...amake taan maare ratri jaga nadi
amake tane gurho andhakar
amar ghum bhenge hothat khule pare
Madhya ratrir bandha dwar,
amake taan maare...
— Sunil Gangopadhyay (as heard in the soundtrack of the Bengali film ‘Iti Mrinalini’)
The night’s sleepless river pulls me towards it
Pulls the deep darkness without light
Breaking my sleeep suddenly opens
The bolted door of midnight
It pulls me...
(The literal translation of ‘taan mare’ is to tug somebody, usually using force. That's how the subtitle in the film explained it. I was trying if there are other ways to translating these lines... I had to tweak the literal meaning a bit to maintain the rhyme scheme.)
The song here.
Monday, September 26, 2011
A Band Apart
Bande à part is a 1964 Nouvelle vague film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released as Band of Outsiders in North America; its French title derives from the phrase faire bande à part, which means "to do something apart from the group."The film is an adaptation of the novel Fools' Gold (Doubleday Crime Club, 1958) by American author Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973).
The film belongs to the French New Wave movement. Godard described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka".
Bande à part is often considered one of Godard's most accessible films; Amy Taubin of the Village Voice called it "a Godard film for people who don't much care for Godard". Its accessibility has endeared the film to a broader audience. For example, it was the only Godard film selected for Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 movies.
Noted critic Pauline Kael described Bande à part as "a reverie of a gangster movie" and "perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film".
Ranked #79 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.
More Here.
My Piece Of The Pie
Callous bankers, doughty workers fighting the ills of unemployment, a love story across the industrial divide, an upbeat ending — Cedric Klapisch's My Piece of the Pie is an English-style social comedy with every chance of becoming a crowd-pleaser. Though it wears its commitment on its sleeve, the movie is in tune with the times and should find a receptive audience wherever the current financial crisis has left blood on the shop floor.The two main characters are emblematic. When her employer goes bust, a victim of the financial crash, France (Karin Viard), the mother of three adolescent daughters, starts commuting from the port city of Dunkirk where she lives to Paris where she is able find temporary jobs through a home-help agency. Meanwhile in London, Steve (Gilles Lellouche) — birth-name Stephane — is rewarded for his success as a high-flying trader with a mission to set up a new hedge fund in Paris.
France soon finds herself house-cleaning in Steve's luxury penthouse. Her duties are then extended to baby-sitting for Albin, the son Steve had with his estranged partner Melody (Raphaele Godin). Inevitably, a romantic entanglement follows. With an improbable idyll about to bloom, Steve lets slip a boast that it was he more than anyone who sank the firm France used to work for and consigned her and her fellow workers to the dole queue.
Read the full review in Hollywood Reporter
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Love Crime
Writes Roger Ebert: Alain Corneau's "Love Crime" is a diabolical mystery movie with one of those plots where we suppose we understand everything that's happening, and then get the rug pulled out from under us. It's a contest of will between two women executives in the French headquarters of an American multinational, and involves bloodthirsty office skullduggery and intrigue. The two lead performances make it work, even if the plot eventually seems devious for its own sake.--- ---- ---
One of the pleasures is watching the gears mesh. The screenplay has been written by Corneau and Nathalie Carter with meticulous attention to detail. Like classic mystery authors, they play fair, so that the surprises at the end are consistent with what we've seen — although we didn't realize it at the time.
Kristin Scott Thomas is good at roles like these, with a combination of sensuality and ruthlessness. Her fluency in the language has given her a new career as a French star, at a time when French filmmakers are more interested than Americans in middle-aged women. The movie depends, however, on Ludivine Sagnier, who is convincing both in early scenes when she's helpless and clueless, and later when she holds the cards and pulls the strings.
This is the final film by Alain Corneau, who died last year at 67. His best film was "Tous les Matins du Monde" (1991), which starred Gerard Depardieu in one of his best performances as a regretful old musician. He also directed a favorite of mine, "Fear and Trembling" (2003), which also involved two women in competition. "Love Crime" is equally involving.
The Complete Review Here.
The Kid With A Bike
Writes Fernando F. Croce in Slant Magazine: Modern cinema's poet laureates of working-class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion-picture makers whose works bristle with the kind of propulsive thrust that would have had pure action pioneers like Raoul Walsh or Allan Dwan taking notes. By the time their rough-and-tumble fable The Kid with a Bike comes to its conclusion, the Belgian brothers have turned the screen into a veritable map of zigzagging activity in which the little red shirt zipping across the frame becomes a visual emblem as kinetic in its own way as the most vertiginous forms in Tony Scott's breathless technocratic canvases. The difference is that a restless stylist like Scott would have zeroed in on this red shirt mainly as an icon to be whipped around a larger design of color and movement, while the Dardennes, tough and ardent humanists with a fierce control of cinema, remain focused first and foremost on the character wearing it, and on the emotional turmoil besieging him. Per usual, the Dardennes introduce a conflict and jump right in, with subsequent details gradually illuminating the narrative. Thus we meet 11-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) in an orphanage office, clutching a telephone receiver as if hanging on to a life raft, with the camera (positioned at his height and close to his face) framing the adults around him as half-obscured torsos and disembodied voices. Despite the recordings he keeps reaching on the phone and the explanations the grown-ups keep repeating, Cyril resoundingly rejects the idea that his father has left him behind, instead embarking on an almost autistically single-minded search for the vanished parent and for his beloved bike. Breaking out of the orphanage, running in and out of corridors and climbing trees and fences, the young protagonist is like a half-feral critter whose nonstop motion barely conceals the fact that he's running in circles, propelled by sheer anger and confusion. It's fitting, then, that the film's first turning point arrives in a moment of abrupt stasis as the runaway boy finds himself desperately hugging a hairdresser named Samantha (Cécile De France) at a doctor's office. "You can hold on to me," she calmly says while counselors struggle to pry the impromptu pietà apart, "but not so tight."
The Complete Review Here.
Don Edwards' Coyotes
A good song has a way of finding you, in unexpected ways. The way I found the song ‘Coyotes’ by Don Edwards. And, I had never heard of him before.
As someone who sees unhealthy number of films, every day, I cannot be trusted to sit through the end credits, I try though, to be honest. (As one of my teachers said, it is the duty of every viewer to sit throught the end titles, to acknowledge the works behind making a film; you know the names of the actors and the directors, but there are a large number of people, from spot boys to gaffers, who make a movie possible...)
Anyway, the ‘Coyotes’ number found me before the film ended. The film is Werner Herzog’s ‘Grizzly Man.’ We have just seen the last video footage of the subject of documentary, Timothy Treadwell, hours before the bears, whom he loved so absolutely, devoured him and his girlfriend. We see Treadwell leaving the camera with a few coyotes following him, then the camera pans to an ariel view of the forest, and then to a pilot of a helicopter as the song plays in the background.
And how it evokes the passing of time.
See and listen to the song here.
Don Edwards (born March 20, 1939 in Boonton, New Jersey) is a cowboy singer and guitarist who plays Western music. He has recorded several albums, two of which, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress. Edwards also recorded the album High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. More here.
The Song:
Coyotes
by Bob McDill, sung by Don Edwards
Album: Best of Don Edwards
Was a cowboy I knew in south Texas,
His face was burnt deep by the sun,
Part history, part sage, part mesquit,
He was there when Poncho Villa was young.
And he'd tell you a tale of the old days,
When the country was wild all around,
Sit out under the stars of the Milky Way,
And listen while the coyotes howl.
And they go... hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
Now the long horns are gone,
And the drovers are gone,
The Comanches are gone,
And the outlaws are gone,
Geronimo is gone,
And Sam Bass is gone, Outlaw in the old west,
And the lion is gone,
And the red wolf is gone.
Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men,
And he cursed the automobile,
Said this is no place for an hombre like I am,
In this new world of asphalt and steel.
Then he'd look off some place in the distance,
At something only he could see,
He'd say all that's left now of the old days,
Those damned old coyotes and me.
And they go hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
Now the long horns are gone,
And the drovers are gone
The Comanches are gone
And the outlaws are gone,
Now Quantro is gone,
Stan Watie is gone,
And lion is gone,
And the red wolf is gone.
One morning they searched his adobe,
He disappeared without even a word,
But that night as the moon crossed the mountain,
One more coyote was heard.
And he'd go, hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo...
As someone who sees unhealthy number of films, every day, I cannot be trusted to sit through the end credits, I try though, to be honest. (As one of my teachers said, it is the duty of every viewer to sit throught the end titles, to acknowledge the works behind making a film; you know the names of the actors and the directors, but there are a large number of people, from spot boys to gaffers, who make a movie possible...)
Anyway, the ‘Coyotes’ number found me before the film ended. The film is Werner Herzog’s ‘Grizzly Man.’ We have just seen the last video footage of the subject of documentary, Timothy Treadwell, hours before the bears, whom he loved so absolutely, devoured him and his girlfriend. We see Treadwell leaving the camera with a few coyotes following him, then the camera pans to an ariel view of the forest, and then to a pilot of a helicopter as the song plays in the background.
And how it evokes the passing of time.
See and listen to the song here.
Don Edwards (born March 20, 1939 in Boonton, New Jersey) is a cowboy singer and guitarist who plays Western music. He has recorded several albums, two of which, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress. Edwards also recorded the album High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. More here.
The Song:
Coyotes
by Bob McDill, sung by Don Edwards
Album: Best of Don Edwards
Was a cowboy I knew in south Texas,His face was burnt deep by the sun,
Part history, part sage, part mesquit,
He was there when Poncho Villa was young.
And he'd tell you a tale of the old days,
When the country was wild all around,
Sit out under the stars of the Milky Way,
And listen while the coyotes howl.
And they go... hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
Now the long horns are gone,
And the drovers are gone,
The Comanches are gone,
And the outlaws are gone,
Geronimo is gone,
And Sam Bass is gone, Outlaw in the old west,
And the lion is gone,
And the red wolf is gone.
Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men,
And he cursed the automobile,
Said this is no place for an hombre like I am,
In this new world of asphalt and steel.
Then he'd look off some place in the distance,
At something only he could see,
He'd say all that's left now of the old days,
Those damned old coyotes and me.
And they go hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
Now the long horns are gone,
And the drovers are gone
The Comanches are gone
And the outlaws are gone,
Now Quantro is gone,
Stan Watie is gone,
And lion is gone,
And the red wolf is gone.
One morning they searched his adobe,
He disappeared without even a word,
But that night as the moon crossed the mountain,
One more coyote was heard.
And he'd go, hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoodi hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo
hoo yip hoo yip hoo
hoo di hoo di yip hoo di yip hoo...
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Princess Of Montpensier
One headstrong Princess and her four lovers, including her husband, the prince of Montpensier, during one of the most bloodiest period of French history. And, as it must, the tale must end in heartbreaks and uncosumated passion. An epic presentation, directed by Bertrand Tavernier.Says Wikipedia: The Princess of Montpensier (French: La princesse de Montpensier) is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by a short story anonymously published by Madame de La Fayette. It stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz. The story takes place in the French aristocracy during the Wars of Religion, and focuses on a young woman who is forced into marriage while passionately in love with another man. The film competed at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on 3 November 2010. More Here.
Delhi Belly
When the film produced by Aamir Khan and directed by newcomer Abhinay Deo, was released in its original version, predominately in English, it created a controversy of sorts, for its use of language. Apparently, the characters used inappropriate language in the film, so much so that, the film came with a warning, don’t take your family to this film. So much so that the producers had to release a dubbed version, in Hindi, where the language was also censored to the extent it could be. I saw this ‘Hindi’ version of the film. The dubbing was terrible. On most occasions, the sync between the actors’ lip movements and the sounds were out of place, which was quite odd and quite irritating. And, I did not see anything that is controversial enough.
The film itself was okay, nothing extraordinary, most of it you have seen before (in parts it reminded me of Guy Richie’s ‘Snatch’ or Martin Lawrence starrer ‘Blue Streak’). But, it’s fun as long as it lasts.
But the controversy over the language got me thinking. It wasn’t as if this was the first film to use cass words. Films like ‘Satya’ did it a long time ago. It’s not as if the film shows something that’s not there in India. I mean, every youngster knows these words and use it. So, you find it silly that the film’s producers should use the cass words as the film’s USP.
What’s the film’s USP? I could find none. I mean, after a point, the plot even fails to engage you enough to worry about the lead characters. The film begins with three lazy-bum, careless and selfish youngsters and the film ends with them being the same; they do not learn anything in the process. Therefore, we, as audience, also do not feel for them. In a film of this kind (see for example, the fantastic ‘RocknRolla’, or ‘Layer Cake’), there should be a constant threat hanging over the protagonist. The film introduces the threats — a psycho husband, missing diamonds, gangsters, police — but how the protagonists react to these threats are superficial, and very, very badly realised. You look at them running (wearing Burkhas no less), and pushed to a tight spot, and you know instinctively, they would come out of the situation unscathed. I mean, whatever. It robs the film its thrill. We would be more sympathetic to them if we knew that they may be dead at any moment.
And, let me not talk about Imran Khan’s acting. Another major problem is his name — Tashi Dorjee Lhatoo. The name suggests that he is from Ladakhi/ Sikkimese descent. But nothing in Khan remotely authenticates his ethnicity. It seems the filmmaker gave the name simply because it sounded cool. (In ‘Kaminey’ too there is a character called Tashi, and he is played by an actor looks and acts like he is from that ethnicity.)
Wikipedia tells me that the original script was written by Akshat Verma, a Los Angeles based writer. So, I am guessing that the film was written in English. I am also guessing that the film was original made on the basis of the same English script. I am also guessing that when they decided to make a Hindi version of it, they sent the script to those people who are experts in translating original English language films into Hindi. Some of the dialogues sound so ludicrous that any one who knows his Hindi won’t speak like that. They speak like Disney cartoon characters dubbed in Hindi. In the beginning, Tashi’s girlfriend comes to his house, and says, “Tashi, main bahot gussa hoon!” in a singsong voice. This is a literal translation for “I’m very angry.” Nobody speaks like that in Hindi. In Hindi, gussa aata hai, gussa hota nahin!!!
Anyway, it was a Aamir Khan film, and Aamir Khan can do no wrong. By the way, I like the idea of the lyric, ‘I Hate You (Like I Love You).’ Very Smart. If it reminds you of French singer Serge Gainsbourg song, "Je t'aime... moi non plus" (1969) (Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg), I am sure it’s purely coincidental. By the way, I did not understand the brohaha about the other song, ‘Bhag DK Bose...’
More Here.
