THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE
Edited by JOHN GROSS
Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 Contents
Introduction • xxxv
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE
SIR THOMAS MALORY 3 Morte Darthur WILLIAM CAXTON 6 The Game and Play of the Chess • Proem to The Canterbury Tales
JOHN BOURCHIER, LORD BERNERS 7 Froissart's Chronicles
JOHN FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 9 The Ways to Perfect Religion
SIR THOMAS MORE 10 Utopia • The History of King Richard III
THOMAS CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 13 An Homily of Good Works
SIR THOMAS ELYOT 14 The Book named the Governor
HUGH LATIMER l6 'The Sermon of the Plough'
WILLIAM TYNDALE VJ Translation of the Pentateuch: Prologue to Leviticus
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: I l8 Genesis 3:1-19
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: II 19 i Corinthians 13: 4-13 WILLIAM ROPER 21 The Life of Sir Thomas More
GEORGE CAVENDISH 21 Thomas Wolsey, late Cardinal, his Life and Death
SIMON FISH 22 A Supplication for the Beggars VI CONTENTS
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 23 The First Prayer Book of Edward VI
ROGER ASCHAM 24 Toxophilus • The Schoolmaster
RAPHAEL HOLINSHED TJ Chronicles
SIR THOMAS CHALONER 28 Erasmus' The Praise of Folly
JOHN STOW 28 A Survey of London
QUEEN ELIZABETH I 30 Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
SIR THOMAS NORTH 31 Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
ROBERT PARSONS 34 The Christian Directory
RICHARD KNOLLES 34 The General History of the Turks
EDMUND SPENSER 35 A View of the Present State of Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 36 The Fight about the Isles of Azores • The Discovery of Guiana • The History of the World
RICHARD HAKLUYT 39 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries
JOHN FLORIO 39 The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne
JOHN LYLY 40 Euphues and His England
STEPHEN GOSSON 41 The School of Abuse
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 42 Arcadia • The Defence of Poesy
RICHARD HOOKER , 45 Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE 47 The Life of Sir Philip Sidney CONTENTS Vll NICHOLAS BRETON 48 Fantasticks ROBERT GREENE 49 A Quip for an Upstart Courtier • Greene's Groats-worth of Wit THOMAS LODGE 50 Rosalynde
SIR RANULPH CREWE 51 Oxford peerage case THOMAS HARIOT 51 The New-found Land of Virginia FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 52 'The Student's Prayer' • The Advancement of Learning • 'Of Truth' • 'Of Parents and Children' • New Atlantis SAMUEL DANIEL 55 A Defence of Rhyme
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 56 A Midsummer Night's Dream • 1 Henry IV • Henry V • As You Like It • Hamlet • All's Well That Ends Well • King Lear • Coriolanus
THOMAS CAMPION 60 Observations in the Art of English Poesy
THOMAS NASHE 6l Pierce Penniless • The Terrors of the Night • Christ's Tears over Jerusalem • The Unfortunate Traveller • Nashe's Lenten Stuff
THOMAS DEKKER 64 The Seven Deadly Sins of London • The Gull's Hornbook
THE ENGLISH BIBLE: III 65 Genesis 32: 22-30 • 2 Samuel 1: 23-7 • Job 39:19-25 • Proverbs 7: 6-18 • Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10,12:1-7 • Song of Solomon 8: 6-7 • Isaiah 40:1-8 • Isaiah 52: 7-8 • Matthew 6: 25-9 • Luke 2: 25-32 • Acts 17: 22-34 JOHN DONNE 70 Sermons • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
BEN JONSON 74 Timber, or Discoveries
SAMUEL PURCHAS 76 Purchas His Pilgrimage
ROBERT BURTON 76 The Anatomy of Melancholy Vlll CONTENTS THOMAS CORYATE 80 Coryats Crudities
JOHN SMITH 8l The General History of Virginia
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 82 Characters
JOHN SELDEN 83 Table-Talk
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 84 The Cypress Grove
THOMAS HOBBES 84 Human Nature • Leviathan
JOHN WINTHROP 87 'A Model of Christian Charity'
WILLIAM BRADFORD 88 Of Plymouth Plantation
IZAAK WALTON 90 The Life of Dr John Donne • The Compleat Angler • The Life of Mr George Herbert
JOHN EARLE 93 Microcosmography
OWEN FELLTHAM 94 Resolves • A Brief Character of the Low Countries
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 96 Religio Medici • Pseudodoxia Epidemica • Urn-Burial • The Garden of Cyrus • Christian Morals
BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE 100 Journal of the Swedish Embassy
JOHN MILTON 102 Of Reformation in England • Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence • The Reason of Church Government • Areopagitica • The History of Britain • The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
THOMAS FULLER ~ ,, 107 The Church History of Britain • The Worthies of England
