1 December
Mortimer Adler's ideas are kept alive by <a href="http://www.thegreatideas.org/">the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas</a>, which has a web site and a <a href="http://thegreatideasfromthegreatbooks.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.

<a href="http://greatbooksacademy.org/">The Great Books Academy Homeschool Program</a> (and its Catholic version, <a href="https://www.angelicum.net/">Angelicum Academy Homeschool Program</a>) seems to be the most thorough of the "great books"-centric education programs designed for all education levels.

Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, is another major proponent of "great books" education besides St. John's; its web site offers an explanation of the role of the <a href="https://thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/great-books">Great Books</a> in its curriculum and its <a href="https://thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/syllabus">four-year plan</a>. 

Shimer College, formerly tied to the University of Chicago, has maintained its "great books" focus: see the <a href="https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/program/shimer-great-books-school/humanities">Curriculum</a> page of their web site.

St. John's and Shimer, unlike Thomas Aquinas and several other "great books" colleges (such as Gutenberg College, the College of Saint Mary Magdalen, and the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts) are secular, as Adler and Hutchins preferred.

Countering arguments to these kinds of programs--old and new, respectively: <a href="http://www.ditext.com/hook/hook.html">A Critical Appraisal of the St. John's College Curriculum</a> by Sidney Hook and <a href="https://www.mindingthecampus.org/originals/2010/03/why_the_great_books_arent_the.html">Why the Great Books Aren't the Answer</a> by Patrick Deneen.

Another interesting article: <a href="https://stanfordmag.org/contents/who-killed-homer">Who Killed Homer?</a> by John Heath and Victor Davis Hanson.


2 December
<a href="http://www.grtbooks.com/">Great Books and Classics</a> offers an extensive list of full-text transcriptions and scans available online, plus Amazon links to different versions of the texts. Amazon is undoubtedly useful for getting information about the version you prefer, or at least can be effectively used in tandem with World Cat; but you should then purchase at another site until Amazon changes its oppression of lower-class workers and its confrontational stance toward the publishing trade.


3 December
see worldswidewb.com


4 December
Now, finally, Philip Ward's A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books, as the author notes, "divided into fifty chapters, or 'years', to give the reader who requires it a discipline according to which he can pace himself." As with most of the other book-as-list projects documented here (Powys, Van Doren, Fadiman, Dirda, Newman) the work or works noted in the section headings within each chapter do not always capture which works in particular Ward recommends; or, rather, in the section text, he recommends further books as clearly as he does that or those in the section heading. Again, I don't want to be too liberal in the inclusion of texts or misrepresent Ward's work; I just want to clarify as much as possible which particular works have been selected.

The biographical blurb included in A Lifetime's Reading leaves us unsurprised that Ward's list is one of the few truly-global selections of "great books". A librarian who worked for a variety of institutions in England, Indonesia, Libya, and elsewhere, he wrote not just about literature but also Tripoli: A Portrait of a City and other travel books as well as The Book of Common Fallacies: Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life.

The number of monographical works indicated in braces throughout the list is tentative. Some of the anthologies and author collections Ward includes could include complete plays, novellas, etc., and since I won't get around to looking through those books until probably 2016, the total will remain tentative for some time.

Year 1:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') (1832-1898)
The Complete Works. (Modern Library, 1937; Nonesuch Library, 1939).[incl. {1} Symbolic Logic; {2} Game of Logic; {3} Pillow Problems; {4} A Tangled Tale; {5} Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; {6} Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There; {7} The Hunting of the Snark, esp. in the form of Martin Gardner's Annotated Snark (Penguin, 1967)]

Plato (c. 429-347 B C).
{8} Apology, {9} Crito, {10} Phaedo.

The Old Testament.

Vaclav Havel (b. 1936).
{11} Zahradní Slavnost.
{12} Vyrozumení.

{13} The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 A D).
{14} Annales. And {15} Historiae.

Ondra Lysohorsky (b. 1905).
Selected Poems, selected and introduced by Ewald Osers (Cape, 1971).

Ernst Hans Gombrich (b. 1909).
{16} The Story of Art. First published 1950.

Poem Into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation, introduced and edited by George Steiner (Penguin, 1970).

Pierre Abélard (1079-1143) and Héloïse (1101-1164).
Letters. And the {17} Historia Calamitatum of AbÈlard.


Year 2:
{18} The New Testament

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69-after 121 A D).
{19} De Vita Caesarum. First published 1470.

'Murasaki Shikibu' (c. 978-1030).
{20} Genji Monogatari.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
Tragedies. First published 1623.
"A recommended order to read the tragedies is chronological, beginning with {21} Romeo and Juliet (1594-95 - like most dates, conjectural), {22} Hamlet (1600-02), {23} All's Well That Ends Well (1602), {24} Troilus and Cressida (1602), {25} Othello (1604-05), {26} Measure for Measure (1604), {27} King Lear (possibly Shakespeare's greatest achievement, 1605-06), {28} Macbeth (1605-06), {29} Antony and Cleopatra (1607), {30} Coriolanus (1608), {31} Timon of Athens (1608), and {32} Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608)." Ward also especially recommends Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet and Verdi's operas for Macbeth and Othello.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890).
Complete Letters. 3 vols. (Thames & Hudson, 1958; new ed., New York Graphic Society, 1978, distributed by Little, Brown).

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Maxim Gorki) (1868-1936).
{33} Na Dne. The Lower Depths and other plays.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
The Portable Coleridge. (Viking and Penguin, 1961).
[incl. 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan']

Lin Yutang (b. 1895).
{34} The Importance of Living.

Aeschylus (525-456 B C).
{35} Oresteia.

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5 December
Year 3:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens ('Mark Twain') (1836-1910).
{36} The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. First published 1876. {37} The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. First published 1885.

Buddhist Scriptures, selected and translated by Edward Conze. (Penguin, 1959).

{38} Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
Brat'ya Karamazovy. First published 1879-80.

Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963).
A selection of 1,800 GreguerÌas has been translated by Philip Ward. (The Oleander Press, 1982).
[and {39} Automoribundia]

William Trevor (b. 1928).
{40} The Love Department. And {41} The Children of Dynmouth.
[and {42} Matilda's England]

Teresa de Jesús, St. (1515-1582).
{43} Vida. First published 1588, edited by Fray Luis de Leon.

Lucius Apuleius (c. 125-c. 180 A D).
{44} Metamorphoses.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Complete Poems.
[and Letters]

Flavius Arrianus (Arrian). (c. 100-180 A D).
{45} Anabasis.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
{46-49} The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (Penguin, 1981).


Year 4:
The Penguin Book of French Verse (Penguin, 1975), "edited by Brian Woledge (to the 15th century), Geoffrey Brereton (16th-18th centuries), and Anthony Hartley (19th century and 20th century)."

{50} Talmud.

{51} Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
L'Éducation Sentimentale. First published 1869.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
Poems [incl. {52} The Colossus and Other Poems; {53} Ariel; {54} Crossing the Water; {55} Winter Trees]. {56} The Bell Jar.
[and {57} Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams; {58} Letters Home[: Correspondence 1950-1963]]

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799).
{59} Le Barbier de Séville. First published 1775. {60} Le Mariage de Figaro. First published 1778, but not produced until 1784.
[and {61} Le Mère Coupable (1792)]

{62} Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (43 B C-17 A D)
Metamorphoses.

{63} Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695).
Fables Choises Mises en Vers. First published in 1668 (six books), 1678 (five books), and 1694 (a twelfth book).

{64} Plutarch (c. 46-c. 127).
Parallel Lives.

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra.
{65} Primitive Song.
[and {66} Franz Boas - Primitive Art]

Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
{67} The Pickwick Papers. First published 1837.
[and {68} A Christmas Carol]

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6 December
Year 5:
{69} Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
Madame Bovary. First published 1857.

Aristophanes (c. 448-c. 388 B C)
Plays. [{70} The Acharnians; {71} The Knights; {72} The Clouds; {73} The Wasps; {74} Peace; {75} The Birds; {76} Lysistrata; {77} Thesmophoriazusae; {78} The Frogs; {79} Ecclesiazusae; {80} Wealth]

Albert Camus (1913-1960).
{81} L'Étranger. First published 1942. {82} La Peste. First published 1947. {83} La Chute. First published 1956.

Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad) (1857-1924).
{84} The Secret Agent. First published 1907. {85} Under Western Eyes. First published 1911.

Francois de Montcorbier ('Villon') (1431-after 1462).
Poems.
[incl. Testament and Lais, or Petit Testament [{86} Le Grant Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon and ses Ballades] [1489]]

Ssu-Ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 B C)
{87} Shih Chi.

Reiner Kunze (b. 1933).
Poems, Stories and Die Wunderbaren Jahre. First published 1976.
[incl. {88} Sensible Wege [1969]; {89} Zimmerlautst‰rke [1972]; {90} Der Lowe Leopold[: Fast M‰rchen, Fast Geschichten] [1970]]

Jean Baptiste Poquelin ('Moliere') (1622-1673).
Selected Plays. ({91} Le Misanthrope; {92} Le Sicilien; {93} Le Tartuffe; {94} Le Médecin Malgré Lui; {95} Le Malade Imaginaire; {96} L'Avare; {97} Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; {98} Les Fourberies de Scapin; {99} L'Amour Médecin; {100} Dom Juan]

{101} Boris Pasternak (1890-1960).
Doctor Zhivago. First published in Italian (Feltrinelli, 1957).

Francois-Marie Arquet ('Voltaire') (1694-1778).
{102} Candide. First published 1759. {103} Zadig and {104} L'Ingénu. First published 1747 and 1767.

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny) (c. 62-c. 113 A D).
{105} Letters.


Year 6:
The Poem Itself, edited, and with an introduction, by Stanley Burnshaw. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964).

Max Frisch (b. 1911).
{106} Andorra. First published 1961. And {107} Stiller. First published 1954.

{108} La Chanson de Roland. Probably composed in its 'Oxford' version in the late 11th or early 12th century.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (b. 1921).
{109} Der Besuch der Alten Dame (1956). And {110} Die Physiker (1962).

Émile Zola (1840-1902).
{111} Thérèse Raquin. First published 1867. {112} L'Assommoir. First published 1877. {113} Germinal. First published 1885.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Complete Stories and Poems.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850).
La Comédie Humaine. 92 novels collectively so called. First published 1829-1948. [Ward suggests the reader spend two months in "exploration of Balzac's fiction," not actually proposing that all 92 novels be read. I'm only listing those of which he states, "Perhaps the most successful of all Balzac's huge output are those novels forming the group known as 'Studies in Manners', which includes {114} Eugénie Grandet [...]; {115} Père Goriot [...]; and the diptych 'Poor Relations': {116} La Cousine Bette [...] and {117} Le Cousin Pons.

