Masterplots Editor: Laurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia College ISBN: 978-1-58765-568-5 List Price: $1200 November 2010 · 12 vol. · 7,316 pages · 8" x 10" Combines Print & Online Access Table of Contents Volume 1 Publisher's Note p. v List of Contributors p. vii Contents p. xix Complete List of Titles p. xxiii About a Boy — Nick Hornby p. 1 Abraham and Isaac — Unknown p. 4 Abraham Lincoln — Carl Sandburg p. 6 Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner p. 9 Absalom and Achitophel — John Dryden p. 12 The Absentee — Maria Edgeworth p. 15 The Accidental Tourist — Anne Tyler p. 19 The Acharnians — Aristophanes p. 22 Ada or Ardor — Vladimir Nabokov p. 25 Adam Bede — George Eliot p. 28 The Admirable Crichton — Sir James Barrie p. 31 Adolphe — Benjamin Constant p. 34 Adonais — Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 38 The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow p. 40 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain p. 43 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle — Tobias Smollett p. 47 The Adventures of Roderick Random — Tobias Smollett p. 51 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain p. 54 The Adventurous Simplicissimus — Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen p. 58 Aeneid — Vergil p. 60 Aesop’s Fables — Aesop p. 64 The Affected Young Ladies — Molière p. 66 The Afternoon of a Faun — Stéphane Mallarmé p. 69 Against the Grain — Joris-Karl Huysmans p. 72 The Age of Anxiety — W. H. Auden p. 75 The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton p. 78 The Age of Reason — Thomas Paine p. 81 Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë p. 84 Ajax — Sophocles p. 87 The Albany Cycle — William Kennedy p. 91 Alcestis — Euripides p. 94 The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho p. 97 The Alchemist — Ben Jonson p. 100 Alcools — Guillaume Apollinaire p. 103 Aleck Maury, Sportsman — Caroline Gordon p. 105 The Alexandria Quartet — Lawrence Durrell p. 109 Alias Grace — Margaret Atwood p. 112 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll p. 114 All Fall Down — James Leo Herlihy p. 118 All Fools — George Chapman p. 120 All for Love — John Dryden p. 123 All Hallows’ Eve — Charles Williams p. 126 All Men Are Brothers — Shi Naian p. 129 All My Sons — Arthur Miller p. 132 All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque p. 135 All That Fall — Samuel Beckett p. 138 All the King’s Men — Robert Penn Warren p. 141 All’s Well That Ends Well — William Shakespeare p. 144 Almanac of the Dead — Leslie Marmon Silko p. 148 Almayer’s Folly — Joseph Conrad p. 151 Alton Locke — Charles Kingsley p. 154 Always Coming Home — Ursula K. Le Guin p. 157 Amadeus — Peter Shaffer p. 160 Amadís of Gaul — Vasco de Lobeira p. 162 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — Michael Chabon p. 165 The Ambassadors — Henry James p. 168 Amelia — Henry Fielding p. 171 The American — Henry James p. 175 American Buffalo — David Mamet p. 178 The American Commonwealth — James Bryce p. 181 The American Notebooks — Nathaniel Hawthorne p. 183 American Pastoral — Philip Roth p. 185 The American Scholar — Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 188 An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser p. 190 Amores — Ovid p. 193 Amoretti — Edmund Spenser p. 196 Amphitryon — Plautus p. 199 Amphitryon 38 — Jean Giraudoux p. 202 Amsterdam — Ian McEwan p. 204 Anabasis — Saint-John Perse p. 207 Anabasis — Xenophon p. 209 Anatomy of Criticism — Northrop Frye p. 212 The Anatomy of Melancholy — Robert Burton p. 215 And Quiet Flows the Don — Mikhail Sholokhov p. 217 And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie p. 219 Andersen’s Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen p. 222 Andersonville — MacKinlay Kantor p. 227 Andria — Terence p. 230 Andromache — Euripides p. 233 Andromache — Jean Racine p. 235 Angela’s Ashes — Frank McCourt p. 239 Angels and Insects — A. S. Byatt p. 241 Angels in America — Tony Kushner p. 244 Angle of Repose — Wallace Stegner p. 248 Animal Dreams — Barbara Kingsolver p. 251 Animal Farm — George Orwell p. 253 Anna Christie — Eugene O’Neill p. 256 Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy p. 259 Anna of the Five Towns — Arnold Bennett p. 262 Annals — Tacitus p. 266 Annie Allen — Gwendolyn Brooks p. 269 Annie John — Jamaica Kincaid p. 272 Another Country — James Baldwin p. 274 Antigone — Jean Anouilh p. 277 Antigone — Sophocles p. 280 The Antiquary — Sir Walter Scott p. 282 Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare p. 284 Apologia pro Vita Sua — John Henry Newman p. 288 The Apostle — Sholem Asch p. 290 Appointment in Samarra — John O’Hara p. 293 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz — Mordecai Richler p. 296 The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments — Unknown p. 299 The Arbitration — Menander p. 304 Arcadia — Sir Philip Sidney p. 307 Areopagitica — John Milton p. 311 Ariel — Sylvia Plath p. 313 Der arme Heinrich — Hartmann von Aue p. 315 The Armies of the Night — Norman Mailer p. 318 Arms and the Man — George Bernard Shaw p. 321 Arrowsmith — Sinclair Lewis p. 324 The Art of Fiction — Henry James p. 327 Art of Love — Ovid p. 329 