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON 110 The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon • History of the Rebellion CONTENTS IX
GERRARD WINSTANLEY 113 The True Levellers' Standard Advanced ANNE BRADSTREET 114 Meditations Divine and Moral JEREMY TAYLOR 115 Holy Living • Holy Dying • sermons • letter • Ductor Dubitantium • Righteousness Evangelical'- SIR CHRISTOPHER GUISE Il8 Memoirs of the Family of Guise ABRAHAM COWLEY 119 'The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company' JOHN EVELYN 119 Sylva • Diary LUCY HUTCHINSON 121 Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson JOHN TILLOTSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 122 Sermons GEORGE FOX 124 Journal MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE 124 A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life JOHN AUBREY 126 Brief Lives ROBERT BOYLE 130 The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy • manuscript notes • A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notions of Nature DOROTHY OSBORNE 131 Letters JOHN BUNYAN 133 Grace Abounding • The Pilgrim's Progress • The Holy War • The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 137 'Of Poetry' JOHN DRYDEN 138 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy • The Original and Progress of Satire • Preface to the Fables JOHN LOCKE 140 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding • Some Thoughts Concerning Education • Of the Conduct of the Understanding X CONTENTS SAMUEL PEPYS 143 Diary
GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX 147 The Character of a Trimmer • A Character of Charles the Second • A Rough Draft of a New Model at Sea • Some Cautions Offered
ROBERT SOUTH , 150 Sermons
THOMAS BURNET 151 A Sacred Theory of the Earth
THOMAS SPRAT, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 152 The History of the Royal Society
THOMAS TRAHERNE 153 Centuries of Meditation
APHRA BEHN 155 Preface to The Dutch Lover • The Fair Jilt • Oroonoko
WILLIAM PENN 157 No Cross, No Crown
ROGER NORTH 157 Autobiography
DANIEL DEFOE I58 Robinson Crusoe • Serious Reflections During the Life of Robinson Crusoe • A Journal of the Plague Year • Moll Flanders • A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
COTTON MATHER 163 Magnalia Christi Americana • Manuductio ad Ministerium
MARY ASTELL 164 Some Reflections upon Marriage
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT 165 A Journey from Boston to New York
JONATHAN SWIFT 166 A Tale of a Tub • An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity • A Short Character of His Excellency, Thomas Earl ofWharton • Journal to Stella • from The Examiner • Gulliver's Travels • A Modest Proposal • Polite Conversation
WILLIAM CONGREVE - 173 Incognita
BERNARD MANDEVILLE 174 The Fable of the Bees CONTENTS XI
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY 175 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times COLLEY CIBBER 175 An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber SIR RICHARD STEELE 177 from The Tatler and The Guardian JOSEPH ADDISON 178 from The Tatler and The Spectator WILLIAM BYRD l8l The Secret Diary of William Byrd ofWestover
HENRY ST JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE l82 The Idea of a Patriot King GEORGE BERKELEY, BISHOP OF CLOYNE 183 The Principles of Human Knowledge • Siris
WILLIAM LAW 185 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
ALEXANDER POPE 187 Letter • A Letter to a Noble Lord
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU l88 Letters
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 191 Clarissa
JOSEPH BUTLER, BISHOP OF DURHAM 195 Fifteen Sermons
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 196 Letters to his son
JOHN, LORD HERVEY I98 Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second
JOHN WESLEY 199 Journal
JONATHAN EDWARDS 202 A Divine and Supernatural Light • Personal Narrative • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God WILLIAM MURRAY, EARL OF MANSFIELD 203 Speech in the House of Lords BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 204 Autobiography • letters • 'Proposed New Version of the Bible' • Speech at the Constitutional Convention Xll CONTENTS HENRY FIELDING 208 Joseph Andrews • Jonathan Wild • Tom Jones • The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
SAMUEL JOHNSON 213 The Life of Richard Savage • from The'Rambler • letters • A Dictionary of the English Language • review of A Free Enquiry into the Nature and. Origins of Evil. • from The Idler • Proceedings of the Committee for Clothing French Prisoners of War • Rasselas • Preface to Shakespeare • A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Lives of the Poets • Diary
