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

588 entries: 424 monographical, 164 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically within topical chapters

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

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

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

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

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

    Homer
  1. Iliad

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

  2. Odýsseia

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

    Hesiod
  3. Theogonía

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

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

    • Sappho

    Poems
    late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

    • Pindar

    5. Poems
    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Aeschylus
  5. Promētheus Desmōtēs

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

  6. Oresteia

    7. The House of Atreus
    458 B C—Greek

    Sophocles
  7. Oidipous Tyrannos

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

  8. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

    9. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek

  9. Antigone

    10. ca. 441 B C—Greek

  10. Euripides

    11. Mēdeia
    Medea
    431 B C—Greek

    Aristophanes
  11. Lysistrate

    12. Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek

  12. Nephelai

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

  13. Bátrachoi

    14. The Frogs
    405 B C—Greek

    Menander
  14. Dyskolos

    15. ca. 317-16 B C—Greek

  15. Samia

    16. ca. 315-09 B C—Greek

  16. Catullus

    17. Poems
    First Century B C—Latin

  17. Sextus Propertius
    Elegiae
    First Century B C—Latin

    • Tibullus

    18. Poems
    First Century B C—Latin

    Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
  18. Eclogues

    19. First Century B C—Latin

  19. Georgics

    20. First Century B C—Latin

  20. Aeneid

    21. First Century B C—Latin

    Ovid
  21. Ars Amatoria

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

  22. Metamorphoseon

    23. Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
  23. Epodon

    24. Epodes
    30 B C—Latin

  24. Satirae

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

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

    • Martial

    Selected works
    First Century—Latin

    • Juvenal

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

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

    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    27. Selected works
    First Century—Latin

    Lucian
  27. Verae Historiae

    28. True History
    Second Century—Greek

  28. De Morte Peregrini

    29. The Passing of Peregrinus
    Second Century—Greek

  29. Longus

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

  30. Heliodorus of Emesa

    31. Aethiopica
    ca. Third Century—Greek

  31. Petronius

    32. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

  32. Apuleius

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

  33. Augustine of Hippo

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

    --
  34. Beowulf

    35. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

    --
  35. The Wanderer

    36. written ca. Fifth-Tenth centuries—English

    --
  36. Dream of the Rood

    37. ca. Seventh-Ninth centuries—English

    --
  37. La Chanson de Roland

    38. ca. Eleventh Century—French

  38. Geoffrey of Monmouth

    39. Historia Regum Britanniae
    written ca. 1136—Latin

    Chrétien de Troyes
  39. Perceval, le Conte du Graal

    40. written 1181-91—French

  40. Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette

    41. written ca. 1170—French

  41. Thomas Malory

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

  42. Pierre Abélard

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

  43. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

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

    Geoffrey Chaucer
  44. Troilus and Criseyde

    45. written ca. 1380s—English

  45. Canterbury Tales

    46. 1478—English

    --
  46. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

    Dante
  47. La Divina Commedia

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

  48. La Vita Nuova

    49. 1295—Italian

  49. Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

    50. Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
    Il Canzoniere
    1374—Italian

  50. Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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

    François Villon
    • Poems

    52. Fifteenth Century—French

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

    53. 1489—French

  53. François Rabelais

    54. La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
    originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564—French

  54. Michel de Montaigne

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

    Miguel de Cervantes
  55. Novelas Ejemplares

    56. 1613—Spanish

  56. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

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

    Christopher Marlowe
  57. Dido, Queen of Carthage

    58. ca. 1587-93—English

  58. Tamburlaine the Great

    59. 1590—English

  59. The Jew of Malta

    60. 1592—English

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

    61. 1592—English

  61. Edward II

    62. 1593—English

  62. The Massacre at Paris
    1593—English

    • 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'

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

    • Walter Raleigh

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

    • Thomas Wyatt

    63. Selected works
    Sixteenth Century—English

    Philip Sidney
  63. Astrophel and Stella

    64. 1591—English

  64. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

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

  65. Defence of Poesie

    66. 1595—English

  66. Edmund Spenser

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

    Ben Jonson
  67. Volpone

    68. 1606—English

  68. The Alchemist

    69. 1610—English

  69. Bartholomew Fayre

    70. 1614—English

    William Shakespeare
  70. Hamlet

    71. 1602—English

  71. King Lear

    72. 1606—English

  72. Macbeth

    73. ca. 1607—English

  73. Othello

    74. ca. 1604—English

  74. Julius Caesar

    75. 1599—English

  75. Antony and Cleopatra

    76. ca. 1606-08—English

  76. Romeo and Juliet

    77. ca. 1591-97—English

  77. Cymbeline

    78. written ca. 1609—English

  78. Coriolanus

    79. written ca. 1605-08—English

  79. Richard II

    80. 1597—English

  80. The First Part of Henry IV

    81. 1597—English

  81. The Second Part of Henry IV

    82. 1600—English

  82. Henry V

    83. 1599—English

  83. Richard III

    84. ca. 1592-7—English

  84. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    85. ca. 1595-1600—English