Rebel Without A Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments. Over the years, the film has achieved landmark status for the acting of cultural icon James Dean, fresh from his Academy Award nominated role in East of Eden and who died before the film's release, his most celebrated role. In 1990, Rebel Without a Cause was added to the preserved films of the United States Library of Congress's National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The story of a rebellious teenager who arrives at a new high school, meets a girl, disobeys his parents, and defies the local school bullies was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore the differences and conflicts between generations. The title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner's 1944 book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath. The film itself, however, does not reference Lindner's book in any way.
Warner Bros. released the film on October 27, 1955, less than one month after Dean's fatal car crash.
More Here.
Grizzly Man
Well known American film critic Roger Ebert calls him one of his personal heroes, and it’s not difficult to see why. Werner Herzog is a filmmaker who cannot be defined in a few words. He is a history in itself, and what a fascinating history. He has delved into every kind of cinema, and trumped it. Forget his masterpieces like ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ (1972) or ‘Fitzcarraldo’ (1982), recently, when 3D became a craze, he made his first 3D documentary, ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ (2010), and showed the world how to exploit technology to create enchanting experiences. He is one of the few directors alive or dead, who have so effortlessly travelled between narrative films and documentary. He made the wonderful documentary ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’ (1997) and ten years later converted into a feature film, ‘Rescue Dawn’ (2007).
Another interesting aspect of Herzog as a documentary filmmaker is that unlike a classic doc where the director does not involves himself with the subject, Herzog stands there in the middle of his subject matter and tells the story from his point of view, in his own voices, giving it a perspective in an open-hearted humane way. For example, watching ‘Encounters at the End of the World’ (2007) is not about knowing the current scenario in the north pole, but about seeing the place with open-eyed wonder.
Even by these standards, Grizzly Man (2005) is a rare achievement. Unlike most of his docs where he places his subjects within space and time, and observe them, and participates in the process, here, he talks about a dead man, and uses the stock footage filmed by the dead man himself, and tries to understand the subject from the distance. On paper, it sounds clinical, on screen it’s a heartbreaking tale of a man’s dangerous obsession of grizzly bear.
Wikipedia tells me: “Grizzly Man is a 2005 American documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. The film consists of Treadwell's own footage of his interactions with grizzly bears before he and his girlfriend were killed and eaten by a bear in 2003, and of interviews with people who knew or were involved with Treadwell. The footage he shot was later found, and the final film was co-produced by Discovery Docs, the Discovery Channel's theatrical documentary unit, and Lions Gate Entertainment. The film's soundtrack is by British singer songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson.” More here.
What Herzog basically does is to edit the videos he found, and tries of tell Treadwell’s story. For the audience, there are two distinct threads working here. One is Treadwell on the screen explaining his love for the bears with whom he has worked for 13 years. Treadwell cuts a very valiant figure in these videos, and his love for the bears is palpable. But, for the audience, the screen is filled with dramatic irony. We start looking at the film with the clear knowledge that Treadwell is dead. So, when he says it’s dangerous to live among these bears, it sounds prophetic.
And then, there’s Herzog’s voiceover in the background, in German-accented English, trying to make sense of Treadwell’s work, his obsession and understand the line between man and nature!
Haunting, aided greatly by Richard Thompson’s music and the great song ‘Coyotes’ by Don Edwards.
Writes Roger Ebert: The documentary is an uncommon meeting between Treadwell's loony idealism, and Herzog's bleak worldview. Treadwell's footage is sometimes miraculous, as when we see his close bond with a fox who has been like his pet dog for 10 years. Or when he grows angry with God because a drought has dried up the salmon run and his bears are starving. He demands that God make it rain and, what do you know, it does. More here.
Writes Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: "It is poignant, it is beautiful, and it is absolutely hilarious. Herzog didn't even have much work to do, what's more, because Treadwell - gifted, untrained film-maker that he was - had done almost everything himself, leaving behind hundreds of hours of videotape that he had shot at extreme and indeed fatal risk to himself. They contain sublime, dramatic shots of the bears and footage of his own mad and posturing rants to camera, wearing combats and a bandana - part surfer-dude, part drama-queen. Poor Mr Treadwell. He loved those bears. And they loved him. Yum, yum!" More here.
More on Herzog here.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Iti Mrinalini
Directed by: Aparna Sen Produced by: Shrikant Mohta; Mahendra Soni
Written by: Aparna Sen; Ranjan Ghosh
Starring: Konkona Sen Sharma; Aparna Sen; Rajat Kapoor; Priyanshu Chatterjee; Koushik Sen
Music by: Debajyoti Mishra
Cinematography: Somak Mukherjee
Release date(s): 27 October 2010
Running time: 128 minutes
Country: India
Language: Bengali
At one point, the central character of the Bengali film ‘Iti Mrinalini’ (An Unfinished Letter in English), a film about a film heroine who, after glorious achievements and several heartbreaking relationships, must end up lonely (It’s the same myth Shyam Benegal told in wonderful ‘Bhumika’, and Madhur Bhandarkar is trying to tell in ‘Heroine’), explains why she decided to quit acting. She says she entered the film world thinking that one day the revered Manikda, (as Satyajit Ray is known among his people) would hire her for a role. Then, Manikda passed away and Mrinalini saw no point in continuing acting.
How do you react to this sentiment? I mean, how vain can you get? If she was dying to work with Ray, she could have always approached him. And if she was as brilliant as the film projects her to be, Ray would have approached her anyway. Since neither happened, you suspect the credibility of the heroine, who despite knowing the fact that timing is everything in an actor’s life (when to enter and when to exit the stage), clings to a young and hotshot director, who is obviously using her.
But this is the least of problems in ‘Iti Mrinalini’. The problem lies in the choice of canvas. Aparna Sen, who directs the film and also appears as the older Mrinalini (the younger version is played by her real life daughter Konkona Sen Sharma), selects to tell a story, which may have depth and charm, but hardly original... but enormously ambitious. The result is fantastic to look at. Sen Sharma gives a heartbreaking performance, the music is great, and the passing of time, from naxal-influenced 1970s to Hollywood influenced 2000s (They make a film on Karna in English called ‘Born of the Sun’!), is captured with accuracy, and so on.
But, as the film ends and Mrinalini is dead, you hardly feel for her. Her loneliness, her tragedies are only superficial, and her own creations. It’s very difficult to emphasise with the central character, especially the way Sen portrays her.
‘Iti’ is the Bengali equivalent of regards, or sincerely, which you add at the end of a letter, before your name. The film begins with Mrinalini writing a suicide note, saying she does not have any regrets, or is it? Soon, the film moves between two Mrinalinis, the younger one, in love with a naxal, who becomes a starry-eyed heroine and falls for a married director, played by Rajat Kapoor and dubbed by Anjan Dutta (Why Anjan Dutt couldn’t play the role himself?), have a child and overall leads a complex, tragic life... and the older one, still waiting for that elusive love, who is upset when the young director dumps her for a younger heroine. In between we see a lot of characters, and all they talk about is love, and belonging and such stuff, very poetic, very romantic, very dramatic, there are mentions of Tagore and other literary and cultural personality (Tagore's Red Olieander, Rakta Kababi), there are poetry recitations and there are the epics, and all of these ultimately come to naught.This is a problem with most Bengali artistic creations, they go all over, they encompass everything, in the bargain losing focus.
Sen is a director of higher calibre. You look at her works and you’d find that she excelled on those films where the focus was restrained, and bound by time and place, like 36, Chowrangee Lane (the old woman’s house), or Mr and Mrs Iyer (the journey), and to some extent, The Japanese Wife... or gutsy Paroma, that was one brave film.
Yet, the film looks good, and the soundtrack is really worth your time, especially the song in the opening and closing credits, 'Smitir Sahor’, a poem by Sunil Gangopadhyay, brilliantly set in music. Superb.
Gautaman Bhaskaran’s Review in Hindustan Times
More Here.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Last Cannibal World
Unlike Cannibal Holocaust (1980), an Italian exploitation, horror, pseudo-snuff film, which in most part is unwatchable for its shamelessly exaggerated content (which itself made it infamous), Last Cannibal World (1977) is better film, as better as a film of this kind can be. It remains an exploitation film, but it pretends to tell a real-life story, and clocks itself in the garb of an action-adventure film, only that the setting has been changed from Africa to Philippines.Last Cannibal World claims to tell a true story, which you doubt very much; there’s nothing much a story anyway. A group of oil prospects lands in an uninhabited island, to find among other things, an earlier team who had gone missing. Conveniently, they are lost in the jungle. While others are killed two survives, Robert and Rolf, and one of them, Robert, is captured by a tribe of cannibals. They bind Robert, undress him, make him a ritual sacrifice, along with a hornbill, and then put him in a prison. After suffering for several days, and witnessing the ‘barbaric’ rituals of the primitive tribe, where they kill a man and eats him, Robert, still without clothes, escapes, and takes a tribal girl hostage. The rest of the film follows them as they find Rolf and make way to their plane, and the tribal girl is raped, by Robert, and then killed and eaten, by the cannibals, and everyone goes home.
Yes, there are all those exploitation images, along with the notions of coloniser vs natives, and women as commodities, and so on. Yet, the film is fun; if you can see it with the right attitude.
Unlike Cannibal Holocaust, which I found abominable, because of the images it glories, especially the scene when a white man rapes a tribal girl just because he could. It tell the story of four American youngsters, then boys and one girl, goes to an uncharted country looking for lost civilization. And then, they are lost. As rescue team is sent, which confirms that they are dead and find a video tape they made. The film is allegedly based on the videotape. It’s all gimmick to show torture. In that sense, you can call the film the beginning of torture porn — made popular by a film series titled, ‘Saw’...
More on Last Cannibal World is here, and here.
More on Cannibal Holocause here.
Ludwig
Ludwig is a 1972 film directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Visconti's muse, Helmut Berger, stars as Ludwig, while Romy Schneider reprises her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a very different portrayal compared to her role in the 1950s Sissi trilogy.Ludwig is a very languidly paced film, but with an impressive sense of tragic crescendo. The fully restored version, running over four hours, builds sympathy in the viewer for Ludwig's decadent, yet ultimately firmly constricted life. Visconti’s meticulous realism gives a bright picture of court life in the nineteenth-century Bavaria and shows with impressive dramatic pathos how a dreamy romantic idealist as Ludwig succumbs to the strenuous and urgent demands of his responsibilities as king. The political sphere of counselors, clergymen, princes and kings, as well as the intricate and often tense relations between the members of the royal family are treated in the film with an acute and refined sensibility to aristocratic decorum and way of living. However, in the 19th century the Bavarian king lacked real political power, causing Ludwig to indulge in his Wagnerian fantasies while more or less ignoring the political reality at the time.
More here.
Essential Killing
Not all films tell stories. Some films are studies in condition. Its main motive is not entertainment but to understand the human condition. ‘Essential Killing’ (2010) is one such film, at the centre of which is Vincent Gallo’s superb performance for which he was awarded at Venice. In the first glance, it’s an odd product indeed. Made by a polish director, Jerzy Skolimowski (who also made the fascinating ‘Deep End’ (1970)), it features an American actor as an Arab, who for some inexplicable reasons, transported from the deserts to a country covered with snow, where the Arab prisoner escapes, and now, to survive he must kill those who hunts him. So, essential killing.
It’s a difficult film to watch, and not only for its subject matter. Half of the film is without any dialogue and follows Callo closely, as he tries to survive and make sense of his new-found environs.
Gritty, and worthwhile, but difficult nonetheless.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Andre Gide
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”— Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a strait-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.
More on Gide Here.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Attack The Block
As someone said, all the stories worth telling have already been told. What’s left is how do you tell the same story again. That itself is an art. And this low-budget British monster-comedy-sci-fi-young adult actioner does it with aplomb. It’s a classic alien monster vs human film, where you know human are going to win. But, by placing the tale in the fringes, a housing complex, a young black hero without a family and with the ambition to be a criminal, and his equally young friends learning to rob unsuspecting pedestrians in the night, the film adds novelty to the maudlin plot and makes it a thrill ride.
And the film finds it core in the young actor John Boyega as Moses, the leader of the wannabe hoodlums. He has an intensity that reminds you of Danzel Washington. Mind you, it’s a good thing. And, he single-handedly lifts the climax of the film and makes it believable.
Believable the monsters are not, and it does not matter. They are black, furry, and their teeth glows; apparently they are aliens and they are here because Moses killed one of them. Now, the pack chases the gang of younsters who must gather all their wits and courage to fight those abominable beasties.
Interesting.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Chariots of Fire
Writes Roger Ebert: This is strange. I have no interest in running and am not a partisan in the British class system. Then why should I have been so deeply moved by CHARIOTS OF FIRE, a British film that has running and class as its subjects? I've toyed with that question since I first saw this remarkable film in May 1981 at the Cannes Film Festival, and I believe the answer is rather simple: Like many great films, CHARIOTS OF FIRE takes its nominal subjects as occasions for much larger statements about human nature.This is a movie that has a great many running scenes. It is also a movie about British class distinctions in the years after World War I, years in which the establishment was trying to piece itself back together after the carnage in France. It is about two outsidersÑa Scot who is the son of missionaries in China, and a Jew whose father is an immigrant from Lithuania. And it is about how both of them use running as a means of asserting their dignity. But it is about more than them, and a lot of this film's greatness is hard to put into words. CHARIOTS OF FIRE creates deep feelings among many members of its audiences, and it does that not so much with its story or even its characters as with particular moments that are very sharply seen and heard.
The Complete Review Here.
Paris Is Burning
The other day I told someone, I see so many films, I wish I could write about all of them as well; but no, I cannot; first time, time is the culprit, and then my own shortcomings. You cannot really talk about the issues that affect you so much. Sometimes words becomes inadequate to express the matters of the heart.I wish I could write some wonderful stuff about this wonderful documentary, ‘Paris is Burning’ (1990). It reflects the vestiges of a time long lost; a moment of triumph, before the inevitable end...
Wikipedia tells me: Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture community consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America. More Here.
Writes Jesse Green of The New York Times: Drag is variously explained as destruction of the male within or the female without. For Dorian and for many of Angie's other mourners, drag is not a means of destruction but of rescue -- a little beauty, however perverse and rococo. This is the achievement that Ms. Livingston indelibly recorded: the victory of imagination over poverty. But the victory is Pyrrhic at best. The movie's title may come from the name of Paris DuPree's ball, by which she meant only that the competition would be hot, but the phrase itself has a darker history. "Paris brennt?" ("Is Paris burning?") Hitler asked , wondering whether the city had fallen. And though Paris, France survived, the Paris of Ms. Livingston's movie -- and all it depicted -- may not. Read the full article Here.
