Salem Press

Cyclopedia of Literary Places
Table of Contents

Publisher's Note, xxvii
Contributors, xxix
Introduction, xxxv
Key to Pronunciation, xliiii

A
Abraham and Isaac (Unknown), 1
Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden), 3
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 1
Absentee, The (Edgeworth), 3
Acharnians, The (Aristophanes), 4
Adam Bede (Eliot), 5
Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie), 6
Adolphe (Constant), 7
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 8
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 9
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The (Smollett), 11
Adventures of Roderick Random, The (Smollett), 12
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 13
Aeneid (Vergil), 14
Aesop's Fables (Aesop), 15
Affected Young Ladies, The (Molière), 16
Against the Grain (Huysmans), 17
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 17
Agnes Grey (Brontë), 18
Ajax (Sophocles), 20
Alcestis (Euripides), 20
Aleck Maury, Sportsman (Gordon), 21
Alexandria Quartet, The (Durrell), 22
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 23
All Fall Down (Herlihy), 25
All for Love (Dryden), 26
All Hallows' Eve (Williams), 26
All Men Are Brothers (Unknown), 27
All My Sons (Miller), 28
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 29
All That Fall (Beckett), 30
All the King's Men (Warren), 31
All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), 32
Almayer's Folly (Conrad), 32
Alton Locke (Kingsley), 33
Amadís of Gaul (Lobeira), 34
Ambassadors, The (James), 35
Amelia (Fielding), 37
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 39
American, The (James), 38
And Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov), 40
Andromache (Euripides), 41
Andromache (Racine), 41
Angels in America (Kushner), 42
Angle of Repose (Stegner), 42
Animal Farm (Orwell), 44
Anna Christie (O'Neill), 45
Anna Karénina (Tolstoy), 45
Anna of the Five Towns (Bennett), 46
Another Country (Baldwin), 48
Antigone (Anouilh), 49
Antigone (Sophocles), 49
Antiquary, The (Scott), 50
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 51
Apostle, The (Asch), 52
Appointment in Samarra (O'Hara), 53
Arcadia (Sidney), 54
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 55
Arms and the Man (Shaw), 56
Arrowsmith (Lewis), 57
Artamonov Business, The (Gorky), 58
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 59
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 60
Ashes (Żeromski), 61
Aspern Papers, The (James), 62
Assistant, The (Malamud), 63
Atala (Chateaubriand), 64
Atalanta in Calydon (Swinburne), 65
Aucassin and Nicolette (Unknown), 65
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn), 66
Aurora Leigh (Browning), 67
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 68
Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man, The (Johnson), 69
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Gaines), 70
Awakening, The (Chopin), 70
Awkward Age, The (James), 71

B
Babbitt (Lewis), 73
Bacchae, The (Euripides), 74
Bachelors, The (Spark), 74
Back to Methuselah (Shaw), 75
Badenheim 1939 (Appelfeld), 76
Bald Soprano, The (Ionesco), 77
Bambi (Salten), 78
Barabbas (Lagerkvist), 79
Barber of Seville, The (Beaumarchais), 80
Barchester Towers (Trollope), 80
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 82
Baron Münchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (Raspe), 83
Barren Ground (Glasgow), 84
Barrio Boy (Galarza), 85
Barry Lyndon (Thackeray), 86
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 88
Batouala (Maran), 88
Bay of Silence, The (Mallea), 89
Beaux' Stratagem, The (Farquhar), 91
Becket (Anouilh), 91
Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky), 92
Beggar's Opera, The (Gay), 92
Bel-ami (Maupassant), 93
Belinda (Edgeworth), 94
Bell for Adano, A (Hersey), 95
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 96
Bellefleur (Oates), 97
Bend in the River, A (Naipaul), 100
Ben-Hur (Wallace), 99
Benito Cereno (Melville), 101
Beowulf (Unknown), 102
Bérénice (Racine), 103
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Döblin), 104
Betrothed, The (Manzoni), 105
Between the Acts (Woolf), 106
Big Rock Candy Mountain, The (Stegner), 107
Big Sky, The (Guthrie), 108
Big Sleep, The (Chandler), 109
Billy Budd, Foretopman (Melville), 110
Birds, The (Aristophanes), 111
Birthday Party, The (Pinter), 111
Black Arrow, The (Stevenson), 112
Black Swan, The (Mann), 113
Black Thunder (Bontemps), 114
Bleak House (Dickens), 115
Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya), 116
Blithe Spirit (Coward), 117
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 117
Blood Wedding (García Lorca), 119
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, The (Murger), 119
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The (Kundera), 120
Book of the City of Ladies, The (Christine de Pizan), 122
Book of the Courtier, The (Castiglione), 123
Book of the Duchess (Chaucer), 124
Book of Theseus, The (Boccaccio), 124
Boris Godunov (Pushkin), 125
Bostonians, The (James), 125
Braggart Soldier, The (Plautus), 127
Brand (Ibsen), 127
Brave New World (Huxley), 128
Bread and Wine (Silone), 129
Bride of Lammermoor, The (Scott), 130
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 131
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder), 133
Bridge on the Drina, The (Andrić), 133
Bridge, The (Crane), 132
Britannicus (Racine), 134
Broad and Alien Is the World (Alegría), 135
Broken Jug, The (Kleist), 136
Bronze Horseman, The (Pushkin), 136
Brothers Ashkenazi, The (Singer), 137
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevski), 138
Brut (Layamon), 139
Buddenbrooks (Mann), 139
Bullet Park (Cheever), 140
Bulwark, The (Dreiser), 141
Burnt-out Case, A (Greene), 143
Bus Stop (Inge), 144
Bussy d'Ambois (Chapman), 144