  85. Much Ado About Nothing

    86. ca. 1598-99—English

  86. The Taming of the Shrew

    87. ca. 1592-94—English

  87. The Merchant of Venice

    88. ca. 1596-98—English

  88. The Tempest

    89. 1611—English

  89. The Comedy of Errors

    90. 1594—English

  90. The Merry Wives of Windsor

    91. ca. 1597-1602—English

  91. Love's Labour Lost

    92. 1598—English

  92. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

    93. 1602—English

  93. As You Like It

    94. 1603—English

  94. Measure for Measure

    95. 1604—English

  95. Troilus and Cressida

    96. ca. 1602-09—English

  96. All's Well That Ends Well

    97. ca. 1606-08—English

  97. Titus Andronicus

    98. 1594—English

  98. Timon of Athens

    99. written ca. 1607—English

  99. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    100. ca. 1606-08—English

  100. The First Part of Henry VI

    101. ca. 1592—English

  101. The Second Part of Henry VI

    102. ca. 1592—English

  102. The Third Part of Henry VI

    103. ca. 1592—English

  103. Henry VIII

    104. ca. 1613—English

  104. The Two Noble Kinsmen

    105. written ca. 1613-14—English

  105. The Winter's Tale

    106. ca. 1611—English

  106. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    107. ca. 1590-94—English

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

    • Poems

    108. late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—English

  108. The Rape of Lucrece

    109. 1594—English

  109. Venus and Adonis
    1593—English

    • The Passionate Pilgrim

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

    Robert Herrick
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'Her Legs'

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

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

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

    • Richard Lovelace

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    John Suckling
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'A Soldier'

    —English

    • Thomas Carew

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    John Donne
    • Poems

    early Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'The Extasie'

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

    George Herbert
    • Poems

    110. early Seventeenth Century—English

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

    • Henry Vaughan

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'The Morning-Watch'

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

    • Abraham Cowley

    Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

    • Richard Crashaw

    111. Poems
    Seventeenth Century—English

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

    Andrew Marvell
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'To His Coy Mistress'

    112. written ca. early 1650's—English

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

    113. 1666—English

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

    114. 1678—English

    John Milton
  114. Paradise Lost

    115. 1667; revised 1674—English

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

    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'Sonnet 19'

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

  116. Samuel Butler

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

  117. Robert Burton

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

  118. Izaak Walton

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

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

    John Dryden
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • Plays

    120. Seventeenth Century—English

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

    121. 1677—English

  121. William Wycherley

    122. The Country Wife
    1675—English

  122. William Congreve

    123. The Way of the World
    1700—English


  123. Nahum Tate

    124. The History of King Lear
    1681—English

  124. Thomas Otway

    125. Venice Preserv'd
    1682—English

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

    126. 1677—English

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

    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'A Satyr on Charles II'

