Louise Cown and Os Guinness, eds., Invitation to the Classics [1998]
446 entries: 334 monographical, 112 otherwise
Unranked—arranged chronologically with the exception of the distinct topical sections (no. 8-17; 35-Pirandello; 56-Jerome; 63-69; 81-Underhill; 94-101; 115-31; 138-88; 197-242; Darwin; Frost-Stevens; 248-96; Borges-333), each itself arranged chronologically
The tag, Trinity, is applied to this list because "Invitation" has already been used and the Trinity Forum seems to be the organization largely responsible for this book. An opening essay, 'The Purpose of the Invitation to the Classics', states, "Each year the Trinity Forum holds a series of forums offering those in European and American leadership circles the opportunity to engage with readings selected from classic texts of the world. Almost invariably the staff is asked to suggest a list of further texts to be read. Invitation to the Classics is the answer to countless such requests and to the wider interest in the revival of the classics that they represent." This introductory essay should be read in full; it offers an excellent defense of "great books"-like endeavors from a genuine conservative Christian perspective, not the politicized fundamentalism from which we hear so frequently in contemporary U S society. In short, while Os Guinness, the essay's author, criticizes Romanticist and Deconstruction interpretations of the arts largely for dogmatic reasons (unpersuasively), he nonetheless rightly rebukes the "cannibal" approach to the arts offered by "market totalitarianism."
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek
Aeschylus
- Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B C—Greek
- Promētheus Desmōtēs
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek
- Hepta epi Thēbas
Seven Against Thebes
467 B C—Greek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B C—Greek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B C—Greek
- Polybius
Histories
Second Century B C—Greek
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri
History of Rome
First Century B C—Latin
Cornelius Tacitus
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum
Germania
written ca. 98—Latin
- De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae
Agricola
written ca. 98—Latin
- Dialogus de Oratoribus
written ca. 102—Latin
- Historiae
written ca. 100-10—Latin
- Annales>
written First Century—Latin
- Augustine of Hippo
De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
City of God
426—Latin
- Bede
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
written ca. 731—Latin
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C—Greek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō>
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B C—Greek
- Euripides
Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B C—Greek
Aristophanes
- Akharneîs
The Acharnians
425 B C—Greek
- Hippeîs
The Knights
424 B C—Greek
- Nephelai>
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remains—Greek
- Sphēkes
The Wasps
422 B C—Greek
- Eirēnē
Peace
421 B C—Greek
- Ornithes>
The Birds
414 B C—Greek
- Lysistrate>
Lysistrata
411 B C—Greek
- Thesmophoriazousai
411 B C—Greek
- Ploutos
Wealth
408 B C; revised 388 B C; only revised version remains—Greek
- Bátrachoi
The Frogs
405 B C—Greek
- Ekklesiazousai
The Assemblywomen; A Parliament of Women
391 B C—Greek
- Plato
Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia>
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B C—Latin
- Epictetus
Diatribai
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton>
Meditations
written 161-80—Greek
Selected works
First Century—Latin
- Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Plays
Second Century—Latin
Plays
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
Letters
three extant letters, part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third Century—Greek
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura>
On the Nature of Things
First Century B C—Latin
- Plotinus
Enneads
Third Century—Greek
Selected works
Second Century—Greek
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi>
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First Century—Greek
Selected works
First Century B C—Latin
- Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
Insitutio Oratoria
ca. 95—Latin
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon>
Metamorphoses
8—Latin
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Satirae
originally published in two volumes, 35 B C and 30 B C—Latin
- Carmina>
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B C—Latin
- Epodon
Epodes
30 B C—Latin
- Epistularum
originally published in two volumes, 20 and 14 B C—Latin
- Ars Poetica
ca. 10-8 B C—Latin
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Fourteenth Century—Latin
- Africa
written ca. 1337-43—Latin
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto>
ca. 1351-53—Italian
- Matteo Maria Boiardo
Orlando Innamorato
1482—Italian
- Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso
published in part, 1516; revised 1521; published in its entirety, 1532—Italian
- Torquato Tasso
La Gerusalemme Liberata
1581—Italian
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio
1531—Italian
Selected works
early Seventeenth Century—Italian
Selected works
Eighteenth Century—Italian
Selected works
Eighteenth Century—Italian
Selected works
late Sixteenth Century—Italian
Selected works
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuries—Italian
- Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744—Italian
- Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi
The Betrothed
1827—Italian
Poems