7 Khoon Maaf
I saw ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ after the film had been officially declared a flop, after critics like Khalid Mohammed and Raja Sen gave it two out of five rating, after most of my friends completely wrote off the new Vishal Bhardwaj film. It’s not because I admire Bhardwaj that I liked the film; I liked the film because it’s well-made, it’s a classic black comedy, which understands the narrative point-of-view (you see, the film is narrated from the point of view of an outsider, who worships the so called cold, evil protagonist, who kills her six husbands at various points of her life, and he’s telling the story to his wife, and as it film ends, he tells his wife a blatant lie. So can we expect him to tell the truth? So, you’ll have to savour the narrative with a spoonful of salt.), the film is shot brilliantly (Observe Neil Nitin Mukesh’s amputed leg), has a beautiful soundtrack (the Darling song, set in a Russian tune), and has some totally weird characters — a dwarf and deaf man with a whip, who takes care of the narrator, an orphan, a butler called Ghalib, a nanny with six toe-nails, Neil Nitin Mukesh with an amputed leg, John Abraham, in a skirt (okay, a kilt), welding enormous biceps (I mean, really enormous), A Russian spy who quotes Amiatbh Bachchan, Irfan Khan as a sensitive poet and a sado-machocist in bed, Naseeruddin Shah as a mushroom fanatic, and hold your breathe, Jesus Christ, dancing like a whirling dervish — and did we mention Priyanka Chopra, getting younger, getting older, turning Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and then Christian again, laughing and crying, and in a relentless killing spree?
After all these, how can the film go wrong? But, apparently, it did. I tried to analyse the reason/s, and here’s what I found.
Though the narrative of the tale is pretty straightforward, told in flashbacks and aptly helped by Vivaan Shah’s lively voiceover, this is where the problem starts. A regular viewer of a regular Bollywood film is not used to seeing so many things happening at the same time, especially when the tale does not explain everything and expects the audience to do their own thinking. We are not used to use our brains in a Bollywood film. We are not used to irony in mainstream art (I think, Indians in general, do not understand irony.). The art has to be reverential, grounded, identifiable, direct...
In a Bollywood film, we want to be spoon-fed. We want everything straightforward, we want everything explained, at times, over and over again, and most importantly we need time to get acquainted and understand the characters — the lovers would have to sing and dance at least two love songs before we are convinced that they are in love; the hero has to go through a series of ‘comic’ gags before we are convinced that he’s a good guy, the heroine has to go through at least one misunderstanding before she can embrace the hero, the villain has to perform a series of heinous acts before he can sell himself as a villain.
As we go through all these motions, it’s already the interval of the three-hour film. Post-interval, we are introduced to the one-point plot. Mind you, there must be just one issue at hand; the hero cannot handle more than one issue — or maximum two, these two being, marrying the heroine, against all odds (where the heroine’s father is usually the villain), and killing the villain to avenge one thing or another. Which leads us to the climax, an elaborate action/wedding sequence where all the characters in the film assemble, first they cry, then kill the baddie, and then laugh. The End.
In contrast, ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ moves at a relentless pace. Sussana kills one husband and quickly moves on to the next one, there is no mopping around with guilt, there’s not planning and plotting, there no dialogues to justify her actions, there’s no time for long hours of courtship, and love songs, though there are some love songs, including one set in Kashmir.
In short, for a regular Bollywood viewer, ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ is seven films merged into one. And this is way too much for us — we go to movies for entertainment, to laugh and cry, not to ponder over.
Harold Bloom’s Canon
In ‘The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Age’ (1994), Harold Bloom examines the Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. Bloom concludes his work with an extensive bibliography covering 36 two-columned pages. Here he provides a complete list of essential writers and books — his version of the Canon. The list is divided into four chronological ages: Theocratic, Aristocratic, Democratic , and Chaotic.
Here is a portion of the books that make the canon...
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Gilgamesh.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Holy Bible. Authorized King James Version
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
ANCIENT INDIA
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita. The Crucial religious section of Mahabharata,
Book 6
The Ramayana.
THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Homer The Iliad. The Odyssey.
Hesiod The Works and Days. Theogony.
Archilochos
Sappho
Alkman
Pindar The Odes.
Aeschylus The Oresteia. Seven Against Thebes. Prometheus
Bound. The Persians. The Suppliant Women
Sophocles Oedipus the King. Oedipus at Colunus. Antigone.
Electra. Ajax. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes
Euripides Cyclops. Heracles. Alcestis. Hecuba. The Bacchae.
Orestes. Andromache. Medea. Ion. Hippolytus.
Helen. Iphigeneia at Aulis
Aristophanes The Birds. The Clouds. The Frogs. Lysistrata. The
Knights. The Wasps. The Assemblywomen (The
Parliament of Women)
Herodotus The Histories.
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War.
Heraclitus
Empedocles
Plato Dialogues.
Aristotle Poetics. Ethics.
HELLENISTIC GREEKS
Menander The Girl from Samos.
Longinus On the Sublime
Callimachus Hymns. Epigrams
Theocritus Idylls
Plutarch Lives. Moralia
Aesop Fables
Lucian Satires
THE ROMANS
Plautus Pseudolus. The Braggart Soldier. The Rope.
Amphitryon
Terence The Girl from Andros. The Eunuch. The
Mother-in-Law
Lucretius The Way Things Are
Cicero On the Gods
Horace Odes. Epistles. Satires
Persius Satires
Catullus Attis. Other Poems.
Virgil The Aeneid. Eclogues. Georgics.
Lucan Pharsalia
Ovid Metamorphoses. The Art of Love. Epistulae
Heroidum (Heroides)
Juvenal Satires.
Martial Epigrams
Seneca Tragedies (particularly Medea and Hercules
Furens).
Petronius Satyricon
Apuleius The Golden Ass
THE MIDDLE AGES: LATIN, ARABIC, AND THE VERNACULAR
BEFORE DANTE
Saint Augustine The City of God. The Confessions
The Koran
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights
The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival
Chretien de Troyes Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid
Christine de Pisan The Book of the City of Ladies
Diego de San Pedro Prison of Love
The Aristocratic Age. Part II of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
ITALY
Dante The Divine Comedy. The New Life.
Petrarch Lyric Poems. Selections.
Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron.
Matteo Mariaa Boiardo Orlando Innamorato.
Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso.
Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnets and Madrigals.
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince. The Mandrake, A Comedy.
Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks.
Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier.
Gaspara Stampa Sonnets and Madrigals.
Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Painters.
Benvenuto Cellini Autobiography.
Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered.
Giordano Bruno The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
Tommaso Campanella Poems. The City of the Sun.
Giambattista Vico Principles of a New Science.
Carlo Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters.
Vittorio Alfieri Saul.
PORTUGAL
Luis de Camoens The Lusiads.
Antonio Ferreira Poetry in The Muse Reborn.
SPAIN
Jorge Manrique Coplas.
Fernando de Rojas La Celestina. Lazarillo de Tormes.
Francisco de Quevedo Visions. Satirical Letter of Censure.
Fray Luis de Leon Poems.
St. John of the Cross Poems.
Luis de Gongora Sonnets. Soledades.
Miguel deCervantes Don Quixote. Exemplary Stories.
Lope de Vega La Dorotea. Fuente Ovejuna. Lost in a Mirror.
The Knight of Olmedo.
Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life is a Dream. The Mayor of Zalamea. The
Mighty Magician. The Doctor of His Own Honor
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Poems.
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales. Troilus and Criseyde.
Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte D'Arthur.
William Dunbar Poems.
John Skelton Poems.
Sir Thomas More Utopia.
Sir Thomas Wyatt Poems.
Henry Howard, Poems.
Earl of Surrey
Sir Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
Astrophel and Stella. An Apology for
Poetry.
Fulke Greville, Lord Poems.
Brooke
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene. The Minor Poems.
Sir Walter Raleigh Poems.
Christopher Marlowe Poems and Plays.
Michael Drayton Poems
Samuel Daniel Poems. A Defence of Ryme.
Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveller.
Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy.
William Shakespeare Plays and Poems.
Thomas Campion Songs.
John Donne Poems, Plays, and Masques.
Francis Bacon Essays.
Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici.
Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. The Garden
of Cyrus.
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan.
Robert Herrick Poems.
Thomas Carew Poems.
Richard Lovelace Poems.
Andrew Marvell Poems.
George Herbert The Temple.
Thomas Traherne Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings.
Henry Vaughan Poetry.
John Wilmot, Poems.
Earl of Rochester
Richard Crashaw Poems.
Francis Beaumont, Plays.
John Fletcher
George Chapman Comedies, Tragedies, Poems.
John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
John Marston The Malcontent.
John Webster The White Devil. The Duchess of Malfi.
Thomas Middleton, The Changeling.
William Rowley
Cyril Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy.
Philip Massinger A New Way to Pay Old Debts
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress.
Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler.
John Milton Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. Lycidas,
Comus and the Minor Poems. Samson
Agonistes. Aeropagitica.
John Aubrey Brief Lives.
Jeremy Taylor Holy Dying.
Samuel Butler Hudibras.
John Dryden Poetry and Plays. Critical Essays.
Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd
William Congreve The way of the World. Love for Love.
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub. Gulliver's Travels. Shorter
Prose Works. Poems.
Sir George Etherege The Man of Mode.
Alexander Pope Poems.
John Gay The Beggar's Opera.
James Boswell Life of Johnson. Journals.
Samuel Johnson Works.
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire.
Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into ... the Sublime
and Beautiful. Reflections on the
Revolution in France.
Maurice Morgann An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir
John Falstaff.
William Collins Poems.
Thomas Gray Poems.
George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem. The Recruiting Officer.
William Wycherley The Country Wife. The Plain Dealer.
Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno. A Song to David.
Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield. She Stoops to
Conquer. The Traveller. The Deserted
Village.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal. The Rivals.
William Cowper Poetical Works.
George Crabbe Poetical Works.
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders. Robinson Crusoe. A Journal
of the Plague Year.
Samuel Richardson Clarissa. Pamela. Sir Charles Grandison.
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews. The History of Tom Jones,
a Foundling.
Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. The
Adventures of Roderick Random.
Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy,
Gentleman. A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy.
Fanny Burney Evelina.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator.
Richard Steele
FRANCE
Jean Froissart Chronicles.
The Song of Roland
Francois Villon Poems.
Michel de Montaigne Essays.
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Marguerite de Navarre The Heptameron.
Joachim Du Bellay The Regrets
Maurice Sceve Delie
Pierre de Ronsard Odes, Elegies, Sonnets.
Agrippa d'Aubigne Les Tragiques
Robert Garnier Mark Antony. The Jewesses.
Pierre Corneille The Cid. Polyeucte. Nicomede. Horace.
Cinna. Rodogune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims.
Jean de La Fontaine Fables
Moliere The Misanthrope. Tartuffe. The School for
Wives. The Learned Ladies. Don Juan.
School for Husbands. Ridiculous
Precieuses. The Would-Be Gentleman.
The Miser. The Imaginary Invalid.
Plaise Pascal Pensees.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Funerary Orations.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry.
Jean Racine Phaedra. Andromache. Britannicus.
Athaliah.
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux Seven Comedies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Confessions. Emile. La Nouvelle
Heloise.
Voltaire Zadig. Candide. Letters on England. The
Lisbon Earthquake.
Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut
Madame de La Fayette The Princess of Cleves
Sebastian-Roch Nicholas de Products of the Perfected Civilization.
Chamfort
Denis Diderot Rameau's Nephew.
Choderlos de Laclos Dangerous Liaisons.
GERMANY
Erasmus (Dutchman) In Praise of Folly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, Parts One and Two. Dichtung und
Wahreit. Egmont. Elective Affinities.
The Sorrows of Young Werther. Poems.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering.
Italian Journey. Verse Plays. Hermann
and Dorothea. Roman Elegies. Venetian
Epigrams. West-Eastern Divan.
Friedrich Schiller The Robbers. Mary Stuart. Wallenstein.
Don Carlos. On the Naive and
Sentimental in Literature.
Gotthold Lessing Laocoon. Nathan the Wise.
Friedrich Holderlin Hymns and Fragments. Selected Poems.
Heinrich von Kleist Five Plays. Stories.
The Democratic Canon. Part III of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
ITALY
Ugo Foscolo On Sepulchres. Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis. Odes and Graces.
Alessandro Manzoni The Betrothed. On the Historical Novel.
Giacomo Leopardi Essays and Dialogues. Poems. The Moral Essays.
Giuseppe Giocchino Belli Roman Sonnets.
Giosue Carducci Hymn to Satan. Barbarian Odes. Rhymes and Rhythms.
Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily. Mastro-Don Gesualdo. The House by the Medlar Tree. The She-Wolf and Other Stories.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Poems.
Benito Perez Galdos Fortunata and Jacinta.
Leopoldo Alas (Clarin) La Regenta.
Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros The Maias.
FRANCE
Benjamin Constant Adolphe. The Red Notebook.
Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand Atala and Rene. The Genius of Christianity.
Alphonse de Lamartine Meditations.
Alfred de Vigny Chatterton. Poems.
Victor Hugo The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems. Les Miserables. Notre Dame of Paris. William Shakespeare. The Toilers of the Sea. The End of Satan. God.
Alfred de Musset Poems. Lorenzaccio.
Gerard de Nerval The Chimeras. Sylvie. Aurelia.
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin. Enamels and Cameos.
Honore de Balzac The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Louis Lambert. The Wild Ass's Skin. Old Goriot. Cousin Bette. A Harlot High and Low. Eugenie Grandet. Ursule Mirouet.
Stendhal On Love. The Red and the Black. The Chaterhouse of Parma.
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary. Sentimental Education. Salammbo. A Simple Soul
George Sand The Haunted Pool.
Charles Baudelaire Flowers of Evil. Paris Spleen.
Stephane Mallarme Selected Poetry and Prose.
Paul Verlaine Selected Poems.
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works.
Tristan Corbiere Les Amours Jaunes
Jules Laforgue Selected Writings.
Guy de Maupassant Selected Short Stories.
Emile Zola Germinal. L'Assommoir. Nana.
SCANDINAVIA
Henrik Ibsen Brand. Peer Gynt. Emperor and Galilean. Hedda Gabbler. The Master Builder.
August Strindberg To Damascis. Miss Julie. The Father. The Dance of Death. The Ghost Sonata. A DreamPlay.
GREAT BRITAIN
Robert Burns Poems.
William Blake Complete Poetry and Prose.
William Wordsworth Poems. The Prelude.
Sir Walter Scott Waverley. The Heart of Midlothian. Redgauntlet. Old Mortality
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Persuasion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems and Prose.
Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journal.
William Hazlitt Essays and Criticism
Lord Byron Don Juan. Poems.
Walter Savage Landor Poems. Imaginary Conversations.
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Selected Prose.
Charles Lamb Essays.
Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent.
John Galt The Entail.
Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford. Mary Barton. North and South.
James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems. A Defence of Poetry.
John Clare Poems.
John Keats Poems and Letters.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death's Jest-Book. Poems.
George Darley Nepenthe. Poems.
Thomas Hood Poems.
Thomas Wade Poems.
Robert Browning Poems. The Ring and the Book.
Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. David Copperfield. The Adventures of oliver Twist. A Tale of Two Cities. Bleak House. Hard Times. Nicholas Nickleby. Dombey and Son. Great Expectations. Martin Chuzzlewit. Christmas Stories. Little Dorrit. Our Mutual Friend. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti Poems and Translations.
Matthew Arnold Poems. Essays.
Arthur Hugh Clough Poems.
Christina Rosetti Poems.
Thomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey. Gryll Grange.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems and Prose.
Thomas Carlyle Selected Prose. Sartor Resartus.
John Ruskin Modern Painters. The Stones of Venice. Unto This Last. The Queen of the Air
Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Appreciations. Imaginary Portraits. Marius the Epicurean.
Edward FitzGerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
John Stuart Mill On Liberty. Autobiography.
John Henry Newman Apologia pro Vita Sua. A Grammar of Assent. The Idea of a University.
Anthony Trollope The Barsetshire Novels. The Palliser Novels. Orley Farm. The Way We Live Now.
Lewis Carroll Complete Works.
Edward Lear Complete Nonsense.
George Gissing New Grub Street.
Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Letters.
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre. Villette.
Emily Bronte Poems. Wuthering Heights.
William Makepeace Thackery Vanity Fair. The History of Henry Esmond.
Francis Thompson Poems.
Lionel Johnson Poems.
Robert Bridges Poems.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Collected Poems. The Man Who Was Thursday
Samuel Butler Erewhon. The Way of All Flesh.
W. S. Gilbert Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan. Bab Ballads.
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone. The Woman in White. No Name.
Coventry Patmore Odes.
James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis) The City of Dreadful Night.
Oscar Wilde Plays. The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Artist as Critic. Letters
John Davidson Ballads and Songs.
Ernest Dowson Complete Poems.
George Eliot Adam Bede. Silas Marner. The Mill on the Floss. Middlemarch. Daniel Deronda.
Robert Louis Stevenson Essays. Kidnapped. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Treasure Island. The New Arabian Nights. The Master of Ballantrae. Weir of Hermiston.
William Morris Early Romances. Poems. The Earthly Paradise. The Well at World's End. News from Nowhere.
Bram Stoker Dracula.
George Macdonald Lilith. At the Back of the North Wind.
GERMANY
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg Hymns to the Night. Aphorisms.
Jacob and Willhelm Grimm Fairy Tales.
Eduard Morike Selected Poems. Mozart on His Way to Prague.
Theodor Storm Immensee. Poems.
Gottfried Keller Green Henry. Tales.
E. T. A. Hoffmann The Devil's Elixir. Tales.
Jeremias Gotthelf The Black Spider.
Adalbert Stifter Indian Summer. Tales.
Friedrich Schlegel Criticism and Aphorisms.
Georg Buchner Danton's Death. Woyzeck.
Heinrich Heine Complete Poems.
Richard Wagner The Ring of the Nibelung.
Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy. Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genealogy of Morals. The Will to Power.
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest.
Stefan George Selected Poems.
RUSSIA
Aleksandr Pushkin Complete Prose Tales. Collected Poetry. Eugene Onegin. Narrative Poems.
Nikolay Gogol The Complete Tales. Dead Souls. The Government Inspector
Mikhail Lermontov Narrative Poems. A Hero of Our Time.
Sergey Aksakov A Family Chronicle.
Aleksandr Herzen My Past and Thoughts. From the Other Shore.
Ivan Goncharov The Frigate Pallada. Oblomov.
Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Notebook. A Month in the Country. Fathers and Sons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot.
Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks. War and Peace. Anna Karenina. A Confession.
Nikolay Leskov Tales.
Aleksandr Ostrovsky The Storm.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky What Is to Be Done?
Aleksandr Blok The Twelve and Other Poems.
Anton Chekhov The Tales. The Major Plays.
THE UNITED STATES
Washington Irving The Sketch Book.
William Cullen Bryant Collected Poems.
James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier Collected Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature. Essays, First and Second Series. Representative Men. The Conduct of Life. Journals. Poems.
Emily Dickinson Complete Poems.
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, First Edition. Leaves of Grass, Third Edition. The Complete Poems. Specimen Days.
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter. Tales and Sketches. The The Marble Faun. Notebooks.
Herman Melville Moby-Dick. The Piazza Tales. Billy Budd. Collected Poems. Clarel.
Edgar Allan Poe Poetry and Tales. Essays and Reviews. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Eureka.
Jones Very Essays and Poems.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman The Cricket and Other Poems.
Henry David Thoreau Walden. Poems. Essays.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years before the Mast.
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Selected Poems.
Sidney Lanier Poems.
Francis Parkman France and England in North America. The The California and Oregon Trail.
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Ambrose Bierce Collected Writings.
Louisa May Alcott Little Women.
Charles W.Chestnutt The Short Fiction.
Kate Chopin The Awakening.
William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham. A Modern Instance.
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage. Stories and Poems.
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady. The Bostonians. The Princess Casamassima. The Awkward Age. Short Novels and Tales. The Ambassadors. The Wings of the Dove. The Golden Bowl.
Harold Frederic The Damnation of Theron Ware.
Mark Twain Complete Short Stories. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Devil's Racetrack. Number Forty-Four. The Mysterious Stranger. Pudd'nhead Wilson. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
William James The Varieties of Religious Experience. Pragmatism.
Frank Norris The Octopus
Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Trumbull Stickney Poems.
The Chaotic Age. A Canonical Prophecy. Part IV of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
Luigi Piramdello Naked Masks: Five Plays.
Gabriele D'Annunzio Maia: In Praise of Life.
Dino Campana Orphic Songs.
Umberto Saba Stories and Recollections. Poems.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard.
Giuseppe Ungaretti Selected Poems. The Buried Harbor: Selected Poems.
Eugenio Montale The Storm and Other Things: Poems. The Occasions: Poems. Cuttlefish Bones: Poems. Otherwise: Last and First Poems. The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays.
Salvatore Quasimodo Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry.
Tommaso Landolfi Gogol's Wife and Other Stories.
Leonardo Sciascia Day of the Owl. Eqyal danger. The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories.
Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems.
Cesare Pavese Hard Labor: Poems. Dialogues with Leuco.
Primo Levi If Not Now, When? Collected Poems. The Periodic Table.
Italo Svevo The Confessions of Zeno. As a Man Grows Older.
Giorgio Bassani The Heron.
Natalia Ginzburg Family.
Elio Vittorini Women of Messina.
Alberto Moravia 1934.
Andrea Zanzotto Selected Poetry
Italo Calvino Invisible Cities. The Baron in the Trees. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. t zero.
Antonio Porta Kisses from Another Dream: Poems.
SPAIN
Miguel de Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels. Our Lord Don Quixote.
Antonio Machado Selected Poems.
Juan Ramon Jimenez Invisible Reality: Poems.
Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You: Poems.
Jorge Guillen Guillen on Guillen: The Poetry and the Poet.
Vincente Aleixandre A Longing for the Night: Selected Poems.
Federico Garcia Lorca Selected Poems. Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba.
Rafael Alberti The Owl's Insomnia: Poems.
Luis Cernuda Selected Poems.
Miguel Hernandez Selected Poems.
Blas de Otero Selected Poems.
Camilo Jose Cela The Hive.
Juan Goytisolo Space in Motion.
CATALONIA
Carles Riba Selected Poems.
J.V. Foix Selected Poems.
Joan Perucho Natural History.
Merce Rodoreda The Time of the Doves.
Pere Gimferrer Selected Poems.
Salvador Espiru La Pell de Brau: Poems.
PORTUGAL
Fernando Pessoa The Keeper of Sheep. Poems. Selected Poems. Always Astonished: Selected Prose. The Book of Disquiet.
Jorge de Sena Selected Poems.
Jose Saramago Baltasar and Blimunda.
Jose Cardoso Pires Ballad of Dog's Beach.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Selected Poems.
Eugenio de Andrade Selected Poems.
FRANCE
Anatole France Penguin Island. Thais.
Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes.
Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time).
Andre Gide The Immoralist. Corydon. Lafcadio's Adventures (The Caves of the Vatican). The Counterfeiters. The Journals.
Colette Collected Stories. Retreat from Love.
Georges Bataille Blue of Moon.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Journey to the End of Night.
Rene Daumal Mount Analogue.
Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers. The Thief's Journal. The Balcony.
Jean Giradoux Four Plays.
Alfred Jarry Selected Works.
Jean Cocteau The Infernal Machine and Other Plays.
Guillaume Apollinaire Selected Writings
Andre Breton Poems. Manifestoes of Surrealism.
Paul Valery The Art of Poetry: Selected Writings.
Rene Char Poems.
Paul Eluard Selected Poems.
Louis Aragon Selected Poems.
Jean Giono The Horseman on the Roof.
Michel Leiris Manhood.
Raymond Radiguet Count d'Orgel's Ball
Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit. Nausea. Saint Genet. The Words. The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert.
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex.
Albert Camus The Stranger. The Plague. The Fall. The Rebel.
Henri Michaux Selected Writings
Edmond Jabes The Book of Questions
Saint-John Perse Anabasis. Birds. Exile and Other Poems.
Pierre Reverdy Selected Poems.
Tristan Tzara Seven Dada Manifestos
Max Jacob Selected Poems.
Pierre-Jean Jouve Selected Poems.
Francis Ponge Things: Selected Writings
Jacques Prevert Paroles.
Philippe Jaccotet Selected Poems.
Charles Peguy The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.
Benjamin Peret Selected Poems.
Andre Malraux The Conquerors. The Royal Way. Man's fate. Man's Hope. The Voices of Silence.
Francois Mauriac Therese. The desert of Love. the Woman of the Pharisees
Jean Anouilh Becket. Antigone. Eurydice. The Rehearsal.
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano. The Chairs. The Lesson. Amedee. Victims of Duty. Rhinoceros.
Maurice Blanchot Thomas the Obscure.
Pierre Klossowski The Laws of Hospitality. The Baphomet.
Raymond Roussel Locus Solus.
Antonin Artaud Selected Writings.
Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques.
Alain Robbe-Grillet The Voyeur. Jealousy. In the Labyrinth. The Erasers. Project for a Revolution in New York. For a New Novel.
Claude Simon The Grass. The Wind. The Flanders Road.
Marguerite Duras The Lover. Four Novels.
Robert Pinget Fable. The Libera Me Domine. That Voice.
Michel Tournier The Ogre. Friday.
Marguerite Yourcenar Coup de Grace. Memoirs of Hadrian.
Jean Follain Transparence of the World.
Yves Bonnefoy Words in Stone.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
William Butler Yeats The Collected Poems. Collected Plays. A Vision. Mythologies.
George Bernard Shaw Major Critical Essays. Heartbreak House.Pygmalion. Saint Joan. Major Barbara. Back to Methuselah.
John Millington Synge Collected Plays.
Sean O'Casey Juno and the Peacock. The Plough and the Stars. The Shadow of a Gunman.
George Douglas Brown The House with the Green Shutters.
Thomas Hardy The Well-Beloved. The Woodlanders. The Return of the Native. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Far from the Madding Crowd. Tess of the d'Urbevilles. Jude the Obscure. Collected Poems.
Rudyard Kipling Kim. Collected Stories. Puck of Pook's Hill. Complete Verse.
A.E. Housman Collected Poems.
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson. Seven Men and Two Others.
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim. The Secret Agent. Nostromo. Under Western Skies. Victory.
Ronald Firbank Five Novels.
Ford Madox Ford Parade's End. The Good Soldier.
W. Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories. The Moon and Sixpence.
John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent. A Glastonbury Romance.
Saki (H.H. Munro) The Short Stories
H.G. Wells The Science Fiction Novels.
David Lindsay A Voyage to Arcturus.
Arnold Bennett The Old Wive's Tale.
Walter De la Mare Collected Poems. Memoirs of a Midget
Wilfred Owen Collected Poems
Isaac Rosenberg Collected Poems
Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Robert Graves Collected Poems. King Jesus
Edwin Muir Collected Poems
David Jones In Parenthesis. The Anathemata.
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga.
E.M. Forster Howard's End. A Passage to India.
Frank O'Connor Collected Stories.
D.H. Lawrence Complete Poems. Studies in Classic American Literature. Complete Short Stories. Sons and Lovers. The Rainbow. Women in Love.
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse. Orlando: A Biography. The Waves. Between the Acts.
James Joyce Dubliners. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses. Finnegan's Wake.
Samuel Beckett Murphy. Watt. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Waiting for Godot. Endgame. Krapp's Last Tape. How It Is.
Elizabeth Bowen Collected Poems.
J.G. Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur.
Henry Green Nothing. Loving. Party Going.
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust. Scoop. Vile Bodies. Put Out More Flags.
Anthony Burgess Nothing Like the Sun.
G.B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice. Bruno's Dream.
Graham Greene Brighton Rock. The Heart of the Matter. The Power and the Glory.
Christopher Isherwood The Berlin Stories.
Norman Douglas South Wind.
Aldous Huxley Collected Essays. Antic Hay. Point Counter Point. Brave New World.
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet.
William Golding Pincher Martin.
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Mervyn Peake The Gormenghast Trilogy.
Jeanette Winterson The Passion.
W,H, Auden Collected Poems. The Dyer's Hand.
Roy Fuller Collected Poems.
Gavin Ewart Selected Poems.
Basil Bunting Collected Poems.
William Empson Collected Poems. Milton's God. Some Versions of Pastoral.
George Wilson Knight The Wheel of Fire.
R,S. Thomas Poems.
Frank Kermode The Sense of an Ending.
Stevie Smith Collected Poems.
F.T. Prince Collected Poems.
Philip Larkin Collected Poems.
Donald Davie Selected Poems.
Geoffrey Hill Collected Poems.
Jonathan Spence The Death of Woman Wang. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
Elizabeth Jennings Selected Poems.
Keith Douglas The Complete Poems.
Hugh MacDiarmid Complete Poems.
Louis MacNeice Collected Poems.
Dylan Thomas The Poems.