    written 1673-74—English

    • Madeleine de Scudéry

    127. Selected works
    Seventeenth Century—French

  127. Honoré d'Urfé

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

  128. Madame de la Fayette

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

    Molière
  129. Les Précieuses Ridicules

    130. 1659—French

  130. L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge

    131. The Miser
    1668—French

  131. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

    132. 1664—French

  132. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

    133. The Misanthrope
    1666—French

  133. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

    134. 1670—French

    Pierre Corneille
  134. Le Cid

    135. 1637—French

  135. Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste

    136. 1639—French

  136. Polyeucte

    137. 1643—French

    Jean Racine
  137. Andromaque

    138. 1667—French

  138. Phèdre

    139. 1677—French

  139. Athalie

    140. 1691—French

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

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

    141. Correspondence
    Seventeenth Century—French

    Alexander Pope
  141. Essay on Criticism

    142. 1711—English

  142. Essay on Man

    143. 1734—English

  143. Four Ethic Epistles

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

  144. The Rape of the Lock

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

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

    146. originally anonymously published 1719—English

  146. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

    147. 1722—English

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

    148. Roxana
    1724—English

  148. 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

    149. originally anonymously published 1722—English

    Samuel Richardson
  149. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded

    150. 1740; later revised—English

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

    151. 1748—English

  151. The History of Sir Charles Grandison

    152. 1753—English

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

    153. 1741—English

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

    154. 1742—English

  154. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

    155. 1749—English

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

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

  156. Amelia

    157. 1751—English

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

    • Essays from the Rambler and the Idler

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

    • Poems

    158. Eighteenth Century—English

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

    159. originally anonymously published 1738—English

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

    160. 1749—English

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

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

  161. James Boswell

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

    Jonathan Swift
  162. A Tale of a Tub

    163. 1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710—English

  163. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public

    164. originally anonymously published 1729—English

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

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

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

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

  166. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

    167. 1768—English

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

    Francis Burney
    • "Diaries"

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

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

    169. originally anonymously published 1778—English

  169. Oliver Goldsmith

    170. The Vicar of Wakefield
    1766—English

    Voltaire
  170. Lettres Philosophiques

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

  171. Candide, ou L'Optimisme

    172. 1759—French

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

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

  173. 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.

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

  174. Choderlos de Laclos

    175. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
    The Dangerous Liaisons
    1782—French

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  175. Les Confessions

    176. 1782—French

  176. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

    177. The Social Contract
    1762—French

  177. Émile, ou de l'Éducation

    178. 1762—French

  178. Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

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

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

    180. 1791; revised and retitled La Nouvelle Justine ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu, 1797—French

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

    Robert Burns
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth Century—English

    • 'Why Should Na Poor Folk Mowe'

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

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

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

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

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

  182. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    183. ca. 1793—English

  183. The Book of Thel

    184. ca. 1789-90—English

  184. Tiriel

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

  185. Visions of the Daughters of Albion

    186. 1793—English

  186. America a Prophecy

    187. 1793—English

  187. Europe a Prophecy

    188. 1794—English

  188. The Book of Urizen

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

  189. The Book of Ahania

    190. 1795—English

  190. The Book of Los

    191. 1795—English

  191. The Song of Los

    192. 1795—English

  192. Vala, or The Four Zoas

    193. written ca. 1797-1807—English

  193. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

    194. 1820—English

  194. Milton, a Poem in 2 Books

    195. ca. 1811—English

  195. Poetical Sketches
    1783—English

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

    1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English

    William Wordsworth
    • Poems

    196. late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

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

    • "Lucy poems"

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

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

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

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

    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'

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

    • 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'

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

    • Robert Southey

    198. Poems
    Nineteenth Century—English

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

    199. 1812-18—English

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

    • "Short poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'She Walks in Beauty'

    originally published in Hebrew Melodies, 1815—English

    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Poems

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Ode to the West Wind'

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    • 'To a Skylark'

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    • 'Ozymandias'

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

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

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

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

  201. Epipsychidion

    202. originally anonymously published 1821—English

  202. Prometheus Unbound

    203. 1820—English

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

    John Keats
    • 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

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

    • 'Ode to a Nightingale'

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

    • 'Ode on Indolence'

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

    • 'Ode on Melancholy'

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

    • 'Ode to Psyche'

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

    • 'To Autumn'

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

    • 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

    originally published May 1820 in the Indictaor—English

    • 'Bright Star'

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

    • "Story poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Eve of St. Agnes'

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

    • 'Lamia'

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

    • 'Isabella'

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

  204. Endymion
    1818—English

    • 'Hyperion'

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

    • 'The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'

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

    • Correspondence

    205. early Nineteenth Century—English

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  205. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers

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

  206. Faust
    originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German

    Alexander Pushkin
    • Stories

    207. Nineteenth Century—Russian

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

    • 'The Queen of Spades'

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

  208. Evgénij Onegin

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

  209. Mikhail Lermontov

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

  210. Ivan Turgenev

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

  211. Ivan Goncharov
    Oblomov
    1859—Russian

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    • "Early poems"

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Lotos-Eaters'

    212. part of Poems, 1833—English

  212. In Memoriam A H H
    1849—English

    • 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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

  213. Maud and Other Poems

    214. 1855—English

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

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Sonnet 43'

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

    Robert Browning
    • 'My Last Duchess'

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

    • 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'

