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Michael Dirda, Classics for Pleasure

397 entries: 226 monographical, 171 otherwise

Unranked—arranged topically

This book offers the second-best (after Philip Ward's) combination of a list of works for readers to enjoy and a enjoyable work to read in and of itself; or we could say, it offers a selection of books less predictable than Fadiman's or Van Doren's, and his prose is at least superior to Van Doren's. (Powys's selection is relatively limited, and as a novelist himself doesn't seem to have put as much care and effort into his text, presumably because he was somewhat dismissive of the entire concept).

Dirda's book specifically responds to Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan. The author explains that he read Fadiman's book as a child, adding, "Over the years I gradually meandered my way through nearly all the works" listed there. He then went on to a doctorate in comparative literature and a position as editor and writer at the Washington Post Book World. In turn, Dirda designed Classics for Pleasure not to overlap with the final, 1997 version of Fadiman's plan, arguing that the works listed there are "relatively familiar." As a result, Dirda's list ends up like Kanigel's Vintage Reading, directing its readers to "new authors and less obvious classics."

The works listed here are split into categories defined by a broad theme. These are as such: Playful Imaginations (1-Gorey); Heroes of Their Time (31-Agee); Love's Mysteries (Sappho-62); Words From the Wise (63-75); Everyday Magic (76-94); Lives of Consequence (95-Auden); The Dark Side (117-128); Traveler's Tales (129-154); The Way We Live Now (155-180); Realms of Adventure (181-Hammett); Encyclopedic Visions (203-224).

    Lucian
  1. Verae Historiae

    2. True History
    Second Century—Greek

  2. Asinus

    3. Lucius or The Ass
    Second Century—Greek

  3. Dialogi Mortuorum

    4. Dialogues of the Dead
    Second Century—Greek

  4. Dialogi Meretricii

    5. Dialogues of the Courtesans
    Second Century—Greek

  5. Dialogi Deorum
    Dialogues of the Gods
    Second Century—Greek

    • Essays

    6. Second Century—Greek

    Denis Diderot
  6. Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde
    German traslation, 1805; original, 1823—French

    • Selected works

    7. Eighteenth Century—French

  7. Les Bijoux Indiscrets

    8. originally anonymously published 1748—French

  8. Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville, ou Dialogue Entre A et B sur l'Inconvénient d'Attacher des Idées Morales à Certaines Actions Physiques Qui n'en Comportent Pas

    9. 1772—French

  9. La Religieuse
    The Nun
    1796—French

    • 'Ceci N'Est pas un Conte'

    10. originally published 1773 in Correspondance Littérarire—French

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

    • Denis Diderot et al.

    Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers

    11. published in 28 volumes, 1751-72—French

    Thomas Love Peacock
  11. Crotchet Castle
    1831; revised 1837—English

    • Novels

    12. Nineteenth Century—English

  12. Nightmare Abbey

    13. 1818; revised 1837—English

  13. Gryll Grange

    14. originally published serially 1860 in Fraser's Magazine—English

  14. Maid Marian

    15. 1822—English

    Max Beerbohm
  15. Seven Men

    16. 1919; second edition, entitled Seven Men, and Two Others, 1950

  16. A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm

    17. 1912—English

  17. Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story
    1911—English

    • Essays

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • And Even Now

    18. 1920; essays—English

  18. Jaroslav Hasek

    19. Osudy Dobrého Vojáka Švejka za Svetové Války
    The Good Soldier Švejk
    1923—Czech

    Ivy Compton-Burnett
  19. Brothers and Sisters

    20. 1929—English

  20. Manservant and Maidservant
    1947; U S edition entitled Bullivant and the Lambs—English

    • Novels

    21. Twentieth Century—English

  21. Daughters and Sons

    22. 1937—English

  22. Parents and Children

    23. 1941—English

  23. A House and Its Head

    24. 1935—English

  24. A Father and His Fate

    25. 1957—English

  25. Darkness and Day

    26. 1951—English

  26. Pastors and Masters

    27. 1925—English

  27. The Present and the Past
    1953—English

    S J Perelman
    • The Most of S J Perelman

    1958—English

    • 'Strictly From Hunger'

    —English

    • 'Cloudland Revisited'