DAVID HUME 225 'On the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature' • 'The Epicurean' • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding • The History of Great Britain • 'On the Immortality of the Soul' • 'The Natural History of Religion' • 'Of the Standard of Taste' • 'My Own Life'
LAURENCE STERNE 23I Tristram Shandy • A Sentimental Journey
THOMAS GRAY 235 Letters
HORACE WALPOLE 236 Letters GILBERT WHITE 239 The Natural History ofSelborne
JOHN WOOLMAN 242 Journal
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 243 Roderick Random • Humphry Clinker
WILLIAM ROBERTSON 247 The History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 248 Discourses on Art
ADAM SMITH 25O The Wealth of Nations
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 252 Commentaries on the Laws of England
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 253 'On the Use of Language' • The Citizen of the World • The Life of Richard Nash • The Vicar of Wakefield • An History of the Earth CONTENTS Xlll EDMUND BURKE 257 Speech on American Taxation • Speech on Conciliation with America • Speech on the East India Bill • Reflections on the Revolution in France • A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe • Letters on a Regicide Peace • A Letter to a Noble Lord
JAMES BRUCE 264 Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
WILLIAM COWPER 264 Letters
HECTOR ST JEAN DE CREVECCEUR 267 Letters from an American Farmer
EDWARD GIBBON 268 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire • letter • Autobiography
THOMAS PAINE 275 Common Sense • The American Crisis • The Rights of Man • The Age of Reason WILLIAM BARTRAM 278 Travels Through North and South Carolina JAMES BOSWELL 279 Journals • Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides • The Life of Samuel Johnson
'JUNIUS' 285 'To the Duke of Grafton' HENRY FUSELI 286 'Some Thoughts on Art and Artists' ARTHUR YOUNG 287 Travels in France SIR JOSEPH BANKS 287 Journal during Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour THOMAS JEFFERSON 288 The Declaration of Independence • letters OLAUDAH EQUIANO 290 The Life of Olaudah Equiano WILLIAM HICKEY 29I Memoirs THOMAS ERSKINE, FIRST BARON ERSKINE 293 Speech JAMES MADISON 293 from The Federalist XIV CONTENTS
FANNY BURNEY 294 Evelina • Diary and Letters
THOMAS BEWICK 297 A Memoir
WILLIAM GODWIN 298 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
WILLIAM BLAKE 299 Letter • A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 3OO A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
WILLIAM BECKFORD 301 Excursion to the Monasteries ofAlcobaca and Batalha
WILLIAM COBBETT 302 Rural Rides
JOHN NYREN 304 The Young Cricketer's Tutor
ISAAC D'lSRAELI 304 Curiosities of Literature • Literary Miscellanies
MARIA EDGEWORTH 305 Castle Rackrent • The Absentee
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 307 Letter • The Convention of Cintra • Description of the Country of the Lakes
JAMES HOGG 309 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
SIR WALTER SCOTT 310 Rob Roy • Redgauntlet • lournal
SYDNEY SMITH 314 'The Island of Ceylon' • Sketches of Moral Philosophy • review of Granby • 'Waterton's Wanderings in South America' • Memoir, by Lady Holland
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 317 Grasmere lournal
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 319 The Friend • Biographia Liieraria • Notebooks
ROBERT SOUTHEY 322 Life of Nelson CONTENTS XV
JANE AUSTEN 323 Sense and Sensibility • Northanger Abbey • Pride and Prejudice • Mansfield Park • Emma • Persuasion
CHARLES LAMB 333 Letters •- 'Witches and other Night Fears' • 'On Some of the Old Actors' • 'Imperfect Sympathies'
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 335 Imaginary Conversations
WILLIAM HAZLITT 336 'On the Ignorance of the Learned' • death notice of John Cavanagh • 'Why Distant Objects Please' • 'On Going a Journey' • 'My First Acquaintance with the Poets' • Characteristics • The Spirit of the Age • 'On the Want of Money' • 'On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth'
LORD COCKBURN 342 Memorials of His Own Time
WASHINGTON IRVING 344 A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
LEIGH HUNT 346 Autobiography
THOMAS DE QUINCEY 347 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater • 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' • 'Recollections of the Lake Poets' • 'The English Mail Coach: Dream Fugue'
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 350 Crotchet Castle • Gryll Grange
BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON 352 Autobiography and Journals
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 353 Journal • letters
SAMUEL BAMFORD 356 Passages in the Life of a Radical
