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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume One

Publisher’s Note ...... xxiii Alton Locke (Kingsley) ...... 32 Contributors ...... xxv Amadis of Gaul (Lobeira) ...... 33 An Introduction to Place in Literature ...... xxxi Ambassadors, The (James) ...... 34 Key to Pronunciation ...... xxxix Amelia (Fielding)...... 34 American, The (James) ...... 36 Abraham and Isaac (Unknown) ...... 1 American Tragedy, An (Dreiser) ...... 36 Absalom Absalom (Faulkner) ...... 1 And Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov) ...... 37 Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden) ...... 2 Andromache (Euripides) ...... 38 Absentee, The (Edgeworth) ...... 3 Andromache (Racine) ...... 39 Acharnians, The (Aristophanes)...... 3 (Kushner) ...... 39 Adam Bede (Eliot) ...... 4 Angle of Repose (Stegner) ...... 40 Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie) ...... 5 Animal Farm (Orwell) ...... 41 Adolphe (Constant) ...... 5 Anna Christie (O’Neill) ...... 42 Adventures of Augie , The (Bellow) ...... 6 Anna Karénina (Tolstoy) ...... 42 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) ...... 8 Anna of the Five Towns (Bennett) ...... 43 Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The (Smollett)...... 9 Another Country (Baldwin) ...... 44 Adventures of Roderick Random, The (Smollett) .....10 Antigone (Anouilh) ...... 45 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)...... 11 Antigone (Sophocles)...... 46 Adventurous Simplicissimus, The (von Antiquary, The (Scott) ...... 46 Grimmelshausen) ...... 12 Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)...... 47 Aeneid (Vergil) ...... 13 Apostle, The (Asch) ...... 48 Aesops Fables (Aesop) ...... 14 Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara) ...... 49 Affected Young Ladies, The (Molière) ...... 15 Arcadia (Sidney)...... 50 Against the Grain (Huysmans) ...... 15 Armies of the Night, The (Mailer)...... 51 Age of Innocence, The (Wharton) ...... 16 Arms and the Man (Shaw) ...... 52 Agnes Grey (Brontë) ...... 17 Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) ...... 52 Ajax (Sophocles) ...... 18 (Lewis) ...... 53 Alcestis (Euripides) ...... 18 Artamonov Business, The (Gorky)...... 54 Aleck Maury Sportsman (Gordon)...... 19 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) ...... 55 Alexandria Quartet, The (Durrell) ...... 20 As You Like It (Shakespeare) ...... 56 Alias Grace (Atwood)...... 21 Ashes (Zeromski) ...... 56 Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) ...... 23 Aspern Papers, The (James)...... 58 All Fall Down (Herlihy)...... 24 Assistant, The (Malamud) ...... 58 All for Love (Dryden) ...... 25 Assommoir, L (Zola) ...... 59 All Hallows’ Eve (Williams) ...... 26 Atala (Chateaubriand) ...... 60 All Men Are Brothers (Naian) ...... 27 Atalanta in Calydon (Swinburne)...... 60 All My Sons (Miller) ...... 28 Atlas Shrugged (Rand)...... 61 All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) ...... 28 Aucassin and Nicolette (Unknown) ...... 64 All That Fall (Beckett) ...... 29 August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn) ...... 64 All the Kings Men (Warren)...... 29 Aurora Leigh (Browning)...... 65 All’s That Ends Well (Shakespeare) ...... 30 Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, The (Stein)...... 66 Almayers Folly (Conrad)...... 31 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Gaines) ...68

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Autobiography of an Ex Coloured Man, The (Johnson) .67 Black Swan, The (Mann) ...... 105 Awakening, The (Chopin) ...... 68 Black Thunder (Bontemps) ...... 107 Awkward Age, The (James)...... 69 Bleak House (Dickens)...... 108 Bless Me Ultima (Anaya)...... 109 Babbitt (Lewis)...... 70 Blithe Spirit (Coward) ...... 110 Bacchae, The (Euripides)...... 71 Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne) ...... 110 Bachelors, The (Spark)...... 71 Blood Wedding (García Lorca) ...... 111 Back to Methuselah (Shaw) ...... 72 Blooms of Darkness (Appelfeld) ...... 112 Badenheim 1939 (Appelfeld) ...... 73 Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, The (Murger) ...... 113 Bald Soprano, The (Ionesco) ...... 74 Bone Clocks, The (Mitchell) ...... 114 Bambi (Salten) ...... 74 Bonesetter’s Daughter, The (Tan)...... 118 Barabbas (Lagerkvist) ...... 75 Bonfire of the Vanities, The (Wolfe)...... 119 Barber of Seville, The (Beaumarchais) ...... 76 Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The (Kundera) ....121 Barchester Towers (Trollope)...... 77 Book of the City of Ladies, The (Christine de Pizan) . 122 Barnaby Rudge (Dickens) ...... 78 Book of the Courtier, The (Castiglione) ...... 123 Baron Munchausens Narrative of His Marvellous Book of the Duchess (Chaucer)...... 124 Travels and Campaigns in Russia (Raspe) ...... 79 Book of Theseus, The (Boccaccio) ...... 125 Barren Ground (Glasgow) ...... 80 Book Thief, The (Zusak) ...... 125 Barrio Boy (Galarza) ...... 81 Boris Godunov (Pushkin)...... 127 Barry Lyndon (Thackeray)...... 82 Bostonians, The (James) ...... 127 Bartholomew Fair (Jonson) ...... 83 Braggart Soldier, The (Plautus) ...... 128 Batouala (Maran)...... 83 Brand (Ibsen) ...... 129 Bay of Silence, The (Mallea) ...... 84 Brave New World (Huxley) ...... 129 Beaux Stratagem, The (Farquhar) ...... 86 Bread and Wine (Silone) ...... 130 (Anouilh) ...... 86 Brewster (Slouka)...... 131 Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky) ...... 87 Bride of Lammermoor, The (Scott) ...... 132 Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay) ...... 87 Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) ...... 133 Bel-Ami (Maupassant)...... 88 Bridge, The (Crane)...... 134 Belinda (Edgeworth) ...... 88 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder) ...... 135 Bell for Adano, A (Hersey) ...... 89 Bridge on the Drina, The (Andric) ...... 135 Bell Jar, The (Plath) ...... 90 Brief History of Seven Killings, A (James) ...... 136 Bellefleur (Oates)...... 91 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Diaz) .....137 (Morrison) ...... 92 Brighton Rock (Greene)...... 138 Ben Hur (Wallace) ...... 93 Britannicus (Racine)...... 139 Bend in the River, A (Naipaul) ...... 94 Broad and Alien Is the World (Alegría)...... 140 Benito Cereno (Melville) ...... 94 Broken Jug, The (von Kleist) ...... 140 Beowulf (Unknown)...... 95 Bronze Horseman, The (Pushkin) ...... 141 Berenice (Racine)...... 96 Brothers Ashkenazi, The (Singer) ...... 141 Berlin Alexanderplatz (Döblin) ...... 97 Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevski) ...... 142 Betrothed, The (Manzoni) ...... 97 Brut (Layamon) ...... 143 Between the Acts (Woolf)...... 98 Buddenbrooks (Mann) ...... 143 Big Rock Candy Mountain, The (Stegner)...... 99 Bullet Park (Cheever)...... 144 Big Sky, The (Guthrie)...... 100 Bulwark, The (Dreiser) ...... 145 Big Sleep, The (Chandler) ...... 101 Burnt Out Case, A (Greene)...... 146 Billy Budd Foretopman (Melville) ...... 102 Bus Stop (Inge) ...... 147 Birds, The (Aristophanes) ...... 103 Bussy d’Ambois (Chapman) ...... 147 Birthday Party, The (Pinter)...... 103 Black Arrow, The (Stevenson) ...... 104 Cadmus (Unknown) ...... 148 Black Swan Green (Mitchell)...... 105 Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw) ...... 149 vi Table of Contents