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886).
{118} Groza. First published (in a magazine) 1860.
[and {119} Les; {120} Svoi Lyudi Sochtemsya]

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936).
The Father Brown Stories. [incl. The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Incredulity of Father Brown; The Secret of Father Brown; The Scandal of Father Brown]

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7 December
Year 7:
The Penguin Book of Latin Verse, introduced and edited by Frederick Brittain. (Penguin, 1962).

Nagai Kafu (1879-1959).
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings (by) Edward Seidensticker. (Stanford U P, 1965).
[incl. {121} The River Sumida]

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 B C). Comedies. ({122} Amphitryon; {123} Asinaria; {124} Aulularia; {125} Bacchides; {126} Captivi; {127} Casina; {128Cistellaria; {129} Curculio; {130} Epidicus; {131} Menaechmi; {132} Mercator; {133} Miles Gloriosus; {134} Mostellaria; {135} Persa; {136} Poenulus; {137} Pseudolus; {138} Rudens; {139} Stichus; {140} Trinummus; {141} Truculentus).

Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita (c. 1283-c. 1350).
{142} Libro de Buen Amor. First published 1790 in expurgated form.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B C).
Selected Works. Translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. (Penguin, 1965).
[incl. "Against Verres I, twenty-three letters, the second Philippic against Antony [...], On Duties II, and {143} On Old Age]

{144} Charles Singer.
A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900.

{145} Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848).
Wuthering Heights. First published 1847.

{146} Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) (70-19 B C).
Aeneid.

Five German Tragedies, translated with an introduction by F J Lamport (Penguin, 1969). ({147} Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Emilia Galotti; {148} Goethe - Egmont; {149} Friedrich Schiller - Maria Stuart; {150} Heinrich Von Kleist - Penthesilea; {151} Franz Grillparzer - Medea).

{152} Edward Gibbon (1737-1794).
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. First published in 6 vols., 1776-88.


Year 8:
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952).
Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology, translated by Cecil Sprigge (Oxford U P, 1966).
[and {153} Filosofia Dello Spirito]

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793).
Three Comedies: {154} Mine Hostess (La Locandiera), {155} The Boors (I Rusteghi) and {156} The Fan (Il Ventaglio).

Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975, translated and edited by Issa J. Boullata. (Heinemann Educational Books, 1976).

{157} Dino Buzzati (1906-1972).
Il Deserto dei Tartari. First published 1945.

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574).
{158} Le Vita de' più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori e Architettori. First published 1550; definitive edition 1568.
[and {159} Bernard Berenson - Italian Painters of the Renaissance]

{160} Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 B C).
Poems.

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936).
{161} Il Fu Mattia Pascal. First published 1904. And {162} Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore. First published 1921.

{163} Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. First published 1859.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
{164} La Vita Nuova. Completed about 1292.
[and {165} De Vulgari Eloquentia (1303-05)].

{166} Henri Beyle ('Stendhal') (1783-1842).
Le Rouge et le Noir. First published 1830.

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8 December
Year 9:
{167} Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
La Commedia. First printed 1472. (First described as 'Divina' in 1555).

{168} Wu Ch'eng-en
Hsi-yu Chi. Translated in part as Monkey by Arthur Waley (Penguin, 1973).

{169} Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571).
Vita. First published 1728.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
Poems.
[incl. {170} Sonnets; {171} Venus and Adonis; {172} The Rape of Lucrece]

Italo Calvino (b. 1923).
I Nostri Antenati. A trilogy consisting of {173} Il Visconte Dimezzato (first published 1952), {174} Il Barone Rampante (first published 1957), and {175} Il Cavaliere Inesistente (first published 1959).

{176) Henri Beyle ('Stendhal') (1783-1842).
La Chartreuse de Parme. First published 1839.

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).
{177} Canti. First published 1836.
[and {178} Zibaldone; {179} Operette Morali]

Post-War Russian Poetry, edited with an introduction by Daniel Weissbort (Penguin, 1974).


Year 10:
Medieval Literature in Translation, edited by Charles W Jones (Longman Green, 1950).

{180} Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Part 1, 1605; part 2, 1615).

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
The historical plays, first collected in 1623 ('First Folio') with all the other canonical plays except 'Pericles'. ({181} Richard II; {182} Henry IV; {183} Henry V; {184} Richard III)

{185} Pablo Neruda (1904-1973).
Canto General. First published complete (Mexico City) in 1950.

{186} Thomas Mann (1875-1955).
Buddenbrooks. First published 1901.

{187} Fray Gabriel Téllez ('Tirso de Molina') (1583-1648).
El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra. First published 1630 in its present form.

Songs of the Provençal Troubadors.
[incl. "Lyrics of the Troubadours and Trouvères: An Anthology and a History, translated and introducted by Frederick Goldin (Anchor, 1973)"; "Anthology of Troubadour Lyric Poetry, edited by Alan R Press (Edinburgh U P, 1971)"; and "Anthology of the Provençal Troubadours, edited by Thomas Goddard Bergin (2 vols., Yale U P, 1973)"]

{188} Camilo José Cela (b. 1916).
Viaje a la Alcarria. First published 1948.

{189} P'u Sung-Ling (1640-1715).
Liao-chai Chih-i. First published in 1766.

Antonio Machado (1875-1939).
{190} Juan de Mairena: Epigrams, Maxims, Memoranda, and Memoirs of an Apocryphal Professor, With an Appendix of Poems From 'The Apocryphal Songbooks'. First published 1936.
[and Poesias Completas; Prosas y Poesias Olvidadas]

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9 December
Year 11:
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635).
Obras Escogidas.
[incl. {191} La Arcadia; {192} Pastores de Belén; {193} Novelas a Marcia Leonarda; {194} La Dorotea]
Five Plays translated by Jill Booty (Hill and Wang, 1961). ({195} Peribáñez; {196} Fuentovejuna; {197} El Perro del Hortelano; {198} El Caballero de Olmedo; {199} El Castigo sin Venganza)

{200} Wang Ch'ung (27-c. 97 A D).
Lun-Heng.

Juan de Yepes, later Juan de San Matia and Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross) (1542-1591).
Poesías Completas de San Juan de la Cruz, edited by Damaso Alonso (Aguilar, Madrid, 1963).
[incl. {201} La Noche Oscura del Alma; {202} C·ntico Espiritual; 'Llama de Amor Viva']

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
The Comedies, first collected in 1623 ('First Folio') with all the other canonical plays except Pericles
("{203} The Comedy of Errors (1593-like all other dates, an approximation to the year of composition), {204} The Taming of the Shrew (1594), {205} Love's Labour's Lost (1594), {206} A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), {207} The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595), {208} The Merchant of Venice (1596), {209} Much Ado About Nothing (1599), {210} The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600), {211} As You Like It (1600), {212} Twelfth Night (1601), {213} All's Well That Ends Well (1602), and {214} The Tempest (1611).")

{215} Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928).
Cien Años de Soledad.

{216} Herodotus (c. 484-c. 424 B C).
Historiae.

The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse, introduced and edited by J M Cohen (Penguin, 1956).

{217} Panchatantra.

Jorge Luis Borges (b. 1899).
Obras Completas. [incl. {218} Fictions; Labyrinths; {219} Aleph and Other Stories]
[and {220} Adolfo Bioy Casares - La Invencion de Morel]
[and {221} Ricardo Guiraldes - Don Segundo Sombra]

{222} Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B C-65 A D).
Epistulae Morales ad Lucillum.


Year 12:
Gil Vicente (c. 1465-c. 1536).
{223} Quem Tem Farelos? (1508). And {224} Auto da Índia (1509). And {225} Farsa do Velho da Horta and {226} Auto dos FÌsicos (both 1512).

Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965).
{227} Sasameyuki (1943-8).
[and {228} Tade Kuu Mushi (1928)]

{229} Luís Vaz de Camıes (1524-1580).
Os Lusíadas. First published 1572.

{230} Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968).
Povest' o Zhizni (1946-1964).
[and Selected Stories (Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970)]

José María Eça de Queiróz (1843-1900).
{231} O Crime de Padre Amaro. First published 1875. And {232} O Primo Basilio. First published 1878. And {233} Os Maias. First published 1888.

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1898-1961).
A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems.
[incl. 'Chatrapati Sivaji ka Patra' (1922) [originally published in Parimal [1929]]
[and {234} Kulli Bhat (1939); {235} Billesur Bakriha (1941)]
[and Sumitranandan Pant - {236} Svarnkiran (1946); {237} Svarndhuli (1948); {238} Lokayatan (1964)]

{239} Alves Redol (b. 1911).
A Barca dos Sete Lemes. First published 1959.

Classical Literary Criticism. {240} Aristotle: On the Art of Poetry; {241} Horace: On the Art of Poetry; {242} 'Longinus': On the Sublime.
[and Horace - Epistles II, 1 and 2]

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).
Obras Completas.

{243} François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553).
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. First published 1532-64.

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10 December
Year 13:
The Penguin Book of German Verse, introduced and edited by Leonard Forster (Reprinted with revisions, Penguin, 1959).

{244} Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832).
Faust. First published in 1808 (Part I) and 1832 (Part II).

Harold Pinter (b. 1930).
{245} The Caretaker. And {246} The Room and {247} The Dumb Waiter.
[and {248} The Collection]

{249} Johann Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen (c. 1625-1676).
Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch. First published under a pseudonym in 1669 (and not 1668 as printed).

{250} Wang Wei (c. 699-c. 761).
Wang Yu-ch'eng Chi Chien-chu. Published in 1736.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).
{251} Dergute Mensch von Sezuan. First published 1953 (though written 1938-40). And {252} Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis. First published 1949 (though written 1944-5).
[and {253} Die Dreigroschenoper; {254} Happy End; {255} Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny]

{256} Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-c. 55 B C).
De Rerum Natura.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885).
{257} Notre Dame de Paris. First published 1831. And {258} Hernani. First published 1830.

East German Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Michael Hamburger (Carcanet Press, 1972).

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).
{259} Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendheit. First published 1924. And {260} Aus Meinem Leben und Denken [1931]. First published 1932. 
[and {261} Zwischen Wasser and Urwald [1920]; {262} [Das Urwaldspital zu Lambaréné] Mitteilungen aus Lambaréné [1931]]


Year 14:
{263} Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910).
Anna Karenin. First published complete 1878.

Paul Ancel (Paul Celan) (1920-1970).
Ausgewählte Gedichte (und) Zwei Reden.

The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History With a Selection of Texts, by G S Kirk and J E Raven (Cambridge U P, 1957).

Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805).
{264} Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien: Ein Dramatisches Gedicht. First full publication 1787.
[and {265} Briefe Über Don Carlos (1788); 'Über Anmut und Wurde' (1793)]

{266} Shih Nai-an (1296-1370).
Shui Hu Chuan. Probably first published in the 14th century, though the earliest editions extant are from the 16th century.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929).
Gesammelte Werke. 15 vols. First published from 1964.
[incl. {267} Elektra (1903); {268} Jedermann (1911)]

{269} Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Das Kapital. First published 1867-1894. 

Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas, edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg (Doubleday, 1972).
[and Natalie Curtis - The Indians' Book]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832).
{270} Aus Meimem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit. First published 1811-1833.
[and {271} Italienische Reise; Sankt-Rochus-Fest zu Bingen ("in the second volume of Über Kunst und Altertum"); Tag-und Jahreshefte ("published in vols. 31-2 of the Ausgabe Letzter Hand, 1830")]

Paul Klee (1879-1940).
{272} Das Bildnerische Denken. First published 1956. And Unendliche Naturgeschichte. First published 1970.
[and Gedichte]
[and {273} Wassily Kandinsky - ‹ber gas Geistige in der Kunst]

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11 December
Year 15:
Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
Gesammelte Werke. First published in this edition 1950-8. {274} Die Verwandlung (1912). Beschreibung Eines Kampfes (1931). Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande (1953).

Su Tung-P'o (1036-1101).
Selections From a Sung Dynasty. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia U P, 1965).

{275} Hermann Hesse (1877-1962).
Das Glasparlenspiel. First published 1943.

{276} Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Die Traumdeutung. First published 1900.

{277} Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465-1541).
La Comedia de Calisto y Melibea. First published anonymously in 1499, and since popularly known as La Celestina. 

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929).
Gedichte. Die Entstehung Eines Gedichts.
[and {278} The Sinking of the 'Titanic']

{279} Herman Melville (1819-1891).
Moby Dick, or The White Whale. First published 1851.

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946).
Five Plays. ({280} Die Weber; {281} Rose Bernd; {282} Fuhrmann Henschel; {283} Hanneles Himmelfahrt; {284} Der Biberpelz]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832).
Poems.
[incl. 'Heideroslein; Willkommen und Abschied'; 'Mailied'; 'Prometheus'; 'An Schwager Kronos'; 'Wanderers Sturmlied'; 'An den Mond'; 'Wanderers Nachtlied'; {285} West-ostlicher Divan]

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).
{286} Les Confessions. First published posthumously in 1781 (Books I-VI) and 1788 (Books VII-XII).
[and {287} Du Contrat Social; {288} Emile]

Year 16:
The Penguin Book of Greek Verse, edited by Constantine A Trypanis.

Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations by P Lal (New Directions, 1957). [{289} The Dream of Vasavadatta; {290} Shakuntala; {291} The Little Clay Cart; {292} Ratnavali; {293} The Later Story of Rama; {294} The Signet Ring of Rakshasa]

{295} Pausanias (c. 120-180).
Hellados Periegeseos ('Description of Greece').

{296} 'Homer' (Exact identity, and thus dating, not known).
Odysseia. Written between the 12th and 7 centuries B C, probably in the 9th.

{297} David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930).
Sons and Lovers. First published 1913.

{298} Aristotle (384-322 B C).
Politica.

{299} Plato (c. 429-347 B C).
Politeia. 

{300} Shih Ching ('The Book of Songs'). Compiled between 1000 and 700 B C.

Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938).
Sobraniye Sochineii.

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12 December
Year 17:
Xenophon (c. 429-c. 354 B C).
{301} Kurou Paideia
[and {302} Hellenica; {303} Anabasis; {304} Memorabilia; {305} Apologia; {306} Symposium]

Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Poems and Songs. Edited by James Kinsley. Oxford Stanford Authors (Oxford U P, 1971).
[incl. {307} Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; {308} The Merry Muses of Caledonia]

Euripides (c. 480-406 B C).
Tragedies. [{309} Alcestis; {310} Medea; {311} Heracleidae; {312} Hippolytus; {313} Andromache; {314} Hecuba; {315} The Supplicants; {316} Electra; {317} Heracles; {318} The Trojan Woman; {319} Iphigenia in Tauris; {320} Ion; {321} Helen; {322} Phoenician Women; {323} Orestes; {324} Bacchae; {325} Iphigenia at Aulis; {326} Rhesus; {327} Cyclops]

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519).
Notebooks.

Epicurus (341-270 B C).
Writings. ('Letter to Herodotus'; 'Letter to Pythocles'; 'Letter to Metrodorus'; Kuriai Doxai; Epicurus' Will)

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777-1811).
Ezrählungen. First published in 2 vols., 1810-1811.
[incl. {328} Prinz Friedrich Von Homburg; 'The Marquise of O-'; 'Michael Kohlhaas'; 'The Beggarwoman of Locarno'; 'The Engagement in Santo Domingo'; 'The Foundling'; 'The Earthquake in Chile'; 'St. Cecilia'; 'The Duel']

{329} 'Homer' (Exact identity, and thus dating, not known).
Illiad. Written between the 12th and the 7th centuries B C, probably in the 9th.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725).
Major Plays. Translated by Donald Keene (Columbia U P, 1961).
[incl. {330} Yotsugi Soga; {331} Sonezaki Shinju; {332} Shinju Ten no Amijima; {333} Kokusenya Kassen]

Sophocles (c. 496-c. 406 B C).
Tragedies. [{334} Ajax; {335} Antigone; {336} Oedipus Rex; {337} Women of Trachis; {338} Electra; {339} Philocetes; {340} Oedipus at Colonus]


Year 18:
{341} Somadeva Bhatta (11th century A D).
Kathasaritsagara.

Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963).
Seçilmis ?iirler ('Selected Poems'). First published in Sofia, 1954.

{342} Musharrif ad-Din b. Muslih Sa'di (c. 1208-c. 1292).
Gulistan.

{343} Mehmet b. S¸leyman Fuzuli (c. 1490-c. 1556).
Leyla ve Mecnun. Written 1535-6.

{344} Evliya b. Dervi? Muhammad ('Evliya Celebi') (c. 1611-c. 1684).
Tarihi Seyyah ('Chronicle of a Traveller'), better known as the Seyahatname ('Book of Travels'). First published in 10 vols., 1896-1936.

{345} Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273).
Mathnawi. And {3467} Fihi ma Fihi ('It Contains What It Contains').

Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774).
{347} The Vicar of Wakefield. First published 1766. {3489} She Stoops to Conquer. First published 1773. {349} The Deserted Village. First published 1770.

{350} Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951).
Bufe Kur. First published in Bombay, 1937.

Yahya Kemal Bayatli (1884-1958).
Selected Poems.

Mohammed Shamsuddin Hafiz (1327-1390).
Divan.

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13 December
Year 19:
Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times, edited by James Kritzeck (Penguin, 1964).

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980).
{352} La Nausée. First published 1938.
[and {353} Le Mur; {354} L'Être et le Néant; {355} Les Mots; {356} Les Mouches; {357} Les SÈquestrÈs d'Altona]

{358} Al-Qur'an ('The Koran'). First set down in writing c. 610-632 A D.

Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) (c. 195-159 B C).
Comedies. [{359} Andria; {360} Hecyra; {361} Heauton Timorumenos; {362} Phormio; {363} Eunuchus; {364} Adelphoe]

{365} Al Mu'allaqat as-Sab', translated as The Seven Odes, the First Chapter in Arabic Literature, by A J Arberry (Allen & Unwin, 1957).

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890).
{366} Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. First published in 3 vols., 1855-6.
[and The Arabian Nights' Entertainment; {367} The Gold-Mines of Midian; {368} The Land of Midian Revisited; {369} A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; {370} Abeokuta and the Camaroon Mountains]

Procopius (c. 498-c. 560).
Works.
[incl. {371} Discourses About the Wars; {372} Peri Krismaton; {373} Anekdota]

{374} 'Ali Ahmad Ibn Hazm (994-1064).
Tawq al-Hamama ('The Dove's Necklace').

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863).
I Sonetti. First published 1886-89.

{375} Muhammad Bin 'Abdullah Ibn Battuta (1304-1369).
Tuhfat an-Nuzzar fi Ghara 'ib al-Amsar wa 'Aja 'ib al-Asfar ('A Gift for Those Interested in the Curiosities of Cities and the Wonders on the Routes') commonly known as the Rihla ('Journey').

Year 20:
Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).
Oeuvres. First collected edition 1898. Complete edition by Jules Mouquet and Roland de Reneville 1946.
[incl. {376} Les Illuminations]

{377} Alf Layla wa Layla ('A Thousand and One Nights').

{378} Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681).
La Vida Es Sueño. First published 1636.

Hadith ('Narrative') or Traditions of Islam.
[incl. {379} al-Bukhari - Sahih; {380} Muslim - Sahih]

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1713).
{381} The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, or York, Mariner. First published 1719.
[and {382} Farther Adventures; {383} Serious Reflections]
[and {384} [Johann David ]Wyss - Der Schweizerische Robinson]

{385} 'Abd ar-Rahman Bin Muhammad Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406).
Kitab al-'Ibar ('Book of Instructive Examples'). Written in 1375-8.

{386} Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900).
Also Sprach Zarathustra. First complete edition 1882.

{387} Abu Muhamad al-Qasim al-Hariri (1054-1122).
Maqamat.

{388} Takeda Kiyosada, known as Takeda Izumo (c. 1690-c. 1749).
Kanadehon Chushingura. Written 1748 in collaboration with Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu.

{389} Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) (39-65 A D).
De Bello Civili (Concerning the Civil War).

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14 December
Year 21:
{390} Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857).
Aus dem Leben Eines Taugenichts. First published 1826.

Abu 'Uthman Amur Bin Bahr, called Al-Jahiz ('The Goggle-Eyed') (c. 780-c. 868).
The Life and Works of Jahiz: translations of selected texts, by Charles Pellat.
[incl. {391} Kitab al-Bukhala; {392} Kitab al-Bayan; {393} Kitab al-Hayawan]

Po Chü-I (772-846).
Poems. Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Allen & Unwin, 1946). And The Life and Times of Po Chu-I by Arthur Waley (Allen & Unwin, 1949; Macmillan, New York, 1950).

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1059-1111).
{394} Al-Munqidh min ad-Dalal ('The Deliverer From Error').
[and {395} Ihya' 'Ulum ad-Din; {396} Tahafut al-Falasifah]
[and {397} Averroes - Tahafut at-Tahafut]

{398} Sinuhe (c. 2000 B C).
The Story of Sinuhe. Edited by A H Gardiner in Hieratische Papyrus aus d. Königl. Museen zu Berlin, vol. 5, 1909. Complete hierogylphic text with interlinear transliteration and translation, plus basic grammatical commentary, by Ronald Bullock (2nd ed., Probsthain, 41 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PH, 1978).