C
Cadmus (Unknown), 145
Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw), 146
Cain (Byron), 146
Caine Mutiny, The (Wouk), 147
Cakes and Ale (Maugham), 148
Caleb Williams (Godwin), 149
Call It Sleep (Roth), 150
Call of the Wild, The (London), 151
Camel Xiangzi (Lao She), 152
Camille (Dumas, fils), 153
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn), 153
Candida (Shaw), 154
Candide (Voltaire), 155
Cane (Toomer), 156
Cannibal, The (Hawkes), 157
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 158
Captain Horatio Hornblower (Forester), 159
Captains Courageous (Kipling), 161
Captain's Daughter, The (Pushkin), 161
Captives, The (Plautus), 162
Caretaker, The (Pinter), 163
Carmen (Mérimée), 163
Carmina (Catullus), 164
Cass Timberlane (Lewis), 165
Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 167
Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth), 168
Castle, The (Kafka), 166
Cat and Mouse (Grass), 169
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 170
Catch-22 (Heller), 170
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 172
Catiline (Jonson), 173
Cecilia (Burney), 173
Celestina (Rojas), 174
Cenci, The (Shelley), 176
Ceremony (Silko), 176
Chairs, The (Ionesco), 177
Chaka (Mofolo), 178
Changeling The (Middleton and Rowley), 179
Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal), 180
Chéri (Colette), 181
Cherokee Night, The (Riggs), 182
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 182
Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, The (Dumas and Maquet), 183
Chicago Poems (Sandburg), 184
Chickencoop Chinaman, The (Chin), 184
Child of God (McCarthy), 185
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Byron), 186
Children's Hour, The (Hellman), 187
Chita (Hearn), 188
Chosen, The (Potok), 189
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 190
Cid, The (Corneille), 190
Cinna (Corneille), 191
Cinq-mars (Vigny), 191
City of the Sun, The (Campanella), 193
Clarissa (Richardson), 194
Clayhanger Trilogy, The (Bennett), 195
Cligés (Chrétien de Troyes), 196
Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess), 197
Closed Garden, The (Green), 198
Clouds, The (Aristophanes), 199
Clown, The (Böll), 199
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot), 200
Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons), 201
Collector, The (Fowles), 202
Color Purple, The (Walker), 203
Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare), 204
Company of Women, The (Gordon), 205
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The (Dickinson), 206
Comus (Milton), 207
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (De Quincey), 207
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Mann), 208
Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron), 210
Confidence Man, The (Melville), 211
Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot), 212
Coningsby (Disraeli), 213
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A (Twain), 213
Conscience of the Rich, The (Snow), 215
Conscious Lovers, The (Steele), 216
Conversation in the Cathedral (Vargas Llosa), 217
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 217
Corsican Brothers, The (Dumas, père), 218
Cossacks, The (Tolstoy), 219
Count of Monte-Cristo, The (Dumas, père), 220
Counterfeiters, The (Gide), 222
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats), 223
Country Doctor, A (Jewett), 223
Country of the Pointed Firs, The (Jewett), 225
Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 225
Courtship of Miles Standish, The (Longfellow), 226
Cousin Bette (Balzac), 227
Cousin Pons (Balzac), 228
Cranford (Gaskell), 229
Cream of the Jest, The (Cabell), 230
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevski), 231
Crimes of the Heart (Henley), 232
Crisis, The (Churchill), 233
Crock of Gold, The (Stephens), 234
Crome Yellow (Huxley), 235
Crotchet Castle (Peacock), 236
Crucible, The (Miller), 237
Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton), 238
Cupid and Psyche (Unknown), 239
Custom of the Country, The (Wharton), 240
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 241
Cypresses Believe in God, The (Gironella), 242
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 243

D
Daisy Miller (James), 245
Dame Care (Sudermann), 246
Damnation of Theron Ware, The (Frederic), 247
Dance of Death, The (Strindberg), 248
Dance to the Music of Time, A (Powell), 248
Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel), 250
Dangerous Acquaintances (Choderlos de Laclos), 250
Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 251
Danton's Death (Büchner), 252
Daphnis and Chloë (Longus), 253
Dark Journey, The (Green), 254
Dark Laughter (Anderson), 255
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 256
David Copperfield (Dickens), 257
Day of the Locust, The (West), 258
Dead Souls (Gogol), 259
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 260
Death in the Family, A (Agee), 261
Death in Venice (Mann), 262
Death of a Hero (Aldington), 263
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 264
Death of Artemio Cruz, The (Fuentes), 265
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The (Tolstoy), 266
Death of the Heart, The (Bowen), 267
Death of Virgil, The (Broch), 268
Death Ship, The (Traven), 269
Decline and Fall (Waugh), 270
Deerslayer, The (Cooper), 271
Deirdre (Stephens), 273
Deirdre (Yeats), 273
Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge), 274
Delicate Balance, A (Albee), 274
Deliverance (Dickey), 275
Delta Wedding (Welty), 276
Democracy (Didion), 277
Deptford Trilogy, The (Davies), 278
Descent into Hell (Williams), 279
Desire Under the Elms (O'Neill), 280
Devil upon Two Sticks, The (Lesage), 281
Devil's Elixirs, The (Hoffmann), 282
Diana of the Crossways (Meredith), 283
Diary of a Country Priest, The (Bernanos), 284
Dining Room, The (Gurney), 285
Disciple, The (Bourget), 286
Divine Comedy, The (Alighieri), 287
Divine Fire, The (Sinclair), 288
Diving into the Wreck (Rich), 289
Doctor Faustus (Mann), 289
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 291
Doctor Pascal (Zola), 291
Doctor Thorne (Trollope), 292
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 294
Dodsworth (Lewis), 295
Doll's House, A (Ibsen), 296
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 297
Dominique (Fromentin), 298
Don Flows Home to the Sea, The (Sholokhov), 299
Don Juan (Byron), 300
Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes), 301
Don Segundo Sombra (Güiraldes), 302
Doña Bárbara (Gallegos), 303
Doña Perfecta (Pérez Galdós), 304
Down There (Huysmans), 305
Dracula (Stoker), 306
Dragon Seed (Buck), 308
Dream of the Red Chamber (Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in), 309
Drink (Zola), 310
Drums Along the Mohawk (Edmonds), 311
Dubliners (Joyce), 312
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), 314
Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen), 314
Dumb Waiter, The (Pinter), 315
Dunciad, The (Pope), 315
Dutchman (Baraka), 316