    28. series of essays—English

    Italo Calvino
  28. Le Città Invisibili

    29. Invisible Cities
    1972—Italian

  29. Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati

    30. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
    first part published 1969, entitled Tarocchi: Il Mazzo Visconteo di Bergamo e New York; published in its entirety, 1973—Italian

  30. Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
    1979—Italian

    Edward Gorey
    • Amphigorey

    1972; includes The Unstrung Harp, 1953; The Listing Attic, 1954; The Doubtful Guest, 1957; The Object Lesson, 1958; The Bug Book, 1959; The Fatal Lozenge, 1960; The Hapless Child, 1961; The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Tale by Ogdred Weary, 1961; The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll, 1962; The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction, 1963; The Wuggly Ump, 1963; The Sinking Spell, 1964; and The Remembered Visit: A Story Taken From Life, 1965—English

    • Amphigorey Too

    1975; includes The Beastly Baby, 1962; The Nursery Frieze, 1964; Three Books From Fantod Press, 1966; The Gilded Bat, 1967; The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley, 1969; Three Books From The Fantod Press, 1970; Three Books From The Fantod Press, 1971; The Lavender Leotard; The Disrespectful Summons; The Abandoned Sock, 1972; Leaves from a Mislaid Album, 1972; The Lost Lions, 1973; and A Limerick, 1973; plus translations of Alphonse Allais's Story for Saraand Charles Cros's The Salt Herring—English

    • Amphigorey Also

    1983; includes The Utter Zoo, 1967; The Blue Aspic, 1968; The Epiplectic Bicycle, 1969; The Sopping Thursday, 1970; The Grand Passion; Les Passementeries Horribles; The Eclectic Abecedarium; L'Heure Bleue; The Broken Spoke; The Awdrey-Gore Legacy; The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet, 1975; The Loathsome Couple; The Green Beads, 1978; Les Urnes Utiles; The Stupid Joke; The Prune People; and The Tuning Fork—English

    • Amphigorey Again

    31. 2006; includes The Galoshes of Remorse; Signs of Spring; Seasonal Confusion; Random Walk; Category; The Other Statue; Scenes de Ballet; Verse Advice; The Deadly Blotter; Creativity; The Retrieved Locket; The Water Flowers; The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas, 1998; Christmas Wrap-Up, The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, 1999; The Just Dessert; The Admonitory Hippopotamus; Neglected Murderesses; Tragedies Topiares; The Raging Tide; The Unknown Vegetable; Another Random Walk; Serious Life: A Cruise; Figbash Acrobate; La Malle Saignante; and The Izzard Book; plus abridged versions of 10 Impossible Objects and The Universal Solvent—English

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  31. Beowulf

    32. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

  32. Ferdowsi
    Shahnameh
    The Book of Kings
    written ca. 977-1010—Persian

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    • "The Icelandic Sagas"

    33. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse

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  33. Njáls Saga

    34. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse

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  34. Laxdaela Saga

    35. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse

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  35. Grettis Saga

    36. ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse

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  36. Egil Saga
    ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse

    Christopher Marlowe
    • Plays

    37. late Sixteenth Century—English

  37. The Jew of Malta

    38. 1592—English

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

    39. 1592—English

  39. Dido, Queen of Carthage

    40. ca. 1587-93—English

  40. Edward II

    41. 1593—English

  41. Tamburlaine the Great
    1590—English

    • Poems

    42. late Sixteenth Century—English

    Émile Zola
  42. Germinal
    originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil Blas—French

    • Novels

    43. late Nineteenth Century—English

  43. L'Assommoir

    44. 1877—French

  44. Nana

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

  45. La Bête Humaine

    46. 1890—French

  46. Au Bonheur des Dames

    47. originally published serially 1883 in Gil Blas—French

  47. La Terre

    48. 1887—French

  48. Ernst Jünger

    49. In Stahlgewittern
    1920; revised through 1978 edition—German

    James Agee
  49. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    1941; photography by Walker Evans—English

    • "Film criticism"

    Twentieth Century—English

    • Sappho

    Poems
    late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

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    • "Arthurian romances"



  50. Chrétien de Troyes

    51. Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion
    written ca. 1170—French