{399} Yevgeni Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937).
My. Written 1920. First published in Russian (in the U S A) 1924.
[and The Dragon and Other Stories; A Soviet Heretic]

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918).
{400} Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. And {401} The Education of Henry Adams.

Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934).
Kitheve ('Selected Works'). First published 1926-38. Selected Poems. Bilingual edition, with translations by Maurice Samuel (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1967).
[incl. 'Ha-Matmid'; 'Be-Ir ha-Haregah' [from Poems of Wrath and Admonishment]]

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
{402} Jude the Obscure. First complete edition 1895.
[and {403} The Dynasts]

Ahmad Ibn Husain, called Al-Mutanabbi (915-965).
Poems. Edited by A J Arberry, with introduction, translation and notes (Cambridge U P, 1967).

{404} Harry Elmer Barnes (b. 1889).
A History of Historical Writing.


Year 22:
The Penguin Book of Russian Verse, introduced and edited by Dimitri Obolensky (Penguin, 1962).

The Aztecs. [only a selection of histories of the Aztecs and studies of their art are recommended, though perhaps one of the noted books, Angel M Garibay's La Literatura de los Aztecas, might be an anthology]

{405} Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910).
Voyna i Mir. First published 1863-9.

William Blake (1757-1827).
The Complete Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.
[incl. {406} Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; {407} The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; {408} Jerusalem]

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904).
Plays. [{409} Platonov; {410} Ivanov; {411} The Seagull; {412} Uncle Vanya; {413} The Three Sisters; {414} The Cherry Orchard; {415} The Wood Demon]

{416} Patañjali (c. 300 A D).
Yogasutra.

{417} Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324).
Travels. Originally written in French (Divisament dou Monde) at Polo's dictation while a prisoner of the Genoese in 1298-9 and first published in German (Buch des Edlen Ritters und Landfahrers Marco Polo, 1477).

{418} Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891).
Oblomov. First published 1859.

{419} Kamo No Chomei (1153-1216).
Hojoki. Written 1212. Translated as An Account of My Hut by Donald Keene in his Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century (2nd ed., Penguin, 1968).

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15 December
Year 23:
{420} Aristotle (384-322 B C).
Ethica Nicomachea.

{421} Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye. First published 1866.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834).
{422} Essays of Elia and {423} Last Essays of Elia. First published 1823 and 1833 respectively.

Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel (1894-c. 1940).
Collected Stories. Translated or revised by Walter Morison (World, 1960; Penguin, 1961).
[incl. {424} Konarmiya; {425} Odesskiye Rasskazy]
[and You Must Know Everything]

{426} Norbert Lynton.
The Story of Modern Art.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883).
{427} Otsy i Deti. First published 1862.
[and {428} Zapiski Okhotnika; {429} Poems in Prose; {430} First Love; {431} Torrents of Spring]

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (Ghalib) (1797 or 1798-1869).
Divan-i-Ghalib. Edited by Imtiyaz Ali Arshi (1958). Partially translated as Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions From the Urdu edited by Aijaz Ahmad (Columbia U P, 1971).

{432} Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918).
Odin den 'Ivana Denisovicha. First published 1962.

Kukai (774-835).
Kukai and His Major Works, translated by Yoshito S Hakeda (Columbia U P, 1972).
[incl. {433} Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness]

{434} Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837).
Eugene Onegin. First published 1833.


Year 24:
Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, and Burton Watson (2 vols., Columbia U P, 1964).

{435} Questre de Saint Graal. Written anonymously c. 1225.

Anthology of Chinese Literature, edited by Cyril Birch (2 vols. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1967. Vol. 2, Grove Press, 1965).

{436} Jane Austen (1775-1817).
Pride and Prejudice. First published 1813.

Li Po (also Li T'ai Po) (701-762 A D).
Poems.

{437} Ts'ao Hsüeh-Ch'in (also Ts'ao Chan) (c. 1715-c. 1763).
Hung-lou Meng.

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
Obras Completas. Three Tragedies, translated by J Graham-Lujan and R L O'Connell (Penguin, 1961). [{438} Bodas de Sangre; {439} Yerma; {440} La Casa de Bernarda Alba]

{441} K'ung Fu-Tzu (usually latinized as Confucius) (c. 551-c. 479 B C).
Lun-y¸ ('Selected Sayings', often rendered 'Analects' since the time of Legge).

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938).
Granatovy Braslet. First published 1911.
[incl. 'Molokh', {442} Poyedinok]

Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976).
Selected Works (Vols. 1-4, 1965; Vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1977).

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16 December
Year 25:
{443} Meng Tzu ('Mencius') (372-289 B C).
Works.

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).
Obras Completas.
[incl. {444} Llanto por Ignacio S·nchez MejÌas]

The Texts of Taoism translated by James Legge. Sacred Books of the East (2 vols., Dover and Constable, 1962).
[incl. {445} Tao te Ching; {446} "the writings of Chuang Zu"; {447} T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien]

John Keats (1795-1821).
Poetical Works. Edited by H W Garrod for Oxford English Texts (2nd ed., Oxford U P, 1958).
[incl. 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer'; 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'; {448} Endymion; 'Hyperion'; 'Lamia']

{449} Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel. First published 1610 or 1611.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin ('Molière') (1622-1673).
Selected Plays. ["Continue the reading of Molière's plays (from year 5)"]

Tu Fu (also Tu Kung-Pu) (712-770 A D).
Poems.

{450} Wu Ch'ing-Tzu (1701-1754).
Ju-lin Wai-shih ('The Unofficial History of Confucian Scholars'). First published 1768-77.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860).
{451} Parerga und Paralipomena. First published 1851.
[and {452} Die Welt Wille und Vorstellung]

Chou Shu-Jen ('Lu Hsün') (1881-1936).
Selected Works (4 vols., Foreign Languages Press, Peking).
[incl. 'Ah Q Cheng-chuan'; {453} Yeh-ts'ao]


Year 26:
Sources of Indian Tradition, compiled by Theodore de Bary, Stephen N Hay, Royal Weiler, and Andrew Yartow (2 vols., Columbia U P, 1964).

{454} Cantar de Mio Cid. Composed about 1140 A D.

Bhagavad Gita. First compiled c. 200 B C.

Saint Augustine (354-430).
{455} Confessions. Written 397-401.
[and {4564} City of God}

Poems From the Sanskrit. Translated with an introduction by John Brough (Penguin, 1968).

Dhanpat Ray Shrivastav ('Premchand') (1880-1936).
{4575} Godan. First published 1936. And The World of Premchand: A Selection of Short Stories translated by David Rubin (Allen & Upwin, 1969).

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374).
Rime, Trionfi e Poesie Latine, edited by F Neri and others (1951). Prose, edited by G Martellotti and others (1955). {458} The Triumphs written 1352-74 have been translated by E H Wilkins (University of Chicago Press, 1962), and Letters From Petrarch by Morris Bishop (Indiana U P, 1966).
[incl. {459} Africa; {460} Secretum; {461} Canzoniere]

{462} Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra ('The Sutra of the Lotus of the True Law'). First compiled in India before 255 A D and translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva as Miao-fa Lien-hua Ching (344-413).

{463} William Faulkner (1897-1962).
The Sound and the Fury. First published 1929 (Penguin, 1964).

{464} Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948).
Satyana Prayago. First published 1927-9. 

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17 December
see worldswideweb.com


18 December
Terrence Berres's Reading Rat ranks with Ken Knabb's Gateways to the Vast Realms as the longest, but messiest, list of recommended readings created for the web (though apparently its origins date back to 1988, the introduction doesn't tell us what form it took pre-web). The lists are elaborated with links to full-text scans, critical essays, quotations, and more. As with Knabb's Gateways, the project is closer to a directory than a canon or reading plan, so it's not included in our "great books" project. It's a fun resource to peruse.


19 December
Though <a href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/">Cliff's Notes</a> has long since attained the highest level of name recognition: wherein the brand name is often conflated with the product itself (as with Band-Aid or Kleenex), other producers of study guides, such as <a href="https://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/">Cummings Study Guides</a>, <a href="https://www.enotes.com/">E Notes</a>, and <a href="https://www.sparknotes.com/">Spark Notes</a>, also provide their own potential lists for inclusion in a project like this one. For now at least, I've little interest in doing the research necessary to list all of the works that have been summarized over the years by these companies quite deserving of their lowly reputation. As noted before, the Magill work included in this project (Masterpieces of World Literature) developed out of his Masterplots series, the progenitor of Cliff and co.


20 December
Year 27:
{465} Thucydides (c. 471-c. 400 B C).
Historiai.

Khushhal, Khan Khatak (1613-1689).
Divan.

{4664} Edward Morgan Foster (1879-1970).
A Passage to India. First published 1924.

{467} Dhammapada. (c. 300 B C).

{468-475} Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays edited and translated by Michael Benedikt and George E Wellwarth (Dutton, 1969).

{476} Abe Kimifusa (Abe Kobo) (b. 1925).
Suna no Onna. First published 1962.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (b. 1911).
Poems. Translated by V G Kiernan (Allen & Uptown, 1971).

{477} Gunter Grass (b. 1927).
Die Blechtrommel. First published 1959.

{478} Mallanga Vatsyayana (c. 3rd century A D).
Kama Sutra.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977).
Poems.
[incl. Imitations; {479} Near the Ocean; Poems 1938-1949; {480} Life Studies; {481} Notebook 1967-8; {482} History; {483} For Lizzie and Harriet; {484} The Dolphin; {485} Day by Day]
  
Year 28:
{486} Valmiki (c. 3rd century B C).
Ramayana.

Upanishads (c. 1,000-500 B C).

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832).
{487} An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. First printed in 1780, and first published in 1789.
[and {488} Fragment on Government]

Contemporary Indonesian Poetry, edited and translated by Harry Aveling (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1975).

Pio Baroja (1872-1956).
{489} Las Inquietudes de Shanti Andia. First published 1911.
[and {490} El Laberinto de las Sirenas; {491} Los Pilotos de Altura; {492} La Estrella del Capit·n Chimista; {493} Memorias]

Chairil Anwar (1922-1949).
Complete Poetry and Prose, edited and translated by Burton Taffel (State University of New York Press, Thurlow Terrace, Albany, New York 12201).

Medieval Latin Lyrics, translated by Helen Waddell (Penguin, 1952).
[and Waddell - {494} The Wandering Scholars; More Latin Lyrics]

{495} Kautilya (c. late 4th century).
Artha Shastra.

