Index

 

Achebe, Chinua 182–83

Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi 182

Adler, Alfred 169

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain) 132–33

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain) 132

Aesop’s Fables 22–23

Aglionby, William 54

Agnes Grey (Brontë) 103

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) 124–25

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) 154–55

Almagest (Ptolemy) 52

Alpert, Richard 150

American Crisis, The (Paine) 84

Analects, The (Confucius) 26–27

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical (Gray) 11, 114–15

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (Seuss) 181

Angelou, Maya 196–97

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 131

Anne, Queen 73

Arabian Nights, The 12, 40–41

Aristophanes 22

Aristotle 22

Art of War, The (Sun Tzu) 13, 24–25

Attenborough, Sir David 187

Atwood, Margaret 13

Auden, W.H. 88, 177

Austen, Jane 12, 90–91, 153

Baby and Child Care (Spock) 160–61

Bacon, Sir Francis 60

Baedeker, Karl 96

Baldwin, James 197

Barbier, Charles 95

Barker, Robert 60

Bayard, Émile 121

Beach, Sylvia 146

Beauvoir, Simone de 13, 168–69

Beeton, Isabella 13, 118–19

Beeton, Samuel 119

Bell, Clara 130

Benson, Ezra Taft 186

Berger, John 198–99

Bettelheim, Bruno 88

Bible, The 11, 12, 17, 38, 48–49, 60–61

Birmingham Quran 38

Blake, William 44

Blofield, John 15

Boccaccio, Giovanni 44

Book of Household Management, The (Beeton) 13, 118–19

Book of Mediterranean Food, A (David) 13, 170–71

Borges, Jorge Luis 42

Borgia, Cesare 51

Boswell, James 77

Braille, Louis 94–95

Brave New World (Huxley) 173

Brief History of Time, A (Hawking) 202–3

Brill, A.A. 138

Brod, Max 149

Brontë, Anne 103

Brontë, Charlotte 103

Brontë, Emily 103

Burke, Edmund 84

Burroughs, William S. 178

Burton, Sir Richard 29, 41

Byron, Lord 92

Campanus of Novara 33

Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer) 12, 46–47

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty) 13, 210–11

Capote, Truman 184–85

Carnegie, Dale 13, 158–59

Carroll, Lewis 124–25

Carson, Rachel 186–87

Carter, Henry Vandyke 114–15

Cassady, Neal 178

Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole) 78–79

Cat in the Hat, The (Seuss) 13, 180–81

Caxton, William 22, 23, 46

Cervantes 58–59

Charles I, King 66

Charles II, King 66, 69

Charles, Ray 95

Chaucer, Geoffrey 12, 46–47

Cheney, Jane 160

Churchill, Winston 81

Clairaut, Alexis 70

Coetzee, J.M. 131

Common Sense (Paine) 84

Communist Manifesto, The (Marx & Engels) 128

Condell, Henry 63

Confucius 14, 26–27

Conway, Kellyanne 166

Cook, James 74

Copernicus, Nicolaus 11, 52–53

Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) 126–27

Cromwell, Oliver 66

da Vinci, Leonardo 34, 35, 54

Daguerre, Louis 99

Dante 44–45

Darwin, Charles 11, 74, 116–17, 187

Das Kapital (Marx) 13, 128–29, 210

David, Elizabeth 13, 170–71

David Copperfield (Dickens) 13, 104–5

Dawa-Samdup, Lama Kazi 150

De Aquaeductu (Frontinus) 35

De Architectura (Vitruvius) 34–35

Decameron, The (Boccaccio) 44

Diary of a Young Girl (Frank) 12, 162–63

Dick, Philip K. 14

Dickens, Charles 12, 13, 104–5, 136

Dictionary of the English Language, A (Johnson) 76–77

Divine Comedy, The (Dante) 44–45

Don Quixote (Cervantes) 58–59

Donne, John 60

Doors of Perception, The (Huxley) 172–73

Dorje, Gyurme 150

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 73, 127

Douglass, Frederick 100–1

Droeshout, Martin 62, 63

Duckworth, Robinson 124

Dulac, Edmund 41

Duncombe, Susanna 79

Eichenberg, Fritz 126

Einstein, Albert 11, 33, 127, 144–45

Elements of Geometry (Euclid) 32–33

Eliot, T.S. 44

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 111

Engels, Friedrich 128

Epic of Gilgamesh, The 12, 16–17

Euclid 32–33

Euripides 21

Evans-Wentz, Walter Y. 150–51

Eyeless in Gaza (Huxley) 173

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan) 13, 169, 190–91

Flaubert, Gustave 112–13, 131

Forster, E.M. 107

Fox Talbot, William Henry 12, 98–99

Frank, Anne 12, 162–63

Frank, Otto 162

Frankenstein (Shelley) 92–93

Freud, Sigmund 73, 127, 138–39, 169

Friedan, Betty 13, 169, 190–91

Frontinus 35

Galland, Antoine 41

Galton, Sir Francis 116

Galvani, Luigi 92

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes) 13, 156–57

Gibbon, Edward 80–81

Giese, Tiedemann 52

Giles, Lionel 25

Ginsberg, Allen 173, 178

Go Set a Watchman (Lee) 185

Gotti, John 51

Gray, Henry 11, 114–15