  51. Gottfried Von Strassberg

    52. Tristan
    early Thirteenth Century—German

  52. Wolfram Von Eschenbach

    53. Parzival
    ca. early Thirteenth Century—German

  53. Madame de la Fayette
    La Princess de Clèves
    originally anonymously published 1678—French

    • Sǿren Kierkegaard

    54. Enten - Eller [excerpted]
    Either/ Or
    'Diary of a Seducer'; this section written under the pseudonym, Johannes; complete work originally published under the pseudonym, Victor Eremita, 1843—Danish

  54. George Meredith
    Modern Love
    1862—English

    C P Cavafy
    • Poems

    early Twentieth Century—Greek

    • 'Waiting for the Barbarians'

    —Greek

    • 'The God Abandons Antony'

    —Greek

    • 'Ithaka'

    —Greek

    • 'A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses'

    —Greek

    • 'The Melancholy of Iason Kleandros, Poet in Kommagini, 595 C E'

    —Greek

    • 'And I Lounge and Lay on Their Beds'

    55. —Greek

    Georgette Heyer
  55. The Grand Sophy

    56. 1950—English

  56. Venetia

    57. 1958—English

  57. Friday's Child

    58. 1944—English

  58. Cotillion

    59. 1953—English

  59. A Civil Contract
    1961—English

    Anna Akhmatova
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—Russian

    • 'Evening'

    —Russian

    • 'Rosary'

    —Russian

    • 'White Flock'

    60. —Russian

  60. Requiem

    61. written 1935-40; published 1963—Russian

  61. Poem Without a Hero

    62. written 1940-60; published in part serially; in its entirety, in Tale Without a Hero and Twenty-Two Poems, 1973—Russian

  62. Daphne du Maurier

    63. Rebecca
    1938—English

  63. Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
    Dàodéjīng
    Tao te Ching
    ca. Sixth Century B C—Chinese

    • Heraclitus

    64. Selected works
    ca. late Sixth-early Fifth centuries B C; only fragments of his works are extant—Greek

    Marcus Tullius Cicero
  64. De Officiis

    65. written 44 B C—Latin

  65. Tusculanae Disputationes
    written ca. 45 B C—Latin

    • De Re Publica [excerpted]

    66. 'The Dream of Scipio'; written 54-51 B C—Latin

  66. Epistulae ad Atticum

    67. written 68-43 B C—Latin

  67. Desiderius Erasmus

    68. Stultitiae Laus
    In Praise of Folly
    1511; revised—Latin

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  68. The Bible

    69. Dirda specifies 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 Blayney—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

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  69. The Book of Common Prayer

    70. 1549; revised 1552, 1559, 1604, 1662; first-second versions edited by Thomas Cranmer—English

  70. John Bunyan
    The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

    • Isaac Watts

    Hymns


    • Charles Wesley

    Hymns
    Eighteenth Century—English


    • George Whitefield

    Sermons


    • Jonathan Edwards

    71. Sermons


    Baruch Spinoza
  71. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

    72. originally anonymously published 1670—Latin

  72. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata

    73. Ethics
    1677—Latin

    Samuel Johnson
  73. The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

    74. 1749—English


  74. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
    The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    1759—English

    • Essays from the Rambler and the Idler

    75. unspecified essays originally published in the Rambler, 1750-52; the Idler, 1758-60—English


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

    76. 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, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, entitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English

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  76. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

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  77. Pearl
    probably the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English

    • Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

    Stories
    Nineteenth Century—German

    • Hans Christian Andersen

    Fables
    Nineteenth Century—Danish

    • Charles Perrault

    Stories
    Seventeenth Century—French

    • Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (Madame d'Aulnoy) (Countess d'Aulnoy)

    Stories
    Seventeenth Century—French

    • 'Le Nain Jaune'

    'The Yellow Dwarf'
    part of Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées à la Mode, 1698

    • Angela Carter

    'The Company of Wolves'
    part of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979—English

    • Tanith Lee

    Red as Blood, or Tales From the Sisters Grimmer
    1983; versions of stories by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, and Alexander Afanasyev—English

    E T A Hoffmann
    • Stories

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Der Goldne Topf. Ein Märchen aus der Neuen Zeit

    'The Golden Pot'
    originally published 1814 as part of Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier—German

