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Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works [2008]

585 entries: 351 monographical, 234 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically by author

The first edition of Joy of Reading, subtitled 210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc. What's in Them, Why Read Them, was published in 1985, a few years after the author's retirement from Encyclopaedia Britannica; it gave the author a chance to make his own list of books, after having worked with Mortimer Adler on the second, 1972 version of the latter's book, How to Read a Book. The second edition of Van Doren's book not only expanded the number of entries—there are multiple works discussed for many of the 189 authors—and made it so five of the 47 lists documented here come from the year 2008, but also arranged the authors chronologically, whereas the first edition had arranged the works alphabetically by author. Unlike the Adler book, which discusses reading generally and has a list tagged on at the end, Van Doren's is similar to Newman's, Dirda's, Seymour-Smith's, Fadiman's, and Ward's in being a book-as-list, giving a short account of each author or work in turn. At times, Van Doren's choices violate the spirit of the endeavor: namely, including his father's poetry and Adler's Syntopicon from the Great Books of the Western World set; the latter choice at least is an appropriate self-referential move given how important those Great Books have been to the entire phenomenon of "great books" education. Van Doren also admits to being a Shakespeare denier; not a strong one—as he no longer believes Edward de Vere is the real author of Shakespeare's works, and never believed that Christopher Marlowe was—but still has trouble convincing himself that a "provincial actor" is the same person as the author. Despite these drawbacks, the book is an easy enjoyable read. For the most part, I only list those works that Van Doren includes under each chapter heading. However, Van Doren does not limit himself to discussing those works; he mentions others to provide background about the author and, at times, praises additional works as much as he does those named at the head of the chapter. In those latter cases, I partake in the editorial freedom to include them.

The authors added to the second edition, or works added to authors who had already been included: Matthew Arnold; W H Auden; Jane Austen's Persuasion; John Berger; Elizabeth Bishop; Fred Bodsworth; Roberto Calasso; John le Carré; Willa Cather; C P Cavafy; J M Coetzee; Michael Dibdin; Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend; George Eliot's Adam Bede; Alan Furst; Joseph Heller; Mark Helprin; John Hersey; Hesiod; Carl Hiaasen; Henry James's The Ambassadors; Sébastien Japrisot; Julian Jaynes; Ring Lardner; Donn Leon; Primo Levi; Archibald MacLeish; Henning Mankell; Cormac McCarthy; Larry McMurty; Walter M Miller, Jr.; Czesław Miłosz; Nancy Mitford; Marianne Moore; Toni Morrison; Patrick O'Brien; Ovid; Michael Pollan; Ezra Pound; Daniel Quinn; Leo Rosten; J K Rowling; José Saramago; Erwin Schrödinger; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; John Steinbeck; Wallace Stevens; James Thurber; J R R Tolkien; Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Wharton; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams; Virginia Woolf; and the "Tumbler of Our Lady" French folk tale. Note that McCarthy's The Road is included in the list of works under the McCarthy chapter heading. However, in the text, Van Doren notes that he has not yet read the book! I have thus excluded it, leaving only McCarthy's Border Trilogy.

The works excluded from the second edition that were included in the first: Euripides' Iōn, a curious decision since in the 1985 book Van Doren wrote, "Read this play even if you read no other, for it is pure Euripides," and in 2008 he does not explain its omission; an unspecified entry for the the Encyclopædia Britannica; the Oxford English Dictionary; Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy; Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; the entire entry for Kant, which had included five works; the entire entry for John Fowles, which had included three works; three works by Thomas Mann; Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal; John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire; Edward Gibbon; Montesquieu; and the U. S. constitution, credited to James Madison. Of these, the only authors still included are Mann and Madison (as one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers). Needless to say, some of these exclusions are baffling. A few of these are no longer in the Greater Books master list because the older edition of Van Doren's book was the only list that included them: Hotel New Hampshire, Fowles' Daniel Martin, the Oxford English Dictionary, and the unspecified entry for the Britannica (another list includes the 1909 edition).


    Homer
  1. Iliad

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

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

    • Hesiod

    3. "Homeric Hymns"
    hymns to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, Apphrodite not commonly attributed to Hesiod—Greek