Nigel Dennis Cards of Identity.
Seamus Heaney Selected Poems: 1969-1987. Field Work. Station Island.
Thomas Kinsella Peppercanister Poems.
Paul Muldoon Selected Poems.
John Montague Selected Poems.
John Arden Plays.
Joe Orton The Complete Plays.
Flann O'Brien The Dalkey Archive. The Third Policeman.
Tom Stoppard Travesties.
Harold Pinter The Caretaker. The Homecoming.
Edward Bond The Fool. Saved.
George Orwell Collected Essays. 1984.
Edna O'Brien A Fanatic Heart.
GERMANY
Hugo von Hofmannsthal Poems and Verse Plays. Selected Prose. Selected Plays and Libretti.
Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Poetry. The Sonnets to Orpheus. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge...New Poems: First Part and Other Part.
Hermann Broch The Sleepwalkers. The Death of Virgil. Hugo von Holmannsthal and His Time
Georg Trakl Selected Poems
Gottfried Benn Selected Poems
Franz Kafka Amerika. The Complete Stories. The Blue Octavo Notebook. The Trial Diaries. The Castle. Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms.
Bertrolt Brecht Poems, 1913-1956. The Threepenny Opera. The Good Women of Setzuan. Mother Courage and Her Children. Galileo. The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Arthur Schnitzler Plays and Stories
Frank Wedekind Lulu Plays. Spring Awakening.
Karl Kraus The Last Days of Mankind.
Gunter Eich Moles
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain. Stories of Three Decades. Joseph and His Brothers. Doctor Faustus. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Alfred Doblin Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi). Narcissus and Goldmund.
Robert Musil Young Torless. The Man Without Qualities.
Paul Celan Poems.
Thomas Bernhard Woodcutters.
Heinrich Boll Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
Ingeborg Bachmann In the Storm of Roses.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems.
Walter Benjamin Illuminations.
Robert Walser Selected Stories.
Joseph Roth The Radetzky March.
Crista Wolf Cassandra.
Peter Handke Slow Homecoming.
Max Frisch I'm Not Stiller. Man in the Holocene.
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum. The Flounder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt The Visit.
Johannes Bobrowski Shadow Lands.
RUSSIA
Anna Akhmatova Poems.
Leonid Andreyev Selected Tales
Andry Bely Petersburg.
Osip Mandelahtam Selected Poems.
Velimir Khlebnikov The King of Time.
Vladimir Mayakovsky The Bedbug and Selected Poetry.
Mikhail Bilgakov The Master and Margarita.
Mikhail Kuzmin Alexandrian Songs.
Maksim Gorky Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev. Autobiography.
Ivan Bunin Selected Stories.
Issac Babel Collected Stories.
Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago. Selected Poems.
Yury Olesha Envy.
Marina Tsvetayeva Selected Poems.
Mikhail Zoshchenko Nervous People and Other Satires.
Andrei Platonov The Foundation Pit.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The Cancer Ward. The Gulag Archipelago. August 1914.
Joseph Brodsky A Part of Speech: Poems.
SCANDINAVIA
Isak Dinesen (Danish, wrote in English) Winter's Tales. Seven Gothic Tales.
Martin Andersen Nexo Pelle the Conqueror.
Knut Hamsun Hunger. Pan.
Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter
Gunnar Ekelof Guide to the Underworld
Tomas Transtromer Selected Poems.
Par Lagerkvist Barrabas.
Lars Gustafsson Selected Poems.
SERBO-CROAT
Ivo Andric The Bridge on the Drina.
Vasko Popa Selected Poems.
Danilo Kis A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
CZECH
Karel Capek War with the Newts. R.U.R.
Vaclav Havel Largo Desolato.
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Jaroslav Seifert Selected Poetry.
Miroslav Holub The Fly.
POLISH
Bruno Schulz The Street of Crocodiles. Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
Czeslaw Milosz Selected Poems.
Witold Gombrowicz Three Novels.
Stanislaw Lem The Investigation. Solaris.
Zbigniew Herbert Selected Poems.
Adam Zagajewski Tremor
HUNGARIAN
Attila Jozsef Perched on Nothing's Branch.
Ferenc Juhasz Selected Poems.
Laszlo Nemeth Guilt.
MODERN GREEK
C.P. Cavafy Collected Poems.
George Seferis Collected Poems.
Nikos Kazantzakis The Greek Passion. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Yannos Ritsos Exile and Return.
Odysseas Elytis What I Love: Selected Poems.
Angelos Sikelianos Selected Poems.
YIDDISH
Sholem Aleichem Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. The Nightingale.
Mendele Mokher Seforim The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third.
I.L. Peretz Selected Stories.
Jacob Glatstein Selected Poems.
Moshe-Leib Halpern Selected Poems
H. Leivick (Levick Halpern) Selected Poems.
Israel Joshua Singer The Brothers Askenazi. Yoshe Kalb.
Chaim Grade The Yeshiva.
S. Ansky The Dybbuk.
Mani Leib Selected Poems.
Sholem Asch East River.
Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories. In My Father's Court. The Manor. The Estate. The Family Moskat. Satan in Goray.
HEBREW
Hayyim Nahman Bialik Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems.
S.Y. Agnon In the Heart of the Seas. Twenty-One Stories.
Aharon Appelfeld The Immortal Bartyss. Badenheim 1939.
Yaakov Shabtai Past Continuous
Yehuda Amichai Selected Poetry. Travels.
A.B. Yehoshua A Late Divorce.
Amos Oz A Perfect Peace.
T. Carmi At the Stone of Losses.
Nathan Zach Selected Poems.
dalia Ravikovitch A Dress of Fire.
Dan Pagis Selected Poems.
David Shahar The Palace of Shattered Vessels.
David Grossman See Under: Love.
Yoram Kaniuk His Daughter.
ARABIC
Najiib Mahfuz Midaq Alley. Fountain and Tomb. Miramar.
Adunis Selected Poems.
Mahmud Darwish The Music of Human Flesh.
Taha Husayn An Egyptian Childhood.
LATIN AMERICA
Ruben Dario Selected Poetry.
Jorge Luis Borges The Aleph and Other Stories. Dreamtigers (The Maker). Ficciones. Labyrinths. A Personal Anthology.
Alejo Carpentier Explosion in a Cathedral. The Lost Steps. Reasons of State. The Kingdom of This World.
Guillermo Cabrera Anfante Three Trapped Tigers. View of Dawn in the Tropics.
Severo Sarduy Maitreya.
Reinaldo Arenas The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Sevando.
Pablo Neruda Canto General. Resistance on Earth. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Fully Empowered. Selected Poems.
Nicolas Guillen Selected Poems.
Octavio Paz The Collected Poems. The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Cesar Vallejo Selected Poems. Spain, Take This Cup from Me.
Miguel Angel Asturias Men of Maize.
Jose Lezama Lima Paradiso.
Jose Donoso The Obscene Bird of Flight.
Julio Cortazar Hopscotch. All Fires the Fire. Blow-Up and Other Stories.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the Time of Colera.
Mario Vargas Llosa The War of the End of the World.
Carlos Fuentes A Change of Skin. Terra Nostra.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade Travelling in the Family.
THE WEST INDIES
C.L.R. James The Black Jacobins. The Future in the Present.
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River. A House for Mr. Biswas.
Derek Walcott Collected Poems.
Wilson Harris The Guyana Quartet.
Michael Thelwell The Harder They Come.
Aime Cesaire Collected Poetry.
AFRICA
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart. Arrow of God. No Longer at Ease.
Wole Soyinka A Dance of the Forest.
Amos Tutola The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town.
Christopher Okigbo Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder.
John Pepper Clark Casualties: Poems.
Ayi K. Armah The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
Wa Thiong'o Ngugi A Grain of Wheat.
Gabriel Okara The Fisherman's Invocation.
Nadime Gordimer Collected Stories.
J.M. Coetzee Foe.
Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes.
Leopold S. Senghor Selected Poems.
INDIA (IN ENGLISH)
R.K. Narayan The Guide
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust
CANADA
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano.
Robertson Davies The Deptford Trilogy. The Rebel Angels.
Alice Munro Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Northrop Frye Fables of Identity.
Anne Hebert Selected Poems.
Jay Macpherson Poems Twice Told.
Margaret Atwood Surfacing.
Daryl Hine Selected Poems.
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
Miles (Stella) Franklin My Brilliant Career.
Katherine Mansfield The Short Stories.
A.D. Hope Collected Poems.
Patrick White Riders in the Chariot. A Fringe of Leaves. Voss.
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children.
Judith Wright Selected Poems.
Les A. Murray The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems.
Thomas Keneally The Playmaker. Schindler's List.
David Malouf An Imaginary Life.
Kevin Hart Peniel and Other Poems.
Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda. Illywhacker.
THE UNITED STATES
Edward Arlington Robinson Selected Poems.
Robert Frost The Poetry
Edith Wharton Collected Short Stories. The Age of Innocence. Ethan Frome. The House of Mirth. The Custom of the Country.
Willa Cather My Antonia. The Professor's House. A Lost Lady.
Gertrude Stein Three Lives. The Geographical History of America. The Making of Americans. Tender Buttons.
Wallace Stevens Collected Poems. The Necessary Angel. Opus Posthumous. The Palm at the End of the Mind.
Vachel Lindsay Collected Poems.
Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology.
Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie. An American Tragedy.
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio. Death in the Woods and Other Stories.
Sinclair Lewis Babbit. It Can't Happen Here.
Elinor Wylie Last Poems.
William Carlos Williams Spring and All. Paterson. Collected Poems.
Ezra Pound Personae: Collected Poems. The Cantos. Literary Essays.
Robinson Jeffers Selected Poems.
Marianne Moore Complete Poems.
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Selected Poems.
John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems.
T.S. Eliot The Complete Poems and Plays. Selected essays.
Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories.
Jean Toomer Cane.
John Dos Passos U.S.A.
Conraid Aiken Collected Poems.
Eugene O'Neill Lazarus Laughed. The Iceman Cometh. Long Day's Journey into Night.
e.e. cummings Complete Poems.
John B. Wheelwright Collected Poems.
Robert Fitzgerald Spring Shade: Poems.
Louise Brogan The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems.
Leonie Adams Poems: A Selection.
Hart Crane Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose.
Allen Tate Collected Poems.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited and Other Stories. The Great Gatsby. Tender Is the Night.
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying. Sanctuary. Light in August. Absalom, Absalom! The Sound and the Fury. The Wild Palms. The Collected Stories. The Hamlet.
Ernest hemingway Complete Short Stories. A Farewell to Arms. The Sun Also rises. The Garden of Eden.
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath.
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts. A Cool Million. The Day of the Locust.
Richard Wright Native Son. Black Boy.
Eudora Welty Collected Stories. Delta Wedding. The Robber Bridegroom. The Ponder Heart.
Langston Hughes Selected Poems. The Big Sea. I Wonder As I Wander.
Edmund Wilson The Shores of Light. Patriotic Gore.
Kenneth Burke Counter-Statement. A Rhetoric of Motives.
Joseph Mitchell Up in the Old Hotel.
Abraham Cahan The Rise of David Levinsky.
Kay Boyle Three Short Novels.
Ellen Glasgow Barren Ground. Vein of Iron.
John P. Marquand H.M. Pullham, Esq.
John O'Hara Collected Stories. Appointment in Samarra.
Henry Roth Call It Sleep.
Thornton Wilder Three Plays.
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men. World Enough and Time. Selected Poems.
Delmore Schwartz Selected Poems. Summer Knowledge.
Weldon Kees Collected Poems.
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems.
John Berryman Collected Poems.
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky.
Randall Jarell Complete Poems.
Charles Olson The Maximus Poems. Collected Poems.
Robert Hayden Collected Poems.
Robert Lowell Collected Poems.
Theodore Roethke Collected Poems. Straw for the Fire.
James Agee Permit Me Voyage. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker Evans)
Jean Garrigue Selected Poems.
May Swenson New & Selected Things Taking Place. In Other Words.
Robert Duncan Bending the Bow.
Richard Wilbur New and collected Poems.
Richard Eberhart Collected Poems.
M.B. Tolson Harlem Gallery.
Kenneth Koch Seasons on Earth.
Frank O'Hara Selected Poems.
James Schuyler Collected Poems.
James Baldwin The Price of a Ticket.
Saul Bellow Seize the Day. The Adventures of Augie Narch. Herzog.
John Cheever The Stories. Bullet Park.
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man.
Truman Capote In Cold Blood.
Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories. The Violent Bear It Away. Wise Blood.
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita. Pale Fire.
Gore Vidal Myra Breckinridge. Lincoln.
William Styron The Long March.
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye. Nine Stories.
Wright Morris Ceremony in Lone Tree.
Bernard Malamud The Stories. The Fixer.
Norman Mailer Advertisements for Myself. The Executioner's Song. Ancient Evenings.
John Hawkes The Cannibal. Second Skin.
William Gaddis The Recognitions.
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. A Streetcar Named Desire. Summer and Smoke.
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman.
Edwin Justus Mayer Children of Darkness
Harold Brodkey Stories in an Almost Classical mode.
Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness.
Raymond Carver Where I'm Calling From.
Robert Coover Spanking the Maid.
Don DeLillo White Noise. Libra. Runnning Dog. Mao II.
John Crowley Little, Big. Aegypt. Love and Sleep.
Guy Davenport Tatlin!
James Dickey The Early Motion. The Central Motion.
E.L. Doctorow The Book of Daniel. World's Fair.
Stanley Elkin The Living End.
William H. Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Omensetter's Luck.
Russell Hoban Riddley Walker.
Denis Johnson Angels. Fiskaroro. Jesus' Son.
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian. Suttree. Child of God.
William Kennedy Ironweed. The Albany Cycle.
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon.
Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place.
Joyce Carol Oates Them.
Walker Percy The Moviegoer.
Grace Paley The Little Disturbances of Man.
Thomas Pynchon V. The Crying of Lot 49. Gravity's Rainbow.
Cynthia Ozick Envy, or Yiddish in America. The Messiah of Stockholm.
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo.
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint. My Life as a Man. Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue. The Counterlife. Patrimony. Operation Shylock.
James Salter Solo Faces. Light Years.
Robert Stone Dog Soldiers. A Flag for Sunrise.
John Barth The Floating Opera. The End of the Road. The Sot-Weed Factor.
Walter Abish Alphabetical Africa. How German Is It. Eclipse Fever. I Am the Dust Under Your Feet.
Donald Barthelme Forty Stories. The Dead Father.
Thomas M. Disch On Wings of Song.
Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast.
John Updike The Witches of Eastwick.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle.
