Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, accompanied by analysis of their significant titles of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
Author(s): Steven G. Kellman
Publisher: Salem Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Tags: Literary Criticism, World Literature, Literature Guide
Publisher's Note
Contributors
Complete List of Contents
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Key to Pronunciation
Volume 1: Abe—Carey
Contents: Volume 1
A
Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes
The Face of Another
Friends
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
No Longer at Ease
Home and Exile
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes
Oresteia
Prometheus Bound
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Bridal Canopy
A Simple Story
A Guest for the Night
Anna Akhmatova
“Confusion”
“Dark Dream”
Requiem
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
“Rashomon”
“In a Grove”
Sholom Aleichem
The Adventures of Menachem-Mendl
Tevye the Dairyman
The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
“And of Clay Are We Created”
The Infinite Plan
Daughter of Fortune
Jorge Amado
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Yehuda Amichai
“My Father's Death”
“Out of Three or Four People in a Room”
“A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention”
Not of This Time, Not of This Place
Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
The Green Man
Jake's Thing
The Old Devils
Martin Amis
Money
London Fields
Time's Arrow
Hans Christian Andersen
“The Little Mermaid”
“The Emperor's New Clothes”
“The Nightingale”
Ivo Andric
Bosnian Chronicle
Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools
Aharon Appelfeld
Tzili
The Healer
Katerina
The Story of a Life
Lucius Apuleius
Metamorphoses
Aristophanes
The Clouds
The Wasps
The Birds
Lysistrata
Aristotle
Metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics
Poetics
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
“The Scholar-Gipsy”
Culture and Anarchy
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
The Handmaid's Tale
“The Circle Game”
“Two-Headed Poems”
Alias Grace
Oryx and Crake
W. H. Auden
Spain 1937
“As I Walked out One Evening”
“Musée des Beaux Arts”
The Sea and the Mirror
Saint Augustine
Confessions
The City of God
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
B
Isaac Babel
Red Cavalry
Tales of Odessa
Beryl Bainbridge
An Awfully Big Adventure
According to Queeney
Honoré de Balzac
The Wild Ass's Skin
Eugénie Grandet
Père Goriot
Cousin Bette
John Banville
The Book of Evidence
The Sea
Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
England, England
Charles Baudelaire
“The Trip”
“By Association”
“The Swan”
“A Voyage to Cythera”
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
The Mandarins
The Prime of Life
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Krapp's Last Tape
The Trilogy
Brendan Behan
The Quare Fellow
Borstal Boy
The Hostage
Aphra Behn
The Rover: Or, The Banished Cavaliers
The Fair Jilt: Or, The History of Prince Tarquin and Miranda
Oroonoko: Or, The History of the Royal Slave
Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale
Riceyman Steps
Thomas Bernhard
Concrete
Correction
The Loser
John Betjeman
“On a Portrait of a Deaf Man”
Summoned by Bells
Marie-Claire Blais
Mad Shadows
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
These Festive Nights
William Blake
America: A Prophecy
The [First] Book of Urizen
Milton: A Poem
“The Tyger”
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron
Roberto Bolaño
The Savage Detectives
By Night in Chile
Nazi Literature in the Americas
Heinrich Böll
The Clown
Group Portrait with Lady
Jorge Luis Borges
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
“The Garden of Forking Paths”
“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
“Funes, the Memorious”
Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Heart
A World of Love
Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Life of Galileo
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
André Brink
Rumours of Rain
A Dry White Season
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Villette
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
“Remembrance”
Rupert Brooke
“The Old Vicarage, Grantchester”
“The Soldier”
Anita Brookner
The Debut
Look at Me
Hotel du Lac
Making Things Better
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess”
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church”
“Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning”
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Heart of a Dog
The Master and Margarita
Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life
Tremor of Intent
Napoleon Symphony
Earthly Powers
Robert Burns
“The Jolly Beggars”
“A Red, Red Rose”
“Holy Willie's Prayer”
“Is There for Honest Poverty”
Tam O'Shanter
A. S. Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden
Possession
Angels and Insects
Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan
The Prisoner of Chillon
The Vision of Judgment
C
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life Is a Dream
The Mayor of Zalamea
Morley Callaghan
“Two Fishermen”