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 357 The Prairie • The Deerslayer
FREDERICK MARRYAT .. 358 The Author's First Day at Sea • Joseph Rushbrook, or The Poacher
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 36O A Defence of Poetry • "Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence' XVI CONTENTS
JOHN CLARE 361 Letters on Natural History
CHARLES GREVILLE 362 The Greville Memoirs
WILLIAM CARLETON 364 The Lough Dearg Pilgrim • 'The Poor Scholar' • 'The Midnight Mass'
JOHN KEATS 366 Preface to Endymion • letters
THOMAS CARLYLE 368 Sartor Resartus • letters • The French Revolution • Past and Present • Life of John Sterling • Reminiscences
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT 376 The Conquest of Mexico
MARY SHELLEY 377 Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
EMILY EDEN 379 Up the Country
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY 380 Speech • 'Horace Walpole' • History of England • 'William Pitt' • Journal
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 386 Discourses on University Education • Apologia pro Vita Sua • letter
WILLIAM BARNES 388 The Zong o'Solomon
JANE' WELSH CARLYLE 388 letters • Journal
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 391 Journal • Self-Reliance • English Traits • Thoreau
BENJAMIN DISRAELI . 395 Coningsby • speech • Life of Lord George Bentinck • Lothair • Endymion
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 397 'Young Goodman Brown", • The Scarlet Letter • The Blithedale Romance • Our Old Home '-
R. S. SURTEES 403 Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour CONTENTS XV11
SAMUEL PALMER 4O4 Sketchbook • letters
JOHN STUART MILL 406 'Coleridge' • On Liberty • Autobiography
EDWARD FITZGERALD 4O9 Letters
CHARLES DARWIN 411 The Voyage of the Beagle • The Origin of Species • The Descent of Man
EDGAR ALLAN POE 415 'The Cask of Amontillado' • 'The Tell-Tale Heart' • 'William Cullen Bryant'
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 419 Letter • The Gettysburg Address
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. 420 The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
ELIZABETH GASKELL 421 Cranford • North and South • Life of Charlotte Bronte • Wives and Daughters
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 427 'Going to see a Man Hanged' • The Book of Snobs • Vanity Fair • A Little Dinner at Timmins's
HENRY JAMES SR. 433 'Some Personal Recollections of Carlyle'
CHARLES DICKENS 434 The Pickwick Papers • The Old Curiosity Shop • Martin Chuzzlewit • Dombey and Son • David Copperfield • Bleak House • Little Dorrit • letter • Great Expectations • Our Mutual Friend • Edwin Drood
HENRY MAYHEW 447 London Labour and the London Poor
DAVID LIVINGSTONE 449 Missionary Travels • Last Journals
SHERIDAN LE FANU 451 'Green Tea'
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY - 453 The Rise of the Dutch Republic • letter
RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. 454 Two Years Before the Mast XV111 CONTENTS
ANTHONY TROLLOPE 455 Barchester Towers • Doctor Thome • The Small House at Allington • Miss Mackenzie • The Last Chronicle ofBarset • The Way We Live Now • The Duke's Children
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 46O Jane Eyre • Villette
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 464 Journal • Walden
EMILY BRONTE 467 Wuthering Heights
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE 470 History of England • The Oxford Counter-Reformation' • 'On Progress'
FREDERICK DOUGLASS 472 The Life of Frederick Douglass
JOHN RUSKIN 474 Diary • The Stones of Venice • Modern Painters • letter • The Cestus of Aglaia • The Crown of Wild Olive • Fors Clavigera • The Eagle's Nest • Praeterita
HERMAN MELVILLE 481 Moby-Dick • Bartleby • Billy Budd, Foretopman
CHARLES KINGSLEY 485 The Water-Babies • Prose Idylls
WALT WHITMAN 488 'Street Yarn' • Specimen Days
GEORGE ELIOT 491 Adam Bede • The Mill on the Floss • Middlemarch • Daniel Deronda
WILKIE COLLINS 498 The Woman in White • Armadale • The Moonstone
JOHN TYNDALL 500 Faraday as a Discoverer
MATTHEW ARNOLD 501 On Translating Homer: Last Words • A French Eton • Preface to Essays in Criticism • Culture and Anarchy • 'Wordsworth'
ULYSSES S. GRANT 505 Personal Memoirs CONTENTS XIX
FRANCIS PARKMAN 507 The Oregon Trail • La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West • A Half-Century of Conflict
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM _ 509 Diary -
GEORGE MACDONALD . 511 The Princess and the Goblin
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 513 'Science and Morals' • 'Evolution and Ethics'
HENRY WALTER BATES 515 The Naturalist on the River Amazons
