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The Western Canonby Harold Bloom
This page:A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE
B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832
C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900
D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century
A. The Theocratic Age
ince the literary canon is at issue here, I include onlythose religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific
writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I wouldthink that, of all the books that are in this first list, once thereader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, theAthenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is theKoran....
have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures andfundamental literary texts, because of their influence on
the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chineseliterature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literarytradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translationsavailable to us."(Bloom, p. 531)
The Ancient Near East
GilgameshEgyptian Book of the DeadHoly Bible (King James Version)The ApocryphaSayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
Ancient India (Sanskrit)
MahabharataBhagavad-GitaRamayana
The Ancient Greeks
HomerIliadOdyssey
HesiodWorks and DaysTheogony
Archilochos, Sappho, AlkmanPindar
OdesAeschylus
OresteiaSeven Against ThebesPrometheus Bound
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PersiansSuppliant Women
SophoclesOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigoneElectraAjaxWomen of TrachisPhiloctetes
EuripidesCyclopsHeraclesAlcestisHecubaBacchaeOrestesAndromacheMedeaIonHippolytusHelenIphigenia at Aulis
AristophanesThe BirdsThe CloudsThe FrogsLysistrataThe KnightsThe WaspsThe Assemblywomen
HerodotusThe Histories
ThucydidesThe Peloponnesian Wars
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)Plato
DialoguesAristotle
PoeticsEthics
Hellenistic Greeks
MenanderThe Girl from Samos
"Longinus"On the Sublime
CallimachusHymns
and EpigramsTheocritus
IdyllsPlutarch
LivesMoralia
"Aesop"Fables
LucianSatires
The Romans
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PlautusPseudolusThe Braggart SoldierThe RopeAmphitryon
TerenceThe Girl from AndrosThe EunuchThe Mother-in-Law
LucretiusThe Way Things Are
CiceroOn the Gods
HoraceOdesEpistlesSatires
PersiusSatires
CatullusAttis
and Other PoemsVirgil
AeneidEcloguesGeorgics
LucanPharsalia
OvidMetamorphosesThe Art of LoveHeroides
JuvenalSatires
MartialEpigrams
SenecaTragedies
, particularly Medea and Hercules FurensPetronius
SatyriconApuleius
The Golden Ass
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante
Saint AugustineCity of GodConfessions
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)The Book of the Thousand Nights and One NightThe Poetic EddaSnorri Sturluson
The Prose EddaThe Nibelungen LiedWolfram von Eschenbach
ParzivalChrétien de Troyes
Yvain: The Knight of the LionBeowulfThe Poem of the CidChristine de Pisan
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The Book of the City of LadiesDiego de San Pedro
Prison of Love
B. The Aristocratic Age
t is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy through Goethe's Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,
French, and German. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by acanonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I considercanonical but rather neglected. From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central areomitted...." (Bloom, p. 534)
Italy
DanteThe Divine ComedyThe New Life
PetrarchLyric PoemsSelections
Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron
Matteo Maria BoiardoOrlando Innamorato
Ludovico AriostoOrlando Furioso
Michelangelo BuonarrotiSonnets and Madrigals
Niccolò MachiavelliThe PrinceThe Mandrake, a Comedy
Leonardo da VinciNotebooks
Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the Courtier
Gaspara StampaSonnets
and MadrigalsGiorgio Vasari
Lives of the PaintersBenvenuto Cellini
AutobiographyTorquato Tasso
Jerusalem DeliveredGiordano Bruno
The Expulsion of the Triumphant BeastTommaso Campanella
PoemsThe City of the Sun
Giambattista VicoPrinciples of a New Science
Carlo GoldoniThe Servant of Two Masters
Vittorio AlfieriSaul
Portugal
Luis de CamoënsThe Lusiads
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Antònio FerreiraPoetry
Spain
Jorge ManriqueCoplas
Fernando de RojasLa Celestina
Lazarillo de TormesFrancisco de Quevedo
VisionsSatirical Letter of Censure
Fray Luis de LeónPoems
St. John of the CrossPoems
Luis de GóngoraSonnetsSoledades
Miguel de CervantesDon QuixoteExemplary Stories
Lope de VegaLa DoroteaFuente OvejunaLost in a MirrorThe Knight of Olmedo
Tirso de MolinaThe Trickster of Seville
Pedro Calderón de la BarcaLife is a DreamThe Mayor of ZalameaThe Mighty MagicianThe Doctor of His Own Honor
Sor Juana Inés de la CruzPoems
England and Scotland
Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesTroilus and Criseyde
Sir Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'Arthur
William DunbarPoems
John SkeltonPoems
Sir Thomas MoreUtopia
Sir Thomas WyattPoems
Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyPoems
Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaAstrophel and StellaAn Apology for Poetry
Fulke Greville, Lord BrookePoems
Edmund Spenser
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The Faerie QueeneThe Minor Poems
Sir Walter RaleghPoems
Christopher MarlowePoems
and PlaysMichael Drayton
PoemsSamuel Daniel
PoemsA Defence of Ryme
Thomas NasheThe Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas KydThe Spanish Tragedy
William ShakespearePlays
and PoemsThomas Campion
SongsJohn Donne
PoemsSermons
Ben JonsonPoems
, Plays, and MasquesFrancis Bacon
EssaysRobert Burton
The Anatomy of MelancholySir Thomas Browne
Religio MediciHydriotaphia, or Urne-BuriallThe Garden of Cyrus