    215. part of Men and Women, 1855—English

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

    • 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'

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

    Alexandre Dumas
  216. Les Trois Mousquetaires

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

  217. Vingt ans Après

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

  218. Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans Plus Tard

    219. originally published serially 1847-50—French

  219. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

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

  220. Alexandre Dumas, fils

    221. La Dame aux Camélias
    1848—French

    Victor Hugo
  221. Notre-Dame de Paris

    222. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    1831—French

  222. Les Misérables

    223. 1862—French

  223. Edmond Rostand

    224. Cyrano de Bergerac
    1897—French

  224. Prosper Mérimée

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

    Walter Scott
  225. The Bride of Lamermoor

    226. originally anonymously published 1819—English

  226. Rob Roy

    227. originally anonymously published 1817—English

  227. Ivanhoe

    228. originally anonymously published 1819—English

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

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

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

    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Rip Van Winkle'

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

    • 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

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

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Essays

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Self-Reliance'

    part of Essays: First Series, 1841—English

    • 'The Over-Soul'

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

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

    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Humble-Bee

    231. part of Poems, 1847—English

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

    Edgar Allan Poe
    • Stories

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

    • 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

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

    • 'The Premature Burial'

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

    • 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

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

    • 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

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

    • 'The Black Cat'

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

    • 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'

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

    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Raven'

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

    • 'Annabel Lee'

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

  232. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket

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

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

    Emily Dickinson
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

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

    part of Poems: Second Series, 1891—English

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

    part of Poems: Second Series, 1891—English

    • Correspondence

    Nineteenth Century—English

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Young Goodman Brown'

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

  234. The Scarlet Letter

    235. 1850—English

  235. The Blithedale Romance

    236. 1852—English

  236. The House of Seven Gables

    237. 1851—English

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

    238. 1860—English

    Herman Melville
  238. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

    239. 1846—English

  239. Oomo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South

    240. 1847—English

  240. Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

    241. 1849—English

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

    242. 1850—English

  242. Redburn: His First Voyage

    243. 1849—English

  243. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

    244. 1851—English

  244. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

    245. 1852—English

  245. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

    246. 1857—English

  246. Billy Budd, Foretopman

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

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

    • Poems

    248. Nineteenth Century—English

    Mark Twain
  248. Life on the Mississippi

    249. 1883—English

  249. Roughing It

    250. 1872—English

  250. The Innocents Abroad

    251. 1869—English

  251. The Prince and the Pauper

    252. 1881—English

  252. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    253. 1889—English

  253. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    254. 1876—English

  254. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    255. 1884—English

  255. Letters From the Earth

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

    Stephen Crane
  256. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

    257. 1893; revised 1896—English

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

    • Stories

    late Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'The Open Boat'

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

    • 'The Blue Hotel'

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

    Jane Austen
  258. Pride and Prejudice

    259. originally anonymously published 1813—English

  259. Emma

    260. originally anonymously published 1815—English

  260. Persuasion

    261. originally anonymously published 1817—English

  261. Sense and Sensibility

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

  262. Mansfield Park

    263. originally anonymously published 1814—English

  263. Northanger Abbey

    264. originally anonymously published 1817—English

    Charlotte Brontë
  264. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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

  265. Shirley

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

  266. Villette

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

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

    • Poems

    268. Nineteenth Century—English

    Anne Brontë
  268. Agnes Grey

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

  269. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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

  270. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

  271. Horace Walpole

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

    Charles Dickens
  272. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  276. Bleak House

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

  277. Hard Times - For These Times

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

  278. Little Dorrit

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

  279. A Tale of Two Cities

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

  280. Great Expectations

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

  281. The Old Curiosity Shop

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

  282. A Christmas Carol

    283. 1843—English

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

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

  284. The Luck of Barry Lyndon

    285. originally published serially 1844—English

    George Eliot
  285. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

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

  286. Daniel Deronda

    287. 1876—English

  287. The Mill on the Floss

    288. 1860—English

  288. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

    289. 1861—English

  289. Adam Bede

    290. 1859—English

    Thomas Hardy
  290. Far From the Madding Crowd

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

  291. The Return of the Native

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

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

    293. 1886—English

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

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

  294. Jude the Obscure

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

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

    Rudyard Kipling
    • Poems

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'If—'

    part of Rewards and Fairies, 1910—English

    • 'Gunga Din'

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

    • 'The White Man's Burden'

