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Bloom, The Western Canon

Bloom, The Western Canon is an unranked selection published in 1994 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as editorial list. 143 of its 1518 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·'Tis Pity She's a Whore — John Ford
·(Bloom, p. 534) — Diego de San Pedro
·(Bloom, p. 540) — Heinrich von Kleist
·(Bloom, p. 548) — Trumbull Stickney
·1934 — Alberto Moravia
·1984 — George OrwellCanon #239
·A Bend in the River — V. S. NaipaulCanon #189
·A Call in the Midst of the Crowd — Alfred Corn
·A Change of Skin — Carlos Fuentes
·A Confession — Leo Tolstoy
·A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain
·A Cool Million — Nathanael West
·A Dance of the Forest — Wole Soyinka
·A Defence of Poetry — Percy Bysshe Shelley
·A Defence of Ryme — Samuel Daniel
·A Dream Play — August Strindberg
·A Dress of Fire — Dalia Ravikovitch
·A Family Chronicle — Segey Aksakov
·A Fanatic Heart — Edna O'Brien
·A Farewell to Arms — Ernest HemingwayCanon #117
·A Flag for Sunrise — Robert Stone
·A Fringe of Leaves — Patrick White
·A Glastonbury Romance — John Cowper Powys
·A Grain of Wheat — Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
·A Grammar of Assent — John Henry Newman
·A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh
·A Harlot High and Low — Honoré de Balzac
·A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
·A House for Mr. Biswas — V. S. Naipaul
·A Journal of the Plague Year — Daniel Defoe
·A Late Divorce — A. B. Yehoshua
·A Lesson from Aloes — Athol Fugard
·A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems — Vicente Aleixandre
·A Lost Lady — Willa Cather
·A Modern Instance — William Dean Howells
·A Month in the Country — Ivan Turgenev
·A New Way to Pay Old Debts — Philip Massinger
·A Part of Speech: Poems — Joesph Brodsky
·A Passage to India — E. M. ForsterCanon #71
·A Perfect Peace — Amos Oz
·A Personal Anthology — Jorge Luis Borges
·A Philosophical Enquiry into...the Sublime and Beautiful — Edmund Burke
·A Rhetoric of Motives — Kenneth Burke
·A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy — Laurence Sterne
·A Simple Soul — Gustave Flaubert
·A Song to David — Christopher Smart
·A Sportsman's Notebook — Ivan Turgenev
·A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
·A Tale of a Tub — Jonathan Swift
·A Tale of Two Cities — Charles DickensCanon #82
·A Tomb for Boris Davidovich — Danilo Kis
·A Vision — William Butler Yeats
·A Voyage to Arcturus — David Lindsay
·Above the River: The Complete Poems — James Wright
·Absalom, Absalom! — William FaulknerCanon #70
·Adam Bede — George EliotCanon #140
·Adolphe — Benjamin Constant
·Advertisements for Myself — Norman Mailer
·Aegypt — John Crowley
·Aeneid — Virgil
·Ajax — Sophocles
·Al-Qur'an — The Koran ()
·Alcestis — Euripides
·Alexandria Quartet — Lawrence Durrell
·Alexandrian Songs — Mikhail Kuzmin
·All Fires the Fire — Julio Cortázar
·All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren
·Alphabetical Africa — Walter Abish
·Always Astonished: Selected Poems — Fernando Pessoa
·American Buffalo — David Mamet
·Amerika — Franz Kafka
·Amphitryon — Plautus
·Amédée — Eugène Ionesco
·An American Tragedy — Theodore DreiserCanon #223
·An Apology for Poetry — Sir Philip Sidney
·An Egyptian Childhood — Taha Husayn
·An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff — Maurice Morgann
·An Imaginary Life — David Malouf
·Anabasis — Saint-John Perse
·Ancient Evenings — Norman Mailer
·And the Stars Were Shining — John Ashbery
·Andromache — Euripides
·Andromache — Jean Racine
·Angels — Denis Johnson
·Angels in America — Tony Kushner
·Anna Karenina — Leo TolstoyCanon #15
·Antic Hay — Aldous Huxley
·Antigone — Sophocles
·Antigone — Jean Anouilh
·Aphorisms — Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg)
·Aphorisms — Friedrich Schlegel
·Apologia pro Vita Sua — John Henry Newman
·Appointment in Samarra — John O'Hara
·Appreciations — Walter Pater
·Areopagitica — John Milton
·Arrow of God — Chinua Achebe
·As a Man Grows Older — Italo Svevo
·As I Lay Dying — William FaulknerCanon #221
·Astrophel and Stella — Sir Philip Sidney
·At the Back of the North Wind — George Macdonald
·At the Stone of Losses — T. Carmi
·Athaliah — Jean Racine
·Attala — François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
·Attis — Catullus
·August 1914 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
·Aurelia — Gérard de Nerval
·Autobiography — Benvenuto Cellini
·Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
·Autobiography — Maksim Gorky
·Bab Ballads — W. S. Gilbert
·Babbitt — Sinclair LewisCanon #173
·Babylon Revisited and Other Stories — F. Scott Fitzgerald
·Bacchae — Euripides
·Back to Methuselah — George Bernard Shaw
·Badenheim 1939 — Aharon Appelfeld
·Ballad of Dogs' Beach — José Cardoso Pires
·Ballads and Songs — John Davidson
·Baltasar and Blimunda — José Saramago
·Barabbas — Pär Lagerkvist
·Barbarian Odes — Giosué Carducci
·Barren Ground — Ellen Glasgow
·Becket — Jean Anouilh
·Bending the Bow — Robert Duncan
·Beowulf — Chrétien de Troyes
·Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred DöblinCanon #84
·Between the Acts — Virginia Woolf
·Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
·Bhagavad-Gita — The Apocrypha
·Billiards at Half-Past Nine — Heinrich Böll
·Billy Budd — Herman Melville
·Birds — Saint-John Perse
·Black Boy — Richard Wright
·Bleak House — Charles DickensCanon #44
·Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
·Blow-up and Other Stories — Julio Cortázar
·Blue of Noon — Georges Bataille
·Boleros — Jay Wright
·Boris Godunov — Aleksandr Pushkin
·Brand — Henrik Ibsen
·Brave New World — Aldous HuxleyCanon #38
·Brief Lives — John Aubrey
·Brighton Rock — Graham GreeneCanon #236
·Britannicus — Jean Racine
·Bruno's Dream — Iris Murdoch
·Bullet Park — John Cheever
·Call It Sleep — Henry Roth
·Candide — VoltaireCanon #36
·Cane — Jean Toomer
·Canto General — Pablo Neruda
·Cards of Identity — Nigel Dennis
·Cassandra — Christa Wolf
·Castle Rackrent — Maria Edgeworth
·Casualties: Poems — John Pepper Clark (-Bekederemo)
·Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
·Centuries — Thomas Traherne
·Ceremony in Lone Tree — Wright Morris
·Chatterton — Alfred de Vigny
·Child of God — Cormac McCarthy
·Children of Darkness — Edwin Justus Mayer
·Christmas Stories — Charles Dickens
·Chronicles — Jean Froissart
·Cinna — Pierre Corneille
·City of God — Saint Augustine
·Clarel — Herman Melville
·Clarissa — Samuel RichardsonCanon #127
·Collected Earlier Poems — Anthony Hecht
·Collected Essays — Aldous Huxley
·Collected Essays — George Orwell
·Collected Plays — William Butler Yeats
·Collected Plays — John Millington Synge
·Collected Poems — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
·Collected Poems — William Cullen Bryant
·Collected Poems — John Greenleaf Whittier
·Collected Poems — Herman Melville
·Collected Poems — Primo Levi
·Collected Poems — Thomas Hardy
·Collected Poems — A. E. Housman
·Collected Poems — Walter De la Mare
·Collected Poems — Wilfred Owen
·Collected Poems — Isaac Rosenberg
·Collected Poems — Edward Thomas
·Collected Poems — Robert Graves
·Collected Poems — Edwin Muir
·Collected Poems — W. H. Auden
·Collected Poems — Roy Fuller
·Collected Poems — Basil Bunting
·Collected Poems — William Empson
·Collected Poems — Stevie Smith
·Collected Poems — F. T. Prince
·Collected Poems — Philip Larkin
·Collected Poems — Geoffrey Hill
·Collected Poems — Louis MacNeice
·Collected Poems — C. P. Cavafy