Thomas HobbesLeviathan
Robert HerrickPoems
Thomas CarewPoems
Richard LovelacePoems
Andrew MarvellPoems
George HerbertThe Temple
Thomas TraherneCenturies
, Poems, and ThanksgivingsHenry Vaughan
PoetryJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
PoemsRichard Crashaw
PoemsFrancis Beaumont and John Fletcher
PlaysGeorge Chapman
Comedies, Tragedies, PoemsJohn Ford
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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John MarstonThe Malcontent
John WebsterThe White DevilThe Duchess of Malfi
Thomas Middleton and William RowleyThe Changeling
Cyril TourneurThe Revenger's Tragedy
Philip MassingerA New Way to Pay Old Debts
John BunyanThe Pilgrim's Progress
Izaak WaltonThe Compleat Angler
John MiltonParadise LostParadise RegainedLycidas
, Comus, and the Minor PoemsSamson AgonistesAreopagitica
John AubreyBrief Lives
Jeremy TaylorHoly Dying
Samuel ButlerHudibras
John DrydenPoetry and PlaysCritical Essays
Thomas OtwayVenice Preserv'd
William CongreveThe Way of the WorldLove for Love
Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubGulliver's TravelsShorter Prose WorksPoems
Sir George EtheregeThe Man of Mode
Alexander PopePoems
John GayThe Beggar's Opera
James BoswellLife of JohnsonJournals
Samuel JohnsonWorks
Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into...the Sublime and BeautifulReflections on the Revolution in France
Maurice MorgannAn Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
William CollinsPoems
George Farquhar
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The Beaux' StrategemThe Recruiting Officer
William WycherleyThe Country WifeThe Plain Dealer
Christopher SmartJubilate AgnoA Song to David
Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldShe Stoops to ConquerThe TravellerThe Deserted Village
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School of ScandalThe Rivals
William CowperPoetical Works
George CrabbePoetical Works
Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersRobinson CrusoeA Journal of the Plague Year
Samuel RichardsonClarissaPamelaSir Charles Grandison
Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Tobias SmollettThe Expedition of Humphry ClinkerThe Adventures of Roderick Random
Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Fanny BurneyEvelina
Joseph Addison and Richard SteeleThe Spectator
France
Jean FroissartChronicles
The Song of RolandFrançois Villon
PoemsMichel de Montaigne
EssaysFrançois Rabelais
Gargantua and PantagruelMarguerite de Navarre
The HeptameronJoachim Du Bellay
The RegretsMaurice Scève
DéliePierre Ronsard
Odes, Elegies, SonnetsPhilippe de Commynes
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MemoirsAgrippa d'Aubigné
Les TragiquesRobert Garnier
Mark AntonyThe Jewesses
Pierre CorneilleThe CidPolyeucteNicomèdeHoraceCinnaRodogune
François de La RochefoucauldMaxims
Jean de La FontaineFables
MolièreThe MisanthropeTartuffeThe School for WivesThe Learned LadiesDon JuanSchool for HusbandsRidiculous PrecieusesThe Would-Be GentlemanThe MiserThe Imaginary Invalid
Blaise PascalPensées
Jacques-Bénigne BosuetFunerary Orations
Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxThe Art of PoetryLutrin
Jean RacinePhaedraAndromacheBritannicusAthaliah
Pierre Carlet de MarivauxSeven Comedies
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe ConfessionsÉmileLa Nouvelle Héloïse
VoltaireZadigCandideLetters on EnglandThe Lisbon Earthquake
Abbé PrévostManon Lescaut
Madame de La FayetteThe Princess of Cleves
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de ChamfortProducts of the Perfected Civilization
Denis DiderotRameau's Nephew
Choderlos de LaclosDangerous Liaisons
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Germany
ErasmusIn Praise of Folly
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust, Parts One and TwoDichtung und WahrheitEgmontElective AffinitiesThe Sorrows of Young WertherPoemsWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipWilhelm Meister's Years of WanderingItalian JourneyVerse PlaysHermann and DorotheaRoman ElegiesVenetian EpigramsWest-Eastern Divan
Friedrich SchillerThe RobbersMary StuartWallensteinDon CarlosOn the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature
Gotthold LessingLaocoönNathan the Wise
Freidrich HölderlinHymns and FragmentsSelected Poems
Heinrich von KleistFive PlaysStories
C. The Democratic Age
have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italyand Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism,
and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era where the strength of both Russian andAmerican literature begins."(Bloom, p. 540)
Italy
Ugo FoscoloOn SepulchresLast Letters of Jacopo OrtisOdes
and The GracesAlessandro Manzoni
The BetrothedOn the Historical Novel
Giacomo LeopardiEssays and DialoguesPoemsThe Moral Essays
Giuseppe Gioacchino BelliRoman Sonnets
Giosué CarducciHymn to Satan
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Barbarian OdesRhymes and Rhythms
Giovanni VergaLittle Novels of SicilyMastro-Don GesualdoThe House by the Medlar TreeThe She-Wolf and Other Stories
Spain and Portugal
Gustavo Adolpho BécquerPoems
Benito Pérez GaldósFortunata and Jacinta
Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)La Regenta
José Maria de Eça de QueirósThe Maias
France
Benjamin ConstantAdolpheThe Red Notebook
François-Auguste-René de ChateaubriandAttalaRenéThe Genius of Christianity
Alphonse de LamartineMeditations
Alfred de VignyChattertonPoems
Victor HugoThe Distance, the Shadows: Selected PoemsLes MisérablesNotre-Dame of ParisWilliam ShakespeareThe Toilers of the SeaThe End of SatanGod
Alfred de MussetPoemsLorenzaccio
Gérard de NervalThe ChimerasSylvieAurelia
Théophile GautierMademoiselle de MaupinEnamels and Cameos
Honoré de BalzacThe Girl with the Golden EyesLouis LambertThe Wild Ass's Sk inOld GoriotCousin BetteA Harlot High and LowEugénie GrandetUrsule Mirouet