  3. Aeschylus

    4. Oresteia_
    The House of Atreus
    458 B. C.—Greek

    Sophocles
  4. Antigone

    5. ca. 441 B. C.—Greek

  5. Oidipous Tyrannos

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

  6. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

    7. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B. C.—Greek

  7. Aias

    8. Ajax
    ca. 450-430 B. C.—Greek

  8. Philoktētēs

    9. Philocetes
    409 B. C.—Greek

    Euripides
  9. Alkēstis

    10. Alcestis
    438 B. C.—Greek

  10. Mēdeia

    11. Medea
    431 B. C.—Greek

  11. Hippolytos

    12. 428 B. C.—Greek

  12. Trōiades

    13. The Trojan Woman
    415 B. C.—Greek

  13. Bakchai

    14. The Bacchae
    405 B. C.—Greek

  14. Iphigeneia en Taurois

    15. Iphigeneia in Tauris
    written ca. 414-12 B. C.—Greek

    Aristophanes
  15. Akharneîs

    16. The Acharnians
    425 B. C.—Greek

  16. Eirēnē

    17. Peace
    421 B. C.—Greek

  17. Lysistrate

    18. Lysistrata
    411 B. C.—Greek

  18. Nephelai

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

  19. Ornithes

    20. The Birds
    414 B. C.—Greek

  20. Bátrachoi
    The Frogs
    405 B. C.—Greek

    • Aesop

    21. Fables
    ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B. C.—Greek

  21. Herodotus

    22. Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B. C.—Greek

  22. Thucydides

    23. History of the Peloponnesian War
    early Fifth Century B. C.—Greek

  23. Hippocrates

    24. Hippocratic Corpus
    late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B. C.—Greek

    Plato
  24. Politeia

    25. The Republic
    early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  25. Symposium

    26. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  26. Euthyphro

    27. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  27. Apologia Socratis

    28. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  28. Crito

    29. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  29. Phaedo

    30. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  30. Meno

    31. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  31. Protagoras

    32. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  32. Theaetetus

    33. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  33. Sophist

    34. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  34. Statesman

    35. early Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

    Aristotle
  35. Peri Poiêtikês

    36. De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  36. Ethika Nikomacheia

    37. Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B. C.—Greek

  37. Euclid
    Elements
    written ca. 300 B. C.—Greek

    Archimedes
    • On Floating Bodies [excerpted]

    first book; Third Century B C—Greek

    • The Method of Mechanical Theorems [excerpted]

    38. The first and second propositions; Third Century B. C.—Greek

  38. On the Measurement of a Circle

    39. Third Century B C—Greek

  39. The Sand Reckoner

    40. Third Century B C—Greek

  40. Titus Lucretius Carus

    41. De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B. C.—Latin

  41. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

    42. Aeneid
    First Century B. C.—Latin

  42. Ovid

    43. Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

    Cornelius Tacitus
  43. Annales

    44. written First Century—Latin

  44. Historiae

    45. written ca. 100-110—Latin

  45. Plutarch

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

  46. Epictetus

    47. Diatribai
    Discourses
    compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek

  47. Marcus Aurelius

    48. Ta Eis Heauton
    Meditations
    written 161-180—Greek

  48. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

    49. Almagest
    Second Century—Greek

  49. Boethius

    50. Consolatio Philosophiae
    The Consolation of Philosophy
    written ca. 524—Latin

  50. Augustine of Hippo

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

    --
  51. La Chanson de Roland
    ca. Eleventh Century—French

    --
    • "The Tumbler of Our Lady"

    52. Thirteenth Century; one of a series of stories collected by Gautier de Coinci; author unknown—French
    *Van Doren*

  52. Joseph Bédier

    53. Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult
    1900—French

  53. Thomas Aquinas

    54. Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin

  54. Dante

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

    Geoffrey Chaucer
  55. Canterbury Tales

    56. 1478—English

  56. Troilus and Criseyde

    57. written ca. 1380s—English

  57. François Rabelais

    58. 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

  58. Niccolò Machiavelli

    59. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian

  59. Nicolas Copernicus

    60. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543—Latin

  60. William Gilbert

    61. De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
    On the Magnet
    1600—Latin

  61. Johannes Kepler

    62. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
    originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621—Latin

  62. Galileo

    63. Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze
    Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
    1638—Italian

    Francis Bacon
  63. Novum Organum Scientiarium

    64. 1620—English

  64. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human

    65. 1605—English

  65. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed

    66. 1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English

  66. Michel de Montaigne

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

    William Shakespeare
  67. Hamlet

    68. 1602—English

  68. King Lear

    69. 1606—English

  69. Othello

    70. ca. 1604—English

  70. Sonnets

    71. 1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English

  71. Romeo and Juliet

    72. ca. 1591-7—English

  72. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    73. ca. 1595-1600—English

  73. The Merry Wives of Windsor

    74. ca. 1597-1602—English

  74. Much Ado About Nothing

    75. ca. 1598-99—English

  75. Richard II

    76. 1597—English

  76. Henry V

    77. 1599—English

  77. The First Part of Henry IV

    78. 1597—English

  78. The Second Part of Henry IV

    79. 1600—English

  79. As You Like It

    80. 1603—English

  80. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    81. ca. 1606-08—English

  81. Cymbeline

    82. written ca. 1609—English

  82. The Winter's Tale

    83. ca. 1611—English

  83. The Tempest

    84. 1611—English

  84. Miguel de Cervantes

    85. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish

  85. René Descartes

    86. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
    Discourse on the Method
    1637—French

  86. Jean de La Fontaine

    87. Fables
    originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694—French

    Molière
  87. L'École des Femmes

    88. The School for Wives
    1662—French

  88. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

    89. The Misanthrope
    1666—French

  89. Le Médecin Malgre Lui

    90. 1666—French

  90. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

    91. 1664—French

  91. Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre

    92. 1660—French

  92. Blaise Pascal
    Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French

    John Donne
    • Poems

    early Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'Death Be Not Proud'

    one of the Holy Sonnets; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

    • 'At the Earth's Round Imagined Corners, Blow'

    93. one of the Holy Sonnets; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

  93. First and Second Anniversaries
    1612; The First Anniversary originally entitled An Anatomy of the World, published 1611; complete work also included in Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death, 1633—English

    • 'Song (Goe, and Catche a Falling Starre)'

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

    • 'Loves Deitie'

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

    • 'The Funerall'