    • 'Der Sandmann'

    'The Sandman'
    included in Die Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), 1817—German

    • 'Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten'

    'Mademoiselle de Scudéri'
    originally published 1819 in Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820. Der Liebe und Freundschaft Gewidmet; included in Die Serapionsbrüder, 1819—German

    • 'Die Bergwerke zu Falun'

    78. 'The Mines of Falun'
    included in Die Serapionsbrüder, 1819—German

  78. Die Elixiere des Teufels
    1815—German

    Prosper Mérimée
    • Stories

    79. Nineteenth Century—French

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

    • 'Mateo Falcone'

    originally published May 1829 in Revue de Paris; included in Mosaïque, 1833—French

    • 'La Double Méprise'

    —French

    • 'The Spanish Witches'

    —French

    • 'Djoumane'

    80. —French

  80. Lokis

    81. originally published Sep. 1869 in Revue des Deux Mondes—French

  81. Colomba
    originally published Jul. 1840 in Revue des Deux Mondes—French

    • 'La Vénus d'Ille'

    82. —French

  82. La Chronique du Temps de Charles IX

    83. 1829—French

    Frances Hodgson Burnett
  83. The Secret Garden

    84. originally published serially 1910-11 in the American Magazine—English

  84. Little Ford Fauntleroy

    85. originally published serially Nov. 1885-Oct. 1886 in St. Nicholas Magazine—English

  85. A Little Princess

    86. originally entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, published serially 1888 in St. Nicholas Magazine; revised and retitled 1905—English

    E Nesbit
  86. Five Children and It

    87. published in part as a series of stories collectively entitled The Psammead, or The Gifts in the Strand, 1900; in its entirety, 1902—English

  87. The Story of the Treasure-Seekers

    88. 1899—English

  88. The Railway Children

    89. originally published serially 1905 in the London Magazine—English

  89. The Story of the Amulet

    90. 1906—English

  90. Wet Magic

    91. 1913—English

  91. The Phoenix and the Carpet

    92. 1904—English

  92. John Masefield

    93. The Box of Delights
    1935—English

    Walter de la Mare
  93. Memoirs of a Midget
    1921—English

    • Selected works

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The Listeners'

    94. included in The Listeners and Other Poems, 1912—English

  94. Peacock Pie
    1913—English

    • 'Seaton's Aunt'

    —English

    • 'All Hallows'

    —English

    • 'The Riddle'

    included in The Riddle and Other Stories, 1923—English

    • 'Crewe'

    95. —English

  95. The Return

    96. 1910; revised 1922 and 1945—English

  96. Plutarch

    97. Bìoi Paràllēloi
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek

    Girolamo Cardano
  97. De Vita Propria
    1576—Latin

    • De Arcanis Aeternitatis

    98. The Mysteries of Eternity
    part of Opera Omnia, 1663—Latin

  98. John Aubrey
    Brief Lives
    written 1680-93; published 1813 as Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; expanded 1898 as Brief Lives, Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696—English

    Alexander Pope
    • Poems

    99. Nineteenth Century—English

  99. Essay on Criticism

    100. 1711—English

  100. The Rape of the Lock
    originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

    • 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady'

    included in the The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, 1717—English

    • 'Eloisa to Abelard'

    included in the The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, 1717—English

    • 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot'

    101. 1735—English

  101. The Dunciad

    102. originally anonymously published 1728; revised through fourth edition, 1743—English

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  102. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

    103. The Social Contract
    1762—French

  103. Les Confessions

    104. 1782—French

  104. Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts

    105. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
    1750—French

  105. Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

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

  106. Émile, ou de l'Éducation

    107. 1762—French

  107. Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts

    108. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
    1750—French

  108. Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire

    109. Reveries of a Solitary Walker
    1782—French

  109. Frederick Douglass

    110. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
    1845—English

  110. Jacob Burckhardt
    Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien
    The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy; 1860—German

    Henry James
    • Complete correspondence

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • Complete essays

    111. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

  111. The American Scene
    published in part serially 1905-06 in the North American Review, Harper's Weekly, and the Fortnightly Review; in its entirety, 1907—English