StendhalOn Love
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The Red and the BlackThe Charterhouse of Parma
Gustave FlaubertMadame BovarySentimental EducationSalammbôA Simple Soul
George SandThe Haunted Pool
Charles BaudelaireFlowers of EvilParis Spleen
Stéphane MallarméSelected Poetry and Prose
Paul VerlaineSelected Poems
Arthur RimbaudComplete Works
Tristan CorbièreLes Armours Jaunes
Jules LaforgueSelected Writings
Guy de MaupassantSelected Short Stories
Émile ZolaGerminalL'AssommoirNana
Scandinavia
Henrik IbsenBrandPeer GyntEmperor and GalileanHedda GablerThe Master BuilderThe Lady from the SeaWhen We Dead Awaken
August StrindbergTo DamascusMiss JulieThe FatherThe Dance of DeathThe Ghost SonataA Dream Play
Great Britain
Robert BurnsPoems
William BlakeComplete Poetry and Prose
William WordsworthPoemsThe Prelude
Sir Walter ScottWaverleyThe Heart of MidlothianRedgauntletOld Mortality
Jane Austen
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Pride and PrejudiceEmmaMansfield ParkPersuasion
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems and Prose
Dorothy WordsworthThe Grasmere Journal
William HazlittEssays and Criticism
Lord ByronDon JuanPoems
William Savage LandorPoemsImaginary Conversations
Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterSelected Prose
Charles LambEssays
Maria EdgeworthCastle Rackrent
John GaltThe Entail
Elizabeth GaskellCranfordMary BartonNorth and South
James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Charles MaturinMelmoth the Wanderer
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoemsA Defence of Poetry
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein
John ClarePoems
John KeatsPoems and Letters
Thomas Lovell BeddoesDeath's Jest-BookPoems
George DarleyNepenthePoems
Thomas HoodPoems
Thomas WadePoems
Robert BrowningPoemsThe Ring and the Book
Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubDavid CopperfieldThe Adventures of Oliver TwistA Tale of Two CitiesBleak HouseHard Times
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Nicholas Nick lebyDombey and SonGreat ExpectationsMartin ChuzzlewitChristmas StoriesLittle DorritOur Mutual FriendThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
Alfred, Lord TennysonPoemsDante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems and TranslationsMatthew Arnold
PoemsEssaysArthur Hugh Clough
PoemsChristina Rossetti
PoemsThomas Love Peacock
Nightmare AbbeyGryll Grange
Gerald Manley HopkinsPoems and ProseThomas Carlyle
Selected ProseSartor Resartus
John RuskinModern PaintersThe Stones of VeniceUnto This LastThe Queen of the Air
Walter PaterStudies in the History of the RenaissanceAppreciationsImaginary PortraitsMarius the Epicurean
Edward FitzGeraldThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
John Stuart MillOn LibertyAutobiography
John Henry NewmanApologia pro Vita SuaA Grammar of AssentThe Idea of a University
Anthony TrollopeThe Barsetshire NovelsThe Palliser NovelsOrley FarmThe Way We Live Now
Lewis CarrollComplete Works
Edward LearComplete Nonsense
George GissingNew Grub Street
Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and LettersCharlotte Brontë
Jane EyreVillette
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Emily BrontëPoemsWuthering Heights
William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairThe History of Henry Esmond
George MeredithPoemsThe Egoist
Francis ThompsonPoemsLionel Johnson
PoemsRobert Bridges
PoemsGilbert Keith Chesterton
Collected PoemsThe Man Who Was Thursday
Samuel ButlerErewhonThe Way of All Flesh
W. S. GilbertComplete Plays of Gilbert andSullivanBab Ballads
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneThe Woman in WhiteNo Name
Coventry PatmoreOdes
James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)The City of the Dreadful Night
Oscar WildePlaysThe Picture of Dorian GrayThe Artist as CriticLettersJohn Davidson
Ballads and SongsErnest Dowson
Complete PoemsGeorge Eliot
Adam BedeSilas MarnerThe Mill on the FlossMiddlemarchDaniel Deronda
Robert Louis StevensonEssaysKidnappedDr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeTreasure IslandThe New Arabian NightsThe Master of BallantraeWeir of Hermiston
William MorrisEarly RomancesPoemsThe Earthly ParadiseThe Well at the World'sEnd
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News from NowhereBram Stoker
DraculaGeorge Macdonald
LilithAt the Back of the NorthWind
Germany
Novalis (Friedrich vonHardenburg)
Hymns to the NightAphorisms
Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmFairy Tales
Eduard MörikeSelected PoemsMozart on His Way toPrague
Theodor StormImmenseePoemsGottfried Keller
Green HenryTales
E. T. A. HoffmannThe Devil's ElixirTales
Jeremias GotthelfThe Black Spider
Adalbert StifterIndian SummerTales
Friedrich SchlegelCriticism
and AphorismsGeorg Büchner
Danton's DeathWoyzeck
Heinrich HeineComplete Poems
Richard WagnerThe Ring of the Nibelung
Friedrich NietzscheThe Birth of TragedyBeyond Good and EvilOn the Genealogy ofMoralsThe Will to Power
Theodor FontaneEffi Briest
Stefan GeorgeSelected Poems
Russia
Aleksandr PushkinComplete Prose TalesComplete PoetryEugene OneginNarrative Poems
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Boris GodunovNikolay Gogol
The Complete TalesDead SoulsThe GovernmentInspector
Mikhail LermontovNarrative PoemsA Hero of Our Time
Segey AksakovA Family Chronicle
Aleksandr HerzenMy Past and ThoughtsFrom the Other Shore
Ivan GoncharovThe Frigate PalladaOblomov
Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman'sNotebookA Month in the CountryFathers and SonsOn the EveFirst Love
Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from theUndergroundCrime and PunishmentThe IdiotThe Possessed
(The Devils)
The Brothers KaramazovShort Novels
Leo TolstoyThe CossacksWar and PeaceAnna KareninaA ConfessionThe Power of DarknessShort Novels
Nikolay LeskovTales
Aleksandr OstrovskyThe Storm
Nikolay ChernyshevskyWhat is to Be Done?