WALTER BAGEHOT 517 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel' • 'Percy Bysshe Shelley' • 'The Ignorance of Man' • 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' • Lombard Street • 'The Death of Lord Brougham'
GEORGE MEREDITH 521 Beauchamp's Career • The Egoist • Diana of the Crossways
SIR JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN 523 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
EMILY DICKINSON 523 Letters
MARK RUTHERFORD 525 The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Miriam's Schooling • Catharine Furze
LEWIS CARROLL 527 Through the Looking-Glass
SIR LESLIE STEPHEN 529 English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
WILLIAM MORRIS 530 Art and Socialism
LORD ACTON 531 Letter
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 532 Ten O'Clock Lecture • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
MARK TWAIN 533 Life on the Mississippi • Huckleberry Finn • Pudd'nhead Wilson • 'Old Age' • Little Bessie • The Mysterious Stranger XX CONTENTS
SAMUEL BUTLER 540 The Way of All Flesh • Note Books
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 543 Love's Cross-Currents
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 544 A Hazard of New Fortunes • My Mark Twain
JOHN BURROUGHS 546 Locusts and Wild Honey
HENRY ADAMS 547 Democracy • The Education of Henry Adams
WALTER PATER 550 Studies in the History of the Renaissance • The Child in the House'
THOMAS HARDY 551 Far from the Madding Crowd • The Mayor of Casterbridge • Tess of the d'Urbervilles • The Dynasts
FRANCIS KILVERT 556 Diaries
W. H. HUDSON 559 The Naturalist in La Plata • Birds in Town and Village • Birds and Man • Adventures among Birds • A Hind in Richmond Park OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. 562 The Common Law • 'Natural Law'
H. M. STANLEY 563 How I Found Livingstone WILLIAM JAMES 565 'The Sentiment of Rationality' • letter • Psychology: Briefer Course • The Varieties of Religious Experience AMBROSE BIERCE 569 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'
HENRY JAMES 571 The American • Washington Square • The Portrait of a Lady • Anthony Trollope' • The Bostonians • The Figure in the Carpet • 'London Notes' • The Awkward Age • 'The Future of the Novel' • The Wings of the Dove • The Ambassadors • The Golden Bowl • The American Scene
JOSEPH FURPHY ^ 580 Such is Life
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 580 Early diaries • lournal • letters • Notes on Spiritual Exercises CONTENTS XXI
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE 584 The Grandissimes
GEORGE SAINTSBURY 586 Robert Southey
F. H. BRADLEY 586 The Principles of Logic • Appearance and Reality
RICHARD JEFFERIES 587 The Gamekeeper at Home • Hodge and His Masters
ALICE JAMES 591 Diary
SIR EDMUND GOSSE 592 Portraits and Sketches
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 593 The Country of the Pointed Firs
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 594 Treasure Island • The Beach at Falesd • Weir ofHermiston
F. W. MAITLAND 597 'The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation'
KATE CHOPIN 599 The Awakening
GEORGE MOORE 600 Esther Waters • Hail and Farewell
OSCAR WILDE 605 Letters • 'The Decay of Lying' • 'The Critic as Artist'
SIR JAMES FRAZER 608 The Golden Bough
OLIVE SCHREINER 609 The Story of an African Farm GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 6ll Music in London • 'Blaming the Bard' • 'Epistle Dedicatory' to Man and Superman • Preface to Major Barbara • letter • The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism • Preface to Geneva • Sixteen Self Sketches GEORGE GISSING 6l6 New Grub Street • In the Year of Jubilee
JOSEPH CONRAD 619 Lord Jim • Typhoon • Nostromo • The Secret Agent • Under Western Eyes • Chance • Victory XX11 CONTENTS
SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON 626 Man on his Nature
E. CE. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS 627 The Real Charlotte
JOHN MEADE FALKNER 628 The Nebuly Coat
A. E. HOUSMAN 63O Lectures • 'The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism'
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 632 'The Illustrious Client'
FREDERICK ROLFE ('BARON CORVO') 634 The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
WALTER SICKERT 636 Painters and Critics • La Peinture • Frith's Derby Day
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 637 The Yellow Wall-Paper
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER 638 New Cosmopolis
MARY KINGSLEY 64O Travels in West Africa
EDITH WHARTON 642 The House of Mirth • The Custom of the Country • The Age of Innocence
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 646 Greek Genius and Other Essays
ARTHUR MORRISON 647 A Child of the Jago