Takasue no Musume, called 'Lady Sarashina' (1008-c. 1065).
{496} Sarashina Nikki.
[and {497} Mother of Michitsuna - Kagero Nikki]

{498} Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529).
Il Libro del Cortegiano. First printed by Aldus in Venice (1528).

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21 December
Year 29:
Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, revised by George S Fraser (Allen & Unwin and Samuel Weiser, 625 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012, 1973).
[incl. {499} Adi Granth]

Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893).
Oeuvres Complètes (16 vols., Piazza, Paris, 1968). Complete Short Stories (3 vols., 1970).
[incl. {500} Une Vie; {501} Pierre et Jean]

A Celtic Miscellany: Translations From the Celtic by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (Penguin, 1971).

James Boswell (1740-1795).
{502} The Life of Samuel Johnson. First published 1791.
[and {503} Hebrides; {504} London; {505} Holland; {506} Germany and Switzerland; {507} Italy, Corsica and France journals]
[and Samuel Johnson - {508} Rasselas; {509} Lives of the English Poets; {510} Dictionary of the English Language]

{511} Hong Sheng (1646-1704).
Ch'ang-sheng Tien. First performed c. 1688.

François, Duc de La Rouchefoucauld (1613-1680).
{512} Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales. First authorised edition 1665 (Paris), following a clandestine edition of 1664 (The Hague).
[and {513} Memoires]

René Karl Wilhelm Josef Maria Rilke (1875-1926).
Sämtliche Werke, edited by R Sieber-Rilke and E Zinn (1955-1963).
[incl. {514} Duino Elegies; {515} Sonnets to Orpheus]

{516} Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltkov (using the pen-name Shchedrin and hence usually known as Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1826-1899). Gospoda Golovlyovy. First published 1876.

Kabir (c. 1430-c. 1518).
Kabir. Vol. 1, by Charlotte Vaudeville (Oxford U P, 1974).

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B C-65 A D).
Moral Essays.
[incl. {517} De Providentia; {518} De Clementia]
[and {519} Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) - Insitutionis Oratoriae; {520} Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) - Epigrams] 

Year 30:
An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815, selected by the Unesco National Commission of Ceylon. Edited and with an introduction by C H B Reynolds (Allen & Unwin, 1970).

Giuseppe Tomasi, Principe di Lampedusa (1896-1957).
{521} Il Gattopardo. First published 1958.
[and {522} Racconti]
[and {523} Federico de Roberto - I VicerË]

{524} Chandidas (15th century).
Shri-Krishna-Kirtana. First published 1916.

Lucian (c. 115-c. 180).
Works.
[incl. {525} True History]

{526} Milindapañha ('The Milinda-Questions') (c. 2nd-1st centuries B C).

Sandor Petöfi (1823-1849).
Petofi. Translated by Anton N Nyerges. Edited by J M Ertavy-Barath (Hungarian Cultural Foundation, P O Box 364, Stone Mountain, GA 30086, 1973).
[incl. {527} János Vitéz; 'Nemzeti Dal']

{528} Bibhutibhusan Banerji (1894-1950).
Pather Panchali. First published 1929.

Francis Bacon, 1st Baron Verulam (1561-1626).
{529} The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. First published in 1605 and 1626 respectively. And {530} Essays. First published in 1597, then definitively in 1625.
[and {531} Novum Organum]

{532} Bilhana (c. 1040-1095).
Caurapañcasika.

{533} Okagami ('Great Mirror') (c. 1200). 

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22 December
Year 31:
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536).
{534} Colloquia Familiaria. First published 1518-1533. And {535} Moriae Encomium. First published 1511.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843).
Poems and Fragments. Translated by Michael Hamburger (University of Michigan Press and Routledge, 1976).
[incl. {536} Hyperion, or The Hermit in Greece]

Jakob Rosenberg.
Rembrandt: Life and Work (4th ed., Phaidon Press, 1980).

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
{537} Les Provinciales, ou les Lettres Escrites par Louis de Montalte à un Provincial de Ses Amis. First published in Cologne (false imprint, i.e. Paris) 1656-7. And {538} Les Pensées. First published posthumously in a selection made by a group of Jansenists in Paris, 1670.

A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry, translated by N N Bich, B Raffel, and W S Merwin (Knopf, 1975).

{539} Barch (later Benedict de) Spinoza (1634-77).
Ethica. First published posthumously in the Opera Posthuma (1677) edited by Lodewijk Meyer.

Emil M Cioran (b. 1911).
{540} PrÈcis de la Décomposition. First published (by Gallimard, like all other French originals by Cioran) 1949. And {541} La Tentation d'Exister. First published 1956. And {542} La Chute Dans le Temps. First published 1964. And {543} Les Mauvais Démiurge. First published 1969.

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645).
{544} Sueños. First published 1627. And {545} Historia de la Vida del Buscón. First published 1626.

Poetry of the Netherlands in Its European Context, 1170-1930, illustrated with poems in original and translation, by Theodoor Weevers (Athlone Press, 1960).
[incl. Van den Vos Reinaerde; {546} Eduard Douwes Dekkar (Multatuli) - Max Havelaar]

{547} Yoshida No Kaneyoshi ('Kenko') (1283-1350).
Tsurezuregusa. Written 1330 and 1332.

Year 32:
{548} Robert, Edler von Musil (1880-1942).
Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften. First published incomplete 1930-43; revised incomplete edition 1952.

{549-559} Thomas Stears Eliot (1888-1965).
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (Faber & Faber and Harcourt Brace, 1963).

Denis Diderot (1713-1784).
{560} La Religieuse. First published 1796. {561} Dialogues. First published 1796-1830. {562} Le Neveu de Rameau. First published in a German translation by Goethe, 1805; first French publication in 1823. {563} Jacques le Fataliste. First published 1796.
[and Encylopédie ou Dictionnaire RaisonnÈ des Sciences, des Arts et des MÈtiers]

David Farabant Bland.
A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book (2nd ed., Faber & Faber, 1969).

Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets, translated with an introduction by G B H Wightman and A Y al-Udhari (Penguin, 1975).

{564} The Zend-Aveta.

{565} Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).
[Le ]Rime[ de Michelangelo]. First published 1623.

Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956).
{566} Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittlelalter. First published 1948.
[and {567} Erich Auerbach - {568} Mimesis; {569} Literatursprache und Publikum in der Lateinischen Spätanike und im Mittelalter]

{570} Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c. 60-c. 140 A D).
Satires.

{571} Mo Tzu (c. 470-c. 391 B C).
Basic Writings.

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23 December
Year 33:
{572} Kalevala.
The national epic of Finland compiled in its present form by Elias Lonnrot. First published in 1835 and definitively revised in 1849.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
{573} Utilitarianism. First published in book form 1863. And {574} Autobiography. First published 1973.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906).
{575} Brand. First published 1866. And {576} Peer Gynt. First published 1867.
[and {577} The Wild Duck; {578} The Master Builder]

Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968).
Dikter. First published 1965. And subsequent collections of poems: {579} Diwan Över Fursten av Emigón (1965), {580} Sagan om Fatumeh (1966) and {581} Vägvisare Till Underjorden (1967).

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592).
{582} Essais. First published 1580. Definitive edition 1588. Complete Works, including the {583} travel journal and letters, edited by Donald M Frame (Stanford U P, 1957).

Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941).
{584} Doktor Glas. First published 1905. And Selected Short Stories, translated by C W Stork (1935).
[and {585} Historietterna; {586} Gertrud]

{587} Sextus Propertius (c. 50-c. 16 B C)
Works. [Elegies]

Knut Pederson (later Knut Hamsun) (1859-1952).
{588} Sult (1891). And {589} Mysterier (1892).
[and {590} Pan; {591} Victoria]

{592} John Donne (1572-1631).
Poems. First collected 1633.

{593} Brenn-Njáls Saga.
Written 1280.


Year 34:
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906).
{594} Samfundets Støtter. First published 1877. And {595} Et Dukkehjem.
[and {596} Rosmersholm; {597} John Gabriel Borkman; {598} Hedda Gabler]

{599} Jean Cocteau (1889-1963).
Les Enfants Terribles. First published 1929.

{600} Armas Eino Leopold Lˆnnbohm (Eino Leino) (1878-1926).
Helkavirsiä. Two collections, first published in 1903 and 1916 respectively.

{601} Henry Fielding (1707-1754).
Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling. First published 1749.

August Strindberg (1849-1912).
Plays. [{602} Hemsöborna; {603} The Father; {604} Miss Julie; {605} Easter; {606} A Dream Play; {607} The Ghost Sonata; {608} The Stronger]

{609} Han Fei Tzu (c. 280-233 B C).
Complete Works. [Han Feizi]

Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970).
{610} Is-slotten. First published 1963. And {611} Baten om Krelden. First published 1968.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).
{612} Enten-Eller. First published 1843. And {613} Stadier paa Livets Vej. First published 1845.

Chinua Achebe (b. 1930).
{614} Things Fall Apart.
[and {615} Arrow of God]
[and {616} Okenwa Olisa - No Condition Is Permanent; {617} Miller O Albert - Rosemary and the Taxi-Driver [these two works being given as examples of Onitsha Market Literature]; {618} James Ngugi - Petals of Blood; Camara Laye - {619} L'Enfant Noir; {620} Le Regard du Roi; "the novels of Alexandre Biyidi of the Cameroons written as 'Mongo Beti'"; "the novels of South African Thomas Mofolo"]

{621} Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241).
Heimskringla. First published 1697.

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24 December
Year 35:
Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century, introduced and compiled by Donald Keene (Penguin, 1968).

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
{622} Man and Superman. First published 1903. And {23} Saint Joan. First published 1924.

{624 Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693).
Koshoku Ichidai Onna. First published 1686.

Ch'an and Zen Teaching, edited, translated and explained by Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk) (3 vols., Rider, 1960-62).

Marie-René-Auguste-Alexis Léger ('St.-John Perse') (1887-1975).
Oeuvre Poétique. Gallimard, 1953.
[incl. {625} Anabasis; {626} Birds; {627} Chronique; {628} Eloges; {629} Exile; {630} Seamarks; {631} Winds]

{632} Matsuo Munefusa (Basho) (1644-1694).
Oku no Hosomichi.

{633} Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400).
The Canterbury Tales. Written between 1386 and 1400 in ten fragments but never finished.
[and {634Troilus and Criseyde}

{635} Ueda Tosaku (Ueda Akinari) (1734-1809).
Ugetsu Monogatori. First published 1776.

{636} Manyoshu.

{37} Epictetus (c. 55-135).
Discourses.


Year 36:
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse. Translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite (Penguin, 1964).

{638} Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859).
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. First published 1822, but definitively revised, 1856.

Twenty Plays of the N? Theatre, edited by Donald Keene, with the assistance of Royall Tyler (Columbia U P, 1970).

