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Index
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Part 1 - HOMER • c. 900 B.C.
Chapter 1 - The Iliad
Chapter 2 - The Odyssey
Part 2 - THE BIBLE
Chapter 3 - The Old Testament
Chapter 4 - The New Testament
Part 3 - VIRGIL • 70–19 B.C.
Chapter 5 - The Aeneid
Part 4 - OVID • 43 B.C.–A.D. 18
Chapter 6 - Metamporphoses
Part 5 - ANONYMOUS • LATE 10TH c.
Chapter 7 - Beowulf
Part 6 - DANTE ALIGHIERI • 1265–1321
Chapter 8 - Inferno
Chapter 9 - Paradiso
Part 7 - GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO • 1313–75
Chapter 10 - The Decameron
Part 8 - GEOFFREY CHAUCER • 1340–1400
Chapter 11 - The Canterbury Tales
Part 9 - EDMUND SPENSER • 1552–99
Chapter 12 - The Faerie Queene
Part 10 - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE • 1564–1616
Chapter 13 - General Introduction
Chapter 14 - Hamlet
Chapter 15 - King Lear
Chapter 16 - Macbeth
Part 11 - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES • 1547–1616
Chapter 17 - Don Quixote
Part 12 - JOHN MILTON • 1608–74
Chapter 18 - Paradise Lost
Part 13 - HENRY FIELDING • 1707–54
Chapter 19 - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Part 14 - JANE AUSTEN • 1775–1817
Chapter 20 - Pride and Prejudice
Part 15 - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE • 1749–1832
Chapter 21 - Faust I+II
Part 16 - ALEXANDER PUSHKIN • 1799–1837
Chapter 22 - Eugene Onegin
Part 17 - HONORÉ DE BALZAC • 1799–1850
Chapter 23 - Père Goriot
Part 18 - CHARLOTTE BRONTË • 1816–55
Chapter 24 - Jane Eyre
Part 19 - EMILY BRONTË • 1818–48
Chapter 25 - Wuthering Heights
Part 20 - HERMAN MELVILLE • 1819–91
Chapter 26 - Moby Dick
Part 21 - CHARLES DICKENS • 1812–70
Chapter 27 - Bleak House
Chapter 28 - Great Expectations
Part 22 - GUSTAVE FLAUBERT • 1821–80
Chapter 29 - Madame Bovary
Part 23 - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY • 1821–81
Chapter 30 - Crime and Punishment
Chapter 31 - The Brothers Karamazov
Part 24 - LEO TOLSTOY • 1828–1910
Chapter 32 - War and Peace
Chapter 33 - Anna Karenina
Part 25 - GEORGE ELIOT • 1819–80
Chapter 34 - Middlemarch
Part 26 - HENRY JAMES • 1843–1916
Chapter 35 - The Wings of the Dove
Part 27 - MARCEL PROUST • 1871–1922
Chapter 36 - Remembrance of Things Past
Part 28 - JAMES JOYCE • 1882–1941
Chapter 37 - Ulysses
Part 29 - THOMAS MANN • 1875–1955
Chapter 38 - The Magic Mountain
Part 30 - FRANZ KAFKA • 1883–1924
Chapter 39 - The Trial
Part 31 - VIRGINIA WOOLF • 1882–1941
Chapter 40 - To the Lighthouse
Part 32 - WILLIAM FAULKNER • 1897–1962
Chapter 41 - The Sound and the Fury
Part 33 - ERNEST HEMINGWAY • 1899–1961
Chapter 42 - A Farewell to Arms
Part 34 - HENRY MILLER • 1891–1980
Chapter 43 - Tropic of Cancer
Part 35 - RICHARD WRIGHT • 1908–60
Chapter 44 - Native Son
Part 36 - ROBERT MUSIL • 1880–1942
Chapter 45 - The Man Without Qualities
Part 37 - VLADIMIR NABOKOV • 1899–1977
Chapter 46 - Lolita
Part 38 - JAMES BALDWIN • 1924–87
Chapter 47 - Giovanni’s Room
Part 39 - GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ • 1928–
Chapter 48 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Part 40 - THOMAS PYNCHON • 1937–
Chapter 49 - Gravity’s Rainbow
Part 41 - CORMAC McCARTHY • 1933–
Chapter 50 - Blood Meridian
Part 42 - TONI MORRISON • 1931–
Chapter 51 - Beloved
Tips on Reading Classics—and Good Books in General
A Note on the Selections
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Copyright
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