Gray, Thomas 78

Great Expectations (Dickens) 13

Green Eggs and Ham (Seuss) 13

Green, Graham 174

Grimm, Jacob 88–89

Grimm, Wilhelm 88–89

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Grimm & Grimm) 88–89

Gruening, Ernest 186

Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) 12, 72–73

Gutenberg, Johann 11, 48–49

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling) 208–9

Hawking, Stephen 202–3

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 107

Heminges, John 63

Hemingway, Ernest 131, 132

Herodotus 22

Hesse, Herman 14

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon) 80–81

Hobbit, The (Tolkien) 177

Homer 17, 20–21

Hooke, Robert 11, 64–65, 70

House of the Dead, The (Dostoyevsky) 127

How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie) 13, 158–59

Howe, Irving 166

Huckins, Olga Owens 186

Hugo, Victor 60, 120–21, 131

Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Hugo) 120

Huxley, Aldous 172–73

Huygens, Christiaan 65

I Ching 11, 14–15

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou) 196–97

Igarashi, Hitoshi 205

Iliad, The (Homer) 17, 20–21

In Cold Blood (Capote) 185

Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud) 138–39

James I, King 60

Jane Eyre (Brontë) 102–3

Johann, Philipp Grot 88

Johnson, Samuel 76–77, 108

Jonson, Ben 62, 63

Jordan, J.S. 85

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Verne) 122–23

Joyce, James 21, 146–47

Jung, Carl 14, 150

Kafka, Franz 127, 148–49

Kalm, Pehr 74

Kama Sutra (Vatsyayana) 13, 28–29, 41

Keller, Helen 95

Kemble, E.W. 132

Kerouac, Jack 178–79

Keynes, John Maynard 13, 156–57

Khomeini, Ayatollah 205

Khrushchev, Nikita 189

King James Bible 60–61

Kinsey, Alfred Charles 164–65

Kinsey Reports (Kinsey) 13, 164–65

Klein, Naomi 11, 212–13

Krugman, Paul 157

Kunisada, Utagawa 10, 43

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence) 13, 152–53

Lawrence, D.H. 13, 107, 152–53

Leary, Timothy 150, 173

Lee, Harper 184–85

Leinweber, Robert 88

Les Misérables (Hugo) 120–21, 131

Liddell, Alice 124

Liddell, Edith 124

Liddell, Henry 124

Liddell, Lorina 124

Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell) 77

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The (Douglass) 100

Lincoln, Abraham 33, 100

Linnaeus, Carl 11, 74–75

Lives of the Artists (Vasari) 54–55

Locke, John 22

Lolita (Nabokov) 174–75

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 44

Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien) 176–77

Louis XII, King 51, 57

Luther, Martin 52

Machiavelli, Niccolò 13, 50–51

Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 112–13

Madden, Samuel 136

Mao Tse-tung 192–93

Márquez, Gabriel García 12, 194–95

Marx, Karl 13, 128–29, 210

Maus (Spiegelman) 12, 206–7

Melville, Herman 106–7

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (Madden) 136

Metzner, Ralph 150

Michelangelo 54

Micrographia (Hooke) 11, 64–65

Midnight’s Children (Rushdie) 205

Milton, John 60, 66–67, 92

Minton, John 171

Mlodinow, Leonard 202

Moby-Dick (Melville) 106–7

Motte, Benjamin 73

Muhammad 38

Murray III, John 96

Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers 96–97

My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass) 100

Nabokov, Vladimir 112, 174–75

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass) 100–1

Naturalis Historia (Pliny the Elder) 36–37

Newton, Isaac 11, 70–71

1984 (Orwell) 166–67

No Logo (Klein) 213

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Klein) 213

Nostradamus 56–57

Odyssey, The (Homer) 17, 20–21

Olivier, Laurence 63

On the Origin of Species (Darwin) 11, 116–17, 187

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus) 11, 52–53

On the Road (Kerouac) 178–79

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) 12, 188–89

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez) 12, 194–95

Opie, John 86

Origin of Continents and Oceans, The (Wegener) 142–43

Orwell, George 166–67

Osmond, Humphry 173

Paine, Thomas 13, 84–85

Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues (Aglionby) 54

Palladio 35

Paradise Lost (Milton) 66–67, 92

Paul III, Pope 52

Pencil of Nature, The (Fox Talbot) 12, 98–99

Penelopiad (Atwood) 21

Pepys, Samuel 64, 68–69

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton) 11, 70–71

Phiz 104, 105

Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde) 134–35

Piketty, Thomas 13, 210–11

Piozzi, Hester Lynch 108