early Nineteenth Century—Italian
Poems
Nineteenth Century—Italian
Poems
Nineteenth Century—Italian
- Francesco de Sanctis
Storia Della Letteratura Italiana
History of Italian Literature
originally published in two volumes, 1870 and 1871—Italian
Selected works
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Italian
Selected works
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—Italian
Poems
Twentieth Century—Italian
Poems
Twentieth Century—Italian
Poems
Twentieth Century—Italian
Selected works
Twentieth Century—Italian
Selected works
Twentieth Century—Italian
Plays
Twentieth Century—Italian
- Justin Martyr
The First Apology
Second Century—Greek
- Irenaeus
Against Heresies
written ca. 180—Greek
- Tertullian
De Praescriptione Haereticorum
Prescriptions Against Heretics
late Second-early Third centuries—Latin
- Origen
Contra Celsum
written 248; this work critiques The True Word by the Second-Century philosopher Celsus; it includes extensive quotations from, or perhaps the entirety of, that work, which otherwise is not extant—Greek
- Athanasius of Alexandria
De Incarnatione
On the Incarnation of the Word
written ca. 318—Latin
Letters
Fourth Century—Latin
Letters
late Fourth-early Fifth centuries—Latin
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin
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- Beowulf>
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English
- Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae
The Consolation of Philosophy
written ca. 524—Latin
Anselm of Canterbury
- Proslogion
written 1077-78—Latin
- Cur Deus Homo
Eleventh Century—Latin
Bernard of Clairvaux
1987; translations by G R Evans—Latin
- De Consideratione
Twelfth Century—Latin
Bonaventure
- Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
The Soul's Journey Into God
Thirteenth Century—Latin
- Lignum Vitae
The Tree of Life
Thirteenth Century—Latin
- Legenda Maior
The Life of St. Francis
Thirteenth Century—Latin
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae>
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74—Latin
Dante
- La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian
- La Vita Nuova
1295—Italian
--
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478—English
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- The Second Shepherds' Play
Fifteenth Century—English
--
- The Somonyng of Everyman
late Fifteenth Century—English
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia>
Utopia
1516—Latin
Martin Luther
- De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same year—Latin
- Der Kleine Katechismus
The Small Catechism
1529—German
- Ronald H Bainton
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
—English
- Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
written ca. 1395—English
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27—Latin
- Francis de Sales
Introduction à la Vie Dévote
1609—French
- Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God
Seventeenth Century; compiled by Joseph de Beaufort—English
Jeremy Taylor
- Holy Living and Holy Dying
originally published in two volumes: The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650; and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651—English
1990—English
- François Fénelon
La Perfection Chrétienne
French
- John Wesley
Sermons
141 sermons; Eighteenth Century—English
Charles Wesley
Eighteenth Century—English
1989—English
John Woolman
- The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman
1971—English
- The Journal of John Woolman
1774—English
Evelyn Underhill
- Mysticism
1911—English
- The Mystic Way
1913—English
- The Evelyn Underhill Reader
—English
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532—Italian
- John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541—Latin
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish
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- El Cantar de Mio Cid
written ca. 1195-1207—early Iberian Romance language
Selected works
Sixteenth Century—Spanish
Lope de Vega
- Moorish and Pastoral Ballads
selection of poems part of Desire's Experience Transformed: A Representative Anthology of Lope de Vega's Lyric Poetry; English translations by Carl W Cobb—Spanish
- Rimas Sacras
1614—Spanish
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635—Spanish
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín
El Sí de las Niñas
The Maidens' Consent
1806—Spanish
'La Canción del Pirata'
'Pirate's Song'
—Spanish
- Benito Pérez Galdós
Fortunato and Jacinto
1886-87—Spanish
- Miguel de Unamuno
Niebla
Mist
1914—Spanish
- Federico García Lorca
Romancero Gitano
Gypsy Ballads
originally entitled Primero Romancero Gitano, published 1928—Spanish
- Camilo José Cela
La Familia de Pascual Duarte
The Family of Pascual Duarte
1942—Spanish
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet
1602—English
- King Lear
1606—English
- A Midsummer Night's Dream>
ca. 1595-1600—English
- The Tempest>
1611—English
- The Winter's Tale
ca. 1611—English
John Donne
early Seventeenth Century—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'
written ca. 1611-12; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- 'Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- 'A Hymne to God the Father'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- 'A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- 'A Valediction of Weeping'
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
- George Herbert
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
1633—English
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674—English
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
1671—English
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées>
