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Subject: Some Canonical Lists
From: "Jonathan R. Ferro"
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 23:38:16 -0400
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From: msmorris@watsci.waterloo.edu (Mike Morris)
Subject: Some Canonical Lists
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:23:46 GMT
Terrance Heath suggested maybe we should look at some canonical lists, and
since I thought it'd be fun to do so, I've gone ahead and typed some in.
I didn't realize at first how long this project might be, but maybe it'll
help out the chap who was wanting reading lists as well.
I'm in agreement with Dani Zweig that ``The Canon'' really has fuzzy
boundaries. I'd want to emphasize also (as I think the various lists that
follow make clear) that there are different canons for different purposes. For
instance, there are canons of recommended books and authors among people who
only read science fiction. In terms of the categories Western Lit or World Lit
or American Lit, I think we must also distinguish between canonization for
purposes of readership, for purposes of scholarship, and for purposes of
pedagogy. They're different. At first I wasn't going to distinguish scholarship
from pedagogy, but while I think Joyce is much the greater writer than
Hemingway, I suspect there's a practical reason of size and accessibility why
Hemingway gets taught the more, certainly in high school.
With each list that follows, I'll try to editorialize a bit at the end.
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List 1: A quote from T.S. Eliot:
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third.
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Peremptory, yes? I found this as a jacket blurb on my copy of Ciardi's
translation of Dante. Don't know where it's from.
A personal version of this extreme canonization would be the old
which-ten-books-on-a-desert-island game: I'd want Homer, the Greek playwrights,
Dante and Shakespeare and Goethe and Wagner, actually (I think of his operas as
as much literature as music), and Melville and Plato and the Bible, and I'm
still wondering if I'd want Joyce, too.
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List 2: The Great Books
0. The Bible (not included in the set, but you're supposed
to go read whatever translation you like)
1. The Great Conversation ------- [three volumes of intro and
2. Syntopicon 1 ------------- reference to the set]
3. Syntopicon 2 -------------
4. Homer, _The Iliad_ and _The Odyssey_
5. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, collected plays
6. Herodotus, _The Persian Wars_ and Thucydides, _The Peloponnesian War_
7. Plato, collected dialogues
8. Aristotle, collected works, volume I
9. Aristotle, volume II
10. Hippocrates, collected works and Galen, _On the Natural Faculties_
11. Euclid, _The Elements_, Archimedes, collected works, Apollonius of Perga,
_Conics_, Nicomachus of Gerasa, _Introduction to Arithmetic_
12. Lucretius, _On the Nature of Things_, Marcus Aurelius, _The Meditations_,
and Epictetus, _The Discourses_
13. Virgil, _The Aeneid_, _Eclogues_, _Georgics_
14. Plutarch, _Parallel Lives_
15. Tacitus, _The Annals_, _The Histories_
16. Ptolemy, _The Almagest_, Copernicus, _On the Revolutions_, Kepler,
from the _Epitome_ and _Harmonies_
17. Plotinus, _Enneads_
18. Saint Augustine, _Confessions_, _City of God_, _On Christian Doctrine_
19. Saint Thomas Aquinas, from _Summa Theologica_, vol. I
20. Saint Thomas Aquinas, vol. II
21. Dante Alighieri, _The Divine Commedy_
22. Geoffrey Chaucer, _Troilus and Cressida_, _The Canterbury Tales_
23. Nicolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_ and Thomas Hobbes, _Leviathan_
24. Francois Rabelais, _Gargantua and Pantagruel_
25. Michel de Montaigne, _Essays_
26. William Shakespeare, Plays and Sonnets, vol. I
27. William Shakespeare, vol. II
28. William Gilbert, _On the Loadstone_, Galileo Galilei, _Dialogues_,
William Harvey, _On the Motion of the Heart_, _On the Circulation
of the Blood_, _On the Generation of Animals_
29. Miguel de Cervantes, _Don Quixote_
30. Sir Francis Bacon, _Advancement of Learning, _Novum Organum_,
_New Atlantis_
31. Rene Descartes, _Rules for the Direction of the Mind_, _Discourse
on the Method_, _Meditations on First Philosophy_, and other works,
Benedict de Spinoza, _Ethics_
32. John Milton, English Minor Poems, _Paradise Lost_, _Samson Agonistes_,
and _Areopagitica_
33. Blaise Pascal, _The Provincial Letters_, _Pensees_, and other works
34. Sir Isaac Newton, _Principia_ and _Optics, and Christiaan Huygens,
_Treatise on Light_
35. John Locke, _A Letter Concerning Toleration_, _Secon Essay Concerning
Civil Government_, _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_,
George Berkeley, _The Principles of Human Knowledge_, and
David Hume, _An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_
36. Jonathon Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_, and Laurence Sterne, _Tristram
Shandy_
37. Henry Fielding, _Tom Jones_
38. Montesquieu, _Spirit of Laws_, and Jean Jaques Rousseau, _Social
Contract_ and other works
39. Adam Smith, _The Wealth of Nations_
40. Edward Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, vol. I
41. Edward Gibbon, vol. II
42. Immanuel Kant, _Critique of Pure Reason_, _Critique of Practical
Reason_, _Critique of Judgment_, and other works
43. American State Papers, _The Federalist_, and John Stuart Mill,
_On Liberty_, _Representative Government_, _Utilitarianism_
44. James Boswell, _Life of Samuel Johnson_
45. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, _Elements of Chemistry_, Jean
Baptiste Joseph Fourier, _Analytical Theory of Heat_, and
Michael Farady, _Experimental Researches in Electricity_
46. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, _The Philosophy of Right_ and
_The Philosophy of History_
47. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, _Faust_
48. Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_
49. Charles Darwin, _The Origin of Species_ and the _Descent of Man_
50. Karl Marx, _Capital_, and Marx and Friedrich Engels, _The
Communist Manifesto_
51. Count Leo Tolstoy, _War and Peace_
52. Fyodor Dostoevsky, _The Brothers Karamazov_
53. William James, _The Principles of Psychology_
54. Sigmund Freud, selected works
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First of all, that's my (old) set, not the new one. It sounds like they
added a few more books, probably edging into the twentieth century a little.
I think this is a beautiful course of books on Western Civ with slight
American seasoning, though I count only three volumes with American
works in them.
They didn't include Voltaire(!), but they explain this as the inability to
reduce Voltaire to one representative volume. Also, there's not one 19th
Century English novelist! Almost no lyric poetry.
The included works end approximately with the 19th Century.
I think this canon is more a ``History of Ideas in Western Civ'' canon, rather
than an aesthetic canon like we've been mainly discussing. But, I personally
like to include works of history, science, and philosophy when I think of The
Canon, so I don't mind this flavor in the least.
A great bit of the set itself I own duplicated in paperback or in other
editions, and especially for things like Homer and the Greek playwrights and
Dante, there are much to be preferred translations, but I really like owning
the set for inclusions like Apollonius of Perga and William Gilbert, i.e. the
stuff I'm not likely to find in any other edition.
A number of the volumes here I've read a good bit of, at least in other
editions. For instance, I've read 30 out of Shakespeare's 37 plays at one time
or another. But if I only count the books I've read *everything* in, I've read
volumes 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 47, and 48, for fourteen out
of 52 volumes (discount the 3 reference volumes and don't forget volume 0).
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I will take the opportunity to comment on one point in the article that
Terrance typed in regarding the lack of black authors in the new version of
this Great Books set.
The point was where Adler, I think, was quoted saying something like maybe a
black would write a great book in 100 years or so. The exact wording of the
quote is crucial, and if Adler actually meant this, then I would agree that
Adler was saying something outrageous. Much more consistent with what I think
Adler's notion of a great book is, would be not that a black won't write a
great book for 100 years, but that we won't be able to judge if a black has
already written a great book until 100 years passes. The obvious candidates for
canonization---James Baldwin, Richard Wright, etc.---are all in the
too-recent-and-too-politicized-into-current-politics-to-judge category for
Adler's taste, I'll bet.
Given that reporters often don't quote exactly right, and given the fine line
here that separates Adler saying something outrageous from saying something
quite reasonable (reasonable, that is, within the context of his canonization
scheme), I'm wondering if he's been quoted correctly?
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List 3: ``A Recommended Reading List'' from Appendix A of
_How to Read a Book_, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
1. Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
_Iliad_
_Odyssey_
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
Tragedies
4. Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
Tragedies
5. Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
_History_
6. Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
Tragedies
7. Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
_History of the Peloponnesian War_
8. Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
Comedies
10. Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
Dialogues
11. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Works
12. Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
``Letter to Herodotus''
``Letter to Menoecus''
13. Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
_Elements_
14. Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
Works
15. Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
_Conic Sections_
16. Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Works
17. Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
_On the Nature of Things_
18. Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Works
19. Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Works
20. Livy (59 B.C.--A.D. 17)
_History of Rome_
21. Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)
Works
22. Plutarch (c.45-120)
_Parallel Lives_
_Moralia_
23. Tacitus (c.55-117)
_Histories_
_Annals_
_Agricola_
_Germania_
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
_Introduction to Arithmetic_
25. Epictetus (c.60-120)
_Discourses_
_Encheiridion_
26. Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
_Almagest_
27. Lucian (c.120-c.190)
Works
28. Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
_Meditations_
29. Galen (C. 130-200)
_On the Natural Faculties_
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus (205-270)
_The Enneads_
32. St. Augustine (354-430)
_On the Teacher_
_Confessions_
_City of God_
_On Christian Doctrine_
33. _The Song of Roland_ (12th century?)
34. _The Nibelungenlied_ (13th century?)