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1980).
{639} The Family Moskat. First published 1950.
[and {640} In My Father's Country; {641} The SÈance]

Hekigan Roku. Compiled about 1000. Translated as The Blue Cliff Records by R D M Shaw (Michael Joseph, 1961).

{642} Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974).
Evening Land/ Aftonland. First published 1953.

Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972).
{643} Yukiguni. First published in book form 1947. And {644} Sembazuru. First published 1949-51.

{645} Mabinogion. Translated by J Gantz (Penguin, 1976).

{646} Sei Shonagon (c. 966-after 1008).
Makura no Soshi.

{647} Marcus Annius Verus, later Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180, ruled 161-180). 
Works. [Meditations]

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25 December
A Christmas Bonus of portions of the Phliip Ward list, years 37-46 in a single post to leave room for a few other posts before the end of the year:

Year 37:
The New Oxford Book of American Verse, chosen and edited by Richard Ellmann (Oxford U P, 1976).

Antoine-Francois, l'Abbé Prévost (1697-1763).
{648} Memoires et Aventures d'un Homme de QualitÈ. 7 vols. 1728-31.
[incl. {649} Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut]

John Ruskin (1819-1900).
{650} Praeterita. First published 1885-9.
[and {651} Modern Painters; {652} The Stones of Venice; {653} Unto This Last; {654} Munera Pulveris]

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65-8 B C).
{655} Odes.
[and {656} Epodes]

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
Works. (Spring Books, 1963).
[incl. {657} The Picture of Dorian Gray; {658} De Profundis; {659} Lady Windermere's Fan; {660} A Woman of No Importance; {661} The Importance of Being Earnest; {662} An Ideal Husband]

{663} James Joyce (1882-1941).
Ulysses. First published in Paris, 1922.

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895).
Sobraniye Sochinenly. 11 vols., 1956-8.
[incl. {664} The March Hare; {665} Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District]

{666} Abolqasim Mansur Bin Hasan Firdausi (or Ferdowsi) (c. 940-1020).
Shahnameh. Composed between about 980 and about 1010.

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920).
{667} NazarÌn. First published 1895. {668} Halma. First published 1895. {669} Misericordia. First published 1897.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).
Collected Poems (Knopf, 1954; Faber & Faber, 1955).
[incl. Opus Posthumous; {670} The Necessary Angel]


Year 38:
{671} Benito PÈrez Galdós (1843-1920).
Fortunata y Jacinta. First published 1886-7.

{672} Jayadeva (12th century A D).
Gitagovinda.

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703).
{673} Diary.
[and The Letters and Second Diary of Samuel Pepys]

{674} Gaius Petronius Arbiter (d. c. 65 or 66 A D).
Satyricon. 

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1955).
{675} A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
[and {676} Mourning Becomes Electra; {677} The Iceman Cometh]

Pre-Columbian Peru.
[incl. Francisco LÛpez de JÈrez; Felipe Guam·n Poma de Ayala; Garcilaso de la Vega]

Josef ?kvorecký (b. 1924).
{678} Zbabelic. Written in 1948-9 and first published 1958. And {679} Bassaxofon. First published 1967.

Demosthenes (384?-322 B C).
{680-682} Philippics, {683} Olynthiacs, and Minor Public orations.

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva (1894-1941).
Selected Poems.

{684} Mary Anne Cross, nee Evans ('George Eliot') (1819-1880).
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. First published 1871-2 in installments. 

Year 39:
The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse, edited by E Caracciolo-Trejo (Penguin, 1971).

{685} Lu Yu (1125-1210).
Chien-nan Shih-kao. Definitive collection of poems published 1220.

Modern Czech Poetry. ["Modern Czech Poetry (1945; reprinted by Arden, 1979), an anthology translated by Ewald Osers and J K Montgomery"; Three Czech Poets (Penguin, 1971); Jaroslav Seifert - {686} The Plague Column; {687} An Umbrella From Piccadilly; Miroslav Holub - Selected Poems; Vladimir Hol·n - Selected Poems; {688} Noc s Hamletem]

{689} Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
Walden, or Life in the Woods. First published 1854.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Collected Poems (Definitive ed. Macmillan, 1956).
[incl. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales; {690} The Tower]

{691} Jaroslav Ha?ek (1883-1923).
Osudy Dobréno Vojáka ?vejka. Written 1920-3 and left unfinished.

Portuguese Voyages (1498-1663), edited by Charles David Ley.
[and {692} Fernão Mendes Pinto - Peregrinaçâo; {693} Joâo de Barros - Décadas; {694} Castanheda - História; {695} Damião de Góis - Crónica de D. Manual; {696} Antonio de Galvão - [Tratado dos Descobrimentos, Antigos, e Modernos, Feitos Ate a Era de 1555. Com os Nomes Particulars das Pessos as Que os Fiserao: e em Que Tempos, e as Suas Alturas, e dos Desvairado Caminhos por Onde a Pimento, e Especiaria Veyo da India as Nossas, Partes, Obra Certo Muy Notavel, e Copiosa] Tratado; {697} Fr. Gaspar da Cruz - Tratado]

Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology of Byelorussian Poetry From 1828 to the Present Day. Translated by Vera Rich (Allen and Unwin, 1971).

{698} Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
Idiot. First published 1868-9.

New Writing in Yugoslavia, edited by Bernard Johnson (Penguin, 1970).


Year 40:
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
{699} Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver. First published 1726.
[and The Battle of the Books; {700} The Drapier's Letters]

Polish Post-War Poetry, selected and translated by Czeslaw Milosz (Penguin, 1970).

Natsume Kinnosuke (Natsume Soseki) (1867-1916).
{701} Kokoro. First published 1914.
[and {702} Michikusa]

Poems of Black Africa, edited and introduced by Wole Soyinka (Hinemann Educational, 1975).
[and Soyinka - 'Telephone Conversation']

James Cook (1728-1779).
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. First published 1773-1784.

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (1798-1855).
{703} Pan Tadeusz. First published 1834.
[and Ballady i Romanse; {704} Poezye II]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816).
Plays. Edited by Joseph Knight in World's Classics (Oxford U P, 1951).
[incl. {705} The Rivals; {706} The School for Scandal]

{707} Sasuntsi Davith. The Armenian national epic, translated as Daredevils of Sassoun by L Surmelian (Allen & Upwin, 1966).

Slawomir Mrozek (b. 1930).
{708} Tango. First performed in Polish 1964. And {709} The Ugupu Bird.

Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology, by Sever Trifu and Dumitru Ciocoi-Pop (Dacia Publishing House, Cluf, 1972). And Poesía Rumana Contemporanea, translated into Spanish by Darie Novaceanu (Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1972).
[and Nichita Stanescu - The Still Unborn About the Dead--incl. {710} 11 Elegai]


Year 41:
{711} Anna Commena (1083-c. 1153).
Alexiad. Completed after 1148.

Moses Ben Jacob Ben Ezra (c. 1055-c. 1138).
Selected Poems. Bilingual edition, with translations by S de Solis-Cohen (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934).

{712} Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744).
Principi di una Scienza Nuova Intorno Alla Natura Delle Nazioni. First published 1725.a Rust

Samuel Beckett (b. 1906).
{713} Molloy. {714} Malone Mueurt. {715} L'Innommable. Trilogy of novels first published respectively in 1947, 1951, and 1953. And {716} En Attendant Godot. First published 1952.

Vladimir Ilyrich Ulyanov ('Lenin') (1870-1917).
Selected Works (3 vols. Lawrence & Wishart, 1964). And {717} What Is to Be Done? Translated from Chto Delat'? (first published in Russian by Dietz of Stuttgart, 1902) by S V and P Uteching (Panther, 1970).

{718} Shota Rustaveli (fl. 1200).
Vepkhis-tqaosani. First critical edition 1712.

{719} Miguel de Unamuno (1846-1936).
Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida en Los Hombres y en Los Pueblos. First published 1913.

Robert Graves (b. 1895).
Collected Poems (Cassell, 1965; Doubleday, 1966).
[and {720} The White Goddess; {721} Goodbye to All That; {722} Wilfred Owen - Collected Poems]

{723} Theodor Fontane (1819-1898).
Effi Briest. First published 1895.

Modern Hungarian Poetry. [Th. Kabdebo, ed. - One Hundred Hungarian Poems (Albion Books, Manchester, 1976); Modern Hungarian Poetry edited by Miklos Vajda (Columbia U P, 1977)]
[and Lajos Kass·k; Attila JÛzsef; Gyula IllyÈs; S·ndor Weˆres; Ferenc Juhasz; MiklÛs RadnÛti; J·nos Pilinszky; L·szlÛ Nagy]  


Year 42:
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922).
{724} I Malavoglia. First published 1881. {725} Novelle Rusticane. First published 1883. {726} Mastro Don Gesualdo. First definitively published 1889.

{727} Jacques de Varagine (c. 1227-1298).
Legenda Aurea. Written before 1264.

{728} Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1212-c. 1237) and Jean de Meun (c. 1237-c. 1305).
Le Roman de la Rose.

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768).
{729} The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. First published in 9 vols., 1760-1767.
[and {730} Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick, 1768; {731} The Sermons of Mr. Yorick]

Hungarian Short Stories. With an introduction by A Alvarez. World's Classics (Oxford U P, 1967). And Folktales of Hungary by Linda Degh. Translated by J Hal·sz (2nd ed., University of Chicago Press, 1969). 

Wang Shou-jen (Wang Yang-ming) (1472-1529).
{732} Instructions for Practical Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings [incl. {733} Inquiry on the Great Learning].

Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927).
Rashoman and Other Stories. Translated by Kojima Takashi (Bantham, 1959).
[and {734} Kappa; {735} Mori Ogai - The Wild Geese]

Judah Ha-levi (c. 1075-after 1140).
Selected Poems. Bilingual edition, with translations by N Salaman (Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1928).
[and {736} Ha-Levi - [Kuzari] Kitab al-Huyya wa 'd-Dalil fi Nusr ad-Din ad-Dalil]

James Joyce (1882-1941).
{737} Finnegans Wake. First published 1939.
[and {738} Dubliners; {717} A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; {739} Dylan Thomas - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog]

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533).
{740} Orlando Furioso. Begun about 1503 and first published 1516. First definitive edition 1532.
[and {741} Matteo Boiardo - Orlando Innamorato]


Year 43:
{742} 'Currer Bell' (Charlotte Brontë) (1816-1855).
Jane Eyre. First published 1847.

{743} Pindar (c. 518-c. 438 B C).
The Odes, including the principal fragments.

{744} René Descartes (1596-1650).
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison & Chercher la Verité Dans les Sciences. First published 1637. 