Aleksandr BlokThe Twelve and Other Poems
Anton ChekhovThe TalesThe Major Plays
The United States
Washington IrvingThe Sketch Book
William Cullen BryantCollected Poems
James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayers
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Collected PoemsRalph Waldo Emerson
NatureEssays
, first and second seriesRepresentative MenThe Conduct of LifeJournalsPoems
Emily DickinsonComplete Poems
Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
, first editionLeaves of Grass
, third editionThe Complete PoemsSpecimen Days
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterTales and SketchesThe Marble FaunNotebooks
Herman MelvilleMoby-DickThe Piazza TalesBilly BuddCollected PoemsClarel
Edgar Allan PoePoetry and TalesEssays and ReviewsThe Narrative of Arthur GordonPymEureka
Jones VeryEssays and Poems
Frederick Goddard TuckermanThe Cricket and Other Poems
Henry David ThoreauWaldenPoemsEssays
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.Two Years Before the Mast
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life ofFrederick Douglass, anAmerican Slave
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSelected Poems
Sidney LanierPoems
Francis ParkmanFrance and England in NorthAmericaThe California and Oregon Trail
Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry AdamsMont Saint-Michel and Chartres
Ambrose BierceCollected Writings
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Louisa May AlcottLittle Women
Charles W. ChesnuttThe Short Fiction
Kate ChopinThe Awakening
William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas LaphamA Modern Instance
Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of CourageStories
and PoemsHenry James
The Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess CasamassimaThe Awkward AgeShort Novels and TalesThe AmbassadorsThe Wings of the DoveThe Golden Bowl
Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron Ware
Mark TwainComplete Short StoriesThe Adventures of Huck leberry FinnThe Devil's RacetrackNumber Forty-Four: The MysteriousStrangerPudd'nhead WilsonA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'sCourt
William JamesThe Varieties of Religious ExperiencePragmatism
Frank NorrisThe Octopus
Sarah Orne JewettThe Country of the Pointed Firs andOther Stories
Trumbull StickneyPoems
D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy
am not as confident about this list as the first three. Cultural prophecy is always a mug's game. Not all ofthe works here can prove to be canonical; literary overpopulation is a hazard to many among them. But I
have neither excluded nor included on the basis of cultural politics of any kind."(Bloom, p. 548)
Italy
Luigi PirandelloNaked Masks: Five Plays
Gabriele D'AnnunzioMaia: In Praise of Life
Dino CampanaOrphic Songs
Umberto SabaStories and Recollections
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PoemsGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The LeopardGiuseppe Ungaretti
Selected PoemsThe Buried Harbour: Selected Poems
Eugenio MontaleThe Storm and Other Things: PoemsThe Occasions: PoemsCuttlefish Bones: PoemsOtherwise: Last and First PoemsThe Second Life of Art: Selected Essays
Salvatore QuasimodoSelected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry
Tommaso LandolfiGogol's Wife and Other Stories
Leonardo SciasciaDay of the OwlEqual DangerThe Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories
Pier Paolo PasoliniPoems
Cesare PaveseHard Labor: PoemsDialogues with Leucò
Primo LeviIf Not Now, When?Collected PoemsThe Periodic Table
Italo SvevoThe Confession of ZenoAs a Man Grows Older
Giorgio BassaniThe Heron
Natalia GinzburgFamily
Elio VittoriniWomen of Messina
Alberto Moravia1934
Andrea ZanzottoSelected Poetry
Italo CalvinoInvisible CitiesThe Baron in the TreesIf on a Winter's Night a Travelert zero
Antonio PortaKisses from Another Dream: Poems
Spain
Miguel de UnamunoThree Exemplary NovelsOur Lord Don Quixote
Antonio MachadoSelected Poems
Juan Ramón JiménezInvisible Reality: Poems
Pedro SalinasMy Voice Because of You: Poems
Jorge Guillén
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Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the PoetVicente Aleixandre
A Longing for the Light: Selected PoemsFederico Garcia Lorca
Selected PoemsThree Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba
Rafael AlbertiThe Owl's Insomnia: Poems
Luis CernudaSelected Poems
Miguel HernándezSelected Poems
Blas de OteroSelected Poems
Camilo José CelaThe Hive
Juan GoytisoloSpace in Motion
Catalonia
Carles RibáSelected Poems
J. V. FoixSelected Poems
Joan PeruchoNatural History
Merce RodoredaThe Time of the Doves
Pere GimferrerSelected Poems
Salvador EspríuLa Pell de Brau: Poems
Portugal
Fernando PessoaThe Keeper of SheepPoemsSelected PoemsAlways Astonished: Selected PoemsThe Book of Disquiet
Jorge de SenaSelected Poems
José SaramagoBaltasar and Blimunda
José Cardoso PiresBallad of Dogs' Beach
Sophia de Mello BreynerSelected Poems
Eugénio de AndradeSelected Poems
France
Anatole FrancePenguin IslandThaïs
Alain-FournierLe Grand Meaulnes
Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past