·Collected Poems — George Seferis
·Collected Poems — Derek Walcott
·Collected Poems — A. D. Hope
·Collected Poems — Wallace Stevens
·Collected Poems — Vachel Lindsay
·Collected Poems — William Carlos Williams
·Collected Poems — Conrad Aiken
·Collected Poems — John B. Wheelwright
·Collected Poems — Allen Tate
·Collected Poems — Weldon Kees
·Collected Poems — John Berryman
·Collected Poems — Charles Olson
·Collected Poems — Robert Hayden
·Collected Poems — Robert Lowell
·Collected Poems — Theodore Roethke
·Collected Poems — Richard Eberhart
·Collected Poems — James Schuyler
·Collected Poems — A. R. Ammons
·Collected Poetry — Aimé Césaire
·Collected Short Stories — W. Somerset Maugham
·Collected Short Stories — Edith Wharton
·Collected Stories — Colette
·Collected Stories — Rudyard Kipling
·Collected Stories — Frank O'Connor
·Collected Stories — Elizabeth Bowen
·Collected Stories — Isaac Babel
·Collected Stories — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·Collected Stories — Nadine Gordimer
·Collected Stories — Katherine Anne Porter
·Collected Stories — Eudora Welty
·Collected Stories — John O'Hara
·Collected Writings — Ambrose Bierce
·Comedies, Tragedies, Poems — George Chapman
·Complete Nonsense — Edward Lear
·Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan — W. S. Gilbert
·Complete Poems — Ernest Dowson
·Complete Poems — Heinrich Heine
·Complete Poems — Emily Dickinson
·Complete Poems — D. H. Lawrence
·Complete Poems — Hugh MacDiarmid
·Complete Poems — Marianne Moore
·Complete Poems — e. e. cummings
·Complete Poems — Hart Crane
·Complete Poems — Randall Jarrell
·Complete Poetry — Aleksandr Pushkin
·Complete Poetry and Prose — William Blake
·Complete Prose Tales — Aleksandr Pushkin
·Complete Short Stories — Mark Twain
·Complete Short Stories — D. H. Lawrence
·Complete Short Stories — Ernest Hemingway
·Complete Stories — Flannery O'Connor
·Complete Verse — Rudyard Kipling
·Complete Works — Arthur Rimbaud
·Complete Works — Lewis Carroll
·Comus — John Milton
·Confessions — Saint Augustine
·Confessions of an English Opium Eater — Thomas De Quincey
·Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man — Thomas Mann
·Coplas — Jorge Manrique
·Corydon — Andre Gide
·Count d'Orgel's Ball — Raymond Radiguet
·Counter-statement — Kenneth Burke
·Coup de Grace — Marguerite Yourcenar
·Cousin Bette — Honoré de Balzac
·Cranford — Elizabeth GaskellCanon #119
·Crime and Punishment — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #3
·Critical Essays — John Dryden
·Criticism — Friedrich Schlegel
·Cuttlefish Bones: Poems — Eugenio Montale
·Cyclops — Euripides
·Dangerous Liaisons — Choderlos de Laclos
·Daniel Deronda — George EliotCanon #182
·Danton's Death — Georg Büchner
·Dark Harbor — Mark Strand
·David Copperfield — Charles DickensCanon #49
·Day of the Owl — Leonardo Sciascia
·Dead Souls — Nikolay GogolCanon #46
·Death in the Woods and Other Stories — Sherwood Anderson
·Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
·Death's Jest-Book — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
·Delta Wedding — Eudora Welty
·Dialogues — Plato
·Dialogues with Leucò — Cesare Pavese
·Dichtung und Wahrheit — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Dimensions of History — Jay Wright
·Divine Comedy — Diego de San Pedro
·Doctor Faustus — Thomas Mann
·Doctor Zhivago — Boris PasternakCanon #114
·Dog Soldiers — Robert Stone
·Dombey and Son — Charles Dickens
·Don Carlos — Friedrich Schiller
·Don Juan — Molière
·Don Juan — Lord Byron
·Don Quixote — Miguel de CervantesCanon #2
·Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #131
·Dracula — Bram StokerCanon #60
·Dreamtigers (The Maker) — Jorge Luis Borges
·Dubliners — James Joyce
·Duino Elegies — Rainer Maria Rilke
·Délie — Maurice Scève
·Earthly Measures — Edward Hirsch
·East River — Sholem Asch
·Eclipse Fever — Walter Abish
·Eclogues — Virgil
·Effi Briest — Theodor Fontane
·Egmont — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Elaine's Book — Jay Wright
·Elective Affinities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Electra — Sophocles
·Emma — Jane AustenCanon #155
·Emperor and Galilean — Henrik Ibsen
·Enamels and Cameos — Théophile Gautier
·Endgame — Samuel Beckett
·Envy — Yury Olesha
·Envy, or Yiddish in America — Cynthia Ozick
·Epigrams — Callimachus
·Epigrams — Martial
·Epistles — Horace
·Equal Danger — Leonardo Sciascia
·Erewhon — Samuel Butler
·Essays — Francis Bacon
·Essays — Michel de Montaigne
·Essays — Charles Lamb
·Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·Essays — Henry David Thoreau
·Essays and Criticism — William Hazlitt
·Essays and Dialogues — Giacomo Leopardi
·Essays and Poems — Jones Very
·Essays and Reviews — Edgar Allan Poe
·Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
·Ethics — Aristotle
·Eugene Onegin — Aleksandr Pushkin
·Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de BalzacCanon #138
·Eureka — Edgar Allan Poe
·Eurydice — Jean Anouilh
·Evelina — Fanny Burney
·Exemplary Stories — Miguel de Cervantes
·Exile and Other Poems — Saint-John Perse
·Exile and Return — Yannis Ritsos
·Explosion in a Cathedral — Alejo Carpentier
·Fable — Robert Pinget
·Fables — AesopCanon #167
·Fables — Jean de La Fontaine
·Fables of Identity — Northrop Frye
·Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
·Family — Natalia Ginzburg
·Far From the Madding Crowd — Thomas HardyCanon #85
·Fathers and Sons — Ivan TurgenevCanon #81
·Faust, Part Two — Diego de San Pedro
·Faust, Parts One and Two — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Fences — August Wilson
·Ficciones — Jorge Luis BorgesCanon #139
·Field Work — Seamus Heaney
·Findings — Richard Howard
·Finnegans Wake — James Joyce
·First Love — Ivan Turgenev
·Fiskadoro — Denis Johnson
·Five Novels — Ronald Firbank
·Five Plays — Heinrich von Kleist
·Flow Chart — John Ashbery
·Flowers of Evil — Charles Baudelaire
·Foe — J. M. Coetzee
·For a New Novel — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·Forgetting Elena — Edmund White
·Fortunata and Jacinta — Benito Pérez Galdós
·Forty Stories — Donald Barthelme
·Fountain and Tomb — Najib Mahfuz
·Four Novels — Marguerite Duras
·Four Plays — Jean Giraudoux
·France and England in North America — Francis Parkman
·Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCanon #14
·Friday — Michel Tournier
·From the First Nine — James Merrill
·From the Other Shore — Aleksandr Herzen
·Fuente Ovejuna — Lope de Vega
·Fully Empowered — Pablo Neruda
·Funerary Orations — Jacques-Bénigne Bosuet
·Galileo — Bertolt Brecht
·Gargantua and Pantagruel — François RabelaisCanon #146
·Georgics — Virgil
·Germinal — Émile ZolaCanon #106
·God — Victor Hugo
·Gogol's Wife and Other Stories — Tommaso Landolfi
·Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon
·Great Expectations — Charles DickensCanon #17
·Green Henry — Gottfried Keller
·Gryll Grange — Thomas Love Peacock
·Guide to the Underworld — Gunnar Ekelöf
·Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet — Jorge Guillén
·Guilt — Laszlo Németh
·Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan SwiftCanon #111
·H. M. Pulham, Esquire — John P. Marquand
·Hard Labor: Poems — Cesare Pavese
·Hard Times — Charles DickensCanon #132
·Harlem Gallery — M. B. Tolson
·Heartbreak House — George Bernard Shaw
·Heat and Dust — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
·Hecuba — Euripides
·Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen
·Helen — Euripides
·Heracles — Euripides
·Hercules Furens — Seneca