    • Italian Hours

    112. 1909; two new essays and 20 additional essays, two of which previously uncollected in book form, originally published 1873-1902 in periodicals or other books; many of the essays revised for inclusion in this book—English

  112. A Small Boy and Others

    113. 1913—English

  113. The Turn of the Screw

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

  114. The Aspern Papers

    115. originally published serially 1888 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  115. The Beast in the Jungle
    originally published in The Better Sort, 1903—English

    W H Auden
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'Meiosis'

    originally untitled, published as one of five poems, Oct. 1933, in New Verse; included in Look Stranger!, 1936; retitled for inclusion in The Collected Poetry of W H Auden, 1945; included in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'Ode'

    originally published 1932 in New Signatures; included in The Orators, 1932; revised for inclusion in W H Auden: A Selection by the Author, 1958, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'Letter to Lord Byron'

    part of Auden and Louis MacNeice's Letters From Iceland, 1937; revised for inclusion in Longer Contemporary Poems, 1966; included in Collected Longer Poems, 1968, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'The Sea and the Mirror'

    published in part in the Atlantic Monthly and the Partisan Review; in its entirety as part of For the Time Being, 1944; included in Collected Longer Poems, 1968, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'The Platonic Blow'

    poem inaccurately attributed to Auden; originally untitled, published Mar. 1965 in Fuck You; retitled and published separately later the same year—English

    • 'Spain 1937'

    originally entitled 'Spain', published separately 1937; retitled and revised for inclusion in Another Time, 1940; included in Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944, 1950—English

    • 'September 1, 1939'

    originally published Oct. 1939 in the New Republic; included in Another Time, 1940; revised for inclusion in Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944, 1950—English

    • 'In Memory of W B Yeats'

    originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Republic; expanded for inclusion in the London Mercury, Apr. 1939, and Another Time, 1940; revised for inclusion in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud'

    originally published Winter 1940 in the Kenyon Review and Mar. 1940 in Horizon; included in Another Time, 1940, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'On the Circuit'

    originally published Jul. 1964 in the New Yorker; included in About the House, 1965, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

    • 'The Cave of Making'

    116. originally published Oct. 1964 in the Listener; included in About the House, 1965, and published separately later the same year; included in Collected Poems, 1976—English

  116. The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays

    117. 1962; includes Making, Knowing and Judging, 1956; other portions published in varied periodicals and anthologies, 1946-62; many of the essays, whether previously published or not, derive from 1956-60 lectures at the University of Oxford—English

  117. The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea
    1950; edited 1949 lectures—English

    • Forewords and Afterwords

    118. 1973; 46 essays published 1943-72 in periodicals and books—English

    John Webster
  118. The White Devil

    119. 1612—English

  119. The Duchess of Malfi

    120. ca. 1613-14—English

  120. Mary Shelley

    121. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  121. James Hogg
    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor
    originally anonymously published 1824—English

    Sheridan Le Fanu
    • "Ghost stories"

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Green Tea'

    122. part of In a Glass Darkly, 1872—English

  122. Carmilla
    originally published as part of In a Glass Darkly, 1872—English

    • 'Mr. Justice Harbottle'

    part of In a Glass Darkly, 1872—English

    • 'The Dead Sexton'

    123. —English

  123. Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh

    124. originally published serially 1864 in Dublin University Magazine—English

  124. The House by the Church-Yard

    125. 1863—English

  125. Bram Stoker
    Dracula
    1897—English

    M R James
    • "Ghost stories"

    early Twentieth Century—English

    • 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book'

    originally published 1894 in the National Review; included in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904—English

    • 'The Mezzotint'

    included in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904—English

    • 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'

    included in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904—English

    • 'Casting the Runes'

    included in More Ghost Stories, 1911—English

    • 'A Warning to the Curious'

    included in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories, 1925—English

    • 'Count Magnus'

    included in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904—English

    • 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter'

    included in A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919—English

    • 'Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance'

    included in More Ghost Stories, 1911—English

    William Roughead
    • Tales of the Criminous: A Selection from the Works of William Roughead

    1956—English

    • The Evil That Men Do

    1929—English

    • Classic Crimes: A Selection from the Works of William Roughead

    1951—English

    H P Lovecraft
    • 'The Dunwich Horror'