E
Earth (Zola), 318
Earthly Paradise, The (Morris), 319
East of Eden (Steinbeck), 320
Eastward Ho! (Chapman and Jonson), 321
Eat a Bowl of Tea (Chu), 321
Edward II (Marlowe), 322
Effi Briest (Fontane), 323
Egmont (Goethe), 324
Egoist, The (Meredith), 325
Elder Statesman, The (Eliot), 326
Elective Affinities (Goethe), 326
Electra (Euripides), 328
Electra (Sophocles), 328
Elegy of Lady Fiammetta, The (Boccaccio), 329
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Gray), 330
Elmer Gantry (Lewis), 330
Emigrants of Ahadarra, The (Carleton), 331
Émile (Rousseau), 332
Emma (Austen), 333
Emperor Jones, The (O'Neill), 334
End of the Road, The (Barth), 335
Endgame (Beckett), 336
Endymion (Keats), 337
Enemies (Singer), 338
Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen), 339
Enfants Terribles, Les (Cocteau), 340
Enormous Room, The (Cummings), 341
Epicœne (Jonson), 341
Epitaph of a Small Winner (Machado de Assis), 342
Equus (Shaffer), 343
Erec and Enide (Chrétien de Troyes), 344
Erewhon (Butler), 344
Esther Waters (Moore), 346
Ethan Frome (Wharton), 347
Eugénie Grandet (Balzac), 348
Eustace Diamonds, The (Trollope), 349
Evangeline (Longfellow), 350
Evelina (Burney), 350
Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 351
Every Man out of His Humour (Jonson), 352
Everyman (Unknown), 352
Exiles (Joyce), 353
Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The (Smollett), 354
Explosion in a Cathedral (Carpentier), 355

F
Fable, A (Faulkner), 357
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser), 357
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 358
Fair Maid of Perth, The (Scott), 359
Fall of the House of Usher, The (Poe), 361
Fall, The (Camus), 360
Family of Pascual Duarte, The (Cela), 362
Family Reunion, The (Eliot), 363
Far Field, The (Roethke), 363
Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 364
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 365
Father, The (Strindberg), 366
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev), 368
Fathers, The (Tate), 367
Faultline (Taylor), 369
Faust (Goethe), 370
Felix Holt, the Radical (Eliot), 371
Fellowship of the Ring, The (Tolkien), 372
Fences (Wilson), 373
Ferdydurke (Gombrowicz), 374
Final Payments (Gordon), 375
Financier, The (Dreiser), 376
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 377
Firebugs, The (Frisch), 378
Fixer, The (Malamud), 378
Flies, The (Azuela), 379
Flies, The (Sartre), 380
Floating Opera, The (Barth), 381
Folks, The (Suckow), 382
Foma Gordeyev (Gorky), 383
Fontamara (Silone), 384
Fool for Love (Shepard), 385
Fools Crow (Welch), 386
for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (Shange), 387
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 387
Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy), 388
Fortunes of Nigel, The (Scott), 389
Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The (Werfel), 390
Fountainhead, The (Rand), 391
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The (Blasco Ibáñez), 392
Four Quartets (Eliot), 392
Frankenstein (Shelley), 393
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 395
Free Fall (Golding), 395
Freedom or Death (Kazantzakis), 396
French Lieutenant's Woman, The (Fowles), 397
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene), 399
Frogs, The (Aristophanes), 399
Fruit of the Tree, The (Wharton), 400

G
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Amado), 401
Galileo (Brecht), 402
Gambler, The (Dostoevski), 402
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais), 403
"Genius, " The (Dreiser), 405
Germinal (Zola), 406
Germinie Lacerteux (Goncourt and Goncourt), 407
Ghosts (Ibsen), 408
Giants in the Earth (Rölvaag), 408
Gift of the Magi, The (Henry), 409
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 410
Giles Goat-Boy (Barth), 411
Gilgamesh Epic, The (Unknown), 412
Glass Key, The (Hammett), 414
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 415
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet), 415
Go Down, Moses (Faulkner), 416
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 417
God's Little Acre (Caldwell), 418
Gold-Bug, The (Poe), 419
Golden Apples, The (Welty), 420
Golden Ass, The (Apuleius), 421
Golden Bowl, The (James), 422
Golden Boy (Odets), 423
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 423
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 424
Good Companions, The (Priestley), 426
Good Earth, The (Buck), 427
Good Soldier Švejk, The (Hašek), 429
Good Soldier, The (Ford), 428
Good-bye, Mr. Chips (Hilton), 430
Grain of Wheat, A (Ngugi wa Thiong'o), 432
Grandissimes, The (Cable), 433
Grandmothers, The (Wescott), 434
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 435
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), 436
Great Expectations (Dickens), 437
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 438
Green Grow the Lilacs (Riggs), 439
Green Henry (Keller), 440
Green House, The (Vargas Llosa), 441
Green Mansions (Hudson), 442
Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte Bought with a Million of Repentance (Greene), 443
Group Portrait with Lady (Böll), 444
Growth of the Soil (Hamsun), 445
Guard of Honor (Cozzens), 446
Guide, The (Narayan), 447
Gulliver's Travels (Swift), 448
Guy Mannering (Scott), 449
Guy of Warwick (Unknown), 450