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(In Search of Lost Time)Andre Gide
The ImmoralistCorydonLafcadio's Adventure (The Caves of the Vatican)The Journals
ColetteCollected StoriesRetreat from Love
Georges BatailleBlue of Noon
Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of Night
René DaumalMount Analogue
Jean GenetOur Lady of the FlowersThe Thief's JournalThe Balcony
Jean GiraudouxFour Plays
Alfred JarrySelected Works
Jean CocteauThe Infernal Machine and Other Works
Guillaume ApollinaireSelected Writings
André BretonPoemsManifestoes of Surrealism
Paul ValéryThe Art of PoetrySelected Writings
René CharPoems
Paul ÉluardSelected Poems
Louis AragonSelected Poems
Jean GionoThe Horseman on the Roof
Michel LeirisManhood
Raymond RadiguetCount d'Orgel's Ball
Jean-Paul SartreNo ExitNauseaSaint GenetThe WordsThe Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert
Simone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex
Albert CamusThe StrangerThe PlagueThe FallThe Rebel
Henri MichauxSelected Writings
Edmond JabèsThe Book of Questions
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Selected PoemsSaint-John Perse
AnabasisBirdsExile and Other Poems
Pierre ReverdySelected Poems
Tristan TzaraSeven Dada Manifestoes
Max JacobSelected Poems
Pierre-Jean JouveSelected Poems
Francis PongeThings: Selected Writings
Jacques PrévertParoles
Philippe JacottetSelected Poems
Charles PéguyThe Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
Bejamin PéretSelected Poems
Andé MalrauxThe ConquerorsThe Royal WayMan's FateMan's HopeThe Voices of Silence
François MauriacThereseThe Desert of LoveThe Woman of the Pharisees
Jean AnouilhBecketAntigoneEurydiceThe Rehearsal
Eugène IonescoThe Bald SopranoThe ChairsThe LessonAmédéeVictims of DutyRhinoceros
Maurice BlanchotThomas the Obscure
Pierre KlossowskiThe Laws of HospitalityThe Baphomet
Raymond RousselLocus Solus
Antonin ArtaudSelected Writings
Claude Lévi-StraussTristes Tropiques
Alain Robbe-GrilletThe VoyeurJealousyIn the LabyrinthThe ErasersProject for a Revolution in New York
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For a New NovelNathalie Sarraute
The Use of SpeechThe Planetarium
Claude SimonThe GrassThe WindThe Flanders Road
Marguerite DurasThe LoverFour Novels
Robert PingetFableThe Libera Me DomineThat Voice
Michel TournierThe OgreFriday
Marguerite YourcenarCoup de GraceMemoirs of Hadrian
Jean FollainTransparence of the World: Poems
Yves BonnefoyWords in Stone
Great Britain and Ireland
William Butler YeatsThe Collected PoemsCollected PlaysA VisionMythologies
George Bernard ShawMajor Critical EssaysHeartbreak HousePygmalionSaint JoanMajor BarbaraBack to Methuselah
John Millington SyngeCollected Plays
Sean O'CaseyJuno and the PaycockThe Plough and the StarsThe Shadow of a Gunman
George Douglas BrownHouse with the Green Shutters
Thomas HardyThe Well-BelovedThe WoodlandersThe Return of the NativeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeFar From the Madding CrowdTess of the D'UrbervillesJude the ObscureCollected Poems
Rudyard KiplingKimCollected StoriesPuck of Pook 's HillComplete Verse
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A. E. HousmanCollected Poems
Max BeerbohmZuleika DobsonSeven Men and Two Others
Joseph ConradLord JimThe Secret AgentNostromoUnder Western EyesVictory
Ronald FirbankFive Novels
Ford Madox FordParade's EndThe Good Soldier
W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short StoriesThe Moon and Sixpence
John Cowper PowysWolf SolentA Glastonbury Romance
Saki (H. H. Munro)The Short Stories
H. G. WellsThe Science Fiction Novels
David LindsayA Voyage to Arcturus
Arnold BennettThe Old Wives' Tale
Walter De la MareCollected PoemsMemoirs of a Midget
Wilfred OwenCollected Poems
Isaac RosenbergCollected Poems
Edward ThomasCollected Poems
Robert GravesCollected PoemsKing Jesus
Edwin MuirCollected Poems
David JonesIn ParenthesisThe Anathemata
John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga
E. M. ForsterHowards EndA Passage to India
Frank O'ConnorCollected Stories
D. H. LawrenceComplete PoemsStudies in Classic American LiteratureComplete Short StoriesSons and LoversThe RainbowWomen in Love
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs. DallowayTo the LighthouseOrlando: A BiographyThe WavesBetween the Acts
James JoyceDublinersPortrait of the Artist as a Young ManUlyssesFinnegans Wake
Samuel BeckettMurphyWattThree Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The UnnameableWaiting for GodotEndgameKrapp's Last GameHow It Is
Elizabeth BowenCollected Stories
J. G. FarrellThe Siege of Krishnapur
Henry GreenNothingLovingParty Going
Evelyn WaughA Handful of DustScoopVile BodiesPut Out More Flags
Anthony BurgessNothing Like the Sun
G. B. EdwardsThe Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Iris MurdochThe Good ApprenticeBruno's Dream
Graham GreeneBrighton RockThe Heart of the MatterThe Power and the Glory
Christopher IsherwoodThe Berlin Stories
Norman DouglasSouth Wind
Aldous HuxleyCollected EssaysAntic HayPoint Counter PointBrave New World
Lawrence DurrellAlexandria Quartet
William GoldingPincher Martin
Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook
Mervyn PeakeThe Gormenghast Trilogy
Jeanette WintersonThe Passion