·Hermann and Dorothea — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Heroides — Ovid
·Herzog — Saul BellowCanon #203
·Hippolytus — Euripides
·His Daughter — Yoram Kaniuk
·Holy Dying — Jeremy Taylor
·Hopscotch — Julio Cortázar
·Horace — Pierre Corneille
·Hotel Lautréamont — John Ashbery
·House with the Green Shutters — George Douglas Brown
·Houseboat Days — John Ashbery
·How German Is It — Walter Abish
·How It Is — Samuel Beckett
·Howards End — E. M. ForsterCanon #202
·Hudibras — Samuel Butler
·Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time — Hermann Broch
·Hunger — Knut HamsunCanon #53
·Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall — Sir Thomas Browne
·Hymn to Satan — Giosué Carducci
·Hymns — Callimachus
·Hymns and Fragments — Freidrich Hölderlin
·Hymns to the Night — Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg)
·I Am the Dust Under Your Feet — Walter Abish
·I Wonder as I Wander — Langston Hughes
·I'm Not Stiller — Max Frisch
·Idylls — Theocritus
·If Not Now, When? — Primo Levi
·If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — Italo Calvino
·Iliad — HomerCanon #101
·Illuminations — Walter Benjamin
·Illywhacker — Peter Carey
·Imaginary Conversations — William Savage Landor
·Imaginary Portraits — Walter Pater
·Immensee — Theodor Storm
·In Cold Blood — Truman Capote
·In My Father's Court — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·In Other Words — May Swenson
·In Parenthesis — David Jones
·In Praise of Folly — Erasmus
·In Search of Lost Time — Marcel ProustCanon #50
·In the Heart of the Heart of the Country — William H. Gass
·In the Heart of the Seas — S. Y. Agnon
·In the Labyrinth — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·In the Storm of Roses — Ingeborg Bachmann
·Indian Summer — Adalbert Stifter
·Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
·Invisible Man — Ralph EllisonCanon #20
·Invisible Reality: Poems — Juan Ramón Jiménez
·Ion — Euripides
·Iphigenia at Aulis — Euripides
·Ironweed — William Kennedy
·It Can't Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis
·Italian Journey — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Jane Eyre — Charlotte BrontëCanon #10
·Jealousy — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·Jerusalem Delivered — Torquato Tasso
·Jesus' Son — Denis Johnson
·Joe Turner's Come and Gone — August Wilson
·Joseph and His Brothers — Thomas Mann
·Joseph Andrews — Henry Fielding
·Journals — James Boswell
·Journals — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·Journey to the End of Night — Louis-Ferdinand Céline
·Jubilate Agno — Christopher Smart
·Jude the Obscure — Thomas HardyCanon #78
·Juno and the Paycock — Sean O'Casey
·Kidnapped — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #200
·Kim — Rudyard KiplingCanon #135
·King Jesus — Robert Graves
·Kisses from Another Dream: Poems — Antonio Porta
·Krapp's Last Game — Samuel Beckett
·Kristin Lavransdatter — Sigrid Undset
·L'Assommoir — Émile Zola
·La Celestina — Fernando de Rojas
·La Dorotea — Lope de Vega
·La Nouvelle Héloïse — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·La Pell de Brau: Poems — Salvador Espríu
·La Regenta — Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
·Labyrinths — Jorge Luis Borges
·Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder — Christopher Okigbo
·Lafcadio's Adventure (The Caves of the Vatican) — Andre Gide
·Laocoön — Gotthold Lessing
·Largo Desolato — Vaclav Havel
·Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis — Ugo Foscolo
·Last Poems — Elinor Wylie
·Lazarillo de Tormes — Fernando de Rojas
·Lazarus Laughed — Eugene O'Neill
·Le Grand Meaulnes — Alain-FournierCanon #148
·Le Morte D'Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory
·Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
·Les Armours Jaunes — Tristan Corbière
·Les Misérables — Victor HugoCanon #34
·Les Tragiques — Agrippa d'Aubigné
·Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — James Agee
·Letters on England — Voltaire
·Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
·Libra — Don DeLillo
·Life is a Dream — Pedro Calderón de la Barca
·Life of Johnson — James Boswell
·Light in August — William Faulkner
·Light Years — James Salter
·Lilith — George Macdonald
·Lincoln — Gore Vidal
·Literary Essays — Ezra Pound
·Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens
·Little Novels of Sicily — Giovanni Verga
·Little Women — Louisa May AlcottCanon #33
·Little, Big — John Crowley
·Lives — Plutarch
·Lives of the Painters — Giorgio Vasari
·Living Together: New and Selected Poems — Edgar Bowers
·Locus Solus — Raymond Roussel
·Lolita — Vladimir NabokovCanon #24
·Long Day's Journey Into Night — Eugene O'Neill
·Lord Jim — Joseph ConradCanon #108
·Lorenzaccio — Alfred de Musset
·Lost in a Mirror — Lope de Vega
·Louis Lambert — Honoré de Balzac
·Love and Sleep — John Crowley
·Love for Love — William Congreve
·Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García MárquezCanon #110
·Loving — Henry Green
·Lulu Plays — Frank Wedekind
·Lutrin — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
·Lycidas — John Milton
·Lyric Poems — Petrarch
·Lysistrata — Aristophanes
·Madame Bovary — Gustave FlaubertCanon #6
·Mademoiselle de Maupin — Théophile Gautier
·Madrigals — Gaspara Stampa
·Mahabharata — The Apocrypha
·Maia: In Praise of Life — Gabriele D'Annunzio
·Maitreya — Severo Sarduy
·Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw
·Major Critical Essays — George Bernard Shaw
·Man in the Holocene — Max Frisch
·Man's Fate — Andé MalrauxCanon #141
·Man's Hope — Andé Malraux
·Manhood — Michel Leiris
·Manifestoes of Surrealism — André Breton
·Manon Lescaut — Abbé Prévost
·Mansfield Park — Jane AustenCanon #124
·Mao II — Don DeLillo
·Marius the Epicurean — Walter Pater
·Mark Antony — Robert Garnier
·Martin Chuzzlewit — Charles Dickens
·Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Mary Stuart — Friedrich Schiller
·Masques — Ben Jonson
·Mastro-Don Gesualdo — Giovanni Verga
·Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld
·Medea — EuripidesCanon #137
·Medea — Seneca
·Meditations — Alphonse de Lamartine
·Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Maturin
·Memoirs — Philippe de Commynes
·Memoirs of a Midget — Walter De la Mare
·Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite YourcenarCanon #184
·Men of Maize — Miguel Angel Asturias
·Metamorphoses — OvidCanon #169
·Midaq Alley — Najib Mahfuz
·Middlemarch — George EliotCanon #11
·Midnight's Children — Salman RushdieCanon #206
·Milton's God — William Empson
·Minor Poems — John Milton
·Miramar — Najib Mahfuz
·Miss Julie — August Strindberg
·Miss Lonelyhearts — Nathanael West
·Moby-Dick — Herman MelvilleCanon #8
·Modern Baptists — James Wilcox
·Modern Painters — John Ruskin
·Moles — Günter Eich
·Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
·Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres — Henry Adams
·Moralia — Plutarch
·Mother Courage and Her Children — Bertolt Brecht
·Mount Analogue — René Daumal
·Mozart on His Way to Prague — Eduard Mörike
·Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia WoolfCanon #18
·Mumbo Jumbo — Ishmael Reed
·Murphy — Samuel Beckett
·My Brilliant Career — Miles (Stella) Franklin
·My Life as a Man — Philip Roth
·My Past and Thoughts — Aleksandr Herzen
·My Voice Because of You: Poems — Pedro Salinas
·My Ántonia — Willa CatherCanon #199
·Myra Breckenridge — Gore Vidal
·Mythologies — William Butler Yeats
·Naked Masks: Five Plays — Luigi Pirandello
·Nana — Émile Zola