    296. originally published 1899 in McClure's—English

  296. The Jungle Book

    297. 1894—English

  297. The Second Jungle Book

    298. 1895—English

  298. Kim

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

    Oscar Wilde
  299. The Importance of Being Earnest

    300. 1895—English

  300. An Ideal Husband

    301. 1895—English

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

    302. 1892—English

  302. A Woman of No Importance

    303. 1893—English

  303. Salomé

    304. 1893; English version, 1894—French

  304. The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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

  305. De Profundis

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

    Edith Wharton
  306. The House of Mirth

    307. 1905—English

  307. The Custom of the Country

    308. 1913—English

  308. The Age of Innocence

    309. 1920—English

  309. Ethan Frome

    310. 1911—English

    D H Lawrence
  310. Sons and Lovers

    311. 1913—English

  311. The Rainbow

    312. 1915—English

  312. Women in Love

    313. 1920—English

  313. Lady Chatterley's Lover

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

  314. Aaron's Rod

    315. 1922—English

  315. The Plumed Serpent

    316. 1926—English

  316. The Escaped Cock

    317. 1929—English

  317. Kangaroo
    1923—English

    • 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'

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

    • 'The Odour of Chrysanthemums'

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

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

    319. The Red and the Black
    1830—French

  319. Le Chartreuse de Parme

    320. The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French

    Honoré de Balzac
  320. Eugénie Grandet

    321. 1833—French

  321. Le Père Goriot

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

  322. Illusions Perdues

    323. Lost Illusions
    1837-43—French

  323. Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes

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

  324. La Cousine Bette

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

    Gustave Flaubert
  325. Salammbô

    326. 1862—French

  326. La Tentation de Sainte Antoine

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

  327. Madame Bovary

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

  328. L'Éducation Sentimentale

    329. 1869—French

  329. Bouvard et Pécuchet

    330. 1881—French

    Émile Zola
  330. Germinal

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

  331. Nana

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

  332. La Bête Humaine

    333. 1890—French

  333. L'Assommoir

    334. 1877—French

    Joseph Conrad
  334. Lord Jim

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

  335. Heart of Darkness

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

  336. Nostromo

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

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

    • 'An Outpost of Progress'

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

    Nikolai Gogol
    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—Russian

    • 'Hoc'

    'The Nose'
    originally published 1836 in Sovremennik—Russian

    • 'Zapiski Sumasšedšego'

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

  338. Revizor

    339. The Government Inspector
    1836; revised 1842—Russian

  339. Mërtvyâ Duši

    340. Dead Souls
    1842—Russian

    Leo Tolstoy
  340. Anna Karenina

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

  341. Voyna i Mir"

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

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  342. Bednye Lûdi

    343. Poor Folk
    1846—Russian

  343. Dvojnik

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

  344. Zapiski iz Mërtvogo Doma

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

  345. Zapaski iz Podpol'â

    346. Notes From Underground
    1864—Russian

  346. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

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

  347. Idiot

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

  348. Besy

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

  349. Brat'â Karamazovy

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

    Henrik Ibsen
  350. Et Dukkehjem

    351. A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian

  351. Gengangere

    352. Ghosts
    1881—Norwegian

  352. En Folkefiende

    353. An Enemy of the People
    1882—Norwegian

  353. Vildanden

    354. The Wild Duck
    1885—Norwegian

  354. Hedda Gabler

    355. 1890—Norwegian

    August Strindberg
  355. Fröken Julie

    356. Miss Julie
    written 1888—Swedish

  356. Spöksonaten

    357. The Ghost Sonata
    1908—Swedish

  357. Ett Drömspel

    358. 1907—Swedish

    Anton Chekhov
  358. Čajka

    359. The Seagull
    1896—Russian

  359. Dâdâ Vanâ

    360. Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian

  360. Tri Sestry

    361. Three Sisters
    1901—Russian

  361. Višhnëvyj Sad
    The Cherry Orchard
    1904—Russian

    • Stories

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Russian

    • 'Ionich'

    —Russian

    • 'Anna on the Neck'

    —Russian

    • 'Big Volodya and Little Volodya'

    —Russian

    • 'The Grasshopper'

    —Russian

    • 'Skripka Rotšil'da'

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

    • 'In a Country House'

    —Russian

    • 'Ward No. 6'

    362. —Russian

    Charles Baudelaire
  362. Les Fleurs du Mal

    363. The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French

  363. Journaux Intimes
    1887—French

    Arthur Rimbaud
    • "Early poems"