H
H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert), 488
Hairy Ape, The (O'Neill), 452
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare), 454
Hamlet, The (Faulkner), 453
Handful of Dust, A (Waugh), 455
Handmaid's Tale, The (Atwood), 457
Hard Times (Dickens), 458
Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells), 459
Headlong Hall (Peacock), 460
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers), 461
Heart of Aztlán (Anaya), 462
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 463
Heart of Midlothian, The (Scott), 463
Heart of the Matter, The (Greene), 464
Heartbreak House (Shaw), 465
Heat of the Day, The (Bowen), 466
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 467
Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein), 468
Heimskringla (Sturluson), 468
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 470
Henry IV (Pirandello), 471
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), 472
Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare), 472
Henry V (Shakespeare), 473
Henry VI, Part I (Shakespeare), 474
Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare), 475
Henry VI, Part III (Shakespeare), 475
Henry VIII (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 476
Hercules and His Twelve Labors (Unknown), 477
Hereward the Wake (Kingsley), 478
Herland (Gilman), 479
Hero of Our Time, A (Lermontov), 480
Herzog (Bellow), 481
High Wind in Jamaica, A (Hughes), 482
Hippolytus (Euripides), 483
History of Henry Esmond, Esquire, The (Thackeray), 484
History of Pendennis, The (Thackeray), 485
Hive, The (Cela), 486
Hizakurige (Jippensha Ikku), 487
Homeward (Æ), 488
Homewood Trilogy, The (Wideman), 489
Honorary Consul, The (Greene), 490
Hopscotch (Cortázar), 491
Horace (Corneille), 492
Horse's Mouth, The (Cary), 492
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Doyle), 493
House by the Churchyard, The (Le Fanu), 494
House by the Medlar Tree, The (Verga), 495
House in Paris, The (Bowen), 496
House Made of Dawn (Momaday), 497
House of Blue Leaves, The (Guare), 498
House of Gentlefolk, A (Turgenev), 498
House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 499
House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 500
House of the Spirits, The (Allende), 502
House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros), 503
House on the Hill, The (Pavese), 504
How Green Was My Valley (Llewellyn), 504
Howards End (Forster), 505
Human Comedy, The (Saroyan), 506
Human Factor, The (Greene), 507
Humboldt's Gift (Bellow), 508
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Hugo), 509
Hunger (Hamsun), 510
Hyde Park (Shirley), 511
Hypatia (Kingsley), 511
Hypochondriac, The (Molière), 512

I
I, Claudius (Graves), 514
Iceman Cometh, The (O'Neill), 515
Idiot, The (Dostoevski), 516
Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 517
If Not Now, When? (Levi), 518
Iliad, The (Homer), 519
Immensee (Storm), 520
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 521
In Cold Blood (Capote), 521
In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck), 522
In the Heart of the Seas (Agnon), 523
In the Wilderness (Undset), 524
Independent People (Laxness), 525
Indian Summer (Howells), 526
Indiana (Sand), 527
Informer, The (O'Flaherty), 528
Inheritors, The (Golding), 529
Inspector General, The (Gogol), 530
Intruder in the Dust (Faulkner), 531
Intruder, The (Maeterlinck), 531
Invisible Man (Ellison), 532
Invisible Man, The (Wells), 533
Iolanthe (Gilbert), 534
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides), 535
Israel Potter (Melville), 535
Italian, The (Radcliffe), 536
Itching Parrot, The (Fernández de Lizardi), 537
Ivanhoe (Scott), 538

J
J. B. (MacLeish), 540
Jack Sheppard (Ainsworth), 540
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Diderot), 541
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 542
Jason and the Golden Fleece (Unknown), 543
Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet), 544
Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 545
Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 546
John Brown's Body (Benét), 547
John Halifax, Gentleman (Mulock), 548
Jonathan Wild (Fielding), 549
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities (Surtees), 550
Joseph Andrews (Fielding), 551
Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe), 552
Journey to the End of the Night (Céline), 553
Journey to the West, The (Wu Ch'eng-en), 554
Joy Luck Club, The (Tan), 555
Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 556
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 557
July's People (Gordimer), 558
Jungle Books, The (Kipling), 560
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 559
Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey), 561
Jurgen (Cabell), 562

K
Kenilworth (Scott), 564
Kidnapped (Stevenson), 565
Kim (Kipling), 566
Kinflicks (Alther), 567
King John (Shakespeare), 568
King Lear (Shakespeare), 569
King Solomon's Mines (Haggard), 570
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Puig), 571
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Beaumont), 572
Knights, The (Aristophanes), 572
Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett), 573
Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy), 573
Kristin Lavransdatter (Undset), 574

L
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence), 576
Lady from the Sea, The (Ibsen), 577
Lady Windermere's Fan (Wilde), 577
Lady's Not for Burning, The (Fry), 578
Lancelot (Chrétien de Troyes), 579
Last Chronicle of Barset, The (Trollope), 579
Last Days of Pompeii, The (Bulwer-Lytton), 580
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 581
Last of the Wine, The (Renault), 582
Last Puritan, The (Santayana), 583
Last Temptation of Christ, The (Kazantzakis), 584
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 585
Late George Apley, The (Marquand), 586
Lavengro (Borrow), 587
Lay of Igor's Campaign, The (Unknown), 588
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 589
Left Hand of Darkness, The (Guin), 590
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (Irving), 591
Leopard, The (Lampedusa), 592
Liber Amoris: Or, The New Pygmalion (Hazlitt), 593
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 594
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., The (Sterne), 595
Life of Marianne, The (Marivaux), 596
Ligeia (Poe), 597
Light in August (Faulkner), 597
Little Dorrit (Dickens), 598
Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 599
Little Women (Alcott), 600
Lolita (Nabokov), 601
Long and Happy Life, A (Price), 602
Long Day's Journey into Night (O'Neill), 603
Long Journey, The (Jensen), 604
Longest Journey, The (Forster), 605
Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 606
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 607
Looking Backward (Bellamy), 608
Lord Jim (Conrad), 609
Lord of the Flies (Golding), 610
Lorna Doone (Blackmore), 610
Lost Horizon (Hilton), 611
Lost Illusions (Balzac), 612
Lost Lady, A (Cather), 613
Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 615
Lost World, The (Jarrell), 616
Love in the Time of Cholera (García Márquez), 616
Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The (Monzaemon), 617
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare), 618
Lover, The (Duras), 618
Loving (Green), 619
Lower Depths, The (Gorky), 620
Lucky Jim (Amis), 621
Lusiads, The (Camões), 622
Lute, The (Ming), 623
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 624