    126. originally published Apr. 1929 in Weird Tales; included in The Dunwich Horror and Others, 1963—English

  126. The Shadow Out of Time
    originally published in Astounding Stories, Jun. 1936—English

    • 'The Colour Out of Space'

    originally published Sep. 1927 in Amazing Stories; included in The Dunwich Horror and Others, 1963—English

    • 'The Thing on the Doorstep'

    originally published Jan. 1937 in Weird Tales; included in The Dunwich Horror and Others, 1963—English

    • 'The Call of Cthulhu'

    127. originally published Feb. 1928 in Weird Tales; included in The Dunwich Horror and Others, 1963—English

  127. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

    128. published in part serially May-Jul. 1941 in Weird Tales; in its entirety in Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1943—English

  128. At the Mountains of Madness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1936 in Astounding Stories—English

    • 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'

    129. originally 1927 in the Recluse; included in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, 1963—English

  129. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

    130. 1936—English

  130. Thomas More

    131. Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin

    Daniel Defoe
  131. A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Divided Into Circuits or Journies

    132. 1724-27—English

  132. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner

    133. originally anonymously published 1719—English

  133. A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665

    134. originally anonymously published 1722—English

  134. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

    135. 1722—English

  135. A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Balgrave at Canterbury the Eighth of September, 1705
    originally anonymously published 1706—English


    136. Xavier de Maistre
  136. Voyage Autour de ma Chambre

    137. 1794—French

  137. Expédition Nocturne Autour de ma Chambre

    138. 1825—French

    Jules Verne
  138. Voyage au Centre de la Terre

    139. A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    1864—French

  139. Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin

    140. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    1870—French

  140. Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours

    141. Around the World in Eighty Days
    1873—French

  141. L'Île Mystérieuse
    The Mysterious Island
    1874—French

    • Selected works

    142. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—French

  142. Voyages et Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras

    143. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
    1864; revised 1866—French

  143. Le Testament d'un Excentrique

    144. The Will of an Eccentric
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1899 in Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation—French

  144. Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum
    The Begum's Fortune
    1879—French

    • 'Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox'

    145. 'Dr. Ox's Experiment'
    1872; included in Le Docteur Ox, 1974—French

  145. Maître du Monde

    146. Master of the World
    1904—French

  146. Robur-le-Conquérant

    147. Robur the Conquerer
    1886—French

  147. Mathias Sandorf

    148. originally published serially 1885 in Le Temps—French

    Jules Verne; Michael Verne
  148. L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac
    The Barsac Mission
    originally published serially 1914—French

    • 'L'Éternel Adam'

    149. —French

    J K Huysmans
  149. À Rebours

    150. 1884—French

  150. Là-Bas

    151. 1891—French

    Isak Dinesen
  151. Out of Africa

    152. originally published under the author's given name, Karen Blixen, 1937; Danish version entitled Den Afrikanske Farm published the same year—English

  152. Seven Gothic Tales
    1934; Danish version entitled Syv Fantastiske Fortaellinger published 1935—English

    • Stories

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The Roads Around Pisa'

    —English

    • 'The Monkey'

    —English

    • 'Babette's Feast'

    —English

    • 'The Deluge at Norderney'

    153. —English

    Robert Byron
  153. The Road to Oxiana

    154. 1937—English

  154. The Station

    155. 1928—English

  155. The Byzantine Achievement

    156. 1929—English

  156. Petronius

    157. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

    Elizabeth Gaskell
  157. Cranford
    originally published serially 1851 in Household Words—English

    • Selected works

    158. Nineteenth Century—English

  158. A Life of Charlotte Brontë

    159. 1857—English

  159. North and South

    160. originally published serially Sep. 1854-Jan. 1855 in Household Words—English

  160. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

    161. 1848—English

  161. Ivan Goncharov

    162. Oblomov
    1859—Russian

    José Maria de Eça de Queirós
  162. O Crime do Padre Amaro

    163. 1875; revised 1876 and 1880—Portuguese

  163. O Primo Basílio

    164. 1878—Portuguese

  164. Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica

    165. 1888—Portuguese

  165. A Relíquia

    166. 1887—Portuguese

  166. A Ilustre Casa de Ramires

    167. 1900—Portuguese

  167. Alves e C.a
    The Yellow Sofa
    1925—Portuguese

    Anton Chekhov
    • Stories

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Russian

    • 'Gooseberries'

