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Reading Beyond the Best-Seller List: A Polemic and a Plea XVIII -- I Old Masters 1 -- Herodotus: The Histories / Translated from the Greek by Robin Waterfield 5 -- Bible Tells Us So 9 -- Tales from ... Ovid / Ted Hughes 17 -- Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second Edition / Peter Brown 22 -- Arabian Nights: A Companion / Robert Irwin 27 -- Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco, Translated from the Italian by William Weaver 31 -- Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance / John Hale 34 -- William Tyndale: A Biography / David Daniell 38 -- A Dead Man in Deptford / Anthony Burgess 42 -- Complete Works of Francois Rabelais / Translated from the French by Donald M. Frame 46 -- II Professionals at Work 51 -- Vermeer: A View of Delft / Anthony Bailey 54 -- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self / Claire Tomalin 57 -- Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson / Adam Sisman 60 -- Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon 64 -- Blake / Peter Ackroyd 70 -- Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World / Jenny Uglow 74 -- III Romantic Dreamers 79 -- Pushkin: A Biography / T. J. Binyon 82 -- Manuscript Found in Saragossa / Jan Potocki, Translated from the French by Ian Maclean 87 -- Victor Hugo / Graham Robb 91 -- Les Fleurs du Mal / Charles Baudelaire, Translated from the French by Richard Howard 96 -- Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky 102 -- Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 / Selected, edited, and translated from the French by Francis Steegmuller 107 -- Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa -- Dom Casmurro / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson 111 -- IV Visionaries and Moralists 115 -- Emerson: The Mind on Fire / Robert D. Richardson Jr. 118 -- Lewis Carroll: A Biography / Morton N. Cohen 122 -- John Ruskin: The Early Years / Tim Hilton -- John Ruskin: The Later Years / Tim Hilton 126 -- An Autobiography / Anthony Trollope 131 -- William Morris: A Life for Our Time / Fiona MacCarthy 135 -- Oscar Wilde / Richard Ellmann 139 -- A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography / Norman Page 145 -- Bernard Shaw. Volume 2, 1898-1918: The Pursuit of Power / Michael Holroyd 149 -- Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America / Peter Washington 153 -- V We Moderns 157 -- Marcel Proust: A Life / Jean-Yves Tadie, Translated from the French by Euan Cameron -- Marcel Proust: Selected Letters. Volume 4, 1918-1922 / Edited by Philip Kolb, Translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin -- Proust's Way: A Field Guide to "In Search of Lost Time." / Roger Shattuck -- Remembrance of Things Past / Abridged and read by Neville Jason 160 -- Memoir of Italo Svevo / Livia Veneziani Svevo, Translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigley 165 -- Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume 1, 1898-1922 / Edited by Valerie Eliot -- Eliot's New Life / Lyndall Gordon 168 -- Ford Madox Ford / Alan Judd 174 -- Complete Short Stories / Ronald Firbank, Edited by Steven Moore 179 -- Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa / Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith 183 -- No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien / Anthony Cronin 187 -- Collected Fictions / Jorge Luis Borges, Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley 193 -- Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes / Phillip Herring -- Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts / Djuna Barnes, Edited by Cheryl J. Plumb 197 -- Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett / James Knowlson 201 -- VI Serious Entertainers 207 -- Hauntings / Vernon Lee 211 -- Yours, Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse / Edited by Frances Donaldson 216 -- Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life / Mike Ashley 220 -- Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan / John Taliaferro 224 -- Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die / Francis M. Nevins Jr. 228 -- Avram Davidson Treasury / Edited by Robert Silverberg, Grania Davis 231 -- Wine-Dark Sea / Robert Aickman 235 -- Chester Himes: A Life / James Sallis 238 -- Suspects / Thomas Berger 242 -- Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death / Christopher Frayling 245 -- Grievance / K. C. Constantine 250 -- Second Sight / Charles McCarry 254 -- Night Watch / Terry Pratchett 258 -- VII Critical Observers 263 -- Theory of Prose / Viktor Shklovsky, Translated from the Russian by Benjamin Sher 