Cain (Byron)...... 149 Children’s Hour, The (Hellman) ...... 186 Caine Mutiny, The (Wouk) ...... 150 Chita (Hearn) ...... 187 Cakes and Ale (Maugham)...... 151 Chosen, The (Potok)...... 188 Caleb Williams (Godwin)...... 151 Christmas Carol, A (Dickens)...... 189 Call It Sleep (Roth)...... 152 Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis) ...... 189 Call of the Wild, The (London) ...... 153 Cid, The (Corneille)...... 191 Camel Xiangzi (Lao She) ...... 154 Cinna (Corneille) ...... 191 Camille (Dumas fils) ...... 154 Cinq Mars (Vigny) ...... 192 Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn) ...... 155 City of the Sun, The (Campanella) ...... 193 Candida (Shaw) ...... 156 Clara Callan (Wright) ...... 193 Candide (Voltaire) ...... 157 Clarissa (Richardson)...... 194 Cane (Toomer) ...... 158 Clayhanger Trilogy, The (Bennett)...... 195 Cannibal, The (Hawkes)...... 158 Cliges (Chrétien de Troyes) ...... 197 Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer)...... 159 Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess) ...... 197 Captain Horatio Hornblower (Forester)...... 160 Closed Garden, The (Green) ...... 198 Captains Courageous (Kipling) ...... 161 Clouds, The (Aristophanes) ...... 199 Captain’s Daughter, The (Pushkin) ...... 162 Clown, The (Böll)...... 199 Captives, The (Plautus) ...... 163 (Norris) ...... 200 Caretaker, The (Pinter)...... 163 Cocktail Party, The (Eliot) ...... 201 Carmen (Mérimée) ...... 164 Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons)...... 201 Carmina (Catullus)...... 164 Collector, The (Fowles) ...... 202 Cass Timberlane (Lewis) ...... 165 Color Purple, The (Walker) ...... 203 Castle, The (Kafka) ...... 166 Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare)...... 204 Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole) ...... 167 Company of Women, The (Gordon) ...... 205 Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth) ...... 168 Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Cat and Mouse (Grass) ...... 168 (Dickinson) ...... 206 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams) ...... 169 Comus (Milton) ...... 206 Catch-22 (Heller) ...... 169 Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Quincey) ...207 Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)...... 171 Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man (Mann). . 207 Catiline (Jonson) ...... 172 Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron) ...... 209 Cecilia (Burney) ...... 172 Confidence Man, The (Melville) ...... 210 Celestina (Rojas) ...... 173 Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot) ...... 211 Cenci, The (Shelley)...... 174 Coningsby (Disraeli) ...... 211 Ceremony (Silko) ...... 175 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain) 212 Chairs, The (Ionesco)...... 175 Conscience of the Rich, The () ...... 213 Chaka (Mofolo) ...... 176 Conscious Lovers, The (Steele) ...... 214 Changeling, The (Rowley and Middleton) ...... 177 Conversation in the Cathedral (Vargas Llosa) ...... 215 Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal) ...... 177 (Frayn) ...... 215 Cheri (Colette) ...... 178 Coriolanus (Shakespeare) ...... 216 Cherokee Night, The (Riggs) ...... 179 Corsican Brothers, The (Dumas père) ...... 216 Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)...... 180 Cossacks, The (Tolstoy) ...... 217 Chevalier de Maison Rouge, The (Maquet and Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas père) ...... 218 Dumas père) ...... 180 Counterfeiters, The (Gide) ...... 220 Chicago Poems (Sandburg) ...... 181 Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats) ...... 221 Chickencoop Chinaman, The (Chin) ...... 181 Country Doctor, A (Jewett) ...... 221 Child of God (McCarthy)...... 182 Country of the Pointed Firs, The (Jewett) ...... 222 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron)...... 183 Country Wife, The (Wycherley) ...... 223 Childhood’s End (Clarke) ...... 184 Courtship of Miles Standish, The (Longfellow) ...... 223 Children of the Game (Cocteau) ...... 185 Cousin Bette (Balzac) ...... 224

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Cousin Pons (Balzac) ...... 225 Delicate Balance, A (Albee) ...... 265 Cranford (Gaskell) ...... 226 Deliverance (Dickey) ...... 266 Cream of the Jest, The (Cabell) ...... 227 Delta Wedding (Welty) ...... 266 Crime and Punishment (Dostoevski) ...... 228 Democracy (Didion)...... 267 Crimes of the Heart (Henley) ...... 229 Deptford Trilogy, The (Davies) ...... 268 Crisis, The (Churchill) ...... 229 Descent into Hell (Williams) ...... 269 Crock of Gold, The (Stephens)...... 230 Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill) ...... 270 Crome Yellow (Huxley) ...... 231 Devil upon Two Sticks, The (Lesage) ...... 271 Crotchet Castle (Peacock) ...... 232 Devil’s Elixirs, The (Hoffmann)...... 272 Crucible, The (Miller) ...... 233 Diana of the Crossways (Meredith) ...... 273 Cry the Beloved Country (Paton) ...... 234 Diary of a Country Priest, The (Bernanos) ...... 274 Cupid and Psyche (Unknown) ...... 235 Dining Room, The (Gurney) ...... 274 Custom of the Country, The (Wharton) ...... 235 Disciple, The (Bourget) ...... 275 Cutting For Stone (Verghese) ...... 236 Divine Comedy, The (Dante)...... 276 Cymbeline (Shakespeare)...... 237 Divine Fire, The (Sinclair)...... 277 Cypresses Believe in God, The (Gironella) ...... 238 Diving into the Wreck (Rich)...... 278 Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand) ...... 239 Doctor Faustus (Mann) ...... 278 Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) ...... 279 Daisy Miller (James) ...... 240 Doctor Pascal (Zola) ...... 280 Dame Care (Sudermann) ...... 240 Doctor Thorne (Trollope)...... 280 Damnation of Theron Ware, The (Frederic) ...... 241 Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) ...... 282 Dance of Death, The (Strindberg) ...... 243 Dodsworth (Lewis)...... 283 Dance to the Music of Time, A (Powell) ...... 243 Doll’s House, A (Ibsen) ...... 283 (Friel) ...... 244 Dombey and Son (Dickens) ...... 284 Dangerous Acquaintances (Laclos) ...... 245 Dominique (Fromentin) ...... 285 Daniel Deronda (Eliot)...... 245 Don Flows Home to the Sea, The (Sholokhov) ...... 286 Dantons Death (Büchner)...... 246 Don Juan (Byron) ...... 287 Daphnis and Chloe (Longus) ...... 247 Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes)...... 287 Dark Journey, The (Green)...... 248 Don Segundo Sombra (Güiraldes)...... 289 Dark Laughter (Anderson) ...... 248 Doña Barbara (Gallegos) ...... 290 Darkness at Noon (Koestler) ...... 249 Doña Perfecta (Pérez Galdós) ...... 290 David Copperfield (Dickens) ...... 250 Down There (Huysmans) ...... 291 Day of the Locust, The (West) ...... 251 Dracula (Stoker) ...... 292 Dead Souls (Gogol) ...... 252 Dragon Seed (Buck) ...... 294 Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather) ...... 253 Dream of the Chamber (Xueqin)...... 294 Death in the Family, A (Agee) ...... 254 Drums Along the Mohawk (Edmonds) ...... 296 Death in Venice (Mann) ...... 255 Dubliners (Joyce) ...... 297 Death of a Hero (Aldington)...... 256 Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster) ...... 298 (Miller) ...... 257 Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen) ...... 299 Death of Artemio Cruz, The (Fuentes) ...... 257 Dumb Waiter, The (Pinter)...... 299 Death of Ivan Ilyich, The (Tolstoy) ...... 258 Dunciad, The (Pope) ...... 299 Death of the Heart, The (Bowen) ...... 259 Dune (Herbert)...... 300 Death of Virgil, The (Broch) ...... 260 Dutchman (Baraka) ...... 301 Death Ship, The (Traven)...... 261 Decline and Fall (Waugh)...... 262 Earth (Zola) ...... 302 Deerslayer, The (Cooper)...... 263 Earthly Paradise, The (Morris)...... 303 Deirdre (Stephens) ...... 264 East of Eden (Steinbeck) ...... 303 Deirdre (Yeats) ...... 264 Eastward Ho! (Marston and Jonson) ...... 304 Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge) ...... 265 Eat a Bowl of Tea (Chu)...... 305 viii Table of Contents