(_Volsunga Saga_ as Scandinavian version)
35. _The Saga of Burnt Njal_
36. St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
_Summa Theologica_
37. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
_The New Life_
_On Monarchy_
_The Divine Comedy_
38. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
_Troilus and Criseyde_
_The Canterbury Tales_
39. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
_Notebooks_
40. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
_The Prince_
_Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy_
41. Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
_The Praise of Folly_
42. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
_On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres_
43. Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
_Utopia_
44. Martin Luther (1483-1546)
_Table Talk_
_Three Treatises_
45. Francois Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_
46. John Calvin (1509-1564)
_Institutes of the Christian Religion_
47. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
_Essays_
48. William Gilbert (1540-1603)
_On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies_
49. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
_Don Quixote_
50. Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
_Prothalamion_
_The Faerie Queene_
51. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
_Essays_
_Advancement of Learning_
_Novum Organum_
_New Atlantis_
52. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Poetry and Plays
53. Galieo Galilei (1564-1642)
_The Starry Messenger_
_Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences_
54. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
_Epitome of Copernican Astronomy_
_Concerning the Harmonies of the World_
55. William Harvey (1578-1657)
_On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals_
_On the Circulation of the Blood_
_On the Generation of Animals_
56. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
_The Leviathan_
57. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
_Rules for the Direction of the Mind_
_Discourse on the Method_
_Geometry_
_Meditations on First Philosophy_
58. John Milton (1608-1674)
Works
59. Moliere (1622-1673)
Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
_The Provincial Letters_
_Pensees_
Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
_Treatise on Light_
62. Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
_Ethics_
63. John Locke (1632-1704)
_Letter Concerning Toleration_
``Of Civil Government''
_Essay Concerning Human Understanding_
_Thoughts Concerning Education_
64. Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
_Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy_
_Optics_
66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
_Discourse on Metaphysics_
_New Essays Concerning Human Understanding_
_Monadology_
67. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
_Robinson Crusoe_
68. Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
_A Tale of a Tub_
_Journal to Stella_
_Gulliver's Travels_
_A Modest Proposal_
69. William Congreve (1670-1729)
_The Way of the World_
70. George Berkeley (1685-1753)
_Principles of Human Knowledge_
71. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
_Essay on Criticism_
_Rape of the Lock_
_Essay on Man_
72. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
_Persian Letters_
_Spirit of Laws_
73. Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Letters on the English_
_Candide_
_Philosophical Dictionary_
74. Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
_Joseph Andrews_
_Tom Jones_
75. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
_The Vanity of Human Wishes_
_Dictionary_
_Rasselas_
_The Lives of the Poets_
76. David Hume (1711-1776)
_Treatise on Human Nature_
_Essays Moral and Political_
_An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding_
77. Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
_On the Origin of Inequality_
_On the Political Economy_
_Emile_
_The Social Contract_
78. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
_Tristram Shandy_
_A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy_
79. Adam Smith (1723-1790)
_The Theory of Moral Sentiments_
_Wealth of Nations_
80. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
_Critique of Pure Reason_
_Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals_
_Critique of Practical Reason_
_The Science of Right_
_Critique of Judgment_
_Perpetual Peace_
81. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
_Autobiography_
82. James Boswell (1740-1795)
Journal
_Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D._
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
_Elements of Chemistry_
84. John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804)
_Federalist Papers_
(together with Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the
United States, and Declaration of Independence)
85. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
_Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation_
_Theory of Fictions_
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
_Faust_
_Poetry and Truth_
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
_Analytical Theory of Heat_
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
_Phenomenology of Spirit_
_Philosophy of Right_
_Lectures on the Philosophy of History_
89. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems
_Biographia Literaria_
91. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
_Pride and Prejudice_
_Emma_
92. Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
_On War_
93. Stendhal (1783-1842)
_The Red and the Black_
_The Charterhouse of Parma_
_On Love_
94. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
_Don Juan_
95. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
_Studies in Pessimism_
96. Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
_Chemical History of a Candle_
_Experimental Researches in Electricity_
97. Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
_Principles of Geology_
98. Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
_The Positive Philosophy_
99. Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
_Pere Goriot_
_Eugenie Grandet_
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
_Representative Men_
_Essays_
_Journal_
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
_The Scarlet Letter_
102. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
_Democracy in America_
103. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
_A System of Logic_
_On Liberty_
_Representative Government_
_Utilitarianism_
_The Subjection of Women_
_Autobiography_
104. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
_The Origin of Species_
_The Descent of Man_
_Autobiography_
105. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Works
106. Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
_Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine_
107. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
_Civil Disobedience_
_Walden_
108. Karl Marx (1818-1883)
_Capital_
(together with _Communist Manifesto_)
109. George Eliot (1819-1880)
_Adam Bede_
_Middlemarch_
110. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
_Moby Dick_
_Billy Budd_
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
_Crime and Punishment_
_The Idiot_
_The Brothers Karamazov_
112. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
_Madame Bovary_
_Three Stories_
113. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
_War and Peace_
_Anna Karenina_
_What is Art?_
_Twenty-Three Tales_
115. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
_The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_
_The Mysterious Stranger_
116. William James (1842-1910)
_The Principles of Psychology_
_The Varieties of Religious Experience_
_Pragamatism_
_Essays in Radical Empiricism_
117. Henry James (1843-1916)
_The American_
_The Ambassadors_
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
_Thus Spoke Zarathustra_
_Beyond Good and Evil_
_The Geneology of Morals_
_The Will to Power_
119. Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
_Science and Hypothesis_
_Science and Method_
120. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
_The Interpretation of Dreams_
_Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis_
_Civilization and Its Discontents_
_New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis_
121. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Plays and Prefaces
122. Max Planck (1858-1947)
_Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory_
_Where Is Science Going?_
_Scientific Autobiography_
123. Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
_Time and Free Will_
_Matter and Memory_
_Creative Evolution_
_The Two Sources of Morality and Religion_
124. John Dewey (1859-1952)
_How We Think_
_Democracy and Education_
_Experience and Nature_
_Logic, the Theory of Inquiry_
125. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
_An Introduction to Mathematics_
_Science and the Modern World_
_The Aims of Education and Other Essays_
_Adventures of Ideas_
126. George Santayana (1863-1952)
_The Life of Reason_
_Skepticism and Animal Faith_
_Persons and Places_
127. Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
_The State and Revolution_
128. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
_Remembrance of Things Past_
129. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
_The Problems of Philosophy_
_The Analsysis of Mind_
_An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth_
_Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits_
130. Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
_The Magic Mountain_
_Joseph and His Brothers_
131. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
_The Meaning of Relativity_
_On the Method of Theoretical Physics_
_The Evolution of Physics_ (with L. Infeld)
132. James Joyce (1882-1941)
``The Dead'' in _Dubliners_
_Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_
_Ulysses_
133. Jaques Maritain (1882- )
_Art and Scholasticism_
_The Degrees of Knowledge_
_The Rights of Man and Natural Law_
_True Humanism_
134. Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
_The Trial_
_The Castle_
135. Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
_A Study of History_
_Civilization on Trial_
136. Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
_Nausea_
_No Exit_
_Being and Nothingness_
137. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
_The First Circle_
_The Cancer Ward_
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Wow! Two whole people born in this century!
There's a new edition of _How to Read a Book_ out with a slightly updated list,
so the one here is out of date. (I strongly recommend reading the book.)
Mortimer Adler and his circle are sort of the canonical canonizers, the people
the ``canon-bashers'' love to hate, as it were.
This list duplicates much of the Great Books set. I think it's like the short
list from which the actual books to be included in the Set were chosen. So, it
maybe gives an example of the act of choosing a smaller set of books from the
larger set, or canonization in action.
Clearly, Dickens and Voltaire were excluded because they are not reducible
to one volume.
This list, to my mind, still has the character of a History of Ideas in Western
Civ Canon, although it does a little better on including works of the
imagination than the Great Books list does.
Though I haven't seen the new Great Books set, this does make me think that the
criticism of that set for not being inclusive of black authors (in the article
that Terrance Heath posted for us) is a little bit off the mark. Adler's canon
is going in a completely different direction than an aesthetic, literary canon
would go. Also, it's deliberately biased to *old* books. And older almost
always means less democratically egalitarian, for obvious reasons.
Again, though I've read sizable chunks of a lot more, if I count only the
entries where I've read everything, I've read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 41, 94, 101, and 132, for a
total of 26 out of 137 on this list.
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List 4: _The Lifetime Reading Plan_, by Clifton Fadiman (3rd edition)
|The Beginning
1. Homer, _The Iliad_
2. Homer, _The Odyssey_
3. Herodotus, _The Histories_
4. Thucydides, _The History of the Peloponnesian War_
5. Plato, Selected Works
6. Aristotle, _Ethics_, _Politics_
7. Aeschylus, _The Oresteia_
8. Sophocles, _Oedipus Rex_, _Oedipus at Colonus_, _Antigone_
9. Euripides, _Alcestis_, _Medea_, _Hipploytus_, Trojan Women_, _Electra_,
_Bacchae_
10. Lucretius, _Of the Nature of Things_
11. Virgil, _The Aeneid_
12. Marcus Aurelius, _The Meditations_
|The Middle Ages
13. Saint Augustine, _Confessions_
14. Dante Alighieri, _The Divine Comedy_
15. Geoffrey Chaucer, _The Canterbury Tales_
|Plays
16. William Shakespeare, Complete Works
17. Moliere, Selected Plays
18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, _Faust_
19. Henrik Ibsen, Selected Plays
20. George Bernard Shaw, Selcted Plays and Prefaces
21. Anton Chekhov, _Uncle Vanya_, _Three Sisters_, _The Cherry Orchard_
22. Eugene O'Neill, _Mourning Becomes Electra_, _The Iceman Cometh_,
_Long Day's Journey into Night_
23. Samuel Beckett, _Waiting for Godot_, _Endgame_, _Krapp's Last Tape_
24. _Contemporary Drama_, edited by E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey
|Narratives
25. John Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_
26. Daniel Defoe, _Robinson Crusoe_
27. Jonathon Swift, _Gulliver's Travels, _A Modest Proposal_,
_Meditations upon a Broomstick_, _Resolutions when I Come to be Old_
28. Laurence Sterne, _Tristram Shandy_
29. Henry Fielding, _Tom Jones_
30. Jane Austen, _Pride and Prejudice_, _Emma_
31. Emily Bronte, _Wuthering Heights_
32. William Makepeace Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_
33. Charles Dickens, _Pickwick Papers_, _David Copperfield_, _Bleak House_,
_Great Expectations_, _Hard Times_, _Our Mutual Friend_, _Little Dorrit_
34. George Eliot, _The Mill on the Floss_, _Middlemarch_
35. Lewis Carroll, _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, _Through the Looking
Glass_
36. Thomas Hardy, _The Mayor of Casterbridge_
37. Joseph Conrad, _Nostromo_
38. E.M. Forster, _A Passage to India_
39. James Joyce, _Ulysses_
40. Virginia Woolf, _Mrs. Dalloway_, _To the Lighthouse_, _Orlando_,
_The Waves_
41. D.H. Lawrence, _Sons and Lovers_, _Women in Love_
42. Aldous Huxley, _Brave New World_, _Collected Essays_
43. George Orwell, _Animal Farm_, _Nineteen Eighty-Four_
44. Thomas Mann, _The Magic Mountain_
45. Franz Kafka, _The Trial_, _The Castle_, Selected Short Stories
46. Francois Rabelais, _Gargantua and Pantagruel_
47. Voltaire, _Candide_ and Selected Works
48. Stendhal, _The Red and the Black_
49. Honore de Balzac, _Pere Goriot_, _Eugenie Grandet_
50. Gustave Flaubert, _Madame Bovary_
51. Marcel Proust, _Remembrance of Things Past_
52. Andre Malraux, _Man's Fate_
53. Albert Camus, _The Plague_, _The Stranger_
54. Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories and Other Works
55. Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Scarlet Letter_, Selcted Tales
56. Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_, _Bartleby the Scrivener_
57. Mark Twain, _Huckleberry Finn_
58. Henry James, _The Ambassadors_
59. William Faulkner, _The Sound and the Fury_, _As I Lay Dying_
60. Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories
61. Saul Bellow, _The Adventures of Augie March_, _Herzog_, _Humboldt's
Gift_
62. Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, _Don Quixote_
63. Jorge Luis Borges, _Labyrinths_, _Dreamtigers_
64. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, _One Hundred Years of Solitude_
65. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, _Dead Souls_
66. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, _Fathers and Sons_
67. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, _Crime and Punishment_, _The Brothers
Karamazov_
68. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, _War and Peace_
69. Vladimir Nabokov, _Lolita_, _Pale Fire_, _Speak, Memory_
70. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, _The First Circle_, _Cancer Ward_
|Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Essays
71. Thomas Hobbes, _Leviathan_
72. John Locke, _Second Treatise of Government_
73. David Hume, _An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_
74. John Stuart Mill, _On Liberty_
75. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, _The Communist Manifesto_
76. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, _Thus Spake Zarathustra_,
Selected Other Works
77. Sigmund Freud, Selected Works
78. Niccolo Macchiavelli, _The Prince_
79. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Selected Essays
80. Rene Descartes, _Discourse on Method_
81. Blaise Pascal, _Thoughts_
82. Alexis de Tocqueville, _Democracy in America_
83. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Works
84. Henry David Thoreau, _Walden_, _Civil Disobedience_
85. William James, _The Principles of Psychology_, _Pragmatism_
and Four Essays from _The Meaning of Truth_, _The Varieties of
Religious Experience_
86. John Dewey, _Human Nature and Conduct_
87. George Santayana, _Skepticism and Animal Faith_, Selected Other Works
|Poetry
88. John Donne, Selected Works
89. John Milton, _Paradise Lost_, _Lycidas_, _On the Morning of Christ's
Nativity_, _Sonnets_, _Areopagitica_
90. William Blake, Selected Works
91. William Wordsworth, _The Prelude_, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface
to the _Lyrical Ballads_, 1800
92. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, _The Ancient Mariner_, _Christabel_,
_Kubla Khan_, _Biographia Literaria_, _Writings on Shakespeare_
93. William Butler Yeats, _Collected Poems_, _Collected Plays_, _The
Autobiography_
94. T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and Collected Plays
95. Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, _Democratic Vistas_, Preface
to the first issue of _Leaves of Grass_ (1855), _A Backward Glance
O'er Travel'd Roads_
96. Robert Frost, _Collected Poems_
97. _Poets of the English Language_, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman
Holmes Pearson
98. _The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry_, edited by Richard Ellmann
and Robert O'Clair
|History, Biography, Autobiography
99. _Basic Documents in American History_, edited by Richard B. Morris
_The Federalist Papers_, edited by Clinton Rossiter
100. Jean Jacques Rousseau, _Confessions_
101. James Boswell, _The Life of Samuel Johnson_
102. Henry Adams, _The Education of Henry Adams_
103. Fernand Braudel, _The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World
in the Age of Philip II_, _Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th
Century_
|Annex
I. William H. McNeill, _The Rise of the West_
Will and Ariel Durant, _The Story of Civilization_
II. Samuel Eliot Morison, _The Oxford History of the American People_
Page Smith, _A People's History of the United States_
III. Alfred North Whitehead, _Science and the Modern World_
IV. Alfred North Whitehead, _An Introduction to Mathematics_
V. E.H. Gombrich, _The Story of Art_
VI. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, _How to Read a Book_
---
This is taken from the table of contents of Fadiman's book. The book consists
of a little bit of discussion about each one of his selections, indicating what
there might be to like about it.