    —Russian

    • 'A Dreary Story'

    —Russian

    • 'The Darling'

    —Russian

    • 'Gusev'

    —Russian

    • 'Ward No. 6'

    —Russian

    • 'The Lady With the Dog'

    —Russian

    • 'The Bishop'

    —Russian

    • Correspondence

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Russian

    • Plays

    168. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Russian

  168. Čajka

    169. The Seagull
    1896—Russian

  169. Tri Sestry

    170. Three Sisters
    1901—Russian

  170. Dâdâ Vanâ

    171. Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian

  171. Jean Toomer

    172. Cane
    published in part in varied periodicals; in its entirety, 1923—English

    Willa Cather
  172. Death Comes for the Archbishop

    173. 1927—English

  173. A Lost Lady
    1923—English

    • Selected works

    174. Twentieth Century—English

  174. The Professor's House

    175. 1925—English

  175. The Song of the Lark

    176. 1915—English

  176. My Mortal Enemy

    177. 1926—English

  177. My Ántonia

    178. 1918—English

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  178. Mort à Crédit

    179. 1936—French

  179. Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

    180. Journey to the End of Night
    1932—French

  180. Zora Neale Hurston
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    1937—English

    Eudora Welty
    • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

    181. 1980; includes A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, 1941; The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943; The Golden Apples, 1949; The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, 1955; plus two 'Uncollected Stories': 'Where Is the Voice Coming From?', 1963, and 'The Demonstrators', 1966, both originally published in the New Yorker—English

  181. Losing Battles

    182. 1970—English

  182. The Optimist's Daughter

    183. 1972—English

    H Rider Haggard
  183. She: A History of Adventure

    184. originally published serially Oct. 1886-Jan. 1887 in the Graphic—English

  184. King Soloman's Mines

    185. 1885—English

    Arthur Conan Doyle
  185. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    186. 1892; stories originally published serially Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the Strand—English

  186. The Lost World
    1912—English

    • The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales

    1890—English

    • 'Lot No. 49'

    originally published 1892—English

    • 'The Horror of the Heights'

    originally published Nov. 1913 in the Strand—English

    • "Brigadier Gerard stories"

    19 stories, all but one included in either The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard or The Adventures of Gerard—English

    • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

    eight stories originally published serially Dec. 1894-Dec. 1895 in the Strand—English

    • The Adventures of Gerard

    nine stories originally published serially Jan. 1900-May 1903 in the Strand; plus an additional story—English

    • "Captain Sharkey stories"

    187. four stories—English

    Rudyard Kipling
  187. Kim
    originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell's—English

    • Stories

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'Without Benefit of Clergy'

    —English

    • 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw'

    part of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, 1888—English

    • 'The Miracle of Purun Bhagat'

    —English

    • 'The Man Who Would Be King'

    part of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, 1888—English

    • 'Mary Postgate'

    —English

    • 'Dayspring Mishandled'

    —English

    • 'The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat'

    —English

    • 'Wireless'

    —English

    • 'The Finest Story in the World'

    188. —English

    H G Wells
  188. The Time Machine
    1895—English

    • Selected works

    189. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

  189. The Island of Doctor Moreau

    190. 1896—English

  190. The War of the Worlds

    191. originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English

  191. The Invisible Man

    192. originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English

  192. The First Men in the Moon
    1901—English

    • 'The Crystal Egg'

    originally published May 1897 in the New Review; included in Tales of Space and Time, 1899—English

    • 'The Truth About Pyecraft'

    originally published Apr. 1903 in the Strand; included in Twelve Stories and a Dream, 1903—English

    • 'Pollock and the Porroh Man'

    1895—English

    • 'The Sea Raiders'

    originaly published Dec. 1896 in the Weekly Sun Literary Supplement—English

    • 'The Plattner Story'

    originally published Apr. 1896 in the New Review; included in The Plattner Story and Others, 1897—English

    • 'The Country of the Blind'

    193. originally published Apr. 1904 in the Strand—English

    G K Chesterton
  193. The Man Who Was Thursday
    1908—English

    • "The Father Brown Mysteries"

    early Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown'