GEORGE SANTAYANA 647 The Life of Reason • Three Philosophical Poets • Character and Opinion in the United States • A note on T. S. Eliot
SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH 65O 'Jargon'
W. W. JACOBS -. 651 Dialstone Lane
RUDYARD KIPLING 652 The Jungle Book • Kim • 'The House Surgeon' • 'The Gardener' CONTENTS XX111
W. B. YEATS 657 Estrangement • Reveries over Childhood and Youth • The Trembling of the Veil
H. G. WELLS , 659 The Time Machine • The First Men in the Moon • Tono-Bungay • The History of Mr Polly • The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind
JOHN GALSWORTHY 663 In Chancery
ARNOLD BENNETT 664 The Old Wives' Tale • Clayhanger
HENRY LAWSON 667 'Water Them Geraniums'
NORMAN DOUGLAS 669 Siren Land • South Wind
STEPHEN LEACOCK 67O Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
GEORGE DOUGLAS BROWN 671 The House with the Green Shutters
SAKI 672 'The Stalled Ox'
HILAIRE BELLOC 673 The Cruise of the 'Nona'
FRANK NORRIS 674 McTeague
HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON 675 Maurice Guest
STEPHEN CRANE 677 The Red Badge of Courage • The Open Boat
THEODORE DREISER 680 Sister Carrie • The Financier • An American Tragedy
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 684 Along This Way
BERTRAND RUSSELL 686 'Mathematics and the Metaphysicians' • Fact and Fiction
AUBREY BEARDSLEY 687 Venus and Tannhduser XXIV CONTENTS
SIR MAX BEERBOHM 689 'The Crime'
FORD MADOX FORD 69I Some Do Not • Return to Yesterday
WALTER DE LA MARE 693 'Seaton's Aunt' • 'Crewe'
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 695 Great Contemporaries • The Second World War
G. K. CHESTERTON 696 Robert Browning • Heretics • Charles Dickens • The Man Who Was Thursday • Orthodoxy • 'The Blue Cross'
ELLEN GLASGOW 7OO They Stooped to Folly
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 701 Of Human Bondage • Cakes and Ale
GERTRUDE STEIN 702 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
CLARENCE DAY 704 God and My Father
FORREST REID 7O5 Peter Waring
JACK LONDON 7O6 The Call of the Wild
G. M. TREVELYAN 707 'Clio, A Muse'
SHERWOOD ANDERSON 708 Winesburg, Ohio
WILLA CATHER 7O9 My Antonia • A Lost Lady
JAMES AGATE 711 Immoment Toys
EDWARD THOMAS 712 Beautiful Wales • The South Country
E. M. FORSTER - . 713 Howards End • A Passage to India • 'The Consolations of History'
JAMES BRANCH CABELL JYJ Beyond Life CONTENTS XXV
LYTTON STRACHEY 7l8 Queen Victoria
H. L. MENCKEN 719 'The Metaphysician' • In Defense of Women • The American Language • 'Coolidge'
ROSE MACAULAY .. 722 The World My Wilderness
P. G. WODEHOUSE 723 'The Voice of the Past' • Thank You, Jeeves
VIRGINIA WOOLF 724 Diary • To the Lighthouse • A Room of One's Own • The Years • Between the Acts JAMES STEPHENS 728 The Crock of Gold • Irish Fairy Tales
JAMES JOYCE 730 'The Sisters' • 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • Ulysses • Finnegans Wake
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES 737 The Economic Consequences of the Peace • Essays in Biography
G. M. YOUNG 739 Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
DAMON RUNYON 741 'Romance in the Roaring Forties'
WYNDHAM LEWIS 742 Tarr • The Apes of God • Blasting and Bombardiering • 'The Sea-Mists of the Winter' • Self Condemned
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT 745 More Women than Men • A Father and His Fate • Manservant and Maidservant D. H. LAWRENCE 746 Sons and Lovers • The Rainbow • Women in Love • Sea and Sardinia • Kangaroo • St Mawr • Lady Chatterley's Lover • Apocalypse
SINCLAIR LEWIS 753 Main Street • Babbitt
RING LARDNER 754 'The Golden Honeymoon'
RONALD FIRBANK 756 Prancing Nigger XXVI CONTENTS
HAROLD NICOLSON 758 Some People
SIEGFRIED SASSOON 759 Sherston's Progress
EDWIN MUIR 76O The Story and the Fable
T. E. LAWRENCE 761 Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. S. ELIOT 763 The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism • 'In Memoriam'
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 764 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'
RAYMOND CHANDLER 766 Farewell, My Lovely • The Little Sister JOYCE CARY 768 Mister Johnson
NEVILLE CARDUS 770 The Summer Game
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 77O The Leaning Tower
JEAN RHYS 772 After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
ZORA NEALE HURSTON 773 Their Eyes Were Watching God
J. BT S. HALDANE 775 'God-Makers'
REBECCA WEST 776 The Meaning of Treason
HERBERT READ 778 The Innocent Eye
E. E. CUMMINGS 779 The Enormous Room
ALDOUS HUXLEY ' 779 Crome Yellow
ROBERT GRAVES 781 Goodbye to All That CONTENTS XXV11
DAVID JONES 783 In Parenthesis
EDMUND WILSON 784 The American Earthquake • Axel's Castle -
EDMUND BLUNDEN 786 Undertones of War
JOHN DOS PASSOS 787 U.S.A.
