[Vintage Reading 01] • Vintage Reading by Kanigel, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Image Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction I. On Everyone's List Of Literary Classics

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Kim - Rudyard Kipling Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Justine - Lawrence Durrell Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen A Passage to India - E. M. Forster My Antonia - Willa Cather Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

II. On Many A List For Burning

Stories - Dorothy Parker The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler Nana - Emile Zola Native Son - Richard Wright

III. Books That Shaped The Western World

Essays - Montaigne Dialogues - Plato The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin The Histories - Herodotus The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay The Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

IV. Making Hard Work Easy

Only Yesterday - Frederick Lewis Allen Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif Selected Works - Cicero Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead The Outermost House - Henry Beston The Amiable Baltimoreans - Francis F. Beirne What to Listen for in Music - Aaron Copland Gods, Graves, and Scholars - C. W. Ceram The Stress of Life - Hans Selye The Greek Way - Edith Hamilton

V. Not Brave New World, Not Robinson Crusoe

A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe The Doors of Perception - Alduous Huxley Elective Affinities - John Wolfgang von Goethe Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis Roughing It - Mark Twain

VI. Lighter Fare

A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle The Song of Hiawatha - H.W. Longfellow The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan Java Head - Joseph Hergesheimer Mr. Pottermack's Oversight - R. Austin Freeman A Bell for Adano - John Hersey The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury Gentleman's Agreement - Laura Z. Hobson

VII. "But I Know What I Like..."

VIII. One-Of-A-Kinds

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf The American Language - H.L. Mencken The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston A Mathemetician's Apology - Godfrey H. Hardy My Life - Isadora Duncan The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn

IX. The Realm Of Spirit

Gilgamesh - Babylonian epic Confessions - Saint Augustine The Golem - Gustav Meyrink The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther Ecclesiasties - Old Testament Lost Horizon - James Hilton The Bhagavad Gita - Sanskrit poem Night - Elie Wiesel The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James

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