The Art of Poetry — Horace p. 332 The Artamonov Business — Maxim Gorky p. 334 As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner p. 337 As You Like It — William Shakespeare p. 340 Ash Wednesday — T. S. Eliot p. 343 Ashes — Stefan Yeromski p. 345 The Aspern Papers — Henry James p. 348 The Assistant — Bernard Malamud p. 350 L’Assommoir — Émile Zola p. 353 Astrophel and Stella — Sir Philip Sidney p. 356 Atala — François-René de Chateaubriand p. 359 Atalanta in Calydon — Algernon Charles Swinburne p. 361 Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand p. 364 Atonement — Ian McEwan p. 368 Aucassin and Nicolette — Unknown p. 371 August 1914 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn p. 373 Aurora Leigh — Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 376 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas — Gertrude Stein p. 379 The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man — James Weldon Johnson p. 382 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin p. 385 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini — Benvenuto Cellini p. 388 Autobiography of John Stuart Mill — John Stuart Mill p. 391 The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X p. 394 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman — Ernest J. Gaines p. 397 The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois — W. E. B. Du Bois p. 400 The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table — Oliver Wendell Holmes p. 403 The Awakening — Kate Chopin p. 406 The Awkward Age — Henry James p. 409 Baal — Bertolt Brecht p. 413 Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis p. 416 The Bacchae — Euripides p. 419 The Bachelors — Muriel Spark p. 422 Back to Methuselah — George Bernard Shaw p. 426 Badenheim 1939 — Aharon Appelfeld p. 429 The Bald Soprano — Eugène Ionesco p. 432 Bambi — Felix Salten p. 435 Barabbas — Pär Lagerkvist p. 437 The Barber of Seville — Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais p. 440 Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope p. 443 Barnaby Rudge — Charles Dickens p. 446 Baron Münchausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia — Rudolf Erich Raspe p. 450 Barren Ground — Ellen Glasgow p. 453 Barrio Boy — Ernesto Galarza p. 456 Barry Lyndon — William Makepeace Thackeray p. 459 Bartholomew Fair — Ben Jonson p. 462 Batouala — René Maran p. 466 The Bay of Silence — Eduardo Mallea p. 469 The Bean Trees — Barbara Kingsolver p. 472 The Beaux’ Stratagem — George Farquhar p. 474 The Beaver Coat — Gerhart Hauptmann p. 477 Bech — John Updike p. 480 Becket — Jean Anouilh p. 483 The Bedbug — Vladimir Mayakovsky p. 486 The Beet Queen — Louise Erdrich p. 489 The Beggar Maid — Alice Munro p. 492 The Beggar’s Opera — John Gay p. 494 Being and Nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre p. 497 Being and Time — Martin Heidegger p. 500 Being There — Jerzy Kosinski p. 503 Bel-Ami — Guy de Maupassant p. 506 Belinda — Maria Edgeworth p. 509 A Bell for Adano — John Hersey p. 512 The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath p. 514 La Belle Dame sans Merci — John Keats p. 517 Bellefleur — Joyce Carol Oates p. 519 Bells in Winter — Czeslaw Milosz p. 521 Beloved — Toni Morrison p. 524 Ben-Hur — Lew Wallace p. 527 A Bend in the River — V. S. Naipaul p. 530 Benito Cereno — Herman Melville p. 533 Beowulf — Unknown p. 537 Bérénice — Jean Racine p. 540 Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin p. 542 The Berlin Stories — Christopher Isherwood p. 545 The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni p. 548 Betsey Brown — Ntozake Shange p. 551 Between the Acts — Virginia Woolf p. 554 Bevis of Hampton — Unknown p. 557 Beyond Freedom and Dignity — B. F. Skinner p. 561 Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche p. 563 The Big Rock Candy Mountain — Wallace Stegner p. 566 Volume 2 Contents p. lvii Complete List of Titles p. lxi The Big Sky — A. B. Guthrie, Jr. p. 569 The Big Sleep — Raymond Chandler p. 572 The Biglow Papers — James Russell Lowell p. 575 Billy Bathgate — E. L. Doctorow p. 577 Billy Budd, Foretopman — Herman Melville p. 580 Biographia Literaria — Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 584 The Birds — Aristophanes p. 587 The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music — Friedrich Nietzsche p. 590 The Birthday Party — Harold Pinter p. 592 The Black Arrow — Robert Louis Stevenson p. 595 Black Boy — Richard Wright p. 598 Black Elk Speaks — Black Elk and John G. Neihardt p. 601 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon — Rebecca West p. 604 Black Narcissus — Rumer Godden p. 606 The Black Swan — Thomas Mann p. 609 Black Thunder — Arna Bontemps p. 611 Bleak House — Charles Dickens p. 614 Bless Me, Ultima — Rudolfo Anaya p. 617 The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood p. 620 Blindness — José Saramago p. 622 Blindness and Insight — Paul de Man p. 625 Blithe Spirit — Noël Coward p. 627 The Blithedale Romance — Nathaniel Hawthorne p. 630 Blonde — Joyce Carol Oates p. 633 Blood Wedding — Federico García Lorca p. 636 The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison p. 639 The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter — Henri Murger p.