Thoughts
1669—French
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come>
1678—English
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735—English
- Jonathan Edwards
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
1746—English
Samuel Johnson
- Essays from the Rambler and the Idler
unspecified essays originally published in the Rambler, 1750-52; the Idler, 1758-60; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") also specify essays from the Adventurer, 1753-54—English
- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759—English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791—English
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620—English
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences>
Discourse on the Method
1637—French
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil>
1651—English
- Baruch Spinoza
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
originally anonymously published 1670—Latin
John Locke
- Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government
originally anonymously published 1689—English
- Epistola de Tolerantia
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same year—Latin
'Of the Original Contract'
part of Three Essays, Moral and Political, 1748; that book included in revised edition of Essays, Moral and Political published the same year—English
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique>
The Social Contract
1762—French
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748—French
Adam Smith
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759—English
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations>
1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English
- Jeremy Bentham
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789—English
Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft>
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787—German
- 'Idee zu Einer Allgemeinen Geschichte in Weltbürgerlicher Absicht'
'Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Purpose'
1784—German
- Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796—German
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820—German
- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty>
1859—English
- Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei>
The Communist Manifesto
1848—German
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Les Confessions>
1782—French
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation
1762—French
- Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
1750—French
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
Discourse on Inequality
1755—French
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813—English
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German
- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English
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- Nibelungenlied
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German
- Wolfram Von Eschenbach
Parzival
ca. early Thirteenth Century—German
Hartmann von Aue
- Erec
written ca. 1190—German
- Der Arme Heinrich
written ca. 1190—German
- Gottfried von Strassberg
Tristan
early Thirteenth Century—German
- Walther von der Vogelweide
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nathan der Weise
1779—German
- Christoph Martin Wieland
Geschichte des Agathon
Story of Agathon
1766-67—German
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Der Messias
The Messiah
originally published serially 1748-73 in Bremer Beiträge—German
'Abendlied'
'Der Mond Ist Aufgegangen'; 'Evening Song'; 'The Moon Is Risen'
—German
Friedrich Schiller
- Die Räuber
1781—German
- Kabale und Liebe
1784—German
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787—German
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96—German
- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Oder Die Entsagenden
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants
1821; revised 1829—German
- Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Elective Affinities
1809—German
Friedrich Schiller
- Wallenstein
three parts: Die Piccolomini, Wallensteins Lager, and Wallensteins Tod, 1798-99—German
- Wilhelm Tell
1804—German
'Ode to Joy'
written 1785; revised 1808—German
Johann Gottfried Herder
- Volkslieder Nebst Untermischten Anderen Stücken
Folk Songs
1778-79—German
- Vom Geiste der Ebräischen Poesie
On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. An Instruction for Lovers of the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit
1782-83—German
Heinrich von Kleist
- Amphitryon
1807—German
- Der Zerbrochne Krug
published and performed in part, 1808; published in its entirety, 1811—German
- Penthesilea
1808—German
- Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe
Kathie of Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire
1810—German
- Michael Kohlhaas
1810—German
Novalis
- Hymnen an Die Nacht
originally published 1800 in Athenaeum—German
- 'Die Christenheit oder Europa. Ein Fragment'
'Christendom or Europe'
edited lecture, originally entitled 'Europa', presented Nov. 1799; published in part, 1802, in Athenaeum; in its entirety, 1826, in Schriften—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century—German
- Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
Stories
Nineteenth Century—German
Friedrich Hölderlin
'Bread and Wine'—German
—German
'Celebration of Peace'—German
Jean Paul
- Titan
originally published in four volumes, 1800-03—German
- Flegeljahre
The Awkward Age
1804-05—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selections—German
Selected works