Fadiman seems to be a scion of Mortimer Adler, and I think you can see that in
the overlap of this list with Adler's. But, I find Fadiman's list much less
daunting. There's a lot more emphasis on novels, plays, and poetry here.
There's a de-emphasis on the most heavy-duty philosophy and science.
Fadiman is also much more willing to include 20th-Century works, and as a
result you see some more ``multicultural'' works appear.
I'd be much more inclined to advocate Fadiman's list as a core high-school
reading list (in my fantasy school program :-)) than either of Adler's lists.
On this one, I've read all of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15,
18, 19, 22, 23, 35, 39, 43, 44, 48, 53, 63, 64, and 78, for 27 out of 103.
**********
List 5: _Classics Revisited_ and _More Classics Revisited_ by
Kenneth Rexroth
From _Classics Revisited_
1. _The Epic of Gilgamesh_
2. Homer, _The Iliad_
3. Homer, _The Odyssey_
4. _Beowulf_
5. _Njal's Saga_
6. _Job_
7. _The Mahabharata_
8. _The Kalevala_
9. Sappho, Poems
10. Aeschylus, _The Oresteia_
11. Sophocles, _The Theban Plays_
12. Euripides
13. Herodotus, _History_
14. Thucydides, _The Peloponnesian War_
15. Plato, _The Trial and Death of Socrates_
16. Plato, _The Republic_
17. _The Greek Anthology_
18. Lucretius, _On the Nature of Things_
19. Livy, _Early Rome_
20. Julius Caesar, _The War in Gaul_
21. Petronius, _The Satyricon_
22. Tacitus, _Histories_
23. Plutarch, _Parallel Lives_
24. Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_
25. Apuleius, _The Golden Ass_
26. _Medieval Latin Lyrics_
27. Tu Fu, Poems
28. _Classic Japanese Poetry_
29. Lady Murasaki, _The Tale of Genji_
30. Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_
31. Rabelais, _The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel_
32. Marco Polo, _The Travels of Marco Polo_
33. Thomas More, _Utopia_
34. Machiavelli, _The Prince_
35. Malory, _Le Morte d'Arthur_
36. Montaigne, _Essays_
37. Cervantes, _Don Quixote_
38. Shakespeare, _Macbeth_
39. Shakespeare, _The Tempest_
40. Webster, _The Duchess of Malfi_
41. Ben Jonson, _Volpone_
42. Izaak Walton, _The Compleat Angler_
43. John Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_
44. Tsao Hsueh Chin, _The Dream of the Red Chamber_
45. Giacomo Casanova, _History of My Life_
46. Henry Fielding _Tom Jones_
47. Laurence Sterne, _The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent._
48. Restif de la Bretonne, _Monsieur Nicolas_
49. Edward Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
50. Stendhal, _The Red and the Black_
51. Baudelaire, Poems
52. Karl Marx, _The Communist Manifesto_
53. Walt Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_
54. Dostoevsky, _The Brothers Karamazov_
55. Gustave Flaubert, _A Sentimental Education_
56. Tolstoy, _War and Peace_
57. Rimbaud, Poems
58. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, _Journal_
59. Mark Twain, _Huckleberry Finn_
60. Chekhov, Plays
From _More Classics Revisited_:
61. _The Song of Songs_
62. Lao Tzu, _Tao Te Ching_
63. Euripides, _Hippolytus_
64. Aristotle, _Poetics_
65. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius
66. _The Bhagavad-Gita_
67. Ssu-Ma Chien, _Records of the Grand Historian of China_
68. Catullus
69. Virgil, _The Aeneid_
70. The Early Irish Epic
71. Sei Shonagon, _The Pillow Book_
72. Abelard and Heloise
73. _Heike Monogatari_
74. St. Thomas Aquinas
75. The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
76. Racine, _Phedre_
77. Daniel Defoe, _Robinson Crusoe_
78. Daniel Defoe, _Moll Flanders_
79. Jonathon Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_
80. Edward Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
81. Choderlos de Laclos, _Dangerous Acquaintances_
82. Gilbert White, _A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne_
83. Robert Burns
84. William Blake
85. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
86. Honore de Balzac
87. _The Journal of John Woolman_
88. Charles Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_
89. Francis Parkman, _France and England in North America_
90. Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Uncle Tom's Cabin_
91. Frederick Douglass
92. Ivan Turgenev, _Fathers and Sons_
93. Arthur Conan Doyle, ``Sherlock Holmes''
94. Alexander Berkman
95. Leo Tolstoy, _The Kingdom of God is within You_
96. H.G. Wells
97. William Butler Yeats, Plays
98. Ford Madox Ford, _Parade's End_
99. Franz Kafka, _The Trial_
100. Herbert Read, _The Green Child_
101. William Carlos Williams, Poems
---
I think these two books are lovely. For each entry on the list, Rexroth wrote a
one or two or three page appreciation. Apparently, he was planning to collect
them all in some way, but this list is not so much an attempt to exclude I
think so much as ``Here are some books that I'd recommend.''
This is much more multicultural than anything we've seen so far, but some of
that is disappointing, since Rexroth knew Greek, Japanese, and Chinese, and in
a lot of the entries he decries the lack of a good English translation.
I've read 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12. (includes 63.), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
24, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 50, 51, 57, 61, 64, 65, 68, 69, 76, 88, 89,
and 100, or 36 out of 100 of these.
**********
List 6: The Library of America
1. Herman Melville, _Typee_, _Omoo_, _Mardi_
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, _Tales and Sketches_
3. Walt Whitman, _Poetry and Prose_
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Three Novels_
5. Mark Twain, _Mississippi Writings_
6. Jack London, _Novels and Stories_
7. Jack London, _Novels and Social Writings_
8. William Dean Howells, _Novels 1875-1886_
9. Herman Melville, _Redburn_, _White-Jacket_, _Moby Dick_
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne, _Novels_
11. Francis Parkman, _France and England in North America_, vol. I
12. Francis Parkman, _France and England in North America_, vol. II
13. Henry James, _Novels 1871-1880_
14. Henry Adams, _Novels_, _Mont Sant Michel_, _The Education_
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Essays and Lectures_
16. Washington Irving, _History, Tales, and Sketches_
17. Thomas Jefferson, _Writings_
18. Stephen Crane, _Prose and Poetry_
19. Edgar Allan Poe, _Poetry and Tales_
20. Edgar Allan Poe, _Essays and Reviews_
21. Mark Twain, _The Innocents Abroad_, _Roughing It_
22. Henry James, _Essays, American & English Writers_
23. Henry James, _European Writers & The Prefaces_
24. Herman Melville, _Pierre_, _Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man_,
_Tales_, & _Billy Budd_
25. William Faulkner, _Novels 1930-1935_
26. James Fenimore Cooper, _The Leatherstocking Tales_ vol. I
27. James Fenimore Cooper, _The Leatherstocking Tales_ vol. II
28. Henry David Thoreau, _A Week_, _Walden_, _The Maine Woods_, _Cape Cod_
29. Henry James, _Novels 1881-1886_
30. Edith Wharton, _Novels_
31. Henry Adams, _History of the United States during the Administration
of Jefferson_
32. Henry Adams, _History of the United States during the Administration
of Madison_
33. Frank Norris, _Novels and Essays_
34. W.E.B. Du Bois, _Writings_
35. Willa Cather, _Early Novels and Stories_
36. Theodore Dreiser, _Sister Carrie_, _Jennie Gerhardt_, _Twelve Men_
37. Benjamin Franklin, _Writings_
38. William James, _Writings 1902-1910_
39. Flannery O'Connor, _Collected Works_
40. Eugene O'Neill, _Complete Plays 1913-1920_
41. Eugene O'Neill, _Complete Plays 1920-1931_
42. Eugene O'Neill, _Complete Plays 1932-1943_
43. Henry James, _Novels 1886-1890_
44. William Dean Howells, _Novels 1886-1888_
45. Abraham Lincoln, _Speeches and Writings 1832-1858_
46. Abraham Lincoln, _Speeches and Writings 1859-1865_
47. Edith Wharton, _Novellas and Other Writing_
48. William Faulkner, _Novels 1936-1940_
49. Willa Cather, _Later Novels_
50. Ulysses S. Grant, _Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters_
51. William Tecumseh Sherman, _Memoirs_
---
I think this set of books is wonderful for providing editions of complete
works. So, for instance, I've read almost every play I could find in paperback
by O'Neill, which is most of his oevre but not quite and the LoA edition gives
me access to the missing plays. The series is still in the process of being
published, and two volumes of Richard Wright's collected works have been added,
as well as Madison's _Notes on the Constitutional Debates_, and another volume
of Parkman containing _The Oregon Trail_ and _The Conspiracy of Pontiac_.
Again the bias so far is for older works, but they are beginning to do some
twentieth century stuff, and more can be expected in the future.
You can find the volumes in bookstores with black covers set off in red
striping, and there are both hardback and paperback formats available. I
subscribe, have now 45 of them, and they send them to me at 8 a year at $29.70
US per (this is a little higher than it would be in the US because of the
Canadian postage & tax).
I've read 26, 27, 16, 11, 12. and 17, for 6 out of 51 of these at present.