{745} Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873).
I Promessi Sposi. First definitive edition 1840-2.

{746} Bhartrhari (7th century A D).
[Satakatraya] Poems. Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (Columbia U P, 1967).

Sean O'Casey (1884-1964).
Three Plays: {747} Juno and the Paycock, {748} The Shadow of a Gunman, {749} The Plough and the Stars. First published in 1925, 1925 and 1926.
[and J M Synge - {750} The Playboy of the Western World; {75130} Riders to the Sea]

Vladimir Nabakov (1899-1977).
{752} Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle
[and {753} Pale Fire; {754} Bend Sinister]

T'ao Ch'ien (365-427).
The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien. Translated with commentary and annotation by J R Hightower (Oxford U P, 1970).

{755} Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969).
A God and His Gifts.

{756} Gottfried Von Strassburg (f. 1210).
Tristan. Composed in the years up to 1210, but unfinished.

Year 44:
The Maya. [Historical and critical surveys are listed, plus an anthology, La Literatura de los Mayas by Demetrio Sodi M]

Ezra Pound (1885-1972).
{757} The Cantos.
[and Collected Shorter Poems (Faber & Faber, 1968); The Literary Essays (New Directions and Faber & Faber, 1954); {758} The Spirit of Romance; {759} The A B C of Reading; {760} Guide to Kulchur]

Mariano Azuela (1873-1952).
{761} Los de Abajo. First published in El Paso, Texas, 1916. Standard edition published by Pedro Robredo (Mexico City, 1938).
[and {762} Los Caciques; {763} Las Moscas]

Octavio Paz (b. 1914).
{764} El Laberinto de la Soledad: Vida y Pensamiento de Mexico. With Posdata. And Configurations [includes {765} Piedra de Sol and {766} Blanco].
[and Poemas (Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1979); {767} Ladera Este]

{768} Chu Hsi (1130-1200).
Chin-ssu lu. First published during the compiler's lifetime. Translated by Wing-tsit Chan, from the printed Chu Tzu i-Shu datable to about 1717, as Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology (Columbia U P, 1967).

Pierre Corneille (1606-1684).
The Chief Plays. Translated by Lacy Lockert (New ed. Princeton U P, 1957). [{769} Le Cid; {770} Polyeucute; {771} Cinna]

Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980).
{773} Los Pasos Perdidos. First published in Mexico Cit, 1953.
[and {774} El Recurso del MÈtodo]

Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938).
Obra Poética Completa. First published 1968.
[incl. {775} Los Heraldos Negros; {776} Trilce; {777} Poemas Humanos; {778} España, Aparta de Mi Este Cáliz]

{779} Hasan Ibn Ali Tusi, Nizam Al-Mulk (1018-1092).
Siyasatnama. Written 1086-1091.

Juan Jose Arreola (b. 1918).
{780} Confabulario Total, 1941-1961. First published 1962.
[and {781} La Feria; {782} Marcel Schwob - La Vies Imaginaires; Juan Rulfo - {783} El Llano en Llamas; {784} Pedro Páramo] 

Year 45:
{785} Naturalist on the River Amazons. First published 1863.

João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967).
{786} Sagarana. First published 1946; definitive ed., 1956. {787} Grande Sertão: Veredas. First published 1956; definitive ed., 1958.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809).
{788} Rights of Man. First published 1791.
[and {789} Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France; {790} Alexis de Tocqueville - L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution]

{791} Orlando & Claudio Villas Boas (b. 1916 and 1918 respectively).
Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths.

{792} Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Leaves of Grass. First published 1855.

Gilberto Freyre (b. 1900).
{793} Casa-Grande & Senzala. First published 1933. And {794} Sobrados & Mucambos. First published 1936. And {795} Ordem & Progresso.

{796} Tokutomi Roka ('Tokutomi Kenjiro') (1868-1927).
Omoide no Ki. First published 1901.

{797} Theophrastus (c. 372 B C-c. 287 B C).
Characters. First published 319 B C.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755).
{798} De l'Esprit des Loix. First published 1748.
[and {799} Lettres Persanes; {800} Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur DÈcadence]


Year 46:
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837).
{801} The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories. ['Peter the Great's Negro'; 'The Station-Master';' Queen of Spades'; 'Dubrovsky']

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595).
{802} Gerusalemme Liberata. First published complete 1581.
[and {803} Rinaldo; {804} Bernardo Tasso - Amadigi]

Herbert Read (1893-1968).
{805} The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies. And {806} The Green Child. First published by Heinemann, 1935.

Vidyapati Thakur (1352-1448?).
Love Songs.

{807} Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763).
Le Paysan Parvenu. First published 1735-6, but left unfinished.

Luis Velez de Guevara (1579-1644).
{808} El Diablo Cojuelo. First published 1641.
[and {809} Rodrigo Fern·ndez de Ribera - Los Anteojos de Mejor Vista]

{810} Moshe Ben Maimon (Maimonides) (1135-1204).
Moreh Nebukhim. First published in Rome 1473-5.

{811} Hermann Broch (1886-1951).
Der Tod des Vergil. First published 1945.

{812} Milarepa (1052-1135).
Mila Grubum.

Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 220 B C).
{813} Argonautica.
[and Callimachus of Cyrene; {814} Theocritus - Idylls; Lawrence Durrell - {815} Justine; {816} Balthazar; {817} Mountolive; {818} Clea; {819} Bitter Lemons; {820} Reflections on a Marine Venus; {821} The Greek Islands]

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continued at 26 December and 27 December posts... 


26 December
Year 47:
Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the Present, compiled and translated by Peter H Lee (John Day, New York, 1964).

Ettore Schmitz ('Italo Svevo') (1861-1928).
{822} La Coscienza di Zeno. First published 1923.
[and {823} Una Vita; {824} Senilità; 'Corto Viaggio Sentimentale']

Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South. An ancient Chinese anthology collected by Wang I in A D 125.

{825} Saint Thomas More (1477-1535).
Libellus... de Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia. First published in Louvain, undated, in 1516. Definitive Latin edition, March 1518.

Farid ad-Din Attar (c. 1136-c. 1230).
{826} Ilahinama ('The Book of Divine Wisdom'). And {827} Mantiq at-Tair.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
Complete Plays. Edited by J B Steane (Penguin, 1969). [{828} Tamburlaine the Great; {829} The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; {830} The Jew of Malta; {831} Edward II; despite listing an edition of all six plays, Ward refers to Dido, Queen of Carthage as "insignificant" and Massacre at Paris as "trivial"]

{832} Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848).
Memoires d'Outre-tombe. First published 1849-50.

{833} Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928).
Terra Nostra. First published 1975.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
The Portable Emerson. Selected and arranged by Mark Van Doren (Viking Press, 1946; Penguin, 1977).
[incl. {834} Nature; {835} The American Scholar]

David Jones (1895-1974).
{836} In Parenthesis. And {837} The Anathmeata.


Year 48:
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).
{838} Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. First published anonymously (3 vols., 1814).
[and {839} Wilhelm Hauff - Liechtenstein; {840} James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans]

{841} Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540).
L'Historia d'Italia. First published 1561.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).
Poems. Edited by W H Gardner and N H MacKenzie (4th ed. Oxford U P, 1970).

Henry James (1843-1916).
The American Novels and Stories. Edited by F O Matthiessen (Knopf, 1947) [{842} The Ivory Tower; {843} The Europeans; {844} Washington Square; {845} The Bostonians]. And {846} The Portrait of a Lady. First published 1881.

{847} Li Ho (791-817).
San-chia Li Ch'ang-chi Ko-shih.

{848} Amos Tutuola (b. 1920).
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930).
Poems. Translated by Herbert Marshall (Hill & Wang, 1964; Dennis Dobson, 1965).
[incl. 'Kak Delat' Stikhi?']
[and {849} Klop; {850} Banya [1930]]

Ilango Adigal (2nd century A D).
{851} Shilappadikaram. ('The Ankle Bracelet'). 
[and {852} Cattanar - Manimekalai]

Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970).
{853} History of Western Philosophy. First published 1946.
[and {854} The Analysis of Mind; {855} An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth; {856} Human Knowledge]

{857} Shimazaki Harki ('Shimazaki Toson') (1872-1943).
Hakai. First published 1906.

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continued at 27 December post...


27 December
Year 49:
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).
Selected Writings. Selected and edited by M C D'Arcy. Everyman's Library (2nd ed., Dent and Dutton, 1964).
[incl. {858} Summa Theologiae; {859} Summa Contra Gentiles]

George Borrow (1803-1881).
{860} Lavengro. First published 1851. And {861} The Romany Eye. First published 1857.
[and {862} The Bible in Spain; {863} Wild Wales]

{864} Kuruntokai. (1st-3rd centuries A D).
[and {865} Akananuru; {866} Purananuru]

{867} William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863).
Vanity Fair. First published serially 1847-8.

{868} Sirat 'Antar ('The Romance of 'Antar'). First composed anonymously from disparate sources between 1080 and 1400.

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637).
Plays.
[incl. {869} Volpone; {870} The Alchemist; {871} Bartholomew Fair]

{872} Salvador Dalí (b. 1904).
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí.

{873} Marcel Proust (1871-1922).
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. First definitively published 1913-27.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).
Selections. Edited by J Loewenberg (Scribner's, 1929). Or The Philosophy of Hegel: Hegel's Basic Writings. Edited by C J Friedrich (Modern Library, 1965).

Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio) (1925-1970).
Hojo no Umi ('The Sea of Fertility', 1969-71), a tetralogy consisting of {874} Haro no Yuki ('Spring Snow'), {875} Homba ('The Runaway Horses'), {876} Akatsuki no Tera ('The Temple of the Dawn') and {877} Tennin Gosui ('Decay of the Angel').
[and {878} Kinkakuji]

Year 50:
{879} Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).
Logisch-Philosophisches Traktat. First published in Annalen der Natur-Philosophie, 1921. First book publication in bilingual form, as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1922).

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
{880} Il Decameron. Completed in 1353.
[and {881} Teseida]

{882} Nur ad-Din 'Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414-1492).
Baharistan.

{883} Plotinus (c. 205-c. 262 A D).
Enneads.

{884} Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin 'Abdulmalik Ibn Tufail (c. 1105-1185). Hay ibn Yaqzan ('Alive, Son of Awake').

Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955).
{885} Espana Invertebrada. First published 1921. And {886} La Rebelion de las Masas. First published 1929.
[and {887} Meditaciones del Quijote]

Sir Rabindranath Thakur ('Tagore') (1861-1941).
Collected Poems and Plays (Macmillan, 1966).
[incl. {888} Gitanjali and {889} Gharer Baire]

Y¸an Mei (1716-1798).
Sui-yuan Ch'¸an Chi.