They Shall Inherit the Earth
More Joy in Heaven
Italo Calvino
The Cloven Viscount
The Baron in the Trees
Invisible Cities
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Luis de Camões
The Lusiads
Albert Camus
The Stranger
The Plague
The Fall
“The Guest”
The Myth of Sisyphus
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
True History of the Kelly Gang
Theft: A Love Story
Volume 2: Carpentier—Fugard
Contents: Volume 2
C, continued
Alejo Carpentier
“Journey Back to the Source”
The Kingdom of This World
The Lost Steps
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Catullus
Poem 5 (“Let Us Live, My Lesbia”)
Poem 7 (“You Ask Me How Many Kisses”)
Poem 61 (“O, Haunter of the Heliconian Mount”)
Poem 85 (“I Hate and I Love”)
Constantine P. Cavafy
“Waiting for the Barbarians”
“Ithaka”
“The God Abandons Anthony”
Paul Celan
“Death Fugue”
“Todtnauberg”
Snow Part
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part 1
Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part 2
Aimé Césaire
Cadastre
The Tragedy of King Christophe
A Season in the Congo
Bruce Chatwin
In Patagonia
The Songlines
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde
Anton Chekhov
“The Kiss”
“Gooseberries”
“The Lady with the Dog”
The Seagull
The Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A Pocket Full of Rye
Cicero
On Oratory
Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End
2001: A Space Odyssey
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Jean Cocteau
Antigone
Children of the Game
J. M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country
Waiting for theBarbarians
Disgrace
Elizabeth Costello
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the AncientMariner
Christabel
“Kubla Khan”
Biographia Literaria
Colette
Chéri
The Last of Chéri
Gigi
William Congreve
The Double-Dealer
The Way of the World
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Nostromo
Heart of Darkness
“The Secret Sharer”
Pierre Corneille
The Cid
Polyeucte
Julio Cortázar
Hopscotch
A Manual for Manuel
62: A Model Kit
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
The Divine Narcissus
First Dream
“Foolish Men”
D
Roald Dahl
“Lamb to the Slaughter”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dante
The New Life
The Divine Comedy
Rubén Darío
Blue
Songs of Life and Hope
“Poem of Autumn”
Robertson Davies
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
The Deptford Trilogy
The Cornish Trilogy
Murther and Walking Spirits
Anita Desai
Fire on the Mountain
Clear Light of Day
“A Devoted Son”
Fasting, Feasting
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Denis Diderot
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
The Nun
Rameau's Nephew
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa
Winter's Tales
Shadows on the Grass
John Donne
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“The Flea”
“Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God”
“Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness”
Fyodor Dostoevski
Notes from the Underground
The Possessed
The Brothers Karamazov
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
“The Adventure of the Final Problem”
“The Ring of Thoth”
Roddy Doyle
The Commitments
The Snapper
Paddy Clarke, Ha-Ha-Ha
Margaret Drabble
The Waterfall
The Needle's Eye
The Realms of Gold
The Ice Age
John Dryden
Of Dramatic Poesie: An Essay
Marriage à la Mode
Absalom and Achitophel
Mac Flecknoe
“To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve”
Alexander's Feast
Du Fu
“Spring Prospect”
“The Journey North”
Alexandre Dumas, père
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Marguerite de Valois
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
The House on the Strand
“The Birds”
Duong Thu Huong
Paradise of the Blind
Marguerite Duras
The Lover
“The Crushed Nettle”
Hiroshima mon amour
Lawrence Durrell
Prospero's Cell
The Alexandria Quartet
The Avignon Quintet
E
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
Travels in Hyper Reality
Foucault's Pendulum
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
T. S. Eliot
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Tradition and the Individual Talent”
The Waste Land
Four Quartets
Buchi Emecheta
Second-Class Citizen
The Bride Price
The Slave Girl
Shusaku Endo
Foreign Studies
Silence
Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate
Euripides
Medea
Hippolytus
The Trojan Women
The Bacchae
F
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones
Richard Flanagan
Death of a River Guide
Gould's Book of Fish
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
A Sentimental Education
Three Tales
Dario Fo
Mistero Buffo: Comic Mysteries
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Archangels Don't Play Pinball
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
Parade's End
E. M. Forster
A Room with a View
A Passage to India
Howards End
John Fowles
The Collector
The Magus
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Ebony Tower
Daniel Martin
Janet Frame
The Edge of the Alphabet
The Carpathians
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart
Dick Francis
Dead Cert
Forfeit
Decider
Come to Grief
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career
All That Swagger