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

    • 'The Good Morrow'

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

    • 'The Blossome'

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

    • 'The Undertaking'

    originally entitled 'I Have Done One Braver Thing'; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]; retitled for the second edition of Poems, 1635—English

    • 'The Canonization'

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

    • 'Loves Alchymie'

    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

    • 'Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward'

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

    • 'Hymn to God My God in My Sicknesse'

    part of the second edition of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1635]—English

    • 'A Hymne to God the Father'

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

    • Holy Sonnets [selections]

    nos. 1, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 18 designated but Van Doren does not note which ordering of the Sonnets he refers to; he also lists two of the sonnets separately; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

    • 'Death's Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, Against the Dying Life, and Living Death of the Body'

    94. 1632; included in the author's collected sermons—English

  94. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes
    1624—English

    George Herbert
    • Poems

    95. early Seventeenth Century—English

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

    Robert Herrick
    • Poems

    96. Seventeenth Century—English

  96. His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse

    97. 1647—English

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

    • 'To Meddowes'

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

    • 'The Argument of His Book'

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

    • 'Upon Master Ben. Johnson. Epigram'

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

    • 'To Live Merrily, and to Trust Good Verses'

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

    • 'To Daffadils'

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

    • 'Upon Julia's Clothes'

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

    • 'Delight in Disorder'

    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

    • 'The Mad Maids Song'

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

    • 'His Letanie, to the Holy Spirit'

    part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647—English

    • 'A Thanksgiving to God, for His House'

    part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647—English

    • 'To Death'

    part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647—English

    • 'Another Grace for a Child'

    98. part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647—English

  98. Thomas Hobbes

    99. Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
    1651—English

    John Milton
  99. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'L'Allegro'

    originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645—English

    • 'Il Penseroso'

    originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645—English

    • 'Lycidas'

    100. originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645—English

  100. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
    1644—English

    Andrew Marvell
    • Poems

    Seventeenth Century—English

    • 'An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland'

    written 1650—English

    • 'To His Coy Mistress'

    written ca. early 1650's—English

    • 'The Garden'

    101. —English

  101. Baruch Spinoza

    102. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
    Ethics
    1677—Latin

    Isaac Newton
  102. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

    103. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin

  103. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

    104. 1704; Latin version, 1706—English

  104. Christian Huygens
    Traité de la Lumière
    1690—French

    John Dryden
    • 'To the Memory of Mr. John Oldham'

    —English

    • 'A Song for Saint Cecelia's Day'

    —English

    • 'The Secular Masque'

    105. —English

  105. An Essay of Dramatick Poesie

    106. 1668—English

    Alexander Pope
  106. Essay on Criticism_5

    107. 1711—English
    *Lubbock* *Read* *Dirda* *Van Doren* *Newman*

  107. The Rape of the Lock_8
    originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English
    *Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman*

    • 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot'_2

    108. 1735—English
    *Dirda* *Van Doren*

  108. Essay on Man_6

    109. 1734—English
    *Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*

    Daniel Defoe
  109. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

    • A Hymn to the Pillory

    110. 1703—English

  110. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

    111. 1722—English

  111. 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

    112. originally anonymously published 1722—English

  112. The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call'd Col. Jack

    113. Colonel Jack
    1722—English

  113. 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

    114. Roxana
    1724—English

  114. William Congreve

    115. The Way of the World
    1700—English

  115. Voltaire
    Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759—French

    John Locke
    • Second Treatise [second part of 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]

    116. complete work originally anonymously published 1689—English

  116. Epistola de Tolerantia

    117. 1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same year—Latin

  117. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    118. 1689—English

  118. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

    119. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    1710; revised 1734—English

  119. David Hume

    120. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    1748—English

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  120. Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes

    121. Discourse on Inequality
    1755—French

  121. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique

    122. The Social Contract
    1762—French

  122. Henry Fielding

    123. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    1749—English

    James Boswell
  123. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

    • Journals

    written 1762-95—English

    Robert Burns
    • Poems

    124. late Eighteenth Century—English

  124. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
    1786—English

    • 'Green Grow the Rashes'

    —English

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

    originally published as part of Pietro Urbani's Scots Songs, 1794—English

    • 'Highland Mary'

    —English

    • 'Mary Morrison'

    —English

    • 'John Anderson My Jo'

    part of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, 1790—English

    • 'The Banks o' Doon'

    —English

    • 'Ae Fond Kiss and Then We Sever'

    included in letter to Agnes Maclehose dated 27 December 1791—English

    • 'To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough'

    part of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786—English

    • 'To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church'

    —English

    • 'Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous'

    —English

    • 'Charlie, He's My Darling'

    —English

    • 'A Man's a Man for a' That'

    —English

    • 'The Cotter's Saturday Night'

    part of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786—English

    • 'Tam o' Shanter'

    published Mar. 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald and the Edinburgh Magazine; included in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland, 1791;—English

    • 'O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast'

    125. —English

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

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

  126. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    127. ca. 1793—English

  127. Milton, a Poem in 2 Books

    128. ca. 1811—English

  128. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
    1820—English

    William Wordsworth
    • Poems

    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798'

    originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798—English

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

    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

    • 'Ode to Duty'

    129. part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

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

    • 'The Simplon Pass'

    originally published as part of Poems, 1845; part of 1850 edition of The Prelude—English