M
Mabinogion, The (Unknown), 625
Mac Flecknoe (Dryden), 626
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 627
McTeague (Norris), 628
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 629
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Gautier), 630
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux), 631
Maggie (Crane), 632
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 633
Magician of Lublin, The (Singer), 634
Magnificent Ambersons, The (Tarkington), 635
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas), 635
Magus, The (Fowles), 636
Mahabharata, The (Unknown), 637
Main Street (Lewis), 638
Major Barbara (Shaw), 639
Making of Americans, The (Stein), 640
Malcontent, The (Marston), 641
Malone Dies (Beckett), 641
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett), 642
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The (Hijuelos), 643
Man and Superman (Shaw), 644
Man for All Seasons, A (Bolt), 645
Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie), 645
Man of Mode, The (Etherege), 646
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Kaufman and Hart), 647
Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 648
Man Without a Country, The (Hale), 649
Man's Fate (Malraux), 652
Manfred (Byron), 649
Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos), 650
Manon Lescaut (Prévost), 651
Mansfield Park (Austen), 653
Mansion, The (Faulkner), 654
Marat/Sade (Weiss), 655
Marble Faun, The (Hawthorne), 656
Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (Melville), 657
Marius the Epicurean (Pater), 658
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 659
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 660
Mary Barton (Gaskell), 661
Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov), 662
Master Builder, The (Ibsen), 664
"Master Harold" . . . and the Boys (Fugard), 664
Masters, The (Snow), 665
Maurice (Forster), 666
Mayor of Casterbridge, The (Hardy), 667
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 668
Medea (Euripides), 668
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 669
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 670
Memed, My Hawk (Kemal), 671
Memento Mori (Spark), 672
Memoirs of a Physician (Dumas and Maquet), 672
Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar), 674
Menaechmi, The (Plautus), 675
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 675
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 676
Metamorphosis (Kafka), 677
Metamorphosis (Sitwell), 678
Midaq Alley (Mahfouz), 678
Middlemarch (Eliot), 679
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare), 680
Mighty and Their Fall, The (Compton-Burnett), 681
Mikado, The (Gilbert), 682
Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot), 682
Milton (Blake), 683
Ministry of Fear, The (Greene), 684
Miracle Worker, The (Gibson), 685
Misanthrope, The (Molière), 685
Miser, The (Molière), 686
Misérables, Les (Hugo), 687
Miss Julie (Strindberg), 688
Miss Lonelyhearts (West), 689
Mister Roberts (Heggen), 690
Mithridates (Racine), 691
Moby Dick (Melville), 692
Modern Instance, A (Howells), 693
Moll Flanders (Defoe), 694
Molloy (Beckett), 695
Monk, The (Lewis), 696
Monsieur Lecoq (Gaboriau), 696
Month in the Country, A (Turgenev), 699
Mont-Oriol (Maupassant), 697
Moon and Sixpence, The (Maugham), 699
Moonstone, The (Collins), 701
Morte d'Arthur, Le (Malory), 701
Morte d'Urban (Powers), 703
Mother (Gorky), 705
Mother and Son (Compton-Burnett), 705
Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 707
Mother, The (Deledda), 704
Mourning Becomes Electra (O'Neill), 707
Mousetrap, The (Christie), 708
Moviegoer, The (Percy), 708
Mr. Sammler's Planet (Bellow), 709
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 710
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 711
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed), 712
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 713
Mutiny on the Bounty (Nordhoff and Hall), 713
My Antonia (Cather), 715
My Brilliant Career (Franklin), 716
My Name Is Asher Lev (Potok), 717
Myra Breckinridge (Vidal), 718
Mysteries of Paris, The (Sue), 719
Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 720
Mysterious Island, The (Verne), 721
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (Dickens), 722

N
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 724
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 725
Naked Year, The (Pilnyak), 726
Name of the Rose, The (Eco), 727
Nana (Zola), 728
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe), 729
Narrow Road to the Deep North, The (Bashō), 730
Nathan the Wise (Lessing), 731
Native Son (Wright), 731
Natural, The (Malamud), 732
Nausea (Sartre), 733
Nest of Simple Folk, A (O'Faoláin), 735
New Grub Street (Gissing), 736
New Héloïse, The (Rousseau), 737
New Life, The (Dante Alighieri), 738
Newcomes, The (Thackeray), 738
News from Nowhere (Morris), 739
Nibelungenlied, The (Unknown), 740
Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens), 741
Nick of the Woods (Bird), 742
Nigger of the "Narcissus", The (Conrad), 743
Night (Wiesel), 744
Night Flight (Saint-Exupéry), 745
Night of the Iguana, The (Williams), 746
Night Rider (Warren), 747
'Night, Mother (Norman), 746
Nightmare Abbey (Peacock), 748
Nightwood (Barnes), 749
Nineteen Eighty-four (Orwell), 751
No Exit (Sartre), 752
No-No Boy (Okada), 753
North and South (Bishop), 754
North and South (Gaskell), 755
North of Boston (Frost), 756
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 757
Nostromo (Conrad), 758
Nuns and Soldiers (Murdoch), 759