W. H. Auden
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Collected PoemsThe Dyer's Hand
Roy FullerCollected Poems
Gavin EwartSelected Poems
Basil BuntingCollected Poems
William EmpsonCollected PoemsMilton's GodSome Versions of Pastoral
George Wilson KnightThe Wheel of FireThe Burning Oracle
R. S. ThomasPoems
Frank KermodeThe Sense of an Ending
Stevie SmithCollected Poems
F. T. PrinceCollected Poems
Philip LarkinCollected Poems
Donald DavieSelected Poems
Geoffrey HillCollected Poems
Jonathan SpenceThe Death of Woman WangThe Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Elizabeth JenningsSelected Poems
Keith DouglasThe Complete Poems
Hugh MacDiarmidComplete Poems
Louis MacNeiceCollected Poems
Dylan ThomasThe Poems
Nigel DennisCards of Identity
Seamus HeaneySelected Poems: 1969-1987Field WorkStation Island
Thomas KinsellaPeppercanister Poems
Paul MuldoonSelected Poems
John MontagueSelected Poems
John ArdenPlays
Joe OrtonThe Complete Plays
Flann O'BrienThe Dalkey ArchiveThe Third Policeman
Tom Stoppard
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TravestiesHarold Pinter
The CaretakerThe Homecoming
Edward BondThe FoolSaved
George OrwellCollected Essays1984
Edna O'BrienA Fanatic Heart
Germany
Hugo von HofmannsthalPoems and Verse PlaysSelected ProseSelected Plays and Libretti
Rainer Maria RilkeSelected Poetry
(including the Duino Elegies)The Sonnets to OrpheusThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeNew Poems: First Part and Other Part
Hermann BrochThe SleepwalkersThe Death of VirgilHugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time
Georg TraklSelected Poems
Gottfried BennSelected Poems
Franz KafkaAmerikaThe Complete StoriesThe Blue Octavo NotebookThe TrialThe DiariesThe CastleParables, Fragments, Aphorisms
Bertolt BrechtPoems, 1913-1956The Threepenny OperaThe Good Woman of SetzuanMother Courage and Her ChildrenGalileoThe Caucasian Chalk Circle
Arthur SchnitzlerPlays and Stories
Frank WedekindLulu PlaysSpring Awakening
Karl KraussThe Last Days of Mankind
Günter EichMoles
Thomas MannThe Magic MountainStories of Three DecadesJoseph and His BrothersDoctor Faustus
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence ManAlfred Döblin
Berlin AlexanderplatzHermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)Narcissus and Goldmund
Robert MusilYoung TörlessThe Man Without Qualities
Joseph RothThe Radetzky March
Paul CelanPoems
Thomas BernhardWoodcutters
Heinrich BöllBilliards at Half-Past Nine
Ingeborg BachmannIn the Storm of Roses
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerPoems for People Who Don't Read Poems
Walter BenjaminIlluminations
Robert WalserSelected Stories
Christa WolfCassandra
Peter HandkeSlow Homecoming
Max FrischI'm Not StillerMan in the Holocene
Günter GrassThe Tin DrumThe Flounder
Friedrich DürrenmattThe Visit
Johannes BobrowskiShadow Lands
Russia
Anna AkhmatovaPoems
Leonid AndreyevSelected Tales
Andrey BelyPetersburg
Osip MandelshtamSelected Poems
Velimir KhlebnikovThe King of Time
Vladimir MayakovskyThe Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and the Margarita
Mikhail KuzminAlexandrian Songs
Maksim GorkyReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and AndreevAutobiography
Ivan Bunin
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Selected StoriesIsaac Babel
Collected StoriesBoris Pasternak
Doctor ZhivagoSelected Poems
Yury OleshaEnvy
Marina TsvetayevaSelected Poems
Mikhail ZoshchenkoNervous People and Other Satires
Andrei PlatonovThe Foundation Pit
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichThe Cancer WardThe Gulag ArchipelagoAugust 1914
Joesph BrodskyA Part of Speech: Poems
Scandinavia
Isak DinesenWinter's TalesSeven Gothic Tales
Martin Andersen NexøPelle the Conqueror
Knut HamsunHungerPan
Sigrid UndsetKristin Lavransdatter
Gunnar EkelöfGuide to the Underworld
Tomas TranströmerSelected Poems
Pär LagerkvistBarabbas
Lars GustafssonSelected Poems
Serbo-Croat
Ivo AndricThe Bridge on the Drina
Vasko PopaSelected Poems
Danilo KisA Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Czech
Karel CapekWar with the NewtsR.U.R.
Vaclav HavelLargo Desolato
Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jaroslav Seifert
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Selected PoetryMiroslav Holub
The Fly
Polish
Bruno SchulzThe Street of CrocodilesSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Czeslaw MiloszSelected Poems
Witold GombrowiczThree Novels
Stanislaw LemThe InvestigationSolaris
Zbigniew HerbertSelected Poems
Adam ZagajewskiTremor
Hungarian
Attila JózsefPerched on Nothing's Branch
Ferenc JuhaszSelected Poems
Laszlo NémethGuilt
Modern Greek
C. P. CavafyCollected Poems
George SeferisCollected Poems
Nikos KazantzakisThe Greek PassionThe Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Yannis RitsosExile and Return
Odysseas ElytisWhat I Love: Selected Poems
Angelos SikelianosSelected Poems
Yiddish
Sholem AleichemTevye the Dairyman
and The Railroad StoriesThe Nightingale
Mendele Mokher SeforimThe Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third
I. L. PeretzSelected Stories
Jacob GlatsteinSelected Poems
Moshe-Leib HalpernSelected Poems
H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern)Selected Poems