Edward II (Marlowe) ...... 306 Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)...... 342 Effi Briest (Fontane) ...... 306 Fair Maid of Perth, The (Scott) ...... 342 Egmont (Goethe) ...... 307 Fall, The (Camus)...... 343 Egoist, The (Meredith) ...... 308 Fall of the House of Usher, The (Poe) ...... 344 Elder Statesman, The (Eliot) ...... 309 Family of Pascual Duarte, The (Cela) ...... 345 El Zarco the Bandit (Altamirano)...... 309 Family Reunion, The (Eliot) ...... 346 Elective Affinities (Goethe) ...... 310 Far Field, The (Roethke) ...... 346 Electra (Euripides) ...... 311 Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy)...... 346 Electra (Sophocles)...... 311 Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway) ...... 348 Elegy of Lady Fiammetta, The (Boccaccio)...... 312 Father, The (Strindberg)...... 348 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Gray)...... 313 Fathers, The (Tate) ...... 349 Elizabeth and After (Cohen) ...... 313 Fathers and Sons (Turgenev) ...... 350 Elmer Gantry (Lewis)...... 314 Faultline (Taylor) ...... 351 Emigrants of Ahadarra, The (Carleton) ...... 315 Faust (Goethe) ...... 352 Emile (Rousseau) ...... 315 Felix Holt the Radical (Eliot)...... 353 Emma (Austen)...... 316 Fellowship of the Ring, The (Tolkien) ...... 354 Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill) ...... 317 (Wilson) ...... 355 End of the , The (Barth)...... 318 Ferdydurke (Gombrowicz) ...... 355 Endgame (Beckett) ...... 319 Final Payments (Gordon) ...... 356 Endymion (Keats) ...... 319 Financier, The (Dreiser)...... 357 Enemies: A Love Story (Singer) ...... 320 Fine Balance, A (Mistry) ...... 358 Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen) ...... 321 Finnegans Wake (Joyce)...... 360 English Patient, The (Ondaatje)...... 322 Firebugs, The (Frisch) ...... 361 Enormous Room, The (Cummings) ...... 323 Fixer, The (Malamud) ...... 361 Epicoene (Jonson) ...... 324 Flies, The (Sartre) ...... 362 Epitaph of a Small Winner (Machado de Assis) .....324 Flies, The (Azuela) ...... 363 (Shaffer) ...... 325 Floating Opera, The (Barth)...... 363 Erec and Enide (Chrétien de Troyes) ...... 326 Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) ...... 364 Erewhon (Butler) ...... 326 Folks, The (Suckow)...... 365 Esther Waters (Moore) ...... 327 Foma Gordeyev (Gorky) ...... 366 Ethan Frome (Wharton) ...... 328 Fontamara (Silone)...... 367 Eugenie Grandet (Balzac) ...... 329 Fool for Love (Shepard)...... 368 Euphoria (King) ...... 330 Fools Crow (Welch) ...... 368 Eustace Diamonds, The (Trollope)...... 331 for colored girls who have considered suicide/ Evangeline (Longfellow) ...... 332 when the rainbow is enuf (Shange) ...... 369 Evelina (Burney) ...... 332 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway) ...... 369 Every Man in His Humour (Jonson) ...... 333 Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy)...... 370 Every Man out of His Humour (Jonson) ...... 334 Fortunes of Nigel, The (Scott) ...... 371 Everyman (Unknown) ...... 334 Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The (Werfel) ...... 372 Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club Fountainhead, The (Rand) ...... 372 (Sáenz) ...... 335 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The (Ibáñez) ....373 Everything I Never Told You (Ng)...... 335 419 (Ferguson)...... 374 Everything is Illuminated (Foer) ...... 336 Four Quartets (Eliot) ...... 375 Exiles (Joyce)...... 338 Frankenstein (Shelley) ...... 376 Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The (Smollett) .....338 Franny and Zooey (Salinger) ...... 377 Explosion in a Cathedral (Carpentier)...... 339 Free Fall (Golding)...... 378 Freedom or Death (Kazantzakis) ...... 379 Fable, A (Faulkner) ...... 340 French Lieutenants Woman, The (Fowles) ...... 380 Faerie Queene, The (Spenser) ...... 341 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene)...... 381

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Frogs, The (Aristophanes) ...... 381 Giants in the Earth (Rölvaag)...... 390 Fruit of the Tree, The (Wharton) ...... 382 Gift of the Magi, The (Henry) ...... 391 Gilded Age, The (Warner and Twain) ...... 392 Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon (Amado) ...... 382 Giles Goat Boy (Barth) ...... 393 Galileo (Brecht) ...... 383 Gilgamesh Epic, The (Unknown)...... 394 Gambler, The (Dostoevski)...... 384 Giver, The (Lowry)...... 395 Garden of Evening Mists, The (Eng) ...... 385 Glass Key, The (Hammett)...... 396 Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)...... 386 Glass Menagerie, The (Williams)...... 397 Gathering, The (Enright) ...... 387 Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet) ...... 398 Genius, The (Dreiser) ...... 387 Go Down Moses (Faulkner) ...... 398 Germinal (Zola) ...... 388 Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin) ...... 399 Germinie Lacerteux (Goncourt and Goncourt) ...... 389 God of Small Things, The (Roy) ...... 400 Ghosts (Ibsen) ...... 390

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Volume Two

Key to Pronunciation ...... xxiii Handful of Dust, A (Waugh) ...... 438 Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood)...... 439 God’s Little Acre (Caldwell) ...... 401 Hard Times (Dickens) ...... 440 Going After Cacciato (O’Brien)...... 401 Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells)...... 441 Gold Bug, The (Poe) ...... 403 Headlong Hall (Peacock) ...... 442 Golden Apples, The (Welty)...... 404 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers) ...... 443 Golden Ass, The (Apuleius) ...... 405 Heart of Aztlan (Anaya)...... 443 Golden Bowl, The (James) ...... 406 Heart of Darkness (Conrad)...... 444 Golden Boy (Odets) ...... 407 Heart of Midlothian, The (Scott) ...... 445 Golden Compass, The (Northern Lights) (Pullman) . . 407 Heart of the Matter, The (Greene) ...... 446 Golden Notebook, The (Lessing) ...... 409 Heartbreak House (Shaw) ...... 447 Gone with the Wind (Mitchell) ...... 410 Heat of the Day, The (Bowen) ...... 447 Good Companions, The (Priestley) ...... 411 Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) ...... 448 Good Earth, The (Buck) ...... 412 Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein) ...... 449 Good House, The (Leary) ...... 413 Heimskringla (Sturluson) ...... 449 Good Soldier, The (Ford)...... 415 Henderson the Rain King (Bellow) ...... 450 Good Soldier Svejk, The (Hašek) ...... 416 Henry IV (Pirandello) ...... 452 Goodbye Mr Chips (Hilton)...... 417 Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare)...... 452 Grain of , A (wa Thiong’o) ...... 418 Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare) ...... 453 Grandissimes, The (Cable)...... 419 Henry V (Shakespeare) ...... 453 Grandmothers, The (Wescott)...... 420 Henry VI, Part I (Shakespeare) ...... 454 Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck) ...... 421 Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare)...... 455 Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon) ...... 422 Henry VI, Part III (Shakespeare) ...... 455 Great Expectations (Dickens)...... 423 Henry VIII (Fletcher and Shakespeare)...... 456 Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald) ...... 424 Hercules and His Twelve Labors (Unknown)...... 456 Green Grow the Lilacs (Riggs) ...... 425 Hereward the Wake (Kingsley) ...... 457 Green Henry (Keller) ...... 425 Herland (Gilman) ...... 458 Green House, The (Vargas Llosa) ...... 426 Hero of Our Time, A (Lermontov) ...... 459 Green Mansions (Hudson) ...... 427 Herzog (Bellow) ...... 460 Greenes Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a High Wind in Jamaica, A (Hughes) ...... 461 Million of Repentance (Greene)...... 428 Hippolytus (Euripides)...... 462 Group Portrait with Lady (Böll)...... 429 History of Henry Esmond Esquire, The (Thackeray). . 463 Growth of the (Hamsun)...... 429 History of Pendennis, The (Thackeray) ...... 463 (Cozzens) ...... 430 Hive, The (Cela)...... 464 Guide, The (Narayan) ...... 431 Hizakurige (Ikku) ...... 465 Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) ...... 432 HMS Pinafore (Gilbert) ...... 466 Guy Mannering (Scott)...... 433 Hobbit, The (Tolkien) ...... 466 Guy of Warwick (Unknown) ...... 434 Homeward (Æ)...... 468 Homewood Trilogy, The (Wideman) ...... 468 Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill) ...... 435 Honorary Consul, The (Greene)...... 469 Hamlet, The (Faulkner) ...... 436 Hopscotch (Cortázar)...... 469 Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare)...... 437 Horace (Corneille) ...... 470