O
O Pioneers! (Cather), 761
Obasan (Kogawa), 762
Oblomov (Goncharov), 763
Obscene Bird of Night, The (Donoso), 763
Octopus, The (Norris), 764
Odd Couple, The (Simon), 766
Odes (Pindar), 767
Odyssey, The (Homer), 767
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles), 769
Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles), 769
Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 770
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 771
Of Time and the River (Wolfe), 772
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 773
Old Maid, The (Wharton), 774
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 775
Old Mortality (Scott), 775
Old Wives' Tale, The (Bennett), 777
Old Wives' Tale, The (Peele), 778
Oldtown Folks (Stowe), 778
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 780
Omensetter's Luck (Gass), 781
Omoo (Melville), 782
On the Road (Kerouac), 783
Once and Future King, The (White), 784
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 785
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey), 786
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 787
Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The (Meredith), 788
Oresteia, The (Aeschylus), 789
Orlando (Woolf), 790
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 791
Orley Farm (Trollope), 792
Oroonoko (Behn), 793
Orpheus and Eurydice (Unknown), 795
Othello (Shakespeare), 795
Other One, The (Colette), 796
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 797
Other Women (Alther), 798
Our Ancestors (Calvino), 799
Our House in the Last World (Hijuelos), 800
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 801
Our Town (Wilder), 802
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis), 803
Overcoat, The (Gogol), 804
Ox-Bow Incident, The (Clark), 805

P
Painted Bird, The (Kosinski), 806
Pale Fire (Nabokov), 807
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Porter), 808
Palm-Wine Drinkard, The (Tutuola), 809
Pamela (Richardson), 810
Parade's End (Ford), 811
Paradise Lost (Milton), 812
Paradise Regained (Milton), 813
Passage to India, A (Forster), 813
Paterson (Williams), 815
Pathfinder, The (Cooper), 816
Patience (Gilbert), 817
Patience and Sarah (Miller), 817
Peace (Aristophanes), 818
Peder Victorious (Rölvaag), 819
Pedro Páramo (Rulfo), 820
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 820
Pelle the Conqueror (Nexø), 821
Pelléas and Mélisande (Maeterlinck), 822
Penguin Island (France), 822
People, Yes, The (Sandburg), 823
Pepita Jiménez (Valera), 824
Père Goriot (Balzac), 825
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare), 826
Persians, The (Aeschylus), 827
Persuasion (Austen), 827
Peter Ibbetson (du Maurier), 829
Peter Pan (Barrie), 830
Phaedra (Racine), 830
Philoctetes (Sophocles), 831
Phineas Finn (Trollope), 831
Phineas Redux (Trollope), 833
Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 834
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 835
Pierre (Melville), 836
Pilgrim Hawk, The (Wescott), 837
Pilgrim's Progress, The (Bunyan), 839
Pilgrimage (Richardson), 838
Pillars of Society, The (Ibsen), 840
Pincher Martin (Golding), 841
Pioneers, The (Cooper), 842
Pirates of Penzance, The (Gilbert), 843
Pit, The (Norris), 844
Plague, The (Camus), 845
Plain-Dealer, The (Wycherley), 846
Platero and I (Jiménez), 846
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 847
Plough and the Stars, The (O'Casey), 848
Plumed Serpent, The (Lawrence), 848
Point Counter Point (Huxley), 849
Polyeucte (Corneille), 851
Ponder Heart, The (Welty), 851
Poor Folk (Dostoevski), 852
Poor White (Anderson), 853
Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike), 854
Porgy (Heyward), 855
Portnoy's Complaint (Roth), 856
Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 857
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Thomas), 858
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 859
Possessed, The (Dostoevski), 860
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain), 860
Power (Feuchtwanger), 861
Power and the Glory, The (Greene), 862
Power of Darkness, The (Tolstoy), 863
Prairie, The (Cooper), 864
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 865
Prince and the Pauper, The (Twain), 866
Prince of Homburg, The (Kleist), 868
Princess Casamassima, The (James), 868
Princess of Clèves, The (La Fayette), 869
Prisoner of Zenda, The (Hope), 870
Private Lives (Coward), 871
Professor's House, The (Cather), 872
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), 873
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 873
Promised Land, The (Pontoppidan), 874
Pseudolus (Plautus), 875
Purgatory (Yeats), 876
Purple Dust (O'Casey), 876
Pygmalion (Shaw), 877

Q
Quentin Durward (Scott), 879
Quest of the Holy Grail, The (Unknown), 880
Quicksand (Larsen), 881
Quiet American, The (Greene), 882
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz), 883

R
R.U.R. (Čapek), 937
Rabbit Angstrom Novels (Updike), 885
Rabbit Boss (Sanchez), 886
Rainbow, The (Lawrence), 887
Raintree County (Lockridge), 888
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 889
Ralph Roister Doister (Udall), 890
Ramayana, The (Valmiki), 890
Rameau's Nephew (Diderot), 891
Rasselas (Johnson), 892
Razor's Edge, The (Maugham), 893
Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The (Nabokov), 894
Rebecca (Du Maurier), 895
Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar), 896
Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 896
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 898
Redburn (Melville), 899
Reflections in a Golden Eye (McCullers), 900
Reivers, The (Faulkner), 901
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 902
Renée Mauperin (Goncourt and Goncourt), 903
Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner), 904
Resurrection (Tolstoy), 906
Return of the King, The (Tolkien), 907
Return of the Native, The (Hardy), 908
Return, The (De la Mare), 905
Revenger's Tragedy, The (Tourneur), 909
Reynard the Fox (Unknown), 910
Rhinoceros (Ionesco), 911
Riceyman Steps (Bennett), 911
Richard II (Shakespeare), 912
Richard III (Shakespeare), 913
Riders in the Chariot (White), 914
Riders to the Sea (Synge), 915
Right You Are (If You Think So) (Pirandello), 915
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The (Coleridge), 916
Rip Van Winkle (Irving), 917
Rise of Silas Lapham, The (Howells), 918
Rising of the Moon, The (Gregory), 919
Rivals, The (Sheridan), 919
Rob Roy (Scott), 920
Robert Elsmere (Ward), 921
Robin Hood's Adventures (Unknown), 922
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 923
Roderick Hudson (James), 923
Romance of the Forest, The (Radcliffe), 925
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Lo Kuan-chung), 926
Romantic Comedians, The (Glasgow), 927
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 928
Romola (Eliot), 928
Room at the Top (Braine), 929
Room with a View, A (Forster), 930
Roots (Haley), 931
Rope, The (Plautus), 932
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard), 933
Rosmersholm (Ibsen), 933
Roxana (Defoe), 934
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald), 935
Rubyfruit Jungle (Brown), 936
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Pushkin), 937

