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Ann Quin’s Reading List

Novels (1864-1903) Émile Zola Anna Karenina (1877) Leo Tolstoy The Duchess of Malfi (1613) John Webster Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763 (p.) James Boswell The White Goddess (1948) Robert Graves The Divine Comedy (1321) Dante Alighieri Strange Case of Dr Jeykll & Mr Hyde (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson Don Quixote (I 1605; II 1615) Miguel de Cervantes Confessions (1769) Jean-Jacques Rousseau Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley Novels (1899-1943) Herman Hesse Iliad (c.850BC) Homer Of the Imitation of Christ (c.1418-1427) Thomas à Kempis The Turn of the Screw (1898) Henry James Journal Eugène Delacroix Kim (1901) Rudyard Kipling Plays (c.1944-1964) Jean Genet The Thief’s Journal (1949) Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) Lorna Doone (1869) R.D. Blackmore Lycidas (1638) John Milton Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert Man in the Iron Mask (1847) Alexandre Dumas Man’s Fate (1933) André Malraux The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (1793) William Blake Mary Stuart (1800) Friedrich Schiller The Medici (p.1920) G.F. Young The Outsider (1956) Colin Wilson Narrative Poems (c.1884-1913) Rabindranath Tagore Northwest Passage (1937) Kenneth Roberts The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1842) Robert Browning The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) John Bunyan The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini) The Raven (1845) Edgar Allen Poe ’s Fairy Tales (1812) Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm Crime & Punishment (1866) Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Waves (1931) Virginia Woolf Collected Stories (c.1914-1930) D.H. Lawrence The Collected Poems of D H Lawrence (1928) Idylls of the King (1859-1885) Alfred, Lord Tennyson If it Die (1926) André Gide Journals Nausea (1938) Jean-Paul Satre Age of Reason (1945) The Outsider (1942) The Fall (1956) The Rebel (1951) The Castle (1922) The Trial (1914) Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors (c.1900-1924) Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) Nathanael West The Day of the Locust (1939) Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) Carson McCullers Novels / Plays (c.1932-1983) Samuel Beckett The Moon and the Bonfires (1949) Cesare Pavese The Beach (1941) The Political Prisoner (1955) Plays (c.1922-1953) Ugo Betti Plays (c. 1881-1904) Anton Chekhov Short Stories (c. 1883-1903) Novels (c.1831-1842 ) Nikolai Gogol Nightwood (1936) Djuna Barnes Plays (c.1918-1955) Bertolt Brecht Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Brontë Second Thoughts (1957) Michel Butor Portrait of a Man Unknown (1948) Nathalie Sarraute Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil A Season in Hell (1873) Arthur Rimbaud The Space Within (1968) Henri Michaux Prometheus Bound (c.415BC) Aeschylus Prometheus Unbound (1820) Percy Bysshe Shelley The Spanish Tragedy (1582-92) Thomas Kyd Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding Alice in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Caroll Time & Free Will (1889) Henri Bergson ‘Tis pity she is a whore (c.1629) John Ford The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300) Marco Polo Trilby (1894) George du Maurier Vanity Fair (1847-48) William Makepeace Thackeray Venice Preserv’d (c.1682) Thomas Otway The Way of the World (c.1700) William Congreve Volpone (c.1606) Ben Jonson Wind in the Willows (1908) Kenneth Grahame The Yearling (1938) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Aeneid (c.29-19BC) Virgil The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain All For Love (1677) John Dryden The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Robert Burton Autobiography (1913-1923) Maxim Gorky Three Lives (1909) Gertrude Stein Dear Brutus (1917) J.M. Barrie The Book of Hours (1905) Caesar & Cleopatra (1898) The Apple Cart (1928) Man & Superman (1903) Candida (1894) White Buildings (1926) Hart Crane Collected Poems (1938) The Bridge (1930) Me & Victor and Mrs Derek Ingrey Blanchard (1962) Marat / Sade (1963) Peter Weiss Short Stories (1945) Katherine Mansfield Plays (1950-1980) Eugène Ionesco The Square (1955) Marguerite Duras Novels (from 1941) Vladimir Nabokov Novels (1920-1934) F. Scott Fitzgerald Letters (1914) Vincent Van Gogh Cities of the Interior (1959) Anaïs Nin Under the Volcano (1947) Malcolm Lowry The Gold Diggers (1954) Robert Creeley Europe After the Rain (1965) Alan Burns The Dangling Man (1944) Saul Bellow Confessions of Zeno (1923) Italo Svevo A life (1892) Death of a Salesman (1949) Arthur Miller R.U.R. (1920) Karel Čapek The Canterbury Tales (c.1400) Geoffrey Chaucer Ulysses (1922) James Joyce Dubliners (1914) Plays (c.429-409BC) Sophocles Plays (c.438-405BC) Euripides Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) T.E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) The Water-Babies (1893) Charles Kingsley The Blue Bird (1908) Maurice Maeterlinck Short Stories (c.1880-90) Guy de Maupassant Good & Evil (1886) Plays (c.1914-1942) Eugene O’Neill Plays (from c.1947) Plays (1916-1930) Luigi Pirandello Pensées (1669) Blaise Pascal Apology (c.399BC) Plato Poetics (c.335BC) Aristotle Poems (from c.1908) Ezra Pound Essays (from c.1910) Plays (c.1589-1613) William Shakespeare Sonnets (1609)