**********
List 7: _99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939_, by Anthony Burgess
|1939
1. _Party Going_, Henry Green
2. _After Many a Summer_, Aldous Huxley
3. _Finnegans Wake_, James Joyce
4. _At Swim-Two-Birds_, Flann O'Brien
|1940
5. _The Power and the Glory_, Graham Greene
6. _For Whom the Bell Tolls_, Ernest Hemingway
7. _Strangers and Brothers_ (to 1970), C.P. Snow
|1941
8. _The Aerodrome_, Rex Warner
|1944
9. _The Horse's Mouth_, Joyce Cary
10. _The Razor's Edge_, Somerset Maugham
|1945
11. _Brideshead Revisited_, Evelyn Waugh
|1946
12. _Titus Groan_, Mervyn Peake
|1947
13. _The Victim_, Saul Bellow
14. _Under the Volcano_, Malcolm Lowry
|1948
15. _The Heart of the Matter_, Graham Greene
16. _Ape and Essence_, Aldous Huxley
17. _The Naked and the Dead_, Norman Mailer
18. _No Highway_, Nevil Shute
|1949
19. _The Heat of the Day_, Elizabeth Bowen
20. _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, George Orwell
21. _The Body_, William Sansom
|1950
22. _Scenes from Provincial Life_, William Cooper
23. _The Disenchanted_, Budd Schulberg
|1951
24. _A Dance to the Music of Time_ (to 1975), Anthony Powell
25. _The Catcher in the Rye_, J.D. Salinger
26. _The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight_ (to 1969), Henry Williamson
27. _The Caine Mutiny_, Herman Wouk
|1952
28. _Invisible Man_, Ralph Ellison
29. _The Old Man and the Sea_, Ernest Hemingway
30. _The Groves of Academe_, Mary McCarthy
31. _Wise Blood_, Flannery O'Connor
32. _Sword of Honour_ (to 1961), Evelyn Waugh
|1953
33. _The Long Goodbye_, Raymond Chandler
|1954
34. _Lucky Jim_, Kingsley Amis
|1957
35. _Room at the Top_, John Braine
36. _The Alexandria Quartet_ (to 1960), Lawrence Durrell
37. _The London Novels_ (to 1960), Colin MacInnes
38. _The Assistant_, Bernard Malamud
|1958
39. _The Bell_, Iris Murdoch
40. _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning_, Alan Sillitoe
41. _The Once and Future King_, T.H. White
|1959
42. _The Mansion_, William Faulkner
43. _Goldfinger_, Ian Fleming
|1960
44. _Facial Justice_, L.P. Hartley
45. _The Balkans Trilogy_ (to 1965), Olivia Manning
|1961
46. _The Mighty and Their Fall_, Ivy Compton-Burnett
47. _Catch-22_, Joseph Heller
48. _The Fox in the Attic_, Richard Hughes
49. _Riders in the Chariot_, Patrick White
50. _The Old Men at the Zoo_, Angus Wilson
|1962
51. _Another Country_, James Baldwin
52. _An Error of Judgment_, Pamela Hansford Johnson
53. _Island_, Aldous Huxley
54. _The Golden Notebook_, Doris Lessing
55. _Pale Fire_, Vladimir Nabokov
|1963
56. _The Girls of Slender Means_, Muriel Spark
|1964
57. _The Spire_, William Golding
58. _Heartland_, Wilson Harris
59. _A Single Man_, Christopher Isherwood
60. _The Defence_, Vladimir Nabokov
61. _Late Call_, Angus Wilson
|1965
62. _The Lockwood Concern_, John O'Hara
63. _The Mandelbaum Gate_, Muriel Spark
|1966
64. _A Man of the People_, Chinua Achebe
65. _The Anti-Death League_, Kingsley Amis
66. _Giles Goat-Boy_, John Barth
67. _The Late Bourgeois World_, Nadine Gordimer
68. _The Last Gentleman_, Walker Percy
|1967
69. _The Vendor of Sweets_, R.K. Narayan
|1968
70. _The Image Men_, J.B. Priestley
71. _Cocksure_, Mordecai Richler
72. _Pavane_, Keith Roberts
|1969
73. _The French Lieutenant's Woman_, John Fowles
74. _Portnoy's Complaint_, Philip Roth
|1970
75. _Bomber_, Len Deighton
|1973
76. _Sweet Dreams_, Michael Frayn
77. _Gravity's Rainbow_, Thomas Pynchon
|1975
78. _Humboldt's Gift_, Saul Bellow
79. _The History Man_, Malcolm Bradbury
|1976
80. _The Doctor's Wife_, Brian Moore
81. _Falstaff_, Robert Nye
|1977
82. _How to Save Your Own Life_, Erica Jong
83. _Farewell Companions_, James Plunkett
84. _Staying On_, Paul Scott
|1978
85. _The Coup_, John Updike
|1979
86. _The Unlimited Dream Company_, J.G. Ballard
87. _Dubin's Lives_, Bernard Malamud
88. _A Bend in the River_, V.S. Naipaul
89. _Sophie's Choice_, William Stryon
|1980
90. _Life in the West_, Brian Aldiss
91. _Riddley Walker_, Russell Hoban
92. _How Far Can You Go?_, David Lodge
93. _A Confederacy of Dunces_, John Kennedy Toole
|1981
94. _Lanark_, Alasdair Gray
95. _Darconville's Cat_, Alexander Theroux
96. _The Mosquito Coast_, Paul Theroux
97. _Creation_, Gore Vidal
|1982
98. _The Rebel Angels_, Robertson Davies
|1983
99. _Ancient Evenings_, Norman Mailer
---
How's that for something completely different?
Again, I'd recommend the little book. It's made up of one page appreciations
for each of the novels mentioned. It is a little maddening, though, because he
really doesn't limit himself to 99 books. Instead, he often will say he chose
this particular book for some quirky reason, and that all the 10 other novels
by this author are equally as good. Anyway, it's a lovely list of suggested
readings in modern English novels.
Of course, I do much better when there are classical Greeks on the list. I've
read 3, 4, 5, 20, 25, 29, 41, and 77, for 8 out of 99.
**********
List 7: Recommended Reading in Great Literature, Lake Forest Library,
Lake Forest, Illinois
|Ancient World
1. The Bible
2. Aristophanes, _The Birds_
3. Aristotle, _Poetics_
4. Homer, _Odyssey_, _Iliad_
5. Horace, _Odes_, etc.
6. Pindar, _Olympians_, etc.
7. Plato, _Republic_
8. Sophocles, _Oedipus Rex_
9. Theocritus, _Idylls_
10. Virgil, _Aeneid_, etc.
----For background & lighter reading
11. E. Hamilton, _Mythology_, etc.
12. M. Renault, _The King Must Die_, etc.
13. J. William, _Augustus_
|Middle Ages
14. Bede, _History of the English Church and People_
15. _Beowulf_
16. A.C. Cawley, _Everyman & Miracle Plays_
17. G. Chaucer _Canterbury Tales_
18. Dante, _Divine Comedy_
19. W. Langland, _Piers the Ploughman_
20. T. Malory, _Le Morte d'Arthur_
----For background & lighter reading
21. Ackerman, _Backgrounds to Medieval Literature_
22. J. Gardner, _Grendel_
23. M. Stewart, _The Crystal Cave_, etc.
24. T.H. White _Once and Future King_
|Renaissance & 17th Century
25. M. Cervantes, _Don Quixote_
26. J. Donne, Collected Poems
27. J. Dryden, _MacFlecknoe_, etc.
28. B. Jonson, Epigrams, Plays
29. C. Marlowe, Poems, _Doctor Faustus_
30. J. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, _L'Allegro_
31. W. Shakespeare, Sonnets, Plays
32. E. Spenser, _Shephearde's Calender_
|18th Century
33. H. Fielding, _Joseph Andrews_
34. T. Gray, _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_
35. S. Johnson, _Life of Milton_, etc.
36. A. Pope, _Rape of the Lock_, etc.
37. J. Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_
|19th Century
----Poetry
38. M. Arnold, _Dover Beach_
39. R. Browning, Collected Works
40. S.T. Coleridge, _Ancient Mariner_
41. E. Dickinson, Collected Works
42. J. Keats, Collected Works
43. E.A. Poe, _The Raven_
44. P.B. Shelley, Collected Works
45. A. Tennyson, _Idylls of the King_, etc.
46. W. Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_
47. W. Wordsworth, Collected Works
----Prose
48. J. Austen, _Pride and Prejudice_
49. C. Bronte, _Jane Eyre_
50. E. Bronte, _Wuthering Heights_
51. L. Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
52. W. Cather, _My Antonia_, etc.
53. J. Cooper, _Last of the Mohicans_
54. C. Dickens, _Great Expectations_, etc.
55. F. Dostoyevsky, _Crime & Punishment_, etc.
56. G. Eliot, _Adam Bede_
57. R.W. Emerson, _American Scholar_, etc.
58. G. Flaubert, _Madame Bovary_
59. T. Hardy, _Tess of the d'Urbervilles_, etc.
60. N. Hawthorne, _Scarlet Letter_, etc.
61. W. Irving, _Legend of Sleepy Hollow_
62. H. Melville, _Billy Budd_, _Moby Dick_, etc.
63. W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_, etc.
64. W.M. Thackery, _Vanity Fair_
65. H.D. Thoreau, _Walden_
66. L. Tolstoy, _War and Peace_
67. M. Twain, _Huckleberry Finn_, _Roughing It_
|Late 19th & 20th Century
----Drama
68. S. Becket, _Waiting for Godot_
69. B. Brecht, _Mother Courage_
70. A. Chekhov, _Cherry Orchard_
71. L. Hansberry, _A Raisin in the Sun_
72. H. Ibsen, _A Doll's House_, etc.
73. A. Miller, _Death of a Salesman
74. E. O'Neill, _Ah Wilderness_, etc.
75. Pirandello, _Six Characters in Search..._
76. G.B. Shaw, _Pygmalion_, _Major Barbara_, etc.
77. A. Strindberg, _Miss Julie_, etc.
78. J. Synge, _Playboy of the Western World_
79. O. Wilde, _The Importance of Being Ernest_
80. T. Wilder, _Our Town_, _Skin of Our Teeth_
81. T. Williams, _Streetcar Named Desire_
----Poetry
82. W.H. Auden, Collected Works
83. e.e. cummings, Collected Works
84. T.S. Eliot, _Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock_
85. R. Frost, Collected Works
86. G.M. Hopkins, Collected Works
87. A.E. Housman, Collected Works
88. T. Roethke, Collected Works
89. W.B. Yeats, Collected Works
----Essays, Short Stories, Expository Works
90. J. Didion, Collected Works
91. A. Dillard, Collected Works
92. L. Eiseley, _Immense Journey_, etc.
93. J. McPhee, Collected Works
94. F. O'Connor, Collected Works
95. Saki (Munro), Collected Short Stories
96. L. Thomas, Collected Works
97. J. Thurber, _Carnival_, etc.
98. E.B. White, Essays
----Prose
99. S. Anderson, _Winesburg, Ohio_
100. J. Conrad, _Lord Jim_, _Heart of Darkness_
101. W. Faulkner, _Sound and the Fury_
102. F.S. Fitzgerald, _Great Gatsby_
103. E.M. Forster, _A Passage to India_
104. J. Galsworthy, _Forsyte Saga_
105. E. Hemingway, _The Sun also Rises_
106. A. Huxley, _Brave New World_
107. H. James, _The Ambassadors_, etc.
108. J. Joyce, _Portrait of the Artist..._, etc.
109. D.H. Lawrence, _Women in Love_
110. S. Lewis, _Main Street_
111. J. Steinbeck, _The Grapes of Wrath_
112. V. Woolf, _To the Lighthouse_
113. R. Wright, _Native Son_
|Contemporary
----Prose
114. K. Amis, _Lucky Jim_
115. J. Baldwin, _Go Tell it on the Mountain_
116. S. Beckett, _Murphy_
117. J. Barth, _The End of the Road_
118. R. Bradbury, _The Martian Chronicles_
119. A. Burgess, _Enderby_, _A Clockwork Orange_
120. A. Camus, _Outsider_, _Plague_
121. R. Ellison, _Invisible Man_
122. F.M. Ford, _The Good Soldier_
123. J. Gardner, _October Light_
124. W. Golding, _Lord of the Flies_
125. J. Heller, _Catch-22_
126. J. Herriot, _All Creatures Great & Small_
127. J. Knowles, _A Separate Peace_
128. H. Lee, _To Kill a Mockingbird_
129. N. Mailer, _Armies of the Night_
130. T. Morrison, _Song of Solomon_
131. G. Orwell, _Animal Farm_, _1984_
132. A. Paton, _Cry the Beloved Country_
133. J.D. Salinger, _Catcher in the Rye_
134. J.R.R. Tolkien, _Lord of the Rings_
135. J. Watson, _The Double Helix_
---
This is a little pamphlet that Martha picked up at the Lake Forest Library.
It seems to me a little more pop, contemporary than any of the previous lists?