Pirsig, Robert M. 13, 200–1

Plato 13, 22, 30–31

Pliny the Elder 22, 36–37

Pliny the Younger 36

Polidori, John 92

Poor Folk (Dostoyevsky) 126

Pope, Alexander 73

Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 12, 90–91

Prince, The (Machiavelli) 13, 50–51

Procedure for Writing Words, Music and Plainsong in Dots (Braille) 94–95

Prophecies, The (Nostradamus) 56–57

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 131

Proust, Marcel 140–41

Psychedelic Experience, The (Leary, Metzner, & Alpert) 150

Ptolemy 52

Pullman, Philip 88

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Mao) 192–93

Quran, The 12, 38–39

Radek, Karl 146

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) 84

Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Einstein) 11, 144–45

Remarque, Erich Maria 154–55

Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 140–41

Republic, The (Plato) 30–31

Rheticus, Georg Joachim 52

Rights of Man, The (Paine) 13, 84–85

Riou, Édouard 122

Roget, John Lewis 108

Roget, Peter Mark 108

Roget’s Thesaurus 108–9

Rowling, J.K. 208–9

Rushdie, Salman 12, 41, 204–5

Ruskin, John 140

Salvius, Laurentius 74

Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie) 12, 204–5

Sartre, Jean-Paul 169

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) 107

Scott Moncrieff, C.K. 140

Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir) 13, 168–69

Sense and Sensibility (Austen) 89

Seuss, Dr. 13, 180–81

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey) 164–65

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey) 164–65

Shakespeare, William 44, 60, 62–63, 66, 78, 128, 140, 197

Shelley, Mary 66, 92–93

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 92

Shelton, Thomas 58

Shikibu, Murasaki 10, 42–43

Shock Doctrine, The (Klein) 213

Silent Spring (Carson) 186–87

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 22

Smith, Adam 13, 82–83

Smith, John 69

Socrates 22, 30

Solander, Daniel 74

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 12, 188–89

Spaulding, William 181

Species Plantarum (Linnaeus) 11, 74–75

Spiegelman, Art 12, 206–7

Spock, Benjamin McLane 160–61

Stoddart, J.M. 135

Sun Ping of Chi 25

Sun Tzu 13, 24–25

Swift, Jonathan 12, 72–73

Tacitus 36

Tale of Genji, The (Shikibu) 10, 42–3

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (Brontë) 103

Tenniel, John 124–25

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith) 83

Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, The (Wegener) 143

Things Fall Apart (Achebe) 182–83

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Klein) 10, 212–13

Thoreau, Henry David 110–11, 186

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (Wollstonecraft) 86–87

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Carroll) 124

Thurman, Robert 150

Tibetan Book of the Dead, The (Evans-Wentz) 150–51

Time Machine, The (Wells) 136–37

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) 184–85

Tolkien, J.R.R. 176–77

Tolstaya, Sophia 130, 131, 169

Tolstoy, Leo 130–31

Torah, The 12, 18–19, 38

Trial, The (Kafka) 148–49

Trungpa, Chögyam 150

Tucci, Giuseppe 150

Twain, Mark 132–33

Ulysses (Joyce) 21, 146–47

Uses of Enchantment, The (Bettelheim) 88

Vampyre, The (Polidori) 92

Vasari, Giorgio 54–55

Vatsyayana 13, 28–29

Verne, Jules 122–23

Vesalius, Andreas 115

Vespasian, Emperor 36

Vindication of the Rights of Men, A (Wollstonecraft) 86

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Wollstonecraft) 13, 86–87, 92

Vitruvius 34–35

von Holst, Theodor 95

Walden (Thoreau) 110–11

Wallace, Alfred Russel 116

Walpole, Horace 78–79

Walpole, Sir Robert 78

War and Peace (Tolstoy) 130–31

Ways of Seeing (Berger) 198–99

Wealth of Nations, The (Smith) 13, 82–83

Wegener, Alfred 142–43

Wells, H.G. 136–37

Wendell Holmes Sr., Oliver 107

Whitehead, A.N. 30

Wilde, Oscar 134–35

Wilhelm, Richard 14

Wilson, Edmund 146

Winchester, Simon 108

Wollstonecraft, Mary 13, 86–87, 92

Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary see Shelley, Mary

Wren, Christopher 65

Wu, Emperor 14

Wuthering Heights (Brontë) 103

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig) 13, 200–1

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The first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 (see page 124).

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A Peter Pauper Press hardback edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead from 1972 (see page 150).