Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Fifty-Two Books

For those who are interested, here are the books that were sent to me. There are fifty-two in total.

A few notes about the list:
  • P or H denotes paperback or hardcover
  • Translation credit is included whenever possible and relevant
  • Additional information is occasionally included when relevant
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, trans. Samuel Beckett, P
Bhagavadgita, trans. Sir Edwin Arnold, P
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs, H
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Albert Camus, trans. Justin O'Brien, P
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll, facsimile of manuscript, P
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, P
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, P
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey, P
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, P
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons, Jonathan Edwards and Others, P
Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud, trans. Joan Riviere, P
The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud, trans. James Strachey, P
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Catherine Hutter, P
Demian, Hermann Hesse, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck, P
Magister Ludi, Hermann Hesse, trans. Richard and Clara Winston, P
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse, trans. ?, P
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, P
Rhinoceros and Other Plays, Eugène Ionesco, trans. Derek Prouse, P
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, P
Selected Stories, Franz Kafka, trans. William and Edward Muir, P
On the Road, Jack Kerouac, P
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, P
The Vonnegut Statement, Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer, P
Inherit the Wind, Lawrence Jerome and Robert E. Lee, P
Evangeline and Other Poems, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, P
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, trans. Stanley Applebaum, P
The Jew of Malta, Christopher Marlowe, P
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, trans. Samuel Moore, P
The Misanthrope, Molière, trans. ?, P
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, P
The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Francis Golffing, P
The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann, P
All Quiet on the Western Front¹, Erich Maria Remarque, trans. A. W. Wheen, H
Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, trans. Joachim Neugroschel, P
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, H
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, P
The Essential Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, P
Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, P
Travesties, Tom Stoppard, P
Candide, Voltaire, trans. anonymous, P
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, P
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut, H
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut, P
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut, H
Oscar Wilde's Wit & Wisdom: A Book of Quotations, Oscar Wilde, P
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, P
Native Son, Richard Wright, fantastic 1940 printing with handwritten dedication from wife to husband, H

¹ This is the only book from the list that I have already read, but I'll gladly reread it.

1 comment:

  1. Some good books there! I liked "The Heart of Darkness" a lot... underrated book. Well, maybe not underrated, just not known as well as it should be.

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