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Horses Mouth, The (Cary) ...... 471 Invisible Man (Ellison)...... 511 Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Doyle)...... 471 Invisible Man, The () ...... 512 House by the Churchyard, The (Fanu) ...... 472 Iolanthe (Gilbert) ...... 512 House by the Medlar Tree, The (Verga)...... 473 Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) ...... 513 House in Paris, The (Bowen) ...... 474 (Kennedy)...... 513 (Momaday)...... 475 Israel Potter (Melville) ...... 515 House of Blue Leaves, The (Guare) ...... 476 Italian, The (Radcliffe) ...... 516 House of Gentlefolk, A (Turgenev) ...... 476 Itching Parrot, The (Fernández de Lizardi) ...... 517 House of Mirth, The (Wharton) ...... 477 Ivanhoe (Scott) ...... 518 House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne)...... 478 House of the Spirits, The (Allende) ...... 479 J.B. (MacLeish) ...... 518 House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros) ...... 480 Jack Sheppard (Ainsworth) ...... 519 House on the Hill, The (Pavese) ...... 480 Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Diderot) ...... 520 How Green Was My Valley (Llewellyn)...... 481 Jane Eyre (Brontë) ...... 520 Howards End (Forster) ...... 482 Jason and the Golden Fleece (Unknown) ...... 521 Human Comedy, The (Saroyan)...... 483 Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet) ...... 522 Human Factor, The (Greene) ...... 484 Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser)...... 523 Human Stain, The (Roth) ...... 484 Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe)...... 524 Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)...... 486 John Browns Body (Benét) ...... 524 Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Hugo) ...... 487 John Halifax Gentleman (Mulock) ...... 525 Hunger (Hamsun)...... 487 John Henry Days (Whitehead) ...... 526 Hyde Park (Shirley) ...... 488 Jonathan Wild (Fielding) ...... 528 Hypatia (Kingsley) ...... 489 Jorrock’s Jaunts and Jollities (Surtees)...... 529 Joseph Andrews (Fielding) ...... 530 I, Claudius (Graves)...... 489 Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe) ...... 531 Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill)...... 490 Journey to the End of the Night (Céline) ...... 532 Idiot, The (Dostoevski)...... 491 Journey to the West, The (Wu Ch’eng-en) ...... 533 Idylls of the King (Tennyson)...... 492 Joy Luck Club, The (Tan) ...... 534 If Not Now When (Levi) ...... 493 Jude the Obscure (Hardy) ...... 535 Iliad (Homer) ...... 494 Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)...... 536 I’ll Give You the Sun (Nelson)...... 494 July’s People (Gordimer) ...... 536 Imaginary Invalid, The (Molière)...... 495 Jungle, The (Sinclair)...... 537 Immensee (Storm) ...... 496 Jungle Books, The (Kipling) ...... 538 Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde)...... 497 Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey) ...... 539 In-Between World of Vikram Lall, The (Vassanji) ...497 Jurgen (Cabell)...... 540 In Cold Blood (Capote) ...... 499 In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck)...... 500 Kenilworth (Scott) ...... 541 In the Heart of the Seas (Agnon) ...... 500 Kidnapped (Stevenson)...... 542 In the Wilderness (Undset)...... 501 Kim (Kipling)...... 543 Independence Day (Ford) ...... 502 Kinflicks (Alther) ...... 544 Independent People (Laxness) ...... 504 King John (Shakespeare) ...... 545 Indian Summer (Howells) ...... 505 King Lear (Shakespeare) ...... 545 Indiana () ...... 506 King Solomon’s Mines (Haggard)...... 546 Informer, The (O’Flaherty) ...... 507 Kiss of the Spider Woman (Puig) ...... 547 Inheritors, The (Golding) ...... 508 Kite Runner, The (Hosseini) ...... 548 Inspector General, The (Gogol) ...... 508 Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Beaumont) ...... 550 Intruder in the Dust (Faulkner) ...... 509 Knights, The (Aristophanes) ...... 550 Intruder, The (Maeterlinck) ...... 509 Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett) ...... 551 Invention of Wings, The (Monk Kidd) ...... 510 Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy)...... 551 xii Table of Contents