    194. part of The Club of Queer Trades, 1905—English

  194. The Club of Queer Trades
    1905—English

    • 'The Blue Cross'

    originally entitled 'Valentin Follows a Curious Trail', published Jun. 1910 in the Saturday Evening Post; retitled for publication Sep. 1910 in the Story-Teller; included in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911—English

    • 'The Hammer of God'

    originally entitled 'The Bolt From the Blue', published Nov. 1910 in the Saturday Evening Post; included in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911—English

    • 'The Oracle of the Dog'

    included in The Incredulity of Father Brown, 1926—English

    • 'The Sins of Prince Saradine'

    originally published Apr. 1911 in the Saturday Evening Post; included in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911—English

    • 'The Invisible Man'

    originally published Jan. 1911 in the Saturday Evening Post; included in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911—English

    • Essays

    early Twentieth Century—English

    • Stories

    early Twentieth Century—English

    Agatha Christie
    • "The Hercule Point Mysteries"

    195. Twentieth Century—English

  195. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    196. 1926—English

  196. Murder on the Orient Express

    197. Murder in the Calais Coach
    1934—English

  197. The A B C Murders
    1936—English

    • "The Jane Maple Mysteries"

    198. Twentieth Century—English

  198. 4-50 From Paddington

    199. What Mrs. Gillicuddy Saw
    1957—English

  199. The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

    200. 1962—English

  200. The Moving Finger

    201. 1942—English

  201. Ten Little Niggers

    202. And Then There Were None
    1939—English

  202. Dorothy L Sayers

    203. Gaudy Night
    1935—English

    Dashiell Hammett
  203. The Maltese Falcon
    1930—English

    • Selected works

    204. Twentieth Century—English

  204. Red Harvest
    1929—English

    • 'The Whosis Kid'

    205. originally published Mar. 1925 in Black Mask Magazine—English

    Ovid
  205. Metamorphoseon

    206. Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

  206. Robert Burton

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

    Edward Gibbon
  207. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    208. originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English

  208. Memoirs of My Life and Writings

    209. originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896—English

  209. James George Frazer

    210. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
    originally entitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, published in two volumes, 1890; expanded and retitled 1900, in three volumes; expanded 1906-15, in 12 volumes; supplemental volume added for 1937 edition; distinct abridged versions, 1922, 1959, and 1994—English

  210. Henry Watson Fowler
    A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
    1926; later editions considered distinct works—English

    Ezra Pound
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—French

    • Cathay

    211. 1915; translations—English

  211. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
    1920—English

    • Homage to Sextus Propertius

    212. 1934; translations; published in part in Poetry, 1919—English

  212. Personae of Ezra Pound

    213. 1909—English

  213. Cantos
    published in part in Poetry, Jun.-Aug. 1917; the Criterion, Jul. 1923; the Transatlantic Review, Jan. 1924; and in the following volumes: The Fourth Canto, 1919; A Draft of XVI Cantos, 1925; A Draft of Cantos 17-27, 1928; A Draft of XXX Cantos, 1930; Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, 1934; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937; Cantos LII-LXXI, 1940; The Pisan Cantos, 1948; Seventy Cantos, 1950; Section: Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, 1955; Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, 1959; Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, 1968; in its entirety, revised and expanded, 1987—English

    • "Literary essays"

    214. Twentieth Century—French

  214. The Spirit of Romance

    215. 1910; edited lectures—English

  215. A B C of Reading
    1934—English

    • Correspondence

    216. Twentieth Century—French

    André Malraux
  216. La Condition Humaine

    217. Man's Fate
    1933—French

  217. L'Espoir

    218. Man's Hope
    1938—French

  218. Les Voix du silence

    219. 1951—French

    Philip K Dick
  219. The Man in the High Castle
    1961—English

    • "Novels and stories"

    220. Twentieth Century—English

  220. Martian Time-Slip

    221. 1962—English

  221. Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We All Got Along After the Bomb

    222. 1963—English

  222. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    223. 1968—English

  223. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

    224. 1964—English

  224. A Scanner Darkly

    225. 1977—English

  225. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

    226. 1974—English

  226. VALIS

    227. 1981—English