WILLIAM FAULKNER 789 The Sound and the Fury
LIAM O'FLAHERTY 792 Famine
DAWN POWELL 793 The Golden Spur
SACHEVERELL SITWELL 794 Morning, Noon and Night in London
NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI 796 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian c. s. LEWIS 797 Out of the Silent Planet • 'A Reply to Professor Haldane'
ELIZABETH BOWEN 799 The House in Paris • The Heat of the Day
VLADIMIR NABOKOV 801 Pnin • Lolita • Speak, Memory
RICHARD HUGHES 804 A High Wind in Jamaica
V. S. PRITCHETT 806 In My Good Books • A Cab at the Door
SEAN O'FAOLAIN 807 'Persecution Mania'
RHYS DAVIES 809 'The Nature of Man'
C. L. R. JAMES 810 Beyond a Boundary
JOHN STEINBECK 8ll Cannery Row XXVUl CONTENTS
CHRISTINA STEAD 813 For Love Alone
GEORGE ORWELL 814 'A Hanging' • Homage to Catalonia • 'The Art of Donald McGill' • Nineteen Eighty-Four
EVELYN WAUGH - 8l8 Vile Bodies • The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
ERSKINE CALDWELL 823 Tobacco Road
KENNETH CLARK 824 The Nude
WILLIAM PLOMER 825 Turbott Wolfe
CYRIL CONNOLLY 826 'Where Engels Fears to Tread'
FRANK O'CONNOR 827 'The Holy Door'
FRANK SARGESON 829 'Miss Briggs'
NATHANAEL WEST 83O The Day of the Locust
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD 83I Mr Norris Changes Trains
GRAHAM GREENE 833 Brighton Rock • The Ministry of Fear
A. J. LIEBLING 835 The Road Back to Paris
HENRY GREEN 836 Party Going ROBERT PENN WARREN 837 All the King's Men
JOHN O'HARA 838 'The Doctor's Son'
LIONEL TRILLING 84O The Middle of the Journey • 'Manners, Morals and the Novel'
MULK RAJ ANAND 842 Untouchable CONTENTS XXIX
ANTHONY POWELL 844 Afternoon Men • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
SAMUEL BECKETT 847 'Dante and the Lobster' • Murphy • Malone Dies
WILLIAM EMPSON 85O Seven Types of Ambiguity
A. J. P. TAYLOR 851 The Trouble Makers • English History 1914-1945
DWIGHT MACDONALD 853 Against the American Grain
JOHN BETJEMAN 854 Little Posts for Lawyers
R. K. NARAYAN 854 The Bachelor of Arts
W. H. AUDEN 856 The Sea and the Mirror
LOREN EISELEY 857 The Unexpected Universe
RICHARD WRIGHT 858 Black Boy
JOCELYN BROOKE 860 The Military Orchid
J. K. GALBRAITH 862 The Great Crash
JOSEPH MITCHELL 863 'Obituary of a Gin Mill'
MALCOLM LOWRY 865 Under the Volcano
ISAIAH BERLIN 867 'A Marvellous Decade'
EUDORA WELTY 869 The Optimist's Daughter
G. V. DESANI 87I All about H. Hatterr
PAUL BOWLES 872 The Sheltering Sky XXX CONTENTS
MERVYN PEAKE 873 Gormenghast
FLANN O'BRIEN 874 At Swim-Two-Birds
J. L. AUSTIN 875 'Other Minds'
WILLIAM GOLDING 876 The Inheritors
WILLIAM SANSOM 878 'Among the Dahlias'
JOHN CHEEVER 879 'The Ocean'
PATRICK WHITE 880 Voss
ANGUS WILSON 883 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
BARBARA PYM 884 Less than Angels • Quartet in Autumn
ROBERTSON DAVIES 886 The Rebel Angels