I've read 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 37, 40, 43, 45, 51,
53, 61, 68, 70, 72, 73, 77, 79, 81, 84, 108, 116, 118, 120, 131, 133, and 134,
for 36 out of 135 entries.
**********
List 9: ``The UWM Bookstore's Select 100 as of April, 1989''
1. _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, Twain
2. _Animal Farm_, Orwell
3. _Art of War_, Sun Tsu
4. _As I Lay Dying_, Faulkner
5. _Atlas Shrugged_, Rand
6. The Bible
7. _Brave New World_, Huxley
8. _Brothers Karamazov_, Dostoevsky
9. _Candide_, Voltaire
10. _Canticle for Liebowitz_, Miller
11. _Catch-22_, Heller
12. _Catcher in the Rye_, Salinger
13. _City in History_, Mumford
14. _Clockwork Orange_, Burgess
15. _Color Purple_, Walker
16. _Communist Manifesto_, Marx & Engels
17. Complete Works, Shakespeare
18. _Confederacy of Dunces_, Toole
19. _Confessions_, St. Augustine
20. _Crime and Punishment_, Dostoevsky
21. _Crucible_, Miller
22. _Cry, the Bleoved Country_, Paton
23. _Dancing Wu-Li Masters_, Zukav
24. _Divine Comedy_, Dante
25. _Doctor Zhivago_, Pasternak
26. _Don Quixote_, Cervantes
27. _Double Helix_, Watscon
28. _Dune Trilogy_, Herbert
29. _Elements of Style_, Strunk & White
30. _Entropy_, Rifkin
31. _Ethan Frome_, Wharton
32. _Fahrenheit 451_, Bradbury
33. _Farewell to Arms_, Hemingway
34. _Faust_, Goethe
35. _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_, Thompson
36. _Federalist Papers_, Hamilton, Madison, Jay
37. _Flatland_, Abbott
38. _Forbidden Colors_, Mishima
39. _Foundation Trilogy_, Asimov
40. _Fountainhead_, Rand
41. _Free to Choose_, Friedman
42. _Godel, Escher, Bach_, Hofstadter
43. _Gone with the Wind_, Mitchell
44. _Grapes of Wrath_, Steinbeck
45. _Gravity's Rainbow_, Pynchon
46. _Great Expectations_, Dickens
47. _Great Gatsby_, Fitzgerald
48. _Gulliver's Travels_, Swift
49. _Handmaid's Tale_, Atwood
50. _Hiroshima_, Hersey
51. _How Democracies Perish_, Revel
52. _Iliad_, Homer
53. _Invisible Man_, Ellison
54. _Jane Eyre_, Bronte
55. _Leaves of Grass_, Whitman
56. _Little Prince_, St. Exupery
57. _Lord of the Flies_, Golding
58. _Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
59. _Madame Bovary_, Flaubert
60. _Man's Search for Meaning_, Frankl
61. _Mere Christianity_, Lewis
62. _Moby Dick_, Melville
63. _Monkey Wrench Gang_, Abbey
64. _My Antonia_, Cather
65. _1984_, Orwell
66. _Odyssey_, Homer
67. _Of Human Bondage_, Maugham
68. _Of Mice and Men_, Steinbeck
69. _Old Man and the Sea_, Hemingway
70. _On the Road_, Kerouac
71. _One Hundred Years of Solitude_, Garcia Marquez
72. _Origin of Species_, Darwin
73. _Paradise Lost_, Milton
74. _Plague_, Camus
75. _Pride and Prejudice_, Austen
76. _Prince_, Machiavelli
77. Qu'ran
78. _Republic_, Plato
79. _Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_, Shirer
80. _Road Less Travelled_, Peck
81. _Room of One's Own_, Woolf
82. _Sand County Almanac_, Leopold
83. _Second Sex_, de Beauvoir
84. _Seven Story Mountain_, Merton
85. _Siddhartha_, Hesse
86. _Slaughterhouse Five_, Vonnegut
87. _Small Is Beautiful_, Schumacher
88. _Steppenwolf_, Hesse
89. _Stranger_, Camus
90. _Stranger in a Strange Land_, Heinlein
91. _Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, Kuhn
92. _Tao of Physics_, Capra
93. _Tao Te Ching_, Lao Tzu
94. _Third Wave_, Toffler
95. _Ulysses_, Joyce
96. _Unsettling of America_, Berry
97. _Utopia_, More
98. _Walden_, Thoreau
99. _War and Peace_, Tolstoy
100. _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, Pirsig
---
They give out this mimeographed sheet at the U of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
bookstore. It states: ``This list was compiled by tabulating nominations by UWM
faculty, staff and students for the Select 100. It includes changes which have
resulted from nominations received since the original list was released. We
asked you to recommend books which you have found to be so useful and important
that no one could consider himself/herself an educated or enlightened person
without having read them. This is your cumulative response.''
It's pretty pop, too, I think.
I've read 2, 6, 9, 12, 13, 20, 21, 24, 32, 34, 36, 39, 42, 45, 46, 48, 52, 58,
61, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 76, 78, 85, 88, 89, 95, 100, for 34 of 100.
**********
Final remarks:
I use lists like these as a partial guide to my own reading. I do read other
things.
I ``scored'' myself with each list, mostly to point up that there's tons of
stuff I've not read. I will say that there is nothing on any of these lists
that I haven't yet read which I do not wish to read (although I'd qualify that
perhaps by saying that _The Tao of Physics_, _The Dancing Wu-Li Masters_, Ayn
Rand, and Jeremy Rifkin can well wait til I've read everything else).
Of the stuff I have read, I would recommend all of it as good or great books. A
good fraction of it is 17-time-readable literature, especially the stuff on
Adler's lists, which is what Adler tried to select for. This, and the
remarkable repitition across some of these lists makes me think that there is
something quite objective about this selection process.
Also, I would point out that if Mike Morris says ``These are the two greatest
books in the world'', you really haven't any need to listen to him very much.
Whereas if T.S. Eliot says ``Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between
them. There is no third.'' it ought to carry more weight. Eliot and Adler and
Fadiman and Rexroth are worth listening to because they have read so much more
than most of us have. There is such a thing as expertise about literature, and
these guys are experts. Doesn't mean we have to agree with them finally, or
even read half the stuff they have, but I think we shouldn't dismiss credit
where credit is due.
I'd recommend, again, _99 Novels_, _The Lifetime Reading Plan_, _How to Read a
Book_, and _Classics Revisited_ and _More Classics Revisited_. They are all so
much more than just the reading list. It would be neat to see such books as
_100 of the Best African-American Books_ in the vein of Burgess' _99 Novels_.
Or _100 Masterworks of Science Fiction_. I'd buy such reading-list books if
they were to cross my path in bookstores. I've read a good bit of 20th C Latin
American literature, and I like reading it alot, so I'd particularly love to
see a guide to it like these.
There's a difference between descriptive lexicography and prescriptive, and of
course, what everybody fears is being said is that you're nobody unless you've
read all these books. In none of these cases is that being said, I think. I
would not use any of these lists for other than personal prescription.
Actually, I think prescription has about zero place other than in the
classroom, and though, as I said, I'd use it heavily in my ideal 12 years of
primary education, if I could only realize that fantasy, I'd hope to lay off
the prescription more and more at the university level.
Actually, I think the list here that comes closest to a reasonable high-school
prescriptive list is Clifton Fadiman's. That list, with additions, I think
would be a wonderful core high-school curriculum.
*******************
The end. (exhausted sigh), Mike Morris (msmorris@watsci.uwaterloo.ca)
-- Jon Ferro Einsprachigkeit ist heilbar
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Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Some Canonical Lists
From: "Jonathan R. Ferro"
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 23:43:09 -0400
In response to both a post requesting a list of 'books you should read' and the
canon debate, I'll post a note that was forwarded to me two years ago (having
been saved from a post made two years before that).
Regarding the canonical list debate, I believe inspection of the list will
reveal that disagreement between list composers is the rule rather than the
exception. There are 8 lists collated into this listing. Two of the lists
are mutually exclusive, so a book may appear on at most 7 of the lists.
Further, at least two of the lists have been revised since this collation was
made.
Of the 470 works mentioned (your count may differ depending on how you count
Shakespeare) only two are on all seven lists (Moby Dick and Don Quixote). Only
51 are even on four of the seven possible. So only slightly more than 10% of
all books mentioned as being canonical by one list maker (and most of these
lists are consensus listings rather than personal preference listings which
theoretically should have produced a greater degree of agreement between the
lists) make it onto a majority of other canonical listings. The notion of a
single 'Canon' which is adhered to (anywhere) definitely takes on the
appearance of a straw man.
The disagreement between different listers was also true of r.a.bble. About the
time this collation was forwarded to me, I'd posted a note requesting people's
recommendations from their reading of the last year. Only 10% of the books
there had multiple recommendations. (The most-recommended on that list was
Lord of the Rings.)
My gratitude to Alexander McIntire, who collected the joint listings.
Bob Grumbine
Here begins the original summary which was forwarded to me two years ago, from
a list first posted in 1988 or so.
=============================
The list below includes recommendations or works included in a
variety of sources:
l = The Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman.
g = Great Books of the Western World, Mortimer J. Adler, Editor.
t = Great Books of the Twentieth Century, as proposed by Adler.
c = Books for the College-Bound Student, in Books and the Teen-
aged Reader.
e = The College and Adult Reading List of the National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE).
b = Books for You, the secondary-level reading list of the NCTE.
s = List for the college-preparatory student in Reading in the
Secondary School.
r = One Hundred Significant Books from Good Reading -- Committee
on College Reading.
Some considerations:
Many of the books followed by c, s, b, or e are what I call "teacherly"
books--those seen as suitable for secondary English curricula because of
literary merit or perceived wholesomeness. They represent, in some case, the
biases, professional and personal, of generations of English teachers.
The books followed by l, g, t, or r might be more legitimately considered
"important," either for literary merit or historical importance. They include
most of the core "classics" of the Western literary canon and important works
of the social and natural sciences.
Obviously, the same problems of canonicity and ethnic bias that pertain in
scholastic debate today can be seen in this list. The major reason for
including the "teacherly" works is to offer some alternatives--there are more
works by female writers and at least some by non-white writers there. By that
same token, the orientation is weighted toward American titles in 19th and 20th
Century works, and toward Western works generally.
Any serious reader will have quarrels with this list. That is as it should be.
I have not fudged here. I stress this point to avoid conflict. I did not choose
the books included here. To take the smallest example, I don't know why King
Lear is not included in the Shakespeare list. I would, however, challenge any
serious reader to look through here without finding at least something that
sparks your attention and sends you off to the library.
Finally, realize that these lists are timebound. Many of the original
compilations were made in the 1950s and 1960s [when people still read, says my
anti-television bias]. There are works here that seemed to be important at the
time, but which have wavered in their reputation in the last two or three
decades. I would welcome any helpful comments or reasonable sources to add to
the database that underlies this project.
Alexander H. McIntire, Jr.