Edmund White Forgetting Elena. Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
James McCourt Time Remaining.
James Wilcox Modern Baptists.
A.R. Ammons Collected Poems. Selected Longer Poems. Sphere: The Form of the Nation.
John Ashbery The Double Dream of Spring. Houseboat Days. Selected Poems. Flow Chart. Hotel Lautreamont. And the Stars Were Shining.
David Mamet American Buffalo. Speed-the-Plow.
David Rabe Streamers.
Sam Shepard Seven Plays.
August Wilson Fences. Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Anthony Hecht Collected earlier Poems.
Edgar Bowers Living Together: New and Selected Poems.
Donald Justice Selected Poems.
James Merrill From the First Nine. The Changing Light at Sandover.
W.S. Merwin Selected Poems.
James Wright Above the River: The Complete Poems.
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems.
Philip Levine Selected Poems.
Irving Feldman New and Selected Poems.
Donald Hall The One Day. Old and New poems.
Alvin Feinman Poems.
Richard Howard Untitled Subjects. Findings.
John Hollander Reflections on Espionage. Selected Poetry. Tesserae.
Gary Snyder No Nature: New and Selected Poems.
Charles Simic Selected Poems.
Mark Strand Selected Poems. The Continuous Life. Dark Harbor.
Charles Wright The World of the Ten Thousand Things.
Jay Wright Dimensions of History. The Double Invention of Komo. Selected Poems. Elaine's Book. Boleros.
Amy Clampitt Westward.
Allen Grossman The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected.
Howard Moss New Selected Poems.
James Applewhite River Writing: An Echo Journal.
J.D. McClatchy The Rest of the Way.
Alfred Corn A Call in the Midst of the Crowd.
Douglas Crase The Revisionist.
Rita Dove Selected Poems.
Thylias Moss Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems.
Edward Hirsch Earthly Measures.
Tony Kushner Angels in America.
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Here is a portion of the books that make the canon...
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Gilgamesh.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Holy Bible. Authorized King James Version
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
ANCIENT INDIA
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita. The Crucial religious section of Mahabharata,
Book 6
The Ramayana.
THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Homer The Iliad. The Odyssey.
Hesiod The Works and Days. Theogony.
Archilochos
Sappho
Alkman
Pindar The Odes.
Aeschylus The Oresteia. Seven Against Thebes. Prometheus
Bound. The Persians. The Suppliant Women
Sophocles Oedipus the King. Oedipus at Colunus. Antigone.
Electra. Ajax. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes
Euripides Cyclops. Heracles. Alcestis. Hecuba. The Bacchae.
Orestes. Andromache. Medea. Ion. Hippolytus.
Helen. Iphigeneia at Aulis
Aristophanes The Birds. The Clouds. The Frogs. Lysistrata. The
Knights. The Wasps. The Assemblywomen (The
Parliament of Women)
Herodotus The Histories.
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War.
Heraclitus
Empedocles
Plato Dialogues.
Aristotle Poetics. Ethics.
HELLENISTIC GREEKS
Menander The Girl from Samos.
Longinus On the Sublime
Callimachus Hymns. Epigrams
Theocritus Idylls
Plutarch Lives. Moralia
Aesop Fables
Lucian Satires
THE ROMANS
Plautus Pseudolus. The Braggart Soldier. The Rope.
Amphitryon
Terence The Girl from Andros. The Eunuch. The
Mother-in-Law
Lucretius The Way Things Are
Cicero On the Gods
Horace Odes. Epistles. Satires
Persius Satires
Catullus Attis. Other Poems.
Virgil The Aeneid. Eclogues. Georgics.
Lucan Pharsalia
Ovid Metamorphoses. The Art of Love. Epistulae
Heroidum (Heroides)
Juvenal Satires.
Martial Epigrams
Seneca Tragedies (particularly Medea and Hercules
Furens).
Petronius Satyricon
Apuleius The Golden Ass
THE MIDDLE AGES: LATIN, ARABIC, AND THE VERNACULAR
BEFORE DANTE
Saint Augustine The City of God. The Confessions
The Koran
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights
The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival
Chretien de Troyes Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid
Christine de Pisan The Book of the City of Ladies
Diego de San Pedro Prison of Love
The Aristocratic Age. Part II of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
ITALY
Dante The Divine Comedy. The New Life.
Petrarch Lyric Poems. Selections.
Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron.
Matteo Mariaa Boiardo Orlando Innamorato.
Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso.
Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnets and Madrigals.
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince. The Mandrake, A Comedy.
Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks.
Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier.
Gaspara Stampa Sonnets and Madrigals.
Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Painters.
Benvenuto Cellini Autobiography.
Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered.
Giordano Bruno The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
Tommaso Campanella Poems. The City of the Sun.
Giambattista Vico Principles of a New Science.
Carlo Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters.
Vittorio Alfieri Saul.
PORTUGAL
Luis de Camoens The Lusiads.
Antonio Ferreira Poetry in The Muse Reborn.
SPAIN
Jorge Manrique Coplas.
Fernando de Rojas La Celestina. Lazarillo de Tormes.
Francisco de Quevedo Visions. Satirical Letter of Censure.
Fray Luis de Leon Poems.
St. John of the Cross Poems.
Luis de Gongora Sonnets. Soledades.
Miguel deCervantes Don Quixote. Exemplary Stories.
Lope de Vega La Dorotea. Fuente Ovejuna. Lost in a Mirror.
The Knight of Olmedo.
Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life is a Dream. The Mayor of Zalamea. The
Mighty Magician. The Doctor of His Own Honor
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Poems.
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales. Troilus and Criseyde.
Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte D'Arthur.
William Dunbar Poems.
John Skelton Poems.
Sir Thomas More Utopia.
Sir Thomas Wyatt Poems.
Henry Howard, Poems.
Earl of Surrey
Sir Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
Astrophel and Stella. An Apology for
Poetry.
Fulke Greville, Lord Poems.
Brooke
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene. The Minor Poems.
Sir Walter Raleigh Poems.
Christopher Marlowe Poems and Plays.
Michael Drayton Poems
Samuel Daniel Poems. A Defence of Ryme.
Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveller.
Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy.
William Shakespeare Plays and Poems.
Thomas Campion Songs.
John Donne Poems, Plays, and Masques.
Francis Bacon Essays.
Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici.
Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. The Garden
of Cyrus.
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan.
Robert Herrick Poems.
Thomas Carew Poems.
Richard Lovelace Poems.
Andrew Marvell Poems.
George Herbert The Temple.
Thomas Traherne Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings.
Henry Vaughan Poetry.
John Wilmot, Poems.
Earl of Rochester
Richard Crashaw Poems.
Francis Beaumont, Plays.
John Fletcher
George Chapman Comedies, Tragedies, Poems.
John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
John Marston The Malcontent.
John Webster The White Devil. The Duchess of Malfi.
Thomas Middleton, The Changeling.
William Rowley
Cyril Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy.
Philip Massinger A New Way to Pay Old Debts
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress.
Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler.
John Milton Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. Lycidas,
Comus and the Minor Poems. Samson
Agonistes. Aeropagitica.
John Aubrey Brief Lives.
Jeremy Taylor Holy Dying.
Samuel Butler Hudibras.
John Dryden Poetry and Plays. Critical Essays.
Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd
William Congreve The way of the World. Love for Love.
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub. Gulliver's Travels. Shorter
Prose Works. Poems.
Sir George Etherege The Man of Mode.
Alexander Pope Poems.
John Gay The Beggar's Opera.
James Boswell Life of Johnson. Journals.
Samuel Johnson Works.
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire.
Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into ... the Sublime
and Beautiful. Reflections on the
Revolution in France.
Maurice Morgann An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir
John Falstaff.
William Collins Poems.
Thomas Gray Poems.
George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem. The Recruiting Officer.
William Wycherley The Country Wife. The Plain Dealer.
Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno. A Song to David.
Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield. She Stoops to
Conquer. The Traveller. The Deserted
Village.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal. The Rivals.
William Cowper Poetical Works.
George Crabbe Poetical Works.
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders. Robinson Crusoe. A Journal
of the Plague Year.
Samuel Richardson Clarissa. Pamela. Sir Charles Grandison.
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews. The History of Tom Jones,
a Foundling.
Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. The
Adventures of Roderick Random.
Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy,
Gentleman. A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy.
Fanny Burney Evelina.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator.
Richard Steele
FRANCE
Jean Froissart Chronicles.
The Song of Roland
Francois Villon Poems.
Michel de Montaigne Essays.
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Marguerite de Navarre The Heptameron.
Joachim Du Bellay The Regrets
Maurice Sceve Delie
Pierre de Ronsard Odes, Elegies, Sonnets.
Agrippa d'Aubigne Les Tragiques
Robert Garnier Mark Antony. The Jewesses.
Pierre Corneille The Cid. Polyeucte. Nicomede. Horace.
Cinna. Rodogune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims.
Jean de La Fontaine Fables
Moliere The Misanthrope. Tartuffe. The School for
Wives. The Learned Ladies. Don Juan.
School for Husbands. Ridiculous
Precieuses. The Would-Be Gentleman.
The Miser. The Imaginary Invalid.
Plaise Pascal Pensees.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Funerary Orations.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry.
Jean Racine Phaedra. Andromache. Britannicus.
Athaliah.
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux Seven Comedies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Confessions. Emile. La Nouvelle
Heloise.
Voltaire Zadig. Candide. Letters on England. The
Lisbon Earthquake.
Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut
Madame de La Fayette The Princess of Cleves
Sebastian-Roch Nicholas de Products of the Perfected Civilization.
Chamfort
Denis Diderot Rameau's Nephew.
Choderlos de Laclos Dangerous Liaisons.
GERMANY
Erasmus (Dutchman) In Praise of Folly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, Parts One and Two. Dichtung und
Wahreit. Egmont. Elective Affinities.
The Sorrows of Young Werther. Poems.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering.
Italian Journey. Verse Plays. Hermann
and Dorothea. Roman Elegies. Venetian
Epigrams. West-Eastern Divan.
Friedrich Schiller The Robbers. Mary Stuart. Wallenstein.
Don Carlos. On the Naive and
Sentimental in Literature.
Gotthold Lessing Laocoon. Nathan the Wise.
Friedrich Holderlin Hymns and Fragments. Selected Poems.
Heinrich von Kleist Five Plays. Stories.
The Democratic Canon. Part III of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
ITALY
Ugo Foscolo On Sepulchres. Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis. Odes and Graces.
Alessandro Manzoni The Betrothed. On the Historical Novel.
Giacomo Leopardi Essays and Dialogues. Poems. The Moral Essays.
Giuseppe Giocchino Belli Roman Sonnets.
Giosue Carducci Hymn to Satan. Barbarian Odes. Rhymes and Rhythms.
Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily. Mastro-Don Gesualdo. The House by the Medlar Tree. The She-Wolf and Other Stories.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Poems.
Benito Perez Galdos Fortunata and Jacinta.
Leopoldo Alas (Clarin) La Regenta.
Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros The Maias.
FRANCE
Benjamin Constant Adolphe. The Red Notebook.
Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand Atala and Rene. The Genius of Christianity.
Alphonse de Lamartine Meditations.
Alfred de Vigny Chatterton. Poems.
Victor Hugo The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems. Les Miserables. Notre Dame of Paris. William Shakespeare. The Toilers of the Sea. The End of Satan. God.
Alfred de Musset Poems. Lorenzaccio.
Gerard de Nerval The Chimeras. Sylvie. Aurelia.
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin. Enamels and Cameos.
Honore de Balzac The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Louis Lambert. The Wild Ass's Skin. Old Goriot. Cousin Bette. A Harlot High and Low. Eugenie Grandet. Ursule Mirouet.
Stendhal On Love. The Red and the Black. The Chaterhouse of Parma.
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary. Sentimental Education. Salammbo. A Simple Soul
George Sand The Haunted Pool.
Charles Baudelaire Flowers of Evil. Paris Spleen.
Stephane Mallarme Selected Poetry and Prose.
Paul Verlaine Selected Poems.
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works.
Tristan Corbiere Les Amours Jaunes
Jules Laforgue Selected Writings.
Guy de Maupassant Selected Short Stories.
Emile Zola Germinal. L'Assommoir. Nana.
SCANDINAVIA
Henrik Ibsen Brand. Peer Gynt. Emperor and Galilean. Hedda Gabbler. The Master Builder.
August Strindberg To Damascis. Miss Julie. The Father. The Dance of Death. The Ghost Sonata. A DreamPlay.
GREAT BRITAIN
Robert Burns Poems.
William Blake Complete Poetry and Prose.
William Wordsworth Poems. The Prelude.
Sir Walter Scott Waverley. The Heart of Midlothian. Redgauntlet. Old Mortality
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Persuasion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems and Prose.
Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journal.
William Hazlitt Essays and Criticism
Lord Byron Don Juan. Poems.
Walter Savage Landor Poems. Imaginary Conversations.
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Selected Prose.
Charles Lamb Essays.
Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent.
John Galt The Entail.
Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford. Mary Barton. North and South.
James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems. A Defence of Poetry.
John Clare Poems.
John Keats Poems and Letters.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death's Jest-Book. Poems.
George Darley Nepenthe. Poems.
Thomas Hood Poems.
Thomas Wade Poems.
Robert Browning Poems. The Ring and the Book.
Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. David Copperfield. The Adventures of oliver Twist. A Tale of Two Cities. Bleak House. Hard Times. Nicholas Nickleby. Dombey and Son. Great Expectations. Martin Chuzzlewit. Christmas Stories. Little Dorrit. Our Mutual Friend. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti Poems and Translations.
Matthew Arnold Poems. Essays.
Arthur Hugh Clough Poems.
Christina Rosetti Poems.
Thomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey. Gryll Grange.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems and Prose.
Thomas Carlyle Selected Prose. Sartor Resartus.
John Ruskin Modern Painters. The Stones of Venice. Unto This Last. The Queen of the Air
Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Appreciations. Imaginary Portraits. Marius the Epicurean.
Edward FitzGerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
John Stuart Mill On Liberty. Autobiography.
John Henry Newman Apologia pro Vita Sua. A Grammar of Assent. The Idea of a University.
Anthony Trollope The Barsetshire Novels. The Palliser Novels. Orley Farm. The Way We Live Now.
Lewis Carroll Complete Works.
Edward Lear Complete Nonsense.
George Gissing New Grub Street.
Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Letters.
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre. Villette.
Emily Bronte Poems. Wuthering Heights.
William Makepeace Thackery Vanity Fair. The History of Henry Esmond.
Francis Thompson Poems.