Kristin Lavransdatter (Undset)...... 552 Lorna Doone (Blackmore) ...... 589 Kubla Khan (Coleridge)...... 553 Lost Horizon (Hilton)...... 590 Lost Illusions (Balzac) ...... 590 Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence) ...... 553 (Simon)...... 591 Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde) ...... 554 Lost Lady, A (Cather) ...... 592 Lady from the Sea, The (Ibsen) ...... 554 Lost Weekend, The (Jackson) ...... 593 Lady’s Not for Burning, The (Fry) ...... 555 Lost World, The (Jarrell) ...... 594 Lancelot (Chrétien de Troyes) ...... 555 Love in the Time of Cholera (García Márquez)...... 594 Last Chronicle of Barset, The (Trollope) ...... 556 Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The (Monzaemon) ...... 595 Last Days of Pompeii, The (Bulwer-Lytton) ...... 556 Lover, The (Duras) ...... 596 Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper) ...... 557 Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) ...... 596 Last of the Wine, The (Renault)...... 558 Loving (Green)...... 597 Last Orders (Swift) ...... 559 Lower Depths, The (Gorky) ...... 597 Last Puritan, The (Santayana) ...... 560 Lowland, The (Lahiri) ...... 598 Last Temptation of Christ, The (Kazantzakis) ...... 561 Lucky Jim (Amis) ...... 599 Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald) ...... 562 Lusiads, The (Camões)...... 599 Late George Apley, The (Marquand)...... 563 Lute, The (Gao Ming) ...... 601 Lavengro (Borrow)...... 563 Lysistrata (Aristophanes) ...... 601 Lay of Igors Campaign, The (Unknown) ...... 564 Leaves of Grass (Whitman) ...... 565 Mabinogion, The (Unknown)...... 602 Left Hand of Darkness, The (Guin) ...... 565 Mac Flecknoe (Dryden) ...... 603 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (Irving) ...... 566 Macbeth (Shakespeare) ...... 603 Leopard, The (Lampedusa) ...... 567 Madame Bovary (Flaubert) ...... 604 Les Miserables (Hugo)...... 568 Mademoiselle de Maupin (Gautier)...... 605 Lesson Before Dying, A (Gaines) ...... 569 Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux) ...... 606 Liber Amoris (Hazlitt) ...... 570 Maggie (Crane) ...... 607 Lie Down in Darkness (Styron) ...... 571 Magic Mountain, The (Mann) ...... 608 Life of Marianne, The (Marivaux) ...... 572 Magician of Lublin, The (Singer) ...... 609 Ligeia (Poe) ...... 572 Magnificent Ambersons, The (Tarkington) ...... 609 Light in August (Faulkner) ...... 573 Magnificent Obsession (Douglas) ...... 610 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Magus, The (Fowles) ...... 611 on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Mahabharata, The (Unknown) ...... 612 Tour, July 13, 1798 (Wordsworth) ...... 574 Main Street (Lewis) ...... 612 Little Dorrit (Dickens) ...... 574 Major Barbara (Shaw) ...... 613 Little Foxes, The (Hellman)...... 575 Making of Americans, The (Stein)...... 614 Little Life, A (Yanagihara)...... 576 Malcontent, The (Marston) ...... 615 Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry) ...... 578 Malone Dies (Beckett) ...... 615 Little Women (Alcott)...... 579 Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett)...... 616 Lives of Others, The (Mukherjee) ...... 579 Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The (Hijuelos) ...616 Lolita (Nabokov) ...... 580 Man and Superman (Shaw) ...... 617 Long and Happy Life, A (Price) ...... 582 Man for All Seasons, A (Bolt) ...... 618 Long Days Journey into Night (O’Neill) ...... 582 Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie) ...... 618 Long Journey, The (Jensen) ...... 583 Man of Mode, The (Etherege) ...... 619 Longest Journey, The (Forster) ...... 584 Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Hart and Kaufman) . 620 Look Back in Anger (Osborne) ...... 585 Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren)...... 620 Look Homeward Angel (Wolfe) ...... 585 Man Without a Country, The (Hale) ...... 621 Looking Backward (Bellamy) ...... 586 Manfred (Byron)...... 622 Lord Jim (Conrad) ...... 587 Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos) ...... 622 Lord of the Flies (Golding) ...... 588 Manon Lescaut (Prévost) ...... 623

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Man’s Fate (Malraux) ...... 624 Modern Instance, A (Howells) ...... 662 Mansfield Park (Austen)...... 625 Moll Flanders (Defoe) ...... 663 Mansion, The (Faulkner) ...... 626 Molloy (Beckett)...... 664 Marat/Sade (Weiss)...... 627 Monk, The (Lewis)...... 665 Marble Faun, The (Hawthorne) ...... 628 Monsieur Lecoq (Gaboriau) ...... 665 March, The (Doctorow) ...... 629 Mont Oriol (Maupassant) ...... 666 Mardi and a Voyage Thither (Melville) ...... 630 Month in the Country, A (Turgenev) ...... 667 Marius the Epicurean (Pater)...... 631 Moon and Sixpence, The (Maugham) ...... 668 Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais)...... 632 Moon Tiger (Lively) ...... 669 Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens) ...... 632 Moonstone, The (Collins) ...... 669 Mary Barton (Gaskell) ...... 634 Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory) ...... 670 Mason and Dixon (Pynchon) ...... 635 Morte d’Urban (Powers) ...... 671 Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov) ...... 635 Mother, The (Deledda)...... 672 Master Builder, The (Ibsen) ...... 637 Mother (Gorky) ...... 673 “Master Harold”...and the Boys (Fugard) ...... 637 Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht)...... 674 Masters, The (Snow)...... 637 Mother and Son (Compton-Burnett) ...... 674 Maurice (Forster)...... 638 Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill) ...... 675 Mayor of Casterbridge, The (Hardy) ...... 639 Mousetrap, The (Christie) ...... 675 McTeague (Norris)...... 640 Moviegoer, The (Percy) ...... 676 Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) ...... 641 Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow) ...... 677 Medea (Euripides) ...... 642 Mrs Dalloway (Woolf) ...... 678 Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin) ...... 642 Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) ...... 679 Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers) ...... 643 Mumbo Jumbo (Reed) ...... 679 Memed My Hawk (Kemal) ...... 643 Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot) ...... 680 Memento Mori (Spark) ...... 644 Mutiny on the Bounty (Hall and Nordhoff) ...... 680 Memoirs of a Physician (Maquet and Dumas père)...645 My Antonia (Cather) ...... 681 Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar) ...... 646 My Brilliant Career (Franklin)...... 682 Menaechmi, The (Plautus)...... 647 My Name Is Asher Lev (Potok) ...... 683 Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare) ...... 647 Myra Breckinridge (Vidal) ...... 684 Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare) ...... 648 Mysteries of Paris, The (Sue) ...... 685 Metamorphosis, The (Kafka) ...... 648 Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe) ...... 686 Metamorphosis (Sitwell) ...... 649 Mysterious Island, The (Verne) ...... 687 Midaq Alley (Mahfouz) ...... 650 Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (Dickens)...... 688 Middlemarch (Eliot)...... 651 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) ...... 651 Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)...... 688 Mighty and Their Fall, The (Compton-Burnett)...... 652 Naked Lunch (Burroughs) ...... 689 Mikado, The (Gilbert) ...... 653 Naked Year, The (Pilnyak)...... 690 Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot)...... 653 Name of the Rose, The (Eco)...... 691 Milton (Blake) ...... 654 Nana (Zola) ...... 692 Ministry of Fear, The (Greene) ...... 655 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe) ...... 693 Miracle Worker, The (Gibson) ...... 655 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Misanthrope, The (Molière) ...... 656 an American Slave (Douglass)...... 694 Miser, The (Molière) ...... 656 Narrow Road to the Deep North, The (Basho)...... 694 Miss Julie (Strindberg)...... 657 Narrow Road to the Deep North, The (Flanagan)....695 Miss Lonelyhearts (West) ...... 658 Nathan the Wise (Lessing) ...... 696 (Heggen) ...... 658 Native Son (Wright) ...... 696 Mistress of Nothing (Pullinger)...... 659 Natural, The (Malamud)...... 697 Mithridates (Racine)...... 661 Nausea (Sartre) ...... 698 Moby Dick (Melville)...... 661 Nest of Simple Folk, A (O’Faoláin) ...... 699 xiv Table of Contents