DYLAN THOMAS 887 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER 889 'The Myth of Charles I'
RANDALL JARRELL 89O 'The Age of Criticism'
BERNARD MALAMUD 89I 'The Jewbird'
RALPH ELLISON 892 Invisible Man
PETER MEDAWAR 894 The Future of Man
SAUL BELLOW _ 895 The Adventures ofAugie March • Henderson the Rain King • Herzog • Mr Sammler's Planet
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR 899 A Time of Gifts CONTENTS XXXI
CARSON MCCULLERS 900 The Member of the Wedding
ANTHONY BURGESS 9O2 Inside Mr Enderby
RICHARD COBB 903 Something to Hold Onto
MURIEL SPARK 9O5 The Girls of Slender Means
CHRISTOPHER BURNEY 908 The Dungeon Democracy
IRIS MURDOCH 909 Under the Net
DORIS LESSING 911 The Golden Notebook
BENEDICT KIELY 912 A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly'
AMOS TUTUOLA 914 The Palm-Wine Drinkard
D. J. ENRIGHT 915 Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor
BRIAN MOORE 916 Catholics
KINGSLEY AMIS 9l8 Lucky Jim • Take a Girl Like You
RONALD BLYTHE 920 Akenfield
NORMAN MAILER 921 The Naked and the Dead
BRENDAN BEHAN 923 Borstal Boy
KAMALA MARKANDAYA 925 The Nowhere Man
SAM SELVON 926 The Lonely Londoners
NADINE GORDIMER 928 The Conservationist XXXll CONTENTS
JAMES PURDY 930 Cabot Wright Begins
JAMES BALDWIN 931 Go Tell It on the Mountain
TRUMAN CAPOTE 932 In Cold Blood
FLANNERY O'CONNOR 934 Wise Blood
GORE VIDAL 935 1876
ALISON LURIE 937 Love and Friendship
KENNETH TYNAN 938 Curtains
ALAN SILLITOE 939 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
DAN JACOBSON 940 The Price of Diamonds
J. G. BALLARD 941 'The Waiting Grounds'
WAGUIH GHALI 943 Beer in the Snooker Club
CHINUA ACHEBE 945 A Man of the People
IAN NAIRN 947 Nairn's London
MORDECAI RICHLER 948 St Urbain's Horseman
TOM WOLFE 949 The Bonfire of the Vanities
ANITA BROOKNER 950 A Family Romance
JOHN UPDIKE 952 Rabbit, Run • 'Popular Music' v. s. NAIPAUL 955 An Area of Darkness • The Mimic Men CONTENTS XXX111
EDWARD HOAGLAND 957 'The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain'
MALCOLM BRADBURY 958 The History Man
PHILIP ROTH 959 Portnoy's Complaint
OLIVER SACKS 961 A Leg to Stand On
MICHAEL FRAYN 962 Towards the End of the Morning
WOLE SOYINKA 964 Ake
ALASDAIR GRAY 966 Lanark
DAVID MALOUF 967 'The Only Speaker of His Tongue'
DAVID LODGE 969 Small World
JOYCE CAROL OATES 971 Childwold
MARGARET ATWOOD 972 Good Bones
CLIVE JAMES 973 Unreliable Memoirs
MARGARET DRABBLE 974 The Needle's Eye
BRUCE CHATWIN 975 In Patagonia
ANNE TYLER 976 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
SALMAN RUSHDIE 978 Midnight's Children
MARTIN AMIS 980 Money
PETER ACKROYD 981 Hawksmoor XXXIV CONTENTS
MATTHEW PARRIS 983 J Couldn't Possibly Comment...
TIMOTHY MO 984 Sour Sweet
A. N. WILSON 986 A Bottle in the Smoke
VIKRAM SETH 988 A Suitable Boy
HILARY MANTEL 99O An Experiment in Love
KAZUO ISHIGURO 992
The Unconsoled.
Acknowledgements 995
Index of Authors 1007