Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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This prose study of what Bloom considers to be the core authors and works of western literature includes several lengthy appendices listings titles by age and by country. From those listings 45 titles by Shelley, Wells, Peake, etc., are compiled here, as well as recent works by Crowley, Disch, and Le Guin.
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Titles Cited: 45
Publication: Harcourt, Brace, 1994
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 45
Publication: Harcourt, Brace, 1994
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962; Argentina 1944)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (New Directions, 1962)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967)
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon, or Over the Range (Trübner and Co, 1872)
- Italo Calvino, Baron in the Trees (Collins, 1959; Italy 1957)
- Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; Italy 1979)
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974; Italy 1972)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- John Crowley, Aegypt (Bantam Spectra, 1987)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- John Crowley, Love & Sleep (Bantam, 1994)
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (Viking, 1985)
- Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (St Martin's, 1979)
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro (Knopf, 1985)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (Strahan and Co, 1870)
- George MacDonald, Lilith (Chatto and Windus, 1895)
- William Morris, News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Roberts Brothers, 1890)
- William Morris, The Well at the World's End (Kelmscott Press, 1896)
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy (series, 1959)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Harper & Bros., 1838)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Henry Vizetelly, 1852)
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Viking , 1973)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster , 1889)
- John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (Knopf, 1984)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
- H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (Bowen-Merrill, 1901)
- H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods (Macmillan, 1904)
- H. G. Wells, In the Days of the Comet (Macmillan, 1906)
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods (Cassell and Company, 1923)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes (Harper and Brothers, 1899)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
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