New Atlantis, The (Bacon) ...... 700 (Strout)...... 739 New Grub Street (Gissing)...... 701 Oliver Twist (Dickens) ...... 740 New Heloise, The (Rousseau) ...... 702 Omensetter’s Luck (Gass) ...... 741 New Life, The (Dante)...... 703 Omoo (Melville)...... 742 Newcomes, The (Thackeray) ...... 703 On (Kerouac) ...... 743 News from Nowhere (Morris) ...... 704 Once and Future King, The (White)...... 744 Nibelungenlied, The (Unknown) ...... 705 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn). 745 Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) ...... 706 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey)...... 745 Nick of the Woods (Bird) ...... 706 One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez) ...746 Nigger of the Narcissus, The (Conrad) ...... 707 One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Unknown) . . 747 Night (Wiesel)...... 708 Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The (Meredith) ...... 748 Night Flight (Saint-Exupéry) ...... 709 Oresteia, The (Aeschylus)...... 749 ‘night Mother (Norman)...... 710 Orlando (Woolf) ...... 749 Night of the Iguana, The (Williams)...... 710 Orlando Furioso (Ariosto) ...... 750 Night Rider (Warren) ...... 711 Orley Farm (Trollope) ...... 751 Nightingale, The (Hannah) ...... 712 Oroonoko (Behn) ...... 752 Nightmare Abbey (Peacock) ...... 713 Orphan Master’s Son, The (Johnson) ...... 753 Nightwood (Barnes)...... 713 Orpheus and Eurydice (Unknown)...... 754 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) ...... 715 Othello (Shakespeare) ...... 755 No Country for Old Men (McCarthy) ...... 716 Other One, The (Colette) ...... 755 No Exit (Sartre) ...... 717 Other Voices Other Rooms (Capote) ...... 756 No No Boy (Okada)...... 717 Other Women (Alther) ...... 757 North and South (Bishop) ...... 719 Our Ancestors (Calvino) ...... 758 North and South (Gaskell) ...... 719 Our House in the Last World (Hijuelos) ...... 759 North of Boston (Frost) ...... 720 Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)...... 760 Northanger Abbey (Austen) ...... 721 Our Town (Wilder) ...... 760 Nostromo (Conrad) ...... 721 Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis) ...... 761 Nuns and Soldiers (Murdoch) ...... 722 Out Stealing Horses (Petterson)...... 762 Overcoat, The (Gogol) ...... 763 O Pioneers! (Cather) ...... 723 Ox Bow Incident, The (Clark) ...... 764 Obasan (Kogawa)...... 724 Oblomov (Goncharov) ...... 724 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Doyle) ...... 764 Obscene Bird of Night, The (Donoso) ...... 725 Painted Bird, The (Kosinski) ...... 765 Octopus, The (Norris) ...... 726 Pale Fire (Nabokov) ...... 766 Odd Couple, The (Simon) ...... 727 Pale Horse Pale Rider (Porter)...... 767 Odes (Pindar)...... 728 Palm Wine Drinkard, The (Tutuola)...... 768 Odyssey (Homer) ...... 728 Pamela (Richardson) ...... 769 Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles)...... 730 Parade’s End (Ford) ...... 769 Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles) ...... 730 Paradise (Morrison) ...... 770 Of Human Bondage (Maugham) ...... 731 Paradise Lost (Milton) ...... 771 Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) ...... 732 Paradise Regained (Milton) ...... 772 Of Time and the River (Wolfe) ...... 733 Parrot and Olivier in America (Carey)...... 773 Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens) ...... 734 Passage to India, A (Forster) ...... 773 Old Maid, The (Wharton) ...... 735 Paterson (Williams) ...... 774 Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway) ...... 735 Pathfinder, The (Cooper) ...... 775 Old Mortality (Scott) ...... 735 Patience (Gilbert)...... 776 Old Wives’ Tale, The (Peele) ...... 736 Patience and Sarah (Miller) ...... 777 Old Wives’ Tale, The (Bennett) ...... 737 Peace (Aristophanes) ...... 777 Oldtown Folks (Stowe)...... 738 Peder Victorious (Rölvaag) ...... 778

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Pedro Paramo (Rulfo)...... 779 Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge) ...... 804 Peer Gynt (Ibsen) ...... 779 Plough and the Stars, The (O’Casey)...... 805 Pelle the Conqueror (Nexø) ...... 780 Plumed Serpent, The (Lawrence)...... 805 Pelleas and Melisande (Maeterlinck) ...... 781 Point Counter Point (Huxley)...... 806 Penguin Island (France)...... 781 Polyeucte (Corneille) ...... 807 People Yes, The (Sandburg)...... 782 Ponder Heart, The (Welty) ...... 807 Pepita Jimenez (Valera) ...... 783 Poor Folk (Dostoevski)...... 808 Pere Goriot (Balzac)...... 783 Poor White (Anderson) ...... 809 Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare)...... 784 Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike) ...... 810 Persians, The (Aeschylus)...... 785 Porgy (Heyward) ...... 811 Persuasion (Austen) ...... 785 Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth) ...... 812 Peter Ibbetson (du Maurier)...... 786 Portrait of a Lady, The (James) ...... 812 Peter Pan (Barrie) ...... 787 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Thomas)...... 813 Phaedra (Racine) ...... 788 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce) .....814 Phantom of the Opera, The (Leroux) ...... 788 Possessed, The (Dostoevski) ...... 815 Philoctetes (Sophocles) ...... 790 Postcards (Proulx) ...... 815 Phineas Finn, the Irish Member (Trollope) ...... 790 Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain) ...... 816 Phineas Redux (Trollope)...... 792 Power (Feuchtwanger)...... 817 Pickwick Papers (Dickens)...... 792 Power and the Glory, The (Greene) ...... 818 Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde) ...... 793 Power of Darkness, The (Tolstoy) ...... 818 Pierre (Melville) ...... 794 Prairie, The (Cooper) ...... 819 Pilgrim Hawk, The (Wescott) ...... 795 Pride and Prejudice (Austen) ...... 820 Pilgrimage (Richardson) ...... 796 Prince and the Pauper, The (Twain) ...... 820 Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan) ...... 797 Prince of Homburg, The (von Kleist)...... 822 Pillars of Society, The (Ibsen) ...... 798 Princess Casamassima, The (James) ...... 823 Pincher Martin (Golding)...... 799 Princess of Cleves, The (de La Fayette) ...... 824 Pioneers, The (Cooper) ...... 800 Prisoner of Zenda, The (Hope)...... 825 Pirates of Penzance, The (Gilbert) ...... 801 Private Lives (Coward) ...... 825 Pit, The (Norris)...... 801 Professor’s House, The (Cather) ...... 826 Plague, The (Camus) ...... 802 Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus) ...... 827 Plain Dealer, The (Wycherley) ...... 803 Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) ...... 827 Platero and I (Jiménez)...... 803 Promised Land, The (Pontoppidan)...... 828

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Key to Pronunciation ...... xxiii Riceyman Steps (Bennett) ...... 859 Richard II (Shakespeare) ...... 860 Pseudolus (Plautus) ...... 829 Richard III (Shakespeare) ...... 861 Purgatory (Yeats) ...... 829 Riders in the Chariot (White) ...... 861 Purple Dust (O’Casey) ...... 830 Riders to the Sea (Synge) ...... 862 Pygmalion (Shaw) ...... 830 Right You Are If You Think So (Pirandello)...... 863 Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The (Coleridge) ...... 863 Quentin Durward (Scott) ...... 831 Rip Van Winkle (Irving)...... 864 Quest of the Holy Grail, The (Unknown)...... 832 Rise of Silas Lapham, The (Howells)...... 865 Quicksand (Larsen) ...... 833 Rising of the Moon, The (Gregory) ...... 866 Quiet American, The (Greene)...... 834 Rivals, The (Sheridan) ...... 866 Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)...... 834 River of Smoke (Ghosh) ...... 866 Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse, The (Dekker and Rabbit Angstrom Novels, The (Updike) ...... 835 Middleton) ...... 867 Rabbit Boss (Sanchez) ...... 836 Rob Roy (Scott) ...... 868 Rainbow, The (Lawrence) ...... 837 Robert Elsmere (Ward)...... 869 Raintree County (Lockridge) ...... 838 Robin Hoods Adventures (Unknown) ...... 870 Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry)...... 839 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)...... 870 Ralph Roister Doister (Udall) ...... 839 Roderick Hudson (James) ...... 871 Ramayana, The (Vlmki) ...... 840 Romance of the Forest, The (Radcliffe) ...... 872 Rameau’s Nephew (Diderot) ...... 840 Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Guanzhong) .....873 Rasselas (Johnson)...... 841 Romantic Comedians, The (Glasgow) ...... 874 Razor’s Edge, The (Maugham) ...... 842 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) ...... 875 Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The (Nabokov) ...... 843 Romola (Eliot) ...... 875 Rebecca (du Maurier) ...... 844 Room (Donoghue) ...... 876 Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar) ...... 845 Room at the Top (Braine)...... 877 Red and the Black, The (Stendhal)...... 845 Room with a View, A (Forster) ...... 878 Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane) ...... 846 Roots (Haley) ...... 878 Redburn (Melville) ...... 847 Rope, The (Plautus) ...... 879 Redeployment (Klay) ...... 848 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard) . . 880 Reflections in a Golden Eye (McCullers) ...... 850 Rosmersholm (Ibsen) ...... 880 Reivers, The (Faulkner)...... 850 Roxana (Defoe) ...... 881 Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)...... 851 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (FitzGerald) ...... 881 Renee Mauperin (Goncourt and Goncourt) ...... 852 Rubyfruit Jungle (Brown)...... 882 Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner)...... 853 R.U.R.(Capek) ...... 883 Resurrection (Tolstoy) ...... 854 Ruslan and Lyudmila (Pushkin) ...... 884 Return of the King, The (Tolkien) ...... 855 Return of the Native, The (Hardy) ...... 856 Sacred Fount, The (James)...... 884 Return, The (de la Mare) ...... 857 Saga of Grettir the Strong, The (Unknown) ...... 885 Revenger’s Tragedy, The (Middleton) ...... 858 Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The Reynard the Fox (Unknown) ...... 858 (Mishima) ...... 885 Rhinoceros (Ionesco) ...... 859 Saint Joan (Shaw)...... 886