    • 'Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth'

    originally entitled 'Growth of Genius From the Influences of Natural Objects on the Imagination, in Boyhood and Early Youth', published Dec. 1809 in The Friend; retitled for inclusion in Poems, 1815; part of The Prelude, 1850

    • 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways'

    one of the "Lucy poems"; originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads—English

    • 'I Traveled Among Unknown Men'

    originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads—English

    • 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal'

    one of the "Lucy poems"; originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads—English

    • 'My Heart Leaps Up'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge: September 3, 1802'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'London, 1802'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'The Solitary Reaper'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'The World Is Too Much With Us'

    part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807—English

    • 'To Sleep'

    —English

    • 'Personal Talk'

    —English

    • William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
    1798; expanded 1800 and 1802—English

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Poems

    130. late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

  130. Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep

    131. 1816—English

  131. Thomas Jefferson

    132. Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
    The Declaration of Independence
    1776—English

  132. Abraham Lincoln

    133. Gettysburg Address
    1865—English

  133. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    134. 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

    Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
  134. Don Juan
    originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English

    • Poems

    135. early Nineteenth Century—English

  135. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
    1812-18—English

    • 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'

    part of Letters and Journals, 1830—German

    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Poems

    136. early Nineteenth Century—English

  136. Prometheus Unbound
    1820—English

    • 'A Defence of Poetry'

    written 1821; originally published 1840 in Essays, Letters From Abroad, Translations and Fragments—English

    • 'Ozymandias'

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

    • 'Ode to the West Wind'/li>

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    • 'To a Skylark'

    part of Prometheus Unbound, 1820—English

    John Keats
    • 'The Eve of St. Agnes'

    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

    • 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

    originally published May 1820 in the Indictaor—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 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 on Melancholy'

    part of 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

    • 'The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'

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

    • 'To Autumn'

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

    Jane Austen
  137. Pride and Prejudice

    138. originally anonymously published 1813—English

  138. Emma

    139. originally anonymously published 1815—English

  139. Persuasion

    140. originally anonymously published 1817—English

  140. Honoré de Balzac

    141. Le Père Goriot_
    Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French

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

    142. The Red and the Black
    1830—French

  142. Le Chartreuse de Parme
    The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French

    • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

    143. The Federalist Papers
    originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English

  143. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    144. Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German

  144. Claude Bernard

    145. Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale
    1865—French

  145. Charles Darwin

    146. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

    John Stuart Mill
  146. On Liberty

    147. 1859—English

  147. Considerations on Representative Government

    148. 1861—English

  148. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    149. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
    The Communist Manifesto
    1848—German

  149. Charles Baudelaire

    150. Les Fleurs du Mal
    The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French

    Charles Dickens
  150. A Christmas Carol

    151. 1843—English

  151. Hard Times - For These Times

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

  152. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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

  153. Bleak House

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

  154. Little Dorrit

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

  155. Our Mutual Friend

    156. originally published serially May 1864-Nov. 1865—English

    George Eliot
  156. Adam Bede

    157. 1859—English

  157. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

    158. 1861—English

  158. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

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

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

    Emily Dickinson
    • Poems

    160. Nineteenth Century—English

  160. The Poems of Emily Dickinson
    1890—English

    • 'Success Is Counted Sweetest'

    part of Poems, 1890—English

    • 'The Heart Asks Pleasure — First'

    part of Poems, 1890—English

    • 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'

    part of Poems, 1890—English

    • 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'

    part of Poems, 1890—English

    • 'After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes'

    part of Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1929—English

    Matthew Arnold
    • Poems

    Nineteenth Century—English

    • 'Dover Beach'

    —English

    • Essays

    161. Nineteenth Century—English

  161. Culture and Anarchy

    162. 1869; essays published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867-8; preface added in 1875—English

  162. Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

    • Henry Adams

    163. The United States in 1800
    first-sixth chapters of The History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, originally published in nine volumes, 1889-91—English

  163. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_5

    164. 1913—English

  164. The Education of Henry Adams_11

    165. 1918—English

  165. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    166. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

    Herman Melville
  166. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

    167. 1851—English

  167. Billy Budd, Foretopman

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

  168. Ivan Turgenev

    169. Pervaâ Lûbov'
    First Love
    1860—Russian

  169. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    170. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian

    Leo Tolstoy
  170. Voyna i Mir"

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

  171. Smert' Ivana Il'icha
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    1886—Russian

    • Twenty-Three Tales

    1906; sections Tales for Children, 1872 (three stories); Popular Stories (four stories); A Fairy Tale: The Story of Iván the Fool, 1885; Stories Written to Pictures, 1885 (three stories); Folk-Tales Retold, all 1886 except last, 1891 (seven stories); Adaptations From the French (two stories); Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews, 1903 (three stories)—Russian

    Robert Browning
    • Poems

    172. Nineteenth Century—English

  172. Sordello
    1840—English

    • 'Meeting at Night'

    part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845—English

    • 'Andrea del Sarto'

    part of Men and Women, 1855—English

    • 'Porphyria's Lover'

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

    • 'My Last Duchess'

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

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

    • 'Home-Thoughts, From Abroad'

    part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845—English

    • 'Home-Thoughts, From the Sea'

