The book of great books : a guide to 100 world classics / W. John Campbell, Ph.D.
Record details
- ISBN: 1586632043
- ISBN: 9781586632045
- Physical Description: ix, 866 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : MetroBooks, 2000.
- Copyright: ©1997
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Produced by The Wonderland Press"--title page. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Aeneid / Virgil 1 -- All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque 9 -- All the King's Men / Robert Penn Warren 17 -- Animal Farm / George Orwell 26 -- As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner 34 -- As You Like It / William Shakespeare 42 -- Awakening / Kate Chopin 51 -- Beowulf / Anonymous 63 -- Billy Budd / Herman Melville 71 -- Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison 80 -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley 91 -- Call of the Wild / Jack London 99 -- Candide / Voltaire 108 -- Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer 116 -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller 124 -- Color Purple / Alice Walker 133 -- Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky 141 -- Crucible / Arthur Miller 150 -- Daisy Miller / Henry James 158 -- David Copperfield / Charles Dickens 166 -- Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller 174 -- Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank 183 -- Divine Comedy: Inferno / Dante 191 -- Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe 199 -- A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen 208 -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes 216 -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton 224 -- Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo / Plato 233 -- A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway 242 -- Faust, Parts 1 and 2 / J. W. von Goethe 251 -- For Whom the Bell Tolls / Ernest Hemingway 259 -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley 268 -- Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams 276 -- Good Earth / Pearl S. Buck 284 -- Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck 295 -- Great Expectations / Charles Dickens 303 -- Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald 311 -- Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift 319 -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare 328 -- Hard Times / Charles Dickens 336 -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad 345 -- Henry IV, Part 1 / William Shakespeare 353 -- House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday 361 -- House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne 373 -- Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 381 -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou 389 -- Hiad / Homer 400 -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison 409 -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte 417 -- Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan 425 -- Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare 435 -- Jungle / Upton Sinclair 444 -- King Lear / William Shakespeare 452 -- Light in August / William Faulkner 460 -- Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad 469 -- Lord of the Flies / William Golding 477 -- Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien 486 -- Macbeth / William Shakespeare 494 -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert 502 -- Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy 511 -- Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare 519 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare 528 -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville 536 -- Native Son / Richard Wright 545 -- 1984 / George Orwell 553 -- Odyssey / Homer 561 -- Oedipus Trilogy / Sophocles 569 -- Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck 578 -- Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway 586 -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens 594 -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey 603 -- Othello / William Shakespeare 611 -- Paradise Lost / John Milton 619 -- Pearl / John Steinbeck 628 -- Plague / Albert Camus 636 -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce 645 -- Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen 653 -- Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli 665 -- Red Badge of Courage / Stephen Crane 673 -- Republic / Plato 681 -- Return of the Native / Thomas Hardy 689 -- Richard III / William Shakespeare 698 -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare 706 -- Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne 715 -- A Separate Peace / John Knowles 723 -- Silas Marner / George Eliot 733 -- Sons and Lovers / D. H. Lawrence 742 -- Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner 750 -- Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse 759 -- Stranger / Albert Camus 768 -- Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway 777 -- Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare 785 -- Tempest / William Shakespeare 794 -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy 803 -- Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston 811 -- Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain 823 -- Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson 832 -- Twelfth Night / William Shakespeare 841 -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett 849 -- Walden / Henry David Thoreau 858. |
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Subject: | Literature > Stories, plots, etc. Literature > History and criticism. Characters and characteristics in literature. Books and reading. |
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