Lionel Johnson Poems.
Robert Bridges Poems.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Collected Poems. The Man Who Was Thursday
Samuel Butler Erewhon. The Way of All Flesh.
W. S. Gilbert Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan. Bab Ballads.
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone. The Woman in White. No Name.
Coventry Patmore Odes.
James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis) The City of Dreadful Night.
Oscar Wilde Plays. The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Artist as Critic. Letters
John Davidson Ballads and Songs.
Ernest Dowson Complete Poems.
George Eliot Adam Bede. Silas Marner. The Mill on the Floss. Middlemarch. Daniel Deronda.
Robert Louis Stevenson Essays. Kidnapped. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Treasure Island. The New Arabian Nights. The Master of Ballantrae. Weir of Hermiston.
William Morris Early Romances. Poems. The Earthly Paradise. The Well at World's End. News from Nowhere.
Bram Stoker Dracula.
George Macdonald Lilith. At the Back of the North Wind.
GERMANY
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg Hymns to the Night. Aphorisms.
Jacob and Willhelm Grimm Fairy Tales.
Eduard Morike Selected Poems. Mozart on His Way to Prague.
Theodor Storm Immensee. Poems.
Gottfried Keller Green Henry. Tales.
E. T. A. Hoffmann The Devil's Elixir. Tales.
Jeremias Gotthelf The Black Spider.
Adalbert Stifter Indian Summer. Tales.
Friedrich Schlegel Criticism and Aphorisms.
Georg Buchner Danton's Death. Woyzeck.
Heinrich Heine Complete Poems.
Richard Wagner The Ring of the Nibelung.
Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy. Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genealogy of Morals. The Will to Power.
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest.
Stefan George Selected Poems.
RUSSIA
Aleksandr Pushkin Complete Prose Tales. Collected Poetry. Eugene Onegin. Narrative Poems.
Nikolay Gogol The Complete Tales. Dead Souls. The Government Inspector
Mikhail Lermontov Narrative Poems. A Hero of Our Time.
Sergey Aksakov A Family Chronicle.
Aleksandr Herzen My Past and Thoughts. From the Other Shore.
Ivan Goncharov The Frigate Pallada. Oblomov.
Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Notebook. A Month in the Country. Fathers and Sons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot.
Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks. War and Peace. Anna Karenina. A Confession.
Nikolay Leskov Tales.
Aleksandr Ostrovsky The Storm.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky What Is to Be Done?
Aleksandr Blok The Twelve and Other Poems.
Anton Chekhov The Tales. The Major Plays.
THE UNITED STATES
Washington Irving The Sketch Book.
William Cullen Bryant Collected Poems.
James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier Collected Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature. Essays, First and Second Series. Representative Men. The Conduct of Life. Journals. Poems.
Emily Dickinson Complete Poems.
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, First Edition. Leaves of Grass, Third Edition. The Complete Poems. Specimen Days.
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter. Tales and Sketches. The The Marble Faun. Notebooks.
Herman Melville Moby-Dick. The Piazza Tales. Billy Budd. Collected Poems. Clarel.
Edgar Allan Poe Poetry and Tales. Essays and Reviews. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Eureka.
Jones Very Essays and Poems.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman The Cricket and Other Poems.
Henry David Thoreau Walden. Poems. Essays.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years before the Mast.
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Selected Poems.
Sidney Lanier Poems.
Francis Parkman France and England in North America. The The California and Oregon Trail.
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Ambrose Bierce Collected Writings.
Louisa May Alcott Little Women.
Charles W.Chestnutt The Short Fiction.
Kate Chopin The Awakening.
William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham. A Modern Instance.
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage. Stories and Poems.
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady. The Bostonians. The Princess Casamassima. The Awkward Age. Short Novels and Tales. The Ambassadors. The Wings of the Dove. The Golden Bowl.
Harold Frederic The Damnation of Theron Ware.
Mark Twain Complete Short Stories. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Devil's Racetrack. Number Forty-Four. The Mysterious Stranger. Pudd'nhead Wilson. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
William James The Varieties of Religious Experience. Pragmatism.
Frank Norris The Octopus
Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Trumbull Stickney Poems.
The Chaotic Age. A Canonical Prophecy. Part IV of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
Luigi Piramdello Naked Masks: Five Plays.
Gabriele D'Annunzio Maia: In Praise of Life.
Dino Campana Orphic Songs.
Umberto Saba Stories and Recollections. Poems.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard.
Giuseppe Ungaretti Selected Poems. The Buried Harbor: Selected Poems.
Eugenio Montale The Storm and Other Things: Poems. The Occasions: Poems. Cuttlefish Bones: Poems. Otherwise: Last and First Poems. The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays.
Salvatore Quasimodo Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry.
Tommaso Landolfi Gogol's Wife and Other Stories.
Leonardo Sciascia Day of the Owl. Eqyal danger. The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories.
Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems.
Cesare Pavese Hard Labor: Poems. Dialogues with Leuco.
Primo Levi If Not Now, When? Collected Poems. The Periodic Table.
Italo Svevo The Confessions of Zeno. As a Man Grows Older.
Giorgio Bassani The Heron.
Natalia Ginzburg Family.
Elio Vittorini Women of Messina.
Alberto Moravia 1934.
Andrea Zanzotto Selected Poetry
Italo Calvino Invisible Cities. The Baron in the Trees. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. t zero.
Antonio Porta Kisses from Another Dream: Poems.
SPAIN
Miguel de Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels. Our Lord Don Quixote.
Antonio Machado Selected Poems.
Juan Ramon Jimenez Invisible Reality: Poems.
Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You: Poems.
Jorge Guillen Guillen on Guillen: The Poetry and the Poet.
Vincente Aleixandre A Longing for the Night: Selected Poems.
Federico Garcia Lorca Selected Poems. Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba.
Rafael Alberti The Owl's Insomnia: Poems.
Luis Cernuda Selected Poems.
Miguel Hernandez Selected Poems.
Blas de Otero Selected Poems.
Camilo Jose Cela The Hive.
Juan Goytisolo Space in Motion.
CATALONIA
Carles Riba Selected Poems.
J.V. Foix Selected Poems.
Joan Perucho Natural History.
Merce Rodoreda The Time of the Doves.
Pere Gimferrer Selected Poems.
Salvador Espiru La Pell de Brau: Poems.
PORTUGAL
Fernando Pessoa The Keeper of Sheep. Poems. Selected Poems. Always Astonished: Selected Prose. The Book of Disquiet.
Jorge de Sena Selected Poems.
Jose Saramago Baltasar and Blimunda.
Jose Cardoso Pires Ballad of Dog's Beach.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Selected Poems.
Eugenio de Andrade Selected Poems.
FRANCE
Anatole France Penguin Island. Thais.
Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes.
Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time).
Andre Gide The Immoralist. Corydon. Lafcadio's Adventures (The Caves of the Vatican). The Counterfeiters. The Journals.
Colette Collected Stories. Retreat from Love.
Georges Bataille Blue of Moon.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Journey to the End of Night.
Rene Daumal Mount Analogue.
Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers. The Thief's Journal. The Balcony.
Jean Giradoux Four Plays.
Alfred Jarry Selected Works.
Jean Cocteau The Infernal Machine and Other Plays.
Guillaume Apollinaire Selected Writings
Andre Breton Poems. Manifestoes of Surrealism.
Paul Valery The Art of Poetry: Selected Writings.
Rene Char Poems.
Paul Eluard Selected Poems.
Louis Aragon Selected Poems.
Jean Giono The Horseman on the Roof.
Michel Leiris Manhood.
Raymond Radiguet Count d'Orgel's Ball
Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit. Nausea. Saint Genet. The Words. The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert.
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex.
Albert Camus The Stranger. The Plague. The Fall. The Rebel.
Henri Michaux Selected Writings
Edmond Jabes The Book of Questions
Saint-John Perse Anabasis. Birds. Exile and Other Poems.
Pierre Reverdy Selected Poems.
Tristan Tzara Seven Dada Manifestos
Max Jacob Selected Poems.
Pierre-Jean Jouve Selected Poems.
Francis Ponge Things: Selected Writings
Jacques Prevert Paroles.
Philippe Jaccotet Selected Poems.
Charles Peguy The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.
Benjamin Peret Selected Poems.
Andre Malraux The Conquerors. The Royal Way. Man's fate. Man's Hope. The Voices of Silence.
Francois Mauriac Therese. The desert of Love. the Woman of the Pharisees
Jean Anouilh Becket. Antigone. Eurydice. The Rehearsal.
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano. The Chairs. The Lesson. Amedee. Victims of Duty. Rhinoceros.
Maurice Blanchot Thomas the Obscure.
Pierre Klossowski The Laws of Hospitality. The Baphomet.
Raymond Roussel Locus Solus.
Antonin Artaud Selected Writings.
Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques.
Alain Robbe-Grillet The Voyeur. Jealousy. In the Labyrinth. The Erasers. Project for a Revolution in New York. For a New Novel.
Claude Simon The Grass. The Wind. The Flanders Road.
Marguerite Duras The Lover. Four Novels.
Robert Pinget Fable. The Libera Me Domine. That Voice.
Michel Tournier The Ogre. Friday.
Marguerite Yourcenar Coup de Grace. Memoirs of Hadrian.
Jean Follain Transparence of the World.
Yves Bonnefoy Words in Stone.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
William Butler Yeats The Collected Poems. Collected Plays. A Vision. Mythologies.
George Bernard Shaw Major Critical Essays. Heartbreak House.Pygmalion. Saint Joan. Major Barbara. Back to Methuselah.
John Millington Synge Collected Plays.
Sean O'Casey Juno and the Peacock. The Plough and the Stars. The Shadow of a Gunman.
George Douglas Brown The House with the Green Shutters.
Thomas Hardy The Well-Beloved. The Woodlanders. The Return of the Native. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Far from the Madding Crowd. Tess of the d'Urbevilles. Jude the Obscure. Collected Poems.
Rudyard Kipling Kim. Collected Stories. Puck of Pook's Hill. Complete Verse.
A.E. Housman Collected Poems.
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson. Seven Men and Two Others.
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim. The Secret Agent. Nostromo. Under Western Skies. Victory.
Ronald Firbank Five Novels.
Ford Madox Ford Parade's End. The Good Soldier.
W. Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories. The Moon and Sixpence.
John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent. A Glastonbury Romance.
Saki (H.H. Munro) The Short Stories
H.G. Wells The Science Fiction Novels.
David Lindsay A Voyage to Arcturus.
Arnold Bennett The Old Wive's Tale.
Walter De la Mare Collected Poems. Memoirs of a Midget
Wilfred Owen Collected Poems
Isaac Rosenberg Collected Poems
Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Robert Graves Collected Poems. King Jesus
Edwin Muir Collected Poems
David Jones In Parenthesis. The Anathemata.
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga.
E.M. Forster Howard's End. A Passage to India.
Frank O'Connor Collected Stories.
D.H. Lawrence Complete Poems. Studies in Classic American Literature. Complete Short Stories. Sons and Lovers. The Rainbow. Women in Love.
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse. Orlando: A Biography. The Waves. Between the Acts.
James Joyce Dubliners. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses. Finnegan's Wake.
Samuel Beckett Murphy. Watt. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Waiting for Godot. Endgame. Krapp's Last Tape. How It Is.
Elizabeth Bowen Collected Poems.
J.G. Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur.
Henry Green Nothing. Loving. Party Going.
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust. Scoop. Vile Bodies. Put Out More Flags.
Anthony Burgess Nothing Like the Sun.
G.B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice. Bruno's Dream.
Graham Greene Brighton Rock. The Heart of the Matter. The Power and the Glory.
Christopher Isherwood The Berlin Stories.
Norman Douglas South Wind.
Aldous Huxley Collected Essays. Antic Hay. Point Counter Point. Brave New World.
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet.
William Golding Pincher Martin.
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Mervyn Peake The Gormenghast Trilogy.
Jeanette Winterson The Passion.
W,H, Auden Collected Poems. The Dyer's Hand.
Roy Fuller Collected Poems.
Gavin Ewart Selected Poems.
Basil Bunting Collected Poems.
William Empson Collected Poems. Milton's God. Some Versions of Pastoral.
George Wilson Knight The Wheel of Fire.
R,S. Thomas Poems.
Frank Kermode The Sense of an Ending.
Stevie Smith Collected Poems.
F.T. Prince Collected Poems.
Philip Larkin Collected Poems.
Donald Davie Selected Poems.
Geoffrey Hill Collected Poems.
Jonathan Spence The Death of Woman Wang. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
Elizabeth Jennings Selected Poems.
Keith Douglas The Complete Poems.
Hugh MacDiarmid Complete Poems.
Louis MacNeice Collected Poems.
Dylan Thomas The Poems.
Nigel Dennis Cards of Identity.
Seamus Heaney Selected Poems: 1969-1987. Field Work. Station Island.
Thomas Kinsella Peppercanister Poems.
Paul Muldoon Selected Poems.
John Montague Selected Poems.
John Arden Plays.
Joe Orton The Complete Plays.
Flann O'Brien The Dalkey Archive. The Third Policeman.
Tom Stoppard Travesties.
Harold Pinter The Caretaker. The Homecoming.
Edward Bond The Fool. Saved.
George Orwell Collected Essays. 1984.
Edna O'Brien A Fanatic Heart.
GERMANY
Hugo von Hofmannsthal Poems and Verse Plays. Selected Prose. Selected Plays and Libretti.
Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Poetry. The Sonnets to Orpheus. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge...New Poems: First Part and Other Part.
Hermann Broch The Sleepwalkers. The Death of Virgil. Hugo von Holmannsthal and His Time
Georg Trakl Selected Poems
Gottfried Benn Selected Poems
Franz Kafka Amerika. The Complete Stories. The Blue Octavo Notebook. The Trial Diaries. The Castle. Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms.
Bertrolt Brecht Poems, 1913-1956. The Threepenny Opera. The Good Women of Setzuan. Mother Courage and Her Children. Galileo. The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Arthur Schnitzler Plays and Stories
Frank Wedekind Lulu Plays. Spring Awakening.
Karl Kraus The Last Days of Mankind.
Gunter Eich Moles
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain. Stories of Three Decades. Joseph and His Brothers. Doctor Faustus. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Alfred Doblin Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi). Narcissus and Goldmund.
Robert Musil Young Torless. The Man Without Qualities.
Paul Celan Poems.
Thomas Bernhard Woodcutters.
Heinrich Boll Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
Ingeborg Bachmann In the Storm of Roses.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems.
Walter Benjamin Illuminations.
Robert Walser Selected Stories.