Max Frisch
The Firebugs
Homo Faber
Andorra
Carlos Fuentes
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Terra Nostra
The Old Gringo
The Years with Laura Díaz
Athol Fugard
The Blood Knot
The Road to Mecca
“MASTER HAROLD” and the Boys
Volume 3: Gallant—Lagerkvist
Contents: Volume 3
G
Mavis Gallant
“The Other Paris”
“Across the Bridge”
The Pegnitz Junction
Gao Xingjian
Soul Mountain
One Man's Bible
Federico García Lorca
“The Guitar”
“Rider's Song”
“Ballad of the Moon, Moon”
Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter
Blood Wedding
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
The General in His Labyrinth
Living to Tell the Tale
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
The Broken Wings
“The Poet from Baalbek”
William Gibson
Neuromancer
Virtual Light
André Gide
The Immoralist
The Counterfeiters
Rumer Godden
A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep
A Candle for St. Jude
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther
“The Erlking”
“Wanderer's Night Song”
Nikolai Gogol
“The Diary of a Madman”
“The Nose”
“The Overcoat”
Dead Souls
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
The Inheritors
Pincher Martin
Darkness Visible
A Sea Trilogy
Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops to Conquer
Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
Burger's Daughter
July's People
“City Lovers” and “Country Lovers”
The Pickup
Günter Grass
The Tin Drum
Headbirths
Crabwalk
Peeling the Onion
Robert Graves
Goodbye to All That
The White Goddess
“Ulysses”
“To Juan at the Winter Solstice”
“The Persian Version”
Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
The Power and the Glory
The Ministry of Fear
The Heart of the Matter
The Brothers Grimm
“The Water of Life”
“Mary's Child”
Thom Gunn
“On the Move”
“Moly”
“Lament”
H
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Spot of Bother
Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil
Hunger
Pan
Growth of the Soil
Peter Handke
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Slow Homecoming
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
Wessex Poems, and Other Verses
Wilson Harris
Palace of the Peacock
“Yurokon”
The Eye of the Scarecrow
Jaroslav Hašek
The Good Soldier: Švejk
Václav Havel
The Memorandum
Letters to Olga
Bessie Head
When Rain Clouds Gather
A Question of Power
Seamus Heaney
Station Island
“Clearances”
“The Sharping Stone”
Anne Hébert
“Mystery of the Word”
Kamouraska
Children of the Black Sabbath
Heinrich Heine
Germany: A Winter's Tale
“Hebrew Melodies”
James Herriot
All Creatures Great and Small
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Steppenwolf
Narcissus and Goldmund
The Glass Bead Game
E. T. A. Hoffmann
“The Sandman”
“Mademoiselle de Scudéry”
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“God's Grandeur”
“The Windhover”
“Hurrahing in Harvest”
“I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day”
Horace
Satire 1.9
Odes 1.9, the Soracte ode
Odes 1.37, the Cleopatra ode
The Secular Hymn
The Art of Poetry
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
About a Boy
A. E. Housman
“1887”
“Loveliest of Trees”
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff”
“Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries”
Ted Hughes
“The Thought-Fox”
“Salmon Eggs”
Birthday Letters
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Misérables
“Ecstasy”
“Olympio's Sadness”
Aldous Huxley
Point Counter Point
Brave New World
I
Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt
A Doll's House
An Enemy of the People
Hedda Gabler
Eugène Ionesco
The Bald Soprano
The Chairs
Rhinoceros
Exit the King
Christopher Isherwood
The Last of Mr. Norris
Sally Bowles
Goodbye to Berlin
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
The Remains of the Day
Never Let Me Go
J
P. D. James
Innocent Blood
A Taste for Death
The Children of Men
Death in Holy Orders
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Esmond in India
Heat and Dust
“The Housewife”
Samuel Johnson
London
Life of Richard Savage
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Elizabeth Jolley
“The Performance”
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Cabin Fever
The Well
Ben Jonson
Volpone
The Alchemist
“On My First Son”
“To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us”
James Joyce
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
K
Ismail Kadare
The General of the Dead Army
Chronicle in Stone
The Concert
Franz Kafka
The Trial
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
The Country Doctor
Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country
Thousand Cranes
Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
The Last Temptation of Christ
John Keats
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Thomas Keneally
The Cut-Rate Kingdom
To Asmara
Schindler's List
Homebush Boy
Imre Kertész
Fateless
Kaddish for a Child Not Born
Liquidation
Søren Kierkegaard
Either/Or
Fear and Trembling
The Sickness unto Death
W. P. Kinsella
Shoeless Joe
The Moccasin Telegraph, and Other Stories
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Brother Frank's Gospel Hour, and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling
“The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”
“The Man Who Would Be King”
“Mrs. Bathurst”
Heinrich von Kleist
Penthesilea
The Marquise of O——
Michael Kohlhaas
Joy Kogawa
Obasan
Jericho Road
Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ignorance
L
Jean de La Fontaine
Fables
Pär Lagerkvist
The Eternal Smile
The Dwarf
Barabbas
Herod and Mariamne
Volume 4: Lagerlöf—Ondaatje
Contents: Volume 4
L, continued
Selma Lagerlöf
The Story of Gösta Berling
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Further Adventures of Nils
Mårbacka
Philip Larkin
“Toads”
“Church Going”
“The Whitsun Weddings”
“High Windows”
Margaret Laurence
The Stone Angel
The Fire-Dwellers
D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
“The Horse Dealer's Daughter”
“Snake”
Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Honourable Schoolboy
Smiley's People
A Perfect Spy
The Constant Gardener
Stanislaw Lem
The Star Diaries
Solaris
Return from the Stars
Fiasco
Mikhail Lermontov
“The Novice”
The Demon
A Hero of Our Time
Doris Lessing
Martha Quest
A Proper Marriage
A Ripple from the Storm
Landlocked
The Four-Gated City
The Golden Notebook
Primo Levi
If This Is a Man
The Periodic Table
The Drowned and the Saved
C. S. Lewis
The Space Trilogy
The Screwtape Letters
The Chronicles of Narnia
Wyndham Lewis
Tarr
The Revenge for Love
Self Condemned
Blasting and Bombardiering
Li Bo
“In the Dai-tian Mountains”
“Marble Stairs Grievance”
Clarice Lispector
“The Smallest Woman in the World”
An Apprenticeship: Or, The Book of Delights
The Hour of the Star
Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano
Lu Xun
“The Diary of a Madman”
“Regret for the Past”
“Revenge”
M
Colleen McCullough
The Thorn Birds
An Indecent Obsession
The First Man in Rome
Hugh MacDiarmid
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
“Water Music”
“On a Raised Beach”
Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
Atonement
Saturday
On Chesil Beach
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Philosopher or Dog?
Dom Casmurro
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
The Mandrake
Hugh MacLennan
Two Solitudes
Voices in Time
Louis MacNeice
“The Sunlight on the Garden”
“The British Museum Reading Room”
“The Truisms”
Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk
The Thief and the Dogs
Respected Sir
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Afternoon of a Faun
Les Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé
Divagations
Osip Mandelstam
“The Age”
“The Horseshoe Finder”
“Tristia”
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Doctor Faustus
Tonio Kröger
Death in Venice
Katherine Mansfield
“Miss Brill”
“Bliss”
“At the Bay”
“The Garden Party”
Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Doctor Faustus
Hero and Leander
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”
“An Horatian Ode”
Matsuo Basho
“On a Withered Branch”
“The Sea Darkens”
“Old Pond”
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
The Razor's Edge
“Rain”
“The Alien Corn”
Guy de Maupassant
“Madame Tellier's House”
“The Necklace”
“The Horla”
Vladimir Mayakovsky
A Cloud in Pants
About That
At the Top of My Voice
A. A. Milne
When We Were Very Young
Winnie-the-Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Czeslaw Milosz
“Dedication”
“In Milan”
John Milton
“Lycidas”
Paradise Lost
Areopagitica
Yukio Mishima
Confessions of a Mask
The Sea of Fertility
Gabriela Mistral
“Sonnets of Death”
“We Were All to Be Queens”
“Final Tree”
Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey
A Fine Balance
Family Matters
Molière
The School for Wives
Tartuffe
The Would-Be Gentleman
The Misanthrope
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“Of Cannibals”
“Apology for Raymond Sebond”
L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
John Mortimer
A Voyage Round My Father
Paradise Postponed
Rumpole à la Carte
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf
A Whale for the Killing
The Farfarers: Before the Norse
Multatuli
Max Havelaar
Alice Munro
“Half a Grapefruit”
“Bardon Bus”
“The Bear Came over the Mountain”
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Iris Murdoch
Under the Net
A Severed Head
The Nice and the Good
The Black Prince
A Word Child
The Sea, the Sea
Robert Musil
Young Törless
The Man Without Qualities
N
Vladimir Nabokov
Mary
The Defense
Invitation to a Beheading
The Gift
“Signs and Symbols”
Lolita
Pale Fire
V. S. Naipaul
The Suffrage of Elvira
A House for Mr. Biswas
A Bend in the River
The Enigma of Arrival
Half a Life
R. K. Narayan
The English Teacher
A Tiger for Malgudi
The World of Nagaraj
Pablo Neruda
“Walking Around”
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
“The Hunter in the Forest”
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Weep Not, Child
The River Between
Wizard of the Crow
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
O
Edna O'Brien
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue
Night
A Fanatic Heart
Lantern Slides
Sean O'Casey
The Shadow of a Gunman
Juno and the Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
Mirror in My House
Kenzaburo Oe
A Personal Matter
“The Catch”
Aghwee the Sky Monster
Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!
