7.10.09

List of World's Greatest Books

Guardian U.K. Observor

100 Greatest Books

1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes /The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries.

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan / The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair.
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The first English novel.

4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift / A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision.

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding /The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage.

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson /One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne / One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good.

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos / An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious.

9. Emma Jane Austen /Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy.

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley /Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron.
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas / Love PeacockA classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel.

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac / Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked.

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal / Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France.

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas / A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing.

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli / Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius.

16.David Cooperfield Charles Dickens / This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best.

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte / Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore.

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte / Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray / The improving tale of Becky Sharp.

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne / A classic investigation of the American mind.

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville / ' Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel.

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert / You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely.

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins / Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty.

24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll / A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids.

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott / Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls.
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope / A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England.

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy / The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man.

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot / A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky / Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment.

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James / The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best.

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Twain / was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential.

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson / A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller.

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome / One of the funniest English books ever written.

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde / A coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality.

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith / This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter.

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy / Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels.

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers / A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising.

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London / The story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death.

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad / Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics.

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame / This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son.

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust / An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list.

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence / Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife.

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford / This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration.

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan / A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense.

45. Ulysses James Joyce / Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read.

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf / Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists.

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster / The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire.

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald / The quintessential Jazz Age novel.

49. The Trial Franz Kafka / The enigmatic story of Joseph K.

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway / He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice.

51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine / The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation.

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner / A strange black comedy by an American master.

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley / Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford). 54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh The supreme Fleet Street novel.
55. USA John Dos Passos / An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America.

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler / Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone.

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford / An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans.
58. The Plague Albert Camus / A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran.
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwel / l This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over.

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett / Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot.

61.Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger / A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises.

62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor / A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South.

63. Charlotte's Webb E. B. White / How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider.

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien / Enough said!

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis / An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding / Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature.
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene / Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac / The Beat Generation bible.

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov / Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative.

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass / Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany.

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe / Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature.

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark/ A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut glass.

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee / Scout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial prejudice in the Deep South.

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller / '[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.'

75. Herzog Saul Bellow / Adultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago.

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez / A postmodern masterpiece.

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor / A haunting, understated study of old age.

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre / A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain.

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison / The definitive novelist of the African-American experience. 80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge Macabre comedy of provincial life.

81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer / This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is possibly his masterpiece.

82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino / A strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading.

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul / The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily reminiscent of Heart of Darkness.

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee / Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner.

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson / Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women.

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray / Seething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic.

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster / Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s.

88. The BFG Roald Dahl / A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages.
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi / A prose poem about the delights of chemistry.

90. Money Martin Amis / The novel that bags Amis's place on any list.

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro / A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of friends and family.

92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey/ A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by double Booker prizewinner.

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera / Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical fusion of history, autobiography and ideas.

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie / In this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself.

95. La Confidential James Ellroy / Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their corrupt and violent careers.

96. Wise Children Angela Carter / A theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism.

97. Atonement Ian McEwan / Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction.

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman / Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great contemporary children's book.

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth / For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has enjoyed an extraordinary revival.

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald / Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from memory, photographs and the German past.

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From Wikipedia,
Modern Library Board's List

ULYSSES - by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY -  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN -  by James Joyce
LOLITA - by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD -  by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY - Wm. Faulkner
CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON - by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS - by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
1984 by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
LOVING by Henry Green
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

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Great Books: Index by Period and Culture:  Non-Western Literature
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Anthologies and Auxiliary Reading

Anthologies, 20th Century

Anthologies

Anthologies, Oral Tradition

Auxiliary Reading, Non-Western

Auxiliary Reading, Oral Tradition

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Great Books of the Western World (2nd ed., 1990)

ee also Mortimer Adler's statement on how the Great Books of the Western World were chosen.

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  1. The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
    Angel to Love

  2. The Syntopicon (continued)
    Man to World

  3. Homer
    Iliad
    Odyssey

  4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
    Aeschylus. Plays
    Sophocles. Plays
    Euripides. Plays
    Aristophanes. Plays

  5. Herodotus, Thucydides
    Herodotus. History
    Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War

  6. Plato
    Dialogues
    Seventh Letter

  7. Aristotle (I)
    Works

  8. Aristotle (II)
    Works (continued)

  9. Hippocrates, Galen
    Hippocrates. Hippocratic Writings
    Galen. On the Natural Faculties

  10. Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus
    Euclid. Elements
    Archimedes. Works (including The Method)
    Nicomachus. Introduction to Arithmetic

  11. Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus
    Lucretius The Way Things Are
    Epictetus. Discourses
    Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations
    Plotinus. The Six Enneads

  12. Virgil
    Eclogues
    Georgics
    Aeneid

  13. Plutarch
    Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

  14. Tacitus
    Annals
    Histories

  15. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
    Ptolemy. Almagest
    Copernicus. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    Kepler. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
    Kepler. The Harmonies of the World

  16. Augustine
    The Confessions
    The City of God
    On Christian Doctrine

  17. Thomas Aquinas (I)
    Summa Theologica

  18. Thomas Aquinas (II)
    Summa Theologica (continued)

  19. Dante, Chaucer
    Dante. Divine Comedy
    Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde
    Chaucer. Canterbury Tales

  20. Calvin
    Institutes of the Christian Religion

  21. Machiavelli, Hobbbes
    Machiavelli. The Prince
      Hobbes. Leviathan, or, Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil

  22. Rabelais
    Gargantua and Pantagruel

  23. Erasmus, Montaigne
    Erasmus. Praise of Folly
    Montaigne. Essays

  24. Shakespeare (I)
    The Plays and Sonnets

  25. Shakespeare (II)
    The Plays and Sonnets (continued)

  26. Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
    Gilbert. On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
    Galileo. Concerning the Two New Sciences
    Harvey. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    Harvey. On the Circulation of the Blood
    Harvey. On the Generation of Animals

  27. Cervantes
    The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

  28. Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza
    Bacon. Advancement of Learning
    Bacon. Novum Organum
    Bacon. New Atlantis
    Descartes. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Descartes. Discourse on the Method
    Descartes. Meditations on First Philosophy
    Descartes. Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
    Descartes. The Geometry
    Spinoza. Ethics

  29. Milton
    English minor poems
    Paradise Lost
    Samson Agonistes
    Areopagitica

  30. Pascal
    The Provincial Letters
    Pensees
    Scientific Treatises

  31. Moliere, Racine
    Moliere. The School for Wives
    Moliere. The Critique of the School for Wives
    Moliere. Tartuffe
    Moliere. Don Juan
    Moliere. The Miser
    Moliere. The Would-Be Gentleman
    Moliere. The Would-Be Invalid
    Racine. Berenice

  32. Newton, Huygens
    Newton. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    Newton. Optics
    Huygens. Treatise on Light

  33. Locke, Berkeley
    Locke. A Letter Concerning Toleration
    Locke. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
    Locke. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    Berkeley. The Principles of Human Knowledge
    Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  34. Swift, Voltaire, Diderot
    Swift. Gulliver's Travels
    Voltaire. Candide
    Diderot. Rameau's Nephew

  35. Montesquieu, Rousseau
    Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws
    Rousseau. On the Origin of Inequality
    Rousseau. On Political Economy
    Rousseau. The Social Contract

  36. Smith
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  37. Gibbon (I)
    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  38. Gibbon (II)
    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (continued)

  39. Kant
    The Critique of Pure Reason
    The Critique of Practical Reason, and Other Ethical Treatises
    The Critique of Judgment

  40. American State Papers, The Federalist, Mill
    Declaration of Independence
    Articles of Confederation
    The Constitution
    Hamilton, Madison, Jay. The Federalist
    Mill. On Liberty
    Mill. Representative Government
    Mill. Utilitarianism

  41. Boswell
    Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

  42. Lavoisier, Faraday
    Lavoisier. Elements of Chemistry
    Faraday. Experimental Researches in Electricity

  43. Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
    Hegel. The Philosophy of Right
    Hegel. The Philosophy of History
    Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling
    Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil

  44. Tocqueville
    Democracy in America

  45. Goethe, Balzac
    Goethe. Faust: Parts One and Two
    Balzac. Cousin Bette

  46. Austen, Eliot
    Austen. Emma
    Eliot. Middlemarch

  47. Dickens
    Little Dorrit

  48. Melville, Twain
    Melville. Moby Dick, or, The Whale
    Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  49. Darwin
    The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
    The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

  50. Marx, Engels
    Marx (edited by Engels). Capital
    Marx and Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party

  51. Tolstoy
    War and Peace

  52. Dostoyevsky, Ibsen
    Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
    Ibsen. A Doll's House
    Ibsen. The Wild Duck
    Ibsen. Hedda Gabler
    Ibsen. The Master Builder

  53. James
    The Principles of Psychology

  54. Freud
    The Major Works of Sigmund Freud

  55. 20th Century Philosophy and Religion
    James. Pragmatism
    Bergson. An Introduction to Metaphysics
    Dewey. Experience and Education
    Whitehead. Science and the Modern World
    Russell. The Problems of Philosophy
    Heidegger. What is Metaphysics?
    Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations
    Barth. The Word of God and the Word of Man

  56. 20th Century Natural Science
    Poincare. Science and Hypothesis
    Planck. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
    Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics
    Einstein. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
    Eddington. The Expanding Universe
    Bohr. Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
    Bohr. Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problemns in Atomic Physics
    Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology
    Heisenberg. Physics and Philosophy
    Schrodinger. What is Life?
    Dobzhansky. Genetics and the Origin of Species
    Waddington. The Nature of Life

  57. 20th Century Social Science (I)
    Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class
    Tawney. The Acquisitive Society
    Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

  58. 20th Century Social Science (II)
    Frazer. The Golden Bough (selections)
    Weber. Essays in Sociology (selections)
    Huizinga. The Waning of the Middle Ages
    Levi-Strauss. Structural Anthropology (selections)

  59. 20th Century Imaginative Literature (I)
    James. The Beast in the Jungle
    Shaw. Saint Joan
    Conrad. Heart of Darkness
    Chekhov. Uncle Vanya
    Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Proust. Remembrance of Things Past. "Swann in Love"
    Cather. A Lost Lady
    Mann. Death in Venice
    Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  60. 20th Century Imaginative Literature (II)
    Woolf. To the Lighthouse
    Kafka. Metamorphosis
    Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
    Eliot. The Waste Land
    O'Neill. Mourning Becomes Electra
    Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
    Faulkner. A Rose for Emily
    Brecht. Mother Courage and Her Children
    Hemingway. The Short Happy Life of Macomber
    Orwell. Animal Farm
    Beckett. Waiting for Godot

Source: Great Books of the Western World. Ed. by Mortimer J. Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. Goetz. 2nd ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990. © 1990

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