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Israel Joshua SingerThe Brothers AshkenaziYoshe Kalb
Chaim GradeThe Yeshiva
S. AnskyThe Dybbuk
Mani LeibSelected Poems
Sholem AschEast River
Isaac Bashevis SingerCollected StoriesIn My Father's CourtThe Manor, the Estate, the Family MoskatSatan in Goray
Hebrew
Hayyim Nahman BialikShirot Bialik : The Epic Poems
S. Y. AgnonIn the Heart of the SeasTwenty-One Stories
Aharon AppelfeldThe Immortal BartfussBadenheim 1939
Yaakov ShabtaiPast Continuous
Yehuda AmichaiSelected PoetryTravels
A. B. YehoshuaA Late Divorce
Amos OzA Perfect Peace
T. CarmiAt the Stone of Losses
Nathan ZachSelected Poems
Dalia RavikovitchA Dress of Fire
Dan PagisSelected Poems
David ShaharThe Palace of Shattered Vessels
David GrossmanSee Under: Love
Yoram KaniukHis Daughter
Arabic
Najib MahfuzMidaq AlleyFountain and TombMiramar
AdunisSelected Poems
Mahmud DarwishThe Music of Human Flesh
Taha Husayn
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An Egyptian Childhood
Latin America
Rubén DárioSelected Poetry
Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other StoriesDreamtigers (The Maker)FiccionesLabyrinthsA Personal Anthology
Alejo CarpentierExplosion in a CathedralThe Lost StepsReasons of StateThe Kingdom of This World
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteThree Trapped TigersView of Dawn in the Tropics
Severo SarduyMaitreya
Reinaldo ArenasThe Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
Pablo NerudaCanto GeneralResidence on EarthTwenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairFully EmpoweredSelected Poems
Nicolás GuillénSelected Poems
Octavio PazThe Collected PoemsThe Labyrinth of Solitude
César VallejoSelected PoemsSpain, Take This Cup from Me
Miguel Angel AsturiasMen of Maize
José Lezama LimaParadiso
José DonosoThe Obscene Bird of Night
Julio CortázarHopscotchAll Fires the FireBlow-up and Other Stories
Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of SolitudeLove in the Time of Cholera
Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World
Carlos FuentesA Change of Sk inTerra Nostra
Carlos Drummond de AndradeTravelling in the Family
The West Indies
C. L. R. James
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The Black JacobinsThe Future in the Present
V. S. NaipaulA Bend in the RiverA House for Mr. Biswas
Derek WalcottCollected Poems
Wilson HarrisThe Guyana Quartet
Michael ThelwellThe Harder They Come
Aimé CésaireCollected Poetry
Africa
Chinua AchebeThings Fall ApartArrow of GodNo Longer at Ease
Wole SoyinkaA Dance of the Forest
Amos TutuolaThe Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town
Christopher OkigboLabyrinths, with Path of Thunder
John Pepper Clark (-Bekederemo)Casualties: Poems
Ayi K. ArmahThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Wa Thiong'o NgugiA Grain of Wheat
Gabriel OkaraThe Fisherman's Invocation
Nadine GordimerCollected Stories
J. M. CoetzeeFoe
Athol FugardA Lesson from Aloes
Léopold S. SenghorSelected Poems
India (in English)
R. K. NarayanThe Guide
Salman RushdieMidnight's Children
Ruth Prawer JhabvalaHeat and Dust
Canada
Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano
Robertson DaviesThe Deptford TrilogyThe Rebel Angels
Alice MunroSomething I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Northrop Frye
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Fables of IdentityAnne Hébert
Selected PoemsJay Macpherson
Poems Twice ToldMargaret Atwood
SurfacingDaryl Hine
Selected Poems
Australia and New Zealand
Miles (Stella) FranklinMy Brilliant Career
Katherine MansfieldThe Short Stories
A. D. HopeCollected Poems
Patrick WhiteRiders in the ChariotA Fringe of LeavesVoss
Christina SteadThe Man Who Loved Children
Judith WrightSelected Poems
Les A. MurrayThe Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems
Thomas KeneallyThe PlaymakerSchindler's List
David MaloufAn Imaginary Life
Kevin HartPeniel and Other Poems
Peter CareyOscar and LucindaIllywhacker
The United States
Edwin Arlington RobinsonSelected Poems
Robert FrostThe Poetry
Edith WhartonCollected Short StoriesThe Age of InnocenceEthan FromeThe House of MirthThe Custom of the Country
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaThe Professor's HouseA Lost Lady
Gertrude SteinThree LivesThe Geographical History of AmericaThe Mak ing of AmericansTender Buttons
Wallace StevensCollected Poems
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The Necessary AngelOpus PosthumousThe Palm at the End of the Mind
Vachel LindsayCollected Poems
Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthology
Theodore DreiserSister CarrieAn American Tragedy
Sherwood AndersonWinesburg, OhioDeath in the Woods and Other Stories
Sinclair LewisBabbittIt Can't Happen Here
Elinor WylieLast Poems
William Carlos WilliamsSpring and AllPatersonCollected Poems
Ezra PoundPersonae: Collected PoemsThe CantosLiterary Essays
Robinson JeffersSelected Poems
Marianne MooreComplete Poems
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)Selected Poems
John Crowe RansomSelected Poems
T. S. EliotThe Complete Poems and PlaysSelected Essays
Katherine Anne PorterCollected Stories
Jean ToomerCane
John Dos PassosU.S.A.