John Milton (1608-1674).
{890} Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing. First published 1644. And Poetical Works edited by Douglas Bush (Oxford U P, 1966).
[incl. 'L'Allegro'; 'Il Penseroso'; Comus; 'Lycidas'; 'On His Blindness'; 'Samson Agonistes']

{891} Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
Critik der Reinen Vernunft. First published in Riga, 1781. Definitive edition 1787.


28 December
see worldswideweb.com


29 December
Morrissey's oeuvre, including that with The Smiths, has been poorly presented in reissues at least since his second singles compilation, World of Morrissey [1995]. Things started alright: the first solo-Morrissey compilation, Bona Drag [1990], includes most of the tracks only available on singles released prior to its release, excluding 'I Know Very Well How I Got My Name', 'Oh Well I'll Never Learn', 'Sister I'm a Poet'; 'Michael's Bones', 'East West', 'Girl Least Likely To', 'Get Off the Stage', and 'At Amber'; four of these tracks ('Poet', 'Bones', 'Girl', and Amber') were included on the third singles compilation, My Early Burglary Years [1998]. Morrissey's discography soon enough got more complicated; the jumbled World and Burglary compilations reflect that sad state of affairs, as do the re-sequenced versions of Kill Uncle, Southpaw Grammar, and Maladjusted released in recent years. We only hope that a sequel to <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Morrissey-The-HMV-Parlophone-Singles-88-95/release/2005317">The H M V/ Parlophone Singles '88-'95</a>, covering his recent years more thoroughly than the fourth singles compilation, Swords [2009] (which, granted, is at least comparable to Bona Drag in focusing on a particular period: namely, the Sanctuary comeback), surfaces at some point. However, that three-disc Singles box should not only expand to include the Maladjusted singles of 1997. It also ideally would have the few U S-exclusive singles that unfortunately were excluded, so that 'Let the Right One Slip In', the alternate U S versions of 'My Love Life', 'I've Changed My Plea to Guilty', and 'Tomorrow', and two of the three At KROQ tracks find their rightful place. The <a href="https://www.morrissey-solo.com/wiki/Category:Morrissey_Discography">discography</a> at the exemplary fan site, Morrissey-Solo, can clarify all these matters.

As for the Smiths, the Complete boxed set, which should be called Nearly Complete, finally gave us proper, but not great, digital remasters (in other words, it should've come out around 1995, and by this point we should've had even-better remasters; while you can hear the details of Johnny Marr's many overdubbed guitars more than before, they could definitely be coming in clearer). The greatest problem with the Complete set, though, is that other B B C recordings were not included. Ideally, we would've had a deluxe version of Hatful of Hollow, featuring the rest of the Peel-session tracks from 1983 and the other non-album tracks from the years, 1983-4 (namely, the live version of 'Handsome Devil' that served as 'Hand in Glove''s B side; 'Jeane'; and 'Wonderful Woman'; also, the 'This Charmless Man' remixes and 7-inch edits of several of the singles could be dumped in as bonus tracks). Since Morrissey seems to enjoy re-sequencing albums, perhaps he could re-order Hatful into these two halves. And of course, The World Won't Listen/ Louder Than Bombs needs its own reshuffling: more 7-inch edits, the Strangeways singles, and a few other stray tracks.

The Complete set annoys for another reason: while keeping the original, British nine-track sequence of Meat Is Murder (not the U S version with 'How Soon Is Now?' added), it uses the U S sequence of the debut album, with 'This Charming Man' added to the original ten tracks [it has since been pointed out to me that, on cassette, the U K edition of the album did include 'This Charming Man']. This choice was made, of course, because without that 'Charming' bonus, the set would not have one of the band's legendary songs; the version of 'Charming' on Hatful is a B B C recording. In short, because the compilers didn't include the tracks from singles not on Hatful, The World Won't Listen, or Louder Than Bombs, they had to take an inconsistent approach to the studio albums as well. These are all minor matters, of course, but they attest to the importance of definitive compilation and archival releases, sequenced and presented clearly--a task that even labels dedicated to reissues (Rhino, Rhino, Rhino) have difficulty with.

Here's my own (longish) single L P of Morrissey essential tracks from the first phase of his solo career (that is, through 1997). No Southpaw Grammar or Maladjusted tracks make the cut, though 'Reader Meet Author' from the former came close ('Southpaw' is a great song, but the extended instrumental passage that ends the track is a bore—tastes like meatloaf leftovers of U 2 demos). The live version of 'Jack the Ripper' from Beethoven Was Deaf (also included on both World of Morrissey and My Early Burglary Years) is included, not the inferior studio original.

Suedehead
Glamorous Glue
Certain People I Know
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
Interesting Drug
The Last of the Famous International Playboys
Sing Your Life
Everyday Is Like Sunday
--
Jack the Ripper
Late Night, Maudlin Street
Such a Little Thing Makes a Big Difference
Tomorrow
I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
Billy Budd
The National Front Disco


30 December
Several of the Lou Reed "greatest hits" albums over the years have included Velvet Underground tracks; several more, though confined to the solo years, include later live versions of V U songs. In either case, they do not successfully blend the Velvet tracks with the solo-Reed material. The difference in recording fidelity between the two is quite stark. And given how legendary the V U have become, Reed's solo work inevitably seems ordinary. It isn't of course--but, placed next to the experimentation and sonic extremes of the V U recordings, Reed's extraordinary literary contributions to the art of song are overshadowed. Moreover, the entirety of Berlin and Metal Machine Music are essential, the latter obviously distinct and not suited for a compilation anyway; much of Transformer is essential as well. And, in the last decade or so of his career, Reed stopped making Rock albums. After Ecstasy [2000], only The Raven and Lulu, both conceived as singular works, featured Lou's vocals. Instead, he returned to the noise/ experimentation of Metal Machine Music and some of the V U recordings (participating in Zeitkratzer's version of Machine, forming and recording a live album with the Metal Machine Trio, and recording a live album with Laurie Anderson and John Zorn) and did an ambient album. Thus, my compilation of Lou Reed tracks, 1975-2000, his years as a Rock singer-songwriter, sequenced like a double L P (no tracks from The Bells, a disaster that should've been great--Don Cherry's on there, for Christ's sake--Street Hassle is too for the most part, the titular track placed here because omitting it would mean this imaginary compilation fails to convey what awaits the listener upon exploring those two albums; New Sensations and Set the Twilight Reeling, fine albums but with no essential tracks; and Rock and Roll Heart and Mistrial, both universally considered subpar):

My House, from The Blue Mask [1982]
Power and Glory, from Magic and Loss [1992]
Legendary Hearts, from Legendary Hearts [1983]
Think It Over, from Growing Up in Public [1980]
She's My Best Friend, from Coney Island Baby [1975]
--
Dirty Blvd., from New York [1989]
Halloween Parade, from New York [1989]
The Gun, from The Blue Mask [1982]
Rock Minuet, from Ecstasy [2000]
--
Coney Island Baby, from Coney Island Baby [1975]
Street Hassle, from Street Hassle [1978]
The Blue Mask, from The Blue Mask [1982]
--
Magic and Loss, from Magic and Loss [1992]
Ecstasy, from Ecstasy [2000]
Waves of Fear, from The Blue Mask [1982]
Home of the Brave, from Legendary Hearts [1983]

So, what if this double L P were matched with a compilation of V U and early Reed-solo material? I see no reason for anyone not to listen to the entirety of both The Velvet Underground and Nico and Berlin, but here's what I'd include for a double album to cover the rest of the V U (no tracks from Lou Reed [1972] or Sally Can't Dance [1974]):

Rock and Roll
What Goes On
Perfect Day
Candy Says
Sweet Jane [full version, first released on Peel Slowly and See boxed set]
I Can't Stand It
-
White Light/ White Heat
Sister Ray
Some Kinda Love
-
Satellite of Love [Transformer version]
Walk on the Wild Side
Pale Blue Eyes
Ocean [1970 version, from Peel Slowly and See]
Lisa Says
--
I Heard Her Call My Name
Here She Comes Now
Beginning to See the Light
The Gift (mono version, to avoid the annoying split with John Cale's vocal alone in the left channel)--or, if you're more inclined toward the band's rocking side, replace The Gift with Head Held High and New Age, but only the "full-length" version of the latter.


31 December
Probably several other anthologies similar to those discussed at the 23 September and 24 September posts warrant inclusion in the "great books" project, or nearly meet our criteria. The noted literary critic Lionel Trilling crafted an anthology of 52 works called The Experience of Literature [1967]; his introductory essays for each work have been published separately as Prefaces to the Experience of Literature [1979]. Divided into sections for Drama, Fiction, and Poetry, it doesn't quite fit our criteria because of its exclusion of non-fiction; other lists include only a tiny number of non-fiction works, perhaps because of the assumption that the reader doesn't expect them to be included among "great books" or "classics." Trilling's Experience also shows another reason not to include anthologies: many of the fictional entries are short stories, in order to include enough authors without turning the anthology into a multi-volume work. This favoring of short stories gives anthologies a purpose quite distinct from that of "great books" lists, which is to cover the greatest literature of all time. In the long run, though, I'd like to include Trilling's list. So, for now, to end the year, a quick, unadorned transcription:

Drama
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Lear
Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck
Anton Chekhov: The Three Sisters
George Bernard Shaw: The Doctor's Dilemma
Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making
William Butler Yeats: Purgatory
Bertolt Brecht: Galileo

Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Fedor Dostoevski: The Grand Inquisitor
Leo Tolstoi: The Death of Ivan Ilych
William Somerset Maugham: The Treasure
Guy de Maupassant: Duchoux
Anton Chekhov: Enemies
Henry James: The Pupil
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer
James Joyce: The Dead
Franz Kafka: The Hunter Gracchus
D H Lawrence: Tickets, Please
E M Forster: The Road From Colonus
Thomas Mann: Disorder and Early Sorrow
Isaac Babel: Di Grasso: A Tale of Odessa
Isak Dinesen: The Sailor-Boy's Tale
Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants
William Faulkner: Barn Burning
John O'Hara: Summer's Day
Lionel Trilling: Of This Time, of That Place
Albert Camus: The Guest
Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel

Poetry
Anonymous: Edward
Sir Thomas Wyatt: They Flee From Me
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Milton: Lycidas
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Main: Epistle 1
William Blake: Tyger! Tyger!
William Wordsworth: Resolution and Independence
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Don Juan: An Epistle from Canto II
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
Emily Dickinson: "Go Tell It"—What a Message—
William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Waste Land
Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor in Deeep
E E Cummings: My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love
W H Auden: In Memory of Sigmund Freud (d. 1939)
Robert Lowell: For the Union Dead