    —English

    • 'A Woman's Last Word'

    —English

    • 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church'

    part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845—English

    • 'A Toccata of Galuppi's'

    part of Men and Women, 1855—English

    • 'The Last Ride Together'

    part of Men and Women, 1855—English

    • 'Prospice'

    part of Asolando, 1889—English

    • 'Rabbi Ben Ezra'

    174. part of Dramatis Personae, 1864—English

    Lewis Carroll
  174. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    175. 1865—English

  175. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

    176. 1871—English

  176. Thomas Hardy
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
    published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English

    • Poems

    late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

    • 'Hap'

    177. part of Wessex Poems and Other Verses, 1898—English

  177. William James

    178. The Principles of Psychology
    1890—English

    Henry James
  178. The Portrait of a Lady

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

  179. The Ambassadors

    180. originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English
    *Powys* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman*

  180. The Golden Bowl

    181. 1904—English

    Arthur Conan Doyle
  181. A Study in Scarlet

    182. originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual—English

  182. The Sign of the Four

    183. originally published Feb. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly—English

  183. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    184. 1902; originally published serially Aug. 1901-Apr. 1902 in the Strand—English

  184. The Valley of Fear
    1915; originally published serially Sep. 1914-Feb. 1915 in the Strand—English

    • 'The Red-Headed League'

    originally published Aug. 1891 in the Strand; included inThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892—English

    • 'The Five Orange Pips'

    originally published Nov. 1891 in the Strand; included in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'The Crooked Man'

    originally published Jul. 1893 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

    originally published Feb. 1892 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'The Final Problem'

    originally published Dec. 1893 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'The Adventure of the Empty House'

    originally published Sep. 1903 in Collier's; included in The Return of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'The Adventure of the Devil's Foot'

    originally published Dec. 1910 in the Strand; included in His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes—English

    • 'His Last Bow'

    185. originally published Sep. 1917 in the Strand; included in His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes—English

    Rudyard Kipling
  185. The Jungle Book

    186. 1894—English

  186. The Second Jungle Book
    1895—English

    • 'The Cat That Walked by Itself'

    187. part of Just-So Stories, 1902—English

    Sigmund Freud
  187. Die Traumdeutung

    188. The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German

  188. Abriss der Psychoanalyse

    189. An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
    1940—German

  189. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
    Civilization and Its Discontents
    1930—German

    C P Cavafy
    • Poems

    early Twentieth Century—Greek

    • 'The Horses of Achilles'

    —Greek

    • 'The Funderal of Sarpedon'

    —Greek

    • 'Thermopylae'

    —Greek

    • 'The Funderal of Sarpedon'

    —Greek

    • 'Unfaithfulness'

    —Greek

    • 'Ithaka'

    —Greek

    • 'Waiting for the Barbarians'

    —Greek

    • 'One of Their Gods'

    190. —Greek

  190. Alfred North Whitehead
    Introduction to Mathematics
    1911—English

    William Butler Yeats
    • Poems

    191. late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuries—English

  191. Last Poems and Two Plays
    1939; includes the plays, The Death of Cuchulain, and Purgatory—English

    • 'Easter, 1916'

    published separately 1916, in the New Statesman, Oct. 1920, and the Dial, Nov. 1920; included in Michael Robertes and the Dancer, 1920—English

    • 'Among School Children'

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

  192. Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems
    1932—English

    • 'Sailing to Byzantium'

    part of October Blast, 1927; published Spring 1928 in the Exile; October Blast made part of The Tower, 1928—English

    • 'Under Ben Bulben'

    originally published Feb. 1939 in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent; published in part in the Irish Press that same month; included in Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939—English

    • 'The Ballad of Father Gilligan'

    originally entitled 'Father Gilligan (A Legend Told by the People of Castleisland, Kerry)', published Jul. 1890 in the Scots Observer; retitled 'Father Gilligan' for inclusion in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; retitled 'The Ballad of Father Gilligan' for inclusion in Poems, 1895—English

    • 'To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing'

    part of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1913; the entirety of that book made part of Responsibilities: Poems and a Play, 1914; also published May 1914 in Poetry—English

    • 'The Cat and the Moon'

    part of Nine Poems, 1918; that book made part of the expanded second edition of The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919—English

    • 'The Second Coming'

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

    • 'Leda and the Swan'

    originally published Jun. 1924 in the Dial and Aug. 1924 in To-Morrow; included in The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924; that book (except 'The Cat and the Moon') made part of The Tower, 1928; also published as 'Leda' in the first version of A Vision, 1926—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

    • 'The Cold Heaven'

    part of the second expanded edition of The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1912—English

    • 'The Wild Swans at Coole'

    originally published Jun. 1917 in the Little Review; part of The Wild Swans, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917—English

    • 'The Tower'

    originally published Jun. 1927 in the Criterion and the New Republic; part of October Blast, 1927; that book made part of The Tower, 1928—English

    • 'Down by the Salley Gardens'

    part of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, 1889; included in Poems, 1895—English

    • 'When You Are Old'

    part of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; included in Poems, 1895—English

    • 'September 1913'

    originally entitled 'Romance in Ireland', published Sep. 1913 in the Irish Times; retitled for inclusion in Poems of Discouragement, 1913; that book made part of Responsibilties: Poems and a Play, 1914—English