early Twentieth Century—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selections—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selections—German
- Clemens Brentano
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
The Boy's Miracle Horn
1805-18—German
Eduard Mörike
- Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein
The Little Gnome of Stuttgart
1853—German
- Mozart auf der Reise Nach Prag
1856—German
Georg Büchner
- Dantons Tod
1835—German
- Woyzeck
1837—German
Selected works
Nineteenth Century; unspecified selections—German
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Die Judenbuche
The Jew's Beech Tree
1842—German
Gerhart Hauptmann
- Die Weber
1892—German
- Hamlet im Wittenberg
Hamlet in Wittenberg
1935—German
Rainer Marie Rilke
early Twentiet Century—German
- Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge
1910—German
Herman Hesse
- Siddhartha
1922—German
- Der Steppenwolf
1927—German
- Das Glasperlenspiel
1943—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
- Reinhold Schneider
Las Casas vor Karl V
Imperial Mission
1938—German
Ernst Jünger
- In Stahlgewittern
1920; revised through 1978 edition—German
- Auf den Marmorklippen
On the Marble Cliffs
1942—German
Thomas Mann
- Buddenbrooks
1901—German
- Der Tod in Venedig
Death in Venice
1911—German
- Der Zauberberg>
The Magic Mountain
1924—German
- Joseph und Seine Brüder
Joseph and His Brothers
1943—German
Hermann Broch
- Die Schlafwandler: Eine Romantrilogie
originally published in three volumes: Pasenow; Oder, Die Romantik, 1931; Esch; Oder, Die Anarchie, 1931; and Huguenau; Oder, Die Sachlichkeit, 1932—German
- Der Tod des Vergil
1945; English version published simultaneously—German
- Robert Musil
Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften
The Man Without Qualities
originally published in three volumes: 1930, 1933, and 1943—German
Walter Benjamin
- One-Way Street and Other Writings
1979—German
- Illuminationen: Ausgewählte Schriften
1955—German
Heinrich Böll
- Haus Ohne Hüter
House Without Guardians
1954—German
- Billard um Halbzehn
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
1959—German
- Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel
The Tin Drum
1959—German
John Keats
originally anonymously published Jan. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
originally published Jul. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique>
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French
- L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
1866—French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essays: First Series
1841—English
- Essays: Second Series
1844—English
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
1845—English
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1850—English
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1955—English
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851—English
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French
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- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh Century—French
- François Villon
Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades
1489—French
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564—French
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French
- Pierre Corneille
Le Cid
1637—French
Jean Racine
- Phèdre>
1677—French
- Esther
1689—French
- Athalie
1691—French
Molière
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur>
1664—French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux>
The Misanthrope
1666—French
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668—French
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1670—French
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666—French
- Le Malade Imaginaire
The Imaginary Invalid
1673—French
- Jean de la Fontaine
Fables
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694—French
- Blaise Pascal
Lettres Provinciales
1656-57—French
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Lettres Persanes
1721—French
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759—French
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
published in 28 volumes, 1751-72—French
Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle>
The Red and the Black
1830—French
- Le Chartreuse de Parme>
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839—French
La Comédie Humaine
collective name for 91 finished and 46 unfinished works; Nineteenth Century—French
Gustave Flaubert
- La Tentation de Sainte Antoine
published in part, 1856; in its entirety, 1874—French
- Trois Contes
1877—French
- Émile Zola
Nana
originally published serially 1879-80 in La Voltaire—French
Victor Hugo
- Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831—French
- Les Misérables>
1862—French
- La Légende des Siècles
originally published in three volumes: 1859, 1877, and 1883—French
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Flowers of Evil
1857—French
Poems
late Nineteenth Century—French
Arthur Rimbaud
'The Drunken Boat'
written 1871—English
- Une Saison en Enfer
A Season in Hell
1873—French
- Les Illuminations
published in part serially May-Jun. 1886 in La Vogue; in its entirety later the same year—French
- Stéphane Mallarmé
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
originally published May 1897 in Cosmopolis; published separately 1914—French
Paul Claudel
- Tête d'Or
Head of Gold
1890—French
- L'Echange
The Exchange
1894—French
- Le Partage de Midi
The Break at Noon
1906—French
- L'Annonce Faite à Marie
The Annunciation to Mary
1910—French
- Le Soulier de Satin
The Satin Slipper
1943—French
André Gide
- La Symphonie Pastorale