Graduate School of International Studies, University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124-3010
The Bible [lgcr]
Adams, Henry: Mont St. Michel and Chartres [c]
Adams, Henry: The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma [t]
Adams, Henry: The Education of Henry Adams [tl]
Adams, Henry: The Henry Adams Reader [c]
Aeschylus: The Orestia [glr]
Aeschylus: Others [g]
Aesop: Fables [r]
Agee, James: A Death in the Family [cb]
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women [e]
Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy [lgr]
American State Papers: Declaration of Independence, Articles of
Confederation, Constitution [lg]
Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio [ces]
Arendt, Hannah: Origins of Totalitarianism [t]
Arendt, Hannah: The Human Condition [t]
Aristophanes: Comedies [r]
Aristotle: Ethics [glr]
Aristotle: Politics [glr]
Aristotle: Other Works [g]
Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations [lgr]
Austen, Jane: Emma [ls]
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice [lbsecr]
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility [s]
Bacon: Essays [r]
Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain [c]
Baldwin, James: Nobody Knows My Name [c]
Baldwin, James: Notes of a Native Son [c]
Balzac: Eugenie Grandet [lr]
Balzac: Pere Goriot [lc]
Barzun, Jacques: The House of Intellect [c]
Beckett, Samuel: Endgame [t]
Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot [t]
Bellow, Saul: Herzog [t]
Bellow, Saul: Mr. Sammler's Planet [t]
Benedict, Ruth: Patterns of Culture [c]
Bergson, Henry: Creative Evolution [t]
Bergson, Henry: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion [t]
Blake, William: Selected Works [l]
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron [er]
Bohr, Niels: Atomic Physics and Human Understanding [t]
Boll, Heinrich: The Clown [t]
Borges, Jorge Luis: Doctor Brodie's Report [t]
Borges, Jorge Luis: Dreamtigers [t]
Borges, Jorge Luis: The Book of Imaginary Beings [t]
Boswell, James: Life of Samuel Johnson [lgcsbr]
Bowen, Catherine Drinker: Yankee from Olympus [cs]
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre [csb]
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights [lcesb]
Browning, Robert: Poems [r]
Buber, Martin: I and Thou [t]
Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth [cb]
Bulfinch, Thomas: The Age of Fable [c]
Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress [lcesr]
Burns: Poems [r]
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh [cesr]
Byron: Poems [r]
Camus, Albert: The Fall [et]
Camus, Albert: The Plague [ct]
Camus, Albert: The Rebel [t]
Camus, Albert: The Stranger [ct]
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [lsec]
Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking-Glass [le]
Carson, Rachel: The Sea Around Us [csb]
Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady [e]
Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop [c]
Cather, Willa: My Antonia [c]
Cellini: Autobiography [r]
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales [cslr]
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Gressida [g]
Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard [tcsr]
Chekhov, Anton: The Three Sisters [tc]
Chesterson, G.K.: The Man Who was Thursday [e]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Christabel [l]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan [l]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Ancient Mariner [l]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Writings on Shakespeare [l]
Conant, James: Modern Science and Modern Man [c]
Confucius: The Analects [r]
Conrad, Joseph: Almayer's Folly [e]
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness [tsc]
Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim [cs]
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo [lt]
Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Sharer [tc]
Conrad, Joseph: Victory [es]
Cooper, James Fenimore: Last of the Mohicans [ces]
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Spy [s]
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves: The Silent World [s]
Cozzens, James G.: Guard of Honor [e]
Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage [ces]
Curie, Eve: Madam Curie [cs]
Dana, Richard Henry: Two Years Before the Mast [b]
Darwin, Charles: The Descent of Man [g]
Darwin, Charles: The Origin of species [gr]
de Beauvoir, Simone: The Second Sex [t]
de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote [lgcesbr]
de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard: The Phenomenon of Man [t]
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: Wind, Sand & Stars [c]
de Tocqueville, Alexis: Democracy in America [lc]
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders [es]
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe [lbscr]
Descartes: Discourse on Method [lgr]
Descartes: Others [g]
Dewey, John: Democracy and Education [t]
Dewey, John: Experience and Nature [t]
Dewey, John: Human Nature and Conduct [lt]
Dewey, John: Reconstruction in Philosophy [t]
Dewey, John: The Quest for Certainty [t]
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House [l]
Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield [lsec]
Dickens, Charles: Hard Times [l]
Dickens, Charles: Little Dorrit [l]
Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist [cs]
Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend [l]
Dickens, Charles: Pickwick Papers [ls]
Dickens, Charles: Tale of Two Cities [cs]
Donne, John: Selected Works [lr]
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A. [ce]
Dostoevski, Feodor: Crime and Punishment [lbsec]
Dostoevski, Feodor: The Brothers Karamazov [lsgcer]
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [sb]
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy [sec]
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie [e]
Dumas, Alexandre: Count of Monte Cristo [c]
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers [sc]
Durant, Will: The Story of Civilization [lg]
Durant, Will: The Story of Philosophy [c]
Eddington, Arthur: Stars and Atoms [t]
Eddington, Arthur: The Nature of the Physical World [t]
Einstein, Albert: On the Method of Theoretical Physics [t]
Einstein, Albert: Sidelights on Relativity [t]
Einstein, Albert: The Meaning of Relativity [t]
Eliot, George: Middlemarch [les]
Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss [lc]
Eliot, T.S.: Collected Poems and Plays [tclr]
Ellul, Jacques: Technological Society [t]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Selected Essays and Poems [lr]
Euripides: Alcestis [gl]
Euripides: Bacchae [gl]
Euripides: Electra [gl]
Euripides: Hippolytus [gl]
Euripides: Medea [glsc]
Euripides: Trojan Women [gl]
Euripides: Other Plays [gr]
Farrell, James: Studs Lonigan [e]
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying [l]
Faulkner, William: Intruder in the Dust [c]
Faulkner, William: Light in August [ct]
Faulkner, William: Sartoris [t]
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury [ltecr]
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones [lgcesr]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night [e]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby [sceb]
Flaubert, Gustave: Madam Bovary [celr]
Forster, E.M.: A Passage to India [cel]
Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography [csbr]
Frazer, James: The Golden Bough [cr]
Freud, Sigmund: Selected Works [lgr]
Frost, Robert: Collected Poems [cltr]
Fry, Christopher: The Lady's Not for Burning [c]
Galbraith, John Kenneth: The Affluent Society [c]
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga [c]
Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [gr]
Gide, Andre: The Counterfeiters [te]
Gilson, Etienne: The Unity of Philosophical Experience [t]
Goethe: Faust [lgr]
Gogol, Nicolai V.: Dead Souls [le]
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies [b]
Goldsmith, Oliver: She Stoops to Conquer [sc]
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield [s]
Gorky, Maxim: Mother [c]
Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory [et]
Hamilton and Madison: The Federalist [gr]
Hamilton, Edith: Mythology [c]
Hamilton, Edith: The Greek Way [c]
Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd [sb]
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure [le]
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles [lsecr]
Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge [lsc]
Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native [ls]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Selected tales [l]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter [lsecr]
Heidegger, Martin: Being and Time [t]
Heidegger, Martin: The Question of Being [t]
Heidegger, Martin: What is a Thing? [t]
Heidegger, Martin: What is Philosophy? [t]
Heilbroner, Robert: The Worldly Philosophers [c]
Heisenberg, Werner: Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science [t]
Heisenberg, Werner: Physics and Beyond [t]
Heisenberg, Werner: Physics and Philosophy [t]
Hellman, Lillian: The Little Foxes [c]
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms [bec]
Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls [cs]
Hemingway, Ernest: Short Stories [l]
Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises [cser]
Herodotus: The Histories [lgr]
Hersey, John: Hiroshima [c]
Heyerdahl, Thor: Kon-Tiki [b]
Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan [lg]
Hofstadter, Richard: The American Political Tradition [c]
Homer: The Iliad [lgcsr]
Homer: The Odyssey [lgcsr]
Howells, William Dean: The Rise of Silas Lapham [ces]
Hudson, W.H.: Green Mansions [cs]
Hugo, Victor: Hunchback of Notre Dame [c]
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables [cr]
Hume, David: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [lg]
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World [ltsecr]
Huxley, Aldous: Collected Essays [l]
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House [lsc]
Ibsen, Henrik: An Enemy of the People [ls]
Ibsen, Henrik: Ghosts [ls]
Ibsen, Henrik: Hedda Gabler [lsc]
Ibsen, Henrik: Peer Gynt [l]
Ibsen, Henrik: Selected plays [R]
Ibsen, Henrik: The Master Builder [l]
Ibsen, Henrik: The Wild Duck [ls]
Ibsen, Henrik: When We Dead Awaken [ls]
Isherwood, Christopher: Prater Violet [e]
James, Henry: Daisy Miller [s]
James, Henry: Portrait of a Lady [e]
James, Henry: The Ambassadors [le]
James, Henry: The Americans [se]
James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw [bsc]
James, William: Principles of Psychology [lg]
James, William: The Varieties of Religious Experience [l]
Jaspers, Karl: Reason and anti-Reason in Our Time [t]
Jaspers, Karl: Reason and Existence [t]
Joyce, James: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [ts]
Joyce, James: Ulysses [lter]
Jung, Carl: Modern Man in Search of a Soul [t]
Jung, Carl: Psychological Types [t]
Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology [t]
Kafka, Franz: The Castle [t]
Kafka, Franz: The Trial [t]
Keats: Poems [r]
Keynes, J.N.: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and
Money [t]
Khayyam, Omar: The Rubaiyat [cr]
Kipling, Rudyard: Captains Courageous [s]
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim [ce]
Knowles: A Separate Peace [b]
Koestler, Arthur: Darkness at Noon [cs]
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di: The Leopard [t]
Lao-Tsu: The Way of Life [r]
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers [lcestr]
Lawrence, D. H.: Women in Love [t]
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird [cb]
Lenin: The State and Revolution [t]
Levi-Strauss, Claude: The Raw and The Cooked [t]
Levi-Strauss, Claude: The Savage Mind [t]
Levi-Strauss, Claude: Totemism [t]
Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith [cr]
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbit [ce]
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street [c]
Locke, John: Second Treatise on Government [lg]
Locke, John: Other Works [gr]
London, Jack: Call of the Wild [sc]
London, Jack: Martin Eden [e]
London, Jack: The Sea Wolf [c]
Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things [lgr]
Machiavelli, Niccolo: The Prince [lgr]
MacLeish, Archibald: J.B. [c]
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead [e]
Malaraux, Andre: Man's Fate [kte]
Malaraux, Andre: Man's Hope [t]
Malaraux, Andre: The Voices of Silence [t]
Malory, Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur [cr]
Malthus: Principles of Population [r]
Mann, Thomas: Joseph and His Brothers [et]
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain [lter]
Maritain, Jacques: Freedom in the Modern World [t]
Maritain, Jacques: Man and the State [t]
Maritain, Jacques: The Degrees of Knowledge [t]
Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus [c]
Marquand, John P.: The Late George Apley [se]
Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifest [rl]
Marx, Karl: Capital [gr]
Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage [lcsb]