Ben Okri
The Famished Road
Omar Khayyám
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems
Coming Through Slaughter
In the Skin of a Lion
The English Patient
Anil's Ghost
Volume 5: Orwell—Singer
Contents: Volume 5
O, continued
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Politics and the English Language”
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
The Entertainer
Luther
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Heroides
Wilfred Owen
“Strange Meeting”
“Disabled”
Amos Oz
My Michael
Black Box
A Tale of Love and Darkness
P
Boris Pasternak
“Definition of Poetry”
Safe Conduct
Doctor Zhivago
Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cesare Pavese
Hard Labor
The House on the Hill
The Moon and the Bonfire
Octavio Paz
Sun Stone
Blanco
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Fernando Pessoa
Message
The Book of Disquiet
Petrarch
Sonnet 1
Sonnet 269
Petronius
The Satyricon
Pindar
Olympian Ode 1
Pythian Ode 1
Harold Pinter
The Dumb Waiter
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker
The Homecoming
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Henry IV
Plato
Apology
Symposium
Republic
Plutarch
Parallel Lives
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
The Dunciad
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
To Keep the Ball Rolling
J. B. Priestley
The Good Companions
Dangerous Corner
An Inspector Calls
V. S. Pritchett
“When My Girl Comes Home”
“Blind Love”
“The Camberwell Beauty”
“The Wedding”
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past
Manuel Puig
Heartbreak Tango
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Pubis angelical
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
The Bronze Horseman
The Queen of Spades
Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Less than Angels
A Glass of Blessings
Quartet in Autumn
R
François Rabelais
Gargantua
Pantagruel
Jean Racine
Andromache
Phaedra
Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
Arch of Triumph
The Spark of Life
Mary Renault
The Last of the Wine
The King Must Die
The Persian Boy
Jean Rhys
Voyage in the Dark
Wide Sargasso Sea
“Sleep It off, Lady”
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Clarissa
Mordecai Richler
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
St. Urbain's Horseman
Joshua Then and Now
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies
Sonnets to Orpheus
“The Panther”
“Requiem for a Friend”
Arthur Rimbaud
“The Sleeper of the Valley”
“The Drunken Boat”
“Dawn”
“Barbarian”
Christina Rossetti
“Goblin Market”
“The Prince's Progress”
“Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The New Héloïse
Émile
The Social Contract
The Confessions
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Gabrielle Roy
The Tin Flute
Street of Riches
Juan Rulfo
The Burning Plain, and Other Stories
Pedro Páramo
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
Shalimar the Clown
John Ruskin
Modern Painters
The Stones of Venice
S
Nelly Sachs
“When in Early Summer”
“End”
“Once”
Françoise Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night Flight
Wind, Sand, and Stars
The Little Prince
Saki
Reginald
When William Came
Beasts and Super-Beasts
George Sand
Indiana
Mauprat
Marianne
Sappho
“Ode to Aphrodite”
“He Is More than a Hero: Or, Fortunate as the Gods He Seems to Me”
“To an Army Wife, in Sardis: Or, Some Say a Host of Horsemen”
José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Blindness
All the Names
Nathalie Sarraute
The Planetarium
The Golden Fruits
Silence
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea
No Exit
Dorothy L. Sayers
Strong Poison
Gaudy Night
Friedrich Schiller
Wallenstein
William Tell
“The Conqueror,” “The Gods of Greece,” and “The Song of the Bell”
Sir Walter Scott
The Heart of Midlothian
Ivanhoe
W. G. Sebald
The Emigrants
The Rings of Saturn
Austerlitz
Seneca the Younger
Medea
Phaedra
Vikram Seth
The Golden Gate
A Suitable Boy
An Equal Music
Peter Shaffer
Five Finger Exercise
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Equus
Amadeus
William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Parts I and II
As You Like It
Hamlet
The Tempest
Sonnets
George Bernard Shaw
Candida
Major Barbara
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ode to the West Wind”
Prometheus Unbound
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
A Defence of Poetry
Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice
On the Beach
Sir Philip Sidney
Defence of Poesie
Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 31
Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 74
Astrophel and Stella, Song 11
Certaine Sonnets 32
Henryk Sienkiewicz