Conrad AikenCollected Poems
Eugene O'NeillLazarus LaughedThe Iceman ComethLong Day's Journey Into Night
e. e. cummingsComplete Poems
John B. WheelwrightCollected Poems
Robert FitzgeraldSpring Shade: Poems
Louise BoganThe Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems
Léonie AdamsPoems: A Selection
Hart CraneComplete Poems
and Selected Letters and Prose
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Allen TateCollected Poems
F. Scott FitzgeraldBabylon Revisited and Other StoriesThe Great GatsbyTender is the Night
William FaulknerAs I Lay DyingSanctuaryLight in AugustAbsalom, Absalom!The Sound and the FuryThe Wild PalmsThe Collected StoriesThe Hamlet
Ernest HemingwayComplete Short StoriesA Farewell to ArmsThe Sun Also RisesThe Garden of Eden
John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath
Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God
Nathanael WestMiss LonelyheartsA Cool MillionThe Day of the Locust
Richard WrightNative SonBlack Boy
Eudora WeltyCollected StoriesDelta WeddingThe Robber BridegroomThe Ponder Heart
Langston HughesSelected PoemsThe Big SeaI Wonder as I Wander
Edmund WilsonThe Shores of LightPatriotic Gore
Kenneth BurkeCounter-statementA Rhetoric of Motives
Joseph MitchellUp in the Old Hotel
Abraham CahanThe Rise of David Levinsky
Kay BoyleThree Short Novels
Ellen GlasgowBarren GroundVein of Iron
John P. MarquandH. M. Pulham, Esquire
John O'HaraCollected StoriesAppointment in Samarra
Henry RothCall It Sleep
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Thornton WilderThree Plays
Robert Penn WarrenAll the King's MenWorld Enough and TimeSelected Poems
Delmore SchwartzSelected Poems: Summer Knowledge
Weldon KeesCollected Poems
Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems
John BerrymanCollected Poems
Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky
Randall JarrellComplete Poems
Charles OlsonThe Maximus PoemsCollected Poems
Robert HaydenCollected Poems
Robert LowellCollected Poems
Theodore RoethkeCollected PoemsStraw for the Fire
James AgeePermit Me VoyageLet Us Now Praise Famous Men
Jean GarrigueSelected Poems
May SwensonNew & Selected Things Tak ing PlaceIn Other Words
Robert DuncanBending the Bow
Richard WilburNew and Collected Poems
Richard EberhartCollected Poems
M. B. TolsonHarlem Gallery
Kenneth KochSeasons on Earth
Frank O' HaraSelected Poems
James SchuylerCollected Poems
James BaldwinThe Price of a Ticket
Saul BellowSeize the DayThe Adventures of Augie MarchHerzog
John CheeverThe StoriesBullet Park
Ralph EllisonInvisible Man
Truman Capote
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In Cold BloodCarson McCullers
The Ballad of the Sad CafeThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Flannery O'ConnorComplete StoriesThe Violent Bear It AwayWise Blood
Vladimir NabokovLolitaPale Fire
Gore VidalMyra BreckenridgeLincoln
William StyronThe Long March
J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the RyeNine Stories
Wright MorrisCeremony in Lone Tree
Bernard MalamudThe StoriesThe Fixer
Norman MailerAdvertisements for MyselfThe Executioner's SongAncient Evenings
John HawkesThe CannibalSecond Skin
William GaddisThe Recognitions
Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named DesireSummer and Smoke
Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman
Edwin Justus MayerChildren of Darkness
Harold BrodkeyStories in an Almost Classical Mode
Ursula K. LeGuinThe Left Hand of Darkness
Raymond CarverWhere I'm Calling From
Robert CooverSpank ing the Maid
Don DeLilloWhite NoiseLibraRunning DogMao II
John CrowleyLittle, BigAegyptLove and Sleep
Guy DavenportTatlin!
James DickeyThe Early Motion
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The Central MotionE. L. Doctorow
The Book of DanielWorld's Fair
Stanley ElkinThe Living End
William H. GassIn the Heart of the Heart of the CountryOmensetter's Luck
Russell HobanRiddley Walker
Denis JohnsonAngelsFiskadoroJesus' Son
Cormac McCarthyBlood MeridianSuttreeChild of God
William KennedyIronweedThe Albany Cycle
Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon
Gloria NaylorThe Women of Brewster Place
Joyce Carol OatesThem
Walker PercyThe Moviegoer
Grace PaleyThe Little Disturbances of Man
Thomas PynchonV.The Crying of Lot 49Gravity's Rainbow
Cynthia OzickEnvy, or Yiddish in AmericaThe Messiah of Stockholm
Ishmael ReedMumbo Jumbo
Philip RothPortnoy's ComplaintMy Life as a ManZuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and EpilogueThe CounterlifePatrimonyOperation Shylock
James SalterSolo FacesLight Years
Robert StoneDog SoldiersA Flag for Sunrise
John BarthThe Floating OperaThe End of the RoadThe Sot-Weed Factor
Walter AbishAlphabetical AfricaHow German Is ItEclipse Fever
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I Am the Dust Under Your FeetDonald Barthelme
Forty StoriesThe Dead Father
Thomas M. DischOn Wings of Song
Paul TherouxThe Mosquito Coast
John UpdikeThe Witches of Eastwick
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Cat's Cradle
Edmund WhiteForgetting ElenaNocturnes for the King of Naples
James McCourtTime Remaining
James WilcoxModern Baptists
A. R. AmmonsCollected PoemsSelected Longer PoemsSphere: The Form of a Motion
John AshberyThe Double Dream of SpringHouseboat DaysSelected PoemsFlow ChartHotel LautréamontAnd the Stars Were Shining
David MametAmerican BuffaloSpeed-the-Plow
David RabeStreamers
Sam ShepardSeven Plays
August WilsonFencesJoe Turner's Come and Gone
Anthony HechtCollected Earlier Poems
Edgar BowersLiving Together: New and Selected Poems
Donald JusticeSelected Poems
James MerrillFrom the First NineThe Changing Light at Sandover
W. S. MerwinSelected Poems
James WrightAbove the River: The Complete Poems
Galway KinnellSelected Poems
Philip LevineSelected Poems
Irving FeldmanNew and Selected Poems
Donald HallThe One DayOld and New Poems
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Alvin FeinmanPoems
Richard HowardUntitled SubjectsFindings
John HollanderReflections on EspionageSelected PoetryTesserae
Gary SnyderNo Nature: New and Selected Poems
Charles SimicSelected Poems
Mark StrandSelected PoemsThe Continuous LifeDark Harbor
Charles WrightThe World of the Ten Thousand Things
Jay WrightDimensions of HistoryThe Double Invention of KomoSelected PoemsElaine's BookBoleros
Amy ClampittWestward
Allen GrossmanThe Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected
Howard MossNew Selected Poems
James ApplewhiteRiver Writing: An Eno Journal
J. D. McClatchyThe Rest of the Way
Alfred CornA Call in the Midst of the Crowd
Douglas CraseThe Revisionist
Rita DoveSelected Poems
Thylias MossSmall Congregations: New and Selected Poems
Edward HirschEarthly Measures
Tony KushnerAngels in America
Source: Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Appendixes. New York:Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. © 1994 by Harold Bloom.
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