    • 'A Prayer for My Daughter'

    193. originally published Nov. 1919 in the Irish Statesman and Poetry; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1920—English

  193. J M Synge

    194. The Playboy of the Western World
    1907—English

  194. Beatrix Potter
    The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    1902—English

    Robert Frost
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The Gift Outright'

    originally published Spring 1942 in the Virginia Quarterly Review; part of A Witness Tree, 1942—English

    • 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'

    originally published Mar. 1923 in the New Republic; part of New Hampshire, 1923—English

    • 'The Death of the Hired Man'

    part of North of Boston, 1914—English

    • 'The Road Not Taken'

    originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916

    • 'Two Tramps in Mud Time'

    originally published Oct. 1934 in the Saturday Review of Literature; part of A Further Range, 1936—English

    • 'The Witches of Coös'

    originally published Jan. 1922 in Poetry; part of New Hampshire, 1923—English

    • 'Home Burial'

    part of North of Boston, 1914—English

    • 'The Black Cottage'

    part of North of Boston, 1914—English

    • 'In the Home Stretch'

    originally published Jul. 1916 in the Century; part of Mountain Interval, 1916—English

    • 'Fire and Ice'

    originally published Jan. 1920 in Harper's; part of New Hampshire, 1923—English

    • 'Once by the Pacific'

    originally published Dec. 1926 in the New Republic; part of West-Running Brook, 1928—English

    • 'Birches'

    originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916—English

    • 'Mending Wall'

    part of North of Boston, 1914—English

    • 'Revelation'

    part of A Boy's Will, 1913—English

    • 'The Oven Bird'

    part of Mountain Interval, 1916—English

    • 'The Runaway'

    originally published Jun. 1918 in the Amherst Monthly; part of New Hampshire, 1923—English

    • 'To Earthward'

    originally published Oct. 1923 in the Yale Review; part of New Hampshire, 1923—English

    • 'The Silken Tent'

    195. originally published Winter 1939 in the Virginia Quarterly Review; part of A Witness Tree, 1942—English

    Wallace Stevens
  195. Harmonium
    1923; revised 1931—English

    • 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

    included in Ideas of Order, 1934—English

    • 'The Poems of Our Climate'

    included in Parts of a World, 1942—English

    • 'Esthetique du Mal'

    196. originally published 1944 in the Kenyon Review; published separately 1945; included in Transport to Summer, 1947—English

    Thomas Mann
  196. Der Zauberberg

    197. The Magic Mountain
    1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translation—German

  197. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, Erster Teil

    198. 1954—German

    Edith Wharton
  198. The House of Mirth

    199. 1905—English

  199. The Age of Innocence

    200. 1920—English

    Willa Cather
  200. The Song of the Lark

    201. 1915—English

  201. My Ántonia

    202. 1918—English

  202. Étienne Gilson

    203. Introduction aux Arts du Beau
    1963—French

    James Joyce
  203. Dubliners

    204. 1914—English

  204. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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

  205. Ulysses

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

  206. Henrik Ibsen

    207. Et Dukkehjem
    A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian

    George Bernard Shaw
  207. Pygmalion

    208. 1913—English

  208. Saint Joan

    209. 1923—English

  209. Eugen Herrigel

    210. Zen in the Art of Archery
    1948—English

  210. Isak Dinesen

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

  211. Virginia Woolf

    212. A Room of One's Own
    1929—English

    Franz Kafka
  212. Der Prozess

    213. The Trial
    1925—German

  213. Das Schloss

    214. The Castle
    1926—German

  214. Die Verwandlung

    215. The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translation—German

  215. In der Strafkolonie

    216. In the Penal Colony
    1919—German

  216. Austin Tappan Wright
    Islandia
    1942—English

    Ring Lardner
    • Stories

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'Alibi Ike'

    217. originally published 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post—English

  217. Erwin Schrödinger
    Nature and the Greeks
    1954—English

    William Carlos Williams
    • Poems

    218. Twentieth Century—English

  218. Paterson

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

  219. Spring and All
    1923—English

    Marianne Moore
    • 'Poetry'

    included in Observations, 1924—English

    • 'Marriage'

    included in Observations, 1924—English

    T S Eliot
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The Waste Land'

    220. originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

  220. Ash Wednesday

    221. 1930—English

  221. 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

    • '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 Hollow Men'

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

    • 'Rhapsody on a Windy Night'

    originally published Jul. 1915 in Blast; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English

    • 'Morning at the Window'

    originally published Sep. 1916 in Poetry; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English

    • 'Sweeney Among the Nightingales'

    222. part of Poems: 1920, 1920—English

  222. Journey of the Magi

    223. 1927; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; eighth of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English

  223. Marina
    1930; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 29th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English

    • 'Eyes That I Last Saw in Tears'

    224. originally published Nov. 1924 in Chapbook as part of Doris's Dream Songs—English

  224. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
    1939—English

    • The Sacred Wood

    1920; 20 essays, some of which originally published in the Times Literary Supplement, the Athenæum, Art and Letters, and the Egoist—English

    • Selected Essays, 1917-1932

    1932—English

    Ezra Pound
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter'

    —English

    • 'In a Station of the Metro'