·Narcissus and Goldmund — Hermann Hesse
·Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass
·Narrative Poems — Aleksandr Pushkin
·Narrative Poems — Mikhail Lermontov
·Nathan the Wise — Gotthold Lessing
·Native Son — Richard WrightCanon #176
·Natural History — Joan Perucho
·Nature — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
·Nepenthe — George Darley
·Nervous People and Other Satires — Mikhail Zoshchenko
·New & Selected Things Taking Place — May Swenson
·New and Collected Poems — Richard Wilbur
·New and Selected Poems — Irving Feldman
·New Grub Street — George Gissing
·New Poems: First Part and Other Part — Rainer Maria Rilke
·New Selected Poems — Howard Moss
·News from Nowhere — William Morris
·Nicholas Nickleby — Charles DickensCanon #245
·Nicomède — Pierre Corneille
·Nightmare Abbey — Thomas Love Peacock
·Nine Stories — J. D. Salinger
·No Exit — Jean-Paul Sartre
·No Longer at Ease — Chinua Achebe
·No Name — Wilkie Collins
·No Nature: New and Selected Poems — Gary Snyder
·Nocturnes for the King of Naples — Edmund White
·North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Nostromo — Joseph ConradCanon #43
·Notebooks — Leonardo da Vinci
·Notebooks — Nathaniel Hawthorne
·Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·Nothing — Henry Green
·Nothing Like the Sun — Anthony Burgess
·Notre-Dame of Paris — Victor Hugo
·Number Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger — Mark Twain
·Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov
·Odes — Pindar
·Odes — Horace
·Odes — Ugo Foscolo
·Odes — Coventry Patmore
·Odes, Elegies, Sonnets — Pierre Ronsard
·Odyssey — HomerCanon #93
·Oedipus at Colonus — Sophocles
·Oedipus the King — SophoclesCanon #178
·Old and New Poems — Donald Hall
·Old Goriot — Honoré de Balzac
·Old Mortality — Sir Walter Scott
·Omensetter's Luck — William H. Gass
·On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
·On Love — Stendhal
·On Sepulchres — Ugo Foscolo
·On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev
·On the Genealogy of Morals — Friedrich Nietzsche
·On the Gods — Cicero
·On the Historical Novel — Alessandro Manzoni
·On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature — Friedrich Schiller
·On the Sublime — Longinus
·On Wings of Song — Thomas M. Disch
·One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCanon #218
·One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García MárquezCanon #4
·Operation Shylock — Philip Roth
·Opus Posthumous — Wallace Stevens
·Oresteia — Aeschylus
·Orestes — Euripides
·Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto
·Orlando Innamorato — Matteo Maria Boiardo
·Orlando: A Biography — Virginia Woolf
·Orley Farm — Anthony Trollope
·Orphic Songs — Dino Campana
·Oscar and Lucinda — Peter CareyCanon #188
·Otherwise: Last and First Poems — Eugenio Montale
·Our Lady of the Flowers — Jean Genet
·Our Lord Don Quixote — Miguel de Unamuno
·Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens
·Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov
·Pamela — Samuel Richardson
·Pan — Knut Hamsun
·Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms — Franz Kafka
·Parade's End — Ford Madox Ford
·Paradise Lost — John Milton
·Paradise Regained — John Milton
·Paradiso — José Lezama Lima
·Paris Spleen — Charles Baudelaire
·Paroles — Jacques Prévert
·Party Going — Henry Green
·Parzival — Wolfram von Eschenbach
·Past Continuous — Yaakov Shabtai
·Paterson — William Carlos Williams
·Patrimony — Philip Roth
·Patriotic Gore — Edmund Wilson
·Peer Gynt — Henrik Ibsen
·Pelle the Conqueror — Martin Andersen Nexø
·Penguin Island — Anatole France
·Peniel and Other Poems — Kevin Hart
·Pensées — Blaise Pascal
·Peppercanister Poems — Thomas Kinsella
·Perched on Nothing's Branch — Attila József
·Permit Me Voyage — James Agee
·Persians — Aeschylus
·Personae: Collected Poems — Ezra Pound
·Persuasion — Jane AustenCanon #57
·Petersburg — Andrey Bely
·Phaedra — Jean Racine
·Pharsalia — Lucan
·Philoctetes — Sophocles
·Pincher Martin — William Golding
·Pirke Aboth — The Apocrypha
·Plays — Christopher Marlowe
·Plays — William Shakespeare
·Plays — Ben Jonson
·Plays — Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
·Plays — John Arden
·Plays and Stories — Arthur Schnitzler
·Poems — Tommaso Campanella
·Poems — Fray Luis de León
·Poems — St. John of the Cross
·Poems — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
·Poems — William Dunbar
·Poems — John Skelton
·Poems — Sir Thomas Wyatt
·Poems — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
·Poems — Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
·Poems — Sir Walter Ralegh
·Poems — Christopher Marlowe
·Poems — Michael Drayton
·Poems — Samuel Daniel
·Poems — William Shakespeare
·Poems — John Donne
·Poems — Ben Jonson
·Poems — Robert Herrick
·Poems — Thomas Carew
·Poems — Richard Lovelace
·Poems — Andrew Marvell
·Poems — Thomas Traherne
·Poems — John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
·Poems — Richard Crashaw
·Poems — Jonathan Swift
·Poems — Alexander Pope
·Poems — William Collins
·Poems — François Villon
·Poems — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Poems — Giacomo Leopardi
·Poems — Gustavo Adolpho Bécquer
·Poems — Alfred de Vigny
·Poems — Alfred de Musset
·Poems — Robert Burns
·Poems — William Wordsworth
·Poems — Lord Byron
·Poems — William Savage Landor
·Poems — Percy Bysshe Shelley
·Poems — John Clare
·Poems — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
·Poems — George Darley
·Poems — Thomas Hood
·Poems — Thomas Wade
·Poems — Robert Browning
·Poems — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·Poems — Henry David Thoreau
·Poems — Sidney Lanier
·Poems — Stephen Crane
·Poems — Trumbull Stickney
·Poems — Umberto Saba
·Poems — Pier Paolo Pasolini
·Poems — Fernando Pessoa
·Poems — André Breton
·Poems — René Char
·Poems — R. S. Thomas
·Poems — Paul Celan
·Poems — Anna Akhmatova
·Poems — Alvin Feinman
·Poems and Letters — John Keats
·Poems and Prose — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
·Poems and Verse Plays — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
·Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
·Poems Twice Told — Jay Macpherson
·Poems, 1913-1956 — Bertolt Brecht
·Poems: A Selection — Léonie Adams
·Poetical Works — William Cowper
·Poetical Works — George Crabbe
·Poetics — Aristotle
·Poetry — Antònio Ferreira
·Poetry — Henry Vaughan
·Poetry and Plays — John Dryden
·Poetry and Tales — Edgar Allan Poe
·Point Counter Point — Aldous Huxley
·Polyeucte — Pierre Corneille
·Portnoy's Complaint — Philip Roth
·Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James JoyceCanon #89
·Pragmatism — William James
·Pride and Prejudice — Jane AustenCanon #5
·Principles of a New Science — Giambattista Vico
·Prison of Love — Diego de San Pedro
·Products of the Perfected Civilization — Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
·Project for a Revolution in New York — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·Prometheus Bound — Aeschylus
·Pseudolus — Plautus
·Puck of Pook's Hill — Rudyard Kipling
·Pudd'nhead Wilson — Mark Twain
·Put Out More Flags — Evelyn Waugh
·Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw
·R.U.R — Karel Capek
·Ramayana — The Apocrypha
·Rameau's Nephew — Denis Diderot
·Reasons of State — Alejo Carpentier
·Redgauntlet — Sir Walter Scott
·Reflections on Espionage — John Hollander
·Reflections on the Revolution in France — Edmund Burke
·Religio Medici — Sir Thomas Browne
·Remembrance of Things Past — Marcel ProustCanon #102
·Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev — Maksim Gorky
·René — François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
·Representative Men — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·Residence on Earth — Pablo Neruda
·Retreat from Love — Colette
·Rhinoceros — Eugène Ionesco
·Rhymes and Rhythms — Giosué Carducci
·Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban
·Riders in the Chariot — Patrick White
·Ridiculous Precieuses — Molière
·River Writing: An Eno Journal — James Applewhite
·Robinson Crusoe — Daniel DefoeCanon #55
·Rodogune — Pierre Corneille
·Roman Elegies — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Roman Sonnets — Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
·Running Dog — Don DeLillo
·Saint Genet — Jean-Paul Sartre
·Saint Joan — George Bernard Shaw
·Salammbô — Gustave Flaubert
·Samson Agonistes — John Milton
·Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass — Bruno Schulz
·Sanctuary — William Faulkner
·Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle
·Satan in Goray — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·Satires — Lucian
·Satires — Horace
·Satires — Persius
·Satires — Juvenal
·Satirical Letter of Censure — Francisco de Quevedo
·Satyricon — Petronius
·Saul — Vittorio Alfieri
·Saved — Edward Bond
·Sayings of the Fathers — The Apocrypha
·Schindler's List — Thomas Keneally
·School for Husbands — Molière
·Scoop — Evelyn Waugh
·Seasons on Earth — Kenneth Koch
·Second Skin — John Hawkes
·See Under: Love — David Grossman
·Seize the Day — Saul Bellow
·Selected Essays — T. S. Eliot
·Selected Letters and Prose — Hart Crane
·Selected Longer Poems — A. R. Ammons
·Selected Plays and Libretti — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
·Selected Poems — Freidrich Hölderlin
·Selected Poems — Paul Verlaine
·Selected Poems — Eduard Mörike
·Selected Poems — Stefan George
·Selected Poems — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
·Selected Poems — Giuseppe Ungaretti
·Selected Poems — Antonio Machado
·Selected Poems — Federico Garcia Lorca
·Selected Poems — Luis Cernuda
·Selected Poems — Miguel Hernández
·Selected Poems — Blas de Otero
·Selected Poems — Carles Ribá
·Selected Poems — J. V. Foix
·Selected Poems — Pere Gimferrer
·Selected Poems — Fernando Pessoa
·Selected Poems — Jorge de Sena
·Selected Poems — Sophia de Mello Breyner
·Selected Poems — Eugénio de Andrade
·Selected Poems — Paul Éluard
·Selected Poems — Louis Aragon
·Selected Poems — Edmond Jabès
·Selected Poems — Pierre Reverdy
·Selected Poems — Max Jacob
·Selected Poems — Pierre-Jean Jouve
·Selected Poems — Philippe Jacottet
·Selected Poems — Bejamin Péret
·Selected Poems — Gavin Ewart
·Selected Poems — Donald Davie
·Selected Poems — Elizabeth Jennings
·Selected Poems — Paul Muldoon
·Selected Poems — John Montague
·Selected Poems — Georg Trakl
·Selected Poems — Gottfried Benn
·Selected Poems — Osip Mandelshtam
·Selected Poems — Boris Pasternak
·Selected Poems — Marina Tsvetayeva
·Selected Poems — Tomas Tranströmer
·Selected Poems — Lars Gustafsson
·Selected Poems — Vasko Popa
·Selected Poems — Czeslaw Milosz
·Selected Poems — Zbigniew Herbert
·Selected Poems — Ferenc Juhasz
·Selected Poems — Angelos Sikelianos
·Selected Poems — Jacob Glatstein
·Selected Poems — Moshe-Leib Halpern
·Selected Poems — H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern)
·Selected Poems — Mani Leib
·Selected Poems — Nathan Zach
·Selected Poems — Dan Pagis
·Selected Poems — Adunis
·Selected Poems — Pablo Neruda
·Selected Poems — Nicolás Guillén
·Selected Poems — César Vallejo
·Selected Poems — Léopold S. Senghor
·Selected Poems — Anne Hébert
·Selected Poems — Daryl Hine
·Selected Poems — Judith Wright
·Selected Poems — Edwin Arlington Robinson
·Selected Poems — Robinson Jeffers
·Selected Poems — Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
·Selected Poems — John Crowe Ransom
·Selected Poems — Langston Hughes
·Selected Poems — Robert Penn Warren
·Selected Poems — Jean Garrigue
·Selected Poems — Frank O' Hara
·Selected Poems — John Ashbery
·Selected Poems — Donald Justice
·Selected Poems — W. S. Merwin
·Selected Poems — Galway Kinnell
·Selected Poems — Philip Levine
·Selected Poems — Charles Simic
·Selected Poems — Mark Strand
·Selected Poems — Jay Wright
·Selected Poems — Rita Dove
·Selected Poems: 1969-1987 — Seamus Heaney
·Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge — Delmore Schwartz
·Selected Poetry — Andrea Zanzotto
·Selected Poetry — Rainer Maria Rilke
·Selected Poetry — Jaroslav Seifert
·Selected Poetry — Yehuda Amichai
·Selected Poetry — Rubén Dário
·Selected Poetry — John Hollander
·Selected Poetry and Prose — Stéphane Mallarmé
·Selected Prose — Thomas De Quincey
·Selected Prose — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
·Selected Short Stories — Guy de Maupassant
·Selected Stories — Robert Walser
·Selected Stories — Ivan Bunin
·Selected Stories — I. L. Peretz
·Selected Tales — Leonid Andreyev
·Selected Works — Alfred Jarry
·Selected Writings — Jules Laforgue
·Selected Writings — Guillaume Apollinaire
·Selected Writings — Paul Valéry
·Selected Writings — Henri Michaux
·Selected Writings — Antonin Artaud
·Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry — Salvatore Quasimodo
·Selections — Petrarch
·Sentimental Education — Gustave FlaubertCanon #88
·Sermons — John Donne
·Seven Against Thebes — Aeschylus
·Seven Comedies — Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
·Seven Dada Manifestoes — Tristan Tzara
·Seven Gothic Tales — Isak Dinesen
·Seven Men and Two Others — Max Beerbohm
·Seven Plays — Sam Shepard
·Shadow Lands — Johannes Bobrowski
·She Stoops to Conquer — Oliver Goldsmith
·Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems — Hayyim Nahman Bialik
·Short Novels — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·Short Novels — Leo Tolstoy
·Short Novels and Tales — Henry James
·Shorter Prose Works — Jonathan Swift
·Silas Marner — George EliotCanon #122
·Sir Charles Grandison — Samuel Richardson
·Sister Carrie — Theodore DreiserCanon #161
·Slow Homecoming — Peter Handke
·Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems — Thylias Moss
·Solaris — Stanislaw Lem
·Soledades — Luis de Góngora
·Solo Faces — James Salter
·Some Versions of Pastoral — William Empson
·Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You — Alice Munro
·Song of Solomon — Toni MorrisonCanon #192
·Songs — Thomas Campion
·Sonnets — Gaspara Stampa
·Sonnets — Luis de Góngora
·Sonnets and Madrigals — Michelangelo Buonarroti
·Sons and Lovers — D. H. LawrenceCanon #51
·South Wind — Norman Douglas
·Space in Motion — Juan Goytisolo
·Spain, Take This Cup from Me — César Vallejo
·Spanking the Maid — Robert Coover
·Specimen Days — Walt Whitman
·Speed-the-Plow — David Mamet
·Sphere: The Form of a Motion — A. R. Ammons
·Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters
·Spring and All — William Carlos Williams
·Spring Awakening — Frank Wedekind
·Spring Shade: Poems — Robert Fitzgerald
·Station Island — Seamus Heaney
·Stories — Heinrich von Kleist
·Stories — Stephen Crane
·Stories and Recollections — Umberto Saba
·Stories in an Almost Classical Mode — Harold Brodkey
·Stories of Three Decades — Thomas Mann
·Straw for the Fire — Theodore Roethke
·Streamers — David Rabe
·Studies in Classic American Literature — D. H. Lawrence
·Studies in the History of the Renaissance — Walter Pater
·Summer and Smoke — Tennessee Williams
·Suppliant Women — Aeschylus
·Surfacing — Margaret Atwood
·Suttree — Cormac McCarthy