266 -- Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 / Randall Jarrell 269 -- Lectures on Literature / Vladimir Nabokov, Edited by Fredson Bowers 274 -- Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages / Harold Bloom 278 -- Up in the Old Hotel / Joseph Mitchell -- My Ears Are Bent / Joseph Mitchell 283 -- One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop / Selected and edited by Robert Giroux 288 -- Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 / Edmund Wilson, Edited by Lewis M. Dabney 292 -- United States: Essays, 1952-1992 / Gore Vidal 296 -- War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 / Martin Amis 300 -- VIII Lovers, Poets, and Madmen 303 -- Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette / Judith Thurman 306 -- Robert Graves: The Years with Laura / Richard Perceval Graves -- Between Moon and Moon: Selected Correspondence (1946-1971) / Robert Graves, Edited by Paul O'Prey 311 -- Locusts Have No King / Dawn Powell -- Golden Spur / Dawn Powell -- Angels on Toast / Dawn Powell 316 -- A Howard Nemerov Reader 320 -- Possession: A Romance / A. S. Byatt 323 -- Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman / Edited and with an afterword by Steven Moore 327 -- Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy / Ben Sonnenberg 330 -- Licks of Love: Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" / John Updike 333 -- IX Magicians of the Word 337 -- Saint Glinglin / Raymond Queneau, Translated from the French by James Sallis 340 -- Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green / Edited by Matthew Yorke -- Loving / Living / Party Going / Henry Green -- Nothing / Doting / Blindness / Henry Green 345 -- Georges Perec: A Life in Words / David Bellos 350 -- Mulligan Stew / Gilbert Sorrentino 354 -- Riddley Walker / Russell Hoban 358 -- Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel / Julian Rios, Translated from the Spanish by Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine, the author 363 -- Landor's Tower, or The Imaginary Conversations / Iain Sinclair 367 -- X Europeans 371 -- Tale of the 1002nd Night / Joseph Roth, Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann 374 -- Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke / Ralph Freedman, Lyrical verse translated from the German by Helen Sword -- Uncollected Poems / Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated from the German by Edward Snow 378 -- Embers / Sandor Marai, Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway 383 -- Complete Works of Isaac Babel / Edited by Nathalie Babel, Translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine 387 -- Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography / Lesley Milne 392 -- Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait / Jerzy Ficowski, Translated from the Polish and edited by Theodosia Robertson 395 -- Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa / David Gilmour 399 -- Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew / John Felstiner 402 -- That Mighty Sculptor, Time / Marguerite Yourcenar, Translated from the French by Walter Kaiser 405 -- Extinction / Thomas Bernhard, Translated from the German by David McClintock 408 -- Austerlitz / W. G. Sebald, Translated from the German by Anthea Bell 412 -- XI Writers of Our Time 417 -- What's Bred in the Bone / Robertson Davies 421 -- Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas / Steven Millhauser 425 -- Famished Road / Ben Okri 429 -- Accordion Crimes / E. Annie Proulx 433 -- Cities of the Plain. Volume 3 of the Border trilogy / Cormac McCarthy 437 -- Mrs. Ted Bliss / Stanley Elkin 441 -- Tunnel / William H. Gass 444 -- Reader's Block / David Markson 449 -- A Frolic of His Own / William Gaddis 452 -- Amber Spyglass. Book 3 of His Dark Materials / Philip Pullman 456 -- Underworld / Don DeLillo 461 -- XII Performing Selves 465 -- Ackerley: The Life of J. R. Ackerley / Peter Parker 468 -- Knox Brothers / Penelope Fitzgerald -- Means of Escape: Stories / Penelope Fitzgerald 471 -- Collected Tales and Fantasies / Lord Berners 475 -- Cyril Connolly: A Life / Jeremy Lewis 479 -- Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh / Edited by Charlotte Mosley 484 -- Bruce Chatwin: A Biography / Nicholas Shakespeare 489 -- Diaries of Kenneth Tynan / Edited by John Lahr 493 -- Letters of Kingsley Amis / Edited by Zachary Leader 497 -- Classrooms and Their Discontents 504 -- Dirda Dozen 512 -- A Renaissance Reading List 518 -- Journeying Toward God: Ten Classics of Faith and Doubt 521 -- A Science Fiction Reading List 522. Read More |
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