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Saint Peter’s Umbrella (Mikszáth) ...... 887 Sign of Four, The (Doyle) ...... 923 Sakuntala (Kalidasa) ...... 888 Signature of All Things, The (Gilbert)...... 924 Salammbo (Flaubert) ...... 889 Silas Marner (Eliot) ...... 925 Salvage the Bones (Ward) ...... 890 Silence (Endo) ...... 926 Samson Agonistes (Milton) ...... 891 Sir Charles Grandison (Richardson) ...... 927 Sanctuary (Faulkner) ...... 891 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Pearl-Poet)...... 928 Sanine (Artsybashev) ...... 892 Sirens of Titan, The (Vonnegut) ...... 929 Sappho (Daudet) ...... 893 Sister Carrie (Dreiser) ...... 930 Sappho (Grillparzer) ...... 893 Sister Philomene (Goncourt and Goncourt) ...... 931 Sartoris (Faulkner)...... 894 Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello) . . 932 Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie) ...... 895 Skin of Our Teeth, The (Wilder)...... 933 Satyricon, The (Petronius) ...... 897 Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) ...... 933 Savage Detectives, The (Bolaño)...... 898 Slow Homecoming (Handke)...... 934 Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) ...... 899 Small House at Allington, The (Trollope) ...... 935 School for Husbands, The (Molière) ...... 900 Smoke (Turgenev) ...... 936 School for Scandal, The (Sheridan)...... 900 Snake Pit, The (Undset) ...... 937 School for Wives, The (Molière) ...... 901 (Ferber) ...... 938 Sea, The (Banville)...... 901 Sohrab and Rustum (Arnold) ...... 938 Sea Garden (H.D.) ...... 902 Solaris (Lem) ...... 939 Sea of Grass, The (Richter) ...... 902 Song of Hiawatha, The (Longfellow) ...... 940 Sea Wolf, The (London)...... 903 Song of Roland, The (Unknown) ...... 941 Seagull, The (Chekhov) ...... 904 Song of Solomon (Morrison)...... 941 Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud) ...... 904 Song of the Lark, The (Cather) ...... 942 Season in Rihata, A (Condé) ...... 905 Song of the World, The (Giono) ...... 943 Seasons, The (Thomson) ...... 906 Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning) ...... 944 Second Shepherd’s Play, The (Master) ...... 906 Sonnets of Shakespeare (Shakespeare) ...... 944 Secret Agent, The (Conrad)...... 906 Sons and Lovers (Lawrence) ...... 945 Secret Garden, The (Burnett) ...... 907 Sophie’s Choice (Styron) ...... 946 Seeing Things (Heaney)...... 908 Sorrow of War, The (Ninh)...... 947 Seize the Day (Bellow)...... 909 Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe) ...... 947 Sejanus His Fall (Jonson)...... 910 Sot Weed Factor, The (Barth) ...... 948 Senor Presidente, El (Asturias) ...... 910 Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner) ...... 949 Sense and Sensibility (Austen) ...... 910 Sound of Waves, The (Mishima) ...... 950 Sentimental Education, A (Flaubert) ...... 911 South Wind (Douglas) ...... 950 Sentimental Journey, A (Sterne)...... 912 Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd)...... 951 Set This House on Fire (Styron) ...... 913 Speculations About Jakob (Johnson) ...... 952 Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus) ...... 914 Spoils of Poynton, The (James) ...... 953 Seven Who Were Hanged, The (Andreyev) ...... 915 Spoon River Anthology (Masters)...... 953 Seventeen (Tarkington) ...... 915 Sport of the Gods, The (Dunbar) ...... 954 Shadow Country (Matthiessen) ...... 916 Spy, The (Cooper) ...... 955 Shadows on the Rock (Cather) ...... 916 Station Eleven (St. John Mandell) ...... 956 She (Haggard) ...... 917 Steppenwolf (Hesse) ...... 958 She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)...... 918 Steps (Kosinski) ...... 958 Sheltered Life, The (Glasgow)...... 918 Stone Diaries, The (Shields)...... 959 Sheltering Sky, The (Bowles)...... 919 Story of an African Farm, The (Schreiner) ...... 960 Ship of Fools (Porter) ...... 920 Story of Burnt Njal, The (Unknown) ...... 961 Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (Dekker) ...... 921 Story of Gosta Berling, The (Lagerlöf) ...... 962 Shropshire Lad, A (Housman) ...... 921 Story of Lucy Gault, The (Trevor) ...... 963 Siddhartha (Hesse) ...... 922 xviii Table of Contents

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Three Soldiers (Passos) ...... 1004 (Stevenson) ...... 964 Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht) ...... 1005 Strange Interlude (O’Neill)...... 965 Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) ...... 966 Found There (Carroll) ...... 1006 Stranger, The (Camus) ...... 967 Thyestes (Seneca the Younger)...... 1007 Street Scene (Rice) ...... 968 Tiger at the Gates (Giraudoux) ...... 1007 Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams) ...... 968 Time Machine, The (Wells) ...... 1008 Studs Lonigan (Farrell) ...... 969 Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan) ...... 1008 Study in Scarlet, A (Doyle) ...... 970 Timon of Athens (Shakespeare)...... 1009 Suddenly Last Summer (Williams)...... 971 Tin Drum, The (Grass)...... 1009 Sula (Morrison) ...... 972 (Harding)...... 1011 Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway) ...... 973 Titan, The (Dreiser) ...... 1011 Sunken Bell, The (Hauptmann) ...... 974 Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare) ...... 1012 Sunlight Dialogues, The (Gardner) ...... 974 (Lee) ...... 1013 Suppliants, The (Aeschylus)...... 975 To The End of The Land (Grossman) ...... 1014 Surrounded, The (McNickle) ...... 975 To the Lighthouse (Woolf) ...... 1014 Swallow Barn (Kennedy) ...... 976 Tobacco Road (Caldwell)...... 1015 Swiss Family Robinson, The (Wyss and Wyss) ...... 977 Toilers of the Sea, The (Hugo)...... 1016 Sybil (Disraeli)...... 979 Tom Browns School Days (Hughes) ...... 1017 Tom Jones (Fielding) ...... 1018 Tale of a Tub, A (Swift) ...... 980 Tono Bungay (Wells) ...... 1019 Tale of Genji, The (Shikibu)...... 981 Top Girls (Churchill) ...... 1020 Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens) ...... 981 (Fierstein) ...... 1021 Talented Mr. Ripley, The (Highsmith) ...... 983 Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck) ...... 1021 Tales of Ise (Unknown) ...... 984 Tower, The (Yeats) ...... 1022 Talisman, The (Scott) ...... 985 Tower of London, The (Ainsworth) ...... 1023 Talley Family Saga (Wilson) ...... 986 Town, The (Faulkner) ...... 1023 Tamar (Jeffers) ...... 986 Tragedy of Tragedies, The (Fielding) ...... 1024 Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe) ...... 987 Tragic Muse, The (James) ...... 1025 Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare)...... 987 Travels of Lao Tsan, The (Liu E) ...... 1026 Tartuffe (Molière)...... 988 Treasure Island (Stevenson) ...... 1027 Taste of Honey, A (Delaney) ...... 989 Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Smith) ...... 1028 Tempest, The (Shakespeare) ...... 989 Tree of Man, The (White)...... 1029 Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The (Mishima)...... 990 Tree of the Folkungs, The (von Heidenstam)...... 1030 Temptation of Saint Anthony, The (Flaubert) ...... 991 Trial, The (Kafka)...... 1031 Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (Brontë) ...... 991 Tristram (Robinson) ...... 1031 Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)...... 992 Tristram Shandy (Sterne) ...... 1032 Tess of the DUrbervilles (Hardy)...... 993 Triumph of Death, The (D’Annunzio) ...... 1033 Tevye the Dairyman (Aleichem)...... 994 Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) ...... 1034 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) ...... 995 Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)...... 1034 Therese (Mauriac) ...... 995 Trojan Women, The (Euripides) ...... 1035 Therese Raquin (Zola) ...... 996 Tropic of Cancer (Miller)...... 1035 Thin Man, The (Hammett) ...... 997 Tropic of Capricorn (Miller) ...... 1036 Things Fall Apart (Achebe) ...... 998 Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan) ...... 1037 Thirty-nine Steps, The (Buchan) ...... 999 True History, A (Lucian) ...... 1038 Three Junes (Glass) ...... 1000 Tung chou lieh kuo chih (Menglong)...... 1039 Three Lives (Stein)...... 1002 Turn of the Screw, The (James) ...... 1040 Three Musketeers, The (Dumas père) ...... 1003 Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) ...... 1040 Three Sisters, The (Chekhov)...... 1004 Twelve, The (Blok)...... 1041