·Sylvie — Gérard de Nerval
·t zero — Italo Calvino
·Tales — Gottfried Keller
·Tales — E. T. A. Hoffmann
·Tales — Adalbert Stifter
·Tales — Nikolay Leskov
·Tales and Sketches — Nathaniel Hawthorne
·Tartuffe — Molière
·Tatlin! — Guy Davenport
·Tender Buttons — Gertrude Stein
·Tender is the Night — F. Scott FitzgeraldCanon #156
·Terra Nostra — Carlos Fuentes
·Tess of the D'Urbervilles — Thomas HardyCanon #241
·Tesserae — John Hollander
·Tevye the Dairyman — Sholem Aleichem
·Thanksgivings — Thomas Traherne
·That Voice — Robert Pinget
·Thaïs — Anatole France
·The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
·The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
·The Adventures of Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
·The Adventures of Roderick Random — Tobias Smollett
·The Age of Innocence — Edith WhartonCanon #153
·The Albany Cycle — William Kennedy
·The Aleph and Other Stories — Jorge Luis Borges
·The Ambassadors — Henry JamesCanon #97
·The Anathemata — David Jones
·The Anatomy of Melancholy — Robert Burton
·The Art of Love — Ovid
·The Art of Poetry — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
·The Art of Poetry — Paul Valéry
·The Artist as Critic — Oscar Wilde
·The Assemblywomen — Aristophanes
·The Awakening — Kate Chopin
·The Awkward Age — Henry James
·The Balcony — Jean Genet
·The Bald Soprano — Eugène Ionesco
·The Ballad of the Sad Cafe — Carson McCullers
·The Baphomet — Pierre Klossowski
·The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino
·The Barsetshire Novels — Anthony Trollope
·The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born — Ayi K. Armah
·The Beaux' Strategem — George Farquhar
·The Bedbug and Selected Poetry — Vladimir Mayakovsky
·The Beggar's Opera — John Gay
·The Berlin Stories — Christopher Isherwood
·The Betrothed — Alessandro ManzoniCanon #133
·The Big Sea — Langston Hughes
·The Birds — Aristophanes
·The Birth of Tragedy — Friedrich Nietzsche
·The Black Jacobins — C. L. R. James
·The Black Spider — Jeremias Gotthelf
·The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems — Louise Bogan
·The Blue Octavo Notebook — Franz Kafka
·The Book of Daniel — E. L. Doctorow
·The Book of Disquiet — Fernando PessoaCanon #180
·The Book of Ebenezer Le Page — G. B. Edwards
·The Book of Questions — Edmond Jabès
·The Book of the City of Ladies — Christine de Pisan
·The Book of the Courtier — Baldassare Castiglione
·The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night — The Koran ()
·The Bostonians — Henry James
·The Braggart Soldier — Plautus
·The Bridge on the Drina — Ivo Andric
·The Brothers Ashkenazi — Israel Joshua Singer
·The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #87
·The Buried Harbour: Selected Poems — Giuseppe Ungaretti
·The Burning Oracle — George Wilson Knight
·The California and Oregon Trail — Francis Parkman
·The Cancer Ward — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
·The Cannibal — John Hawkes
·The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey ChaucerCanon #205
·The Cantos — Ezra Pound
·The Caretaker — Harold Pinter
·The Castle — Franz KafkaCanon #76
·The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. SalingerCanon #42
·The Caucasian Chalk Circle — Bertolt Brecht
·The Central Motion — James Dickey
·The Chairs — Eugène Ionesco
·The Changeling — Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
·The Changing Light at Sandover — James Merrill
·The Charterhouse of Parma — StendhalCanon #195
·The Chimeras — Gérard de Nerval
·The Cid — Pierre Corneille
·The City of the Dreadful Night — James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)
·The City of the Sun — Tommaso Campanella
·The Clouds — Aristophanes
·The Collected Poems — William Butler Yeats
·The Collected Poems — Octavio Paz
·The Collected Stories — William Faulkner
·The Compleat Angler — Izaak Walton
·The Complete Plays — Joe Orton
·The Complete Poems — Walt Whitman
·The Complete Poems — Keith Douglas
·The Complete Poems — Elizabeth Bishop
·The Complete Poems and Plays — T. S. Eliot
·The Complete Stories — Franz Kafka
·The Complete Tales — Nikolay Gogol
·The Conduct of Life — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·The Confession of Zeno — Italo Svevo
·The Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·The Conquerors — Andé Malraux
·The Continuous Life — Mark Strand
·The Cossacks — Leo Tolstoy
·The Counterlife — Philip Roth
·The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia — Sir Philip Sidney
·The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories — Sarah Orne Jewett
·The Country Wife — William Wycherley
·The Cricket and Other Poems — Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
·The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
·The Custom of the Country — Edith Wharton
·The Dalkey Archive — Flann O'Brien
·The Damnation of Theron Ware — Harold Frederic
·The Dance of Death — August Strindberg
·The Day of the Locust — Nathanael West
·The Dead Father — Donald Barthelme
·The Death of Virgil — Hermann Broch
·The Death of Woman Wang — Jonathan Spence
·The Decameron — Giovanni BoccaccioCanon #163
·The Deerslayers — James Fenimore Cooper
·The Deptford Trilogy — Robertson Davies
·The Desert of Love — François Mauriac
·The Deserted Village — Oliver Goldsmith
·The Devil's Elixir — E. T. A. Hoffmann
·The Devil's Racetrack — Mark Twain
·The Devils — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·The Diaries — Franz Kafka
·The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems — Victor Hugo
·The Divine Comedy — DanteCanon #104
·The Doctor of His Own Honor — Pedro Calderón de la Barca
·The Double Dream of Spring — John Ashbery
·The Double Invention of Komo — Jay Wright
·The Duchess of Malfi — John Webster
·The Dybbuk — S. Ansky
·The Dyer's Hand — W. H. Auden
·The Early Motion — James Dickey
·The Earthly Paradise — William Morris
·The Education of Henry Adams — Henry Adams
·The Egoist — George Meredith
·The End of Satan — Victor Hugo
·The End of the Road — John Barth
·The Entail — John Galt
·The Erasers — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected — Allen Grossman
·The Eunuch — Terence
·The Executioner's Song — Norman Mailer
·The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Tobias Smollett
·The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast — Giordano Bruno
·The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
·The Fall — Albert Camus
·The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert — Jean-Paul Sartre
·The Father — August Strindberg
·The Fisherman's Invocation — Gabriel Okara
·The Fixer — Bernard Malamud
·The Flanders Road — Claude Simon
·The Floating Opera — John Barth
·The Flounder — Günter Grass
·The Fly — Miroslav Holub
·The Fool — Edward Bond
·The Forsyte Saga — John Galsworthy
·The Foundation Pit — Andrei Platonov
·The Frigate Pallada — Ivan Goncharov
·The Frogs — Aristophanes
·The Future in the Present — C. L. R. James
·The Garden of Cyrus — Sir Thomas Browne
·The Garden of Eden — Ernest Hemingway
·The Genius of Christianity — François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
·The Geographical History of America — Gertrude Stein
·The Ghost Sonata — August Strindberg
·The Girl from Andros — Terence
·The Girl from Samos — Menander
·The Girl with the Golden Eyes — Honoré de Balzac
·The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) — Hermann Hesse
·The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams
·The Golden Ass — Apuleius
·The Golden Bowl — Henry James
