TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume One Publisher’sNote................................v AftertheFall..................................31 Preface to the Original Edition ....................vii After the Fire, a Still Small Voice ..................32 ContributingReviewers..........................ix Afternoon Men ................................33 Key to Pronunciation ...........................lvii The Afternoon of a Faun .........................34 AgainsttheDay................................34 Aaron’sRod...................................1 AgainsttheGrain...............................35 TheAbbéConstantin.............................1 TheAgeofInnocence...........................36 The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale ........2 The Age of Wonders ............................37 The Abduction..................................2 AgentsandPatients.............................38 AbeLincolninIllinois............................3 AgnesGrey...................................38 AbelSánchez...................................4 The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Novel of Michelangelo . 39 AbrahamandIsaac..............................5 L’Aiglon.....................................40 Absalom,Absalom!..............................5 Ajax.........................................40 Absalom and Achitophel ..........................6 Alburquerque..................................41 TheAbsentee...................................7 Alcestis......................................42 Absurd Person Singular...........................7 TheAlchemist.................................43 TheAbyss.....................................8 AleckMaury,Sportsman.........................44 TheAccident...................................9 TheAlexandriaQuartet..........................44 AccidentalDeathofanAnarchist..................10 AliasGrace...................................47 TheAccidentalTourist...........................11 AliceAdams..................................48 TheAcharnians................................12 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland .................49 TheAcolyte...................................12 All-BrightCourt...............................50 AcquaintedwithGrief...........................13 AllFallDown.................................50 Across.......................................13 AllFools.....................................51 AcrosstheRiverandintotheTrees.................14 AllforLove:Or,TheWorldWellLost..............52 AdaorArdor:AFamilyChronicle.................15 All God’s Chillun Got Wings .....................53 AdamBede...................................16 AllGreenShallPerish...........................53 TheAddingMachine............................17 AllHallows’Eve...............................54 TheAdmirableCrichton.........................18 AllMenAreBrothers...........................55 Adolphe......................................19 AllMenAreEnemies...........................55 TheAdventuresofAugieMarch...................19 AllMySons..................................57 TheAdventuresofHajjiBabaofIspahan............20 AllOurYesterdays.............................58 AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn...................21 AllQuietontheWesternFront....................59 TheAdventuresofPeregrinePickle................22 AllThatFall:APlayforRadio....................59 The Adventures of Roderick Random ...............23 AlltheKing’sMen.............................60 TheAdventuresofTomSawyer...................25 AllthePrettyHorses............................61 TheAdventurousSimplicissimus..................25 All’sWellThatEndsWell........................61 Aeneid.......................................26 AlmanacoftheDead............................62 TheAerodrome:ALoveStory....................27 Almayer’sFolly:AStoryofanEasternRiver.........63 Aesop’sFables.................................28 Alnilam......................................63 The Affected Young Ladies .......................29 AltonLocke:TailorandPoet......................64 AfterManyaSummerDiestheSwan...............29 Amadeus.....................................65 After the Banquet ..............................31 AmadísofGaul................................65 xix Cyclopedia of Literary Characters TheAmazingAdventuresofKavalier&Clay.........66 TheAntiquary................................106 TheAmbassadors..............................67 AntonyandCleopatra..........................107 Ambiguous Adventure...........................68 AnywherebutHere............................109 Amelia.......................................69 TheApesofGod..............................109 AmericaHurrah................................70 TheApostle..................................111 AmericanBuffalo..............................71 AppalacheeRed...............................112 AnAmericanDream............................71 TheAppleintheDark..........................113 TheAmericanDream...........................72 TheAppleoftheEye...........................113 AmericanPastoral..............................73 Appointment in Samarra ........................114 AnAmericanTragedy...........................74 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ..............114 TheAmerican.................................75 TheArabianNights’Entertainments:Selections......115 Amerika......................................76 TheArbitration...............................116 AmongWomenOnly............................76 Arcadia(Sidney)..............................116 Amores......................................77 Arcadia (Stoppard) ............................118 Amphitryon...................................78 TheArchitectandtheEmperorofAssyria...........119 Amphitryon38................................78 Argenis.....................................120 Amsterdam...................................79 DerarmeHeinrich.............................121 Anabasis.....................................80 The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, Anancy’sScore................................81 theNovelasHistory.........................121 TheAnatomyLesson............................81 ArmsandtheMan:AnAnti-RomanticComedy......122 TheAncientChild..............................82 Arne.......................................122 AndQuietFlowstheDon........................83 Around the World in Eighty Days .................123 Andorra......................................84 ArrowofGod................................124 Andria.......................................84 Arrowsmith..................................125 Andromache(Racine)...........................85 ArsenicandOldLace..........................126 Andromache(Euripides).........................86 Art.........................................127 TheAndromedaStrain...........................87 Artamenes:TheGrandCyrus....................127 ÁngelGuerra..................................88 The Artamonov Business........................128 AngelPavement...............................88 Arturo’sIsland................................128 AngelsFall...................................89 AsaManGrowsOlder.........................129 Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. 90 AsforMeandMyHouse.......................130 AngelsonToast................................91 AsILayDying...............................131 AngleofRepose...............................92 AstheCrowFlies:ALyricPlayfortheAir..........131 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ..........................93 AsYouLikeIt................................132 Anil’sGhost..................................93 Ashes.......................................133 AnimalDreams................................94 Ashes and Diamonds ...........................134 AnimalFarm..................................95 TheAsiatics..................................135 AnnaChristie.................................96 TheAspernPapers.............................136 AnnaintheTropics.............................96 TheAssistant.................................136 AnnaKarenina................................97 L’Assommoir.................................137 AnnaoftheFiveTowns..........................98 Astrophel and Stella............................138 Annals of the Parish: Or, The Chronicle of Dalmailing . 99 Asya.......................................138 Anne of the Thousand Days ......................99 AtPlayintheFieldsoftheLord..................139 AnnieJohn..................................100 AtSwim-Two-Birds...........................140 Anniversaries:FromtheLifeofGesineCresspahl.....100 At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque ................141 Another Country ..............................102 AtWeddingsandWakes........................142 AnotherLife.................................103 Atala.......................................142 Anthony Adverse..............................104 AtalantainCalydon............................143 Antigone (Anouilh) ............................105 Atlas Shrugged ...............................143 Antigone (Sophocles) ..........................106 Attachments..................................144 xx Table of Contents AucassinandNicolette.........................145 TheBarracksThief............................188 August 1914 .................................145 TheBarracks.................................189 August: Osage County..........................147 Barren Ground................................190 AuntDanandLemon..........................148 BarrioBoy...................................190 AuntJuliaandtheScriptwriter...................149 Barry Lyndon: The Story of a Boy’s Acculturation ....191 TheAunt’sStory..............................149