Saturday, September 2, 2006

Part Four

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust.
  2. William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works.
  3. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia LIteraria, Writings on Shakespeare.
  5. Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice, Emma.
  6. Stenddhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black.
  7. Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pere Goriot, Eugenie, Grandet, Cousin Bette.
  8. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works.
  9. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales.
  10. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America.
  11. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women.
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of the Species.
  13. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls.
  14. Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works.
  15. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair.
  16. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit.
  17. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds, The Way We Live Now, Autobiography.
  18. Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855, Jane Eyre.
  19. Emily Bronte, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights.
  20. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden, Civil Disobedience.
  21. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons.
  22. Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Freidrick Engels, 1820-1895, The Communist Manifesto.
  23. Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener.
  24. George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch.
  25. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass, A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads.
  26. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary.
  27. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov.
  28. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, War and Peace.
  29. Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1886, Selected Plays.
  30. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems.
  31. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass.
  32. Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn.
  33. Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams.
  34. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
  35. William James, 1842-1910, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience.
  36. Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors.
  37. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works.
Posted by at

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 8:47 AM

    In the Nineteeth Century add
    William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Of Experience
    Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
    George Gordon Byron's Don Juan
    Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark
    John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightengale," and "To Autumn"
    Alfred Tennyson's, "Ullyses," and In Memoriam
    Robert Browning's, "M Last Duchess"
    John Henry Newman's, Apologia pro Vita Sua
    Matther Arnold's, "Dover Beach"
    Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"
    Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 8:51 AM

    Let's also add to the Victorian authors on our list:
    essayists Carlyle, Newman, Ruskin
    Thackery's Vanity Fair
    Anthony Trollope

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2007 at 6:53 AM

    Good choices, we need to make a revised list!

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousApril 13, 2007 at 10:44 AM

    Is this where James Joyce go?

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousApril 13, 2007 at 10:49 AM

    We need to add a twentieth century section. Everything by Flannery O'Connor! Hell-oooo?

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)