·The Golden Notebook — Doris LessingCanon #41
·The Good Apprentice — Iris Murdoch
·The Good Soldier — Ford Madox FordCanon #177
·The Good Woman of Setzuan — Bertolt Brecht
·The Gormenghast Trilogy — Mervyn Peake
·The Government Inspector — Nikolay Gogol
·The Graces — Ugo Foscolo
·The Grapes of Wrath — John SteinbeckCanon #21
·The Grasmere Journal — Dorothy Wordsworth
·The Grass — Claude Simon
·The Great Gatsby — F. Scott FitzgeraldCanon #19
·The Greek Passion — Nikos Kazantzakis
·The Guide — R. K. Narayan
·The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
·The Guyana Quartet — Wilson Harris
·The Hamlet — William FaulknerCanon #69
·The Harder They Come — Michael Thelwell
·The Haunted Pool — George Sand
·The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
·The Heart of Midlothian — Sir Walter Scott
·The Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene
·The Heptameron — Marguerite de Navarre
·The Heron — Giorgio Bassani
·The Histories — Herodotus
·The History of Henry Esmond — William Makepeace Thackeray
·The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon
·The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding
·The Hive — Camilo José Cela
·The Homecoming — Harold Pinter
·The Horseman on the Roof — Jean Giono
·The House by the Medlar Tree — Giovanni Verga
·The House of Mirth — Edith WhartonCanon #129
·The Iceman Cometh — Eugene O'Neill
·The Idea of a University — John Henry Newman
·The Idiot — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #65
·The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando — Reinaldo Arenas
·The Imaginary Invalid — Molière
·The Immoralist — Andre Gide
·The Immortal Bartfuss — Aharon Appelfeld
·The Infernal Machine and Other Works — Jean Cocteau
·The Investigation — Stanislaw Lem
·The Jewesses — Robert Garnier
·The Journals — Andre Gide
·The Keeper of Sheep — Fernando Pessoa
·The King of Time — Velimir Khlebnikov
·The Kingdom of This World — Alejo Carpentier
·The Knight of Olmedo — Lope de Vega
·The Knights — Aristophanes
·The Labyrinth of Solitude — Octavio Paz
·The Lady from the Sea — Henrik Ibsen
·The Last Days of Mankind — Karl Krauss
·The Laws of Hospitality — Pierre Klossowski
·The Learned Ladies — Molière
·The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. LeGuin
·The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaCanon #170
·The Lesson — Eugène Ionesco
·The Libera Me Domine — Robert Pinget
·The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne
·The Lisbon Earthquake — Voltaire
·The Little Disturbances of Man — Grace Paley
·The Living End — Stanley Elkin
·The Long March — William Styron
·The Lost Steps — Alejo Carpentier
·The Lover — Marguerite Duras
·The Lusiads — Luis de Camoëns
·The Magic Mountain — Thomas MannCanon #26
·The Maias — José Maria de Eça de Queirós
·The Major Plays — Anton Chekhov
·The Making of Americans — Gertrude Stein
·The Malcontent — John Marston
·The Man of Mode — Sir George Etherege
·The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead
·The Man Who Was Thursday — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
·The Man Without Qualities — Robert MusilCanon #61
·The Mandrake, a Comedy — Niccolò Machiavelli
·The Manor, the Estate, the Family Moskat — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·The Marble Faun — Nathaniel Hawthorne
·The Master and the Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
·The Master Builder — Henrik Ibsen
·The Master of Ballantrae — Robert Louis Stevenson
·The Maximus Poems — Charles Olson
·The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas HardyCanon #103
·The Mayor of Zalamea — Pedro Calderón de la Barca
·The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci — Jonathan Spence
·The Messiah of Stockholm — Cynthia Ozick
·The Mighty Magician — Pedro Calderón de la Barca
·The Mill on the Floss — George EliotCanon #128
·The Minor Poems — Edmund Spenser
·The Misanthrope — Molière
·The Miser — Molière
·The Moon and Sixpence — W. Somerset Maugham
·The Moonstone — Wilkie CollinsCanon #99
·The Moral Essays — Giacomo Leopardi
·The Mosquito Coast — Paul Theroux
·The Mother-in-Law — Terence
·The Moviegoer — Walker Percy
·The Music of Human Flesh — Mahmud Darwish
·The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Charles Dickens
·The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc — Charles Péguy
·The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym — Edgar Allan Poe
·The Necessary Angel — Wallace Stevens
·The New Arabian Nights — Robert Louis Stevenson
·The New Life — Dante
·The Nibelungen Lied — Snorri Sturluson
·The Nightingale — Sholem Aleichem
·The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge — Rainer Maria Rilke
·The Obscene Bird of Night — José Donoso
·The Occasions: Poems — Eugenio Montale
·The Octopus — Frank Norris
·The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel — Nikos Kazantzakis
·The Ogre — Michel Tournier
·The Old Wives' Tale — Arnold Bennett
·The One Day — Donald Hall
·The Owl's Insomnia: Poems — Rafael Alberti
·The Palace of Shattered Vessels — David Shahar
·The Palliser Novels — Anthony Trollope
·The Palm at the End of the Mind — Wallace Stevens
·The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town — Amos Tutuola
·The Passion — Jeanette Winterson
·The Peloponnesian Wars — Thucydides
·The Periodic Table — Primo Levi
·The Piazza Tales — Herman Melville
·The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar WildeCanon #73
·The Pilgrim's Progress — John BunyanCanon #152
·The Plague — Albert CamusCanon #118
·The Plain Dealer — William Wycherley
·The Planetarium — Nathalie Sarraute
·The Playmaker — Thomas Keneally
·The Plough and the Stars — Sean O'Casey
·The Poem of the Cid — Chrétien de Troyes
·The Poems — Dylan Thomas
·The Poetic Edda — The Koran ()
·The Poetry — Robert Frost
·The Ponder Heart — Eudora Welty
·The Portrait of a Lady — Henry JamesCanon #62
·The Possessed — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens
·The Power and the Glory — Graham GreeneCanon #179
·The Power of Darkness — Leo Tolstoy
·The Prelude — William Wordsworth
·The Price of a Ticket — James Baldwin
·The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
·The Princess Casamassima — Henry James
·The Princess of Cleves — Madame de La FayetteCanon #219
·The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg
·The Professor's House — Willa Cather
·The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson
·The Queen of the Air — John Ruskin
·The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems — Les A. Murray
·The Radetzky March — Joseph RothCanon #211
·The Railroad Stories — Sholem Aleichem
·The Rainbow — D. H. LawrenceCanon #95
·The Rebel — Albert Camus
·The Rebel Angels — Robertson Davies
·The Recognitions — William Gaddis
·The Recruiting Officer — George Farquhar
·The Red and the Black — StendhalCanon #28
·The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen CraneCanon #150
·The Red Notebook — Benjamin Constant
·The Regrets — Joachim Du Bellay
·The Rehearsal — Jean Anouilh
·The Rest of the Way — J. D. McClatchy
·The Return of the Native — Thomas HardyCanon #232
·The Revenger's Tragedy — Cyril Tourneur
·The Revisionist — Douglas Crase
·The Ring and the Book — Robert Browning
·The Ring of the Nibelung — Richard Wagner
·The Rise of David Levinsky — Abraham Cahan
·The Rise of Silas Lapham — William Dean Howells
·The Rivals — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
·The Robber Bridegroom — Eudora Welty
·The Robbers — Friedrich Schiller
·The Rope — Plautus