    225. —English

  225. Eugene O'Neill

    226. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    1956—English

  226. Nancy Mitford

    227. Madame de Pompadour
    1954—English

    C S Lewis
  227. Out of the Silent Planet

    228. 1938—English

  228. Perelandra

    229. 1943—English

  229. That Hideous Strength

    230. 1945—English

    J R R Tolkien
  230. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

    231. 1937—English

  231. The Lord of the Rings

    232. originally published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-55—English

  232. F Scott Fitzgerald
    The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

    Ernest Hemingway
    • Stories

    233. Twentieth Century—English

  233. The Old Man and the Sea
    1952—English

    • 'Big, Two-Hearted River'

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

    • 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'

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

    • 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'

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

    • 'Old Man at the Bridge'

    234. included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938—English

    E B White
  234. Stuart Little

    235. 1945—English

  235. Charlotte's Web
    1952—English

    • James Thurber

    'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'
    originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Yorker; included in My World - And Welcome to It, 1942—English

    Archibald MacLeish
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century&msdash;English

    • 'You, Andrew Marvell'

    Twentieth Century; included in New Found Land, 1930&msdash;English

    • 'Ars Poetica'

    originally published in Poetry, June 1926&msdash;English

    Mark Van Doren
    • Poems

    Twentieth Century—English

    • 100 Poems

    1967—English

    • 'The Animals'

    —English

    • 'Former Barn Lot'

    —English

    • 'My Great Friends'

    —English

    • 'So Fair a World It Was'

    —English

    • 'O World'

    236. —English

  236. That Shining Place

    237. 1969—English

  237. Good Morning: Last Poems

    238. 1973—English

  238. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    239. Le Petit Prince
    1943—French

  239. John Hersey

    240. Hiroshima
    1946—English

  240. Walter M Miller Jr.

    241. A Canticle for Leibowitz
    early version published as three stories, all in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', Apr. 1955; 'And the Light Is Risen', Aug. 1956; and 'The Last Canticle', Feb. 1957; revised and expanded for book publication, 1959—English

  241. Charles Galton Darwin

    242. The Next Million Years
    1952—English

    Fernand Braudel
  242. La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II
    The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
    1949—French

    • The Structures of Everday Life

    243. 1967; first volume of Civilisation Matérielle, Économie et Capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe; complete work published 1979—French

  243. Mortimer J Adler

    244. The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World
    volumes 2 and 3 of The Great Books of the Western World, 1952; revised 1990 as volume 1 of the revised Great Books of the Western World, retitled Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas; Van Doren refers to the 1952 version—English

    John Steinbeck
  244. The Grapes of Wrath

    245. 1939—English

  245. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

    246. 1962—English

    George Orwell
  246. Animal Farm

    247. 1945—English

  247. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    248. 1949—English

  248. T H White

    249. The Once and Future King
    originally published in five volumes, 1938-71—English

  249. Samuel Beckett

    250. En Attendant Godot
    Waiting for Godot
    1953—French

    Robert A Heinlen
  250. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    251. originally published serially Dec. 1965-Apr. 1966 in Worlds of If—English

  251. Farnham's Freehold

    252. originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1964 in Worlds of If—English

  252. The Door Into Summer
    originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1956 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction—English

    W H Auden
    • 'In Memory of W B Yeats'

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

    • 'Musée des Beaux Arts'

    253. originally entitled 'Palais des Beaux Arts', published Spring 1939 in New Writing; retitled for inclusion in Another Time, 1940; included in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

  253. The Shield of Achilles

    254. 1955—English

  254. Margaret Wise Brown
    Goodnight Moon
    1947—English

    Elizabeth Bishop
    • 'Faustina, or Rock Roses'

    —English

    • 'The Fish'

    included in North and South, 1946—English

    • 'Sestina'

    originally published in the New Yorker, September 1956—English

    • 'One Art'

    255. originally published in the New Yorker, April 1976; included in Georgraphy III, 1977—English

    Tennessee Williams
  255. A Streetcar Named Desire

    256. 1947—English

  256. The Glass Menagerie
    1944—English

    Richard Wilbur
    • Poems

    —English

    • Translations

    Van Doren notes translations of Molière—English

    • 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

    included in Things of This World, 1957—English

    • 'Trolling for Blues'

    257. originally published October/November 1987 in Poetry—English

    Albert Camus
  257. L'Étranger

    258. The Stranger
    1942—French

  258. La Peste

    259. The Plague
    1947—French

  259. Arthur Miller

    260. Death of a Salesman
    1949—English

    Arthur C Clarke
  260. Childhood's End

    261. 1953—English

  261. Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

    262. originally published serially 1958-62; revised 1999—English

    J D Salinger
  262. Catcher in the Rye
    1951—English

    • Nine Stories

    263. originally published 1948-53 in the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Information World Review—English

  263. Julian Jaynes

    264. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
    1976—English

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  264. Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča

    265. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj Mîr—Russian

  265. V Kruge Pervom

    266. In the First Circle
    1968; expanded 1978—Russian

  266. Fred Bodsworth

    267. Last of the Curlews
    1954—English

    Primo Levi
  267. Se Questo è un Uomo

    268. Survival in Auschwitz; If This Is a Man
    1947—Italian

  268. Il Sistema Periodico

    269. 1975—Italian

  269. Se Non Ora, Quando?

    270. 1982—Italian

    Leo Rosten
  270. The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

    271. 1937; originally published in part in the New Yorker—English

  271. The Joys of Yiddish

    272. 1968—English

  272. Kurt Vonnegut

    273. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
    1969—English

    José Saramago
  273. Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira

    274. Blindness
    1995—Portuguese

  274. A Caverna

    275. The Cave
    1995—Portuguese

  275. Joseph Heller

    276. Catch-22
    1961—English

    John Berger
  276. Ways of Seeing

    277. 1972—English

  277. About Looking

    278. 1980—English

    John le Carré
  278. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

    279. 1963—English
    *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

  279. The Little Drummer Girl

    280. 1983—English
    *Van Doren*

  280. The Constant Gardener

    281. 2001—English
    *Van Doren*

    Alan Furst
  281. Night Soldiers

    282. 1988—English

  282. Dark Star

    283. 1991—English

  283. The Polish Soldier

    284. 1995—English

  284. The World at Night

    285. 1996—English

  285. Dark Voyage

    286. 2004—English

  286. Czesław Miłosz

    287. Zniewolony Umysł
    The Captive Mind
    1953—Polish

    Sébastien Japrisot
  287. Compartiment Tueurs

    288. The 10:30 from Marseilles; The Sleeping-Car Murders
    1962—French

  288. Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles

    289. A Very Long Engagement
    1991—French

    Toni Morrison
  289. Song of Solomon

    290. 1977—English

  290. Beloved

    291. 1987—English

    Cormac McCarthy
  291. All the Pretty Horses

    292. 1992—English

  292. The Crossing

    293. 1994—English

  293. Cities of the Plain

    294. 1998—English

  294. Larry McMurty

    295. Lonesome Dove
    1985—English

  295. Daniel Quinn

    296. Ishmael
    1992—English

    J M Coetzee
  296. Disgrace

    297. 1999—English

  297. Elizabeth Costello

    298. 2003—English

  298. Roberto Calasso

    299. Le Nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
    The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
    1988—Italian

    Mark Helprin
  299. Winter's Tale

    300. 1983—English

  300. A Soldier of the Great War

    301. 1991—English

    Donna Leon
  301. Death at Le Fenice

    302. 1992—English
    *Van Doren*

  302. Death in a Strange Country

    303. 1993—English
    *Van Doren*

  303. Acqua Alta

    304. 1996—English
    *Van Doren*

  304. Uniform Justice

    305. 2003—English
    *Van Doren*

  305. Doctored Evidence

    306. 2004—English
    *Van Doren*

  306. Suffer the Little Children

    307. 2007—English
    *Van Doren*

    Michael Dibdin
  307. Ratking

    308. 1988—English
    *Van Doren*

  308. Vendetta

    309. 1990—English
    *Van Doren*

  309. Cabal

    310. 1992—English
    *Van Doren*

  310. Dead Lagoon

    311. 1994—English
    *Van Doren*

  311. A Long Finish

    312. 1998—English
    *Van Doren*

  312. Blood Rain

    313. 1999—English
    *Van Doren*

  313. And Then You Die

    314. 2002—English
    *Van Doren*

    Henning Mankell
  314. Mördare Utan Ansikte

    315. Faceless Killers
    1991—Swedish

  315. Hundarna i Riga

    316. The Dogs of Riga
    1992—Swedish

  316. Den Vita Lejoninnan

    317. The White Lioness
    1993—Swedish

  317. Den Femte Kvinnan

    318. The Fifth Woman
    1996—Swedish

  318. Brandvägg

    319. Firewall
    1998—Swedish

  319. Danslärarens Återkomst

    320. The Return of the Dancing Master
    2000—Swedish

    Carl Hiaasen
  320. Tourist Season

    321. 1986—English

  321. Strip Tease

    322. 1993—English

  322. Lucky You

    323. 1997—English

    Michael Pollan
  323. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

    324. 2001—English

  324. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

    325. 2006—English

    Patrick O'Brien
  325. Master and Commander

    326. 1969—English

  326. Post Captain

    327. 1972—English

  327. H.M.S. Surprise

    328. 1973—English

  328. The Mauritius Command

    329. 1977—English

  329. Desolation Island

    330. 1978—English

  330. The Fortune of War

    331. 1979—English

  331. The Surgeon's Mate

    332. 1980—English

  332. The Ionian Mission

    333. 1981—English

  333. Treason's Harbour

    334. 1983—English

  334. The Far Side of the World

    335. 1984—English

  335. The Reverse of the Medal

    336. 1986—English

  336. The Letter of Marque

    337. 1988—English

  337. The Thirteen-Gun Salute

    338. 1989—English

  338. The Nutmeg of Consolation

    339. 1991—English

  339. Clarissa Oakes

    340. 1992; U S title: The Truelove—English

  340. The Wine-Dark Sea

    341. 1993—English

  341. The Commodore

    342. 1994—English

  342. The Yellow Admiral

    343. 1996—English

  343. The Hundred Days

    344. 1998—English

  344. Blue at the Mizzen

    345. 1999—English

    J K Rowling
  345. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    346. 1997—English

  346. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    347. 1998—English

  347. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    348. 1999—English

  348. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    349. 2000—English

  349. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    350. 2003—English

  350. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    351. 2005—English

  351. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    352. 2007—English