With Fire and Sword
Quo Vadis
Georges Simenon
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
Dirty Snow
Red Lights
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Slave
Enemies: A Love Story
Shosha
“Gimpel the Fool”
“Alone”
Volume 6: Smith—Zola
Contents: Volume 6
S, continued
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
The Autograph Man
On Beauty
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The First Circle
Cancer Ward
August 1914
Sophocles
Antigone
Oedipus Tyrannus
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Wole Soyinka
The Lion and the Jewel
Death and the King's Horseman
“Season”
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Muriel Spark
The Comforters
Memento Mori
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Girls of Slender Means
The Finishing School
Stephen Spender
World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
Journals, 1939–1983
Collected Poems, 1928–1985
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene
Epithalamion
Christina Stead
Seven Poor Men of Sydney
The Man Who Loved Children
Dark Places of the Heart
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
A Sentimental Journey
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Jumpers
Travesties
The Real Thing
The Coast of Utopia
David Storey
This Sporting Life
In Celebration
The Contractor and The Changing Room
Home
Saville
August Strindberg
The Father
Miss Julie
A Dream Play
The Ghost Sonata
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
The Battle of the Books
A Tale of a Tub
A Modest Proposal
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Ave Atque Vale”
“Hymn to Proserpine”
John Millington Synge
Riders to the Sea
The Playboy of the Western World
T
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali Song Offerings
The Home and the World
Selected Short Stories
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam
Idylls of the King
“Ulysses”
“Locksley Hall”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
The History of Henry Esmond, Esquire
Dylan Thomas
“The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”
“Twenty-four Years”
“Poem in October”
“In My Craft or Sullen Art”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth of Mankind
The Girl from the Coast
The Mute's Soliloquy
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard
Two Stories and a Memory
Michel Tournier
Friday: Or, The Other Island
The Ogre
The Four Wise Men
The Wind Spirit
Anthony Trollope
The Barsetshire Novels
Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman's Sketches
Fathers and Sons
U
Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
V
Paul Valéry
“The Cemetery by the Sea”
The Young Fate
“An Evening with Mr. Teste”
César Vallejo
The Black Heralds
Trilce
Human Poems
Mario Vargas Llosa
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
The Storyteller
The Feast of the Goat
Lope de Vega Carpio
Peribáñez
Justice Without Revenge
Vergil
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
Paul Verlaine
“Green”
“My God Said to Me”
Jules Verne
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Vladimir Voinovich
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
“A Circle of Friends”
Moscow 2042
Voltaire
Zadig
Candide
W
Derek Walcott
“Codicil”
“The Schooner Flight”
“The Fortunate Traveller”
“I Once Gave My Daughters, Separately, Two Conch Shells“
Omeros
Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies
A Handful of Dust
Brideshead Revisited
Sword of Honour
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Glue
Patrick White
The Aunt's Story
Voss
The Vivisector
Rudy Wiebe
Peace Shall Destroy Many
The Blue Mountains of China
“The Naming of Albert Johnson”
Elie Wiesel
Night
The Accident
A Beggar in Jerusalem
The Oath
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
P. G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves
Leave It to Psmith
Christa Wolf
The Quest for Christa T.
Patterns of Childhood
No Place on Earth
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
The Waves
A Room of One's Own
William Wordsworth
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
The Prelude
Y
William Butler Yeats
“Adam's Curse”
“Easter 1916”
“The Second Coming”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Under Ben Bulben”
“The Circus Animals' Desertion”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Prologue”
“Babii Yar”
“'Yes' and 'No'”
Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Abyss
“An Obscure Man”
Z
Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin
Germinal
L'Assommoir
La Bête humaine
Appendixes
Glossary of Literary Terms
Category List
Geographical List
Indexes
Title Index
Author Index