    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Le Coeur Volé'

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

    • 'Le Bateau Ivre'

    364. 'The Drunken Boat'
    written 1871—English

  364. Une Saison en Enfer

    365. A Season in Hell
    1873—French

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

    Comte de Lautreamont
    • Poems

    366. Nineteenth Century—French

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

    • Gérard de Nerval

    Poems
    Nineteenth Century—French

    • Tristan Corbrière

    Poems
    Nineteenth Century—French

    • Paul Verlaine

    Poems
    late Nineteenth Century—French

    • Jules Lafourge

    Poems
    late Nineteenth Century—French

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

    367. 1876—French

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

    Alexander Blok
    • Poems

    early Twentieth Century—Russian

    • 'Dvenadcat'

    368. 'Twelve'
    written 1918—Russian

  368. André Breton
    Le Manifeste du Surréalisme
    1924—French

    • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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

    Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Poems

    369. early Twentieth Century—French

  369. Le Poete Assassine
    1916—French

    William Butler Yeats
    • Poems

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'The Second Coming'

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

    • 'Anne Gregory'

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

    • 'Meditations in Time of Civil War'

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

    • 'Among School Children'

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

    Henry James
  370. The American

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

  371. The Europeans

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

  372. The Portrait of a Lady

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

  373. The Bostonians

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

  374. The Spoils of Poynton

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

  375. The Turn of the Screw

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

  376. What Maisie Knew

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

  377. The Wings of the Dove

    378. 1902—English

  378. The Ambassadors

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

  379. The Golden Bowl

    380. 1904—English

    Gertrude Stein
  380. The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

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

  381. Three Lives

    382. 1906—English

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

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

  383. Tender Buttons

    384. 1914—English

  384. Geography and Plays
    1922—English

    Franz Kafka
    • Stories

    385. early Twentieth Century—German

  385. Die Verwandlung

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

  386. Der Prozess

    387. The Trial
    1925—German

  387. Das Schloss

    388. The Castle
    1926—German

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

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

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

    • 'The Waste Land'

    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

    • 'The Hollow Men'

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

  389. Ash Wednesday

    390. 1930—English

  390. Four Quartets

    391. originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942—English

    William Carlos Williams
  391. Spring and All

    392. 1923—English

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

    • 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

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

    • 'This Is Just to Say'

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

    Ezra Pound
  393. A B C of Reading

    394. 1934—English

  394. Guide to Kulchur

    395. 1938—English

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

    • Cathay

    1915; translations—English

    • "Short poems

    396. Twentieth Century—French

    James Joyce
  396. Dubliners

    397. 1914—English

  397. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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

  398. Ulysses

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

  399. Finnegans Wake

    400. 1939—English

  400. Marcel Proust

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

    Virginia Woolf
  401. A Room of One's Own

    402. 1929—English

  402. To the Lighthouse

    403. 1927 —English

  403. Mrs. Dalloway

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

  404. The Waves

    405. 1931—English

  405. Orlando: A Biography
    1928—English

    • E M Forster

    Selected works
    Twentieth Century—English

    Ernest Hemingway
    • Stories

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'Hills Like White Elephants'

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

    • 'Big, Two-Hearted River'

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

    • 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'

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

    • 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'

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

    • 'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot'

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

  406. A Farewell to Arms

    407. 1929—English

  407. The Sun Also Rises

    408. 1926—English

  408. For Whom the Bell Tolls

    409. 1940—English

  409. The Old Man and the Sea

    410. 1952—English

  410. A Moveable Feast

    411. 1964—English

  411. Death in the Afternoon

    412. 1932—English

    F Scott Fitzgerald
  412. This Side of Paradise

    413. 1920—English

  413. The Beautiful and the Damned

    414. 1922—English

  414. The Great Gatsby

    415. 1925—English

  415. Tender Is the Night

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

  416. The Last Tycoon

    417. 1941; expanded and retitled The Love of the Last Tycoon, 1993—English

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

    • 'A Diamond as Big as the Ritz'

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

    William Faulkner
  418. As I Lay Dying

    419. 1930—English

  419. The Sound and the Fury

    420. 1929—English

  420. Absalom, Absalom!

    421. 1936—English

  421. Light in August

    422. 1932—English

  422. The Hamlet

    423. 1940—English

  423. The Town

    424. 1957—English

  424. The Mansion

    425. 1959—English