The Pastoral Symphony
1919—French
- Les Faux-Monnayeurs
originally published 1925 in Nouvelle Revue Française—French
- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu>
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French
Paul Valéry
'The Cemetery by the Sea'
originally published 1922 in Charmes; ou Poès;mes—French
- La Soirée de Monsieur Teste
1896—French
- Poesies
1931—French
- Mon Faust
1946—French
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Les Mouches
The Flies
1943—French
- Huis Clos
No Exit
1944—French
- La Nausée
Nausea
1938—French
Albert Camus
- L'Étranger>
The Stranger
1942—French
- La Peste
The Plague
1947—French
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations>
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English
- John Henry Newman
Apologia pro Vita Sua
1864; revised 1865—English
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Poetical Works of Hopkins
1989; edited by Norman Mackenzie—English
Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina>
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian
- Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady>
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
- The American
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907—English
- The Europeans
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1878 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
- The Ambassadors>
originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English
- The Turn of the Screw
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898—English
- Leon Edel
The Life of Henry James
originally published in five volumes: Henry James: The Untried Years: 1843-1870, 1953; Henry James: The Conquest of London: 1870-1881, 1962; Henry James: The Middle Years: 1882-1895, 1962; Henry James: The Treacherous Years: 1895-1901, 1969; Henry James: The Master: 1901-1916, 1972 —English
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884—English
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876—English
- Life on the Mississippi
1883—English
Selected works
unspecified selection—English
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Götzen-Dämmerung, Oder, Wie Man mit dem Hammer Philosophirt
Twilight of the Idols
1889—German
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness>
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English
- James Joyce
Dubliners
1914—English
- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess>
The Trial
1925—German
William Butler Yeats
- The Collected Poems of W B Yeats
1933; expanded 1950; revised 1956; includes The Wind Among the Reeds [1899]; The Shadowy Waters [originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included here]; Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921]; The Tower [1928]; The Winding Stair [1929]; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems [1932]; New Poems [1938]; selections from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, 1889; The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 1904; The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; Responsibilities, 1914; The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917, expanded 1919; A Full Moon in March, 1935; and Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939—English
- The Wind Among the Reeds
1899—English
- The Shadowy Waters
1900; originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included in the author's collected poems—English
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer
1920—English
- The Tower
1928; originally published as Seven Poems and a Fragment, 1922; The Cat and the Moon, 1924; and October Blast, 1927—English
- The Winding Stair
1929—English
- Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems
1932—English
- New Poems
1938—English
- T S Eliot
Four Quartets
originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942—English
Robert Frost
- The Poetry of Robert Frost
1969; includes A Boy's Will [1913; revised 1930]; North of Boston [1914]; Mountain Interval [1916; expanded 1930]; New Hampshire [1923]; West-Running Brook [1928; expanded 1930]; A Further Range [1936]; A Witness Tree [1942]; A Masque of Reason [1945]; Steeple Bush [1947]; A Masque of Mercy [1947]; In the Clearing [1962]; plus two of the three poems in the section entitled An Afterword, from the Collected Poems [1949; see above], the other poem having been made part of In the Clearing—English
- A Boy's Will
1913; revised 1930—English
- North of Boston
1914; revised 1930—English
- Mountain Interval
1916; revised 1930—English
- New Hampshire
1923—English
- West-Running Brook
1928; expanded 1930—English
- A Further Range
1936—English
- A Witness Tree
1942—English
- A Masque of Reason
1945—English
- Steeple Bush
1947—English
- A Masque of Mercy
1947—English
- In a Clearing
1962—English
Selected works
unspecified selection—English
- Ezra Pound
Cantos
published in part in Poetry, Jun.-Aug. 1917; the Criterion, Jul. 1923; the Transatlantic Review, Jan. 1924; and in the following volumes: The Fourth Canto, 1919; A Draft of XVI Cantos, 1925; A Draft of Cantos 17-27, 1928; A Draft of XXX Cantos, 1930; Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, 1934; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937; Cantos LII-LXXI, 1940; The Pisan Cantos, 1948; Seventy Cantos, 1950; Section: Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, 1955; Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, 1959; Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, 1968; in its entirety, revised and expanded, 1987—English
- William Carlos Williams
Paterson
originally published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958—English