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) . . 1041 Walden (Thoreau) ...... 1081 Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare) .....1042 Walk on the Wild Side, A (Algren)...... 1082 Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Fletcher and Wanderer, The (Alain-Fournier) ...... 1082 Shakespeare)...... 1043 Wandering Jew, The (Sue) ...... 1083 Two Towers, The (Tolkien) ...... 1043 Wapshot Chronicle, The (Cheever) ...... 1084 Two Women (Moravia) ...... 1044 Wapshot Scandal, The (Cheever)...... 1085 Typee (Melville) ...... 1045 War and Peace (Tolstoy)...... 1086 War of the Worlds, The (Wells) ...... 1087 Ulysses (Joyce)...... 1046 Warden, The (Trollope) ...... 1088 Unbearable Bassington, The (Saki) ...... 1047 Washington Square (James)...... 1089 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera) ....1048 Wasps, The (Aristophanes) ...... 1090 Uncle Silas (Fanu) ...... 1049 Waste Land, The (Eliot) ...... 1090 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe) ...... 1050 Watch on the Rhine (Hellman)...... 1091 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov) ...... 1051 Watership Down (Adams) ...... 1092 Under Fire (Barbusse) ...... 1052 Waverley (Scott)...... 1092 Under Milk Wood (Thomas) ...... 1053 Waves, The (Woolf) ...... 1093 Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy) ...... 1053 Way of All Flesh, The (Butler)...... 1094 Under the Volcano (Lowry) ...... 1054 Way We Live Now, The (Trollope) ...... 1095 Under the Yoke (Vazov) ...... 1055 Way of the World, The (Congreve) ...... 1095 Under Two Flags (Ouida) ...... 1056 We Were Liars (Lockhart) ...... 1096 Under Western Eyes (Conrad) ...... 1057 Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe) ...... 1097 Underdogs, The (Azuela) ...... 1057 Well of Loneliness, The (Hall)...... 1098 Undine (la Motte-Fouqué) ...... 1058 Westward Ho! (Kingsley)...... 1099 Unfortunate Traveller, The (Nashe) ...... 1059 What is the What: The Autobiography of Unnamable, The (Beckett) ...... 1060 Valentino Achak Deng (Eggars)...... 1100 Unnecessary Woman, An (Alameddine) ...... 1061 What Maisie Knew (James) ...... 1101 Unvanquished, The (Faulkner) ...... 1062 What the Butler Saw (Orton) ...... 1102 U.S.A. (Dos Passos) ...... 1063 When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen) ...... 1102 Utopia (More)...... 1064 Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster)...... 1103 Where I’m Calling From (Carver) ...... 1104 V. (Pynchon)...... 1065 Where the Air Is Clear (Fuentes) ...... 1104 Vagabond, The (Colette) ...... 1066 White Devil, The (Webster) ...... 1105 Vanity Fair (Thackeray) ...... 1067 White Jacket (Melville) ...... 1105 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Durang) . . . 1069 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee) ...... 1106 Vathek (Beckford)...... 1069 Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys) ...... 1107 Vernon God Little (Pierre)...... 1070 Wieland (Brown) ...... 1108 Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith)...... 1071 Wild Asss Skin, The (Balzac) ...... 1109 Victory (Conrad) ...... 1072 Wild Duck, The (Ibsen) ...... 1110 Village, The (Bunin)...... 1073 Wild Geese, The (Mori Ogai)...... 1111 Villette (Brontë) ...... 1074 Wild Palms, The (Faulkner)...... 1112 Violent Bear It Away, The (O’Connor) ...... 1074 Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship (Goethe)...... 1112 Violent Land, The (Amado) ...... 1075 Wilhelm Meisters Travels (Goethe) ...... 1113 Virginian, The (Wister)...... 1076 William Tell (Schiller) ...... 1114 Virginians, The (Thackeray) ...... 1077 Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame) ...... 1115 Volpone (Jonson) ...... 1078 Wind Sand and Stars (Saint-Exupéry) ...... 1116 Volupte (Sainte-Beuve)...... 1079 Winesburg Ohio (Anderson)...... 1117 Voyage Out, The (Woolf) ...... 1080 Wings of the Dove, The (James) ...... 1118 Winter of Our Discontent, The (Steinbeck) ...... 1118 Waiting for Godot (Beckett) ...... 1080 Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare)...... 1119 xx Table of Contents

Winterset (Anderson) ...... 1120 Xala (Sembène) ...... 1134 Wise Blood (O’Connor)...... 1120 Wives and Daughters (Gaskell) ...... 1121 Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The (Saramago) . 1135 Woman in the Dunes, The (Abe) ...... 1122 Yearling, The (Rawlings) ...... 1136 Woman Killed with Kindness, A (Heywood) ...... 1123 Years, The (Woolf) ...... 1136 Woman in White, The (Collins) ...... 1123 Yemassee, The (Simms) ...... 1137 Woman’s Life, A (Maupassant) ...... 1124 You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe) ...... 1138 Women Beware Women (Middleton)...... 1125 Youma (Hearn)...... 1139 Women of Brewster Place, The (Naylor) ...... 1125 Yvain (Chrétien de Troyes)...... 1140 Women of Trachis, The (Pound and Sophocles) ....1126 Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (Baum) ...... 1127 Zadig (Voltaire) ...... 1140 Wonderland (Oates) ...... 1128 Zoo Story, The (Albee) ...... 1141 Woodcutters (Bernhard)...... 1129 Zoot Suit (Valdez)...... 1141 Woodlanders, The (Hardy)...... 1130 Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis)...... 1142 World Enough and Time (Warren) ...... 1131 Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm) ...... 1143 Would-Be Gentleman, The (Molière)...... 1131 Woyzeck (Büchner) ...... 1132 Title Index ...... 1145 Wreck of the Deutschland, The (Hopkins) ...... 1132 Author Index ...... 1155 Wuthering Heights (Brontë) ...... 1133 Place Index ...... 1171

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