Joseph Roth The Radetzky March.
Crista Wolf Cassandra.
Peter Handke Slow Homecoming.
Max Frisch I'm Not Stiller. Man in the Holocene.
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum. The Flounder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt The Visit.
Johannes Bobrowski Shadow Lands.
RUSSIA
Anna Akhmatova Poems.
Leonid Andreyev Selected Tales
Andry Bely Petersburg.
Osip Mandelahtam Selected Poems.
Velimir Khlebnikov The King of Time.
Vladimir Mayakovsky The Bedbug and Selected Poetry.
Mikhail Bilgakov The Master and Margarita.
Mikhail Kuzmin Alexandrian Songs.
Maksim Gorky Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev. Autobiography.
Ivan Bunin Selected Stories.
Issac Babel Collected Stories.
Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago. Selected Poems.
Yury Olesha Envy.
Marina Tsvetayeva Selected Poems.
Mikhail Zoshchenko Nervous People and Other Satires.
Andrei Platonov The Foundation Pit.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The Cancer Ward. The Gulag Archipelago. August 1914.
Joseph Brodsky A Part of Speech: Poems.
SCANDINAVIA
Isak Dinesen (Danish, wrote in English) Winter's Tales. Seven Gothic Tales.
Martin Andersen Nexo Pelle the Conqueror.
Knut Hamsun Hunger. Pan.
Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter
Gunnar Ekelof Guide to the Underworld
Tomas Transtromer Selected Poems.
Par Lagerkvist Barrabas.
Lars Gustafsson Selected Poems.
SERBO-CROAT
Ivo Andric The Bridge on the Drina.
Vasko Popa Selected Poems.
Danilo Kis A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
CZECH
Karel Capek War with the Newts. R.U.R.
Vaclav Havel Largo Desolato.
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Jaroslav Seifert Selected Poetry.
Miroslav Holub The Fly.
POLISH
Bruno Schulz The Street of Crocodiles. Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
Czeslaw Milosz Selected Poems.
Witold Gombrowicz Three Novels.
Stanislaw Lem The Investigation. Solaris.
Zbigniew Herbert Selected Poems.
Adam Zagajewski Tremor
HUNGARIAN
Attila Jozsef Perched on Nothing's Branch.
Ferenc Juhasz Selected Poems.
Laszlo Nemeth Guilt.
MODERN GREEK
C.P. Cavafy Collected Poems.
George Seferis Collected Poems.
Nikos Kazantzakis The Greek Passion. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Yannos Ritsos Exile and Return.
Odysseas Elytis What I Love: Selected Poems.
Angelos Sikelianos Selected Poems.
YIDDISH
Sholem Aleichem Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. The Nightingale.
Mendele Mokher Seforim The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third.
I.L. Peretz Selected Stories.
Jacob Glatstein Selected Poems.
Moshe-Leib Halpern Selected Poems
H. Leivick (Levick Halpern) Selected Poems.
Israel Joshua Singer The Brothers Askenazi. Yoshe Kalb.
Chaim Grade The Yeshiva.
S. Ansky The Dybbuk.
Mani Leib Selected Poems.
Sholem Asch East River.
Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories. In My Father's Court. The Manor. The Estate. The Family Moskat. Satan in Goray.
HEBREW
Hayyim Nahman Bialik Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems.
S.Y. Agnon In the Heart of the Seas. Twenty-One Stories.
Aharon Appelfeld The Immortal Bartyss. Badenheim 1939.
Yaakov Shabtai Past Continuous
Yehuda Amichai Selected Poetry. Travels.
A.B. Yehoshua A Late Divorce.
Amos Oz A Perfect Peace.
T. Carmi At the Stone of Losses.
Nathan Zach Selected Poems.
dalia Ravikovitch A Dress of Fire.
Dan Pagis Selected Poems.
David Shahar The Palace of Shattered Vessels.
David Grossman See Under: Love.
Yoram Kaniuk His Daughter.
ARABIC
Najiib Mahfuz Midaq Alley. Fountain and Tomb. Miramar.
Adunis Selected Poems.
Mahmud Darwish The Music of Human Flesh.
Taha Husayn An Egyptian Childhood.
LATIN AMERICA
Ruben Dario Selected Poetry.
Jorge Luis Borges The Aleph and Other Stories. Dreamtigers (The Maker). Ficciones. Labyrinths. A Personal Anthology.
Alejo Carpentier Explosion in a Cathedral. The Lost Steps. Reasons of State. The Kingdom of This World.
Guillermo Cabrera Anfante Three Trapped Tigers. View of Dawn in the Tropics.
Severo Sarduy Maitreya.
Reinaldo Arenas The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Sevando.
Pablo Neruda Canto General. Resistance on Earth. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Fully Empowered. Selected Poems.
Nicolas Guillen Selected Poems.
Octavio Paz The Collected Poems. The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Cesar Vallejo Selected Poems. Spain, Take This Cup from Me.
Miguel Angel Asturias Men of Maize.
Jose Lezama Lima Paradiso.
Jose Donoso The Obscene Bird of Flight.
Julio Cortazar Hopscotch. All Fires the Fire. Blow-Up and Other Stories.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the Time of Colera.
Mario Vargas Llosa The War of the End of the World.
Carlos Fuentes A Change of Skin. Terra Nostra.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade Travelling in the Family.
THE WEST INDIES
C.L.R. James The Black Jacobins. The Future in the Present.
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River. A House for Mr. Biswas.
Derek Walcott Collected Poems.
Wilson Harris The Guyana Quartet.
Michael Thelwell The Harder They Come.
Aime Cesaire Collected Poetry.
AFRICA
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart. Arrow of God. No Longer at Ease.
Wole Soyinka A Dance of the Forest.
Amos Tutola The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town.
Christopher Okigbo Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder.
John Pepper Clark Casualties: Poems.
Ayi K. Armah The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
Wa Thiong'o Ngugi A Grain of Wheat.
Gabriel Okara The Fisherman's Invocation.
Nadime Gordimer Collected Stories.
J.M. Coetzee Foe.
Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes.
Leopold S. Senghor Selected Poems.
INDIA (IN ENGLISH)
R.K. Narayan The Guide
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust
CANADA
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano.
Robertson Davies The Deptford Trilogy. The Rebel Angels.
Alice Munro Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Northrop Frye Fables of Identity.
Anne Hebert Selected Poems.
Jay Macpherson Poems Twice Told.
Margaret Atwood Surfacing.
Daryl Hine Selected Poems.
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
Miles (Stella) Franklin My Brilliant Career.
Katherine Mansfield The Short Stories.
A.D. Hope Collected Poems.
Patrick White Riders in the Chariot. A Fringe of Leaves. Voss.
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children.
Judith Wright Selected Poems.
Les A. Murray The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems.
Thomas Keneally The Playmaker. Schindler's List.
David Malouf An Imaginary Life.
Kevin Hart Peniel and Other Poems.
Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda. Illywhacker.
THE UNITED STATES
Edward Arlington Robinson Selected Poems.
Robert Frost The Poetry
Edith Wharton Collected Short Stories. The Age of Innocence. Ethan Frome. The House of Mirth. The Custom of the Country.
Willa Cather My Antonia. The Professor's House. A Lost Lady.
Gertrude Stein Three Lives. The Geographical History of America. The Making of Americans. Tender Buttons.
Wallace Stevens Collected Poems. The Necessary Angel. Opus Posthumous. The Palm at the End of the Mind.
Vachel Lindsay Collected Poems.
Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology.
Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie. An American Tragedy.
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio. Death in the Woods and Other Stories.
Sinclair Lewis Babbit. It Can't Happen Here.
Elinor Wylie Last Poems.
William Carlos Williams Spring and All. Paterson. Collected Poems.
Ezra Pound Personae: Collected Poems. The Cantos. Literary Essays.
Robinson Jeffers Selected Poems.
Marianne Moore Complete Poems.
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Selected Poems.
John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems.
T.S. Eliot The Complete Poems and Plays. Selected essays.
Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories.
Jean Toomer Cane.
John Dos Passos U.S.A.
Conraid Aiken Collected Poems.
Eugene O'Neill Lazarus Laughed. The Iceman Cometh. Long Day's Journey into Night.
e.e. cummings Complete Poems.
John B. Wheelwright Collected Poems.
Robert Fitzgerald Spring Shade: Poems.
Louise Brogan The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems.
Leonie Adams Poems: A Selection.
Hart Crane Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose.
Allen Tate Collected Poems.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited and Other Stories. The Great Gatsby. Tender Is the Night.
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying. Sanctuary. Light in August. Absalom, Absalom! The Sound and the Fury. The Wild Palms. The Collected Stories. The Hamlet.
Ernest hemingway Complete Short Stories. A Farewell to Arms. The Sun Also rises. The Garden of Eden.
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath.
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts. A Cool Million. The Day of the Locust.
Richard Wright Native Son. Black Boy.
Eudora Welty Collected Stories. Delta Wedding. The Robber Bridegroom. The Ponder Heart.
Langston Hughes Selected Poems. The Big Sea. I Wonder As I Wander.
Edmund Wilson The Shores of Light. Patriotic Gore.
Kenneth Burke Counter-Statement. A Rhetoric of Motives.
Joseph Mitchell Up in the Old Hotel.
Abraham Cahan The Rise of David Levinsky.
Kay Boyle Three Short Novels.
Ellen Glasgow Barren Ground. Vein of Iron.
John P. Marquand H.M. Pullham, Esq.
John O'Hara Collected Stories. Appointment in Samarra.
Henry Roth Call It Sleep.
Thornton Wilder Three Plays.
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men. World Enough and Time. Selected Poems.
Delmore Schwartz Selected Poems. Summer Knowledge.
Weldon Kees Collected Poems.
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems.
John Berryman Collected Poems.
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky.
Randall Jarell Complete Poems.
Charles Olson The Maximus Poems. Collected Poems.
Robert Hayden Collected Poems.
Robert Lowell Collected Poems.
Theodore Roethke Collected Poems. Straw for the Fire.
James Agee Permit Me Voyage. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker Evans)
Jean Garrigue Selected Poems.
May Swenson New & Selected Things Taking Place. In Other Words.
Robert Duncan Bending the Bow.
Richard Wilbur New and collected Poems.
Richard Eberhart Collected Poems.
M.B. Tolson Harlem Gallery.
Kenneth Koch Seasons on Earth.
Frank O'Hara Selected Poems.
James Schuyler Collected Poems.
James Baldwin The Price of a Ticket.
Saul Bellow Seize the Day. The Adventures of Augie Narch. Herzog.
John Cheever The Stories. Bullet Park.
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man.
Truman Capote In Cold Blood.
Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories. The Violent Bear It Away. Wise Blood.
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita. Pale Fire.
Gore Vidal Myra Breckinridge. Lincoln.
William Styron The Long March.
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye. Nine Stories.
Wright Morris Ceremony in Lone Tree.
Bernard Malamud The Stories. The Fixer.
Norman Mailer Advertisements for Myself. The Executioner's Song. Ancient Evenings.
John Hawkes The Cannibal. Second Skin.
William Gaddis The Recognitions.
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. A Streetcar Named Desire. Summer and Smoke.
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman.
Edwin Justus Mayer Children of Darkness
Harold Brodkey Stories in an Almost Classical mode.
Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness.
Raymond Carver Where I'm Calling From.
Robert Coover Spanking the Maid.
Don DeLillo White Noise. Libra. Runnning Dog. Mao II.
John Crowley Little, Big. Aegypt. Love and Sleep.
Guy Davenport Tatlin!
James Dickey The Early Motion. The Central Motion.
E.L. Doctorow The Book of Daniel. World's Fair.
Stanley Elkin The Living End.
William H. Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Omensetter's Luck.
Russell Hoban Riddley Walker.
Denis Johnson Angels. Fiskaroro. Jesus' Son.
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian. Suttree. Child of God.
William Kennedy Ironweed. The Albany Cycle.
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon.
Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place.
Joyce Carol Oates Them.
Walker Percy The Moviegoer.
Grace Paley The Little Disturbances of Man.
Thomas Pynchon V. The Crying of Lot 49. Gravity's Rainbow.
Cynthia Ozick Envy, or Yiddish in America. The Messiah of Stockholm.
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo.
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint. My Life as a Man. Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue. The Counterlife. Patrimony. Operation Shylock.
James Salter Solo Faces. Light Years.
Robert Stone Dog Soldiers. A Flag for Sunrise.
John Barth The Floating Opera. The End of the Road. The Sot-Weed Factor.
Walter Abish Alphabetical Africa. How German Is It. Eclipse Fever. I Am the Dust Under Your Feet.
Donald Barthelme Forty Stories. The Dead Father.
Thomas M. Disch On Wings of Song.
Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast.
John Updike The Witches of Eastwick.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle.
Edmund White Forgetting Elena. Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
James McCourt Time Remaining.
James Wilcox Modern Baptists.
A.R. Ammons Collected Poems. Selected Longer Poems. Sphere: The Form of the Nation.
John Ashbery The Double Dream of Spring. Houseboat Days. Selected Poems. Flow Chart. Hotel Lautreamont. And the Stars Were Shining.
David Mamet American Buffalo. Speed-the-Plow.
David Rabe Streamers.
Sam Shepard Seven Plays.
August Wilson Fences. Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Anthony Hecht Collected earlier Poems.
Edgar Bowers Living Together: New and Selected Poems.
Donald Justice Selected Poems.
James Merrill From the First Nine. The Changing Light at Sandover.
W.S. Merwin Selected Poems.
James Wright Above the River: The Complete Poems.
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems.
Philip Levine Selected Poems.
Irving Feldman New and Selected Poems.
Donald Hall The One Day. Old and New poems.
Alvin Feinman Poems.
Richard Howard Untitled Subjects. Findings.
John Hollander Reflections on Espionage. Selected Poetry. Tesserae.
Gary Snyder No Nature: New and Selected Poems.
Charles Simic Selected Poems.
Mark Strand Selected Poems. The Continuous Life. Dark Harbor.
Charles Wright The World of the Ten Thousand Things.
Jay Wright Dimensions of History. The Double Invention of Komo. Selected Poems. Elaine's Book. Boleros.
Amy Clampitt Westward.
Allen Grossman The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected.
Howard Moss New Selected Poems.
James Applewhite River Writing: An Echo Journal.
J.D. McClatchy The Rest of the Way.
Alfred Corn A Call in the Midst of the Crowd.
Douglas Crase The Revisionist.
Rita Dove Selected Poems.
Thylias Moss Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems.
Edward Hirsch Earthly Measures.
Tony Kushner Angels in America.
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