Maupassant: Short Stories [r]
McCullers, Carson: A Member of the Wedding [e]
Melville, Herman: Billy Budd [sb]
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick [lbegcsr]
Melville, Herman: Omoo [s]
Melville, Herman: Typee [es]
Mill, John Stuart: On Liberty [lg]
Mill, John Stuart: Representative Government [g]
Mill, John Stuart: Utilitarianism [g]
Miller, Arthur: The Death of a Salesman [cs]
Mills, C. Wright: White Collar [c]
Milton, John: Areopagitica [lg]
Milton, John: Lycidas [lg]
Milton, John: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [lg]
Milton, John: Paradise Lost [lgr]
Milton, John: Sonnets [lg]
Milton, John: Others [g]
Mohammad: Koran [r]
Moliere: Selected Plays [lr]
Monod, Jacques: Chance and Necessity [t]
Montaigne: Selected Essays [lgr]
More: Utopia [r]
Nabakov, Vladimir: Lolita [t]
Neibuhr, Reinhold: The Nature and Destiny of Man [t]
Nevins and Commager: A Short History of the United States [l]
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Selected Other works [l]
Nordkoff and Hall: The Bounty Trilogy [csb]
Norris, Frank: The Octopus [e]
O'Hara, John: Appointment in Samarra [e]
O'Neill, Eugene: Long Day's Journey into Night [t]
O'Neill, Eugene: Mourning Becomes Electra [ct]
O'Neill, Eugene: Plays [r]
O'Neill, Eugene: The Iceman Cometh [t]
Ortega, Jose and Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses [t]
Orwell, George: 1984 [ce]
Orwell, George: Animal Farm [ct]
Paine: Rights of Man [r]
Parkman, Francis: The Oregon Trail [cs]
Pascal: Thoughts [lg]
Pascal: Others [g]
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country [cs]
Pepys, Samuel: Diary [sr]
Planck, Max: Scientific Autobiography [t]
Planck, Max: The Philosophy of Physics [t]
Planck, Max: Where is Science Going? [t]
Plato: Apology [LCG]
Plato: Crito [LCG]
Plato: Meno [lcg]
Plato: Phaedo [lcg]
Plato: Symposium [lcgr]
Plato: The Republic [lcgr]
Plato: Other Works [g]
Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans [BCGR]
Poe, Edgar Allen: Short Stories and Other Works [lsr]
Polyani, Karl: The Great Transformation [t]
Popper, Karl: Conjectures and Refutations [t]
Popper, Karl: The Logic of Scientific Discovery [t]
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past [lte]
Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel [lger]
Rawlings, Marjorie: The Yearling [cb]
Remarque, Erich M.: All's Quiet on the Western Front [cs]
Riesman, David: The Lonely Crowd [c]
Rilke, Ranier Maria: Poems [t]
Roberts, Kenneth: Northwest Passage [c]
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Poems [t]
Rolvaag, O.E.: Giants in the Earth [c]
Rossiter, Clinton: The American Presidency [c]
Rostand, Edmund: Cyrano de Bergerac [csb]
Rousseau: Confessions [lr]
Ruark, Robert: The Old Man and the Boy [b]
Russell, Bertrand: Principles of Mathematics [t]
Russell, Bertrand: Problems of Philosophy [t]
Russell, Bertrand: Proposed Roads to Freedom [t]
Salinger, J.D.: Catcher in the Rye [ceb]
Sandburg, Carl: Abraham Lincoln [csbr]
Santayana, George: Skepticism and Animal Faith [tl]
Santayana, George: The Life of Reason [tl]
Santayana, George: Others [l]
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Being and Nothingness [t]
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Nausea [tce]
Sartre, Jean-Paul: The Age of Reason [c]
Schrodinger, Erwin: What is Life? [t]
Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe [cs]
Scott, Sir Walter: Quentin Durward [s]
Shakespeare, William: Works (Merchant of Venice, Romeo and
Juliet, Henry IV 1&2,Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello,
Tempest) [lcgr]
Shaw, George Bernard: Arms and the Man [cls]
Shaw, George Bernard: Back to Methusalah [cl]
Shaw, George Bernard: Caesar and Cleopatra [cls]
Shaw, George Bernard: Candida [cls]
Shaw, George Bernard: Heartbreak House [ctl]
Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion [cls]
Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan [ctls]
Shaw, George Bernard: Selected Plays and Prefaces [r]
Shaw, George Bernard: The Devil's Disciple [cls]
Shelley: Poems [r]
Sheridan, Richard: The Rivals [cs]
Sheridan, Richard: The School for Scandal [s]
Sherwood, Robert: Abe Lincoln in Illinois [c]
Shirer, William: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich [c]
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle [e]
Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations [gr]
Snow, C.P.: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution [c]
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: The Cancer Ward [t]
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: The First Circle [t]
Sophocles: Antigone [glcr]
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus [glsr]
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex [glcsr]
Sophocles: Other Plays [g]
Sorel, George: Reflection on Violence [t]
St. Augustine: City of God [G]
St. Augustine: Confessions [lg]
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men [cs]
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath [ecsr]
Stendhal: The Red and the Black [l]
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy [lger]
Stevenson, R.L.: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [c]
Stevenson, R.L.: Kidnapped [bsc]
Stevenson, R.L.: Treasure Island [cs]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin [ce]
Strunk, William: Elements of Style [c]
Swift, Jonathan: A Modest Proposal [l]
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels [lsegr]
Swift, Jonathan: Meditations upon a Broomstick [l]
Swift, Jonathan: Resolutions When I Came To be Old [l]
Synge, John: Playboy of the Western World [sc]
Synge, John: Riders to the Sea [S]
Tawney, R.H.: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism [t]
Tawney, R.H.: The Acquisitive Society [t]
Thackery, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair [lcesr]
Thoreau, Henry David: Civil Disobedience [l]
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden [lbscr]
Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian Wars [lgr]
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina [sb]
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace [lger]
Toynbee, Arnold: A Study of History [t]
Toynbee, Arnold: Change and Habit [t]
Toynbee, Arnold: Civilization on Trial [t]
Trevelyan: History of England [l]
Trotsky, Leon: History of the Russian Revolution [t]
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons [lce]
Twain, Mark: Connecticut Yankee... [cs]
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn [lbsecr]
Twain, Mark: Life on the Mississippi [cs]
Twain, Mark: Tom Sawyer [sc]
Unset, Sigurd: Kristin Lavransdatter [l]
Veblen, Thorstein: The Theory of the Leisure Class [tr]
Virgil: The Aeneid [lgcr]
Virgil: The Ecologues [g]
Virgil: The Georgics [c]
Voltaire: Candide [ceslr]
Warren, Robert Penn: All the King's Men [ce]
Waugh, Evelyn: Decline and Fall [e]
Weber, Max: Essays in Sociology [t]
Weber, Max: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism [t]
Weil, Simone: Waiting for God [t]
Wells, H.G.: Tono Bungay [c]
Wells, H.G.: War of the Worlds [c]
West, Jessamyn: The Friendly Persuasion [b]
West, Nathaniel: Miss Lonely Hearts [e]
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome [bsc]
Wharton, Edith: House of Mirth [e]
Whitehead, Alfred North: Adventures of Ideas [t]
Whitehead, Alfred North: Aims of Education and Other Essays [c]
Whitehead, Alfred North: An Introduction to Mathematics [lt]
Whitehead, Alfred North: Modes of Thought [t]
Whitehead, Alfred North: Process and Reality [t]
Whitehead, Alfred North: Science and the Modern World [tlc]
Whitman, Walt: Selected Poems [lr]
Whyte, William H.: The Organization Man [c]
Wilde, Oscar: Picture of Dorian Gray [c]
Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest [sc]
Wilder, Thornton: Our Town [sc]
Wilder, Thornton: The Ides of March [e]
Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire [c]
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie [c]
Wilson, Edmund: To the Finland Station [t]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations [t]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [t]
Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward, Angel [ces]
Wolfe, Thomas: You Can't Go Home Again [c]
Woodger, Joseph H.: Biological Principles [t]
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse [e]
Wordsworth, William: Selected Poems [l]
Wouk, Herman: The Caine Mutiny [c]
Wright, Richard: Native Son [e]
Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems [tl]
Yeats, William Butler: Plays [l]
Yeats, William Butler: The Autobiography [l]
Zola, Emile: Germinal [c]
-- Jon Ferro Einsprachigkeit ist heilbar
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Project Gutenburg e-books - 23 Jan 96
* (Not Attributed)
o Aesop's Fables
o Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
o Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga
o The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
o Propertius (in Latin) (Sexti Properti Carmina)
o Vida de Lazarillo
* Edwin A. Abbott
o Flatland
* Louisa May Alcott
o Flower Fables
* Horatio Alger, Jr.
o The Cast Boy
o Paul Prescott's Charge
* Jane Austen
o Emma
o Mansfield Park
o Northanger Abbey
o Persuasion
* Mary Austin
o The Land of Little Rain
o Sense and Sensibility
* Nettie Garmer Barker
o Kansas Women in Literature
* Amelia E. Barr
o Remember the Alamo
* J. M. Barrie
o Margaret Ogilvy
o Peter Pan
* L. Frank Baum
o The Marvelous Land of Oz
o The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* Stephen Vincent Benet
o Young Adventure
* Ambrose Bierce
o Fantastic Fables
o An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
* Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
o Tales From Two Hemispheres
* Rupert Brooke
o Poems of Rupert Brooke
* William Wells Brown
o Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine
* John Bunyan
o The Pilgrim's Progress
* Frances Hodgson Burnett
o The Little Princess
o Sara Crewe
o The Secret Garden
* Edgar Rice Burroughs
o At the Earth's Core
o The Lost Continent
o The Mad King
o The Monster Men
o The Mucker
o The Oakdale Affair
o The Outlaw of Torn
o The Mars Series:
1. A Princess of Mars
2. The Gods of Mars
3. The Warlord of Mars
4. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
o The Tarzan Series:
1. Tarzan of the Apes
2. The Return of Tarzan
3. The Beasts of Tarzan
4. The Son of Tarzan
5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
6. Jungle Tales of Tarzan
* Julius Caesar
o Caesar's Commentaries in Latin (Books I thru IV)
* James Branch Cabell
o The Certain Hour
* Lewis Carroll
o Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
o The Hunting of the Snark
o Through the Looking Glass
* Willa Cather
o Alexander's Bridge
o My Antonia
o O Pioneers!
o The Song of the Lark
o The Troll Garden, et al
* Geoffrey Chaucer
o Troilus and Crisyde
* G. K. Chesterton
o The Innocence of Father Brown
o Orthodoxy
o The Wisdom of Father Brown
* Kate Chopin
o The Awakening & Other Short Stories
* Cicero
o Cicero's Orations (in Latin, Selected Orations)
* Samuel Langhorne Clemens
o The Adventures of Tom Saywer
o The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
o A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
o Life on the Mississippi
o Pudd'n'head Wilson
o The $30,000 Bequest
o Tom Sawyer Abroad
o Tom Sawyer Detective
o A Tramp Abroad
o What is Man? And Other Essays of Mark Twain
* Coleridge
o The Rime of the Ancient Marnier
* Wilkie Collins
o The Haunted Hotel
o The Moonstone
* Joseph Conrad
o Hearts of Darkness
o The Secret Sharer
* Russell H. Conwell
o Acres of Diamonds
* Norman Coombs
o The Black Experience in America
* Hiram Corson
o Introduction to Browning
* Stephen Crane
o The Red Badge of Courage
* Rebecca Harding Davis
o The Princess Aline
* Richard Harding Davis
o Frances Waldeaux
o The Scarlet Car
o Van Bibber's Life
* Daniel Defoe
o A Journal of the Plague Year
o Moll Flanders
* Rene Descartes
o Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking
Truth in the Sciences
* Charles Dickens
o A Christmas Carol
o A Tale of Two Cities
* Joseph Rodman Drake
o Culprit Fay and Other Poems
* Theodore Dreiser
o Sister Carrie
* Frederick Douglass
o Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave
o My Bondage and My Freedom
o Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
* Rene Doumic
o Biography of George Sand
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
o Beyond the City
o The Captain of the Polestar
o The Lost World
o The Parasite
o The Poison Belt
o The Return of Sherlock Holmes
o The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Magazine Edition)
o The Stark Munro Letters
o A Study in Scarlet
* Charles Eastman
o Indian Boyhood
o Indian Heroes & Great Chieftains
o Old Indian Days
o The Soul of the Indian
* George Eliot
o Middlemarch
* Edna Ferber
o Buttered Side Down
o Fanny Herself
* Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)
o The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
* Ben Franklin
o The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
* Harold Frederic
o The Damnation of Theron Ware
o The Market-Place
* John Fox, Jr.