Poems
unspecified selection—English
Poems
unspecified selection; Twentieth Century—English
Poems
unspecified selection; Twentieth Century—English
'Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination'
—English
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot>
Waiting for Godot
1953—French
Selected works
unspecified selection; Nineteenth Century—French
Henrik Ibsen
- Et Dukkehjem>
A Doll's House
1879—Norwegian
- Gengangere
Ghosts
1881—Norwegian
- George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
1913—English
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895—English
- Anton Chekhov
Višhnëvyj Sad
The Cherry Orchard
1904—Russian
- John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
1907—English
Selected works
unspecified selection—Swedish
Selected works
unspecified selections—German
- Thornton Wilder
Our Town
1938—English
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956—English
- Eugène Ionesco
Rhinocéros
1959—French
- Peter Shaffer
Equus
1973—English
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
Our Country's Good
1988—English
- David Henry Hwang
M Butterfly
1988—English
- C S Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
1942—English
- William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses
1942; published in part in varied periodicals: 'The Old People', Sep. 1940 in Harper's; 'The Bear', May 1941 in the Saturday Evening Post, and later revised for inclusion in Big Woods, 1955; 'Delta Autumn', May-Jun. 1942 in Story; and 'Go Down, Moses', Jan. 1941 in Collier's—English
- Simone Weil
Attente de Dieu
Waiting for God
1950—French
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Widerstand und Ergebung. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft
Letters and Papers From Prison
1951—German
Flannery O'Connor
- 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'
originally published 1953 in Modern Writing I; included in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955—English
part of Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965—English
part of Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965—English
- Wise Blood
published in part, Apr. 1948, as 'The Train', Sewanee Review; Feb. 1949, as 'The Heart of the Park', in the Partisan Review; Dec. 1949, as 'The Peeler', in the Partisan Review; and Apr. 1952, as 'Enoch and the Gorilla', in New World Writing; in its entirety, 1952—English
- The Violent Bear It Away
1960; first chapter is revised version of 'You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead', New World Writing, Oct. 1955—English
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj Mîr—Russian
Labyrinths
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El Aleph—Spanish
Italo Calvino
- Il Barone Rampante
The Baron in the Trees
1957—Italian
- Le Cosmicomiche
Cosmicomics
1965—Italian
- Le Città Invisibili
Invisible Cities
1972—Italian
Gabriel García Márquez
- Cien Anõs de Soledad>
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967—Spanish
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985—Spanish
- Leaf Storm and Other Stories
1972—Spanish
- La Hojarasca
Leaf Storm
1955—Spanish
- No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
1968—Spanish
- El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba
No One Writes to the Colonel
1961—Spanish
- Isabel Allende
La Casa de los Espíritus
The House of Spirits
1982—Spanish
Collected Poems
1985; includes A Ballad of Remembrance [1962]; Words in the Mourning Time [1970]; The Night-Blooming Cereus [1972]; Angle of Ascent [1975]; American Journal [1982]—English
- A Ballad of Remembrance
1962—English
- Words in the Mourning Time
1970—English
- The Night-Blooming Cereus
1972—English
- Angle of Ascent
1975—English
- American Journal
1982—English
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937—English
- Toni Morrison
Beloved
1987—English
Wole Soyinka
- A Dance of the Forest
1960—English
- Death and the King's Horsemen
1975—English
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi)
Petals of Blood
1977—English; Gikuyu
Salman Rushdie
- Midnight's Children
1981—English
- The Satanic Verses
1988—English
Octavio Paz
- The Collected Poems 1957-1987
1987; includes Piedra de Sol [1957]; Blanco [1967]; Topoemas [1968]; Ladera Este (1962-1968) [1969]; Pasado en Claro [1975]; nearly all of Salamandra (1958-1961) [1962] and Vuelta [1976]; all but one poem from Árbol Adentro [1987]; and Paz and Charles Tomlinson's Hijos del Aire (Airborn) [1979]; for the selections through Vuelta, the versions from Poems (1935-1975) are used—Spanish
- Piedra de Sol
1957—Spanish
- Salamandra (1958-1961)
1962—Spanish
- Blanco
1967—Spanish
- Topoemas
1968—Spanish
- Ladera Este (1962-1968)
1969—Spanish
- Pasado en Claro
1975—Spanish
- Vuelta
1976—Spanish
- Árbol Adentro
1987—Spanish
Octavio Paz; Charles Tomlinson
- Hijos del Aire
Airborn
1979—Spanish; English
Adrienne Rich
- Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
1993—English
Collected Poems 1948-184
1986; selections from In a Green Light: Poems 1948-1960, 1962; Selected Poems, 1964; Castaway and Other Poems, 1965; The Gulf and Other Poems, 1969; Another Life, 1973; Sea Graves, 1976; The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979; The Fortunate Traveller, 1981; Midsummer, 1984—English
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
1990; selections from Death of a Naturalist, 1966; Door Into the Dark, 1969; Wintering Out, 1972; Stations, 1975; North, 1975; Field Work, 1979; Sweeney Astray, 1983; Station Island, 1984; The Haw Lantern, 1987—English
- Joseph Brodsky
Chast' Rechi: Stikhotvoreniia 1972-76
A Part of Speech
1977—Russian