, e.e.Complete Poems.
Wheelwright, John B.Collected Poems.
Robert FitzgeraldSpring Shade: Poems.
Louise BoganThe Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems.
Léonie Adams,Poems: A Selection.
Hart Crane
Complete Poems; Selected Letters and Prose.Allen Tate
Collected Poems.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 18961940Babylon Revisited and Other Stories; The Great Gatsby; Tender isthe Night.
William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!;The Sound and the Fury; The Wild Palms; The Collected Stories;The Hamlet.
Ernest HemingwayComplete Short Stories; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises;The Garden of Eden.
John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath.
Zora Neale Hurston,Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Nathanael West, 19031940Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust.
Richard WrightNative Son; Black Boy.
Eudora WeltyCollected Stories; Delta Wedding; The Robber Bridegroom; ThePonder Heart.
Langston HughesSelected Poems; The Big Sea; I Wonder as I Wander.
Edmund WilsonThe Shores of Light; Patriotic Gore.
Kenneth BurkeCounterstatement; A Rhetoric of Motives.
Joseph MitchellUp in the Old Hotel.
Abraham CahanThe Rise of David Levinsky.
Kay BoyleThree Short Stories.
Ellen GlasgowBarren Ground.
Marquand, John P.H. M. Pulham, Esquire.
O'Hara, John.Collected Stories; Appointment in Samarra.
Henry RothCall It Sleep.
Thornton WilderThree Plays.
Warren, Robert Penn.All the King's Men; World Enough and Time; Selected Poems.
Delmore SchwartzSummer Knowledge: Selected Poems.
Weldon KeesCollected Poems.
Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems.
John BerrymanCollected Poems.
Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky.
Randall JarrellComplete Poems.
Charles OlsonThe Maximus Poems; Collected Poems.
Robert HaydenCollected Poems.
Robert LowellCollected Poems.
Theodore RoethkeCollected Poems; Straw for the Fire.
James AgeePermit Me Voyage; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with WalkerEvans).
Jean GarrigueSelected Poems.
May SwensonNew & Selected Things Taking Place; In Other Words.
Robert DuncanBending the Bow.
Richard WilburNew and Collected Poems.
Richard EberhartCollected Poems.
Tolson, M.B.Harlem Gallery.
Kenneth KochSeasons on Earth.
O'Hara, Frank.Selected Poems.
James SchuylerCollected Poems.
James BaldwinThe Price of the Ticket.
Saul BellowSeize the Day; The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog.
John CheeverThe Stories; Bullet Park.
Ralph EllisonInvisible Man.
Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood.
McCullers, Carson.
The Ballad of the Sad Café; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.O'Connor, Flanner.
Complete Stories; The Violent Bear It Away; Wise Blood.
Vladimir NabokovLolita; Pale Fire.
Gore VidalMyra Brechinridge; Lincoln.
William StyronThe Long March.
Salinger, J.D.The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories.
Wright MorrisCeremony in Lone Tree.
Bernard MalamudThe Stories; The Fixer.
Norman MailerAdvertisements for Myself; The Executioner's Song; AncientEvenings.
John HawkesThe Cannibal; Second Skin.
William GaddisThe Recognitions.
Tennessee WilliamsA Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Summer andSmoke.
Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman.
Mayer, Edwin Justus.Children of Darkness.
Harold BrodkeyStories in an Almost Classical Mode.
Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness.
Raymond CarverWhere I'm Calling From.
Robert CooverSpanking the Maid.
Don DeLilloWhite Noise; Libra; Running Dog; Mao II.
John CrowleyLittle, Big; Aegypt; Love and Sleep.
Guy DavenportTatlin!
James DickeyThe Early Motion; The Central Motion.
E.L. DoctorowThe Book of Daniel; World's Fair.
Stanley ElkinThe Living End.
William Gass
In the Heart of the Country; Omensetter's Luck.Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker.
Denis JohnsonAngels; Fiskadoro; Jesus' Son.
Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian; Suttree; Child of God.
William KennedyIronweed; The Albany Cycle.
Toni MorrisonSong of Soloman.
Gloria NaylorThe Women of Brewster Place.
Joyce Carol OatesThem.
Walker PercyThe Moviegoer.
Grace PaleyThe Little Disturbances of Man.
Thomas PynchonV.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow.
Cynthia OzickEnvy, or Yiddish in America; The Messiah of Stockholm.
Ishmael ReedMumbo Jumbo.
Philip RothPortnoy's Complaint; My Life as a Man; Zuckerman Bound: ATrilogy and Epilogue; The Counterlife; Patrimony; OperationShylock.
James SalterSolo Faces; Light Years.
Robert StoneDog Soldiers; A Flag for Sunrise.
John BarthThe Floating Opera; The End of the Road; The SotWeed Factor.
Walter AbishAlphabetical Africa; How German Is It; Eclipse Fever; I am theDust Under Your Feet.
Donald BarthelmeForty Stories; The Dead Father.
Thomas M. DischOn Wings of Song.
Paul TherouxThe Mosquito Coast.
John UpdikeThe Witches of Eastwick.
Kurt VonnegutCat's Cradle.
Edmund WhiteForgetting Elena; Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
James McCourtTime Remaining.
James WilcoxModern Baptists.
A.R. AmmonsCollected Poems; Selected Longer Poems; Collected Poems;Sphere: The Form of a Motion.
John AshberyThe Double Dream of Spring; Houseboat Days; Selected Poems;Flow Chart; Hotel Lautréamont; And the Stars Were Shining.
David MametAmerican Buffalo; SpeedthePlow.
David RabeStreamers.
Sam ShepardSeven Plays.
August WilsonFences; Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Anthony HechtCollected Earlier Poems.
Edgar BowersLiving Together: New and Selected Poems.
Donald JusticeSelected Poems.
James MerrillFrom the First Nine.
W.S. MerwinThe Changing Light at Sandover.
James WrightAbove the River: The Complete Poems.
Galway KinnellSelected Poems.
Philip LevineSelected Poems.
Irving FeldmanNew and Selected Poems.
Donald HallThe One Day; Old and New Poems.
Alvin FeinmanPoems.
Richard HowardUntitled Subjects; Findings.
John HollanderReflections on Espionage; Selected Poetry; Tesserae.
Gary SnyderNo Nature: New and Selected Poems.
Charles SimicSelected Poems.
Mark StrandSelected Poems; The Continuous Life; Dark Harbor.
Charles WrightThe World of the Ten Thousand Things.
Jay WrightDimensions of History; The Double Invention of Komo; SelectedPoems; Elaine's Book; Boleros.
Amy ClampittWestward.
Allen GrossmanThe Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected.
Howard MossNew Selected Poems.
James ApplewhiteRiver Writing: An Eno Journal.
McClatchy, J.D.The Rest of the Way.
Alfred CordA Call in the Midst of the Crowd.
Douglas CraseThe Revisionist.
Rita DoveSelected Poems.
Thylias MossSmall Congregations: New and Selected Poems.
Edward HirschEarthly Measures.
Tony KushnerAngels in America.
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