·The Royal Way — Andé Malraux
·The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Edward FitzGerald
·The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel HawthorneCanon #58
·The School for Wives — Molière
·The School of Scandal — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
·The Science Fiction Novels — H. G. Wells
·The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays — Eugenio Montale
·The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir
·The Secret Agent — Joseph ConradCanon #197
·The Sense of an Ending — Frank Kermode
·The Servant of Two Masters — Carlo Goldoni
·The Shadow of a Gunman — Sean O'Casey
·The She-Wolf and Other Stories — Giovanni Verga
·The Sheltering Sky — Paul Bowles
·The Shores of Light — Edmund Wilson
·The Short Fiction — Charles W. Chesnutt
·The Short Stories — Saki (H. H. Munro)
·The Short Stories — Katherine Mansfield
·The Siege of Krishnapur — J. G. Farrell
·The Sketch Book — Washington Irving
·The Sleepwalkers — Hermann Broch
·The Song of Roland — Jean Froissart
·The Sonnets to Orpheus — Rainer Maria Rilke
·The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCanon #30
·The Sot-Weed Factor — John Barth
·The Sound and the Fury — William FaulknerCanon #25
·The Spanish Tragedy — Thomas Kyd
·The Spectator — Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
·The Stones of Venice — John Ruskin
·The Stories — John Cheever
·The Stories — Bernard Malamud
·The Storm — Aleksandr Ostrovsky
·The Storm and Other Things: Poems — Eugenio Montale
·The Stranger — Albert CamusCanon #67
·The Street of Crocodiles — Bruno Schulz
·The Sun Also Rises — Ernest HemingwayCanon #250
·The Tales — Anton Chekhov
·The Temple — George Herbert
·The Thief's Journal — Jean Genet
·The Third Policeman — Flann O'Brien
·The Threepenny Opera — Bertolt Brecht
·The Time of the Doves — Merce Rodoreda
·The Tin Drum — Günter GrassCanon #45
·The Toilers of the Sea — Victor Hugo
·The Traveller — Oliver Goldsmith
·The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third — Mendele Mokher Seforim
·The Trial — Franz KafkaCanon #9
·The Trickster of Seville — Tirso de Molina
·The Twelve and Other Poems — Aleksandr Blok
·The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan KunderaCanon #220
·The Unfortunate Traveller — Thomas Nashe
·The Use of Speech — Nathalie Sarraute
·The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James
·The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver GoldsmithCanon #120
·The Violent Bear It Away — Flannery O'Connor
·The Visit — Friedrich Dürrenmatt
·The Voices of Silence — Andé Malraux
·The Voyeur — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·The War of the End of the World — Mario Vargas Llosa
·The Wasps — Aristophanes
·The Waves — Virginia Woolf
·The Way of All Flesh — Samuel ButlerCanon #181
·The Way of the World — William Congreve
·The Way Things Are — Lucretius
·The Way We Live Now — Anthony Trollope
·The Well at the World's End — William Morris
·The Well-Beloved — Thomas Hardy
·The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages — Tony Kushner
·The Wheel of Fire — George Wilson Knight
·The White Devil — John Webster
·The Wild Ass's Skin — Honoré de Balzac
·The Wild Palms — William Faulkner
·The Will to Power — Friedrich Nietzsche
·The Wind — Claude Simon
·The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories — Leonardo Sciascia
·The Wings of the Dove — Henry JamesCanon #214
·The Witches of Eastwick — John Updike
·The Woman in White — Wilkie CollinsCanon #79
·The Woman of the Pharisees — François Mauriac
·The Women of Brewster Place — Gloria Naylor
·The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy
·The Words — Jean-Paul Sartre
·The World of the Ten Thousand Things — Charles Wright
·The Would-Be Gentleman — Molière
·The Yeshiva — Chaim Grade
·Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale HurstonCanon #63
·Them — Joyce Carol Oates
·Theogony — Hesiod
·Therese — François Mauriac
·Things Fall Apart — Chinua AchebeCanon #16
·Things: Selected Writings — Francis Ponge
·Thomas the Obscure — Maurice Blanchot
·Three Exemplary Novels — Miguel de Unamuno
·Three Lives — Gertrude Stein
·Three Novels — Witold Gombrowicz
·Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable — Samuel Beckett
·Three Plays — Thornton Wilder
·Three Short Novels — Kay Boyle
·Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba — Federico Garcia Lorca
·Three Trapped Tigers — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
·Time Remaining — James McCourt
·To Damascus — August Strindberg
·To the Lighthouse — Virginia WoolfCanon #23
·Tragedies — Seneca
·Transparence of the World: Poems — Jean Follain
·Travelling in the Family — Carlos Drummond de Andrade
·Travels — Yehuda Amichai
·Travesties — Tom Stoppard
·Treasure Island — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #75
·Tremor — Adam Zagajewski
·Tristes Tropiques — Claude Lévi-Strauss
·Troilus and Criseyde — Geoffrey Chaucer
·Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair — Pablo Neruda
·Twenty-One Stories — S. Y. Agnon
·Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
·U.S.A — John Dos Passos
·Ulysses — James JoyceCanon #1
·Under the Volcano — Malcolm LowryCanon #207
·Under Western Eyes — Joseph Conrad
·Untitled Subjects — Richard Howard
·Unto This Last — John Ruskin
·Up in the Old Hotel — Joseph Mitchell
·Ursule Mirouet — Honoré de Balzac
·Utopia — Sir Thomas More
·Vanity Fair — William Makepeace ThackerayCanon #39
·Vein of Iron — Ellen Glasgow
·Venetian Epigrams — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Venice Preserv'd — Thomas Otway
·Verse Plays — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Victims of Duty — Eugène Ionesco
·Victory — Joseph Conrad
·View of Dawn in the Tropics — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
·Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh
·Villette — Charlotte Brontë
·Visions — Francisco de Quevedo
·Voss — Patrick White
·Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett
·Walden — Henry David Thoreau
·Wallenstein — Friedrich Schiller
·War and Peace — Leo TolstoyCanon #12
·War with the Newts — Karel Capek
·Watt — Samuel Beckett
·Waverley — Sir Walter Scott
·Weir of Hermiston — Robert Louis Stevenson
·West-Eastern Divan — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Westward — Amy Clampitt
·What I Love: Selected Poems — Odysseas Elytis
·What is to Be Done? — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
·When We Dead Awaken — Henrik Ibsen
·Where I'm Calling From — Raymond Carver
·White Noise — Don DeLillo
·Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·William Shakespeare — Victor Hugo
·Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson
·Winter's Tales — Isak Dinesen
·Wise Blood — Flannery O'Connor
·Wolf Solent — John Cowper Powys
·Women in Love — D. H. LawrenceCanon #90
·Women of Messina — Elio Vittorini
·Women of Trachis — Sophocles
·Woodcutters — Thomas Bernhard
·Words in Stone — Yves Bonnefoy
·Works — Samuel Johnson
·Works and Days — Hesiod
·World Enough and Time — Robert Penn Warren
·World's Fair — E. L. Doctorow
·Woyzeck — Georg Büchner
·Wuthering Heights — Emily BrontëCanon #7
·Yoshe Kalb — Israel Joshua Singer
·Young Törless — Robert Musil
·Yvain: The Knight of the Lion — Chrétien de Troyes
·Zadig — Voltaire
·Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue — Philip Roth
·Zuleika Dobson — Max Beerbohm
·Émile — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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