S
Sacred Fount, The (James), 939
Saga of Grettir the Strong, The (Unknown), 940
Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (Mishima), 941
Saint Joan (Shaw), 942
St. Peter's Umbrella (Mikszáth), 943
Śakuntalā (Kālidāsā), 944
Salammbô (Flaubert), 944
Samson Agonistes (Milton), 945
Sanctuary (Faulkner), 946
Sanine (Artsybashev), 947
Sappho (Daudet), 948
Sappho (Grillparzer), 949
Sartoris (Faulkner), 950
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 951
Satyricon, The (Petronius), 953
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 954
School for Husbands, The (Molière), 955
School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 955
School for Wives, The (Molière), 956
Sea Garden (H. D.), 956
Sea of Grass, The (Richter), 957
Seagull, The (Chekhov), 959
Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud), 960
Season in Rihata, A (Condé), 960
Seasons, The (Thomson), 961
Sea-Wolf, The (London), 958
Second Shepherds' Play, The (Wakefield Master), 962
Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 962
Seeing Things (Heaney), 963
Seize the Day (Bellow), 964
Sejanus His Fall (Jonson), 965
Señor Presidente, El (Asturias), 965
Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 966
Sentimental Education, A (Flaubert), 967
Sentimental Journey, A (Sterne), 968
Set This House on Fire (Styron), 969
Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus), 970
Seven Who Were Hanged, The (Andreyev), 971
Seventeen (Tarkington), 971
Shadows on the Rock (Cather), 972
She (Haggard), 973
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 974
Sheltered Life, The (Glasgow), 974
Sheltering Sky, The (Bowles), 975
Ship of Fools (Porter), 977
Shoemaker's Holiday, The (Dekker), 978
Shropshire Lad, A (Housman), 978
Siddhartha (Hesse), 979
Sign of Four, The (Doyle), 980
Silas Marner (Eliot), 981
Silence (Endō), 982
Simplicissimus the Vagabond (Grimmelshausen), 983
Sir Charles Grandison (Richardson), 984
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Pearl-Poet), 985
Sirens of Titan, The (Vonnegut), 986
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 987
Sister Philomène (Goncourt and Goncourt), 988
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), 989
Skin of Our Teeth, The (Wilder), 990
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 991
Slow Homecoming (Handke), 992
Small House at Allington, The (Trollope), 993
Smoke (Turgenev), 994
Snake Pit, The (Undset), 995
So Big (Ferber), 996
Sohrab and Rustum (Arnold), 997
Solaris (Lem), 997
Song of Hiawatha, The (Longfellow), 998
Song of Roland, The (Unknown), 1000
Song of Solomon (Morrison), 1000
Song of the Lark, The (Cather), 1001
Song of the World, The (Giono), 1002
Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning), 1003
Sonnets of Shakespeare, The (Shakespeare), 1004
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 1005
Sophie's Choice (Styron), 1005
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 1007
Sot-Weed Factor, The (Barth), 1007
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 1009
Sound of Waves, The (Mishima), 1010
South Wind (Douglas), 1010
Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd), 1011
Speculations About Jakob (Johnson), 1012
Spoils of Poynton, The (James), 1013
Spoon River Anthology (Masters), 1014
Sport of the Gods, The (Dunbar), 1014
Spy, The (Cooper), 1016
Steppenwolf (Hesse), 1017
Steps (Kosinski), 1017
Story of an African Farm, The (Schreiner), 1019
Story of Burnt Njal, The (Unknown), 1020
Story of Gösta Berling, The (Lagerlöf), 1021
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The, (Stevenson), 1022
Strange Interlude (O'Neill), 1023
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), 1024
Stranger, The (Camus), 1023
Street Scene (Rice), 1026
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 1026
Study in Scarlet, A (Doyle), 1028
Suddenly Last Summer (Williams), 1030
Sula (Morrison), 1031
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 1032
Sunken Bell, The (Hauptmann), 1033
Sunlight Dialogues, The (Gardner), 1033
Suppliants, The (Aeschylus), 1034
Surrounded, The (McNickle), 1035
Swallow Barn (Kennedy), 1036
Swiss Family Robinson, The (Wyss), 1037
Sybil (Disraeli), 1039