o A Knight of the Cumberland
* Emile Gaboriau
o The Count's Millions
* Adam Lindsay Gordon
o The Poems of A.L. Gordon
* John Gower
o Confessio Amantis
* Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
o Herland
* Oliver Goldsmith
o She Stoops to Conquer
* Kenneth Grahame
o Drean Days
o The Golden Age
o The Wind in the Willows
* Eliot Gregory
o The Ways of Men
o Worldly Ways and Byways
* Edgar A. Guest
o A Heap O' Livin'
* Thomas Hardy
o Far from the Madding Crowd
o Jude the Obscure
o The Mayor of Casterbridge
o A Pair of Blue Eyes
o The Return of the Native
o Tess of the d' Urbervilles
* Robert Harris
o Stories from the Old Attic
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
o The House of Seven Gables
o The Scarlet Letter
* O. Henry (See William Sydney Porter)
* Anthony Hope
o The Prisoner of Zenda
* Homer and Homerica
o Collection of Hesiod
* William Dean Howells
o The Rise of Sila Lapham
* Victor Hugo
o Les Miserables (In English)
* C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
o The Lost Continent
* Washington Irving
o The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
* Henry James
o The American
o The Aspern Papers
o Confidence
o Daisy Miller
o The Europeans
o An International Episode
o Roderick Hudson
o Turn of the Screw
* Sarah Orne Jewett
o The Country of the Pointed Firs
* Joyce Kilmer
o Main Street, Other Poems
o Trees and Other Poems
* A. W. Kinglake
o Eothen
* Rudyard Kipling
o The Jungle Book
o Verses 1889-1896
* Andrew Lang
o The Arabian Nights
* D. H. Lawrence
o Sons and Lovers
* Henry Lawson
o In the Days When the World Was Wide
* Mark E. Laxer
o Tak e Me For A Ride
* Gaston Leroux
o The Phantom of the Opera
* Jack London
o Before Adam
o The Call of the Wild
o John Barleycorn
* Henry W. Longfellow
o The Song of Hiawatha
* Amy Lowell
o Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
* George MacDonald
o At the Back of the North Wind
o Phantastes, A Faerie Romance
* John McCrae
o In Flanders Fields
* Richard McGowan
o Violists
* McLaughlin
o Myths and Legends of the Sioux
* Somerset Maugham
o Moon and Sixpence
o Of Human Bondage
* Edna St. Vincent Millay
o Renaissance and Other Poems
* John Milton
o Paradise Lost
o Paradise Regained
* Lucy Maud Montgomery
o Anne of Avonlea
o Anne of Green Gables
o Anne of the Island
o The Golden Road
* Christopher Morley
o The Haunted Bookshop
* William Morris
o Child Christopher
o A Dream of John Ball, etc.
o The Well At The World's End
* John Muir
o Steep Trails
* Frank Norris
o McTeague
o Moran of the Lady Letty
o The Octopus
* Frances J. Olcott
o Good Stories for Holidays
* Baroness Orczy
o The Scarlet Pimpernel
* Thomas Nelson Page
o The Burial of the Guns
* Thomas Paine
o Common Sense
* "Banjo" Paterson
o The Man From Snowy River
o Three Elephant Power
o Rio Grande's Last Race
* Plato
o The Republic
* Eleanor H. Porter
o Miss Billie's Decision
o Miss Billie Married
* Gene Stratton Porter
o Freckles
o A Girl of the Limberlost
o The Harvester
o Laddie
* William Sydney Porter
o The Gift of the Magi
* P.J. Proudhon
o What is Property
* Walter Raleigh
o Robert Louis Stevenson
* Mary Roberts Rinehart
o Where There's A Will
o Bab: A Sub-Deb
* Edwin Arlington Robinson
o Children of the Night
* Sax Rohmer
o The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
* Susanna Rowson
o Charlotte Temple
* R. S. Rudder
o The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
* Saki (H. H. Munro)
o Beasts and Super-Beasts
* Winn Schwartau
o Terminal Compromise
* Sir Walter Scott
o Ivanhoe
* Anna Sewell
o Black Beauty
* Robert Service
o Ballads of a Cheechako
o The Spell of the Yukon
o Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
o Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
* William Shakespeare
o The Complete Works
* Anna Howard Shaw
o The Story of a Pioneer
* Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
o Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, (a second version).
* Upton Sinclair
o The Jungle
* Socrates
o The Second Story of Meno
* Sophocles
o The Oedipus Trilogy
* Ruth M. Sprague
o Wild Justice
* Robert Louis Stevenson
o A Child's Garden of Verses
o Edingburgh Picturesque Notes
o Fables
o Father Damien
o Island Nights' Entertainments
o Lay Morals
o Memories and Portraits
o Merry Men
o Prince Otto
o Records of a Family of Engineers
o St Ives
o The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (and a second version)
o Treasure Island
* Bram Stoker
o Dracula
* Harriet Beecher Stowe
o Uncle Tom's Cabin
* Booth Tarkington
o The Flirt
* Bayard Taylor
o Beauty and The Beast, Etc.
* Henry David Thoreau
o On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
o Walden
* Leo Tolstoy
o The Forged Coupon
* Mark Twain (See Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
* Lao Tzu (Hsuan Chiao)
o Tao/Dao Te/h King/Ching
* Sun Tzu
o The Art of War (English with footnotes)
o The Art of War (English w/o footnotes)
* Jules Verne
o Around the World in Eighty Days
o From the Earth to the Moon and A Trip Around It
o 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
* Jean Webster (Twain Gransneice)
o Dear Enemy
o Daddy-Long-Legs
* Oscar Wilde
o Ballad of Reading Gaol
* Virgil/Vergil
o The Aeneid (English)
o The Aeneid (Latin)
o The Bucolics/Ecloges (English)
o The Bucolics/Ecloges (Latin)
o The Georgics (English)
o The Georgics (Latin)
* Herbert George Wells
o The Island of Doctor Moreau
o The Time Machine
o The War of the Worlds
* Edith Wharton
o Bunner Sisters
o The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part One
o The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two
o The House of Mirth
o The Reef
o Summer
* Henry B. Wheatley
o Literary Blunders
* Oscar Wilde
o The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Virginia Woolf
o The Voyage Out
* Mary Wollstonecraft
o Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
* Zitkala-Sa
o Old Indian Legends
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St. John's College List of Program Readings
The list of books that serves as the core of the curriculum had its beginnings
at Columbia College, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of
Virginia. Since 1937 it has been under continued review at St. John's College.
The distribution of the books over the four years is significant. Something
over two thousand years of intellectual history form the background of the
first two years; about three hundred years of history form the background for
almost twice as many authors in the last two years.
The first year is devoted to Greek authors and their pioneering understanding
of the liberal arts; the second year contains books from the Roman, medieval,
and Renaissance periods; the third year has books of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, most of which were written in modern languages; the
fourth year brings the reading into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The chronological order in which the books are read is primarily a matter of
convenience and intelligibility; it does not imply a historical approach to the
subject matter. The St. John's curriculum seeks to convey to students an
understanding of the fundamental problems that human beings have to face today
and at all times. It invites them to reflect both on their continuities and
their discontinuities.
The list of books which constitute the core of the St. John's program is
subject to review by the Instruction Committee of the faculty. Those listed
here are read at one or both campuses. Books read only in part are indicated by
an asterisk.
FRESHMAN YEAR --------------------
HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
HERODOTUS: Histories*
ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides,
Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics*, Metaphysics*, Nicomachean Ethics*, On Generation
and Corruption*, The Politics*, Parts of Animals*, Generation of Animals*
EUCLID: Elements
LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
PLUTARCH: "Pericles", "Alcibiades", "Lycurgus", "Solon"
NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic*
LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry*
HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
Essays by: Archimedes, Torricelli, Pascal, Fahrenheit, Black, Avogadro,
Cannizzaro
SOPHOMORE YEAR --------------------
THE BIBLE*
ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation*, Prior Analytics*, Categories*
APOLLONIUS: Conics*
VIRGIL: Aeneid
PLUTARCH: Lives*
EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
TACITUS: Annals*
PTOLEMY: Almagest*
PLOTINUS: The Enneads*
AUGUSTINE: Confessions
ANSELM: Proslogium
AQUINAS: Summa Theologiae*
DANTE: Divine Comedy
CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales*
DES PREZ: Mass
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses*
COPERNICUS: On the Revolutions of the Spheres*
LUTHER: The Freedom of a Christian, Secular Authority, Commentary on
Galatians*, Sincere Admonition
RABELAIS: Gargantua*
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
MONTAIGNE: Essays*
VIETE: "Introduction to the Analytical Art"
BACON: Novum Organum*
SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, The Tempest, As You Like It,
Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Sonnets*
DESCARTES: Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Geometry*
PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
HAYDN: Selected Works
MOZART: Selected Operas
BEETHOVEN: Selected Sonatas
SCHUBERT: Selected Songs
STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
WEBERN: Selected Works
POEMS by: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th and 17th century poets
JUNIOR YEAR --------------------
CERVANTES: Don Quixote
GALILEO: Two New Sciences*
HOBBES: Leviathan*
DESCARTES: Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of
the Mind*, The World*
MILTON: Paradise Lost*
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes*
LA FONTAINE: Fables*
PASCAL: Pensees*
HUYGENS: Treatise on Light*, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
SPINOZA: Theologico-Political Treatise
LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government
RACINE: Phedre
NEWTON: Principia Mathematica*
KEPLER: Epitome IV
LEIBNITZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, What is Nature?,
Essay on Dynamics
SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels
BERKELEY: Principles of Human Knowledge
HUME: Treatise of Human Nature*
ROUSSEAU: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations*
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason*, Fundamental Principles of Metaphysics of
Morals, Critique of Judgement
MOZART: Don Giovanni
JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice, Emma
HAMILTON, JAY, AND MADISON: The Federalist*
MELVILLE: Billy Budd, Benito Cereno
DEDEKIND: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
FIELDING: Tom Jones
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America*
ESSAYS by: Young, Maxwell, S. Carnot, L. Carnot, Mayer, Kelvin, Taylor,
Euler, D. Bernoulli
SENIOR YEAR --------------------
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SUPREME COURT OPINIONS*
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: "The Constitution and Slavery", Selected Essays
MOLIERE: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe
GOETHE: Faust*
MENDEL: Experiments in Plant Hybridization
DARWIN: Origin of Species
HEGEL: Phenomenology*, Logic (from the Encyclopedia), Philosophy of History*
LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels*
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America*
LINCOLN: Selected Speeches
KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde
MARX: Capital*, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844*
DOSTOEVSKI: Brothers Karamazov
TOLSTOY: War and Peace
MARK TWAIN: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
WILLIAM JAMES: Psychology, Briefer Course
NIETZSCHE: Thus Spake Zarathustra*, Beyond Good and Evil*
FREUD: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
VALERY: Selected Poems
KAFKA: The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony
EINSTEIN: Selected Papers
MILLIKAN: The Electron*
CONRAD: Heart of Darkness
VIRGINA WOOLF: To the Lighthouse
JOYCE: The Dead
FLANNERY O'CONNOR: Everything That Rises Must Converge
POEMS by: Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and others
ESSAYS by: Faraday, Lorenz, J.J. Thomson, Whitehead, Minkowski,
Rutherford, Einstein, Davisson, Bohr, Schrodinger, Maxwell,
Bernard, Weismann, Millikan, de Broglie, Heisenberg, John
Maynard Smith, Driesch, Boveri, Mendel, Teilhard de Chardin
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: What Do Poets Like to Read in Their Spare Time?
From: rsommo@aol.com
Date: 3 Dec 1996 17:18:19 GMT
The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty (Emily Dickinson and America) by Karl Keller
An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton
The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Windows by Richard Mansfield
Almost Adam by Petru Popescu
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Visions of Caliban by Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall
Society of the Mind by Marvin Minski
Creation by Gore Vidal
The Holy Bible
The Catholic Catechism
Wrestling with Angels by Rosenblatt and Horwitz
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein
Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B. Silvers (editor)
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Descartes' Error by Antonio R. Damasio
all of:
Garrison Keillor (sp?), Dorothy Sayers, Stephen J. Gould, Stephen King,
Anne Rice, Faye Kellerman, Tabitha King, and Dave Barry.
Plus many mysteries, more poetry, computer stuff, references, etc.
Robin Sommo
shirey@acm.org 20 Jul 1997
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