T
Tale of a Tub, A (Swift), 1041
Tale of Genji, The (Murasaki Shikibu), 1042
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 1043
Tales of Ise (Unknown), 1044
Talisman, The (Scott), 1045
Talley Family Saga (Wilson), 1046
Tamar (Jeffers), 1047
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe), 1048
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 1048
Tartuffe (Molière), 1049
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney), 1050
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 1050
Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The (Mishima), 1051
Temptation of Saint Anthony, The (Flaubert), 1052
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (Brontë), 1053
Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 1054
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy), 1055
Tevye the Dairyman (Aleichem), 1056
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 1057
Thérèse (Mauriac), 1058
Thérèse Raquin (Zola), 1058
Thin Man, The (Hammett), 1059
Things Fall Apart (Achebe), 1061
Thirty-nine Steps, The (Buchan), 1062
Three Lives (Stein), 1063
Three Musketeers, The (Dumas père), 1063
Three Sisters, The (Chekhov), 1065
Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 1065
Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht), 1066
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 1067
Thyestes (Seneca), 1068
Tiger at the Gates (Giraudoux), 1069
Time Machine, The (Wells), 1069
Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan), 1070
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 1071
Tin Drum, The (Grass), 1071
Titan, The (Dreiser), 1073
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 1074
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 1074
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 1075
Tobacco Road (Caldwell), 1076
Toilers of the Sea, The (Hugo), 1077
Tom Brown's School Days (Hughes), 1078
Tom Jones (Fielding), 1079
Tono-Bungay (Wells), 1080
Top Girls (Churchill), 1082
Torch Song Trilogy (Fierstein), 1082
Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck), 1083
Tower of London, The (Ainsworth), 1085
Tower, The (Yeats), 1084
Town, The (Faulkner), 1086
Tragedy of Tragedies, The (Fielding), 1086
Tragic Muse, The (James), 1087
Travels of Lao Ts'an, The (Liu Ê), 1088
Treasure Island (Stevenson), 1089
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Smith), 1091
Tree of Man, The (White), 1092
Tree of the Folkungs, The (Heidenstam), 1093
Trial, The (Kafka), 1094
Tristram (Robinson), 1095
Triumph of Death, The (D'Annunzio), 1096
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 1097
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 1097
Trojan Women, The (Euripides), 1098
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 1098
Tropic of Capricorn (Miller), 1099
Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan), 1100
True History, A (Lucian), 1101
Tung-chou Lieh-kuo Chih (Feng Menglong), 1102
Turn of the Screw, The (James), 1103
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 1104
Twelve, The (Blok), 1105
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 1105
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare), 1106
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 1107
Two Towers, The (Tolkien), 1108
Two Women (Moravia), 1109
Typee (Melville), 1110

U
U.S.A. (Dos Passos), 1130
Ulysses (Joyce), 1112
Unbearable Bassington, The (Saki), 1113
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera), 1114
Uncle Silas (Le Fanu), 1115
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe), 1116
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 1118
Under Fire (Barbusse), 1119
Under Milk Wood (Thomas), 1120
Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy), 1120
Under the Volcano (Lowry), 1121
Under the Yoke (Vazov), 1122
Under Two Flags (Ouida), 1123
Under Western Eyes (Conrad), 1124
Underdogs, The (Azuela), 1125
Undine (La Motte-Fouqué), 1126
Unfortunate Traveller, The (Nashe), 1127
Unnamable, The (Beckett), 1128
Unvanquished, The (Faulkner), 1129
Utopia (Kincaid), 1131

V
V. (Pynchon), 1133
Vagabond, The (Colette), 1134
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 1135
Vathek (Beckford), 1137
Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith), 1137
Victory (Conrad), 1138
Village, The (Bunin), 1139
Villette (Brontë), 1140
Violent Bear It Away, The (O'Connor), 1141
Violent Land, The (Amado), 1142
Virginian, The (Wister), 1143
Virginians, The (Thackeray), 1144
Volpone (Jonson), 1146
Volupté (Sainte-Beuve), 1146
Voyage Out, The (Woolf), 1147

W
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 1149
Walk on the Wild Side, A (Algren), 1149
Wanderer, The (Alain-Fournier), 1150
Wandering Jew, The (Sue), 1151
Wapshot Chronicle, The (Cheever), 1152
Wapshot Scandal, The (Cheever), 1154
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 1155
War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 1156
Warden, The (Trollope), 1157
Washington Square (James), 1158
Wasps, The (Aristophanes), 1159
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 1159
Watch on the Rhine (Hellman), 1160
Waverley (Scott), 1161
Waves, The (Woolf), 1162
Way of All Flesh, The (Butler), 1163
Way of the World, The (Congreve), 1164
Way We Live Now, The (Trollope), 1164
Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe), 1165
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 1166
Westward Ho! (Kingsley), 1167
What Maisie Knew (James), 1168
What the Butler Saw (Orton), 1169
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 1170
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster), 1170
Where I'm Calling From (Carver), 1171
Where the Air Is Clear (Fuentes), 1172
White Devil, The (Webster), 1173
White-Jacket (Melville), 1174
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee), 1175
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), 1175
Wieland (Brown), 1177
Wild Ass's Skin, The (Balzac), 1178
Wild Duck, The (Ibsen), 1179
Wild Geese, The (Mori Ōgai), 1179
Wild Palms, The (Faulkner), 1181
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Goethe), 1182
Wilhelm Meister's Travels (Goethe), 1183
William Tell (Schiller), 1184
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame), 1185
Wind, Sand and Stars (Saint-Exupéry), 1185
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson), 1186
Wings of the Dove, The (James), 1187
Winter of Our Discontent, The (Steinbeck), 1188
Winter's Tale, The (Shakespeare), 1189
Winterset (Anderson), 1190
Wise Blood (O'Connor), 1191
Wives and Daughters (Gaskell), 1192
Woman in the Dunes, The (Abe), 1193
Woman in White, The (Collins), 1194
Woman Killed with Kindness, A (Heywood), 1195
Woman's Life, A (Maupassant), 1195
Women Beware Women (Middleton), 1196
Women of Brewster Place, The (Naylor), 1197
Women of Trachis, The (Sophocles), 1198
Wonderland (Oates), 1199
Woodcutters (Bernhard), 1200
Woodlanders, The (Hardy), 1201
World Enough and Time (Warren), 1202
Would-Be Gentleman, The (Molière), 1202
Woyzeck (Büchner), 1203
Wreck of the Deutschland, The (Hopkins), 1204
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 1205

X
Xala (Sembène), 1207

Y
Yearling, The (Rawlings), 1208
Years, The (Woolf), 1208
Yemassee, The (Simms), 1209
You Can't Go Home Again (Wolfe), 1210
Youma (Hearn), 1211
Yvain (Chrétien de Troyes), 1212

Z
Zadig (Voltaire), 1214
Zarco, the Bandit, El (Altamirano), 1215
Zoo Story, The (Albee), 1215
Zoot Suit (Valdez), 1216
Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis), 1217
Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 1218

Title Index, III
Author Index, XV
Place Index, XXXIII